Were aberrant products really that easy to consume?
Especially so-called "medicinal powder" with highly mixed ingredients. Even if someone had been perfectly healthy to begin with, after taking a few doses, forget becoming Contaminated—it was hard to say whether they might suffer Aberration Infection at all.
There were far too many aberrant parasites!
Ronan said nothing more, but Long Qi felt that he understood what he meant:
Wasn't this path of obtaining Extraordinary Ability through the so-called "Evolution Formula" in the game precisely the Twisted Scheme Ronan had never explicitly named, yet had already laid bare?
At present, there were roughly one billion Contaminated people on Earth. That already seemed like an enormous base. But once it became a popular trend, increasing by another ten or twenty percent in a short period would not be difficult—with a phenomenon-level game like Wilderness Ten Days backing it, it was practically inevitable.
Then, thinking of the investors behind Wilderness Ten Days, Long Qi suddenly realized that he had inadvertently lifted a corner of the Veil covering the world's surface and seen something incredible—and deadly. A chill ran through him.
The only thing he could use to comfort himself was:
Everyone had seen it!
Since everyone had seen it, surely it was fine for This Old Man to ramble on a little more, right?
Before thoughts like these had fully formed in his mind, Long Qi had already spoken. "So, this is deliberately increasing the number of 'Contaminated' people... Why?"
Ronan still did not answer, nor did anyone else respond.
Long Qi did not feel embarrassed and continued on his own. "I remember... Professor Ronan, you once said that the path of advancement from ordinary people to Ability Users, and from Ability Users to higher levels, had suffered an intestinal blockage in the middle.