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

Shen Ge and Camille stood in front of the iron gate of the manor, looking at this large manor that had been eroded by time. The five-meter-high granite wall was covered with spider-web-like cracks, and vines grew out of the gaps, weaving black blood vessel-like veins on the wall.

The cast iron gate had long since rusted into a dark brown color, and the remaining family crest on the door lintel had been corroded by the white fungal acid, leaving only half of an eagle's claw. Under the eagle's claw was nailed a strange, dried-up humanoid corpse, with blackened vines entwined between its ribs.

"Captain Shen, something's wrong. This place looks like it has been abandoned for thirty or fifty years." Camille's voice trembled a little. As soon as her combat uniform and tactical gloves touched the fence wall, the seemingly withered vines suddenly squirmed. It seemed that the entire manor looked "normal" on the surface, but in fact it was no different from the several strange spaces that were swallowed by weirdness that they had visited before.

After Camille touched the glucose on the fence, the gray-brown skin cracked and fell off, revealing the fluorescent purple fleshy stems underneath. Hundreds of eyeball-shaped fruits were rotating in the densely packed suction cups on the back of the leaves.

Shen Ge's strange eyes flashed with blood. In his vision, the entire manor was shrouded in a strange black fog. Even if these things were artificially cultivated "food", it was undeniable that this place was severely eroded by strange energy. If one stayed here for a long time, he would sooner or later be affected by the strange fog and eroded.

Through the strange black mist that filled the right wall, Shen Ge saw rotten oak barrels piled up into a mountain, with tumor-like fungi growing on the barrel walls, and the spore mist sprayed out was captured by the tendrils of the grape vines;

Octopus-tentacle-like roots protrude from the cracks in the stone wine cellar, pumping some dark red liquid into the soil; and those seemingly ordinary cobblestone paths are actually bone plates compressed by countless miniature skeletons, each of which has a faded number engraved on it.

"Master, the life signal is in this direction...underground." said Xiaoqi.

Suddenly, something cold and sticky wrapped around Camille's ankle. She looked down and saw a piece of vine had penetrated the gap in her combat uniform at some point. The end of the vine split into a mouth structure, and between the two rows of barbed "teeth" was dripping a honey-like golden liquid, trying to penetrate her skin.

"Don't move!" Camille was about to draw his gun, but Shen Ge raised his hand to stop him.

Then the rotten blood tentacles drew a streak of blood and cut off the glucose, but at this time Camille screamed because Shen Ge's ankles were also entangled by the vines.

However, Shen Ge let the vines climb up his calves, because his strange eyes clearly saw the silver substance flowing in the core of the vines, and it seemed that these vines did not want to "eat" him, but instead wanted to inject something into his body.

Shen Ge did not "resist" because the red mist armor on his body could not be torn apart as easily as Camille's combat uniform.

Instead, it was Xiao Qi who deliberately opened the gap in the outer layer and allowed the vines to inject silver substance into it, but what was injected was not Shen Ge's body, but a small piece of isolated red mist armor flesh and blood.

"Master, we are analyzing the composition of the injected substance. It will take about ten minutes." After Xiao Qi isolated the piece of flesh and blood injected with the silver substance, he began to analyze the data.
At this time, Shen Ge noticed the squeaking sound of gears coming from deep in the manor. The rusty irrigation device suddenly started on its own, and the sprinklers did not spray water, but dark red liquid mixed with broken bones.

The grape vines suddenly waved their tendrils excitedly, and the eyeball fruits all turned towards the direction of the sprinkler, and the pupil-shaped pits shrank to the size of a needle tip.

"Are they being... fed?" Camille's throat tightened.

Shen Ge's blood-rotten tentacles suddenly pierced into the soil beneath his feet and pulled out a still twitching tentacle from three meters underground.

The cross section reveals a strange structure that is a fusion of metal and flesh, with gears embedded in muscle fibers and hydraulic pipes replacing blood vessels.

He crushed the tentacles, and the mechanical parts and biological tissue fragments fell from his fingers. "Someone is using industrial methods to cultivate edible weirdness. If it succeeds... this will be an unexpected discovery."

The Monster Organization has been working to turn humans into monsters and acquire strange abilities, so much so that some researchers initially discovered that many monsters could be "eaten" normally, but because of the emergence of the Monster Organization, they were all worried about whether injecting too much weird flesh and blood would turn them into monsters. As a result, almost no one is studying these things anymore, and they are all focusing on transforming weirdness into weapons and equipment.

