Wasteland Border Inspector

Chapter 235 The Seed of the Vortex Turtle, Tan Ming's Rune!

"Prosecutor Chengcheng?"

The bizarre scene before him left Rokuk stunned for two or three seconds before he managed to squeeze out a sound.

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly realized that the immobilization effect applied by the Darkwater Cave Crab had disappeared!

His legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground, but fortunately a blood-red figure immediately reached out and supported him with an astonishingly steady strength.

"What are you"

He asked instinctively, but the second half of the sentence got stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say it no matter what.

At this moment, our vision was completely occupied by that enormous object.

Even after the male crab was violently torn apart, the blood-red hill continued to deform.

The nearly ten-meter-tall body was not bulky at all; it was made up entirely of extremely bulging muscle blocks. Every inch of muscle fiber was like a taut iron cable, with ridges half a meter high raised on the surface of the body, pulsating slowly with each breath, as if it would explode with earth-shattering power at any moment.

With shoulders a full seven meters wide, his thick arms, when hanging down, leave five deep grooves as his knuckles scrape the ground, and the muscles of his forearms, which bulge out horizontally, are comparable to those of a normal adult.

The bulging muscles of the spine resemble continuous black iron hills, each muscle with a sharp, knife-like outline.

Even though the face was still Cheng Ye, whom he knew well, when the giant shadow leaned forward slightly, Rokuk couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine, and even his breathing became lighter.

"It's just a small trick."

Cheng Ye shook his head, a smile playing on his lips, but his voice remained as booming as thunder, making people's ears ring.

"Will you come?"

"Me?" Rokuk was stunned, not yet realizing the meaning of these words, when the blood-red figure supporting him suddenly began to tremble and turned into a pool of blood at a visible speed.

Immediately afterwards, the pool of blood swayed violently and began to adhere to his body.

One, three, ten.
The surrounding crimson figures trembled and melted away, surging towards him in an endless stream, eventually condensing on his body into a crimson armor that shimmered with a faint light.

The armor gently lifted him, steadily raising him off the ground.

The crimson light before his eyes suddenly closed and then dispersed, and Rokuk was surprised to find that his height had been completely restored!
No, it's not a recovery.

Instead, its main body grows larger, as if it's wrapped in a special powered armor, and its size continues to increase.

One meter, two meters, three meters!
The blood-red figure attached to it stopped moving only after it had expanded to more than three meters.

"Ten times its original size is already the limit; any larger and it will be out of control," Cheng Ye's voice came again.

"control?"

The novel experience, unlike anything he had ever had before, allowed Rokuk to temporarily forget the fear and shock he had just felt.

He raised his hand and saw that his arm and palm were made entirely of blood-red energy, and his movements were so agile that they seemed to be innate.

Just like Cheng Ye, he turned into a small, blood-red mountain, only slightly smaller in size.

"What is this?" he couldn't help but ask, his voice filled with disbelief.

"It is Tan Ming who gave us strength, just like the power Wanlingdi gave to the crab people and those sources of infection."

As Cheng Ye explained, he suddenly turned around.

The female crab had somehow broken through the remaining blood-red figure and was now lying next to his calf, repeatedly slamming its claws against his armor-covered feet.

Each attack only caused a tiny ripple on the blood-red armor, leaving not even the slightest trace.

Cheng Ye lowered his head and met the crab eyes, which were the size of a human head.

It's hard to imagine that in those murky crab eyes, he didn't see a trace of fear, only near-mad anger and resentment.

"Who gave you the courage to be angry with me?"

"And who is it that gives you the audacity to be so hostile towards me!"

A muffled, thunderous sound echoed around them.

He slowly bent down, stretched out his arm, and forcefully gripped the female crab's carapace. With a slight exertion of force, his fingers embedded themselves directly into the gaps in the shell, lifting the female crab up to his eyes as if carrying a styrofoam box.

Dark green crab juice dripped through his fingers. The female crab frantically waved her claws, but couldn't even touch his blood-red skin. She could only wave futilely in the air.

