Anomaly Levels Surge

Anomaly Levels Surge

In the end, after rewinding nearly ten seconds, Chen Yu had expended a tremendous amount of mental energy.

Han Ningning returned to normal.

She sucked in a sharp breath.

Just now, she had truly taken a trip through hell!

Now that she had returned, cold sweat had soaked through her clothes and clung to her skin, making her look strangely alluring.

"Is the Ghost Infant dead?"

It took Han Ningning half a minute to recover from her fear of death before she asked Chen Yu with a pale face.

"Probably..."

Chen Yu was just about to speak.

But Han Ningning's navel began to stir again!

Immediately afterward, a Ghost Infant's head poked out from her navel once more!

"How is this possible?"

Chen Yu looked stunned. The anomaly had entered Han Ningning's body, and he had already torn Han Ningning into pieces. The anomaly should not have been able to survive.

How could it have come back to life?

His Time Ghost Eye had not even been used on the anomaly!

He had only used it on Han Ningning.

As the Ghost Infant appeared, the nutrients within Han Ningning's body were rapidly drained away.

In less than a few seconds, she became weak again.

Chen Yu expanded the Slaughter Ghost Domain to inspect her.

Only then did he discover that the Ghost Infant had not merely entered Han Ningning's body—it had also connected itself to her body and soul!

In other words, Chen Yu had revived Han Ningning's body, and at the same time, revived her soul.

And along with her, he had revived the Ghost Infant too!

Their souls were connected!

This was troublesome!

Ever since Chen Yu had obtained the ability to devour anomalies, this was the first time he had encountered such a thorny anomaly.

Either he killed Han Ningning along with it.

Or they could only live or die together.

Unless he could replace her soul.

[Buzz!]

[Did you really think you were invincible?]

[Now do you understand what it means that there is always someone stronger?]

[The Ghost Infant is not something that can be resolved so easily.]

[Its quality and potential are extremely high—so high that you cannot imagine it.]

[It is an anomaly that has undergone "Restart."]

[Even though the anomalies you control are also of high quality, their levels have not yet reached the necessary threshold. Without undergoing "Restart," they are no match for it.]

[This is only a Ghost Infant in its infancy. If it were fully grown...]

[Your breathing should have stopped long ago.]

Seeing Chen Yu suffer a setback, the Anomaly Era began kicking him while he was down, ruthlessly mocking him.

"Restart?"

Chen Yu raised a brow.

This was the first time he had heard the term.

Fortunately, after entering the Investigation Bureau, Han Ningning had learned many secrets.

So she explained it to Chen Yu.

So-called [Restart] was a special correction ritual belonging to anomalies.

Every anomaly was incomplete. Like a broken computer or appliance, restarting it might restore it to normal.

As for an anomaly's [Restart], the Investigation Bureau's existing scraps of information suggested it was likely a ritual similar to resetting an anomaly.

In theory, all the anomalies that had appeared so far had originally been fragments of some great terror... For example, the Ghost Butcher Knife and the Headless Ghost Shadow were merely two pieces of a terrifying anomaly's puzzle. They possessed only part of its anomalous power. If they could undergo a reset, they might return to the complete abilities they had possessed before being dismantled.

That was to say, every anomaly Chen Yu currently controlled was an incomplete version! Not a complete one!

If [Restart] succeeded, an anomaly would undergo an earth-shaking qualitative transformation! If corrected successfully, its level of terror would rise dramatically.

If [Restart] failed, it would completely crash and never return.

Neither the Ghost Butcher Knife nor the Time Ghost Eye had undergone Restart.

If they could undergo [Restart], the Time Ghost Eye, Ghost Butcher Knife, and Headless Ghost Shadow would experience a qualitative leap.

To [Restart] the Ghost Butcher Knife and Time Ghost Eye, the first condition was to raise both of them to a certain terror level.

It was still far too early!

They were only level seven now, nowhere near enough!

"So that means the Ghost Infant's level is astonishingly high?" Chen Yu understood at once.

As the Ghost Infant continuously absorbed nutrients from Han Ningning's body, her face became utterly bloodless, her lips turned pale, and her body began to wither, making her look like a dying patient.

Fortunately, Chen Yu was standing before her.

His Time Ghost Eye could perform Time Reversal and sustain Han Ningning's life.

Drip!

Beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down Chen Yu's forehead.

Because the Ghost Infant was connected to Han Ningning's soul, Chen Yu expended several times more mental energy than usual when performing Time Reversal on her!

Because the Ghost Infant was simply too powerful!

And it was constantly resisting Chen Yu's Time Reversal ability.

This caused Chen Yu's mental energy expenditure to grow even greater.

Chen Yu could hold on.

