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

But the shifty-eyed man took a step back, creating distance between them.

The man looked at the seemingly nervous man who was alone, and said in a hoarse voice, as if two pieces of sandpaper were rubbing together: "If you are 'Ouroboros,' then you should know about our agreement."

The "Ouroboros" rubbed his hands together, revealing an expression that was both greedy and fearful, demonstrating the ultimate self-discipline of an actor: "But this is based on the premise that I see money."

The gray-clad man's gaze slowly swept over the "Ouroboros".

Suddenly, a chilling and eerie energy wave carrying a strong psychological suggestion, like an invisible tentacle, instantly enveloped "Ouroboros," attempting to directly invade his brain and probe his thoughts.

Ouroboros's body stiffened abruptly, and cold sweat instantly beaded on his forehead. He was just an ordinary person, completely unable to resist this bizarre and supernatural attack.

Just as his mental defenses were about to be breached, Shen Ge, hidden on the top of the warehouse, curled up a cold smile.

He didn't even move; with a thought, a tiny, almost negligible trace of eerie energy erosion instantly cut into the eerie energy fluctuation, completely disrupting and neutralizing it.

In the gray-clad man's view, he felt as if his strange energy had hit a ball of cotton when it came into contact with the other's brain, slippery and unable to exert any force, and ultimately returned empty-handed.

The "information broker" in front of him only swayed slightly and turned a little pale, seemingly having a strong will and withstanding his mental pressure.

"It seems you're not just a simple 'messenger'." The gray-clad man withdrew his supernatural powers, a hint of interest appearing in his eyes.

"Heh... When you're out there trying to make a living, you have to have some survival skills." "Ouroboros" wiped away his cold sweat and said with lingering fear.

Having passed the first test, the gray-clad man finally turned his attention to the sealed container in the "Ouroboros's" hand: "Money."

As soon as he finished speaking, two men beside him brought up two heavy boxes, filled with gold.

"Now... can I inspect the goods?" the man in gray asked.

The Ouroboros carefully opened the container.

A tube of pale golden liquid, emanating a faint, eerie energy fluctuation, lay quietly inside. This was indeed the first-generation sample specially made by Li Xiang, containing a slight "suppression" property.

A barely suppressed greed flashed in the gray-clad man's eyes. He slowly approached, took out a special instrument about the size of an eyeglass lens, and prepared to analyze the sample.

However, just as he approached the sample, less than half a meter away, something unexpected happened!
The strange energy fluctuations emanating from his body suddenly became violently chaotic and completely out of control. A powerful strange energy belonging to the "Wriggling Nest" eroded him, producing an extremely strong "rejection reaction" against his own cold and "polluted" characteristics!
"Ugh—!"

He let out a painful roar as part of his body began to melt and twist uncontrollably.

Beneath the gray trench coat, his arms quickly turned like melting wax, with countless black veins emerging from under his skin, revealing the grotesque features of a "polluter".

With his identity unexpectedly exposed, the gray-clad man's eyes were instantly filled with rage and murderous intent.

He stopped pretending and let out a piercing, inhuman scream that could shatter eardrums; the sound contained intense mental pollution!
"Kill him! Take the stuff!"

The leader of the freakish squad behind him, a burly man with a scar on his face, grinned maliciously and was the first to respond. He suddenly exerted force with his feet, his whole body like a cannonball, his fist, as big as a casserole dish, aimed straight for the "Ouroboros's" head!

Their original plan was to "double-cross" each other!
However, just as his sinister grin was frozen on his face, a calm voice rang out clearly in the empty warehouse—

"Do it."

Just as the scarred-faced leader's fist was about to strike the "Ouroboros" head, a black figure silently appeared behind him.

It's Shen Ge.

He didn't even glance at the powerful fist; he simply extended his right hand and gently placed it on the back of Scarface's neck.

Scarface's terrifying attack, capable of piercing steel plates, came to an abrupt halt. His muscles stiffened instantly, and the savage grin on his face froze into an expression of utter terror.

An indescribable and irresistible terrifying energy instantly invaded every cell of Shen Ge's body through his palm.

"Click..."

