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"Boom!" The demon slammed heavily onto the ground, kicking up countless clouds of dust.

Chapter 334 Containment Files

This thing is much weaker than I imagined.

After a simple test, Zhang Chengyi discovered that the seemingly intimidating demon was actually just a showpiece.

It's true that you can't kill it using normal methods. You can shape it into a ball with your mind and leave it there, and it will quickly bounce back to its original size whenever you release it. But what's really ridiculous is that this monster can be damaged by a whole bunch of things: sunlight, crosses, salt, fire, garlic...

It could be said that there are more things that can harm it than the demons in Western mythology; it's practically a collection of stereotypes.

Follow the information given by the out-of-control rule [Demon] completely.

Putting aside its rule-based vocal abilities, its other skills are utterly pathetic. Not to mention him, even Goro Furuhata could easily outmaneuver or defeat it one-on-one.

But in essence, it is a demon constructed by the imagination of a group of people from four hundred years ago, and its strength, speed, and ability are all top-notch.

Even the sounds that are inherently regular have significant flaws. As long as one has Christian faith in their heart, they can resist the sounds, which are man-made defects.

"Through human intervention, the previously unsolvable and out-of-control rules have become a lot of garbage."

Zhang Chengyi felt that if this thing could return to its original, out-of-control state of [sound], it would be even stronger. It would have no physical form, be immune to harm, and be impossible to seal. In the past, it would have been difficult to find a suitable carrier, since humans could hardly bear the original out-of-control state. But in modern times, videotapes, CDs, USB drives, computer programs—anything could serve as a carrier for [sound].

When it's released, there will be no prerequisites whatsoever, and a large number of people who hear about it will die.

Becoming a demon is truly trash.

The other rules are similar. The rule of losing control [life force] would be even stronger if it weren't attached to the sword and required a person to control it. The rule of losing control [blood] was also imprisoned in the mountain and unable to move after becoming the Demon Mountain.

Humans are not a good thing when it comes to uncontrolled rules that have no independent consciousness; swallowing them will only make them unrecognizable.

Where should we store this thing?

Zhang Chengyi looked at the demon he had bound together with his telekinesis and plants, and felt somewhat troubled.

According to the information we read, sealing it underground with a specific ritual would be enough to prevent it from returning to hell. But sealing it wouldn't be very useful, as someone might approach it one day and create another dark magician, Dorman, to continue summoning demons. It would be better to contain it.

The problem is that it is constantly making sounds to control others. These sounds are based on a range, roughly estimated to be within a radius of about five kilometers. The only effective way to isolate it at present is through a vacuum.

Despite the fact that demons need to flap their wings to fly, it is actually a completely unreasonable form of flight, and it is quite fast. Its claws, which are somewhat huge compared to its body, have the effect of forcibly destroying and suppressing things when they touch them. Even though they are helpless against intangible things such as air and telekinesis, there is basically no material that can be directly imprisoned.

Unless he spends twenty or forty hours a day using his telekinesis to imprison demons, if any other microbial symbiote were to make a mistake, it could cause the containment to go out of control, instantly controlling the men within a five-kilometer radius and turning the women into demon servants.

The symbiotic microbiota at work can also replace the protectant microbiota once a day to protect itself. What if someone happens to pass by when it goes out of control?

Every possible coincidence is a foreshadowing.

So, an island base or an underwater base?

Sword and Fang are much easier to deal with, staying quietly in the underground isolation room in N City.

However, the formal containment process must begin with the demons. Most of the out-of-control rules encountered earlier were small people and objects that were easy to carry around and prevent. After leaving the Demon Mountain, there are more problems to be encountered, and they can no longer be simply left around for isolation.

Zhang Chengyi rubbed Furuhata Goro's temples, and a second body descended from the sky, taking over from the investigation team to suppress the demon. In just one alternation of suppression, the demon almost couldn't escape the vacuum zone.

"A vast vacuum, a continuous, invisible suppression 24 hours a day—it's best left unmanaged; current technology simply can't achieve that. Wait a minute, if we use mushrooms..."

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【NO.1】【Code Name: Sword】

The sword is 60 centimeters long and 6 centimeters wide, with peculiar patterns on it. However, after replication and verification, the patterns have no special effect and are only symbolic.

[Abnormality Description: When someone grasps the 'sword,' they will suffer a mental distortion. If the distortion value exceeds 10%, they will gain the ability to control life force, craving to constantly absorb more scattered life force and resurrecting the dead by inserting the sword into corpses. According to the ▇▇▇ test, when the mental distortion value exceeds one hundred, ▇▇ will occur.]

