The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

Chapter 237 Weird Trait "Hunger"

"grass."

"This is such a joke!"

Shen Ge quickly put the bug back into the bottle, fearing that if he looked at it a few more times he would swallow it in one gulp, and then he would be out of control and go down the path of becoming a weirdo.

"System, scan me." Shen Ge originally wanted to see if the system's scan could find some different clues, but he didn't expect the degree of alienation to be much more serious than he had imagined!

【Song】

Rating: Level 4

100% integration with the system
"System (Level 4)": Artificial Weirdness Sequence 1, Features: Devouring - After killing the Weirdness, the corpse of the Weirdness can be swallowed.

System integrity: 49% (each 10% is a stage. After advancing to a new stage, the system will enter a short dormancy "upgrade")
Features: "Devouring"

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The system completeness has reached "49%", which means that it is about to enter the 5th level of alienation. In the past, Shen Ge would naturally be very happy.

But it’s different now. First of all, the system, as the original strange cell, has reached 100% fusion with Shen Ge. System upgrade also means that Shen Ge has become alienated.

When Shen Ge completed the first three alienations, the feeling of body changes was not as obvious as it is now. But now, he is about to complete the 5th level of alienation and he has a strange "hunger feeling". Doesn't this mean that as the number of alienations increases, the strange characteristics will become more and more obvious, and he will become less and less like a human.

The most important thing is, based on the high-level monsters seen in the "future" of Sakura Island, it can be found that the higher the level of the monster, the lower the success rate of alienation.

To be precise, the possibility of maintaining humanity and consciousness after alienation is lower.

The higher the level of the monster, the closer it is to weirdness. At least for now, except for those "fake high-level monsters" in the monster organization who are "nominally" level four or five, whose actual combat power is far inferior to the weird level four or five, Shen Ge has never seen a "normal" monster above level five.

This time, the "hunger" that appeared when facing the 5th-level alienation also verified his guess, and the strange characteristics became more and more obvious.

In addition to the changes in system completeness, Shen Ge's attributes have also been greatly improved.

[Basic attributes:]

Strength: 257% (host base value)
Agility: 234% (host base value)
Constitution: 225% (host's basic value)
Energy intensity: 487% (host’s base value) + 4392% (system attribute increase)
After the increase of your weirdness through the system attributes, the comprehensive value reaches 4879%, which is 4% higher than the ordinary fourth-level weirdness comprehensive value;

When the strength of the paranormal energy reaches 5000%, it will undergo a 5th level of transformation.

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First of all, Shen Ge's three basic attributes of strength, agility, and physique have made great progress compared to before. The improvement is about 0.5 times that of a normal person, and is getting closer and closer to the limit of three times that of a normal human.

The second is the strength of the weird power, which has increased the most. After Shen Ge completed the 4th level transformation, his basic weird power was only 243%, but now it has doubled.

Compared with Shen Ge's improvement, the system's weird power strength has doubled. However, Shen Ge clearly remembered that he had not swallowed any "weird characteristics" or high-level weirdness in recent months.

To be precise, before coming to Dajing, the system's growth rate was only over 3000%, and had not exceeded 4000%. In just a few days...

The only possibility is that the problem lies in the dream world.

Although Shen Ge does not seem to have the ability to awaken the system in the dream world, in fact, "materialization" and "hypnosis" come from the system.

The difference is that in the dream world, the system's original pitiful communication ability has disappeared, and instead, Shen Ge has completely merged with the system, completely controlling the power of the ancestor's strange cells!
And from the fact that items in the dream world can be brought back to the real world, it can be seen that everything Shen Ge comes into contact with in the dream world is "real", even if they come from different "endings".

During this journey to the dream world, Shen Ge maintained a clear consciousness and actively cooperated with Dr. Chen and others, successfully allowing the experiment to enter the third stage. This may be the reason why the system's integrity has been rapidly improved!

"Gulu."

"Gulu."

The growl of his hungry stomach brought Shen Ge back to reality from his thoughts again. He sighed helplessly. Whether he accepted it or not, the "alienation" and "weird characteristics" were already facts before him, and all he had to do was find a way to solve them.

The solution is simple: find a place to eat some delicious food and reawaken your pursuit of food as a human being.

So, when Fang Mingyue received a call from Shen Ge asking him for any delicious recommendations in Dajing, and sat down at a restaurant on the pedestrian street, watching Shen Ge across the table holding the menu and ordering a lot of dishes just like he was reading out the names of dishes, she was still confused.

