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Chapter 462 - 428 Pure Water

Chapter 462: Chapter 428 Pure Water

The terrain at the edge of the lake was fragmented, with a continuous stream of corrupt corpses crawling out from the near-black green lake water.

These bodies were severely decayed and darkened, some had lost all flesh, leaving only tall or short skeletons.

Interestingly, the skull, thoracic bone, clavicle, scapula, and other bones of all the corpses showed a positive correlation in their length, width, height, angle, and thickness with height.

Furthermore, the bones of the corrupt corpses of different heights grew in equal proportion.

In other words, all the corpses were actually different growth stages of one person. The final form was a young female, with a death age around 16-17 years old, having suffered multiple injuries during growth.

Li Cheng went over the player profiles in his mind, confident that there was no match in the players who entered the Secret Realm in the second and third batches...

While pondering, he rushed to the lake shore.

A multitude of corrupt corpses noticed him and surged forward.

Step.

Li Cheng leaped high, drawing out a domestically-made underwater drone from the Three-dimensional Warehouse with his right hand,

removed the Information Integration Glasses with his right hand, and installed them on the drone’s camera using Assembly Puppet.

’What’s he up to?’

Standing on the roof of a heavy-duty truck performing the spinning top, Red Spider felt puzzled,

but his body instinctively, faster than his brain, rotated swiftly, unleashing a dense chain of bullets to annihilate hordes of corrupt corpses and cover his teammates.

Click.

Hovering in the air relying on the Floating Engine, Li Cheng inserted the waterproof data cable connected to the underwater drone into his nape, and then threw the drone into the black lake water as if casting a Meteor Hammer.

The lake water was murky and cold, with the drone’s propeller fully activated, heading toward the lake bottom while automatically turning on the searchlights.

Under the effect of Assembly Puppet, the data cable turned into an optic nerve, and the camera donned with Information Integration Glasses extended as his eyes.

Li Cheng clearly saw that the entire nameless lake was about 30 meters deep, and at the center of the flat lake bottom, there lay... a metal butterfly hairpin.

The hairpin itself was rusty and could not be considered very delicate, surrounded by a circle of black air, continuously generating corrupt corpses.

Found it.

The underwater drone’s mechanical arm precisely gripped the hairpin, Li Cheng pulled the waterproof cable forcefully, reeling in the drone along with the hairpin from the water as if reeling in fishing.

Instantly, all the corrupt corpses attacking Red Spider and others, along with those just crawling out of the lake water, turned to ash and dispersed.

Huh?

Li Cheng was ready to use the Degrading Gun beneath him to shoot the hairpin to cause its degeneration. Yet, surprisingly, the mass elimination of corrupt corpses was so straightforward.

"All of you, stand back."

In zero-gravity floatation, he threw out the Bat Hook to return to the shore and commanded the drone through his nape’s cable to release the mechanical arm and drop the butterfly hairpin to the ground.

"Uh..." Blood Lion Roar poked his head out of the driver’s seat and hesitantly asked, "Is that thing...?"

"The source of all corrupt corpses,"

Binary Tree, wearing VR glasses that had similar analytical capabilities to Information Integration Glasses, looked clearer, "Accurately speaking, the hairpin combined with the lake water can generate corrupt corpses."

"Ugh!"

At this time, Red Spider closed all his skills, exited the Eight-armed Asura form, immediately covered his mouth to prevent vomiting, and then sprayed medicine into his nose to reduce dizziness—

He had just forcibly increased his neural response speed, slowed down his perception of time, and now returning to normal made everything seem to whirl, accelerating everything twice as much, seeing double images.

Perhaps this is the price to pay for cheating—since becoming a firearm-specialized player, he rarely played his favorite FPS games, hitting nothing but headshots, every match caused his opponents and even teammates to report him.

Once he somewhat recovered, he heard Li Cheng explaining, "...more accurately, the spider hairpin generates the corrupt corpses of the same person."

