Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 712 - 702: Uneasy Premonition

Chapter 712: Chapter 702: Uneasy Premonition

Tao Qingqing possessed nearly Middle Sequence strength, yet she was almost done in by merely touching this Strange Cicada with her bare hands.

How could such a thing be so easily taken care of by Wen Wen with a casual blast from an Energy Cannon?

With doubts in his mind, Wen Wen used his control over dark energy to pull a steel rebar from the fence over the roadside drain and began scraping it over the Strange Cicada’s body.

He certainly didn’t dare to touch this Strange Insect lightly.

But Wen Wen only needed to gently touch it a couple of times before the cicada’s body directly scattered into pieces.

The parts all over the ground were not a single piece of normal biological tissue; they were all abandoned metal, broken iron scraps, and chunks of concrete.

Just looking at this pile of materials, it would be impossible to imagine the previous form of the cicada insect, that gorgeous pale blue hue, which was also slowly fading. By the time all the colors had completely faded, there was nothing left on the ground but a pile of junk.

Only by then did Tao Qingqing recover from her shock, looking at the blue crystalline arm on the ground and feeling scared after the fact.

Losing an arm wasn’t a big deal for her, but it would have been bad if her entire body had turned to crystal.

Blood Energy surged on her arm, and her bones and flesh began to regenerate synchronously. The scene was somewhat gory, but it wouldn’t take too long for her to recover to her normal state.

Then she approached Wen Wen from behind and asked, "What on earth is this thing?"

Wen Wen’s eyes narrowed as he said, "It’s nothing at all, just a pile of rubbish gathered by a unique force. Once that force disappears, it no longer holds shape."

Although he spoke lightly, he too had never seen anything like it before.

The black energy cannon Wen Wen fired did hit something, but he couldn’t tell whether the energy attached to the pile of rubbish was left by him or had been destroyed by him.

Moreover, the power on the Strange Cicada might not even be the main body of the Strange Cicada, but possibly just one of several forces.

Wen Wen stood up and looked at the human Cross in the church, exhaling a long sigh.

He held no prejudice against the church, but he also never believed the rhetoric of the Creation Church. He felt no guilt about stealing things from the church, and he had a sincere disgust for those too immersed in doctrines to face reality.

Occasionally, when he saw someone trying to indoctrinate children, he would secretly switch their eye drops with menthol oil.

But that didn’t mean he could turn a blind eye to the tragedy that occurred within the church, whether as a Containment Officer or as a Demon Hunter, he couldn’t just ignore it.

The insect had arranged the corpses in that way, possibly to achieve some ritual, or it could just be a particular preference.

But regardless of whether it was a preference or some ritual, if the creature didn’t die, it was likely to come back for another attempt.

Wen Wen had a premonition that what had happened in this church might just be the tip of the iceberg...

After the battle ended, people from the Local Hunter Association cordoned off the area and began to deal with the bodies left in the church, entering the standard cleanup process.

Meanwhile, Wen Wen collected the ’limbs’ left by the Strange Cicada and sent them to the Sanctuary. He planned to use the power of the Calamity Prison Supervisor to search for this Strange Insect and see if he could find any clues.

Wen Wen decided to stay in this city for two more days. If he didn’t discover similar incidents, he would set this anomaly aside for now. If similar cases cropped up again...

Then he would have to investigate to the very end.

Back at the Sanctuary, Wen Wen attempted to use the power of the Calamity Prison Supervisor to find the main body of the cicada, but unfortunately, the remaining power had already dissipated, leaving behind nothing but worthless mundane objects.

Wen Wen let out a sigh and said, "Logically, I should have overthought this; the creature should have been destroyed by my strike and shouldn’t cause any more catastrophes..."

But Wen Wen always felt some uneasiness in his heart, as if something was about to happen.

With unsettled thoughts, Wen Wen stood up, channeled his Dark Matter Power into the Blood River Sword, and rhythmically swung the longsword.

This allowed him to simultaneously train his Dark Matter and his swordsmanship.

Previously, he had sat atop the Sky Curtain Giant Whale for a month—a lot could happen in that time.

The handover with Absurd Words was successful, and the Coding Organization merged into the SRS Foundation, becoming the Foundation’s armed wing.

The name ’Coding’ completely vanished from history, but An Yuexi remained, becoming a child worker at the Foundation, and always bothering Heng An.

Now, aside from the monsters that Wen Wen supported, the Foundation finally had its first batch of usable armed forces, so they would not need to frequently request assistance from the Sanctuary. Instead, they might help resolve some troublesome matters for Wen Wen’s Sanctuary.

The Foundation was actually still very weak; should it grow stronger in the future, it might attract the attention of the Hunters Association. At that time, Wen Wen might need to use his Black Cross identity to negotiate with the Hunters Association. It would be best to avoid any conflicts between the two parties.

Wen Wen estimated that the Hunters Association wouldn’t give the Foundation too hard a time, considering some of the functions and organizational philosophies of the Foundation are actually similar to those of the Hunters Association—both aim to make the world a better place.

"Wait a minute..."

Thinking about the similarities between the Foundation and the Hunters Association, Wen Wen suddenly had an interesting speculation.

"The Sanctuary disappeared a thousand years ago, while the Hunters Association began to grow and expand around that time."

"The Hunters Association also has a similar structure of power classification, as well as similar functions and philosophies to the Sanctuary..."

"Could it be that the Hunters Association a thousand years ago was like the Foundation today, just an external resource-providing subsidiary organization established by the Sanctuary?"

"Due to the disappearance of the Sanctuary, the Hunters Association had to rely on itself and slowly became the leader in the Federation’s Demon Hunter industry..."

"Hiss, if I go and reveal my identity to the Federation’s higher-ups, will they bow down to me, and I just become a winner in life?"

Thinking further, Wen Wen even laughed; after all, it was just a figment of his imagination.

He had appeared several times using his Black Cross identity—if the Hunters Association really was as he speculated, they would have contacted him by now.

And even if there was a one percent chance that it was true, a thousand years of time could erase too much; the notion of them bowing down to him was just a delusion after all.

It would be more realistic for him to take over all the Hunters Association’s Demon Hunters into his Sanctuary and ultimately have a bunch of snitches occupy the Hunters Association.

Apart from the Coding Organization, the Containment Officers that Wen Wen recruited in Nim City also came to browse the Sanctuary a few times, becoming more familiar with the place.

With the appearance of the Federation’s allies, the Sanctuary’s public image seemed much higher than before, not merely an organization mingling exclusively in the Capital District.

In addition, the Sanctuary acquired a batch of monsters, all captured by the Containment Officers. However, to Wen Wen, these monsters were just a number.

When the monsters reached a certain number, Wen Wen discovered that implanting chains within his body, although capable of restraining the creatures, did not offer limitless control.

He could control over two hundred monsters at a time with a mix of about ten Disaster Level Monsters and other Disaster Level creatures.

But if they were all Disaster Level Lower Rank Monsters, he could at most control several dozen at the same time.

If the controlled monsters were stronger, the number he could manage would decrease; with Upper Sequence Monsters, he could only control a few at the same time.

Although there were no True Order Monsters yet, Wen Wen estimated he could at most simultaneously limit one or two.

As for Catastrophe Level...

These chains likely didn’t have that capability.