Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 277 - 275 Silent World

Chapter 277: Chapter 275 Silent World

Five sharp claws grew from the tips of Wen Wen’s fingers, flashing a sinister red light.

"These claws are coated with Blood Poison from a vampire transforming a blood descendant. Just by making contact with blood, they can continuously corrode it. The Blood Poison probably won’t kill you, but marring your face so you cannot return to this visage should still be feasible," she said.

Wen Wen had observed that the monsters here would revive, but the injuries they sustained at the time of death would not heal, like the zombie Wen Wen had scorched, which continued to exist in its charred form even after resurrection.

"I am going to give you a new face right now," Wen Wen said, licking her claws and looking at Wen Li with a particularly cruel expression.

Wen Li pulled out the steel rebar and tossed it aside, looking at Wen Wen expressionlessly and said, "You licked the Blood Poison."

Wen Wen looked at her claws for a couple of seconds, then replied somewhat frantically, "Blood Poison only acts when it encounters blood; eating it directly is just protein!"

Then, anger flushing her face, Wen Wen didn’t bother asking Wen Li’s preference and directly scratched his face, leaving five deep bloody marks.

The Blood Poison reacted swiftly on Wen Li’s face, and in a short while, it had become extremely horrifying to behold.

But this time, Wen Li just looked at Wen Wen with a dark expression, "I truly am not as strong as you, so go ahead and be arrogant, but soon, you will be begging for life and death."

Wen Wen obediently nodded and said, "I can imagine what you’ll do later, but you won’t get the chance."

She stepped back, positioning herself next to the already unconscious Liu siblings. Chains surged out, binding the two, and then in an instant, Wen Wen’s figure disappeared.

Since everything here would be delivered to the Red Moon, Wen Wen just needed to stay away from this place, hiding in the Sanctuary was naturally the safest option.

The moment Wen Wen vanished, Wen Li roared furiously, "Where did she go? Why did she disappear!"

In his rage, he destroyed everything around him, but couldn’t find a trace of Wen Wen.

Wen Wen hid in the Sanctuary for a while, estimating that the ascension area would have passed the place she was before, then emerged again from the Sanctuary.

Just in time to see Wen Li’s body rising, slowly ascending towards the Red Moon.

"Goodbye, oh my, until we meet again by mountains and streams," she said with an arrogant wave, then turned and ran.

She didn’t know what Wen Li would face after ascending, and if he implicated her with someone important up there, sending someone to capture her and take her back, Wen Wen would be inconsolable.

Running away from the psychiatric hospital for over ten kilometers, Wen Wen finally relaxed.

Only then did she notice the further away she got from the psychiatric hospital, the thicker the gray mist in the air became, the more monochromatic the colors, until all that remained was a murky gray expanse.

There was no sound, no color, everything was dull and uninteresting.

"This must indeed be the Gray Mist Layer. It’s just that now I am in its depths, close to the side of the Inner World," she surmised.

In the shallow layers of the Gray Mist Layer, one could return to the real world simply by lowering their spiritual perception.

But in the deeper layers, that method wouldn’t work because her spiritual perception wasn’t raised to its highest level to begin with.

To enter the real world from here, one had to find a passageway. Thankfully Wen Wen knew how to construct such a doorway, so she was confident she could return to reality.

With the crisis behind her, Wen Wen began to observe the ecology of the Gray Mist Layer.

She could see all sorts of bizarre monsters whose bodies were somewhat blurred, some drifting in the sky, others roaming the ground.

Just like the superpower users who enter the Gray Mist Layer from the real world, their bodies are both in the Inner World and also deep within the Gray Mist Layer. The reason they enter this state is twofold, on one hand, to find opportunities to enter the real world.

Here, natural cross-world passages occasionally appear, and if there are oblivious superpower users trying to get a clear view of their bodies from the outside world, they too could use them to travel to the real world.

On the other hand, their goal is to feed!

Yes, feed. For many monsters, human souls are the best food.

On the streets, one can see aimlessly wandering shadows everywhere, these shadows are the souls of those who have died in the real world.

Every non-living entity in the real world has its projection in the Gray Mist Layer, and all the deceased’s souls wander here.

The fortunate souls among them, due to some special attachment, enter the real world to become Fierce Spirits or Evil Ghosts, while the rest are all part of these monsters’ diet.

The monsters occasionally walk onto the streets, snatch up an aimlessly wandering human soul, and feast on it, while the other souls turn a blind eye. In the Inner World, human souls are never rare, what’s rare are certain special souls.

For example, those tragic souls created by white-clad Demons wreaking havoc in the real world.

Wen Wen had no intention of saving these pitiful souls because such a scene is part of the natural law.

Except for a few special cases, most souls become a kind of dazed and foolish thing once separated from their bodies.

Without sensory organs, they cannot obtain information from the outside world; without a brain, they cannot think or store memories; unable to produce various pheromones, they also lack emotions like happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy...

New souls are born every moment, while old ones can only be consumed in this way. If this balance were disrupted, the souls in the Gray Mist Layer would become more and more numerous, and one day, they might pass a threshold and bring unforeseen disasters.

Of course, the souls of superpower users and monsters, because of the existence of Superpower, are entirely different from those souls and will continue to exist in another way...

Once the novelty wore off, Wen Wen lost interest in the Gray Mist Layer; the place was so desolate that even a fart echoed.

Wen Wen also didn’t dare mess around too much, for accidentally entering the Inner World could spell disaster, which was not a pleasant place to be.

Back at the Sanctuary, Wen Wen looked at the rebar with the strange smell and frowned.

This rebar was the only spoil of the operation, but since it had stabbed something it shouldn’t have, Wen Wen didn’t want to keep it in his possession.

So he rinsed it with water briefly, then found some scrap metal to cast a safe handle for the rebar, and with this handle, he went to find Heng An, who was practicing Fighting Techniques.

Due to his unique ability, Heng An needed to rely on his fighting skills to harm others, and he currently didn’t have a suitable melee weapon.

So when Wen Wen threw him the unremarkable rebar, he was overjoyed and started toying with it.

Wen Wen had intended to remind him that this thing had poked some unsavory elements, but upon seeing Heng An pick up the end just rinsed with water, Wen Wen held his tongue.

"Be careful with this rebar when you use it; it carries a strong curse, and accidentally injuring someone with it could be fatal."

Upon hearing Wen Wen’s warning, Heng An nodded seriously, but for some reason, there seemed to be an indescribable stench emanating from the rebar.

But since it was cursed, having some foul smell was probably to be expected...

Um...

As everyone knows, many things don’t become clean with just a rinse of water...