"Tell me, what is the purpose of your existence, and that of all of you who are sources of infection?"

"Squeak-"

The female crab let out a painful roar, and a hint of fear finally flashed in its eyes.

But this fear wasn't directed at the crimson behemoth before it; rather, it vaguely realized:

I'm going to die!

I can no longer infect more humans and continue to do evil!

Wow.

The behemoth's right hand reached directly into its carapace and brutally pulled out some solid objects.

"no!"

He casually tossed the object aside, then reached into the mother crab's body and groped around haphazardly, his fingertips churning like a meat grinder, pulling out clumps of internal organs.

"no!"

"no!!"

Clumps of internal organs were ripped out, falling to the ground with a sticky sound.

The female crab's eyes gradually became unfocused, and her previously frantically waving claws slowed down, revealing a hint of pleading.

“I felt your fear, I felt your helplessness.”

"But do you know how terrified and helpless Zhou Mazi was before he died?"

As it spoke, a cold smile suddenly appeared on the giant beast's lips. "I've finally found it!"

There was a pause.

The massive hand, as thick as a vehicle, yanked outwards, and a dark green heart the size of a millstone was forcibly pulled out of the mother crab's body.

The heart was still beating weakly, dripping in the air in lines with sticky bodily fluids.

The moment it was separated from the body, the female crab was completely on the verge of death. Its two huge claws drooped limply, and it no longer had the strength to maintain its vital signs.

It could only use its remaining strength to move its eyeballs; its eyes held no anger or resentment, only the most instinctive pain of a creature on the verge of death.

"Is it painful?"

The voice, devoid of any pity, continued: "Pain is to be expected. Compared to the pain you inflict on humanity, this is but a negligible fraction!"

boom!
His five fingers suddenly tightened, and the enormous heart burst open in his palm.

Dark green bodily fluids rained down from the sky like a storm, splashing onto the ground and emitting a foul stench.

In the distance, the other infected individuals who were still frantically attacking the blood-red figure suddenly stopped, and a human-like fear flashed in the eyes of many of them.

In particular, the giant black fish, which was over two meters long, turned around without hesitation and tried to escape back into the lake.

but.

"Can you escape?"

The behemoth pushed off the ground slightly, its pillar-thick thighs crushing the rocks beneath its feet and creating a deep pit.

Immediately afterwards, its massive body sprang up, leaping more than ten meters into the air, before crashing down and landing heavily on the blackfish's back.

Paji——

It was like a human accidentally sitting on a rotten tomato, with a sticky cracking sound coming from beneath them.

Cheng Ye stood up. The once ferocious giant black fish had turned into a puddle of dark green mud.

Hard scales, sharp teeth, or the core of the infection hidden within the body?
Under the absolute suppression of power, they all turned into shapeless mud, with no room for resistance whatsoever.

How powerless humanity is under the influence of the divine artifacts and the pollution of the mind.

At this moment, with Tan Ming's support, how powerless are these sources of infection?

"Prosecutor Chengcheng?"

Rokuk's voice came from the side, and Cheng Ye turned his head to look.

He walked up somewhat excitedly, and a hint of embarrassment flashed across his face as it surfaced on the blood-red ripples.

He gritted his teeth, pointed to the infected individuals who hadn't yet escaped, and said with a hint of urgency, "These infected individuals still have containment value. Regardless of their plague level, they can be exchanged for a lot of supplies to build up Dabo Town." "Is that so?"

Cheng Ye paused, then turned to look at the black fish beneath him.
Well, it should more be called fish paste.

The muscles penetrated the brain; the attack was too ruthless, leaving the blackfish without even a complete core.

"How about this, I'll keep things under control and you take over the containment?"

"Okay, I'll take it in." Rokuk nodded quickly, his eyes brimming with excitement.

Although he had never tried this "violent suppression + rapid containment" model before, Tan Ming's confidence was genuine. Cheng Ye had just been able to instantly kill a Plague-level infected person, so the remaining infected sources were naturally nothing to fear.