With a crisp cracking sound, the battle-hardened monster leader didn't even have time to utter a scream before collapsing to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut, his bones shattered in an instant.

Meanwhile, the anti-terrorist agents who had been waiting impatiently outside the warehouse finally got their chance and swarmed in.

"Boom——!"

The warehouse's thick iron walls, as if made of paper, were smashed open by Yu Tiexiong's burly body, leaving a huge hole.

Braving a dense barrage of bizarre energy projectiles, he smashed the unsuspecting monster soldiers into twisted, humanoid blocks of metal with a single punch.

On the other side, Yoona's figure flashed between the containers several times. Each time she appeared, it was accompanied by the soft sound of blood-stained claws slicing through the air and the fall of an enemy.

fighting?

No, this was a one-sided, overwhelming "cleansing".

Inside the warehouse, the gray-clad man whose identity had been exposed due to the "rejection reaction" saw the situation instantly reverse, and a ruthless glint flashed in his eyes.

He let out a shriek, and the bizarre characteristics of the "polluter" on his body erupted completely, sending a twisted mental shockwave spreading in all directions!

However, this attack, which was enough to cause an ordinary person to have an instant mental breakdown, was shattered like waves hitting a reef when it hit Shen Ge's invisible barrier of "Not Leaving the Ghost Domain".

The next second, several blood-red tentacles, gleaming with a cold light, suddenly shot out from the shadows on the ground, binding him tightly like a dumpling.

The entire process, from start to finish, takes no more than one minute.

The arrogant and eccentric squad and the mysterious "polluters" were swiftly and decisively wiped out.

……

An hour later, near the port, in a secret safe house temporarily requisitioned by the Special Operations Department.

Two separate trials are being conducted simultaneously.

In an interrogation room, Yu Tiexiong tossed the polluter's henchman onto a metal chair like a chick. The intense pain made even losing consciousness a luxury.

In another room, Shen Ge stood alone in front of the gray-clad man who was tightly bound by the tentacles of rotting blood.

"I'm not curious who you are," Shen Ge said calmly, looking at the other person's face contorted with pain and anger.

"I just want to know why you want the 'dead strain' technology."

"Don't even think about... getting anything from me..." The gray-clad man spat out the words through gritted teeth, his eyes flashing with fanaticism, as he attempted to detonate the core of the strange energy within his body to self-destruct.

“In front of me, you need my permission to die.” Shen Ge shook his head, extended his right hand, and gently touched the gray-clothed man’s brow with his index finger.

Although he couldn't achieve the level of "The Corruptor" by directly controlling people through supernatural powers, he could still cause the gray-clad man to suffer a mental breakdown.

Soon, the man in gray suffered a mental breakdown and began to incoherently recount some of the information he knew.

A terrifying giant tree, composed of countless distorted human faces and plant vines, rooted in a huge laboratory culture tank and constantly emitting mental pollution.

The "dead strain" appears to be used to suppress the "strange tree's" overly violent and uncontrolled strange energy reactions during its growth.

“It’s…it’s an order from the ‘Central Laboratory’…they need the ‘Dead Strains’…they need its ‘silent’ properties…”

"In order to... in order to neutralize! In order to neutralize... something... the properties of that thing..."

“I…I don’t know what it’s called…I only saw it from afar during a top-level video conference…It was in a…a vast, green jungle…a base hidden behind a giant waterfall…Deepest in the base, there was a huge pool, and in it…in it was a skeleton…a skeleton so huge it was unimaginable…a bizarre skeleton…”

"The 'Chief' said... to 'resurrect' that skeleton... to create... a true 'ancestor' that belongs to us!"

"But the power of that skeleton is too terrifying; any injected life energy will be instantly 'decomposed'!"

"We need the power of 'death' to... to balance that 'decomposition'!"

Ultimately, the polluter's head exploded due to a mental breakdown and the terrifying corrosive power that ravaged its body.

But he didn't die after his head exploded. Instead, the strange cells in his body began to writhe wildly and devour his body.

Two days later, the senior sergeant who had been kidnapped was found by Shen Ge's team and, after undergoing a rigorous physical and mental evaluation, was secretly sent back to China.

Although he was quite frightened, he was fortunate not to have been corrupted by the "polluter's" mental powers.