Objectively speaking, if we can develop weirdness towards the direction of "energy", perhaps we can turn this scourge of weirdness into a resource that is beneficial to mankind.

Shen Ge withdrew his gaze and decided to follow the direction indicated by Xiao Qi to find the location of the life signal and see the situation first.

"Captain Shen, there seems to be something in that strange fog?" Camille followed Shen Ge through the grape vine racks and came to the right wall.

Red blood mist exploded on the surface of Shen Ge's red mist armor, and the red mist strange energy forcibly tore open the strange energy black fog that was covering him. Then he was seen striding towards the wine cellar, and his red mist combat boots crushed the bone plates on the road, and every step left a strong erosion of the red mist strange energy.

It can be seen that the ratings of the plant-type weirdness and the diffuse black fog of weird energy are not high, far inferior to the weird energy erosion of the red fog armor, not to mention the giant weirdness that has integrated the entire weird space with the previous ones.

But perhaps this is also the reason why there are still signs of life here. According to the strength of the previous strange spaces, unless someone has absolute strength like Shen Ge, or occupies an easily defensible point like the church where Camille and the others are, it is impossible for anyone to survive and cultivate edible weirdness.

The iron door of the wine cellar opened automatically in front of them. The strong smell of wine mixed with the smell of rotting flesh and blood made people feel like retching.

Camille followed Shen Ge, and the beam of the spooky tactical flashlight swept across the entrance of the wine cellar. The rusty iron door was half-open, and fist-sized eyeball fruits were hanging on the vines between the door. The cores were slowly turning with their footsteps.

Are there any weird plants being cultivated in the wine cellar?
"Does the stench here come from those eyeballs?" Camille subconsciously adjusted his gas mask. Even the mask couldn't block the stench, which showed how addictive it was.

"The life signal is fifteen meters underground, but the structural scan shows... wait, master, Lieutenant Hawke who is contained in the strange space has undergone a mutation, and I'm worried that it will affect the other contained objects." Xiao Qi's electronic voice was suddenly interrupted by a sharp buzzer, because while it was speaking, it released Lieutenant Hawke's containment box that was stored in the strange space.

However, cracks had already appeared on the containment device. The remains of Lieutenant Hawke's mechanical prosthesis trembled violently, and sparks flew from the circuits at the broken ends. It broke free from its restraints like a living thing, and catapulted violently to the oak barrel in the corner of the wine cellar, where it was immediately wrapped by the vines with eyes.

Camille immediately raised his gun and aimed, but Shen Ge raised his hand and pressed it down. The hydraulic tube of the mechanical prosthesis twitched wildly, and his knuckles hit the barrel.

Soon, the vine wrapped around the wine barrel again.

"It looks like... it seems like this mutated mechanical prosthesis is controlling the surrounding non-aggressive vines?" While Shen Ge was pondering, he did not forget to reinforce the containment box with blood and rot. Although it would be easier to kill Lieutenant Hawke completely, it would also mean losing a high-quality living research subject.

After reinforcing the containment device, Shen Ge stuffed it back into the strange space again and asked Xiao Qi to monitor it closely. Then he glanced at the mechanical prosthesis that had "become a spirit", wanting to see what tricks it was going to play.

"Captain Shen. There seems to be something in that bucket." Camille said.

Shen Ge raised his hand and fanned it. The rotten blood tentacles opened the wine barrel entangled by the grape vines, and thick blood plasma with a rancid smell gushed out. What was floating in the mucus was not grapes, but hundreds of human molars. The roots of each tooth were parasitized by octopus-like silver creatures. The tentacle-like data interface trembled slightly in the blood plasma, connecting to a strange "medical device".

A string of identification data flashed in the tactical eyepiece of Camille's gas mask. She said in surprise, "Hey, Captain Shen, I've seen this stuff. There is a record in the cargo register of the International Anti-Criminal Organization that a batch of medical supplies disappeared at the Port of Melbourne three years ago. The code on it is the same as the one on this instrument."

Medical supplies?

Shen Ge looked at the "medical device" and couldn't figure out what it was used for. Xiao Qi began to analyze it through scanning.

However, what made Shen Ge even more curious was why Lieutenant Hawke's mechanical prosthesis could control the grapevines, and why it became motionless as if the power was cut off after being wrapped up?

Shen Ge always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it for the moment, so he continued to scan the surroundings with his strange eyes. The strange eyes penetrated the walls and saw even more horrifying scenes.