But his goal... was to devour this thing!

"Right, the Ghost Stairs!"

Chen Yu's mind raced, and inspiration struck him in an instant!

He recalled the Ghost Stairs scene he had encountered at the hotel before subduing the Ghost Shadow.

The next moment, he activated an Anomaly Ability!

One of the sleeping anomalies in his body was awakened and began to function!

An upside-down version of Chen Yu appeared beneath his feet!

It stood perpendicular to the ground, its feet pressed against his own. The floor was like a mirror, and it was the reflection on the other side.

This was precisely the Anomaly Ability of the [Ghost Stairs].

Then, he cast the [Ghost Stairs] Anomaly Ability upon Han Ningning.

Sure enough, another upside-down Han Ningning appeared beneath her feet!

It too was a reflection, perpendicular to the ground and facing Han Ningning's feet.

"Take a few steps and try it."

Chen Yu spoke calmly to Han Ningning.

Han Ningning knew the situation was critical and had no time to ask questions. She hurriedly nodded, then took a step.

When that foot came down, she discovered that it felt as though she had stepped onto a pair of "flesh high heels."

The foot she had stepped forward with felt higher than the other one.

Her heel felt as though it had stepped on someone's instep and had been forcibly lifted off the ground.

The Ghost Stairs had taken effect.

When Han Ningning took a step, it took a step at the same time, walking out from the reflected ground.

The reflection was no longer merely beneath the floor. Instead... half of its foot emerged, with Han Ningning's heel stepping on it.

Vaguely, the reflection's sole had actually penetrated about one centimeter into her own foot!

It looked like clipping in a game!

Chen Yu stared intently.

Just as expected!!

He saw the Ghost Stairs raise Han Ningning by several inches!

Her soul was also pushed out slightly by the Ghost Stairs!

This was exactly the effect he wanted!

The principle behind the Ghost Stairs was that while a person walked upward, their heels would gradually be lifted by the anomaly. Then, step by step, the anomaly would enter the person's body upside down from their feet, forcing the original soul out through the crown of the head and replacing it.

He wanted... Han Ningning's soul to be forced out!

There was more than one soul inside her body!

Han Ningning took another step.

To her surprise, her heel first left the ground, and then she found herself stepping higher and higher!

As Han Ningning walked step by step.

The reflected anomaly on the ground also walked step by step.

The anomaly's feet had already clipped into her body, sole against sole.

After three steps.

The anomaly's feet had clipped into her ankles.

Step by step, until she reached the highest level, her entire body had completely left the ground.

Her body was lifted up.

The feet of the anomaly beneath the ground had clipped into her calves!

At the same time, her soul was forced out by the anomaly reflected by the Ghost Stairs on the ground.

Chen Yu carefully examined Han Ningning's soul.

He frowned as he discovered that this Ghost Infant was truly like a stubborn skin disease.

Her soul had already been forced out, yet it was still attached to it!

But fortunately!

After Han Ningning's soul was pushed out, her bodily functions no longer continued to fade.

Chen Yu had also waited for this opportunity.

"It's time for you to hit the road. Let's see if you can come back to life again this time!"

Chen Yu approached with an icy expression, and another anomaly within his body awakened once more.

A dense, decayed corpse aura spread around him.

Numerous brown corpse spots instantly appeared on Chen Yu's body, rapidly spreading and expanding!

Even the places he passed began to emit faint misty corpse aura, as though it had seeped out from hell itself!

He gently placed his hand on Han Ningning's navel.

The corpse poison of the corpse spots spread incomparably fast. In the blink of an eye, it transferred from Chen Yu's hand to Han Ningning's navel.

Ordinarily, if infected by corpse spots, Han Ningning would become a walking corpse.

But Chen Yu had long since controlled the Corpse Spot Anomaly and could naturally control the spread of the corpse spots at will.

He only allowed the corpse spots to cover her navel.

Chen Yu intended to create a double safeguard. If her abdomen became a corpse, the Ghost Infant should not be able to absorb nutrients so easily, right?

Han Ningning discovered in horror...

That the area covered by corpse spots.

Seemed as though it no longer belonged to her. As its temperature rapidly dropped, her abdomen... became like a chunk of corpse flesh!

Stiff, cold, and completely numb!

Meanwhile, the areas not covered by corpse spots remained normal.

She could not help but marvel at Chen Yu's mysterious, godlike methods.

He could actually turn the abdomen of a living person into a chunk of corpse flesh while leaving everything else completely unaffected!

The corpse spots consciously spread around Han Ningning's navel, infecting the entire navel.

Only after Chen Yu confirmed that her abdomen had become a lifeless chunk of corpse flesh.

The next moment.

With a thought from Chen Yu.

