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"Woof! Woof!"

The puppy Wick ran in front, chasing after the baby in the water.

Wayne and the others were hot on their heels. Old Will turned on his flashlight and shone it on the baby floating in the water.

Wayne could now see clearly that it was a newborn baby, with the umbilical cord still attached to its belly and its body covered in white amniotic fluid and blood.

It's a baby boy.

Moreover, he was unusually thin.

It appears to be only half the size of a normal baby, clearly a premature infant.

His body was even somewhat hunched over, with obvious deformities.

"Sir, this is just a dead baby that was thrown into the sewer—even if it's not dead yet, it won't be long. This kind of thing is all too common, so there's no point in you catching up with it."

Old Will, panting heavily, kept nagging and offering well-intentioned reminders from behind.

He knew that this was probably Mr. Saint's first time living in the sewers, and he might not be used to some things.

There's no point in chasing after a baby that's already fallen into sewage.

Wayne said as he ran:

"We are human beings."

As a student of Dongda University, even knowing how inhumane this evil land of Xida University is, he could hardly ignore a baby crying in sewage.

This is the bottom line for being a human being.

Hearing Wayne's words and watching his retreating figure, old Will was struck dumb, momentarily dazed.

He suddenly realized that he seemed to have become accustomed to certain cold principles and forgotten his own humanity!

A tremendous sense of redemption washed over Old Will like a tidal wave, making him tremble all over and large tears suddenly stream down his face.

In his eyes, Wayne's back appeared even taller, and even faintly radiant.

He was instantly redeemed when he heard the saint's words!

Wayne had no time to pay attention to the old homeless man's inner turmoil; in the blink of an eye, he had already run several hundred meters.

At this point, the puppy Wick finally rushed to within a dozen meters of the baby, and the water flow slowed down.

Then, with a "plop," the puppy Wick jumped into the water, swam quickly towards the baby, bit the baby's still-attached umbilical cord, and pulled him to the shore.

"Well done, Wick! Good boy!" Wayne bent down, grabbed the baby, and pulled him out of the water. The baby's eyes were closed, his whole body was purple from the cold, and his body was hunched over in an unnatural position.

His limbs were twisted in a strange way, clearly indicating that he was a premature and deformed baby.

At this point, they had completely lost their voice.

[You have discovered an infant in the underground river of the Lower Nest. His blood contains enhancement agents, and living is hellish for him.]

[You did not acquire the skill. The poor baby passed away before even truly entering the dungeon. May he rest in peace.]

You have obtained a high-level dark artifact material: Poison Infant.

Looking at the prompt in front of him, Wayne couldn't help but sigh.

This is truly a cannibalistic world.

At this moment, Mike, David, and the others also gathered around, looking at the dead baby in Wayne's arms, all of them with expressions of dejection.

Mike comforted him:

"May God bless him... Brother, this kind of thing happens far too often. Many homeless women who abuse performance-enhancing drugs give birth to babies on the streets, and these babies are all born with drug addictions and won't live long..."

Old Will, his face streaked with tears, walked up to Wayne, first kissing the dead baby's hand, then kneeling down to kiss the back of Wayne's hand, his voice trembling as he said:

"God, saints, thank you for your redemption. I am a sinner, I have sinned, but you have redeemed me... my heart has been purified..."

[You have gained the Goblin Vagrant's sworn allegiance, experience points +1]

Wayne didn't know just how much inner monologue Old Will had, but now wasn't the time to talk about that.

Just then, David suddenly exclaimed:

"Look, bro, what's that?"

Following the sound, everyone looked and saw that at the end of the passage not far in front of them, there were thick iron fences separating the water flow, and on the other side was obviously a branch pipe.

On this very fence, there was a pile of crystal-clear, dark-colored substance, taller than a person.

It looks a bit like a preserved egg.

Inside these materials were all sorts of bones, and even several human skeletons.

Beside these materials was a half-skeletal corpse, tied to the railing.

You have discovered a Dark Nest creature, a slime.

[Slime: A creature from the Dark Nest, its body is composed of magic crystals, and it can fuse with other creatures to reproduce continuously]

You have discovered the evil corpse.

[The Corpse: Died from a horrific torture, her body was corroded by a strong alkali, and you can still seem to hear her wails]

Mike and David stared wide-eyed at the bizarre, mountain-like object before them, utterly astonished.

"What...what the hell is this? A fucking slime? Or a Shoggoth? Have we stumbled into a Cthulhu world?" Mike cursed in disbelief.

Old Will, who had calmed down a bit by now, stood up and explained:

"These should all be bodies from the sewers. Sometimes acid is poured into them to clear debris clogging the pipes. At that time, we would temporarily leave the sewers. These are all bodies that have been burned by acid."

Wayne shook his head and said:

"It's not an acid, it's a strongly alkaline solution..."

Wayne instantly understood what this was based on his knowledge of compound making skills.

Fat and waste oil in sewage can remain in specific locations in the sewer network due to hydrodynamic phenomena, and accumulate and solidify into hardened sediments through long-term saponification, crystallization and calcium accumulation.

This also includes human corpses.

The alkaline solution used to clean the sewers reacts with biomass to degrease it, turning it into crystal-clear slime.

The preserved eggs from Dongda University are made using this principle—duck eggs coated with quicklime.

The uniquely American phenomenon of discarding corpses and dying indiscriminately greatly increases the human content of sewer slimes.

The "slime" in front of them could no longer be described in terms of its human content; it was filled with human talent.

"Ugh—" Even though they had seen all sorts of storms and encountered many dangers during their years of wandering, Mike and David still couldn't bear the discomfort when faced with this huge, mountain-like slime and vomited up all the spirit meat sandwiches they had just eaten.

The vomit flowed downstream, merging into the slime and becoming part of it.

Wayne, on the other hand, was now somewhat unfazed.

[Magic crystals pave the ground, spirit bones build altars, evil corpses form the platform, poisonous infants are offered as sacrifices, witch doctors perform dances, and incantations are chanted; holy blood can be born.]

Looking at the poisonous infant in his hand, and then at the giant slime before him made entirely of [magic crystals], Wayne sighed and said:

"Poor child, passing away so hastily in this sinful land... I will perform the sacrament of death bondage for him."