Life Dungeon Game

However, these documents also contain another piece of information related to the nightjar.

During the month that Nighthawk was missing, it was Evolution that first located Nighthawk's trail through its keen sense of pollution and launched an operation against Nighthawk before the Pollution Cleanup Department could.

An attack was launched.

Although all the core information about the incident seemed to have been 'destroyed' at the time, Heo still managed to find some indirect information about these actions through Eve.

For example, information about the personnel involved in the operation, and the message records on the internal forum of Evolution.

A small portion of this information revealed the 'location' where the participants went to hunt down Nighthawks.

Then, through this fragmented information, He Ao roughly pieced together five locations where the Night Hawk had appeared.

He then had Eve display the five locations on the map.

These five locations are scattered across four districts of St. John's City, far apart from each other, and cannot be connected in any line.

He gazed thoughtfully at the towering buildings surrounding these locations.

He then closed the map and continued looking at the information below.

The last thing related to Nighthawk in Evolution is that they suspect Nighthawk's body is hidden in the city's sewer system, since it's the most concealed place. So they've been sending people to search there, but haven't found it yet.

Besides the information related to the Nighthawk, there was another very crucial document among these materials.

Methods for fusing and raising polluted monsters.

This method only reached level C and did not break through the limit of level C, but it basically outlined the fusion method of the contaminated monster.

The most important of these is 'painting'.

Those paintings left by the artist known as the 'Listener' whom Heo had seen at both the headquarters and branches of Evolution.

These paintings were divided into three levels by the evolved humans.

The lowest grade was the painting that He Ao saw hanging on the wall in the corridor on the first floor of the charity foundation at the Evolutionary Branch.

Those paintings can calm down ordinary corrupted monsters, and at the same time, they can filter out people who are 'suitable' to fuse with corrupted monsters.

Those who are drawn to those paintings have the potential to merge with the corrupted monsters, and thus are used by the Evolutionary to screen 'newcomers'.

That's why He Ao was able to see those paintings on the first floor of the Evolution branch.

Medium-quality paintings are the primary method used to fuse with corrupted monsters.

This kind of painting can no longer be directly viewed by ordinary people and low-level superhumans. If superhumans below level C look at this kind of painting without any preparation, it will directly affect their minds, causing them to mutate into polluted monsters or have their souls torn apart.

At the same time, they can attract the attention of almost all polluted monsters, making them quiet down.

Those who wish to merge with the corrupted monster must use a special ritual, combined with this painting, to achieve the fusion.

The ritual was simple: a circular pattern was drawn on the ground with human blood, and then a thin crescent moon pattern was drawn inside that circle.

The concave side of the crescent moon faces the direction of the painting. The corrupted monster and the person who wants to merge with the corrupted monster are placed, one at the lower corner of the crescent moon and the other at the upper corner.

Once everything is ready, control both the corrupted monster and the human to look at the painting in front of them.

Two lives influenced by the painting will come together and merge in the center of the crescent moon.

This fusion process is not physically painful, but it causes intense mental tearing and a sense of madness. Those who don't make it through...

They will lose their minds and become completely monsters.

If they survive, they can maintain their human form and basic sanity to some extent, but they are filled with a longing and hunger for human flesh and soul.

This hunger is not satisfied by eating; they only become hungrier as they eat more.

If one cannot withstand this hunger, one will completely transform into a monster.

However, this type of mid-level painting can only dominate the fusion of superhumans below level C and ordinary people with monsters.

Once you reach level C, you'll need paintings of the highest level.

However, this so-called 'highest level' can only fuse with polluted monsters below the C-level limit.

The document does not specify how to break through the C-level limit.

It appears that this document is intended for the 'outer C-level' members of the Poison Scorpion Gang, including their leader.

After all, the leader of the Poison Scorpion Gang could only go as far as C-level.

The Shadow Cutter has broken through the C-level limit.

Therefore, evolution does indeed have a way to break through the C-level limit.

He Ao could probably guess what the core of this method was.

The painting with its twisted lines hidden in the ceiling of the filmmaker's office.

The level of pollution depicted in that painting probably exceeds the 'highest level' defined by the Evolutionary Path, and belongs to the secrets hidden by the Evolutionary Path.

That's why it was hidden inside the ceiling.

The core of the entire evolutionary process is the method of merging with the corrupted monsters, and the core of this merging method is the eerie paintings drawn by the 'Listeners'.

They directly used these paintings to replace the ritual process of connecting with higher beings, allowing them to directly borrow the power of some higher being to help them integrate without any faith.

Of course, if that higher being still has consciousness, this method of 'stealing power' would easily invite punishment from that higher being.