[Containment Procedures: The sword is placed in a specially made sword case made of a special alloy, with no openings, preventing human contact, located at Underwater Base No. 1]

【NO.2】【Code Name: Tunnel】

【NO.3】【Code Name: Demon Mountain】

【NO.4】【Code Name: Blood Jade Tree】

【NO.5】【Code Name: Tobacco】

The stem is two meters tall, with a woody base and gray, face-shaped patterns. It has ovate leaves and winged petioles.

[Randomly appearing in crematoriums within a 100-kilometer radius, it rapidly multiplies using human ashes, attracting humans to use them to make cigarettes. On the first try, 0.7% of people can break free from the cigarette's control. Smokers' eyes emit black smoke, developing an incurable addiction. It requires mental abilities to fill the void in the victim's heart. When the victim's mental distortion value exceeds 20%, rescue is impossible.]

[Containment Procedures: A small crematorium with an area of ​​fifty square meters, which requires cremating one human corpse per week and scattering the ashes on the ground, is located on Island Base No. 1, and is isolated from human contact.]

【NO.6】【Code Name: Devil】

【NO.7】【Code Name: Face Thief】

[She appears to be a 16-year-old high school girl, wearing her high school uniform, and her facial features change depending on the women she comes into contact with.]

[Obsessed with middle school boy Hibino, posing no particular danger, but enters a breakdown state when unable to simulate a human face through observation. His abilities will randomly transfer to any high school girl. Through the psychic ability user ▇▇▇▇ who delves into the mind's world, it is discovered that the face thief's memories originate from the year ▇▇▇▇, and he escaped to the present world through a high school student named ▇▇. This has been confirmed.]

[Containment Measures: Isolate from human contact; provide middle school boy Hibino with photos and videos periodically; N City Base 2]

【NO.8】【Code Name: Another Dimensional House】

[Toyama City, 300 square meters, three-story Western-style villa, owned by a high school student]

[Following the investigation by Investigation Team ▇, high school student ▇▇ has been confirmed missing. Member ▇▇▇▇ of Investigation Team ▇ went missing at high school student ▇▇'s home. ▇▇▇ has confirmed that the missing person is deceased. High school student ▇▇'s home has the ability to link to parallel worlds; destroying it will randomly transfer a house from another parallel universe to the current world, and it cannot be moved.]

[Containment Measures: Isolate nearby residents, use Repellent Mushrooms to permanently repel nearby creatures, and establish observation points]

【…】

【NO.29】【Code Name: Plankton】

Three months after the demon was contained, Zhang Chengyi looked at the newly opened document with a somewhat complicated expression.

Chapter 335 The Things I Finally Learned

A small town near N City, on the edge of the median strip.

"What's going on? Who are they? Where are the police? Where is the government? Why won't they let us leave!"

"Protest! Protest!"

"Let us out of here right now, or I will definitely report you!"

The crowd huddled around the barrier wall was shouting incoherently, and some people inside were taking advantage of the chaos to commit indecent acts and theft, and the chaos gradually escalated.

"Quiet!!" A thunderous shout that resonated from the depths of their hearts startled everyone.

"Wah~wah~wah~" Only the cries of babies could be heard.

Immediately afterwards, a woman wearing a strange mushroom hat flew down from the high wall.

"It's flying! It's flying!"

"What kind of high-tech stuff is this?! Bullshit!"

"Damn it, let me out right now! I'm an American, you have no right to detain me!"

Someone couldn't help but make a sound again, but as the woman flew by, large groups of people fell to the ground and fell asleep, and soon the area near the high wall became quiet.

"Boss, it's done." The woman in the mushroom hat flew back to the high wall. She touched the 'hat' on her head, and the soft, silicone-like texture made her rub it again.

The mushrooms swayed and gave her feedback.

Goro Furuhata looked down at the large group of people who were fast asleep, his expression very serious, and said, "You've worked hard."

Yesterday, investigators near the town discovered strange, unusual objects floating in the air, and by early this morning, they had spread throughout the entire town at an alarming rate.

The feedback from His Highness was alarming. This kind of anomaly spreads extremely quickly. Anyone who gets close to or hears the voices inside the floating objects will have their mind distorted. The degree of distortion is not high in a single instance, but this anomaly has the characteristic of repeated infection. After being infected multiple times, when the mental distortion value exceeds 10%, it will spit out its thoughts as black fluffy floating objects.

