What vanished was not only Field Officer Su Heng's head, but his body as well.
He had disappeared so cleanly that many people nearby wondered whether the commanding officer who had been raging and making meticulous arrangements there moments ago had merely been a trick of Artificial Intelligence—or even an illusion in their minds, someone who had never truly appeared at all.
Everyone was generally stunned, their thoughts blanking out, unsure of what to do.
Yet in the eyes of professionals like Doctor Xiang Chai, while this was certainly terrifying, it still invited a rather fitting association.
Then again, Doctor Xiang Chai himself absolutely did not want to make that association.
It was all that warning message from Shi Fan's fault...
At this moment, the bloody-sweet, coarse aura between his mouth and nose grew increasingly intense, until he had the feeling—
Had the flesh and blood throughout his entire body been permeated by this aura, rapidly infected and assimilated?
This intense?
Even though he had been mentally prepared, such violent erosion still exceeded Doctor Xiang Chai's expectations.
It was not that the Karmic Poison Contamination triggered by this upheaval was impossible to resist. The problem was that the channel through which Karmic Poison eroded people was thought itself—especially precise corresponding thoughts and imaginings.
The more professional one was, the more likely one was to suffer exposure contamination.
And at his level, the means available to deal with it were extremely limited.
At that thought, Doctor Xiang Chai's blood seemed to sink, while his heartbeat abruptly accelerated. At the same time, a chill spread through his entire body. Even the heat from the "Fire Seed" on his chest penetrating his heart and lungs could not ease it; instead, it created some kind of conflict. The chaotic aura surged upward and directly