I am Jinshan Youxia

"Takano, if you don't act like a human, you can get rid of fear and find peace."

Matsui Keiichi's expression was calm and relaxed. "Then I'll just stop being human."

His voice wasn't loud, and his tone was as gentle as usual, but it sounded unusually resolute.

Takano was somewhat speechless; he couldn't utter any of his usual rhetoric about righteousness, humanity, dignity, and so on.

This was the kind of bone-chilling cold he felt, as someone encountering an alien species for the first time.

If the other person is his hallucination, it proves that his heart has been shaken to such an extent. If the other person is a real person, then all his common sense and self-awareness have so easily become reasons for the other person to side with the outsider.

Even though he wasn't an absolute human supremacist, and hadn't been completely unmoved in the past few days, at this moment, he felt as if he had fallen into a deep, dark sea where he couldn't see his own hand in front of his face.

After a long pause, he finally spoke with difficulty in a hoarse voice: "Section Chief, have you ever thought about this...?"

"Even your so-called lord of the microbiome is nothing but an anomaly."

The sound wasn't loud, but everyone in the bar looked over.

Takano's heart skipped a beat. Although he had long been prepared to die, he was still somewhat afraid when facing death.

"Haha, hahahaha!"

Keiichi Matsui started laughing, and the laughter soon echoed throughout the entire bar.

Takano laughed inexplicably.

“Do you know?” Matsui Keiichi smiled, tears welling up in his eyes, “The first thing His Highness said when he saw us was almost exactly what you said.”

[What kind of master of the microbiome? I'm just an outlier.]

Several people nearby, also from the Church of the Lord of the Bacteria, said in unison.

Takano stood there dumbfounded.

Matsui Kei leaned closer, an uncontrollable smile on his face, and asked, "Tell me, what is a being that respects you, gives you strength, allows you to live from despair, and possesses boundless power and wisdom?"

“Gods…” Takano murmured.

“Look,” Matsui Keiichi spread his hands, “this is what we’re trying to convince His Highness to admit.”

“I think if you can maintain the idea that He is an anomaly, His Highness should be very happy to see you.”

"You—" Before he could finish speaking, the bar door was kicked open with a bang, and then a fully armed security team rushed in.

"Everyone!" Goro Furuhata, who was leading the group, didn't even show his face; his voice, which came through the communicator, had a mechanical quality to it.

"Everyone, come with me to the lab for quarantine. Anyone who tries to escape will be forcibly captured!"

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Rewind ten minutes to the laboratory.

"Have people associated with outcasts actually been caught?"

Zhang Chengyi became interested, closed the file, and floated to the elevator entrance to the underground isolation layer. This was a fully enclosed isolation layer that he had requested when it was first built, and now it finally had its first guest.

A little over a month is a short time, but for superpowered individuals who suddenly gained a lot of superpowers and whose progress is measured in hours, a little over a month is enough for them to build a city.

With over three hundred telekinetic users now, the strongest among them can build a standard Japanese detached house in just one minute by looking at blueprints and using telekinetic manipulation tools and wood.

Combined with the ability to manufacture various metals, control metals, and control soil, a laboratory that modern technology could never create appeared out of thin air in just two days.

When bacteria related to nerves and the brain are strengthened, the brain has essentially evolved to a non-human level. The reason it can remain stable is because the master of the bacteria has given the order.

Otherwise, the sudden surge of ambition among many people would be enough for them to rush out and cause a ruckus in Japan and even the world.

Of course, Zhang Chengyi couldn't let them go out and cause trouble. Murder was a minor matter, but creating other uncontrolled rules would be a huge problem.

"Hiss~" He took the elevator to the underground, passed through several doors made of special metal, and then entered the corridor of the isolation layer.

Room 001, the residence of the man who calls himself "Teeth" and thinks he is the "King of Vampires".

The discoverer was Keiichi Matsui of the church. That 'tooth' barged into the church's temporary headquarters without any sense of reason, thinking that he would use his magic to turn all the villagers into materials for the blood field. It was clear that he was related to an alien.

