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Silently, the Corpse Spot Anomaly within him was activated, its anomalous ability triggering instantly.

Brown corpse spots appeared on Chen Yu's hand. The spots crawled along his arm and onto the fruit, infecting it with corpse spots!

An aura, like that of hundreds of mice naturally decaying, spread from within the fruit.

It proved that this was a corpse!

The Anomaly Child didn't speak, simply accepting the corpse-spotted fruit from Chen Yu's hand with childlike innocence.

Then, it swallowed it in one gulp.

The moment it swallowed the corpse-spotted fruit.

The Anomaly Child's expression turned ferocious, unlike anything seen before.

It was as if what it had swallowed was not a fruit.

But a bottle full of potent poison!

Before it could even rage, its body began to rot and collapse immediately!

Brain matter mixed with scarlet blood gushed wildly from its eyes, ears, nose, and mouth!

Plop!

When it fell to the ground, the Anomaly Child was like a wooden doll, completely still!

Seeing this, Han Ningning's face was filled with shock and horror. "It, it's dead?!"

Chen Yu stood up and calmly explained, "Because it violated the anomaly's rules. Corpse spots only exist on dead bodies. I made the corpse spots infect the fruit. In its eyes, the fruit infected with corpse spots was corpse meat.

"In reality, it wasn't meat, but a plain fruit. The rules were scrambled, and eating food that violated the rules caused it to crash."

Chen Yu now understood clearly. This thing wasn't an Anomaly Infant to begin with.

Calling it an [Anomaly Child] was also incorrect; it should be an Anomaly Eater.

It could only eat meat, not vegetables.

Chen Yu had guessed correctly.

Hearing this, Han Ningning was even more shocked.

Corpse spots?

When did Chen Yu infect the fruit with corpse spots?

Did he have another Corpse Spot Anomaly inside him?!

Chen Yu walked to the [Anomaly Eater]'s side. Unlike before, he didn't eat the child whole.

Instead, he reached for its chest.

As expected, a blackened, rotting heart was externally connected there.

This was the core of the Anomaly Eater.

The desire to eat meat originated entirely from here.

The child was merely a corpse.

Next, Chen Yu directly swallowed the [Anomaly Eater]'s heart.

Although the heart emitted a strong, pungent, and uninterpretable stench.

As he ate it, the stench suddenly disappeared.

The sensation was like chewing on stinky tofu?

[You have devoured the Anomaly Eater's rotten heart.]

A notification appeared.

Chen Yu completely consumed the Anomaly Eater's heart. After digesting it, it transformed into energy that filled Chen Yu's limbs and body. After circulating within him.

It finally surged into one of the anomalies in his body.

[Headless Ghost Shadow has acquired new energy and leveled up to Level 7 (60%).]

[You have devoured the Anomaly Eater's core heart.]

[Anomaly Eater: Lv. 7]

[Potential: Three Stars.]

[Acquired Anomaly Ability: Anomaly Eater.]

[Anomaly Eater Anomaly Ability Description: You can share the meat you are currently eating with others. Corpse meat acts as a medium. Once someone accepts it, they will become the next corpse you eat.]

As notifications appeared one after another.

Chen Yu had gained a new anomalous ability.

Han Ningning, seeing the Anomaly Child completely crash, finally let out a long sigh of relief.

She was also inexplicably shocked.

She hadn't expected that the Anomaly Infant, which had given the Investigation Bureau so much trouble, would be so easily dealt with by Chen Yu.

What other secrets did Chen Yu's body hold?

Or rather...

How much more Anomaly was inside him?!

Chen Yu didn't say anything, and she naturally wouldn't dare to ask. These were his secrets, after all.

Her goal was to resolve the zoo incident. Now that the Anomaly Infant was dead, her mission was complete.

She had naively believed that this Anomaly Child was the Anomaly Infant.

After speaking, Chen Yu pointed to the corpse not far away. "I've already checked. The corpse this child ate belonged to a little girl. She's likely the granddaughter the old woman outside lost."

Chen Yu smiled, a hint of playfulness flashing in the depths of his eyes.

Cute Han Ningning, the campus belle. Since you're already here, why not be bait one more time?

Chen Yu looked at her pale, yet still incredibly beautiful, face.

He inexplicably began to look forward to what would happen to her later.

[My Old Baby, you truly are a pervert.] Her phone vibrated.

A notification from [Anomaly Era] appeared.

"What?!"

Hearing this, Han Ningning immediately put on a sad expression and said, "The old woman will definitely be even more heartbroken when she learns about this."

"There's no other way."

As Chen Yu said this, he suddenly changed the subject, a smile tugging at the corner of his lips. "An old woman suddenly appearing at the zoo, don't you find that strange?"

