153. Nomi Anderson Guersett

Klavici shook his head. "A few years ago, before Dai Weilin came up here, the Rose Army came here. They were quite well-mannered. They not only did not exploit the locals, but also gave them a lot of food and supplies, trying to build good relations with the local residents to gain their support for the resistance—and what happened? The daughter of the Rose Army guerrilla leader was kidnapped by the locals."

"And then?" the passenger asked.

What else can be done?

Klavici shrugged:

"The mutants discovered that her body could regenerate, and immediately regarded it as a treasure bestowed upon them by the gods. They regularly cut it up and used it whenever they wanted, raising it for more than half a year before it was discovered by the guerrillas of the Rose Army."

"It's quite ironic. The guerrilla fighter came to deliver food to the mutants, only to find a girl's leg cooking in the pot. He was immediately terrified and rushed back to report. The Rose Army's higher-ups guessed the truth and deliberately kept the guerrilla leader from knowing about it, sending a different internal affairs officer to negotiate instead."

The passenger remained silent, Klavici continued, "In the end, the clerk returned and said that the girl was dead. The Rose Army needed mutants to provide manpower, so they concealed the truth and deliberately sent the guerrillas to remote areas. Several years later, when Dai Weilin came to power and the Rose Army accepted the offer of amnesty, the story finally spread."

He took another drag of his cigarette and suddenly laughed, "Dongyue Ridge is such a damn place, full of man-eating monsters."

"What about the girl who was kidnapped?"

"Who knows? Maybe he's already dead, or maybe he's still alive and suffering."

The train gradually slowed down. Klavici stubbed out his cigarette and went to operate the train. Soon after, the train came to a smooth stop.

"Hey, buddy, we've arrived."

Klavici turned his head and shouted to the passengers.

The passenger slowly stood up, preparing to get off the bus, when suddenly he noticed a chain hanging on the wall, used to secure fire-fighting equipment.

He raised his hand, pointed to the chain, and asked, "Can I borrow this?"

Klavici scratched his head. "It's nothing valuable, you can take it."

jingle--

The passenger wrapped the chain around his wrist, nodded, and showed gratitude in his purple eyes.

As he stepped off the train, the biting wind instantly frosted his body, and the gale lifted his hood, revealing Isaac Maxim's chiseled, angular face.

Li Aoz stood in the lobby of Dongyue Ridge subway station, surrounded by soft rustling sounds. Mutant monsters gnawing on bones were secretly watching this stranger from afar, seemingly plotting to turn him into their next meal. However, as soon as they were slightly affected by his aura, they would immediately abandon this unrealistic idea.

Pat, pat, tap...

Alone, Li Aoz wore a neat suit with a protective cotton overcoat. He trudged step by step on the cold ground, the biting wind appearing weak and laughable in his presence.

He stepped out of the subway and strolled through the desolate wilderness of Dongyue Ridge. The white sand beneath his feet was frozen into solid rubble, and with each step he felt as if a knife tip was piercing his soles. Li Aoz moved forward indifferently, his strength protecting him and creating Crimson Barrier, which seemed too conspicuous in the dark, snow-covered Outland.

The creatures lurking in the darkness could no longer contain themselves and instantly surged forward in a frenzy. A group of mutants opened their mouths wide and shot out their tongues like bullets, striking the Aura Shield without causing a ripple.

They raised the rifles given to them by the Rose Army high, their eyes bulging from their sockets as they focused and aimed, then pulled the trigger, accurately firing the bullets at one spot, but they just couldn't break through Li Aoz's shield.

Awooooo!

The tamed Mutated Beast ignited explosives and pounced madly at Li Aoz.

Ring ring—

A flash of silver-gray light and shadow, and the chains slammed into the ground, kicking up a cloud of Frost and Snow and dust that extinguished the bomb's fuse and obscured visibility.

Li Aoz coldly swung the chains, whipping and lashing them until they were shattered and blood froze into solid ice on the ground.

"Catch... and then... eat..."

The mutants babbled incoherently, and although they resembled humans, in some ways even the Imitation Human looked more human than they did.

Slaughterhouse employees do not feel guilty towards the livestock.

Li Aoz swung down the chains, and the mutants fell one after another.

Swing, smash, fling, chop, split, hammer, entangle, twist.

It sounds just like cooking.

He calmly trampled on their corpses, treated every mutant equally, and carried out an ordinary career with a calm mind.

When he stepped his boot into the skull of a young mutant, there were no more mutants in the entire Dongyue Ridge.

Li Aoz took off his protective coat, which was stained with blood and bits of meat.

He slowly walked towards the location detected by his main body. At this point, Li Aoz was surprisingly calm. He felt neither the excitement of seeing Nomi nor the guilt of being too late.