Cheng Ye took a step back, his gaze sweeping across the battlefield before suddenly settling on the giant tortoise not far away.

The dark blue fragments on the carapace made him pause in surprise. Weren't these the shell plates of a vortex turtle?
But the piece in front of him was dozens of times larger than the one he had collected from the mutated fish king!
"That turtle is for me."

"well!"

Rokuk quickly agreed, his eyes immediately locking onto the next target.

Giant water spider!
Unknown sources of infection are, according to regulations, far more valuable than those that have already been included in the database.

Although it's unclear what abilities this giant spider possesses, its combat prowess makes it easy to deduce.

The surrounding blood-red figures, once covered by the net he spat out, would quickly be corrupted into a pool of blood.

That's an impressive ability.

Therefore, his value is high!
"Let me do it!" Rokuk shouted, stepping on the crimson energy and charging forward, his heart surging with unprecedented excitement.

In the past, when faced with sources of infection, he either relied on medication or rules to keep them in check; he never had the confidence to confront them head-on like this.

But when he rushed up to the water spider, he suddenly got stuck, not knowing where to start.

After hesitating for a second, he simply imitated Cheng Ye's fighting style, clenched his fist, and slammed it hard into the water spider's thinnest leg.

Gaba.

A crisp snapping sound rang out as the water spider's leg was smashed open, bending and cracking, with black fluid flowing out of the wound.

Its body suddenly tilted to the side, and it almost fell to the ground.

Rokuk's eyes lit up as if he had discovered a new continent. He immediately quickened his pace, circling the water spider and landing his fists on its legs time and time again.

One punch, two punches!

Fighting is fun!

In just over ten seconds, all eight legs of the water spider were broken, leaving it paralyzed on the ground, unable to move.

So this is what close-quarters combat with the source of infection feels like?

Rokuk simply jumped up, straddling the water spider's back, and gripped its head with his large hand:

"die!"

With a sudden burst of force, he pierced through the water spider's head and pulled out a clump of sticky paste.

In the paste, a small, silvery-white spider was trembling slightly, too weak to even escape. This was the core source of infection for the water spider.

"Is that all the containment?"

Rokuk was both surprised and delighted. He quickly grabbed the core, ran to the containment box, opened it, and threw it inside.

Although it's risky to crate multiple cores into one crate, there's no time to go back to shore to get a new crate, so we'll have to make do for now.

Fortunately, these cores have all entered a state of lethargy due to the destruction of their bodies, and will not interfere with each other for a short period of time, as long as they are separated in time afterwards.

More than ten minutes passed, and the number of sources of infection in the field decreased, until finally only the giant turtle with the dark blue scales remained.

Cheng Ye shook his head, stepped forward, and slammed one knee heavily onto the turtle's shell.

The giant tortoise tried to struggle, but the weight of the crimson armor pinned it to the spot, rendering it unable to move.

He reached out and grabbed the dark blue vortex-shaped tortoise shell plate on its carapace. With a sharp "click," the plate was removed intact.

As the shell plates detached from its body, the giant tortoise's carapace began to crack inch by inch, eventually shattering with a crash. Its size also shrank dramatically, from a massive three-meter-long creature to a mere seventy centimeters in size, lying on the ground utterly powerless.

Clearly, this vortex-like tortoise shell plate is the source of its power.

Even after being scaled down by the cotton chamber, the armor plate was still nearly 50 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide, feeling heavy in the hand, with a faint blue glow at the edges.

Cheng Ye applied slight pressure with his fingers, and a crack appeared at the edge of the nail plate.

The next second, the panel's notification started flashing:

The collector has detected escaping biological information and is automatically absorbing it.

[Absorption complete: The Whirlpool Turtle's extraordinary ability (Whirlpool) has reached its maximum value. You can continue to accumulate it. Maximum storage capacity: 200%]

Is that all?

