This time, we survived, but no one knows what will happen once it truly advances to Level Six.
I wonder how Fatty Ma would feel when he finds out there’s a fierce beast right beside him.
Hopefully, Comrade Old Ma will quickly come up with a plan and do what a mayor should do.
Besides, for the first time, Ren Zhong developed new doubts about the mechanism of the Ruined Beast’s creation.
According to the database of the Ruined Beast, these monsters are generated by being attached to Crystal Chips.
So how did the Crystal Chips come to be?
This doesn’t conform to the scientific view that 21st-century doctors have always upheld.
This point has always puzzled Ren Zhong, and no one has given an explanation.
It seems as if it has always been this way since ancient times, just like ancient people in primitive societies never had time to think about why there are animals, plants, or humans in the world.
Anyway, that’s the objective fact, knowing this is enough.
Ren Zhong used to think this way, but the Descending Demon Baby slightly overturned his understanding.
This thing is obviously related to humans.
Moreover, when Ren Zhong killed the Demon Infant sub-bodies, he saw on their metal faces a complex and changeable expression, almost like that of humans.
Some sub-bodies even emitted cries eerily similar to that of a human baby before dying.
Sub-bodies of the same Level Five Ruined Beast should logically be identical, yet there are individual differences.
Though they all have the same face, the cries of different sub-bodies have subtle differences; you can even tell if it’s a boy or a girl.
And there are also subtle personality differences; some sub-bodies are unyielding even in death, while others are timid and easily bullied.
This fact gave Ren Zhong the creeps.
It’s too unreasonable.
He could only tentatively offer an explanation.
Different sub-bodies, after maturation, show differences due to the influence of the memories of the deceased to whom they are attached.
This is hard to understand.
According to legend, when the Descending Demon Baby first appeared, the people in Bone Valley had been dead for many years.
It’s said that when a person dies, it’s like a lamp going out, the soul disperses with no trace, so how could memories manifest on the sub-bodies of Ruined Beasts?
Ren Zhong could only forcefully explain it from his own perspective.
There are remnants of the deceased’s memories within the Demon Infant.
The instinctual memories of the deceased did not completely vanish with death, but instead merged into certain underlying streams of information that can generate Crystal Chips, and are then revived in the world as the Demon Infant transforms them into sub-bodies.
Ren Zhong, who never believed in ghosts or gods, began to question the basic physical laws on Source Star.
He realized that perhaps the physical laws of this planet are indeed different from those of Earth.
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Returning to the town, another piece of news, neither good nor bad, arrived.
Lin Wang’s six semi-professional affiliated teams suffered heavy losses.
Only Ren Zhong’s team of six remained unharmed; of the other five teams, two were completely wiped out, three were left with fragments, barely able to reassemble into two.
Lin Wang’s six teams of seasoned workers suddenly turned into three teams.
Lin Wang himself even came personally to visit Zheng Tian, expressing condolences and leaving behind a restoration subsidy of 100 points.
The evil dragon lost too many of its hunting claws and paid a little more attention to the few remaining underlings.
After all, professional teams need to eat.
So it’s clear that Lin Wang would not easily sever his hands and feet for the time being; instead, he would utilize and support Zheng Tian’s team to market externally to recruit new quality workers.
Thus, the security of Ren Zhong and his team’s safety factor increased.
At 8:05 PM, having just completed cashing out stocks, Ren Zhong lazily lay on a beach chair.
His equipment was under repair with Ju Qingmeng, and it wouldn’t be delivered to him tonight; he had to pick it up himself.
This time, with no gear weighing him down, he could enjoy a rare day of rest.
He sneakily checked the balance on his wrist watch, and a rare, satisfied smile surfaced on his face.
He never imagined that after just a day, he had 2266.59 points in his pocket again.
This reckless venture today was truly worth it.
The two crates he picked up and sold through a solo account fetched a total of 620 points.
The Crystal Chips in Zheng Tian’s squad’s crate were valued at 800 points, which was twice that of the other two squads.
The main reason was that Ren Zhong personally intervened in the afternoon, increasing the squad’s competitiveness.
In the afternoon, he also split the loot of two Third Level Ruined Beasts with others and had a solo kill.
Adding the morning’s, these four Third Level Crystal Chips were worth 320 points.