"At first, I thought it was strange too. I even thought that old woman was an Anomaly. But later, you discovered she didn't have any Anomaly aura. She's probably a resident living near the zoo who came looking for her lost child," Han Ningning said.

The old woman was like a compassionate grandmother from next door, kind-faced and without any Anomaly aura.

So she must be human.

"But, due to the Anomaly incident at the zoo, all residents in the vicinity had already moved out days ago, and a blockade was set up outside. There's no way a human child and an old woman could have gotten in, right?" Chen Yu said with a smile.

The phone vibrated: [Excuse me, may I ask, doesn't your conscience hurt?]

Chen Yu's smile deepened.

He did feel a little guilty.

Next time, he'd find an opportunity to replace his Anomaly heart with one that wasn't human.

"I'm not sure about that either. Her granddaughter is dead. We should go out and tell her not to wait anymore," Han Ningning said urgently.

"Okay."

Chen Yu smiled slightly, his smile a little strange, and then followed Han Ningning out.

When they reached the entrance.

Han Ningning was shocked to discover.

The entrance was empty!

The old woman who had been squatting there crying was gone!

"Where did she go?!"

Han Ningning looked around in surprise.

Chen Yu gave Han Ningning a strange look and said, "Do you want to know where she is?"

"Where?"

Han Ningning turned her head and asked doubtfully.

But unexpectedly, Chen Yu suddenly shifted his gaze to Han Ningning's shoulder and said with a smile, "She's sitting on your shoulder."

"???"

Han Ningning was instantly dumbfounded!

With Chen Yu's words, she really felt a slight heaviness on her shoulder.

She quickly looked up.

A face full of vicissitudes, wrinkled, and terrifyingly grotesque, met her eyes from above!

An old woman with a dark green complexion and corpse spots...

She opened her mouth and grinned, revealing a toothless gum where maggots wriggled in and out, a stench of decay wafting towards them!

"Ah!"

Han Ningning screamed in fright!

The old woman was sitting on her shoulders, legs on either side, just like a child riding a horse.

If it were a normal child on someone's shoulders, it would be fine.

But this was a sinister, anomalous old woman!

When did she get up there?

If Chen Yu hadn't pointed it out, she probably wouldn't have realized it even now.

[Hee hee hee... Riding horsey, riding horsey...]

The old woman wasn't nervous when she was discovered. Instead, she let out a series of tinkling giggles like a baby's. Her feet, on Han Ningning's shoulders, swung back and forth vigorously, just like she was really riding a horse.

She was as childish as a toddler.

Hearing the laughter and seeing the old woman's actions, Han Ningning was instantly stunned!

So!

This was the Anomaly Infant?!

[Yes, you guessed correctly. It is the Anomaly Infant.]

The phone seemed to read Han Ningning's thoughts.

[Even an Anomaly Infant in its infancy is more than enough to kill you eighteen hundred times~.]

[Perhaps you could consider groveling before him to beg for a way to survive.]

[Poor baggage, humbly fawn, ingratiatingly offer a smiling face. It's your supreme honor to have the chance to grovel before him or It. Seize the opportunity.]

An infant Anomaly Infant?

It looked a bit precocious for its age.

Wait?!

Grovel... grovel?!

Chen Yu?

Han Ningning became even more dumbfounded.

She subconsciously glanced at the handsome and stern Chen Yu. In her blank mind, a strange scene inexplicably appeared...

Ahhh, are you crazy! Han Ningning cursed herself.

Before Han Ningning could recover from the shock.

The anomalous old woman muttered a few words, then her tongue extended, probing into the crown of Han Ningning's head.

Like a baby nursing, she greedily sucked.

A look of enjoyment after a full meal appeared on her face.

Chen Yu's phone vibrated.

[Here's some bad news: the Anomaly Infant has started nursing. It's grown a little bigger.]

[My Old Baby, this might be the most troublesome anomaly you've encountered!]

[The anomaly's level eight might not be the main point. The main point is... It's an Anomaly Infant, an existence that shouldn't be in a small place like Linjiang City!]

"Nursing? Level eight?!"

"Shouldn't be here?"

Seeing this notification.

Chen Yu finally understood why the Anomaly Infant, despite being in its infancy, had the appearance of an old woman.

It was absorbing nutrients from human bodies!

It must have previously absorbed nutrients from an old woman, then replaced and controlled her body!

Now that it was latching onto Han Ningning, it was probably going to replace her!

Moreover, judging by the hint from the [Anomaly Era]...

This guy... probably had quite a background.

What exactly happened in Linjiang City?

Chen Yu frowned.

He had a vague feeling that something immense must have happened behind the scenes.

