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But Ji Dong was not the only one who was the most anxious on the scene.
When Rose heard this, she immediately interrupted the old man in an impatient tone, “Just tell me straight. What exactly was the thing dug out from the mine?”
The old priest stopped his unfinished, lengthy opening statement and lowered his wrinkled eyelids, “It was a special stone.”
“That special stone, a crystal that emitted an unmistakable dazzling silvery glow.”
“Fuck.”
Ji Dong heard the ridiculous criticisms of “veteran commentary” Teacher Dagen, “This is clearly the setting of the Arkenstone from the movie The Hobbit. So is it possible that a dragon has been recruited here too?”
The old man heard Mo Tiangen’s voice but didn’t hear what he murmured. He only looked at him and continued.
“That crystal stone—we call it the Moon God Stone—was still covered with a black gelatinous layer when it was dug out of the pit by the miners.”
The old priest continued to tell the old story, “Later, to study the Moon God Stone, an institution built a Research Institute at the original site of the mine, which…… was the beginning of everything.”
Ji Dong and the others nodded when they heard that.
Except for the “Moon God Stone”, which appeared to be replicated from the Arkenstone, was the first new information they had learned ever since they got here. What the old guy just told them was a background perception that was injected into their brains by the [Film] before they even entered the [Film]. So when he imparted the story, pieces of information surfaced on their mind.
Thus, everyone’s attention was focused on the “Moon God Stone”.
“What’s so special about the ‘Moon God Stone’?”
Fatty Huang twisted his legs together and took a very ladylike mermaid pose, hoping that the others would not notice his wet pants, “Could it be that those Skeletons Monsters out there are not so special?”
“Could it be that those Skeleton Monsters outside were created from the Moon God Stone?”
The old priest flatly denied, “No, the ‘Moon God Stone’ is a gift from the gods, not an evil thing.”
“After their research, that stone continuously releases some kind of unknown short-wave ray. Apoptotic cells that can be activated after receiving a certain dose of irradiation, prompting them to gradually repair and regenerate. This means that the Moon God Stone has great medical value in the treatment of brain atrophy, Alzheimer’s disease, and other age-related diseases……”
He took a deep breath.
“It can be said that as long as the secret of the ‘Moon God Stone’ is mastered, many terminal diseases will be cured in the future, and even rejuvenating humans will no longer be impossible.”
Ji Dong: “……”
He felt that the image in front of him was too cutthroat.
A priest dressed in black robes, compassionate, talking to them about neither the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, nor God loves the world and he who believes in me will have eternal life. But instead, it was actually on cell regeneration healing the sick……
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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“The problem with all this lies in the black colloids that were wrapped on the ‘Moon God Stone’.”
The old priest continued, “Those colloidal substances, the researchers named it ‘Juda’s Tears’, and did a composition analysis. After finding that they were silicon-based inorganic substances, they separated them from the ‘Moon God Stone’ and set them aside in a container.”
Ji Dong nodded his head.
Whether it’s the “Moon God Stone” or “Judas Tears”, these names sounded particularly mysterious. But it was done so, to facilitate their understanding as they listened to the story.
In a sense, the setting of the [Film] in [Peach Blossom Spring] was still very considerate and friendly. In order for the participants to smoothly integrate into a new [Film], the trailer would provide names of the key elements in the plot that are convenient and memorable.
“But soon after, the researchers discovered that ‘Juda’s Tears’ was surprisingly a slime bacteria that began to slowly grow, more and more ……”
When the old priest said this, he stopped and looked at the newly arrived soldiers and researchers in white. His voice became dreamy and more excited, “Can you understand the meaning of this?”
Ji Dong: “???”
He…pretty much didn’t understand it. He didn’t. He didn’t understand it. At all.
He was a student athlete who grew up practicing archery as long as he didn’t fail his classes. So when this elderly person mentioned that the black, sticky fungus-like colloid material could evolve, and has also the ability to cause a meritorious breakthrough in the field of research and medicine, he could only respond with three huge question marks.
However, Captain Ji Xiao’niao fully understood the basic element of pretense— ‘When you don’t understand something, just smile’.
So he did what he was taught.
Looking up at the old man in the priest’s robe, he faintly smiled in a lofty manner.
At this time, Mo Tiangen, a high school biology teacher with a professional degree, was the quickest to put forth his conjecture:
“Is it a…… silicon-based lifeform?”
It hit the nail on the head.
“That’s right! It is a silicon-based life form!”
With palpable excitement on his face, the old man cried out.
“It’s not like us carbon-based creatures. It’s a unique, silicon-based life form!”
Ji Dong: “……”
Okay, he thought he probably understood it.
Anyway, this was a very powerful and different kind of creature. It diverged from the lifeform settings of this [Film].
This proved that not only was the “Moon God Stone” an anomaly, which could cure Alzheimer’s or any other illnesses. But the black colloid that covered it was also a rare specimen like no other!
It’s no surprise that they established the Research Institute and did intensive research in the mountains for ten years.
“But it was also ‘Judas Tears’ that created all this disaster.”
The old priest dutifully assumed the role of an illustrator.
