Gao Wu: After transforming into a soft girl, I became a calamity?

Jiang Mian's eyes darkened.

This diary... records the entire process of Number One's journey from clarity to depravity.

Even if it ends up like that, would you still be so fixated on inhibitors?

Unfortunately, his last struggle was in vain, and the other members of the mutual aid group all drank the inhibitors.

I guess the branches in other base cities are the same, right?

First, control the branch leader, who is the core of the branch, and then spread out that invisible control network until everyone becomes the monster's puppet.

Judging from Number Two's performance just now, Number One clearly has some way of catalyzing and controlling the inhibitors in its body, just like a signal base station.

She continued flipping through the pages to see if there was any other information.

The notebook also contains many entries written backwards, unlike the diary entries at the beginning; it's more like a record of experiments.

"Inhibitor raw material... Biphasic Epiphyllum?"

Before the cataclysm, did Number One ever try to make his own inhibitors?

According to records, mature individuals of this mist plant will have different forms depending on the growing environment.

When the growing environment is foggy, it will bloom with purple flowers. The extract has hallucinogenic effects and is also addictive.

In specific artificial cultivation environments, however, it produces white flowers, and the extract becomes a powerful sedative, serving as one of the basic raw materials for inhibitors.

Putting aside other ingredients and production process, this stuff alone is very difficult to obtain.

As mentioned above, the so-called "special environment" can only be achieved in core urban clusters.

The urban structure there is completely different from here; it even has an "artificial sun," which is the key element.

"This...is a bit outrageous, isn't it?"

Jiang Mian couldn't help but complain.

Rumors have been circulating online that the area has returned to its pre-fog state, but to be able to produce something like this...

Thinking of the Glorious Monument, she guessed that it might not be a technological creation, but rather a collection of some kind of "glorious" power?

Okay, at least I understand a little bit now.

Since the raw materials can only be produced there, there really aren't enough to go around.

After all, things are valued for their scarcity, and this stuff is the main raw material for inhibitors. If it were all made into type I inhibitors, it would definitely be far from enough.

Aside from that, there was no other information in this notebook.

I think I mentioned it in a previous diary entry, saying that the inhibitors that were always being delivered were stored in the drug warehouse on the first basement floor?

Let's go down and take a look.

……

First floor, service station.

Xu Miao sat in her usual spot, scrolling through her phone listlessly, but her eyes were already closed, and her head was nodding as if she was about to fall asleep at any moment.

Suddenly, her body froze, and she lost control like a puppet with its strings cut. Her forehead slammed heavily on the table, and she fell silent.

A few seconds later, Xu Miao slowly got up, her pupils turning blood red, her eyes calm, showing no trace of her previous drowsiness.

She gazed silently into the darkness of the doorway.

Over there... comes the sound of some kind of viscous substance being dragged across the ground.

A few seconds later, the thing that made the sound finally revealed itself: a grotesque mass of flesh and blood writhing.

Xu Miao showed no fear, got up, walked to it, and squatted down.

"How come there's so little left? Hmm?"

Strangely, the monster did not attack her; instead, it trembled with fear.

Seeing that she looked normal, it stretched out a tentacle like a pet and rubbed it against her palm in a friendly manner.

The surface of the tentacles was cool and slippery, creating a stark contrast with the slender, fair palm.

"Never mind, it's just a node. But that 'Number Six'... heh."

Xu Miao said in a low voice.

Adopting a strategy of casting a wide net, she set up "nodes" and "memory points" in cities with influence from mutual aid societies, infecting those infected and expanding her flock to collect evolutionary materials.

Who would have thought that I could unexpectedly find someone "of the same kind"?

However, this one doesn't seem to be the original person present either...

Xu Miao has never liked thinking; she's merely a memory point carrying instructions.

Although they possess thoughts and a personality, they are false; their sole mission is to bring back information.

She glanced indifferently at the lump of flesh in front of her, which suddenly began to tremble violently, then started to dehydrate and shrink, eventually becoming a small lump the size of a palm.

Xu Miao picked up the piece of meat, and her palm suddenly opened up, swallowing it whole. The next second, it returned to its smooth state, showing no trace of its previous ferocious appearance.

After reclaiming the "nodes," the infected individuals underground were brought under her control.

However, she didn't intend to do anything; she would just call in this group of "spoiled nutrients" and give the person who was going downstairs an extra meal.

A sense of oppression emanated from the sky above the human city, clearly indicating the arrival of a high-level expert.

Although she wasn't on the [Catastrophe] path, she could still sense the oppressive force of the surrounding wind elements through her mental power.

If we don't leave now, this memory point may be irretrievable.

Xu Miao stepped towards the door, her white nurse uniform fading and being replaced by a dark, shadowy gauze dress.

She turned left after leaving the house and entered a secluded alley, but stopped short of a distance away.

A steady sound of footsteps came from around the corner ahead.

A young man in a black leather jacket emerged from around the corner, looking at the runes in his palm and muttering:

"Could something have gone wrong this time?"

Xu Miao narrowed her eyes dangerously.

"Are there more experts?"

The human in front of her... gave her a strong sense of unease, her instincts were screaming warnings, and at the same time... there was a spicy and tempting aroma.

This body isn't particularly strong in direct combat, and the nodes that were just retrieved only grant her two abilities at most.

Ye Chenyang turned around, looked at the woman in front of him who had delicate features but exuded a strange aura, slowly raised his hand, and then...

Did you give a thumbs up?

"Um?"

Xu Miao was taken aback, not understanding what he meant.

Just as I was about to take a move, I found my body frozen in place, unable to move at all.

She stared wide-eyed at Ye Chenyang, but her vision was suddenly filled by a serrated halo.

The halo drew ever closer until it pierced her body, splitting her in two.

……

"Ding!"

Jiang Mian stepped out of the elevator and looked up at the ceiling as if sensing something.

There's a familiar aura nearby, and it's unusually strong, like someone used a skill?

"Ye Chenyang..."

She paused subconsciously for a moment, then controlled her clone to walk forward, and soon found the location of the medicine storehouse.

There were also two infected individuals guarding the entrance.

"Hey, who are you?"

Upon seeing that the newcomer was a beautiful woman, the two men immediately perked up.

It wasn't that he harbored evil intentions, but the fact that he was able to enter this place silently, and with such a strange face, was itself eerie.

Jiang Mian was too lazy to waste words with them. With the help of the wind, his body, which was composed of water elements, knocked each of them to the ground with a single blow.

Two patients who have just reached the second stage of disease, it's a piece of cake.

Then, she ignited the flames, blasting open the medicine storehouse door and sending out wisps of white mist.

And those blood-red inhibitors were placed in the most conspicuous place?