The shadow on the ground suddenly rose with a whoosh.

Immediately afterward, an aura like that from the depths of Nine Nether Hell spread from the Ghost Shadow.

A gleaming Ghost Butcher Knife appeared in its hand!

The Ghost Butcher Knife had been infected by the Ghost Shadow and had also turned pitch-black!

Without any hesitation, Chen Yu controlled the Ghost Shadow to hold the butcher knife as anomalous power began to awaken.

For both personal and public reasons, Chen Yu had to kill the Ghost Infant.

This was also the first time he had seen a Ghost Infant.

Previously, he had not known how terrifying this thing was.

But now, with the alerts from his phone and what he had encountered himself.

It had already revealed its terrifying side!

For the sake of growing stronger, this thing actually needed to devour human nutrients.

The Ghost Infant was already so powerful in its current state.

He did not dare imagine it.

If this thing were allowed to keep growing, what kind of disaster would Huaxia face?

"Hmph."

Chen Yu snorted coldly.

The Ghost Shadow wielding the Ghost Butcher Knife immediately moved.

The Ghost Butcher Knife flashed with a terrifying black gleam.

Along with that black gleam, a head was severed!

It struck again.

This blow cut through the part connecting the Ghost Infant to Han Ningning's navel, as well as the part linking their souls.

Crack...

Thud...

It was impossible to tell whether it was a crisp crack or a dull thud.

Chen Yu directly severed Han Ningning's soul and the Ghost Infant's soul together!

Immediately after, Chen Yu used his dwindling mental power to activate the Anomaly Ability of the Time Ghost Eye.

He reversed time and reconstructed Han Ningning's body.

The moment Han Ningning fully recovered, she sharply sucked in a breath of cold air!

Her body was drenched in cold sweat, and she was trembling!

Her scalp tingled!

If not for her formidable mental fortitude supporting her consciousness,

she would probably have wet herself already.

The sensation of dying three times had left her traumatized.

When Han Ningning came back to life once more, Chen Yu stared intently at her navel.

Because their souls had been severed together, the Ghost Infant was completely killed.

Who would have thought such a tiny thing could cause such immense terror?

It probably tasted pretty good.

He picked up the corpse and began devouring it with great relish.

The Ghost Infant truly was an infant!

Its springy texture and tender flesh tasted better than any Anomaly he had eaten before.

[You have successfully devoured the Ghost Infant.]

As the prompt appeared, Chen Yu digested the Ghost Infant's corpse.

Chen Yu took out a tissue, elegantly wiped his mouth, and waited for what came next.

But aside from producing energy after digestion, nothing else happened!

Where was the Anomaly Ability?

Wasn't it said that devouring an Anomaly would grant its Anomaly Ability?

Why was there nothing?

[Buzz!]

[Young one, you ate it.]

[You may first consider doing something meaningful, such as absorbing its energy.]

[What? You're asking why you didn't obtain an Anomaly Ability?]

[What you ate was merely an infected clone.]

[But even an infected clone alone will benefit you immensely.]

[What? You still want to know where the adult Ghost Infant is?]

[Isn't it good to stay alive?]

[Exploring an Anomaly that should not be explored will only bring utter disaster. If you do not wish to die, or for everyone following you to die,]

[I advise you to give up.]

"..."

Chen Yu's brows suddenly furrowed.

Such a troublesome Ghost Infant was merely an infected clone?

Previously, there had been the Ghost Embryo. This time, it was the juvenile form.

Although the mysteries were gradually beginning to unravel,

the Anomalies Chen Yu encountered were growing stronger and stronger.

The juvenile Ghost Infant was already this powerful.

Just how strong was the adult Ghost Infant?

[It has turned into energy.]

As the prompt appeared,

Chen Yu began rapidly digesting the Ghost Infant's corpse.

Massive energy erupted within Chen Yu like a bursting glacier, coursing through every meridian in his body.

Whenever it passed through those meridians or any part of his flesh, it stirred up faint glimmers of energy.

Chen Yu's body now resembled a vast, brilliant universe glittering with faint light.

At last, the power of the starry river began to gather, surging toward certain Anomalies within him!

[The Ghost Butcher Knife has absorbed Anomaly energy and successfully advanced to level eight!]

[The Ghost Butcher Knife has become sharper.]

[The Ghost Butcher Knife's attack speed has increased.]

[The Ghost Butcher Knife's compatibility with you has increased.]

[The Time Ghost Eye has absorbed Anomaly energy and successfully advanced to level eight!]

[The mental power consumed by Time Reversal has slightly decreased.]

[The mental power consumed by Time Fast-Forward has slightly decreased.]

[You can now reverse time and fast-forward time more quickly.]

That was incredible!