And Evolution has been doing this for so many years, and it's still doing well.

This means that the person in that high position may be unable to issue a punishment.

These paintings are most likely related to the Winding Hill, and after Heo 'entered' the Winding Hill, he did not feel any 'living' consciousness.

Even after so many years of death, the God of War still retains a remnant of his will, ready to return from the dead at any time.

The shadow that surfaced in the depths of the mind in the previous instance seems to have been dead for many years, but it still has the ability to set up resurrection methods.

Almost nothing was left in the winding hills.

And in the final scene where He Ao was ejected, he vaguely saw purple blood and flashing lightning.

It seemed to be the 'echo' left over from some ancient battle.

He Ao didn't see the thunder's appearance clearly; he only heard the deafening thunder, but the power of the thunder seemed vaguely familiar to him.

He regained his composure and continued to peruse the remaining documents.

He quickly found the 'source' of these paintings.

The Hidden Man, the true leader of the Evolutionary Faction, the one who single-handedly established the Evolutionary Faction.

All of these 'paintings,' including the method of merging with the corrupted monster, were provided by the Hidden Face.

He spent over a decade building this massive organization that spans more than a dozen cities.

Furthermore, He Ao discovered something interesting.

Wherever there is a pollution cleanup department, there is bound to be a source of evolution; of course, that city will also inevitably have pollution monsters.

The documents from Evolutionary Path also contain some 'secrets' about the Pollution Cleanup Division.

For example, the "concealing spray" sold by the Pollution Cleanup Division to mask the smell of pollution is actually made from a concentrated essence of the flesh and blood of polluted monsters mixed with some medicinal herbs.

Its core working method is not to help the user 'conceal their aura', but to make the polluting monster think that the person who sprayed the spray is 'one of their own', so it will not attack.

However, this is of no use to those who possess both the 'sense of smell' of the polluted monsters and the rationality of evolutionary beings; this 'concealment' cannot deceive them.

Therefore, they could clearly identify Sito's son and daughter-in-law, who were hiding in the crowd and had been exposed to the polluted air but had used the concealing spray.

In addition to this information, these documents also record the specific locations and personnel data of the various branches of Evolution, as well as the cases committed over the years.

He Ao raised his head and looked at the faint light appearing at the end of the sky.

The surrounding streets looked familiar to him; they had now returned to the Northwest City.

The number of high-rise buildings belonging to the Kegete Group here is much smaller compared to other areas of St. John's City.

Because there are a large number of small grain companies and ordinary factories here.

Although they have been squeezed into a corner by the Kegete Group, they are still struggling to survive thanks to the legacy of the small business support policies of the former Snava municipal government.

Before Snavaro came to power, before the Kegete Group had fully taken control of St. John's City.

This is also one of the important strongholds for resisting the Kejette Group.

Sito chose to settle here because he disliked the Kejette Group.

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The first rays of dawn shone on the chaotic streets.

Some of the homeless people who were dressed a little more neatly began to tidy up their clothes and take out crumpled cash from their pockets to buy food at a nearby convenience store.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses walked out onto the street. He looked around and walked up to a middle-aged homeless man who was eating cold bread and drinking cold water.

"Hey guys, you're up so early?"

He sat down on the ground with the homeless man, offered him a cigarette, and asked with some confusion.

"Find a job,"

The homeless man looked up at him, paused for a moment, then took the cigarette and put it in his pocket before continuing, "There's a factory that's short of laborers. Three days' work, twenty federal dollars a day. You have to eat breakfast to do this kind of work, otherwise you'll be too hungry to have any strength at noon."

"So low?"

The middle-aged man was taken aback. "Isn't the minimum wage in St. John's City seven federal dollars per hour?"

"Seven Federal Credits?"

The homeless man glanced at him. "Brother, how long has it been since you worked? That was at least seven or eight years ago. The water from the waterworks has been recycled countless times. That law was repealed a long time ago. There's no minimum wage now, and even if there were, it wouldn't matter."

The homeless man glanced at the vehicles driving by on the side of the road. "If we don't charge less than the price of the machines, who would want to hire us?"

The middle-aged man opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

He lit a cigarette, brought it to his lips, and then slowly removed it. "It seems like bread prices have gone up again recently."

"It went up by fifty points; I heard it's because synthetic flour has increased in price."

The homeless man took a bite of bread. "If it were before, I would have cursed those bastards to death, from the grain conglomerate to the convenience store owner. But after my wife died, my temper improved a lot."

"Your wife is..."

The middle-aged man looked at her with a puzzled expression.

"The old illness relapsed, we didn't have the money for treatment, and he died."