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In less than half a second, Shen Jie’s infection value skyrocketed from 77 to 79.
The system had encountered such a rapid increase in infection value in an ordinary person only once — That was when this person was selected by the mist to become a host! Once selected, the mist would first generate from within the selected body, causing rapid contamination and mutation. Typically, within less than a minute, a previously normal person would deteriorate into a terrifying alien and gain the ability to control the mist.
The system watched in horror as the values jumped violently, even forgetting to use the emergency protective measures it had planned to activate at any cost.
79, 79.5, 80…
The umbrella shattered inch by inch in the collision with the boss.
As Shen Jie traced the bloodline in his field of vision to its end, the umbrella also met its demise, breaking into pieces that scattered like rain.
With nothing between the boss and Shen Jie, the ferocious pig face revealed a bloodthirsty grin. However, Shen Jie’s body slightly shifted, and the hand that had been tucked into his pocket suddenly darted out, swiftly grabbing onto one of the hands protruding from the boss pig’s abdomen.
That hand froze in place, clearly stunned, momentarily ceasing all movement.
Shen Jie seized it forcefully, leveraging its momentum like a professional aerial acrobat, gracefully swerving away with an extreme lateral flight towards the rear of the boss pig.
His body still tingled with the tremendous force from the collision between the umbrella and the boss pig. Despite adjusting his posture at the fastest speed possible before landing, his body still collided heavily with the transparent seat, emitting a loud noise.
“Ugh.”
A low, muffled groan escaped Shen Jie’s lips, and his brow furrowed involuntarily.
Fractured.
As the boss pig, now transformed into a high-speed pinball, saw its prey narrowly escaping its grasp, its five blood-red eyes momentarily dulled. However, its massive size prevented it from adjusting its direction to chase Shen Jie any further. Moreover— it fixated on the multitude of prey below, its expression growing even more ferocious atop its swine head.
“Roar! I’ll crush you all!”
A looming shadow enveloped them, and in the eyes of those who hadn’t yet fled, a thick despair rose. Some had already resigned themselves to their fate, closing their eyes in anticipation of death. But then, amidst the boss pig’s descent, its roar suddenly shifted tone—
“Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Uh?”
At some unknown moment, a slender slit appeared on the boss pig’s round and sturdy belly!
At such high speeds, the slit was quickly filled with air, tearing and widening, instantaneously spreading across its entire body.
It went from being a massive meatball to two open slices, pouring out its contents with a gushing sound.
A mosaic-worthy rain began to fall from the sky, mixed with the chaos and screams of the people.
The split boss pig formed a structure similar to a parachute, providing cushioning at the last moment, slowing down abruptly, like a huge blanket covering the people below.
With a dull “thud,” the sound reverberated heavily.
The glasses man hugged his head with both hands, feeling as if his hands and head had been brutally struck by a heavy hammer—but it wasn’t fatal! He quickly thought, and then suddenly everything went black before his eyes, and he felt himself tumbling.
After a moment, the glasses man lay on the ground, shaking his head, gradually recalling everything that had just happened with disbelief—
Just now, that big shot from the research institute actually managed to split open the boss pig’s belly with just an umbrella?
He was certain it was nothing more than an ordinary umbrella, the same one that the nurse lady had brought onto the subway earlier, not some high-tech product from the research institute.
Even a syringe couldn’t pierce the skin of the mutants, yet an ordinary umbrella managed to slice it open?
It didn’t make sense, it defied science, it was beyond reason.
But sometimes, the world of the big shots just doesn’t make sense.
Or perhaps, the big shot is an undercover powerhouse with abilities…?
The glasses man’s thoughts lasted only a few seconds before being brought back to reality by the overpowering smell of blood.
He and the others were now covered by the boss’s belly, surrounded by hands—wearing different clothes, watches, bracelets, belonging to people of different ages and genders, human hands.
This was the first time the glasses man had seen such a brutal sight up close.
