Heavenly Ranking

Chapter 432 Corpse Demon
The sudden disappearance of Xuan Yue Island made Ji Fuyou realize a problem.

Monsters are not NPCs!

They are intelligent beings!
It is a living civilization!
Unlike NPCs, they won't stand still and wait for Ji Fuyou to come to them.

Many things, when a decision is made, must be made decisively!
"The Corpse Demon Clan are monsters transformed by a virus... and the next monster to appear in the dream... is the Corpse Magician! The Corpse Magician is located in a mine!"

As Ji Fuyou flew to the Black Gold Empire, he directly contacted the current leaders of the Black Gold Empire, including Qiao An, Lin Dun, and Yang Xing.

……

Within the Realm of the Gods, the spiritual consciousnesses of several Martial Saints simultaneously manifested, quickly reporting the situation.

"Sixty-three million four hundred and forty thousand people!?"

Ji Fuyou looked at the infection numbers with a cold expression: "More than 60 million people have been infected, and you still haven't reported it!?"

Yang Xing quickly said, "President, it's not that we didn't report it, but... these infected people haven't shown any serious negative effects, just some mild headaches. But... after each headache, their mental strength increases slightly... although the increase isn't much, their mental state has indeed become very active..."

He even boasted with a hint of self-satisfaction, saying, "If you observe carefully, you will find that in less than two months, the number of spiritual energy users in my Black Gold Empire has increased by 30!"

Ji Fuyou didn't speak, but instead directly condensed the characteristics of the Corpse Demon Clan of Xuan Yue Island into information and transmitted it to him.

After Yang Xing had fully processed this information, his expression immediately changed: "President, you wouldn't be thinking of saying..."

"These infected people are the potential future variants of the zombie demon."

Ji Fuyou Road.

“But…but that’s not right. Once infected, the Corpse Demons’ consciousness goes mad, and they devour each other. In the end, only the strongest individuals survive. But now, those of us who are infected are not only mentally sound, but their mental strength has also increased slightly…This is completely different from the Corpse Demon virus you mentioned.”

Yang Xing felt a little flustered.

His denial was almost instinctive.

"Can you be sure this virus isn't a complex virus? Is the current infection like planting a viral seed, waiting for it to suddenly explode at some point?"

Ji Fuyou didn't say anything more to him: "I will mobilize all the experts to go to the Black Gold Empire. In addition, the entire Black Gold Empire will immediately enter wartime military control, and all infected people must be quickly isolated."

"All infected people..."

Yang Xing's face turned slightly pale.

Their previous estimate of 60 million infected individuals was merely a rough estimate.

Actually...

This number is likely to double!
Even double!
After all, many experts have investigated this virus...

It can't even be called a virus; it's a gift from heaven to their black gold empire.

Mild headaches are actually a normal reaction to the development of mental energy.

This conclusion brought the Black Gold Empire's control over the infected to a near standstill.

Even many uninfected people will actively seek out this virus in order to quickly build up their mental strength and gain the ability to protect themselves in the face of the looming fog.

"If you don't want the Corpse Demons to flourish throughout the Black Gold Empire, execute this order as soon as possible."

After Ji Fuyou finished speaking, he gave another order: "In addition, have everyone do their utmost to search this area."

He used his spiritual power to condense images of the mining area where the Corpse Magician appeared and handed them to Yang Xing.

Although these areas will undergo slight changes after being affected by the fog, ...

You can usually find something that's about 80-90% accurate.

He wanted to see if he could find the Corpse Magician in advance and stop this potential full-blown disaster.

Because the Corpse Demon incident was more urgent than the one at Demon Suppression Valley, Ji Fuyou had no choice but to summon Fang Qiyun, Yang Kaitai, and others to lead a team to the Black Gold Empire to take charge of the matter.

Ji Fuyou himself also went to the Black Gold Empire to find a group of infected people, hoping to find out the exact mechanism of the Corpse Demon Virus infection.

only……

He himself has limited knowledge.

I just felt that there was something wrong with all these infected people, and I wished I could reshape their bodies.

Therefore, he had to utilize computing power, absorb a large amount of relevant knowledge, and make deductions.

Several days later, he concluded that the virus was eroding the most superficial aspects of the Red Star civilization's brain.

"I don't believe we can't solve a small zombie virus."

Ji Fuyou analyzed the existing data in the Virtual God Realm...

In just three days, he mastered more than a dozen solutions.

But after reading these proposals, he couldn't help but frown.

Strengthen your physique and enhance your body's resistance to external viruses.

Improving one's spirit, reaching a spirit value of 15, will grant more precise control over oneself; reaching 30 will allow one to guide the evolution of the physical body with one's spirit.

Potion of Life, used to improve oneself.

Gene-based drugs, products of the Mechanicus cult, optimize genes to remove the effects of the original virus on the body.

……

There are plenty of solutions.

but……

When the target value that needs to be solved reaches 2 million, even the smallest problem will become a big problem.

Yes, 2 billion.

In the past few days, the Black Gold Empire has conducted emergency screening of infected individuals, and the results show that the true number of infections exceeds 2 million!
And this number is not the final number!
As time goes on, reaching 3 million would not be surprising at all!

After all, the Black Gold Empire was the most populous country in the world at that time. Even the Great Shang, Griffin, and Northern Kingdom could not compare to Black Gold in terms of population.

