After being taken over by an old acquaintance, Sister Ji finally breathed a sigh of relief and said weakly,
"Where did these rookies come from? Why are they so freakish?"
"How could anything from the Cyber Trial Grounds not be freakish?" Rainy Night with a Blade but No Umbrella glanced at her strangely.
"They're natives of Immortal Energy Star. That planet's specialties are dried zombie meat and bagged zombie blood. If you aren't careful and get bitten by a zombie, you'll be turned into one yourself. What kind of people do you think players who survived in that environment would be?"
"That is pretty freakish. No wonder."
Sister Ji took several deep breaths and dispelled her "Forbidden Body." The threads wove themselves into a human shape once more, only now she was a full circle thinner.
She had gone from a Korean-manhwa figure to a bony beauty.
"Then how did they suppress 'Evil God Infection'? Don't tell me the faction has even unlocked that technology."
If that were developed, all the interstellar horror organizations would probably suffer a dimensionality-reducing blow for real.
"Not quite. Immortal Energy Star isn't like our Machine Crack Star, where modification and virtual technologies are highly developed. They follow a biological path. They have an ancestral breathing technique that can freely alter the human body's modification rate. When they fought you, they most likely lowered the modification rates of the nervous system and endocrine system—the human systems most vulnerable to infection—to the minimum."
"There's an operation like that?!" Sister Ji exclaimed. Manually adjusting one's modification rate—wasn't that just farming points?
"Different trial grounds have different specialties. It's nothing strange," Umbrella Bro patiently explained.
"Huh?"
Sister Ji walked around him in surprise.
"Your temper seems to have improved quite a bit too. In the past, you wouldn't