Aragami Gone Berserk
The pool of blood spread out beneath Rollwright's gradually turning into a cold corpse, slowly staining the ground red.
Looking at Rollwright, whose eyes were wide open and who died with his eyes still open, Fang Li's indifference began to disappear, turning into calm.
No matter how annoying Rollwright was in life, once she's dead, there's no reason for her to get Fang Li's attention anymore.
To Fang Li, the creature before him was no longer Rollwright, but simply a corpse.
"I've paid back the debt you owed me."
The feud between him and Rollwright, who had been schemed against and framed by her, came to a complete end here.
"However, this also creates a lot of trouble."
As he said this, Fang Li raised his head and looked at the white severed arm that was soaking in the medicinal liquid.
There is one thing that Rollwright was absolutely right about.
That is, once Fang Li kills the only person who can control Eros, then the army of Aragami outside the Russian Branch will truly have no chance of disintegration.
Next, the Russian Branch will face an unprecedented and enormous disaster.
This disaster is far greater than the mission ten years ago when the Russian Branch, in its campaign against Aphrodite, inadvertently obtained Aphrodite's arm—the Eros codenamed "α"—which resulted in significant sacrifices.
Fortunately, there is still a chance to salvage the situation.
Once Eros is taken out of the Russian Branch, Aphrodite will surely shift her focus and pursue the direction of her severed arm.
"Since Aphrodite knows that Eros is in the Russian Branch, it proves that she can sense the existence of her severed arm."
After all, Eros, like Aphrodite, possessed hormones that could attract the gods. As the actual holder of these hormones, it was not surprising that Aphrodite could find her by following the scent or senses of her own hormones.
"Perhaps the reason why we haven't launched a direct attack on Russia in the past ten years is simply because the distance is too great, and the amount of hormones that the arm can release is too small?"
However, ten years later, Aphrodite finally found her severed arm.
What does that prove?
This proves that Eros is able to release more hormones.
"In order to control a large number of Aragami, Rollwright must have researched a way to increase the release of hormones in Eros's body, causing Eros to release an unprecedented amount of hormones. This is why Aphrodite finally noticed Eros's existence and began to land in Russia and launch a full-scale attack on the Russian Branch."
This is also why Rollwright was confident that she could compete with Aphrodite, for control of the Aragami, even with her two severed arms.
If the amount of hormones is increased, then control will eventually fall to the party that releases more hormones.
"Now, the method to control Eros has completely failed. All we can do is move this bomb to another location."
Thinking this, Fang Li walked toward the white arm that was soaking in the medicinal liquid.
Just then, an accident occurred.
"Gurgle..."
The white arm, soaking in the medicinal liquid, suddenly trembled, causing bubbles to rise from the pores of the arm, making a strange watery sound.
Fang Li's steps suddenly stopped, and his eyes slowly narrowed.
"Gurgle..."
The white arm, soaked in the medicinal liquid, trembled again.
"Gurgle gurgle gurgle..."
Before long, the arms began to twitch as if in spasm, causing a large number of bubbles to rise in the Culture Tank.
Witnessing this scene unfold, Fang Li felt a sense of foreboding.
The next moment, Fang Li's premonition came true.
"Bang—!"
With a deafening explosion, one of the numerous smaller Culture Tank connected to the giant Culture Tank in the dimly lit room suddenly burst open, causing the medicinal liquid inside to bloom like splashes of water.
However, the blooming medicinal liquid did not fall to the ground, but suddenly stopped in mid-air, then gathered together, forming the outline of a beast, and gradually solidified.
The next moment, a small Aragami with Oni-faced Giant-tailed appeared there, landing on the spot where the Culture Tank had exploded. It raised a pair of fierce eyes and stared in Fang Li's direction.
"What?" Fang Li was startled.
Only then did Fang Li finally understand.
Those Culture Tank didn't contain any medicine, but rather Oracle Cell.
"Bang bang bang bang bang—!"
A series of explosions resounded, causing the Culture Tank to shatter one after another, giving rise to countless Wild Gods.
Among them are small Aragami like Oni-faced Giant-tailed, medium-sized Aragami like Kongo, and even a large Aragami like Vajra.
At this moment, numerous wild gods were fully formed, roaring to the sky like wild beasts breaking free of their cages.
"Roar roar roar roar roar roar roar roar roar roar roar roar————!"
The loud roar transformed into a sonic wave, shaking the entire research lab.
Looking at those rows of wild gods, Fang Li couldn't help but speak up.
"Why?"
Why do the Oracle Cell in those Culture Tank transform into Aragami?
Indeed, the Aragami are aggregates of Oracle Cell. However, the Oracle Cell used for research have all been modified to some extent, so they shouldn't have aggregated into Aragami.
"Could it be..."
Fang Li suddenly turned his head and looked at the severed arm in the huge Culture Tank behind him.
"Gurgle gurgle gurgle—!"
The pristine white severed arm continued to twitch and writhe, filling the entire Culture Tank with bubbles and causing the liquid Culture Tank to boil and heat up like magma.
That unusual commotion was definitely the culprit that caused the Oracle Cell in the research institute to transform into Aragami.
"How so?"
Fang Li was unaware that, in order to achieve her goals, Rollwright spent a full ten years not only maximizing the release of Eros's hormones, but also developing a chip that could connect to Eros and transmit action commands to the manipulated Aragami that absorbed the hormones.
It was thanks to this chip that Rollwright was able to achieve her goal of controlling the army of Aragami through Eros.
The chip was implanted into Rollwright's brain.
Now that Fang Li has killed Rollwright, the action commands transmitted from the chip to Eros have become completely disordered.
In other words, Eros went berserk.
As a result, under the distorted commands, Eros caused the surrounding Oracle Cell to directly transform into Aragami, and also caused the Aragami to go berserk.
"Roar roar roar roar roar roar roar roar roar roar roar roar————!"
The next instant, the rampaging Aragami shattered the floor and charged towards Fang Li.