Starting as an infant, with parents who are blond-haired delinquents?

It should still have the same kind of amplification effect as its own diffusion?

Before he could think for long, the gray area seemed to be shrinking faster than he had imagined!

Chapter 187 Collection

The Investigation Bureau mobilized resources across the entire Central Nation, coordinating with local Extraordinary Management Bureaus…

Within a single day, all the martial artists who carried the scent of the Thief Spirit Body—that is, the scent of the Photinia Spirit Flower—were brought back.

It took a considerable number of crystal cores, including several seventh-order crystal cores, to achieve this in just under a day.

The area shrouded in gray has been significantly reduced.

This is the third day since Zhang Chaoqiang arrived here.

He watched as the spirits scattered throughout the Jushan Mountains greedily absorbed large amounts of crystal core spiritual energy, while the gray area rapidly converged.

From the first day to the second day, it shrank to nearly 9,000 square kilometers, then to 5,000 square kilometers at night, and now, that gray area that originally spanned the entire Jushan Mountain range...

It has been reduced to just nearly two thousand square kilometers, encompassing only the main body of the Jushan Mountains.

It has only grown to one-fifth of its original size.

The areas that were originally covered by the gray area, which was also covered by the scavenging spirit that had absorbed the power of the photinia flower, were successfully detected again by the energy fluctuation detection center after it shrank, gathered and concentrated.

The bio-energy fluctuations and various life fluctuations within it, at this moment, are exactly the same as before, producing densely packed red light spots.

Without exception, each of those red dots represents a life.

"Based on the source and center point of the convergence, it's at the summit of the main mountain range of Jushan!"

After working for a short time and consuming countless crystal cores, they managed to reduce the opponent's area to a mere two thousand square kilometers.

It's unknown just how powerful this fat-stealing entity, which went to such great lengths to ultimately reshape its physical body, truly is.

Anyway, with Zhang Chaoqiang's help, the Investigation Bureau had figured out the specific capabilities of the fat-stealing agent, so they weren't afraid.

The convergence point is at the mountaintop, which signifies that after the theft of fat shrinks in the gray area, its reshaped physical form will appear at the summit of Jushan Mountain.

Right now, everyone is waiting on the mountaintop, just like in a game, where you're standing right at the spawn point of your opponent or monster, ready to unleash a barrage of attacks as soon as they respawn.

After all, that is indeed the current situation.

The only thing we can do is wait. The gray area is shrinking to a point where it is practically visible to the naked eye. It is conceivable how much the investigation bureau has spent. Although the absorption capacity and speed of the fat stealing are limited on a single crystal core.

However, with multiple crystal cores, the dispersed fat-stealing spirits can all begin to operate and work together, which is naturally more efficient.

Throughout this process, Zhang Chaoqiang was waiting for the right opportunity.

He was like a predator that had spotted its prey; his gaze, like that of a monstrous beast, had the most direct target.

This includes Liu Feng, the black-clad thief who appeared in the castle hotel before, and the five martial artists that Bai Lu captured on Jushan Mountain.

Then they were brought back from all over the world. There are about thirty martial artists with the Fat-Stealing Spirit Body in total.

Their eyes darted around, flickering with a faint firelight, as if they were deep in thought. However, they were merely ordinary martial artists at the peak of the fifth rank, and Huang Feng and Bai Lu wouldn't even give them a second glance.

Zhang Chaoqiang, on the other hand, was constantly scheming about how to accurately absorb the spirit that stole the fat.

He considered many possibilities in his mind, but ultimately decided to follow the plan: during the chaos of the subsequent body-reconstruction process, he would see if there was an opportunity to directly absorb the alien beast spirits that had detached from these martial artists.

All that's needed is for the Stealing Lime to fully emerge, and for the Stealing Lime Spirit Flower to cease using it as camouflage, allowing the few remaining Stealing Lime spirits to have intimate contact with one's chest.

That way, he would also have the ability to pull the other party into his own body. Then, he would take care of the cleanup. With his ability, it would be a piece of cake.

Unfortunately, this plan currently appears to be quite feasible.

Ideally, like with the previous Jie Gou, one could use [Angry Eyes] to force it out directly and absorb a layer of its skin and spirit body.

But that time it just happened to collide with the hook's natural fear of fire.

Therefore, the hook of the terrified flames was easily forced out by Zhang Chaoqiang in its panic.

There aren't many ways to steal fat for the time being.

Not only Zhang Chaoqiang, but also a group of investigators were keeping a close eye on whether any unusual situations might occur at the scene.

This is of utmost importance to them.

Soon, after another half day, and after a large number of crystal cores had been laid down…

The spiritual energy consumed is equivalent to that of a martial artist at the early sixth rank.

Bai Lu and Huang Feng were really looking forward to it, wondering just how powerful this body-reshaping fat-stealing technique would be.

However, generally speaking, they wouldn't care too much about the opponent's strength, because as investigators, their first instinct would be to use swift and decisive methods to kill the opponent, and then collect the spirit fragments to study.

Because every second that the alien beasts spend in front of them increases the chance that they will use their own abilities to restrict or attack them.

They all understand that the mechanics don't follow numerical values, so just in case, every investigation and every battle must be swift and decisive.

