A Second Layer of a Thorny Situation

Medical staff led them into the heavily guarded isolation room.

To prevent the strange eggs in the air from spreading, the isolation rooms are usually subjected to two or three layers of isolation.

The room has now been disinfected.

The gunpowder inside the special bullets is ignited, producing a large amount of smoke and dust that disinfects the area. After several venting cycles, the smell of gunpowder dissipates.

When the Daoist first arrived at the quarantine zone, he mentioned to the investigators that some special substances in the special bullets were somewhat lethal to the supernatural.

You can use the gunpowder inside to ignite the smoke and test whether it is harmful to these strange eggs.

As a result, the investigators found that it did have some effect when they tried it.

It can kill at least 90% of the strange eggs in the air in one go.

One more round of disinfection should be enough to clean it up.

A comprehensive disinfection operation was immediately carried out in the quarantine area.

Even now, as they pass through the isolation gate, they can still smell a faint odor of gunpowder.

This room contains several deceased patients.

Because they didn't know what to do with these people's bodies, they wanted to cremate them, but they were afraid that if these bodies, which had reached their final stage and were fully matured within their bodies, were stimulated by external factors, something even more unpredictable might happen.

We can only isolate here and wait for investigators or Contract Anomalist to resolve the situation.

Their decision was correct.

After the Daoist and his two companions came in to examine the creature, they discovered that it was not afraid of ordinary flames; in fact, flames would become its catalyst.

All that could be seen were clusters of tentacles, enough to trigger trypophobia, constantly extending from these shells.

They completely treat human bodies as a breeding ground, consuming life to increase their numbers.

Judging from the similarity of their auras, they probably originated from the same mysterious entity.

The Daoist tentatively took out a Anomaly Cage and threw it onto the body. The Anomaly Cage recognized the corpse as the strange creature and contained it.

"I see."

Seeing this situation, Yang Yu felt only a sense of unease. "Is the contamination strange?"

Such strange occurrences have happened before, and there are many cases to learn from, but the appearance of every contaminated anomaly is inevitably accompanied by a large number of casualties.

Compared to those regional predators, these predators generally don't leave a particular area and instead focus their hunting operations primarily on that area.

The harm caused by this kind of bizarre and contaminating substance is even more terrifying and more unpredictable.

"The number of people contaminated is definitely not just those in the quarantine area. If things go wrong, the entire Anzhao City could be infected." Zhao Hun gasped.

"This is troublesome." Yang Yu also took out the Anomaly Cage, intending to contain the other corpses.

Perhaps they felt threatened.

The strange creature that had been quietly residing inside the body suddenly erupted into chaos.

It brandished its numerous exposed tentacles and suddenly stretched them out to attack Yang Yu.

Yang Yu's premonition worked, and he nimbly dodged the attack.

Before the tentacles could continue their attack, Zhao Hun had already drawn his long sword from his waist and sliced off hundreds of tentacles with a single stroke.

After all, it's just a strange phenomenon at the level of Wandering Soul.

Their aura was only at the peak of the Wandering Soul. Although they were about to break through to become Vengeful Spirit, as long as they hadn't broken through, they were easy targets for Yang Yu and the others to defeat.

The tentacles seemed to sense their threat. Suddenly, the tentacles on several corpses intertwined, and then the corpses seemed to be digested, melting away completely.

The number of tentacles on top has also decreased significantly, leaving only a few dozen, but they have become noticeably thicker.

And this integration.

Their auras surged dramatically, breaking through from the Wandering Soul level to the Wraith Class.

"In a crisis, would it choose to devour its own kind to evolve? No, it should be said that it devours its brothers and sisters?"

"The bizarre is truly devoid of any ethics or morality."

Even if they share the same origin, they might devour each other in order to protect themselves.

Unfortunately, even if they broke through to the Wraith Class, any of the Contract Anomalist present could defeat him.

Especially Zhao Hun, who had already reached the threshold of releasing the Ghost Domain, dealt with these strange creatures with ease.

Even Yang Yu took out his weapon and began fighting against the tentacles.

Their training over this period of time was indeed worthwhile; the transformation by strange energy, combined with the abilities of Contract Anomalist.

These tentacles were no match for them at all.

It was quickly chopped into pieces.

The Daoist did not intervene.

The tentacles seemed to know that it could no longer deal with these people, so they merged together again.

Even the severed limbs turned into a stream of blood that flowed towards the merging tentacles.

Yang Yu felt a sharp pain in his head.

A fragment appeared in his mind.

He only had time to utter a sharp warning. "Stop them!"

Suddenly, his body was lifted into the air.

With a loud bang.

Zhao Hun and Yang Yu were both suddenly thrown backward.

At the same time, a Ghost Domain enveloped them.

The two people crashed into the edge of the Ghost Domain, but aside from some physical pain, they were not seriously injured.

The person who just pushed them away was the Daoist.

The Daoist is now standing in front of them.

The tentacles had all merged together, and now they had become a single tentacle that was almost as tall as the ceiling.

Its body is covered with strange circular patterns.

Looking at it for too long can cause dizziness and nausea.

Now, these patterns moved, and suddenly cracked.

Strange eyeballs appeared among the patterns; they weren't patterns at all, but rather individual eyes.

When the eyes on the tentacle opened, an invisible mental attack spread out.

Yang Yu and Zhao Hun felt a sharp, piercing pain in their brains, which, even after being weakened by the Daoist's Ghost Domain, still caused them unbearable agony.

Not to mention the Daoist Daoist, who was even closer to the strange creature and was standing in front of them, receiving the creature's main attack.

"Oh no, it's a psychological attack."

The bizarre and contaminating ability is also a mental attack; is this a double layer of some troublesome situation?

It feels like this buff is almost fully stacked; it's become so troublesome it's disgusting.

Mental attacks are inherently unpredictable, especially for Contract Anomalist whose mental state is already precarious.

If it's not a contract with the same type of supernatural entity, then resisting mental attacks would likely be very difficult.

Even a slight mishap can affect one's mental state, causing the strange entities within the body to go berserk first.

The two endured the psychological attacks relentlessly.

The Daoist Daoist standing there also suffered from the attack, but despite his Daoist appearance, Shen Yu's consciousness was actually inside him.