Once a human approaches, the floating object will speak in the voice of the person who spat it out, thereby infecting others.

Moreover, these floating objects are indestructible, cause very little damage to the host, and are virtually harmless except for death. They also spread rapidly, making them extremely dangerous as anomalies.

Fortunately, the investigators reacted quickly, and the security team immediately contained all the floating objects. Otherwise, once it spread, there would be almost no way to eradicate it. There would always be some people with a higher degree of mental distortion who would eventually kill or commit suicide under the influence of the floating objects.

If the floating objects, influenced by human minds and spread throughout the world, become even slightly more deadly, it will cause enormous trouble.

Considering that the infected people might generate planktonic particles again, His Highness immediately ordered the town to be sealed off. Although it was just a four-sided high wall, the upper air was actually blocked by mushroom field generators, and even the air could not interact with the outside world, relying entirely on the mushrooms for supply.

For the people currently infected by the planktonic particles, the degree of mental distortion is very low in the vast majority of them. The mental ability users in the laboratory have been able to effectively cure them with their mental abilities, but the distortion will recur in a short time. It can be basically determined that this infection and its effects are permanent, and mental abilities can only cure it temporarily.

This is the first time that permanent mental distortion has been discovered since the discovery of mental healing.

Taking tobacco as an example, as long as one is not distorted by tobacco to more than 20% and does not touch any tobacco, one can be cured with long-term treatment by a person with psychic abilities. Apart from losing some memories, one will be a completely normal person. A group of people who were not deeply affected by tobacco had their extra memories wiped away and returned to normal life in society last month.

The mere fact that planktonic matter can permanently distort the mind is enough to make them take it seriously.

"Boss, it's a floating object," the woman in the mushroom hat said, pointing to a black, fluffy ball that was floating out of the crowd not far away.

Goro Furuhata sighed, "Hopefully the lab can figure out how to contain this thing soon."

When they go on investigation missions now, they no longer do it themselves. The mushroom clones have long been completed, but even the mushroom clones generated by imitating the fungal community can be infected and utter their own thoughts, even faster than humans, and ultimately can only be destroyed.

Even though the higher-ups have decided to reimburse all losses of mushroom clones, this has greatly reduced the mushroom quota and manpower available for other investigation missions.

There are many other threats in this world besides planktonic organisms.

For example, there's the city without streets that started spreading outwards after getting out of control; the human head balloon that escaped from high school student Oshikiri's villa and was immediately imprisoned, attracting the prince's attention; the 'visitor from hell' that emerged from a hot spring inn in a small town; and the strange planet with eyeballs that was discovered by an astronomical laboratory to be arriving in the solar system within sixteen years...

Goro Furuhata was almost certain that the world seemed to have snapped at some point and was hurtling toward the unknown.

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N City, laboratory.

"So this is Junji Ito's world. This is really troublesome and gives me a headache."

Zhang Chengyi flipped back to file number 27, "Human Head Balloon," and his expression couldn't help but twist slightly.

No wonder I always felt that so many random things were strange; it all makes sense if it's Junji Ito.

He hadn't read many Junji Ito comics in his previous life, mainly because he didn't really like horror comics. He had only skimmed a few of the more famous ones, like Headballs, Hellstar, and Souichi, just flipping through them casually. If he hadn't become a modder, he wouldn't have remembered them at all.

But no matter what, everyone has heard about how disordered and disgusting the characters in Junji Ito's horror manga really are.

Who knew that when they came here in person, they would find that this world was a bit too unfriendly to humans. They had already taken in twenty-nine aliens, and found that there were more than fifty that they could not take in. Cities like the City Without Streets had become uncontrollable and out of control, and the city was constantly expanding into Japanese territory, which was impossible to stop.

An unfortunate village was covered up and became the inhabitants of a city without streets that very day. Fortunately, the investigators nearby were the more intelligent type and managed to escape with the help of information provided by Keiichi Matsui. After staying there for two hours, their mental distortion exceeded 15%, and any later and they would not have been able to get out.

Similarly, there's an inn called Hell Hot Spring, which is utter nonsense. A hot spring is connected to hell, and he still doesn't understand what hell is in this world. At regular intervals, terrifying-looking humans emerge and hold banquets, claiming to be from hell. Although they don't harm humans, they've started to affect a wide range of hot springs, with terrifying-looking humans also appearing in other hot springs.

Furthermore, the villa of high school student Oshikiri is connected to countless parallel worlds in the setting. Since a human head balloon has already come over, it's easy to see that the other parallel worlds are not good places at all.