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Chapter 728 - 423 Could it be that they are all seedlings who haven’t graduated yet_2

Chapter 728: Chapter 423 Could it be that they are all seedlings who haven’t graduated yet_2

They transformed and evolved continuously through battle and cultivation.

One day, Director Fang arrived at the medical office of the welfare institute.

This department was very suitable for slacking off. Ordinary welfare institutes wouldn’t even have a physician on staff; treatments, surgeries, and so on were all performed by puppets.

Even now, the medical office bathed in daylight... was still deserted.

Close to the frontline defense, the welfare institute had converted and built a field hospital, taking on the task of rescuing the wounded. Though it was officially a medical office, in reality, it was a secluded area of the research base, rarely visited by anyone.

Fang You walked straight in, passed through several identity verification checkpoints, and then took an elevator to the research base hundreds of meters underground.

"Beep—"

"Director’s card~"

The alloy door slowly slid open to reveal a silver-white space filled with the ambience of science fiction, bustling with figures.

Although most of them were puppets meant for menial tasks, there were also quite a few living people here.

Tonglin, a part-time doctor wearing black-rimmed glasses, approached.

She appeared to be a doctor on the surface, but in reality, she had once been a lead researcher at an underground organization’s scientific department, focusing on the application of Mysterious Evil and disasters.

The organization she was part of aspired to use the powers of Mysterious Evil and disasters to create a manufactured myth.

Tonglin disagreed.

She believed that the human body itself was the most perfect treasure, with infinite potential waiting to be developed. People who had been integrated with the power of Mysterious Evil were merely defective products.

Later, when the organization’s base was destroyed by the official forces of the Candela Empire, Tonglin escaped from the unreliable organization with differing ideals and eventually made her way to Xiaguang City, where she applied for the cozy retirement position of a welfare institute physician—a job that allowed her to slack off.

But as she slacked off, she inadvertently returned to her old ways.

Not exactly the old ways.

What she was studying now was the secret of resolving Mysterious Evil and disasters, and she had gathered a group of minor researchers through her old channels.

"Come, let Director Fang see our research achievements."

She confidently clapped her hands.

Following her footsteps, Fang You came to one of the laboratory benches and saw a section... roughly several meters long, resembling a vastly magnified blood vessel, or like a piece of dead wood.

—Corruption Stain!

Corruption Stain was visible but elusive.

It was like an entity from a higher dimension, capable of influencing Awakeners passing through it, yet it could not be interfered with or destroyed.

However, for Fang You, who possessed the ’Spear of Pathbreaking,’ this was not a problem.

A gentle poke, and he could knock off a segment of the Corruption Stain.

Unfortunately, while it was easy to destroy a small part of Corruption Stain, it was far from enough for Fang You to eradicate the countless Corruption Stains enveloping Xiaguang City by just poking them hard with the Spear of Pathbreaking.

"Have you found a way to destroy the Corruption Stains?"

He asked.

Tonglin spoke teasingly, "We have found it, but also not quite."

She went on to explain the research direction, the setbacks and difficulties encountered throughout the process, and how extremely tight the budget and manpower were.

Director Fang’s face was covered with straight lines.

"Ahem."

Researcher Tonglin reluctantly skipped the sob story prelude and moved on to the professional part, "First of all, according to my former organization’s research, Mysterious Evil has attribute differences. These differences are mostly regional rather than individual."

"For example, with two Knocking Children, Child A’s attribute is ’flesh and blood,’ and Child B’s attribute is ’darkness.’ Child A will show a greater tendency to gnaw on flesh and blood, with stronger regenerative abilities, while Child B, spreading filth, will more easily provoke the darkness in people’s hearts... However, the difference is very slight and requires special equipment and long-term observation to identify."

There were many more technical terms that were quite abstruse.

Director Fang’s head hurt from listening, and he really wanted Tonglin to cut the crap and get to the point. But that would reveal his lack of culture.

He could only listen patiently.

"...From these Corruption Stains, we detected the attribute of ’darkness.’ I speculate that the presence and spread of Corruption Stains relate to the ’Shade of Darkness,’ symbolizing ’darkness,’ ’negativity,’ and ’death’ among the indescribable Evil Gods."

"The myth that went wrong before was influenced by Corruption Stains, leading to a vast amplification of negative emotions, and the soul becoming eroded, eventually leading to decline."

"This ’darkness’ and ’death’ are an expression of authority, elusive, but we have still managed to create an instrument capable of capturing these dark factors..."

She rattled off a bunch of technical jargon.

Director Fang picked out what he could understand and finally concluded:

The network of Corruption Stains enveloping Xiaguang City might have multiple ’nodes’ or ’sources.’ If those nodes are pierced, the sources of disaster will manifest.

And by destroying the sources of disaster, one could tear open this huge web of Corruption Stains!

... Perhaps.

Fang You: "..."

"But I used the disaster radar before and didn’t find any clues about the sources of disaster."

"It’s different. To be precise, the source of disaster does not yet exist. It will only form after the ’nodes’ are breached, and the remaining filth converges... probably."

Can you be a bit more reliable!

...

City Lord’s Mansion, the office area.

At the higher intelligence puppet instructor pushed the door and entered.

"Lord City Lord, there is news, news from above... Uh, although it’s not the reinforcements you were most hoping for, you don’t have to look so glum. Let me finish speaking."

"The latest directive from the Disaster Strategy Bureau has arrived: If we destroy the source of disaster located somewhere within the city, we can remove most of the Corruption Stains and significantly curb the spread of the remaining ones."