Special Hazardous Objects

Bearing the humility and eagerness to learn of a newcomer, Xiao Xiao chatted with the young designer Ruan Ruan for an entire afternoon. After dinner, he finally returned to his "home."

He couldn't help but sigh inwardly, Yang Jia had truly introduced him to a great mentor.

Ruan Ruan was talkative and had a very considerate personality.

Although she was a tough, no-nonsense woman who always rode her motorcycle at over a hundred miles an hour and would readily pull out a spiked club to deal with people, she was very patient when explaining the situation of this world and survival skills to him, and she also had the good habit of insisting on paying the bill when they ate together.

This made Xiao Xiao feel much closer to her.

In such a bizarre and strange world, whether it was Yang Jia or Ruan Ruan, as fellow Outsiders, they could always bring him a different kind of security.

When he returned to his bedroom, he saw a dark red box placed beside his bed.

Although he had been mentally prepared for it when he came back, he was still a little surprised when he saw the box.

Ruan Ruan had shown him how to purchase these special items. After confirming his order, she simply "shopped online" on a tablet with his dark red card, following the list.

But now, his mother wasn't home from work yet, the door was locked, and this box had mysteriously appeared in his bedroom.

How magical...

But considering that this entire city was a giant, wriggling living thing, it didn't seem so surprising after all.

Opening the box, he saw the low-level gene enhancement serum that Ruan Ruan had mentioned.

It was stored in a semi-metallic container that still emitted a faint silver glow in the darkness. The other half was made of an unknown transparent material that didn't seem like glass.

Xiao Xiao observed it for a long time, then twisted a rotating button at the top. With a soft hiss, a sharp needle was revealed.

Xiao Xiao understood that this type of injection was a device that combined storage and injection functions into one, making it very convenient to use.

It also didn't seem fake, and had a sense of technological sophistication rarely seen in real life.

There was even a "Black Forest Biologicals" logo on the surface of the injection.

This was something Ruan Ruan had also explained to him. Black Forest Biologicals was a real biological gene research laboratory in this city.

The "Violence Factor" that they exchanged for with the city using Points existed in the form of low-level gene enhancement serums produced by this laboratory, making it convenient for him to use.

"Am I really going to inject this thing into my body?"

He thought of what Ruan Ruan had told him about the usage of the injection, which required three steps. After the first use, he had to wait two days before injecting the second one, and three days after that, he would inject the third one.

After using all three serums, his physical fitness would be comprehensively improved, and he would no longer be in his current sub-healthy state.

However, after the three serums, if he wanted to continue strengthening his body, he would need to purchase more advanced serums.

However, suddenly receiving this kind of serum, Xiao Xiao felt a bit of apprehension and didn't dare to use it just like that. But after a long silence in the dimly lit bedroom, he suddenly let out a wry smile.

"The whole world has already gone mad, what's there to be careful about?"

He held the serum, aimed it at his thigh, closed his eyes, and gently stabbed it in.

The sensation was cold, with a slight stinging pain. The serum was actively pushed in, and faint blue light spots flowed throughout his body along with his blood.

At this moment, in the bedroom where only the computer flickered with a faint glow, the skin exposed outside Xiao Xiao's clothes showed root-like vascular patterns, all tinged with a slight blue.

Mysterious and bizarre.

In his ears, a vast and hidden low laughter seemed to ring out, as if some crazy things were cheering for him at this moment.

In Xiao Xiao's perception, the world seemed to become clearer in an instant.

Xiao Xiao didn't know what this action represented at this time.

And far away, on the other side of the city, in a room filled with dense circuits, a faint sigh seemed to echo from the glass tank containing only a brain.

Xiao Xiao held his breath and waited, but after a long time, he found that there was no strong discomfort.

As the faint blue light disappeared into his blood vessels, he only felt a slight fever in his body, and his breath carried a burning sensation.

But after carefully feeling it, he didn't find that his personality had become irritable, or that he wanted to attack anything.

According to Ruan Ruan's explanation: the Violence Factor, injected into the body in the form of a gene enhancement serum, would give him stronger physique and strength, but the side effect was a greater tendency towards violence.

Or rather, the tendency towards violence was the main effect, and the improvement in physical fitness was a side effect.

Of course, only in the early stages. With the three lowest-level enhancement serums, the tendency towards violence was only extremely slight.

Perhaps that was why he didn't feel the side effects that Ruan Ruan had mentioned. Anyway, he didn't feel that he had become more irritable or anything else.

He sat down silently and carefully took stock.

The gun that Yang Jia gave him, the fruit knife he bought on the road, the gene enhancement serum he bought today...