A giant metal cavity is buried thirty meters underground, with hundreds of strange humanoid bodies that are a fusion of machinery and flesh hanging inside the cavity.

Their spines were replaced by the main stems of grape vines, and their roots penetrated into the boiling pool of blood below, and at the bottom of the pool was a huge tumor that beat like a heart.

?

"Student Xiaoqi, could the life signals you detected be those things below?" Shen Ge asked with a subtle expression.

At this time, a group of blood spiders that Xiao Qi had released as soon as he arrived at the manor happened to come to the space that Shen Ge was observing along the cellar and pipes, and saw the scene inside.

"No, master. The life signal I detected was not eroded by the strange energy, and there was no strange energy reaction. There is a 90% probability that it is a human." Xiao Qi said confidently.

When Shen Ge heard this, he immediately felt that this was a bit strange. He was not doubting Xiao Qi's judgment, but his initial guess was denied.

At first Shen Ge thought that the extent of the erosion of this manor was not serious, which was why humans could survive and cultivate edible monsters.

But if there is a tumor underground that is suspected to be a high-level weird heart, and the surrounding weird black fog and weird energy erosion are so serious, how can the people here survive?
Unless... those life signs are all "weirdos"!
But this doesn't make sense, because the life signals detected by Xiaoqi were not affected by the erosion of strange energy and did not produce strange energy reactions. It is more likely that they were humans or ordinary animals and plants.

Shen Ge decided to go down and take a look, but before that he had to deal with the mechanical prosthesis that had become a spirit to prevent any hidden dangers from occurring during the time he was away.

When Shen Ge stretched out his blood-stained tentacles and tried to cut off the connection between the mechanical prosthesis and the vines, the vines wrapped around the mechanical prosthesis actually rose up in resistance.

But their strength was obviously far inferior to that of the corrupt blood tentacles, and they were easily cut into pieces by Shen Ge.

When the blood-corrupted tentacles wrapped around the mechanical prosthesis, the opponent was still shaking and struggling, and the force was even as strong as the impact of the stun bomb.

It's a pity that all this is in vain in front of the corrupt blood tentacles. Then Shen Ge used the corrupt blood tentacles to roll up Camille, unfolded the invisible strange domain, and cast "collapse" to move towards the underground space.

When Camille was entangled by the blood-corrupted tentacles, he subconsciously thought that there was some danger, because every time there was danger, this "first pair of weird detectives in the Great Celestial Empire" would always use such magical means to save them from danger.

Shen Ge has saved Camille at least three or five times, which is the fundamental reason why she still maintains unconditional trust in Shen Ge even when facing Lieutenant Hawke.

But trust was trust, but Shen Ge's sudden move still frightened Camille and she screamed.

However, when Shen Ge went to the next floor, he heard a cold, mechanical, artificial intelligence voice echoing in the space: "Welcome to the grafting workshop."

Grafting workshop?

Shen Ge looked around. In addition to the huge cardiac tumor in the center, many tentacles extended from the surrounding flesh walls and connected to the tumors growing around them.

This picture is very similar to the one when Karina was parasitized, and the tumors and strange humanoid images were provided by him.

"Master, we have tracked down life signals in those tumors, but these life signals are infected by the erosion of strange energy." Xiao Qi reminded.

Can the evil be corroded and infected?
Shen Ge guessed that there should be quite a few "humans" or other life forms in the sarcoma, and then situations like Kalina would occur, and they would be used to cultivate these humanoid monsters.

Shen Ge opened his strange eyes and looked at the cardiac tumor in the center, and found that there was something like a silver substance flowing inside it. Upon closer inspection, he found that many blood vessels were connected to the flesh wall, and then extended along the walls and ceiling to the top.

Could it be that... this is what's so weird about those vines?
"Master, the testing of the silver substance has been completed, and the data is highly similar to the strange energy inhibitor developed by Professor Martin!" Xiao Qi reminded.

The new type of weird energy inhibitor studied by Professor Martin?

Shen Ge frowned, unable to figure out what the connection was between this and Professor Martin, because according to his feeling, Professor Martin was unlikely to be a member of the Weird Organization!

But there is a very critical situation. When the giant tree of flesh and blood devoured the base, only Professor Martin was severely eroded by the strange energy. Is there any connection between the two?

Shen Ge simply stopped thinking about it. Now he had two choices. One was to continue looking for survivors, and the other was to destroy the cardiac tumor to see if he could destroy this strange space! (End of this chapter)