It's even possible that they possess certain abilities, just like the people in Baisha Village.

Zhang Chengyi patiently went through several more security checks before finally entering the room.

Ya was sitting in the corner. When the lights came on, he pounced on him, but not very fast.

At least from the perspective of an extraordinary person, the old lady was faster than him.

Zhang Chengyi neither dodged nor avoided the attack, letting the other party's sharp teeth bite into his neck, which was made of bacteria. In any case, he wanted to test whether the other party was involved with aliens, so he had to let the other party attack him.

In an environment like Demon Mountain Town, where everyone has been implanted with supernatural bacteria, it's practically impossible for his body to be killed.

Especially when the rules are out of control, it's impossible for them to bypass the [mold] and interfere with him. When they collide, it's certain that—

"Holy crap!" Zhang Chengyi blurted out when he noticed another out-of-control rule, the Blood Jade Tree.

He casually pressed his tooth, which had been bitten into mold and was now staring blankly, onto the ground, randomly picked a superpower with a freezing effect to hold it down, and then carefully reread the message.

This thing originated from the out-of-control rule [Blood], and the effects of the rule are quite complex.

First, those who bear the rules will become immortal and feed on blood. They will spread the uncontrolled rules of the Blood Jade Tree through their sharp canines and possess the ability to deceive others.

After being infected by the Blood Jade Tree, a Blood Jade Tree will grow from the wound. The tree absorbs the blood of the host and grows a tree full of fruit to sustain the host's life.

If the host consumes the fruit, the Blood Jade Tree within its body will stop growing and die, transforming the host into a monster that craves blood.

This was the first time Zhang Chengyi had seen such a chaotic set of rules with so many effects, and he could tell at a glance that a large number of humans had been involved.

A complete set of uncontrolled rules, influenced by humans, with a considerable degree of positive effects.

In other words, this 'tooth' is not affected by the out-of-control rules; it is a human-shaped, living embodiment of the out-of-control rules.

Zhang Chengyi's expression changed. Given the precedents of the Demon Mountain Tunnel and Demon Mountain, he dared not gamble that the information he read was all there was. Some information that was not yet fully formed would not be stored in the out-of-control rules. The derivatives of the out-of-control rules were not all information stored either, just as the Demon Mountain rules did not contain information about the heart and the villagers of White Sand Village.

He turned and left the isolation area, ordering the surveillance camera: "Isolate everyone who has been in contact with 'teeth' and everyone they have been in contact with. I will investigate them one by one."

Chapter 322 We Take In...

An hour later, in the laboratory, in the underground isolation layer.

"Pollution-free".

Zhang Chengyi pulled his finger out of the body of the last person he had contacted. Countless tiny bacteria reassembled into his finger, and his expression relaxed slightly. "After all the alien contacts have been quarantined for two days, they will leave Demon Mountain Town with me."

"Accelerate the establishment of the Demon Mountain Outpost and increase the contribution points for those stationed there..."

He relayed the orders one by one through the surveillance cameras.

As he continued to expand the number of infected individuals, the concentration of extraordinary bacterial spores in the air near Demon Mountain Town was absolutely excessive. He was now able to use this ability to transform into more bacteria and merge himself into the bodies of other humans, briefly becoming one with them.

At the same time, any tiny microbial community belonging to his body can transform into the human body he controls. The body assimilated by him will be regarded as part of the "microbial community" by the out-of-control rules, and can naturally retrieve its own information, ignoring the influence of other out-of-control rules.

This is also the "protectant bacteria" that needs to be injected to address the issue of uncontrolled infection.

Simply put, it's the gut microbiota in his body that ensures that when someone infected with this "microbiota" is being eroded by other out-of-control rules, he can immediately step in and stop the influence.

Humans simply cannot create billions of consciousnesses, but for a mod, if they so desire, they can achieve complete thought even by controlling a single cell invisible to the naked eye.