Li Cheng disclosed the information he gathered, making the other four more baffled,

Blood Lion Roar frowned and said, "Wait, isn’t this hairpin a killing field item?"

"It really is not."

Li Cheng said, "It’s not even similar to the items produced by the Secret Realm on the surface."

The knives and poisons produced by the surface buildings were described by the killing field system, but this butterfly hairpin, though capable of generating corrupt corpses, was not recognized by the killing field system. Truly very strange.

"Without a system description, it proves it isn’t Card Emperor’s leftover, possibly originating from the Inverted Pyramid Secret Realm itself..."

Binary Tree was contemplating and analyzing, suddenly saw Li Cheng turn back to the lake shore, scooping a bucket of black green lake water, and preparing to throw the hairpin into the bucket.

"Wait a minute, what are you doing?"

Binary Tree was startled, hurriedly extended his hand to stop him. Are you kidding, those corrupt corpses are high attack and low defense, their numbers comparable to the million cockroaches hidden in the garbage mountain, continuing to fight would tire and wear out players.

"Just conducting a test, don’t worry, I am confident."

Li Cheng had the Degrading Gun, if it didn’t work he could shoot the hairpin twice, casually persuaded with a few words, and used pliers to grip the hairpin, dropping it into the bucket.

Upon contact with lake water, the hairpin began emitting black air, causing a corrupt corpse to crawl out from the bucket.

Due to the small bucket diameter, the corpse was stuck, Li Cheng pulled out the Steel Banner Spear, swiftly chopped off its head, thoughtfully rubbed his chin with his left hand, "Away from the lake, simply using lake water can generate corrupt corpses, what if without lake water..."

He chopped the bodies emerging from the bucket like slicing spring onions, dumped out the lake water, ceasing the generation of corpses.

"Come and lend a hand."

Li Cheng took out a folding inflatable pool from the warehouse, letting the others help inflate it, while he fetched a full shelf of paper boxes filled with 1.5L x 12 bottles of Wahaha purified water,

and sliced off the bottle caps with the flag spear, pouring the purified water into the pool.

"????"

Red Spider couldn’t help but ask, "You’re not from the United States, why hoard so much purified water?"

Players with a bit of money, when purchasing portable ingredients in the slum, also casually buy some low-grade Spell scrolls like "Water Creation Technique", which serves as a water source in Script Tasks, affordable, cheap, and spatially economical.

"Doing experiments." Li Cheng said confidently, "Wahaha purified water’s conductivity ≤5μS/cm, is more convenient and cheaper than messing with pure water equipment. Very useful in electrochemistry, organic chemistry, bio-sciences."

Binary Tree’s eyes shimmered upon hearing this, using Wahaha for laboratory water is quite popular in domestic institutions,

even the Evil Science Alliance in the killing field specifies Wahaha as the sole water to dilute blood during Demon Summoning ceremonies.

It’s just that Wahaha has had perplexing business strategies these years, outsourcing water production to Jinmailang, hurting its brand, and since the Evil Science Alliance became wealthy, switched dedicated water from Wahaha to Watson’s (Watson’s distilled water’s conductivity is even lower).

’Speaking of which, there’s always been a forum rumor, saying the Star-casting Anvil has a strategic partnership with the Evil Science Alliance, Pifu seems to be the legitimate child of the Side of Truth, or vice versa. I wonder if there’s any truth to this...’

The thought flickered through Binary Tree’s electronic brain,

as Li Cheng poured all the purified water into the inflatable pool, dropping the butterfly hairpin inside.

Strange to say, this time, there was no black air surrounding the hairpin, nor did it generate any corrupt corpses.

Could it be...

Li Cheng’s eyes brightened, mimicking Card Emperor’s tone, and pinched his throat, saying, "Ajuglandaceae..."

The next second, a sudden mutation occurred, the purified water in the inflatable pool rapidly turned black, and a plethora of corrupt corpses once again emerged.