Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 498 - 496: The Hunt Continues

Chapter 498: Chapter 496: The Hunt Continues

Until she was placed on a stretcher, Gu Panxi continued to glare fiercely at Wen Wen as if ready to bite him at any moment.

However, Wen Wen didn’t care at all, even making a funny face.

After she was taken away by the Demon Hunter, Wen Wen began to rub his hands together, getting ready to head for another target.

Of course, this target wasn’t the Wild Soul location given by Cangyan. Not to mention Wen Wen couldn’t defeat a Wild Soul, even if he could, he wouldn’t rashly head to the location the enemy had revealed, as it could be a trap.

His destination was a coordinate reported by Little Xiaomi.

That Little Rabbit Demon Yao, under the pretext of helping Wen Wen complete his mission, sought revenge against its old enemies. In the course of vendetta after vendetta, it actually found an anomalous location.

The Eagle Monster, controlling a hundred odd birds, also seemed to have found a suspicious place during its search over Qi Ling Mountain.

For long-distance flight, Wen Wen didn’t use his spear to teleport, as that was too physically taxing. Instead, he used the power of the Faceless Demon to fly rapidly toward the location reported by Little Xiaomi.

Wen Wen’s Jade Sword had been destroyed by Cangyan, unable to be used for flying, so he could only run.

Just as he got near the target, Little Xiaomi ran over, chattering to Wen Wen.

Nearby, within a hundred meters, stood a massive tree that was the territory of a Disaster Level giant serpent at the top.

Under this tree, there was a dense network of holes resembling beehives, housing a den of mole monsters.

These little monsters liked to gang up and rob any creature passing by. If any robbed creature dared to use violence against those moles, it would provoke the giant serpent’s wrath.

The only way to retrieve their belongings was one method, and that was to play whack-a-mole.

Yes, whack-a-mole.

These little moles, carrying the stolen goods, would dart in and out of these holes. Only by hitting the moles’ heads with a mallet placed nearby could the creatures be made to return the stolen items.

Once, Little Xiaomi, having picked a backpack full of carrots, had them all stolen by these moles, and she then failed to hit any mole in the game of whack-a-mole...

Times had changed, however. Now the giant serpent had already been skinned and boned by the Demon Hunters, leaving only a corpse being devoured by insects.

The moles’ cave, however, remained intact without any signs of damage, and the moles inside were still alive.

But they just stayed dully inside their burrows, no longer lively as before.

This aroused suspicion in Little Xiaomi, so she coerced and threatened a centipede monster to attack the moles, but the centipede, which should have caused havoc among the moles, went silent after entering.

It clearly had died inside, and so she was convinced there was a problem, and called Wen Wen.

Gazing at the hole-riddled burrow from a distance, Wen Wen scratched his chin, then pulled a specially made incendiary bomb from his cloak, installed it on an RPG launcher, and fired it at the burrow.

How to find someone who’s hiding?

Just destroy wherever they’re hiding!

Soon, a tall woman dressed in camouflage leaped out of the flames, her stature even bigger than You Han’s had been.

This person was indeed one of the renegade Hunters Wen Wen had been searching for!

She hadn’t expected to evade several waves of Rangers’ patrols only to be undone by a rabbit.

The woman assessed Wen Wen’s strength, then said, "You can still get away now, I don’t want to hurt you."

"Hey... but I want to hurt you!"

Wen Wen sneered as he looked at the woman, then rushed toward her with a sword in his right hand and a steak in his left.

Having battled against Cangyan and Bai Cang, Wen Wen had already become adept at dealing with these rebellious Rangers, easily overpowering her.

Less than an hour into the battle, the woman knelt before Wen Wen, rolling her eyes back, unable to move.

For this woman, Wen Wen merely drained the energy from her body, without taking her to the Sanctuary.

Those taken to the Sanctuary were either monsters that had harmed humans or utterly irredeemable villains.

To Wen Wen, defecting from the Hunter Association wasn’t considered a grave sin; after all, he also wanted to escape...

"It feels like if I just absorb a bit more energy, I could unlock new functionalities at the Sanctuary... I hope the location discovered by the Eagle Monster is where the rebellious Rangers are!"

...

In a place out of Wen Wen’s sight, a figure in a black robe was watching him from a distance.

To avoid being detected by Wen Wen, he kept a sufficient distance; close enough that Wen Wen couldn’t sense someone watching him, but also so far that the man in the black robe couldn’t see the details clearly.

After realizing that the female Hunter had been defeated by Wen Wen, the black robed figure sighed heavily.

"Indeed, humans have limits. It’s practically impossible to expect these humans to revive the ’Beast God’s’ strength."

"However, they have at least helped me weaken the energy defenses outside the Qiling Pearl, so I should proceed with the next step."

At this time, in a cave, Wild Soul couldn’t hold back anymore, and he vomited a mouthful of blood rich with energy, even piercing through a layer of rock.

He didn’t just vomit blood; even his pores secreted bloody filth. At this moment, his appearance had already changed, his whole body swollen.

As the Hunters he had targeted were each defeated, the pressure on him increased, gradually becoming even more than he could bear.

Up to now, out of twelve Hunters, including himself, only four remained; the rest had been found and subdued by the Hunter Association.

The pressure they faced was all transferred to Wild Soul.

Feeling the growing backlash, Wild Soul sighed, "Using this thing, can I really advance to Catastrophe Level..."

"If I continue this way, I will definitely die, so I better stop now and try again later."

Then he placed his hand on an illusory rainbow-colored bead, severing his connection with it. The bead instantly lost all its shine and was placed by Wild Soul into a wooden box.

As soon as the bead was enclosed in the box, Wild Soul’s swollen body began to revert to its original form, covered in a rainbow sheen, which was the energy from the Qiling Pearl he had absorbed over this period.

Wild Soul sensed the energy in his body and scoffed to himself, "Although I’ve become much stronger, I am still within the realm of True Sequence, with an ocean-like gap between me and the Catastrophe Level."

"Moreover... my strength is slowly receding back into this bead; within a year, I will revert to my original power."

"If I can’t break through the shackles with the help of the Qiling Pearl, obtaining more power would be in vain!"

With a mocking expression on his face, Wild Soul thought about the Hunters he had sought. They thought that the energy they absorbed was theirs to keep.

If it were that simple, why would such an item be worshipped for many years yet remain unused?