Su Ziyu looked his creation up and down, and a row of data unexpectedly appeared before his eyes.
The system was helping him analyze it!
He had not expected the system to have such a function. Delighted, Su Ziyu examined it carefully.
[Evil Spirit Marionette: Initial strength—Awakening Ninth Stage. Possesses the core ability of immortality and can summon Netherworld Ghostfire originating from the Nether Eon. Through continuous battle and slaughter, devouring flesh, blood, and spiritual energy, it can continuously grow stronger!]
It possessed Awakening Ninth Stage strength from the very beginning, which gave Su Ziyu quite a shock.
However, this was also related to Director Li, the main spirit, having reached maximum hatred, which endowed this Evil Spirit Marionette with tremendous growth potential.
Stretching his hand toward the Ghoul's dismembered corpse and flesh, Su Ziyu silently recited:
"Extract materials!"
A streak of white light flew into his palm.
"Ding! Obtained materials: [Ghoul Cerebral Marrow], [Ghoul Teeth], [Ghoul Limbs], and more!"
Then, Su Ziyu walked over to a mixture of chunks of flesh and fresh blood. These had belonged to the contaminated patients he had just killed using [Dark Wisdom: Deep Dark Prison].
They had all been contaminated by the so-called "Holy Communion," and Su Ziyu happened to be an expert at resolving contamination. To others, contamination was mysterious and terrifying, but to Su Ziyu, it was simply a mobile material warehouse!
With the principle of making use of waste in mind, Su Ziyu condensed another pair of Spirit Scissors and activated the All-Seeing True Eye, precisely cutting away the contaminated black patches from the Mental Bodies.
With a plop, the black substance fell to the ground and gathered like moss. Before long, the spot where Su Ziyu stood was surrounded by a mass of living black matter.
They gave off a foul stench that did not belong to this planet, writhing and merging together. In the end, they became a worm-like monster, over a meter long and more than half a meter wide. It coiled around Su Ziyu's feet like a snake and opened a pitch-black mouth like a black hole.
Su Ziyu was completely unafraid. He revealed a calm smile and silently recited:
"Extract materials!"
Instantly, the black python collapsed, turning into a puddle of pitch-black slime that splattered everywhere. Part of the substance became a ball of light, which Su Ziyu collected in his hand.
Opening the material repository, Su Ziyu swept his consciousness through it. The original Pollution Source was still there, while the newly captured Pollution Source slowly wriggled and fused with the existing contaminants. The space within dozens of centimeters gave off the stench of rotting flesh, and even the airflow twisted because of it.
This amorphous mass of dark matter had finally grown considerably, and the system's evaluation had become three-star material!
[A Portion of the Pollution Source (Three-Star): Dark matter produced by spiritual contamination, originating from the ancient forbidden place known as the Dark Abyss. There are few specific records of it. If accumulated in sufficient quantity, it can also become an excellent material!]
"Does this count as a material that can upgrade itself?"
Su Ziyu wondered what would happen if he kept accumulating these contaminants and fused them into the next mutated monster.
There was probably no one else in the world as crazy as Su Ziyu, actually wanting to make use of the power of the Pollution Source.
Not to mention that others had no way to cleanse contamination from Mental Bodies, even if they did, they would not be able to collect the Pollution Source like Su Ziyu could.
It could be said that he was the only person in the world capable of using the Pollution Source to create monsters.
No other reason—after all, he had a system in hand.
Those with cheats were just that overpowered.
After leaving the System Space, Su Ziyu looked around the cafeteria. The tables, chairs, and trays had been smashed into powder, while blood and rotten flesh were splattered everywhere. There was no trace of life left.
Recalling Director Li's final words, the Ghoul Cult's priest had already laid out the Blood-Rail Ritual throughout this psychiatric hospital and was about to begin a grand sacrifice.
Once Su Ziyu calmed down, he could vaguely hear sporadic gunfire and cries of battle coming from outside.
It seemed the ritual Director Li had mentioned had already begun.
The Ghoul Cult had begun their slaughter.
"Let's go. We'll take a look outside."
Su Ziyu spoke to the Evil Spirit Marionette and headed out.
The moment he stepped outside, an incomparably dense smell of blood hit him head-on. Firelight occasionally flashed in the distant sky, and most of the gunfire, explosions, and battle cries came from that direction.
These dormitory buildings were instead the quietest area. Su Ziyu guessed that Director Li had been responsible for this side, but he had run into an unpredictable factor like Su Ziyu and ended up getting everyone here wiped out.
"Go check over there. Clear out the monsters."
Su Ziyu pointed toward the brightest firelight as he spoke to the Evil Spirit Marionette.
The two soul flames in the Evil Spirit Marionette's eye sockets blazed fiercely, while even more intense dark flames burned across its skeletal head. Dragging a long Hellfire Whip behind it, it strode forward, each step leaving deep scorch marks on the blue-brick ground.
Su Ziyu looked in another direction. He was not in a rush to stop whatever the Ghoul Cult was doing. An Evil Spirit Marionette at Awakening Ninth Stage would be more than enough for that.
He had something more important to do.
Since he was going to escape this psychiatric hospital, he ought to pay those vicious relatives a visit as well. The more people there were, the livelier it would be...
Under the night sky, the darkness seemed even deeper as Su Ziyu headed in another direction.
After passing three dormitory buildings, Su Ziyu arrived before a low structure. Unlike the other areas, this place was surrounded by iron fencing more than five meters high. Yet the armed soldiers who should have been standing guard were nowhere to be seen.
Su Ziyu hid in a gap between buildings and frowned to himself.
The low three-story building before him was called the S-Rank Special Containment Facility, a ward that held the hospital's special psychiatric patients.
He knew perfectly well how dangerous this building was. Even if fighting had broken out in the courtyard ahead and the hospital was under attack, it would have been impossible to pull the forces here away to the front-line battlefield.
Compared to the Ghoul Cult's bloody ritual, the monsters imprisoned here were likely what the hospital's upper management feared more.
Yet all the guards here had vanished. That was a serious problem.
Su Ziyu guessed that the two monsters inside might have awakened... and then dealt with all the guards...
He did not continue speculating. To find out what had happened inside, he would have to go in and see for himself.
The helpers he was looking for were inside. Well, those two monsters...
When Su Ziyu thought of the two monsters inside, his scalp could not help but tingle. Yet even more than that, he felt anticipation at the thought of taming them.
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