Dream Travel

Chapter 453 What does this thing look like to you?
It takes time for him to get to the local Dream Processing Bureau. Bai Mu himself didn't take much time to run there, but it took much longer to clean up this place.

Since mental scans are easy to detect, let's just use another method.

Livru, now reverting to her awakened form, looks more like a slime girl in Whitebeard's eyes.

Her body split off tentacles that covered the surrounding area, bypassing the moving humans and animals, and then grabbing the abnormal creatures that Bai Mu had mentioned.

"What are these?" Livlu looked at the facehuggers that were entangled in the tentacles. The insects struggled as the tentacles wrapped around them, but they could not break free from the tentacles that could tear through steel.

"Facehugger, a creature that can turn a person into an egg-laying organism."

"Oh." Livlu nodded, not having much of an opinion on it. She was an Awakened One, a mutated non-human being by nature.

They don't care what they parasitize.

"But these few seem to have died without being injured."

“…That’s because they’ve accomplished their mission.” Bai Mu glanced at the dead facehugger and curled his lip.

"Where was it found? Are there any living creatures nearby?"

"There's no one here, but there are some stray cats and dogs."

“…Kill them all! Cut open their chests and see if there’s anything inside.”

Livlu carried out Bai Mu's orders with remarkable efficiency, as she was currently receiving support from Bai Mu's demonic energy.

She didn't want to lose such a great experience because of an order that wouldn't put her in a difficult position.

The outstretched tentacles wiped out all the wild cats and dogs.

The tentacles tore open the chests of those animals; some were normal, while others, as Bai Mu had said, were parasitized.

The 'parasites' inside didn't have time to struggle or resist; they were directly entangled and pulled out by the tentacles.

Is this the same thing? Livru compared the chest-bursting creature to the facehuggers; the two looked vastly different.

"What does this thing look like?" Bai Mu fiddled with the corpse of a facehugger.

Livlu glanced at the thing, raised an eyebrow, and looked down at her lower body where tentacles had split off: "They do look quite similar. What should we do with them?"

"Burned."

With a gentle tap of the white curtain, a ball of hellfire fell to the ground, and Livlu simply tossed the facehuggers inside.

The facehuggers and the immature chest-bursters, which were essentially alien larvae, struggled before being burned to ashes.

Afterwards, Bai Mu went to the next place and found that there were quite a few chest-breaking creatures that had escaped... and even some that had grown into aliens, but those things were not hatched by humans.

Instead, they are wild small animals, which pose a great threat to ordinary people; for him, catching them would mean certain death.

Besides, White Curtain also encountered many unfriendly "colleagues" whose purpose was very clear: to catch those facehuggers.

Among these 'peers', there are even demons!
“Demons… Could the leak be related to these demons? You have ten minutes,” the white curtain said to Atreus.

He and Livlu had already thoroughly searched the area with great efficiency; going further afield would be too time-consuming, so he needed to go to the local processing bureau.

"Five minutes will be enough." Beatrice happily checked the facehuggers and chestbreakers, but unfortunately, two mature animaloids were burned by the white curtain, which made her very disappointed.

"This peculiar life form... is it possible for us to preserve some of it?"

"Too dangerous."

“Danger?” Atrist shook her head. “It might be dangerous in the dream world, but it’s actually more valuable for research here… Alright, I’ll take care of it quickly.”

Beatrice used life alchemy to extract life from the facehugger, wanting to see how resilient the creature was.

After trying it, she discovered that this creature was surprisingly resilient. "This isn't blood..." Looking at the 'black liquid' squeezed from the facehugger, Atreus's alchemical soul began to stir.

"No, it's not, but this thing can turn you into a monster."

“I’m already dead, how could that be?” Beatrice said with a smile. “I want to study this thing.”

"Can you develop a destructive device to counter this thing?"

"...I haven't tried it, but we can give it a shot." Beatrice didn't know why the White Curtain was so hostile towards this thing.

But since Bai Mu has thought this way, she will carry out the order.

"Then you can start collecting them."

Beatrice didn't collect much 'black water'; she stopped after obtaining a small portion. White Curtain burned all the facehuggers and then left.

"Why are there not a single bugs left??"

Some people were so angry they wanted to curse. It wasn't easy for them to sneak in, and they had also received information that some insects had escaped before the isolation zone was created.

Many people are interested in this unknown creature.

The city of Meilin will be locked down specifically to prevent those unknown creatures from escaping.

The local authorities aren't useless; they already know that these kinds of creatures pose a significant threat.

At least the zombies created by biochemical viruses are mindless and only wander around and attack people, but these monsters are a cluster that can reproduce and lurk to assassinate.

Their blood is extremely acidic and can corrode various objects it comes into contact with, but it is useless against isolation barriers because that stuff is not a substance.

"What should we do? Should we go into the quarantine zone?"

"It's full of monsters inside now!"

Outside the isolation zone, there are only insects scurrying out, but inside the isolation zone, there are many more than just insects.

There are also monsters that have grown up, otherwise why would there be such a barrier?

The special city defenses are not used lightly; the isolation zone will not be lifted until the monsters inside are completely eliminated.

Although there is a way to get in, it's not easy to get out once you're inside.

Bai Mu arrived at the local processing bureau, changing his clothes along the way.

The local processing bureau was still open at night, brightly lit, and the people inside were extremely busy.

After the person in charge of receiving the white-clad individuals confirmed the authenticity of the authorization certificate, nothing more happened.

The local authorities were indeed at fault for the 'meteorite' incident with its unusual shape; they bear a heavy responsibility and should have handled the matter as quickly as possible.

However, they encountered some resistance during the process.

Those damn companies actually want to do further research on the monster!

According to intelligence gathered by the local authorities, those companies are not without their own shady dealings.

But they just couldn't touch them. On one hand, those companies did indeed bring development and jobs, and on the other hand, they hadn't broken the law...

In addition, given their inherent influence, the Bureau's original plan could not proceed normally.

According to their plan, after sealing off the monsters, they would simply use swift and decisive methods to clean up the entire area.

Catch those monsters?

Catch an egg, and kill all the things that came out of the dream!
(End of this chapter)