"Sun Hang?" Zhong Ling asked again tentatively.
"I'm fine." Sun Hang shook the rainwater from his face. "I swallowed that Anomaly just now and accidentally choked on it."
Sun Hang immediately checked Wang Xiyi's condition. The meme virus inside her had already been completely removed. All that remained was to wait for her damaged memes to repair themselves—physical injuries, meanwhile, were little more than scratches to someone who possessed the Black Dragon Meme, so long as she had not been directly decapitated.
Gargantua's condition, however, was far from optimistic—not only had his body suffered severe trauma, but his meme fragments had been torn into pieces.
The memes of anomalous corpses fell somewhere between Anomalies and infected individuals. They were inherently defective products of "incomplete evolution." Tianshu Tower had transformed these anomalous corpses into Anomaly Equipment for Zhong Ling to command. In a sense, it was a form of making use of waste.
"How do you plan to deal with him?" Sun Hang glanced at "Gargantua," twitching in the mud, then turned to Zhong Ling. "Feels like... there's no saving him."
"Handle him according to protocol," Zhong Ling said softly.
For scrapped Anomaly Equipment like this, handling it according to protocol was another way of saying "harmless disposal." It just sounded more tactful.
Sun Hang stepped forward and bound Gargantua tightly with mycelium. Then, he pressed the fingers of his right hand together like a blade and drove them straight through Gargantua's crown.
The Liquid Metal covering his fingertips effortlessly pierced Gargantua's hard skull. A flash of dim blue Dragon Flame swept through, burning away Gargantua's brains along with the fragmented memes remaining inside him.
The massive body knelt facedown, motionless at last.
Rain battered against his body. His skin gradually began to dissolve, exposing the flesh and fat beneath that