The captured monsters and the polluter whose head had exploded and was still "regenerating" were secretly transported back to the Quanlong Mountain base in Rong City. What awaited them was Li Xiang and Jiang Peiwen's research, which was full of "inquiry."

As for the dark web forum, a new message appeared the day after the operation ended.

An ID named "Ouroboros" posted a message accusing "buyers of lacking sportsmanship and double-crossing each other at the transaction site," and attached a blurry photo of a warehouse littered with corpses after the transaction was altered.

This news instantly caused a huge uproar in the gray area of ​​the dark web, temporarily dispelling the ideas of other potential buyers.

No one knows who the real winner is behind this so-called "double-crossing".

……

Rong City, the highest-level conference room of the Special Affairs Department.

Shen Ge projected a report that integrated all the interrogation intelligence onto the huge screen.

Deng Yuqi sat in the main seat, while General Zhao Xinhong's image appeared on the other end of the conference table via encrypted holographic communication.

When keywords such as "Amazon rainforest," "giant and bizarre skeleton," and "creator of artificial progenitors" appeared one by one in the report, the air in the entire conference room seemed to freeze.

"Madmen! A bunch of complete madmen!"

Even a veteran like Zhao Xinhong, who had seen countless corpses and seas of blood, couldn't help but slam his fist on the table after hearing the monster organization's insane plan: "Do they even know what they're doing? Resurrecting a progenitor-level monster? Do they think the world isn't chaotic enough already?"

Deng Yuqi's expression was equally grave: "This plan must be stopped. If they succeed, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Shen Ge couldn't help but recall those destroyed fragmented worlds, those terrifying monster kings created by the freak organization, wreaking havoc and causing the destruction of the world...

Clearly, the strange organization in this world has already taken the shape of a "new god cult." Perhaps because of its bizarre appearance, this world will perish in a few decades or even a few centuries.

But with these guys messing around, it might not even last ten years before those horrific scenes from the fragmented world reappear.

Humanity's greatest enemy has never been monsters.

Shen Ge rubbed his temples. Deng Yuqi was right; they couldn't let the weirdo continue to mess things up.

Ugh.

Shen Ge couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He would rather face the three-headed, six-armed "Nezha" of the Twelve Branches than face the New God Cult, or rather, the tentacle monsters of the Polluters.

However, if that giant, bizarre skeleton truly exists and has the potential to "come back to life," what if the system were to devour it...?

Is it possible that... I could reach the ninth rank?

……

Two days later.

Rong City, Weapons Research and Development Department.

Li Xiang's research team on supernatural equipment is currently carrying out final targeted equipment upgrades for the anti-supernatural squad that is about to embark on an expedition.

"The Amazon is a place with lots of insects and strange plants."

Since the bizarre fusion of Australian plants was exposed, this strange fusion of plants has become a common sight in jungles.

Li Xiang handed Shen Ge a simple black earring: "This is the latest personal terminal. In addition to communication and early warning functions, I've also loaded it with the broad-spectrum biological toxin analysis module that Jiang Peiwen and her team recently developed. It will issue an early warning once it enters an area with a high concentration of parasitic spores."

Yoona and Yu Tiexiong's "Qilin" power armor also underwent a complete modification.

The outer layer of the power armor is coated with a "chameleon" coating that can simulate the surrounding environment and achieve both optical and cryptic stealth, greatly enhancing its stealth capabilities in complex jungle environments.

Their ammunition depots are also filled with a large quantity of special munitions and biological agents specifically designed to combat plant-fusion and parasitic types of bizarre creatures.

The accompanying anti-deception warriors all received upgrades to their equipment.

Meanwhile, at the Special Operations Department's Intelligence Center, Cheng Shengnan led her team, working tirelessly to collect, organize, and analyze intelligence about the bizarre ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest and the known strongholds of the freak organization.

A week later, the preparations were complete.

The night was deep, inside a secret air force base located on the southwestern border, a base that did not exist on any map.

A heavily modified special transport aircraft, its fuselage coated with a unique radar-absorbing paint, capable of ultra-long-haul intercontinental flights, stood ready for takeoff in the hangar. (End of Chapter)