Are you kidding me?! The boss of the Hell Dungeon is a loli!

The crow's heart skipped a beat.

She subconsciously looked at the tattered bear in Jiang Luo's arms.

"Could it have been shattered by Lord Jiang in the dungeon? After all, it did lose a lot of its corrupting power when it was extracted."

Shura slowly shook his head.

"The power of contamination can be consumed, but the primordial circuit will not disappear into thin air. Even if Lord Jiang reduces it to a mere wisp of life, the nine-layered structure should still exist intact."

"not to mention……"

Shura manipulated the hexagonal crystal, shooting another beam of silver light into Button's eye.

The contamination inside the seal suddenly began to struggle violently.

Tiny human faces showed expressions of terror.

However, no signs of independent consciousness were ever reported.

Shura's expression darkened completely.

"There is no primary consciousness of the source of pollution here."

"It is merely a split entity that possesses the scent of a pollution source and some of the rules of circulation."

The lollipop in Jiang Luo's mouth stopped spinning.

The atmosphere in the hall froze instantly.

Shura suddenly turned around.

He rushed toward the center console.

He pressed his palm heavily on the damaged control core, forcibly retrieving the operation records of all low-level instances.

A large light screen unfolded above the hall.

Thousands upon thousands of points of light, representing copies, appeared.

at first.

The vast majority of the light spots remained their normal grayish-white color.

However, as the testing progresses...

A point of light located at the edge quietly turned blackish-red.

Followed by.

The second one.

The third one.

Ten.

Dozens of low-level instances issued abnormal alerts one after another.

[Unknown contamination was detected in the underlying rules of the replica.]

The number of abnormal nodes continues to increase.

The polluted odor aligns with the target of the forbidden area seal.

Unable to pinpoint the complete source location.

A chilling alarm blared throughout the entire control room.

Shura stared at the ever-expanding black and red light spots.

The fingers gripping the center console tightened little by little.

"The real source of pollution didn't escape into the horror hotel."

"Or rather, they didn't just escape into a horror hotel."

"The moment the seal broke, it dispersed its essence and infiltrated other instances through the teleportation anchor points connected by the central control."

Shura turned around.

His gaze fell on the tattered bear in Jiang Luo's arms.

"The part you've caught is just a shell it deliberately left behind to attract our attention."

Jiang Luo's large, ruby-like eyes slowly narrowed.

bang.

She bit into the strawberry candy in her mouth.

A rich, sweet flavor spreads throughout the mouth.

The expression on her little face suddenly became extremely dangerous.

"I tried to fool Lolo with a fake product."

"While Lolo was catching it, it secretly ran off to other dungeons to cause trouble."

Jiang Luo hugged the tattered bear tightly, revealing two small, white tiger teeth.

(╰_╯)#

"This little fry has some nerve."

Just then.

The piercing alarm sounded throughout the entire control room.

The light spot representing the eerie instance floats in mid-air.

Originally, most of the light spots were stable gray-white, but now black and red hues kept seeping out from inside, like ink dripping into clear water, rapidly eroding the entire rule node.

One.

Ten.

Dozens of them.

The number of abnormal copies continues to increase.

Moreover, almost all of the contaminated items were low-tier dungeons such as D-level and C-level.

These instances have weak rules and extremely poor defenses.

Once the contamination seeps into the underlying rules, the low-level monsters in the instance may not even realize that they have been controlled. They will only become mindless killing machines, like the cleaners in the horror hotel.

"Immediately shut down all anomaly-prone teleportation points, notify nearby lords to seal off instance exits, and ensure that no player or anomaly leaves until the contamination situation is fully investigated!"

Shura stood before the control panel, his hand swiftly tracing the floating light screens as he issued a command in a deep voice: "All elders responsible for guarding the control panel, divide into three groups. The first group will go to the instances that have already shown signs of contamination and prioritize isolating the players; the second group will clear the teleportation channels connecting to the real world; the third group will stay behind to repair the control panel rules. If the instance rules are found to be completely out of control, there is no need to continue retrieving them; destroy the entire instance node directly."

The members of the Senate who had been gathered in the hall quickly dispersed.

A series of spatial passages unfolded on both sides of the central control area.

Dozens of strange beings, all at least S-rank, entered and headed to different contaminated instances.

However, the atmosphere in the hall did not ease as a result.

Shura understood perfectly.

All the Senate can do now is slow down the spread of pollution.

The bizarre world has tens of thousands of low-level dungeons.

The source of pollution can be continuously transferred along the central control anchor point, but the Senate cannot possibly assign a high-ranking eerie guardian to every instance.

If even one node is missed.

The pollution will then spread again.

Moreover, the central control system has just been hit by both calamity and pollution forces, and many monitoring rules have not yet been restored.

The abnormal copy they can see now.

This is probably only a part that has already been exposed.

Jiang Luo, with a strawberry lollipop in her mouth, looked up at the increasing number of black and red lights in mid-air.

The relaxed expression on her face also faded slightly.

She witnessed the power of contamination firsthand while in the haunted hotel.

That thing can not only devour strange consciousness, but also invade the rules of the instance, disguising itself as part of the rules themselves.

Even a Class D cleaner, after being contaminated, dared to disregard the difference in life levels and actively initiate the rules of death against her.

If a higher-level dungeon boss is corrupted.

The resulting destruction will only be more horrific.

The most troublesome thing is...

Pollution sources do not have a fixed form.

It can be hidden inside a strange body, or inside a room key, register, or duplicate item.

They wanted to find all the pollution scattered throughout the bizarre world.

It's no different from taking a small spoon and scooping up every last drop of dirty water from the ocean.

Jiang Luo became increasingly displeased.

The entire bizarre world will henceforth be her playground.

The eeriness of these dungeons and the fear they evoke in players will ultimately become nourishment for the growth of Red Moon Castle.

Now the source of pollution is everywhere, eating away at her leeks.

They'll not only eat the food, but also pollute the land.

This isn't about destroying a bizarre world at all.

They're clearly robbing Luo Luo of her money!

(╰_╯)#

"How long will it take to find them at this rate? By the time you've checked all these copies one by one, the contamination will have moved to eight hundred different places."

Jiang Luo pulled the lollipop out of his mouth, gave Shura a disdainful look, and said, "Haven't you Senate managed the strange world for so many years? How come you can't even catch a lump of black mud?"

Shura is repairing the central control node.

Upon hearing this, I almost stopped what I was doing.

Why was this lump of black mud able to come out?

Doesn't that white-haired loli have any idea what's going on?

If Jiang Luo hadn't forced his way into the forbidden area and used the power of calamity to blast open the outer rules, the structure sealing the source of pollution would never have had a gap.

But in the end, Shura didn't say those words.

It's pointless to investigate who caused the trouble now.

Moreover, if we really want to investigate...

He can't beat him either!