"Okay, that's all for now." Shen Ge closed the menu and handed it to the waiter beside him.

The waiter glanced at the tablet computer in his hand for ordering, and asked hesitantly, "Sir, are you guys here for a team building? Do you want to change to a more spacious seat? Although the environment here by the window is good, it can only seat four people at most. If there are more people, it may be a bit crowded."

In fact, what the waiter was really worried about was whether the table could accommodate the things Shen Ge ordered, but since he was a "big customer" after all, he chose a more tactful approach.

"No, thank you." Shen Ge refused with a smile.

It is obviously the guests' freedom to sit wherever they want, and the waiter didn't say much. He just said "wait a moment" and went down to arrange it.

"Uh." Fang Mingyue hesitated and asked, "Detective Shen, are there any other people coming later?"

Shen Ge took out his phone and called Cheng Shengnan back, saying, "No, it's just the two of us. I don't know many people in Dajing."

"But if I remember correctly... you ordered food for almost ten people?" Fang Mingyue said with a strange look on her face.

"It's okay. It's a rare opportunity to come to Dajing, so of course I have to try all the signature dishes." Shen Ge said.

Fang Mingyue asked tentatively: "Wouldn't that be too wasteful?"

"It's okay, you can still pack it up."

Shen Ge wanted to take the initiative to "treat", and Fang Mingyue didn't say much. But after a few signature dishes were served, she realized that she had been worrying for nothing.

Roast duck, steamed fish, meatballs... Fang Mingyue only took one bite of each dish with her chopsticks, and Shen Ge started to clear the plates, and in the blink of an eye, only empty plates were left.

You might say he was "eating without thinking", but Shen Ge's movements were normal, picking up food, chewing, and swallowing, neither too fast nor too slow, and he was able to keep up with the speed of the food being served. The waiter in charge of their table also found that he thought Shen Ge ordered so many dishes for team building, but when the new dishes were served, the plates on the table were empty.

Did you pack this yourself?
The waiter asked Fang Mingyue cautiously, "Madam, are you filming... a big stomach video? The kind where you eat and induce vomiting at the same time? But the dishes you ordered are mainly southern cuisine, with strong flavors, and they are all meat. This is very harmful to the stomach, so you must pay attention to your health."

Fang Mingyue was stunned. Well, Shen Ge’s horrible appetite made others mistakenly think that he was filming a big eater video. He had to induce vomiting afterwards!

"Uh, you misunderstood. My friend... just eats a lot." Fang Mingyue smiled.

The waiter's eyes twitched. Is this what you call "a big eater"? In just a short while, he ate about six or seven times the amount of a normal person, right?
The waiter was really worried that Shen Ge would have problems with his food and that he would lose his job over this meal.

Shen Ge looked at the table full of delicious food and ate it with relish. He passed through the table like a tornado, and after a while, only empty plates were left.

"Why don't you eat it? I think it tastes pretty good." Shen Ge looked at Fang Mingyue who was staring at him in a daze and asked with some confusion.

Fang Mingyue said: "Actually, I've almost finished eating. Um... Tan Shen, has something happened to you, or..."

Fang Mingyue didn't know how to ask the question properly. Although Shen Ge was an "all-powerful" person in her eyes, this did not include eating the amount for eight people in one go.

In fact, Shen Ge is even more conflicted than Fang Mingyue. On the surface, he does eat a lot, but in fact, the "hunger feeling" in his stomach has not decreased much.

This situation is obviously not normal. He is still a "normal person" now, regardless of whether the emergence of strange characteristics has really turned him into a person who can only fill his stomach by absorbing strange energy.

The point is that his "stomach" is only that big. Normally, even the portion for three people, let alone eight people, would make his stomach ache.

But the strange thing is that even though he has eaten enough food for eight people so far, his stomach still feels empty, only one point full at most.

In other words, before coming to eat, he seemed to have been hungry for ten days or half a month, and now after eating eight people's worth of food, he seemed to have been hungry for seven or eight days.

I still feel "hungry", but not as obvious as at the beginning.

At this time, the waiter brought another dish, which was also the restaurant's signature dish, a steak with a secret flavor.

After the waiter put down the steak and took the empty plate away, Shen Ge picked up the knife and fork and was about to try it, but he heard a light "beep" sound from Fang Mingyue, and then Fang Mingyue called him nervously: "Detective Shen, please wait a moment!"

After saying that, Fang Mingyue took out a pair of "glasses" that looked like a Dragon Ball combat power detector and put them on, then glanced at the plate of steak.