“One day, about half a month ago, a huge invisible film of light suddenly appeared, enveloping our nestled town and Research Institute. As well as a large area of the surrounding mountains and forests, and the monsters you encountered suddenly appeared ……”
He paused and emphasized again.
“All of this was caused by ‘Judas Tears’.”
Ji Dong and the others listened attentively, waiting for the priest to continue. However, the old man no longer continued his tale and just turned his head to look at the chestnut-haired woman named “Annie”.
“What followed…let Annie…”
“What happened next… Why don’t you come up here and share it to them Annie?””
Annie nodded and answered.
“Okay.”
She appeared to be around thirty-four or forty years old, had a fair complexion, dark features, with dark and naturally curled hair. She appeared to be of mixed race. Adding the name “Annie” to the list, made it difficult for the participants to determine if she was an Asian or not.
However, although Annie looked beautiful, her appearance was quite haggard. It was evident from the undisguised tiredness, weariness, and obvious agitation between her eyebrows.
She raised her hand and stroked her hair, flipped her voluminous natural chestnut curls behind her shoulders, and sat down next to the old man. Instead of promptly starting her story, she held out her hand towards the new arrivals, “Hey, do any of you have a cigarette?
Ji Dong was not a smoker, and Ren Jianmo did not appear to be one; Mo Tiangen smoked a couple of puffs, but had no addiction. The only box was put aside in his marching bag, and he simply did not have the time to take the bag. Huang Fatty was even shaking his head repeatedly and said that he did not have one.
Rose sighed and reluctantly grabbed the camouflage jacket that she had thrown on the ground, fished out the cigarette case, and threw it to Annie along with the lighter.
Annie took the cigarette, lit it skillfully, took a drag, and tucked the case into her pocket.
“I’ll be introducing myself first.”
The chestnut-haired woman said.
“I’m a local villager from Sunset Town, and I’ve been serving at the Research Institute for the past few years ……”
She smiled, “As a cook.”
Well, she turned out to be a cook.
Everyone now understood her identity.
“The subjects done at the institute were kept secret from the public, but I’ve been there long enough to get acquainted with some of the staff. I have a particularly good relationship with one of their supervisors…”
Annie frankly added accents to the phrase ‘particularly good relationship’, and also hooked her lips with an ambiguous smile.
After all, Ji Dong was only a nineteen-year-old teenage athlete. In some respects, he was still very naive. Rose and the other outgoing people on the other hand, almost instantly understood the other end of the string—they dared not to say that this beautiful cook hooked up with the Research Institute’s director!
“So I know that in addition to the Moon God Stone, the Research Institute was also researching ‘Judas Tears’.”
“They cultivated and purified ‘Judas Tears’. They then infused it into the mice, trying to get the silicon-based and carbon-based organisms to fuse with each other… but the supervisor told me that the results of the experiment were disappointing. The mice were quickly swallowed by ‘Juda’s Tears’ and transformed into another type of… monster.”
She gestured outward with her hand which held a cigarette.
“It’s like one of those things wandering in the town.”
“In that case, are those monsters outside, artificially created?”
Ji Dong felt that he understood it. This was just like Frankenstein’s attempt to imitate God in creating life.
“No, I don’t think they did it on purpose.”
Annie shook her head.
“On the day of the accident, I happened to be cooking in the kitchen. When suddenly I heard the intercom relay that the whole institute had entered a first-level alert state and that some of the experimented animals had escaped…”
She laughed.
“As a result, it didn’t take long for the Research Institute to be filled with those skeletons.”
——Okay, so it wasn’t Frankenstein, it was Resident Evil! How cheesy! It’s so cheesy!
Ji Dong silently murmured in his heart.
“Later, I and two other researchers were lucky to escape from the Research Institute, but one of us was bitten by a monster. Soon after, it mutated into a Skeleton Monster with bone spikes on its back, pouncing on the residents of the town……”
——Okay, the classic setting of the zombie movie is here. One person mutates then 10 and then 100. Eventually, more zombies are walking around the vicinity compared to the living!
Fatty Huang curiously pursued, “What about the other researcher who escaped?”
“Dead.”
Annie shook her head, “He was besieged by those monsters and died.”
“You guys have just arrived, you should have learned the power of those monsters, right?!”
At this moment, a soldier interjected.
“You have no idea how much we had to sacrifice throughout these past two weeks just to figure out the behaviors of those Skeleton Monsters before we could barely save those of us here.”
After hearing this, Ji Dong looked sideways at Ren Jianmo who was sitting next to him, feeling melancholic.
If Ren Jianmo, a cautious and observant teammate, hadn’t guessed that the monsters would be afraid of ultraviolet lights when they watched the trailer and asked them to exchange for targeted props from the [Peach Blossom Spring] in advance, they might not be able to survive the previous two waves of attack and just die point-blank in the clinic.
So basically this judas’s tear thing is something like Venom? That is transmitted via a bite like the zombie virus?
Thank you for the chapter!
And here I’d been thinking that some kind of human experimentation had gone wrong.😓
^same 🥲
No puedo dejar de reírme con todas esas referencias 🤣
I’m i the only one who suspects that the priest is a scientist in disguise or else what’s with the excitement 🤔 😏