In the past, he had worked at the Mist Observation Center and had seen extremely gruesome scenes when observing the areas outside the city’s collapse with the observation equipment. But at that time, he was in the safest center of the city, high up in the observation tower, and seeing those scenes only left him shocked and lamenting, never experiencing such a visceral feeling… fear.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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It was the young man who had awakened the Rank Seven ability earlier!
Then, the glasses guy felt the “blanket” above his head being lifted by something, allowing light and fresh air to pour in.
Finally, he managed to crawl out of the pile of indescribable stuff, wiped the blood off his glasses, and saw clearly what was holding up the boss’s belly —
It was a row of giant letters spelling out “Fuck”.
Chen Shushu, who summoned these letters, stood not far away at that moment, gripping the “not” symbol inserted into the ground with both hands, veins bulging on his forehead.
He yanked the “not” out with force, then exerted all his strength, thrusting it upward fiercely!
There hung the boss’s heart, throbbing in a lump.
The inverted “not” symbol was like a sharp longsword, piercing a large hole through the heart in one swift motion.
The belly above quivered violently for a moment, then went completely still.
Is it dead?
The glasses guy pushed aside the remnants, struggled out from under the boss’s belly, turned around, and saw a broken piece of umbrella stuck in the boss’s pig head — precisely the part of the umbrella’s ribs. After breaking, the tip became even sharper than before, precisely flung by someone, piercing through the boss pig’s eye and directly through the brain.
Both the heart and brain were destroyed.
The boss pig couldn’t be any more dead this time.
People gradually crawled out from under the pig blanket, looking disheveled and covered in dirt.
Some were vomiting, others were laughing and crying at the same time.
“Ha ha ha, sniff sniff… I’m not dead… we survived!”
On the other side of the carriage, far from the boss pig’s corpse and the survivors, Shen Jie was sitting on the ground, holding his right arm.
[Right arm: comminuted fracture, with three soft tissue injuries.] said the system, [Host, if you’re in pain, you can groan.]
Shen Jie: “Groan.”
After a moment of consideration, the system said, “[Considering the host’s achievement of defeating an E-level variant, we’re now awarding you an item from the beginner’s gift package.]”
[Congratulations, host, you’ve received the ‘Basic Healing Bandage.’]
A small roll of bandage fell into Shen Jie’s pocket.
[Basic Healing Bandage
Instructions:
Are you still troubled by rheumatic pain? Are you still worried about bleeding from injuries? Use ‘Heal-It’ brand healing bandage immediately. Just wrap it around, and you’ll see immediate results. You take care of the pain, I’ll take care of the healing. We’re the best team!]
Shen Jie raised an eyebrow, using his still functional left hand to take out the bandage. He tilted his head and tore it open with his teeth, then wrapped it around his injured arm.
Instantly, the pain disappeared.
A cool sensation spread along his arm, and he could even feel the broken tendons and bones inside repairing rapidly under the medication’s catalysis. The effect was remarkably swift.
The system seemed somewhat pleased: [How about it, host? The items in the beginner’s gift package are quite useful, aren’t they? There are even more useful things inside, as long as you…]
Shen Jie asked, “Can my hand recover enough to cook in half an hour?”
System: […]
At a time like this, you’re still thinking about cooking dinner?
[Host, your infection level is now at 82.] The system tactfully changed the subject, [Didn’t you feel anything wrong just now?]
Shen Jie replied, “It’s fine.”
What does “fine” mean?
The system was completely panicked just now. Shen Jie’s infection level was skyrocketing at a rate of 1.6 per second. In a few more seconds, he might have succumbed directly!
If its host were to succumb, what would it do? Unbinding was out of the question; it would be nearly impossible to unbind for the rest of its existence. Did it have to reason with and persuade a wicked and brutal alien to save the world? Just thinking about it was absurd!
Suddenly, the system realized how rare and precious it was to have a human host.