If the opponent is given the ability to fight back, then they have lost.

From evening to midnight, and from midnight to morning!

From 2,000 square kilometers, it was reduced to 1,000 square kilometers, and then to 800, 500, and 300 square kilometers.

Finally, at midday, the map showed that Jushan Mountain, except for the summit, covered an area of ​​about ten square kilometers that was still shrouded in gray and white.

The rest of the Jushan area is covered with densely packed colored dots, representing their life levels and the types of animals.

This means that the area originally covered by theft, which spanned tens of thousands of square kilometers, was reduced to a final ten square kilometers in less than three days.

Those present held their breath, watching as the small gray area at the mountaintop on the screen visibly shrank rapidly.

boom!

The next second, Huang Feng turned off the camera, because they could clearly see and feel the vibrations at the mountaintop getting stronger and stronger.

As a wave of heat swept in, their pupils reflected the red light gathering before them.

"Fat theft, it's fat theft! It seems to be condensing in the body!"

I haven't forgotten the legend describing the fat-stealing bird, a beautiful bird as red as fire.

At this moment, the entire summit of Jushan Mountain was bathed in a rippling red light…

The crimson ripples were magnificent, like a whole sheet of fiery clouds. The colorless and odorless scent of the photinia flower, which originally had no trace or substance, was now gathering power...

Due to its high concentration and the presence of lipophilic organisms, it gradually became more colorful.

This phenomenon is not uncommon, although the composition of the oil in Photinia serratifolia is somewhat special, tending more towards a superposition of molecular particles.

The state of this molecule is relatively sparse, and the arrangement of its particles gives it the ability to encapsulate.

In addition, there is the fact that fat was stolen from it.

In this current process of convergence, both color and physical form are constantly evolving and improving from both visual and data perspectives.

Previously, the fat also became colorless because the dissipated fat was obviously due to the extremely large distribution of body molecules. Covering tens of thousands of square kilometers, even anything had evolved into a molecular, atomic, or even smaller particle state.

These tiny particle states are obviously not observable by humans.

Even martial artists of the sixth rank or above who have reached the state of microscopic vision cannot make any exceptions within this range.

"It's converging, it's converging again! The gray part is rapidly shrinking, gradually shrinking to about one kilometer in size!"

The area has been reduced from ten square kilometers to one square kilometer.

This compressed, fat-stealing spirit still possesses power, and its color is deepening further.

What started as a touch of cherry blossom pink gradually evolved into a deeper red.

Then it was condensed from one square kilometer to five hundred square meters, and finally to one hundred square meters!

The investigators closely monitored the real-time dynamics and changes.

They were ready at all times, and once the thief successfully condensed his physical body, they would collectively annihilate him.

The main point is that they can only touch each other when the fat thief has completely solidified his physical body.

As the area of ​​aggregation becomes smaller, the color becomes darker.

From a light pink to a bright red, and then to an even deeper bright red.

It's worth mentioning that this color is only appearing on a large scale for now, while smaller areas, such as the fat-stealing spirits still attached to those martial artists, have not yet reacted.

This was good news for Zhang Chaoqiang, because if the spirits within them also developed a tangible color during this period, then his next move would be...

The process may not be too smooth.

Investigators like Huang Feng and Bai Lu never focused their attention elsewhere; their attention was always fixed on that large area of ​​red light.

They ignored the martial artists who had been invaded by the power of the stolen fat, because the central part of the mountaintop was where the stolen fat was concentrated.

No matter which way you go, the place where the stolen fat will ultimately reshape the physical body will only be here, not somewhere else out of nowhere.

"Take out a few more crystal cores from the spatial ring to accelerate the process of condensing the physical body!"

Huang Feng and Bai Lu could see with their naked eyes that the rapidly surging, fiery red cloud in front of them was shrinking at an increasingly slower rate.

He then became anxious to further increase the opponent's speed.

Soon...

Behind them, Zhang Chaoqiang clearly sensed a fiery red light gradually coalescing into a unique outline of a bird or beast with distinct wings.

In the map of the detection center, the gray area has been completely shrunk to ten square meters.

The thief, greedily absorbing the spiritual energy from the crystal core, had now narrowed its range once more…

Thus far, according to the statistics of the investigators, the total number of crystal cores that have been completely consumed is more than two hundred first-order crystal cores, sixty second-order crystal cores, more than thirty third-order crystal cores, and the number of third- to fifth-order crystal cores is in the single digits.

Among crystal cores of the fifth rank and above, there has not yet been a case where the spiritual energy has been completely absorbed.

Depending on the extent to which the demon beast digests spiritual energy, and also following the conversion rate of nutrients, the amount that is truly converted into its own spiritual energy is roughly between 20% and 35%.

Therefore, after absorbing the spiritual power within these crystal cores and truly transforming it into its own power, the overall strength of the thief would be around the fifth rank, or even less than the fifth rank.

In this respect, they have nearly a thousand years of experience, and it is definitely within their absolute control.

I'm coming!

Suddenly, Zhang Chaoqiang, who had been focusing his attention on Liu Feng, noticed the violent look in the other man's eyes and began to restrain himself.

This state clearly indicates that the spirit attached to his body by the fat-stealing effect has already sensed the call of his original body.