Another new extraordinary seed?
Cheng Ye immediately opened the encyclopedia and was surprised to find that not only was the Whirlpool Water encyclopedia full, but the progress had even reached 137%.

The properties provided by this large piece of armor are more than a hundred times greater than those of the piece inside the mutated fish king.

In an instant, a surge of joy exploded in his heart, and he could hardly believe it.

The wilderness offers so many opportunities!

As long as you are strong enough and dare to fight, collecting extraordinary seeds doesn't seem so difficult.

Although the current limitation of the Shrinking Giant Flea prevents the creation of new extraordinary creatures using "vortex water," "having" and "not having" are two completely different concepts.

The gathering of vortex water means that his strength will usher in a new growth point.

If the limitations of the Shrinking Giant Lice can be overcome, and two extraordinary creatures can enter the body, how powerful will it become?
Will he grow to the point where, even without Tan Ming's help from the outside world, he can become an outlier among prosecutors, able to crush any source of infection with his bare fists?
call.

Cheng Ye let out a long breath, and a tangible stream of air shot out from his mouth, carrying a faint red energy flow.

Then, his body began to shrink gradually, from a ten-meter-tall blood-red behemoth to a normal size of about three meters. His muscle lines also became less imposing, no longer as oppressive as before.

“Prosecutor Luo, I need your help with the last source of infection.” He turned to look at Luo Cuo Ke beside him.

"No trouble at all!" Rokuk, who had been staring blankly at Cheng Ye's shrunken body, immediately snapped out of his daze upon hearing the voice and quickly stepped forward.

Without the vortex-shaped shell plates, the black turtle was as fragile as a snail without its shell. He used a short knife to pry open the damaged carapace, quickly picked out the faintly glowing core inside, and casually tossed it into the containment box.

At this point, each of the four containment boxes was filled with more than five sources of infection. Holding the heavy boxes in my hands, I felt a real sense of accomplishment.

The two met again, and after organizing his thoughts, Rocco cautiously asked, "Prosecutor Cheng, what is our current situation?"

"Simply put, the vitality generated by the Myriad Order Earth Conch is what Tan Ming needs. He gave us this energy, firstly to help him weaken the energy level of the immortal object, and secondly to help these clones complete the task of gathering vitality. For us, it can be considered a win-win situation."

Cheng Ye explained simply.

In fact, his initial idea was just to release Tan Ming to cause some trouble for Wan Lingdi and Faluo. He never expected that things would evolve step by step and turn into a head-on confrontation between Tan Ming and Faluo.

Moreover, Tan Ming seems to want more than just the vitality of the cave; he also seems to have his eye on a certain characteristic of the conch shell, which adds an unexpected element to the situation.

Once the two behemoths start fighting, no one knows what the final outcome will be.

However, compared to before when they couldn't even get close to the divine objects, the current progress is a big step forward.

"Take these sources of infection upstairs first, take them into proper care, and then go and rest."

"That magical artifact?" Rokuk asked instinctively.

The current situation seems to put him only one step away from containing the divine artifact, which inevitably makes him somewhat anxious.

"The closest we get to victory is often the most dangerous time; we can't rush it."

“Okay, I understand.” Rokuk nodded, suppressing his eagerness.

Containing all these sources of infection has greatly reduced the energy supply of the Wanlingdi Faro.

Once the dense forest in the cave is completely "drained" and all the remaining crab-men are cleared out, the energy level of the magical artifact will drop to an extremely low level, and the success rate of containment will be greatly increased.

Watching Rokuk carry the heavy containment box and walk quickly toward the light gate, Cheng Ye slowly lowered his head, his gaze falling on the blood-red rune on his chest.

A panel popped up, and a piece of information flashed before my eyes.

[Tanming Rune: Grants creatures the ability to summon Tanming.]

[The current rune has been included (it cannot be analyzed at this time due to class restrictions; please continue to improve your class to unlock permissions)]

[Current progress: 31.7/100 (Tan Ming will arrive immediately after reaching the maximum value)]

(End of this chapter)