It pressed further: [Are you absolutely sure nothing was wrong? Your infection level was shooting up like a rocket just now, almost reaching the sky.]
Shen Jie remained calm: “It’s normal for the infection level to rise when getting too close to an alien.”
All aliens possessed infectivity, and getting close to or touching them will cause the infection level to rise.
The infectivity varied among different aliens. For example, aggressive aliens like the boss pig actually didn’t have particularly high infectivity. The ones with high infectivity were mostly those of parasitic reproduction or mental contamination types.
Therefore, the system also didn’t quite believe that the boss pig could cause Shen Jie’s infection level to skyrocket in just over a second. However, unable to find any other more reasonable explanation, it had to set aside the issue for now and instead asked about the most shocking thing just now.
[Host, how did you manage to use an umbrella to cut open the boss’s belly?]
E-level aliens were already beyond the range that ordinary people could handle. Even if an ordinary person were to use a chainsaw and exert all their strength, it would still take two or three minutes to barely cut open a thin seam.
Shen Jie replied, “It was just a coincidence.”
[What? Just a coincidence???]
Shen Jie: “Well, yeah, just a coincidence.”
Even if you want to dodge the question, it’s not done like this, right?
[Warning! Host, don’t just tease the system casually!] The system got angry and grumbled, [I saw that red line in the AR virtual imaging. What was that? Why did the boss split open when you cut along that line?]
Shen Jie sighed softly and said, “Explaining the reason in detail is quite complicated.”
The system persisted: [I don’t mind the trouble.]
Shen Jie continued, “You should know that for the past seven years, I’ve been researching suppressors for superpower users at the research institute, and I have a fairly broad understanding of many categories of them. Among them are quite a few users with the ‘Death’ category.”
The system listened carefully and asked, [And then?]
It always felt like Shen Jie’s words were somewhat familiar, as if they had just been heard somewhere…
Shen Jie continued, “In an accident while coordinating the ‘Death’ category superpower suppressor, I discovered that every conscious object has a special line running through it.”
[Line?]
Shen Jie: “It’s a line that can cause the collapse of an object’s form in an instant, leading it towards death. What I just did was merely simulate the location of the line based on data and then cut that line.”
[…]
The system remained silent for a while before saying, [The line you mentioned sounds very much like one of the abilities of the ‘Death’ category’s Rank One, ‘Form of Annihilation.’ Currently, there are no supernaturals or aliens possessing this ability. Is it really something that the program can simulate? And how did you collect the data to write the program?]
Shen Jie: “It’s a coincidence.”
Another coincidence.
[Host, could you please explain clearly?!] The system was going crazy.
This is a very significant discovery!
If an ordinary person could deduce even a tiny fraction of the abilities of Rank One based on data, it was unimaginable how powerful a weapon it would be for humanity itself!
What was Rank One? Among the more than seventy thousand aliens and superpower users classified into seven major evolutionary categories, there were only seven unique Rank One, representing the pinnacle of human and alien powers—Resurrection, Annihilation, Soul Creation, Time Reversal, World Travel, Rule Modification, and Nature Alteration. Any of these powers, when taken out, was sufficient to cause a complete upheaval in the world.
Shen Jie calmly explained, “Because the data sample is too small, it’s just a coincidence.”
“I don’t know what you mean by the ‘Form of Annihilation’ ability. All I know is that this line I observed unintentionally during the accident has a slightly higher entropy compared to other parts of the object, showing an extremely unstable fluctuating state. In other words, it’s more prone to destruction and causing the collapse of the object. Just like earlier, a mere touch of the umbrella could cause irreversible damage to the object.”
“Of course, due to the instability of the line, it’s very difficult for the program to accurately predict its position. What we just did was merely a trial in an emergency situation. In fact, the accuracy of the program’s predictions is extremely low.”
Part of his explanation was true.