Anyway, once Zhang Chengyi arrives, he can erase all his influence. The human mind, which is locked by the rules of the modifier, will not be destroyed no matter what. He can control the mold to leave and then use the bacteria to restore his body.

The only problem is that the special "insurance bacteria" cannot survive for too long, otherwise it will permanently change the injected human. It is safe for 72 hours after injection. After 72 hours, the body will change first, then the mind, and the human will permanently change towards the master of the bacterial community.

Since the Lord of the Bacteria is a body controlled by the modifier, Zhang Chengyi has no idea what a person who retains the insured bacteria for a long time would look like, but it certainly wouldn't be the kind of person he wants to see.

This contact with the out-of-control rules came too suddenly; there was simply no way to follow the investigation procedures he had previously planned.

Reality and theory certainly have a long way to go.

It doesn't matter if it's just people associated with outliers, but people who truly possess an out-of-control rule are not only unseen, but are also likely to create some additional pollution.

The results were much better than expected. None of the contacts, even Matsui Keiichi who had the longest contact with the tooth, experienced any informational problems.

The ability to read information may result in discrepancies between the read information and reality due to instances of "not appearing" or "not existing," but as long as the reading is performed, errors will not occur.

Those who came into contact with the virus must not have been exposed to any contamination other than the bacterial flora in the past.

Fortunately, the first rule that the humans under my command encountered when they had just begun to develop was so simple.

Yes, the Blood Jade Tree's ability sounds a bit strange. If you get bitten, you either become fertilizer to nourish the Blood Jade Tree and make it grow, or you become a vampire who is insanely thirsty for blood. But in essence, it is not as unreasonable as the Demon Mountain and the Demon Mountain Tunnel.

Being caught simply by entering while the device is active is too unfair.

Of course, the Blood Jade Tree's abilities are not so much too weak as they are too safe and harmless from a human perspective.

Considering the evolution of the out-of-control rules, it is highly likely that this was done intentionally. What they wanted was for the out-of-control rules to merge with themselves in order to gain supernatural abilities.

To gain extraordinary power, one not only needs a large number of lives, but also a certain degree of compatibility, and is willing to distort one's own mind, ultimately becoming a monster that frantically hunts humans.

The rudimentary supernatural system that has already begun to take shape in this world will have to pay a very high price.

"However, dealing with the 'teeth' inside is a bit troublesome."

Zhang Chengyi frowned. The Demon Mountain, the Demon Mountain Tunnel, and the 'sword' stored in the safe could all be relatively easily isolated or preserved. The current rule of the out-of-control rule is that humans cannot be killed and their physical structure should be avoided as much as possible. Considering that the out-of-control rule is related to blood, it is also necessary not to cause them to bleed. It also possesses a certain 'magic power' that can confuse and control others.

No one knows what problems might arise after killing Fang. They also need to capture and imprison all the vampires that Fang created using the Blood Jade Tree. If Fang commits suicide and the uncontrolled rules are transferred to other vampires, it will be troublesome.

Will the rules governing the humanoid's loss of control change because of imprisonment?

What would happen if we forcibly controlled it using bacterial flora?

What exactly is this so-called 'magic'?

Thinking about it this way, grabbing the teeth is easy, but dealing with the aftermath is too tedious.

[A long-term underground or island base must be built to contain the runaway rules, contingency plans must be prepared, and a team must be organized to maintain and guard it...]

Zhang Chengyi pondered for a moment, then suddenly felt that the plan seemed too familiar, and rubbed his temples.

He hates such troublesome things, but he has to do them little by little.

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Isolation Room 001.

"Swoosh~" The door opened.

Ya, who was still lying on the ground without moving, turned his eyeballs halfway around and stared intently at Zhang Chengyi who walked in.

He had never experienced such a strong sense of frustration. He had clearly become a transcendent being, superior to humanity, yet...

"But we ran into an even stronger, different kind of being."