Chapter 491: Chapter 0491: Curse (Third Update Request for Subscription)

A stale odor washed over, causing Zi’s expression to waver slightly.

She still maintained a warm smile on her face: “Mr. Li Zhi, please cooperate with us!”

“No! No! I’m not sick!”

Li Zhi yelled hysterically, his facial muscles twisted in torment: “You must be out to get me! You want to catch me and dissect me for your experiments! I know… I know everything…”

He was panting harshly, his fingernails visibly growing long and sharp…

Zap!

Without any warning, he reached out his right hand, sharp nails aimed at Zi.

“Iron Sand Palm!”

Wang Chaoqun rushed forward, striking out with a palm, striking Li Zhi’s ‘claws’ squarely.

The immense force sent him flying into the room.

“A Hunter? Doesn’t quite look like it…”

Wang Chaoqun walked into the room with his hands behind his back, staring at the scattered bones on the ground, an even more foul odor, and flies buzzing around, rendering him speechless.

“Wang Chaoqun, without my command, you’re not allowed to take action!”

Zi glared at him, then spoke into the microphone on her collar: “Confirmed, Li Zhi is ill, requires treatment… medical personnel prepare stretcher, anaesthetics.”

This was a disease that broke out among the global Transcendent community.

The main symptoms were insanity, aggressiveness, and persecutory delusions. The cause of the disease remained mysterious.

However, it only afflicted occupational people, and incidence rates were not high, around one percent.

“Such a weakling… giving me a scare!”

Wang Chaoqun stared at Li Zhi, who was half kneeling on the ground, and sneered: “Zi, aren’t you being too cautious?”

“While he poses no threat to us, he is a menace to ordinary people… There have been precedents.”

Zi sighed, finding it somewhat strange.

It seemed… among the occupational people, those who fell sick… were all weaklings…

…

Not far away in a skyscraper, a telescope lens peeked out from beneath a curtain.

Cheng Feng watched the apartment building solemnly, then rubbed his eyes after a moment: “As expected, the SkyNet has moved.”

Next to him, Li Weiwei was lying on a couch playing with her phone in a bored manner, while Lin Hong was typing away on her laptop.

“Our team’s first operation is to just watch from the sidelines? So boring…”

Li Weiwei yawned.

“Just be content…” Lin Hong laughed and scolded: “You’ve been too comfortable. If you were sent abroad to experience the gunfights and explosions on the streets, you might be terrified.”

“We live such leisurely lives because others are carrying the burden for us.”

Cheng Feng also sighed, causing Li Weiwei to roll her eyes: “Alright, alright, I’m not a child anymore, stop lecturing me… Yawn…”

As she yawned, her expression suddenly changed: “The scent… of the wind… has changed!”

“The wind… what scent?”

Lin Hong was stunned.

“Anyway… it’s a weird feeling, and… I’m so sleepy…”

Li Weiwei mumbled, then drifted off to sleep.

“She passed out?”

Cheng Feng rushed over, feeling her pulse: “Strange… What’s going on?”

Suddenly, he felt his own vision darken, and an overwhelming drowsiness swept over him.

“Could this be… an Attraction?”

Lin Hong murmured beside him, resting her head on her arm as she too fell asleep.

…

On the rooftop of this small building, Su Lu, with a black-feathered, red-eyed crow perched on his shoulder, was gazing at the bright moonlight: “The second Spirit Tide? Looks like it’s coming together with the ‘Curse’.”

Where there is light, there is darkness!

A world that has evolved to this point definitely has accumulated an immense amount of darkness and resentment!

Previously, there was no Spirit Tide to vent it out.

But now, it’s different.

“The ‘incentive mechanism’ that I set up, seems to have somehow merged with the venting of this curse?”

Su Lu closed his eyes, entering the dream state as well.

…

Inside the dark space.

Countless firefly-like spiritual entities emerged, all bathed in a faint glow, their actual forms obscured.

“This is…?”

“Attraction!”

“Haha… I never thought I could come here again, other than the first Attraction and subsequent Promotion Rituals!”

“This is an opportunity, a huge one!”

Near Su Lu, several spiritual entities immediately rushed towards the depths of the dark mist upon seeing the scene.

They wanted to reach the giant, to obtain more Mysterious Knowledge!

Having experienced it once before, they felt no fear, only excitement.

Looking around, Su Lu noticed that only a few spirits managed to suppress their greed and remain stationary.

But it was… useless!

“Mayana… Mahagodo… Hawes…”

Within the darkness, a sound like electromagnetic interference emerged, mingling with the low whispers of the ancient gods.

“Ah!”

Many of the spirits screamed out in pain, feeling as if the whispers were sharp spikes, brutally stabbing into their minds.

Gripped by intense pain and nausea, they wanted to scream and vent like mad.

In this intense state, many people deciphered the meaning of these whispers:

“Those who lag behind on the ladder of Transcendence, the indescribable existence will mete out punishment!”

Whoosh!

A gust of wind blew to reveal a colossal figure.

It was the source of Transcendence in this world, the indescribable Ancient God!

Countless spirits stared intently at it, yet found that its body was shrouded in a layer of mist, not revealing any Mysterious Knowledge.

Not only that, but it also seemed to have turned into a vortex, continuously swallowing the surrounding black mist.

An inexplicable suction force was pulled onto all the spirits, drawing them forward ceaselessly.

“No!”

“O Ancient God… please spare me!”

Every spirit knew that once they truly touched the Ancient God, something horrific would happen, and they started to scream in terror.

Luckily, this suction force wasn’t strong.

As long as one had worked hard to cultivate and develop one’s powers after gaining Transcendence, one could still barely maintain one’s position.

Among the group of fireflies, some unfortunate or lazy ones continued to move forward… getting closer to the huge shadow, and eventually touching the Ancient God.

The moment they touched it, they disappeared.

It was as if they turned into water, flowing into the body of the Ancient God!

“Dead… Are they dead?”

“Their souls? Were they swallowed by the Ancient God?”

“Such horror… true horror… So after becoming a Transcendent, every now and then, the souls of the weakest are swallowed by the Ancient God?”

“What about their bodies in the Material Realm? Do they just die?”

Many Transcendents felt fear welling up in their hearts and were filled with regret.

If they had known this would happen, they wouldn’t have become occupational persons!

This applied to the acquired ones, the true Inherent Awakeners had no choice.

Su Lu, witnessing this scene, felt a chill in his heart: “So they’re using this kind of elimination method… Is this also a counteraction by the World’s Will?”

He had only intended to create a whip to spur on people.

But it was forcibly mutated by the world into ‘Horror’ and ‘Curse’, which also hid a counterattack!