Han Ningning was completely numb. She hurriedly activated the anomalous ability of the Ghostly Smiling Face!

Instantly, Han Ningning's face turned ashen, and then an extremely eerie smiling face appeared on her features.

It was a pity.

The Anomaly Infant was now level eight!

While the Ghostly Smiling Face was only level five!

The gap between them was so vast, how could the Ghostly Smiling Face possibly be a match?

The Ghostly Smiling Face's Anomaly ability didn't harm the Anomaly Infant at all; it didn't even have the slightest impact!

The sinister old woman maintained her expression of enjoyment, showing no intention of smiling.

"Let go!"

Han Ningning pushed hard at the Anomaly Infant with her hands, but it didn't budge.

She could feel the functions and nutrients within her body constantly draining away!

It was like a mother carrying a child, with all her nutrition being siphoned off by the baby within her womb.

[Your Ghostly Smiling Face is useless now, isn't it?]

[Your pride and joy, your Anomaly ability, has no effect on It, right?]

[Give up. I told you earlier, you only have two choices.]

[One is to wait for death right here, the other is to quickly become a lapdog.]

[A reminder: licking his boots now is a huge gain; you probably won't even get a chance later.]

[Pitiful burden, do you still have any self-respect?]

Han Ningning gave a bitter smile. These phone prompts were too heartbreaking.

But they were right.

There was indeed nothing she could do.

She could only ask Chen Yu for help again and again.

What could she offer in return?

Strange images couldn't help but surface in Han Ningning's mind...

She quickly shook her head, dispelling the strange thoughts.

She turned to ask Chen Yu for help.

When she turned back... she saw Tong Jian, her face expressionless, like a lifeless porcelain doll.

Because Tong Jian was closest to her.

She could see clearly.

There wasn't the slightest flicker of emotion in Tong Jian's eyes.

Clearly, any previous actions were only because of Chen Yu.

As for Han Ningning's life or death, it was none of her concern.

As long as the Anomaly Infant didn't threaten Chen Yu, that was all that mattered.

"I'll do it."

At this critical moment, Chen Yu walked over, directly summoning the Ghost Butcher Knife. With a swift movement, he sliced the old woman in two.

The old woman's corpse fell to the ground, seemingly lifeless.

Was it over?

Han Ningning's suspended heart finally settled, and she let out a final sigh of relief.

But the next moment.

Her face began to contort!

A bloody infant emerged once more from her navel.

Faintly visible, on the head of the newborn, no bigger than a palm, was the old woman's wrinkled, sinisterly smiling old face!!

Han Ningning broke out in a cold sweat. Her body trembled violently, her lips turned pale, and her face was ashen. All her strength seemed to have been instantly drained, leaving her extremely weak.

Seeing this, Chen Yu's brow twitched slightly.

He hadn't expected It to be able to revive after being killed!

"Chen Yu, I... I'm sorry for being a burden again..."

"I'm so useless."

"If you really can't deal with It, you must ensure your own safety and leave immediately."

Han Ningning called out weakly.

Chen Yu nodded and said calmly, "It has already merged with your body. Don't worry, I have a way. Just bear with it, it will hurt a little. I'll be gentle."

Han Ningning felt like crying without tears!

This, this...

She was going to be killed again!

She had just been killed once!

To eliminate the Anomaly Infant, she could only nod gratefully.

Chen Yu directly held the Ghost Butcher Knife, then with a raise and a drop of the blade, he cut Han Ningning in half with a single stroke!

Next, he unleashed the Slaughter Ghost Domain.

He glared fiercely at Han Ningning's body.

A silent blade energy sliced across Han Ningning's body.

Although it looked like just one cut.

In reality, there were countless slashes!

When Chen Yu put away the Slaughter Ghost Domain.

Han Ningning was instantly torn into a pile of meat chunks, looking extremely cruel, bloody, and terrifying.

Generally, once an Anomaly enters a human body, if the Anomaly is killed along with the human, the Anomaly will die as well.

After Chen Yu killed Han Ningning, he immediately activated the Time Ghost Eye Anomaly ability.

Because the more time that passed.

The more time the Time Ghost Eye would need to rewind.

And the more mental energy it would consume.

Time Ghost Eye activated.

A red glow instantly flashed in Chen Yu's right eye.

The moment the red glow dissipated, two strange engraved needles appeared in Chen Yu's scarlet eyes.

The next moment!

One long and one short engraved needle spun irregularly for a week before stopping at the twelve o'clock position.

Click!

The engraved needles snapped back!

Time rewinded!

Han Ningning, who had been cut into corpse pieces by Chen Yu, began to reassemble.

Blood started to flow back.

Consciousness began to rebuild!