Naturally, I'm Going to Kill Him

"Perhaps I should have forced some information about the aberrants out of him."

Looking at Ryan, whose neck he had snapped, Feng Buzhi felt some regret.

Using his fingers, Feng Buzhi removed the bullet lodged in the bone of his left shoulder, then continued clearing the Weird Mine shrapnel embedded in his back.

That Weird Mine had blasted his back into a bloody mess, but the injuries were not severe, nor were they life-threatening.

After all, having shattered the limits of the human body, he now possessed physical abilities 4.8 times those of an ordinary person.

Just as Feng Buzhi finished removing the shrapnel, he suddenly realized something.

"If I use the Plaza Crystal's [Repair] function while there's still shrapnel in my body, can it heal me? What will happen to the shrapnel left inside?"

Feng Buzhi murmured softly. In the end, he stuffed one piece of shrapnel back into his body, deciding to test it later.

After killing more than four hundred Goblins last night, he should have plenty of Abyss Points to use for testing.

Without dwelling on it, Feng Buzhi walked over to Ryan's corpse, tore off both of Ryan's arms, and held them up for careful examination.

After Ryan activated his aberrant power, a cloud of black mist would emerge from these arms. Then Ryan's arms would turn black, their strength and hardness both increasing.

Once Ryan died, however, both arms had returned to normal. No change could be seen from the outside.

Suddenly, Feng Buzhi heard a faint sound.

A subtle, aberrant whisper seemed to come from the two arms.

He used his axe to dismember one of the arms and soon extracted a black lump of flesh the size of a thumbnail. The black flesh wriggled continuously like a living thing.

The black lump gave off faint whispers, as if it were saying that it was hungry and cold.

Using the same method, Feng Buzhi quickly extracted another thumbnail-sized lump of flesh from Ryan's other arm.

The two black lumps attracted each other and soon fused into one in Feng Buzhi's palm.

"If this kind of flesh were implanted into living tissue, would it cause some changes?"

As he pondered, Feng Buzhi took out his axe and cut a small gash into his left arm, deciding to implant the black lump and see what happened.

This was not cultivation of aberrant power. His body had not yet laid a solid foundation, so naturally he would not choose to cultivate aberrant power now. This was merely an experiment with aberrant power.

—No matter what changes this flesh caused in his left arm, whether it granted him the power to control aberrants or brought danger that would corrode his body, he would cut off the arm and then [Repair] a brand-new one at the crystal in the center of the plaza.

After considering it, Feng Buzhi made to implant the flesh into his arm, only to suddenly hear a startled cry—day had arrived, and that shadow had come again.

"Stop! What are you doing?! Have you gone mad?!"

Seeing from afar that Feng Buzhi was about to implant the Aberrant Source into his own flesh, the shadow immediately rushed over to warn him.

Seeing Feng Buzhi stop, the shadow said earnestly, "Fusing an Aberrant Source into the body is indeed one way to obtain aberrant power. It has a fifty percent success rate, but it requires secret medicine to work with it. If you fuse the source directly like this, your chance of success won't exceed one in ten. And even if you succeed by sheer luck, there will be serious side effects.

"Besides, no matter how you put it, there is clearly an Abyss Altar outside the town. With such a reliable method of obtaining aberrant power, once you reach the Subtle Realm, you can even choose the type of aberrant power you receive. Why would you use this Aberrant Source?"

Feng Buzhi paused, lifted the black lump in his hand, and asked the shadow, "This thing is called an Aberrant Source?"

The shadow explained, "Aberrant Source, source for short. After using an Aberrant Awakening Potion or receiving power from an Abyss Altar, an Aberrant Source will first form within the body.

"The Aberrant Source will gradually fuse into the flesh, eventually forming a stable mutated organ. That is the Mutation Stage I mentioned before. Going one step further means establishing a cycle within the body and entering the First Rank.

"Generally speaking, if the corresponding organ is removed before it enters the Mutation Stage, the Aberrant Source will gradually detach from the flesh. This kind of Aberrant Source must be removed as soon as possible. Unlike relatively stable mutated organs, an Aberrant Source will usually absorb flesh and become a Monster within a few hours...

"No, where did you get this Aberrant Source?"

The shadow suddenly realized something. He looked around and soon spotted the corpse of soldier Ryan.

A complicated look appeared on the shadow's face. He sighed. "Ryan? His talent was actually pretty good. You killed him? You're both members of the Human Race—why kill each other?"

"You should ask him that question," Feng Buzhi said.

After putting away the Aberrant Source, Feng Buzhi headed toward the town wall.

Originally, he had intended to first fuse the Aberrant Source into his arm and test it.

But the shadow's words suddenly reminded him that there was still something he had not dealt with: Wang Chen.

Though he did not know why Wang Chen had targeted him, that was not important.

He only needed to kill Wang Chen.

Seeing Feng Buzhi head toward the town wall, the shadow asked in confusion, "Pei Chao is nearby. Aren't you going to do anything about him? Where are you going?"

"There's something I need to deal with first," Feng Buzhi said. "I'll come back afterward and take him to the plaza to complete the next step of his cultivation."

As Feng Buzhi spoke, he soon reached the town wall, then climbed and leaped up onto it.

After thinking for a moment, the shadow followed. He was curious what Feng Buzhi intended to do.

As before, Feng Buzhi ran continuously across the rooftops of the town, occasionally stopping atop taller buildings to look around, as though searching for something.

"Are you looking for someone?" the shadow asked. "I remember many of the people in this town. If you're looking for someone, you can ask me."

"Do you know where Wang Chen is right now?" Feng Buzhi asked.

"Wang Chen, the one who founded the Mutual Aid Society? He is actually one of the people least affected by the fog, aside from Pei Chao, Zhao Gang, and Norton. It's just that he has always holed up in the city.

"Still, the methods he used to create that organization were quite impressive. After [Promotion] to the True World, he might become part of the backbone of the Human Race by relying on those methods.

"Of course, no matter what, increasing one's strength is the most important thing. If possible, could you help me remind him?"

"I can." Feng Buzhi nodded, then asked, "You said just now that after [Promotion], we will go to the True World? Then where is this place?"

The shadow held his head and thought for a while before finally shaking it. "Some of my memories are missing. My memory isn't very clear. Probably some crevice outside the world. There may be many such crevices..."

After saying that, the shadow continued, "If you want to find Wang Chen, follow me."

Led by the shadow, Feng Buzhi soon arrived at the tall building where Wang Chen was staying.

The shadow asked, "Right, what do you want with Wang Chen?"

"Naturally, I'm going to kill him," Feng Buzhi said.

After saying that, Feng Buzhi jumped down from the building beside him and entered the tall building where Wang Chen was...