"Any other areas that need our support?" Wang Xiyi asked.
"Not for now... Wait!"
Before Yang Qi could finish speaking, a piercing alarm immediately rang through the communications channel!
"Large numbers of unknown Anomalies have emerged in areas A11 and A13! Requesting support!"
"Anomalies encountered in area A19! Combat in progress!"
"Communications lost with areas A35 and B09!"
"Communications lost with area B14!"
Almost at the same time, the hunters assigned to clear the various areas all encountered Anomalies. The moment the fighting began, it had already escalated into a fever pitch!
"The support drones have detected abnormal memetic frequencies!" Yang Qi said rapidly. "Right beneath your feet! And... there are a lot of them!"
"I figured." Wang Xiyi lowered her gaze to the ground. "The underground was the only place they could hide."
Sun Hang could smell that distinct scent of Anomalies now as well... but this time, what he smelled was a nauseating stench of rot.
In other words, even Taotie, who was never picky about food, found the Anomalies hiding underground disgusting.
"They're coming!" Wang Xiyi shouted. Black scales instantly covered her long arms, while her ten fingers mutated into sharp Dragon Claws—this was her half-beast form. Its combat power was somewhat weaker than full beastification, but it was far more difficult to control. Its sole advantage was that half-beastification had a relatively minor effect on the Anomalization process.
In Wang Xiyi's own words, she was someone who "burned her life away."
The next second, countless Anomalies crawled out through cracks in the ground—these Anomalies looked like a group of malformed children. They had huge heads like the aliens commonly seen in science fiction, skeletal bodies utterly disproportionate to those heads, and sharp, claw-like nails.
Their skin was a sickly bluish-white, covered in patches of livor mortis