The original host of the body did indeed discover the existence of the “line” during an accident involving the explosion of a suppressor.
[Extremely low… How low exactly?]
Shen Jie: “If we convert it into probability, it’s less than one in ten thousand.”
[Less than one in ten thousand… And you still dared to try it?] The system’s voice trembled.
Shen Jie pondered seriously for a moment and said, “You’ve got a point. Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket today.”
This isn’t about buying or not buying lottery tickets!
When the inspector brought the cutting disc just now, it wanted to say that its host didn’t seem to be sensitive to the dangers between life and death, and in fact, quite enjoyed them.
[Don’t forget you have to go home and cook, okay?] the system weakly reminded.
Shen Jie neatly tied a beautiful butterfly knot on his arm with the bandage, covered it with his jacket, and said, “Of course, I remember. I’ll go back properly.”
Zong Lin is still waiting for him.
But what about the injuries on his body… How should he explain them later?
—-
“What did you say? Zong Lin went directly to the subway station?”
In the observation center, Tong Lan, upon receiving the information, almost went crazy.
Who leaked the information to Zong Lin?
He quickly tried to connect to Gu Nian’an’s communicator, but the person had already disappeared into the mist, and all he could hear from the communicator was the buzzing of electricity.
Tong Lan couldn’t even bear to imagine what would happen if Zong Lin arrived at the scene, dispelling the mist only to find his partner’s corpse… or if he had been injured or lost a limb somewhere, causing the infection value to spiral out of control. What would happen then?
Based on the injury and mortality rates of ordinary people in the mist, this was still a very real possibility.
His complexion turned alternately green and white. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, he turned and made a call on a dedicated communicator.
“…I’m sorry to disturb you, Teacher Zhu, during your meditation.”
“I’m Tong Lan.”
—-
Zong Lin sat in the passenger seat, his expressionless face staring at the rushing scenery outside.
Chen Jiahua drove recklessly, not daring to say a word.
If it weren’t for the safety of the city’s buildings and pedestrians, Zong Lin would have already used a more direct and rapid method to reach their destination.
He held the still black-screened phone in his hand, while bone spurs twisted and coiled on his mutated right arm.
Shen Jie is still waiting for him. He thought.
His lover, just an ordinary person without any powers.
Even in normal times, he had to be careful not to touch Shen Jie too roughly, afraid of causing him pain or injury. Although the other always smiled and said it didn’t matter, how could it not matter?
Love is both a vulnerability and armor.
If Shen Jie really got injured in the mist…
“Hurry up,” Zong Lin said.
He wanted to bring Shen Jie home.
Thank you for the chapters! ❤
I wonder what good reaction he’ll have when he discovers his lover is a Boss 😂💜💜
Thank you for the update. I hope we get to see them together soon
Groan 😂😂😂
😂🤣😂🤣😂
ewww that pig boss is absolutely disgusting… does he have some kind of hand fetish or sum? Like stop eating hands *blegh *
mc’s reveal as a big boss is gonna shock the whole world and put them into a revelation of what is real and what is fake xD
The fact that his power just works with trash talk makes me laugh
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
To be honest, I don’t really understand what’s happening, but I think I like it! Thank you for your hard work~ <33
The story is hard to understand or the translation is hard to read? Could you tell me so I could fix it?
Oh, no! The translation is pretty nice! The story just gets a bit wordy at times and I’m a pretty fast paced reader so I get a bit impatient which results in me not understanding exactly what’s happening haha ^^;
Thanks for the update ❤️
One of the unique rank one ability is world travel. Does transmigration counted as world travel? Shen Jie’s soul traveled to the novel world.
he down right has Mystic Eyes of Death Perception ! -insert Ryougi Shiki theme-
Your pitiful and weak lover, just sliced an alien I’m half in a impossible situation.. .
Original owner was really a genius.. Curious ! Curious !
Yeah he doesn’t know about his lover being extremely strong who is most possibly a non-human.