"Di."

"Evil power strength 3."

A prompt similar to the AI ​​synthesized voice of Xiao Qi came from the glasses. Fang Mingyue's face changed when she heard it, and she whispered: "Detective Shen, this is... strange meat."

After Shen Ge was promoted to level 4, the system's "weird eyes" had become a permanent ability, which was equivalent to his eyes fusing with the ancestor's weird cells, thus improving his original ability to see weak weird energy.

Shen Ge could naturally tell at a glance the strength of the strange energy that Fang Mingyue's "outdated strange energy detector" could detect.

The reason why he did not say anything and prepared to try the taste like ordinary food was mainly due to two reasons: first, the anti-weird departments of various countries in the world had long confirmed that some weird meat with low weird energy content could be eaten as ordinary ingredients, and some countries with insufficient meat supply, such as South Korea, have begun to try to put first-level weird meat into the market, and they stipulated that the weird energy intensity should not exceed 10.

The strange energy strength of the steak in front of him was only 3, which was obviously within the "very safe" range, and there was no problem for ordinary people to eat it.

Secondly, Shen Ge ate the portion for eight people, but there was no effect at all. Eating this "reasonable" weird meat is obviously more reliable than eating the bugs in his pocket as an "experiment".

Fang Mingyue obviously didn't notice that Shen Ge wasn't surprised, and continued in a low voice, "I heard that some countries have begun trying to put low-level weird meat into their daily supply. Since our country doesn't lack meat, we don't have such plans yet. It's still illegal to sell weird meat openly."

"The strength of the strange energy is 3, which means that this cow has shown signs of mutation, and even its body has changed. Knowing that it is a 'sick cow', this store not only did not report the supply problem, but also secretly treated it as food. There is obviously something wrong."

Shen Ge cut a piece of beef and put it in his mouth. While chewing, he asked, "What are you going to do? Send someone to close the store, or conduct a secret investigation first?"

"I was going to find a reason to go to the kitchen...Ah? Tan Shen, why did you eat?" Fang Mingyue was thinking of an excuse, but she was stunned when she saw that Shen Ge's plate was almost empty.

Shen Ge wiped his mouth with a napkin and said calmly, "Since all the ghost research organizations in various countries have said that ghost energy strength below 10 will not cause any impact on the human body, then there is no big problem. Besides, I have already spent the money, it would be a pity to just throw it away. Tsk tsk, don't tell me, it tastes no different from normal beef."

"..." Fang Mingyue didn't know how to respond for a moment.

However, Shen Ge looked relaxed, because although the steak's strange energy strength was only 3, he ate a whole plate of it, and the "hunger" in his stomach was more effective than the previous eight-person portion.

It turns out that what affects his "hunger" now is no longer the "quantity" of ordinary food, but the concentration of strange energy contained in the food.

If the situation continues to develop in this way, Shen Ge feels that he might be the one who "promotes low-level weird meat into the market."

"Then, should we continue investigating?" Fang Mingyue asked.

Shen Ge said: "Investigate, of course. At least we need to confirm the source of the goods of this store, and whether the supply is secretly done by a private person or someone is supporting it behind the scenes."

Fang Mingyue nodded when she heard this, waved for the waiter to come over, and then asked: "The steak here tastes pretty good. Which ranch raises the meat, or is it imported?"

"Ah?" The waiter was stunned. Since he became a waiter, he has seen people praising the food in the store and asking about the cooking methods, as well as asking if there are any seasoning packets for sale, but he has never met anyone who directly asked about the "source of the goods."

Fang Mingyue didn't plan to waste time talking to the waiter. She took out her ID and put it on the table and said, "Call the person in charge here."

Needless to say, the Special Policy Department's current status in the country is just like a street stall that should be managed by the Urban Management Bureau, but a special forces unit comes. Wouldn't that scare the small vendors to death?

The waiter didn't dare to talk nonsense, and quickly ran to find the store manager. The store manager took a look at the documents on the table, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and asked carefully: "Officer, is there something wrong with our dishes?"

Fang Mingyue took the plate of steak in front of her and placed it in front of the store manager, and asked, "Where did you get this beef from?"

The store manager took a look and quickly replied, "Officer, this signature steak uses the finest 'Australian beef', imported from the largest cattle farm in Australia... and has gone through multiple levels of inspection. Oh, and the certificate of conformity. Go get the inspection report and certificate of conformity for this batch of goods."

Fang Mingyue stood up and said, "No need, take us to the warehouse to have a look."

(End of this chapter)