Cthulhu God?

Li Wei released Pulse Sensing, wanting to investigate the situation within the white fog, but he discovered that his pulses could not penetrate the dense white fog below.

The pulses released from his body vanished without a trace the moment they touched the white fog, like mud sinking into the sea.

"Bzzzz!" An ancient, everlasting beastly cry suddenly rang out from the fog. Little Bear trembled violently in Li Wei's arms, burrowing deeper into his embrace.

"What the hell is making that noise?"

Dumbfounded, Li Wei hovered above the fog. The entire town had now been engulfed by white fog so dense it was impossible to see through. He could no longer tell one place from another. How was he supposed to return Little Bear and the money to Anna?

And that was not even the main issue. There seemed to be monsters in the white fog, and they could howl!

After circling over the fog-shrouded town for a while, Li Wei relied on a few insignificant memory fragments that his thought system had automatically filtered out to locate the town's only bar. Shielding the little black bear, he plunged headfirst into the white fog.

Bang!

After a dull crash, he smashed through someone's second floor and ended up covered in dust and grime!

Li Wei crawled out of the rubble, shaking off the debris and dust on his body before casually patting the dusty little black bear as well.

Looking around in confusion, he released Pulse Sensing once more. This time, the pulse spread only five meters before vanishing into the white fog's coverage. Nor did it receive any feedback. His Pulse Sensing had become useless here.

"What kind of fog is this? Why is it so strange?" Li Wei muttered to himself. As an outsider, he could not make sense of the white fog, so he lifted the little black bear before his eyes and asked, "Do you know what's going on?"

Clearly, the little black bear could not answer his question...

Tucking the little black bear back into the crook of his left arm, Li Wei walked from the second-floor room he had destroyed to its door. After searching the entire house, he did not find a single living person.

After pushing open the door and stepping onto the street, his visibility was less than five meters. He could not distinguish the surrounding roads at all, much less find Anna's home.

If he wanted to find Anna, he could only use the most primitive method of communication: shouting!

"Anna!" Li Wei stood where he was and bellowed at the top of his lungs. "I brought the bear you wanted! Uh... the color might be a little off, but he really did transform!"

The heavy fog seemed to weaken sound as well. No matter how loudly he shouted, there was no response.

So he kept moving forward and kept calling out.

When he called Anna's name for the third time, something in the fog finally responded.

A huge tentacle dozens of centimeters thick shot out from the fog and lunged straight at him!

The moment Li Wei saw the faintly visible tentacle in the fog, his right arm had already transformed into a broad blade. With one slash, he split the incoming tentacle cleanly into left and right halves.

After seeing clearly what he had cut, Li Wei's eyes widened and a startled curse burst from his mouth. Quick as lightning, he slashed again, cutting off a section of the huge tentacle that was trying to retract.

He then used his long blade to lift the tentacle from the ground. Blood-red threads spread across it as he rapidly absorbed the severed section.

This was precious special genetic material!

Come to think of it, this thing looked somewhat familiar, but he could not recall where he had seen it. And there was actually something this bizarre in this world!

Blacklight received brand-new biological genes and swiftly began analyzing them, but the process did not go smoothly. From the feedback, Li Wei obtained only the most basic biomass. Aside from the quantity of biomass, this tentacle was not even comparable to that adult black bear.

At least the latter had given him some genetic optimization options, but this intimidating-looking tentacle had yielded absolutely nothing!

Thud! Thud!

Two heavy footsteps sounded behind him. Li Wei opened his eyes, spun around, and swung his broad blade, severing an arthropod-like arm that was trying to snatch him away.

At some point, a creature standing upright on four crab-like legs had appeared in the fog behind him. Most of its body was shrouded in white mist. Standing where he was, Li Wei could see only the monster's outline. By his estimate, it stood four or five meters tall.

The severed arthropod arm fell at Li Wei's feet and continued to struggle and writhe.

The monster in the white fog also retreated, just like the severed tentacle had. But Li Wei did not want to miss this opportunity. He stomped on the severed arm, crushing it, absorbed it, then charged fiercely after the monster in the fog.

In just five or six strides, he caught up to the monster shrouded in mist.

Once it entered his five-meter range of vision, he could finally see what it actually looked like.

Its limbs had grown in no discernible pattern. Four crab-like legs supported its movement, while its head was covered in Cthulhu-like fleshy tentacles apart from a single twisted, enormous mouth.

The monster's grotesquely bizarre design was enough to make even Li Wei marvel!

Marveling aside, after accelerating through the air with his body under control, he still brought his blade down on the head of the slow-moving monster.

The monster's remaining three irregular arms tried to block him, but their movements were far too slow. They were utterly incomparable to Li Wei, who possessed a special acceleration technique.

In the end, it could only watch helplessly as Li Wei cleaved it down the middle. Once he landed, he saw a sight that made him physically ill.

Inside the monster's split-open body were people squeezed into a mass!

These people were even still alive. Some of those he had not cut apart had their eyes open, staring at him with terrified expressions.

They were like dumpling filling haphazardly wrapped by elementary school children, flattened, kneaded, and stuffed into an outer skin in order to become a single "dumpling"!

Some had arms twisted ninety degrees. Some had their heads pressed into another person's chest, while the person whose chest had been torn open still stared at him in terror...

The weirdness and horror of the scene could not be described with simple words. They were like abstract paintings given three-dimensional form. They looked 3D, but were actually still 2D.

The whole thing was steeped in horror and absurdity!

After landing again, Li Wei retracted his broad blade and covered the little black bear's eyes with his hand.

Watching the monster stagger two steps before crashing to the ground, he clicked his tongue softly.

The monster's interior was composed entirely of people. There were no organs or flesh whatsoever. At a glance, one could count exactly how many people had been stuffed into its slender body.

But that did not interest him. Compared with the infected created by Blacklight, the insides of these monsters were truly disgusting. At the same time, it made him curious about how such monsters were formed.

He set Little Bear on the ground for the time being, transformed both hands into claws, and killed every person who was still looking at him with terror before absorbing them into his body.

He did not obtain any memories, but he acquired a method of secreting a special mucus. He could not develop it further for now, and in the short term it was merely a corrosive mucus. This was also the only useful thing Blacklight had obtained from the monster.

This mucus possessed only slight corrosiveness, and its use did not seem particularly significant.

Even after Li Wei set the little black bear on the ground, it did not run away. Instead, it scampered back to his feet on all fours, trying to climb up his pant leg.

It seemed to have sensed that something was unusual about this town as well...

The monster did not possess any useful genes. It was more like a lump of flesh composed purely of cells. No genetic material could be detected in its flesh, and neither could any genetic material or genes be detected in the people stuffed inside it who had remained alive.

Every person's genes had variations, and Blacklight would not overlook such things. Yet he could not detect anything at all from this monster!

"Could it really be some fucking Cthulhu god?" After pondering in place for a long time, Li Wei lifted his foot and flung the little black bear that had climbed onto his calf in front of him. He grabbed it by the nape with one hand, tucked it under his arm again, and wore a deeply suspicious expression.

The monster from earlier really had looked like something from the Cthulhu Mythos, but Blacklight could still obtain the energy required to sustain itself—"biomass"—from it. That meant it was still made of flesh and blood!

Maybe Blacklight simply had no way to analyze it yet. Its level must not be high enough!

"Or maybe... there just isn't enough of it!"