Now, in this unknown, mysterious city, he had at least a little bit of ability to protect himself...

However, Xiao Xiao was a person who lacked a sense of security.

Whenever he thought of Jiang Cheng's exposed malice and the twisted Rat-Man's appearance, he felt uneasy, and silently took out a phone-like monitoring device from the box.

Although Ruan Ruan had said that in this city, there were many dangerous things with the potential for Aberration, but compared to the size of the entire city, they seemed very few, and it was difficult to easily come into contact with them.

But Xiao Xiao couldn't help but want to take it out and test it.

After all, for the past four years, he had always felt an endless sense of danger, feeling that everything was exceptionally terrifying...

With a hint of nervousness, he turned on the monitoring device in his hand.

Perhaps only by scanning his surroundings and confirming that there were no problems could he fall asleep at night.

And then...

"Beep beep beep beep—"

The moment he turned on the device's button, a piercing alarm sounded incessantly, as if it had gone mad, unable to stop.

In that instant, cold sweat streamed down Xiao Xiao's face.

His heart skipped a beat, and he instantly entered a state of mental explosion, with countless thoughts arising in his mind:

"Is this piece of junk broken?"

"That doesn't make sense, it's new..."

"..."

The rows of numbers displayed on the monitor intensified the tension in his heart.

The detector could identify dangerous things within a hundred meters of him, whether it had already undergone distortion or not.

In other words, either an Aberrant Creature like a Rat-Man had appeared near him, or something close to distortion was nearby.

However, according to Ruan Ruan, while such things were not uncommon, they weren't exactly everywhere. Even if you walked around with this thing, you wouldn't necessarily find one in a large part of the city.

Why was it ringing so loudly just by turning it on?

And when he saw the specific words appearing distorted on the monitor, Xiao Xiao was even more shocked, his scalp even tingling slightly.

[Vicious Hounds]
[Old Gramophone]
[Reclusive Butcher]
[……]

In a state of mental explosion, Xiao Xiao thought a lot, but in reality, he immediately turned off the monitor's alarm after detecting these things.

But his heart continued to thump, and a layer of cold sweat broke out.

Why these things?

The impression was too deep.

Because of the panic disorder that inexplicably started four years ago, he had barely left the house in the past four years.

His social circle was limited to this small bedroom, including the view from the window and the times he mustered the courage to go out for a walk, which only extended to this street at most.

And every time he went out, or tried to look outside, the result was extreme fear...

The most terrifying were these things: the three vicious hounds that would occasionally go mad, staring at him with dark red eyes, ready to rush over and tear him apart.

The old gramophone that always played songs that made his heart crawl.

And the butcher who always held a chainsaw, cutting up the meat of some large animal.

Of course, even more so was his mother, whose personality was unpredictable...

Simply put, when his panic disorder flared up, they were the things Xiao Xiao feared the most, constantly making him feel danger and panic.

But now, why were they the ones being detected?

Taking a few deep breaths, Xiao Xiao calmed himself down. After confirming that there were no unusual sounds in the darkened night outside the window, he hurried to the computer.

He placed his dark red card on the computer case.

Seemingly, some faint, twisting threads spread out from the card, extending into the case bit by bit.

The computer screen began to flicker rapidly, with dark red lines constantly breaking and reforming. Finally, it displayed a mysterious page with a dangerous aura.

[Type: Three Cute Vicious Hounds]
[Status: Tradeable]
[Price: 30 Points]
[Description: When facing danger, this item will appear on the battlefield in a reasonable manner, loyally and bravely helping everyone defeat the enemy.]
[Note: But compared to vicious combat, they prefer to tear down houses and find beautiful female dogs]
[……]
[Type: Old Gramophone]
[Status: Tradeable]
[Price: 50 Points]
[Description: Even the most pleasant music played by this gramophone can emit a mournful feeling, causing slight psychological discomfort to opponents.]
[Note: Many people possess this talent]

[...]

[Type: Reclusive Butcher]

[Status: Tradeable]

[Price: 100 Points]

[Description: A perverted killer who loves to pick up a chainsaw and dismember all living things, possessing a strong deterrent and harmful effect on ordinary people.]

[Note 1: The deterrent power of this item mainly comes from the chainsaw; you can achieve the same effect if you wield it.]

[Note 2: This item has violated the law and may be caught by The Guard Hall at any time, but before being caught, he may be able to help you in battle.]

[...]

Xiao Xiao's pupils contracted rapidly at that moment.

They are all tradeable...

Does that mean this city has already confirmed their danger for me?

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