The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 136 - 106 Shy Immortal Cactus

Chapter 136: Chapter 106 Shy Immortal Cactus

The parking lot.

Chen Guangxi walked toward a blue sports car.

"You changed your car?" Zhou Yuan remembered her ride was originally a branded red supercar.

"Xiaomi’s new car. Bought it for fun." Chen Guangxi quite liked it. For her, high appearance value was the ultimate rule.

—— Cool equals strong, cool equals good, cool equals top attack!

After getting in the car, Zhou Yuan took out his notebook, connected to the local Control Bureau system, and received the mission details.

He raised an eyebrow, "It’s a level 2 abnormal event."

Chen Guangxi leaned in to look at the navigation map, "Let me see, oh... Eight kilometers, not far, but there’s traffic. It’ll probably take two hours."

"No big deal, the scene is already under control. The anomaly doesn’t have offensive capabilities. Being a bit late won’t matter." Zhou Yuan said.

"Tell me the mission details." Chen Guangxi stepped on the gas, and the car sped off.

"This incident is named [Shy Cactus]."

Zhou Yuan read from the document content,

"Three hours ago, a citizen called the police, stating that his friend had been missing for over five days. Knocking on the door and making phone calls got no response, so he contacted the police. Medical staff and a locksmith went to the door.

After the locksmith opened the door, the group entered the house and smelled a distinct odor of decomposing flesh.

Then a police officer pushed open the bedroom door and saw a broken computer chair overturned. On the ground lay a mass of bloody flesh with numerous needle-like wounds, and similar needle-like damage marks were everywhere in the room.

The walls, floor, ceiling, bookshelf, bed board, computer... Everything was full of dense, varying-sized holes and pits.

Then, the cactus placed on the computer desk suddenly fired a large number of dense spikes in all directions. Due to the limited space at the door, only the three people standing outside the door were injured. The police officer who opened the door was the most seriously injured, with over a thousand cactus spikes embedded in his body.

Ten minutes after the incident occurred, all cactus spikes vanished into thin air.

Fifteen minutes after the incident, the Control Bureau intervened in the investigation. An investigator took primary treatment potions to the hospital to treat the three injured people and performed A-Level memory erasure on all personnel.

Twenty-eight minutes after the incident, the investigator arrived at the scene and conducted preliminary probing of the abnormal item."

"After some experiments, the investigator obtained the following important information,

[Shy Cactus] does not have active offensive capabilities. However, as long as someone appears in front of it or looks at it in some way, it will shoot a large number of spikes in all directions. The attack stops only when it completely loses visibility."

Invisibility Technique, dark environments, cameras, and robots cannot avoid triggering [Shy Cactus].

The cactus spikes are uniformly 8 centimeters long, contain traces of toxins, and can paralyze the body. The spikes have barbs at the tips, causing secondary damage if forcibly removed.

The spikes disappear approximately ten minutes after being fired.

The spikes fly at extremely high speeds, challenging the reaction time of a second-tier extraordinary person investigator.

The damage caused by the spikes is in a peculiar state of constancy — the investigator tested this by placing wooden boards, steel boards, and pork in front of him to withstand the attacks, and each spike penetrated precisely 1 centimeter deep.

All tests on [Shy Cactus] have currently been suspended."

After reading the document, Zhou Yuan scratched his chin, "From the current file, this cactus is indeed difficult to contain. No wonder Mr. Wei asked us to come over."

But more accurately, he should have asked Chen Guangxi to come.

[Shy Cactus]’s anomalous mechanism was very special. Successfully containing it would likely require great manpower and resources. But if Chen Guangxi, a tier-five, came over, it might be easily contained.

If worse came to worst, Chen Guangxi could call Jiang Wuming. With him, the infinitely revivable guinea pig, containment costs could be dramatically lowered.

Fifty boxes of dark stones, free labor, Wei Jianqiu really won big this time, coming out to mediate and gaining substantial rewards.

Zhou Yuan didn’t find it problematic. After all, the other side did bail him out, or who knew how big a mess this would have been.

The thought made his teeth grind in anger.

Zhen Wuliang, huh. Don’t let me see you in Xinyue; if I see you, your headgear is coming off!

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After a long traffic jam, Zhou Yuan and Chen Guangxi finally arrived at the scene.

Two investigators were sitting in the living room eating cup noodles.

One had to admit, investigators’ psychological resilience was off the charts; despite the strong smell of corpses, they could still eat.

What impressed Zhou Yuan more was that these two were eating pickled mustard beef noodles.

These guys really didn’t fear cigarette butts, thick phlegm, or smelly feet, did they?

"Hey, are you... the True Dragon of the East Continent?" A short-haired man with glasses recognized Chen Guangxi.

Next to him, Zhou Yuan couldn’t hold back and laughed out loud, "Why do you even have this nickname? Why not the True Dragon of Fuzhou?"

Chen Guangxi’s mouth twitched, trying to suppress her embarrassment, "I was young and foolish back then."

"Miss Chen, I’m your fan. Can I take a picture with you?" Another ordinary-looking young investigator squeezed out an eager smile.

"Three hundred thousand per photo." Chen Guangxi raised three fingers, "This is a standard rate, no exceptions."

Without some threshold, she would be pestered for photos everywhere she went. It was exhausting.