I am the old, fiery-faced man from the senior department.

In that case...

We can only rely on daytime to deal with this source of pollution.

"Alright, let's finish this quickly."

During the day, he raised his arm and uprooted the vine.

Stimulated by the injury, the entire building trembled slightly, and the ground, walls, and ceiling began to secrete digestive juices.

An egg had fallen behind them, and the insect was inside, waiting for the right moment to hatch.

Ahead, countless vines swayed.

The fist blades popped out, and Bai Zhou's arms crackled with electricity.

"We'll get through this quickly."

The corridor is not long, no more than thirty meters.

Without holding back in the daytime, the blade's sharpness, accompanied by lightning and fierce wind, instantly cleaved through countless vines, clearing the path ahead.

"Pass through here before they grow back."

By day, Bai Zhou carried the lynx on his back, his feet barely touching the ground. With the help of the wind's speed, and with each breath, as the first fleshy vine regenerated, Bai Zhou had already reached the end of his journey.

"It's right here."

The end of the corridor was blocked by something resembling the walls of a heart, and the fleshy vines behind them had all regenerated.

Returning to the eleventh month to resolve the contaminated Originium.

"Break!"

Three sharp blades pierced through the rock-solid mutated heart cavity, then began to churn like electric drills, followed by a bloody mess.

The scene was terrible, but the effect was obvious.

With a swift and fierce hacking and tearing, a hole large enough for a person to crawl through was carved out in just a few breaths.

However, the passage time is very short, and the hole is expected to close again after five seconds.

"Walk."

Bai Zhou threw the lynx in, then tossed the lightning magic he had been accumulating for a long time behind him, and it passed through the hole in an instant, like a swimming scale.

It landed gracefully on the ground, looking ahead in the daylight.

"That's the source of the pollution?"

The entire area was a deep crimson.

The room was filled with endless fine threads, intertwined and overlapping, making it resemble a spider's nest.

A cocoon about two meters high and five meters wide hangs in the center of this "atrium".

They are like the connection between the heart and blood vessels.

With each tremor of the building's "breathing," a large mass of visible energy surges from the cocoon, which is instantly absorbed and supplied to the building by the net-like filaments.

“Ao Neng... polluted Ao Neng.”

Tian Sha whispered with disgust.

That energy felt like undigested food residue mixed into sweet cheese, making it nauseous.

"It's a modified Originium."

Kelsey revealed the truth about the source of the pollution.

"An unknown energy altered the nature of this Originium, giving it a stronger aggressiveness and infectiousness than ordinary Originium. To the point that even inorganic matter can be corrupted by it and turned into living matter."

"What should we do with this?"

"Destroy it?"

Kal'tsit nodded in response.

“But we can’t destroy it here. The energy of this Originium is too immense; destroying it would cause a destructive force comparable to a small earthquake. Destroying it here would mean facing that energy head-on, and I don’t know if your armor can withstand such a violent impact.”

"Then take it out and blow it up."

In broad daylight, a blade emerges, ready to perform a heart-stripping surgery on this building.

"We'll leave once we get it."

But those fine threads are surprisingly flexible; when the blade cuts into them, it's like cleaving through a ball of water. Even if a single thread is pressed from above the head to the ground by the blade, it won't break.

"trouble."

Having failed in his first strike, Bai Zhou withdrew his hand, imbued the blade with lightning, and once again slashed at the pile of thin threads in front of him.

Like ice water immersing in hot oil, accompanied by a piercing hiss, those fine threads were melted and broken by lightning.

"It works, but it's too slow."

But there was no way around it. Although lightning magic could quickly clear these things away, its power was too great, and it could easily shatter the source stone along with them.

Then we'll be facing a torrent of Originium explosion energy.

"Let's go, Kal'tsit, be careful not to get entangled by this thing."

ten meters.

Millions of fine threads overlapped one another.

Chop, chop, chop!

In the blink of an eye, half the day had passed.

However, he suddenly stopped, and Kal'tsit, who was following behind, tilted her head in confusion to look ahead.

What's wrong?

"I just remembered, it seems I don't need to be as tired as I was just now."

He swung his arm during the day.

He only came to his senses after chopping for a long time. Why did he have to go through all that trouble to chop?

Why not just conjure up a long blade, imbue it with lightning, and charge forward with it?

Sure enough, we should avoid fighting and killing in the future to prevent ourselves from becoming reckless and impulsive.

“Continue. Kal'tsit, follow behind me.”

"After this source stone is removed, who knows what changes will occur to this building? Don't leave my side."

Bai Zhou flung a crescent-shaped long blade into the ground in front of him and then strode forward.

Lightning flashed, and a crescent moon stood out starkly in the scarlet room.

"Hey—!"

The thick cocoon was melted away by the lightning.

Tian Sha launched dozens of long hooks and snatched the source stone, which was as tall as a day and a half, from the cocoon.

With its vital heart stolen, the building began to rage. But its resistance couldn't keep up with the speed of its collapse.

The violent shaking and dissolution extends upwards from the bottom layer.

Large chunks of meat quickly rotted and decayed.

The ground beneath our feet cracked and crumbled.

"Goo~"

Without Mon3tr, Kal'tsit is very weak, so weak that after the incident, she doesn't even have the speed to catch the daylight.

I wonder if this armor can withstand the damage caused by a fall from this height...

Despite falling through the gap, Kal'tsit remained completely calm, even having the leisure to calculate the shock resistance of her Arcane Armor.

"You're such a worry. Is this how you usually do things?"

A golden rope was thrown down from above, turning into a net that trapped the large lynx.

"Because I trust you, Your Majesty. I believe you will protect me."

The lynx used sweet talk to try to change the subject.

"Okay, okay, who doesn't like to hear sweet words?"

In the daytime, he dragged the ominous Originium with one hand and held onto the rope that netted the lynx with the other. The wings on his back carried him in the wind, keeping him suspended in mid-air.

But this is not a long-term solution.

The ceiling had begun to rot and collapse; if he didn't leave quickly, he would likely be crushed by the falling piles of rotting flesh.

However, he might be able to fly out through the gap above.

"We're heading out, Kal'tsit. It might be a bit shaky. And one more thing: be prepared for an emergency landing."

In the misty town, the deformed buildings begin to collapse.

Immediately afterwards, a lynx in a gilded, dark blue bodysuit fell from the sky, dispersing the thick fog.

It's an elegant cat landing!

The judges should give it full marks! Applause!

"You're still quite agile, Kal'tsit."

In the daytime, he gently lowered the Originium to the ground, praising it to Kal'tsit who had just stood up.

"Thank you for the compliment."

Barring most unforeseen circumstances, Kal'tsit is quite confident in her skills.

However, even though they had escaped the building, the problem of Originium had not yet been resolved.

"So, how do we solve this problem?"

During the day, he placed the Originium on the ground and asked Kal'tsit a question.

Do you know why ancient people and deities worshipped the sun so much?