3 billion people.

Even the cheapest ordinary life potion still costs no less than 50, which means it would require 150 trillion!

The key is production capacity!
Currently, the production capacity of ordinary life potions is only about 500 million doses, and it will reach its limit when it is expanded to 3000 million doses in three months.

Even if all the life potions were given to the people of the Black Gold Empire, it would still take 10 months.

It has been less than a month since the Corpse Magician, whom Ji Fuyou remembered, appeared.

In this situation, all Ji Fuyou could do was to isolate the 3 million people as quickly as possible and order the research into a cure for the virus to be carried out at the fastest speed.

It's just that... the time was too short.

Or perhaps they didn't take it seriously enough at the beginning, which allowed the virus to spread rapidly.

Two weeks after all departments of Red Star were mobilized, the headaches of the first batch of infected people in the quarantine area became increasingly severe, to the point that they became unbearable.

It was eventually discovered that only by consuming the blood of other infected individuals could this headache be relieved.

And so, the attack began.

Although the attacker was quickly killed by the warriors responsible for maintaining order, he became incredibly powerful after devouring more than a dozen people.

Both their mental and physical abilities have reached the level of associate senior level.

This……

It only devoured a dozen or so people!

Moreover, this attack was just the beginning; more and more people, unable to endure the intense headaches, launched attacks on those around them.

Some people even spontaneously escaped the quarantine area, consciously infecting others in order to obtain more "nutrients" to help their own growth.

3 million people!

What an enormous number that is!

The impact of a riot is simply unimaginable.

Of course, the situation will not ultimately turn into the apocalyptic scenario depicted in the movies.

Despite the unimaginable impact of the chaos and riots involving 3 million people, the Red Star United Defense Council, which was well-prepared, issued an order to suppress the unrest, and a brutal bloodbath began.

At this moment, Ji Fuyou appeared in a familiar yet unfamiliar cave.

……

Inside the cave, mist swirled around.

As the mist churned, dozens of figures quickly emerged from within.

However, when they saw the figure standing in front of them, they couldn't help but stop in their tracks.

Among them, the corpse magician surrounded in the very center had an uncontrollable fear welling up in his eyes: "Ji Fuyou..."

"Alright, now that you've been discovered, you're obviously doomed. Since you're going to die anyway, don't make a fool of yourself and become a laughingstock."

Behind him, an ordinary corpse demon appeared quite calm.

Ji Fuyou's gaze fell on him.

It was identified very quickly.

This is a newly born corpse demon.

Not only him, but also about a dozen of the dozens of corpse demons behind the Corpse Magician seemed to have only recently been transformed into corpse demons.

"Red Star people? You've actively colluded with the Corpse Demon race?"

Ji Fuyou Road.

"Red Star People? Colluding with the Corpse Demon Clan? Heh, what a huge accusation!"

The corpse demon sneered, "I thought I wasn't qualified to be treated as a human being. Turns out, I can still be treated as a human being by you, Ji Fuyou, the president of the Crimson Star United Defense Council."

Ji Fuyou completely ignored him.

Under the shroud of the Void God Realm, he had already learned about his identity and even his life experiences from the scattered spiritual fluctuations.

The Black Gold Empire, with its supreme royal family, possesses unimaginable power.

It's all too easy for the abuse of public power to lead to the destruction and death of others.

Chen Yunye is the best example.

The person before me who willingly transformed himself into a corpse demon is named Harrison. He is a genius born in the Black Gold Empire, similar to Chen Yunye.

The Corpse Demon Virus can lurk so stealthily...

He made outstanding contributions.

The purpose of all this is to take revenge on the Black Gold Empire, and even on the entire human world of Crimson Star!

The tool for revenge is the 3 million infected people in the Black Gold Empire.

Ji Fuyou's gaze immediately shifted to the Corpse Magician: "From Xuan Yue Island? Where is Xuan Yue Island?"

At this moment, the Corpse Magician seemed to have realized that he would surely die if he faced Ji Fuyou, and he became calm instead.

"do not know."

He said directly, "Only the island lord knows the way Xuan Yue Island disappears into the mist. None of the kings of our three major clans have ever grasped the true secret of Xuan Yue Island's journey through the mist and other worlds."

Ji Fuyou carefully sensed it and found that what the corpse magician said was true.

There was no information related to his mental fluctuations.

All that is known is that he received orders from the Corpse Demon Leader to try to transform Red Star into a member of the Corpse Demon race in order to enhance the power of the Corpse Demon race.

"Since there's no secret information, then you have no reason to live."

Ji Fuyou raised his hand.

"Heh, Ji Fuyou, don't you want to know what those people in the Black Gold Empire did? And how I took revenge on them? All these years, I've been enduring this..."

It seemed he was about to die, and Harrison, the newly transformed corpse demon, couldn't help but speak.

He clearly didn't want to die in vain, his "great achievements" unknown to anyone.

But Ji Fuyou had no intention of listening to his nonsense.

Regardless of any reason or excuse, from the moment he dragged 3 million people down with him, his sins became unforgivable.

"Oh!"

With a wave of Ji Fuyou's hand.

The force of heaven and earth crushed down.

Whether they were eighth-tier corpse magicians or newly transformed corpse demons, they were directly crushed into dust by the power of heaven and earth, and their blood mist was scattered.

(End of this chapter)