Li Aoz calmly walked across the broken ridge of Dongyue Ridge and entered the summit—where an ancient, mutated giant tree grew. Its crown did not grow branches and leaves, but was covered with muscles and bones. The branches were covered with fleshy balls that glowed with fireflies, emitting a ghostly blue light in the night. On the withered, gelatinous bark, rows of human spines were encircled.

This is the deity worshipped by the mutants— the Mutated Flesh Tree.

But it is not an evil creature. It is just one of the many creatures struggling to survive on this harsh planet. Its ugly appearance and bloody appearance are simply evolutionary adaptations for survival.

The night lingers, the snow remains white.

Beneath the fleshy tree knelt a deformed and ugly monster: she was about three meters tall, thin, with a head of silver-white hair that fell to the ground like the tentacles of a sea anemone, dancing in the wind, and her rotting body was covered with firefly-like maggots.

On her almost skeletal head grew deformed tentacles resembling those of a moose. Although her lower body retained a human form, it appeared extremely emaciated. Her intestines, spilling out from her abdomen, covered her private parts like the hem of a skirt, seemingly the only place where her female characteristics could be discerned.

Seemingly sensing the long-awaited approach of someone, the rotting monster slowly raised its head. When the figure of Li Aoz was reflected in its empty, tilted single eye, it seemed to hesitate for a moment.

Then, she fell to the ground on all fours, grabbed a huge engineering wrench from the skeletal remains, and used it to prop herself up.

"Wuru..."

The monster straightened up, raised the wrench in its hand with its withered, poplar-like arm, as if a knight were raising his lance in a duel, and aimed it at Li Aoz.

Li Aoz a deep breath.

The Eye of Truth

You have glimpsed the truth and obtained the following information:

[Name]: ' 'Waiting for Decay' Nomi Anderson Guersett ' Nomi Anderson Guersett [Race]: Esha Corrupted Body

Gender: Female (before death)

Age: 19 Template: None

[Faction]: Entropy Lord - Entropy Annihilation Entropy Annihilation Apostle - Malefic Calamity Corruption [Total Level]: lv.60 [Esha Corrupted Body] [Health Points]: (Unable to calculate, target is dead) [Aura Value]: (Calamus Corruption Body's Aura Value and Health Points combined) [Attributes]: Strength - 25 Dexterity - 24 Constitution - None Charisma - 0 Willpower - 0 [Status]: Entropy Annihilation Will - The supreme Entropy Lord has forbidden your death. You cannot obtain true liberation until you are freed from Malefic Calamity.

[Specialty]: [Violent District] - Increases damage dealt by 10% when using crude weapons. [Happy Wildcat] - When in a state of 'happiness', melee evasion rate increases and the probability of being hit by random projectiles (shrapnel, stray bullets, curse effects, etc.) is reduced.

[Well-Trained] - You have a good understanding of military weapons operation and are very good at driving vehicles. Even if you are using an unfamiliar vehicle for the first time, you can quickly get the hang of it and become proficient.

[Entropy Annihilation Aura]: [Proliferation Aberration] - The will of Entropy Lord grants your cells powerful strength, making their proliferation and division rate dozens of times that of ordinary people.

The bad news is that, theoretically, the faster you recover from this rate of division, the shorter your lifespan will be.

The good news is, you're dead.

Even after recovery, proliferation continues, whether it's teeth, bone spurs, tumors, or calcified crystals growing in the brain—all of which are good.

However, whether this ability is good or bad makes no difference to you. Even if it is a curse bestowed upon you by Entropy, you should still praise and sing its praises.

Don't try to control cell proliferation; it has already left you with a complete corpse. You should be grateful and forever admire the supreme and unparalleled Lord Entropy.

[Owned Skills]: [Professional Fighting], [Expert Wilderness Survival], [Road Clearing and Obstacle Disruption], [Bullying the Weak], [Extreme Evasion]

[Hierarchy]: Alpha Rank ——————————

"... Nomi."

Li Aoz looked at the monster confronting him.

No wonder the original body couldn't be found.

So, this is where Nomi's body is.

That other half of the soul is still here, residing in this broken and dilapidated body.

Indeed, I should have thought of this sooner. Dying in the Outland usually means being transformed into Esha Corrupted Body, or even falling into the state of Entropy Annihilation Apostle.

"Wuru..."

The monster let out a low growl, or perhaps it wasn't a growl at all, but rather the sound of wind passing through her rotting lungs.

She died, but she didn't truly die.

Entropy Lord's erosion plunged her life into a perpetual state of reverse entropy, yet she could never truly return to life. She died and resurrected simultaneously, ultimately becoming an eroded entity even less than an undead.

This is also the ultimate fate of most Outland People.

"Don't be afraid, Nomi."

With the chains hanging on the ground, Li Aoz seemed to have returned to the day he first entered the Star Abyss.

Of all the people who walked alongside him back then, he was now the only one left.

"I've come to take you home."

But before that—

Li Aoz suddenly took flight, his body surging with power, and a demonic red aura swirling around his eyes.

—I must kill you again.