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"Otherwise, the whole pot of soup will be ruined."

Li Haotian's voice was very soft, but it was frighteningly clear in the empty living room.

Su Wan looked at the smile on his face that she couldn't understand, and felt a chill creep up her spine from the soles of her feet.

She wanted to ask something more, but Li Haotian had already turned away and stopped looking at her.

He walked to the insulated box filled with ice and sea fish, bent down, and reached in to pull out the biggest and fattest one.

The fish was gently tossed in his hand, its cold scales reflecting a faint light under the lamp.

"Mr. Haotian, should I handle this?"

Bodyguard Liu Hu approached at some point, his face showing a mixture of flattery and awe, and he was holding a piece of velvet cloth used for wiping knives.

"Need not."

Li Haotian, carrying the fish, didn't even glance at him and went straight to the kitchen.

"You keep watch at the door. Don't let anyone in today, even if it's a delivery person. Just have them leave it at the door."

"Yes, yes!"

Liu Hu felt as if he had been granted a pardon, nodded repeatedly, and quickly left the kitchen.

In the kitchen, only Li Haotian and Su Wan, who had followed him, remained.

Li Haotian threw the still slightly twitching sea fish onto the smooth glass table with a "smack".

The fish flicked its tail, splashing up a few drops of icy water.

Su Wan looked at him, then at the willow blade knife on the knife rack next to her, which had just been polished to a shine, and her doubts deepened.

"You...aren't you going to process the fish?"

"Why not use a knife?"

Li Haotian did not answer.

He simply stood in front of the glass stand, extended his right hand, and hovered it above the sea fish.

Then, he slowly closed his eyes.

In the world that Su Wan could not see, Li Haotian's consciousness instantly crossed the boundary between illusion and reality.

His thoughts, like an invisible net, instantly connected to the immense will on the desolate planet in the game world—the Alien Queen.

The connections within the "Honeycomb Mindset" are clearer than ever before.

"I need some of your strength."

Li Haotian's will issued commands within the Hive Network.

"It's not for killing, it's for purification."

The next second, an extremely pure primordial energy, carrying the aura of destruction and rebirth, was separated from the Queen's enormous body along that invisible thought connection, crossed the barrier between reality and the game, and was precisely projected onto Li Haotian's fingertips.

in reality.

Su Wan only saw that the tip of Li Haotian's right index finger suddenly lit up with a faint purple light.

The light was faint, yet it carried an eerie, unsettling quality.

"What is that?"

Su Wan subconsciously took half a step back, her voice trembling.

Li Haotian didn't open his eyes. His fingertips, glowing with purple light, slowly moved downwards and gently touched the head of the sea fish.

"In the name of the Sovereign."

His voice was deep, as if he were chanting some ancient incantation.

"I need an air purifier."

"It can devour toxins and swim upstream."

"And... it's low-key enough."

As he uttered his last word, the eerie purple light instantly flowed from his fingertips into the sea fish's body.

"Sizzle—"

A very strange sound, like leather being torn, rang out.

The sea fish, which had been occasionally twitching on the cutting board, suddenly began to convulse violently.

Its body is like an overinflated balloon, expanding and contracting at a visible speed.

pat, pat.

Thick fish scales broke off from its body and fell onto the glass tabletop.

Instead, there is a deeper, more resilient, darker skin, like the stratum corneum.

"what!"

Su Wan finally couldn't hold back and let out a short scream.

She watched as the fish's belly was suddenly ripped open, leaving two bloody gashes.

What emerged from the bloody mouth were not internal organs, but two pairs of brand-new limbs, resembling insect arthropods, covered with fine barbs.

In just over ten seconds, its size expanded from half a meter to nearly a meter.

The fish's head had undergone a horrifying distortion.

The original fish mouth split open, extending to both sides, revealing rings of fine, sharp teeth inside, like those of a meat grinder.

The two fish eyes melted and merged into one, becoming a huge, emotionless, dark red crystal.

The entire process was quiet, eerie, and filled with a nauseatingly violent aesthetic.

Su Wan covered her mouth, her stomach churning.

She felt like she was about to throw up.

This was completely beyond her comprehension.

These are not creatures that should exist on Earth!

Just then, Li Haotian opened his eyes.

He looked at the brand-new "work" in front of him with a satisfied expression.

He turned his head and saw Su Wan's face, as pale as paper, filled with terror, and she even smiled slightly.

"Look at your expression, none of your family members understand."

He joked in a lighthearted tone.

"It's just processing the fish, is it really that big of a deal?"

"What...what kind of monster is this?!"

Su Wan pointed at the deformed creature that had stopped wriggling and was lying quietly on the table, her voice trembling uncontrollably.

"monster?"

Li Haotian shook his head, stretched out his finger, and poked the tough, dark skin on the monster's back.

"Don't talk nonsense, this is called technology and ruthless work."

"It's just a portable water purifier."

He looked at the new unit he had named "Alien Devourer 001".

Its attribute panel is terrible; its strength, agility, and constitution are all pitifully low, even lower than those of an adult wild dog.

But it possesses two unique abilities.

[Venomous Devouring]: It can devour and decompose all known chemical, biological, and even supernatural toxins, and convert them into its own energy.

【Against Current】: Its special body structure allows it to ignore water pressure, travel at high speed against the current in any pipe, and make almost no sound.

"Perfect."

Li Haotian snapped his fingers.

This thing was tailor-made for the current situation.

"You're going to use it... to treat water pollution?"

Su Wan finally came to her senses. She looked at the ugly creation with a complicated expression.

"Otherwise what?"

Li Haotian countered with a question.

"Do you expect Qin Yue and the others to wear white coats and go through the process of testing drop by drop?"

"The most efficient way is to use magic to defeat magic."

As he spoke, he reached out and lifted the nearly one-meter-long [Devourer] from the glass platform.

The thing was cold to the touch, heavy, but unusually docile, remaining completely still.

Li Haotian carried it and walked to a drain in the corner of the kitchen.

He crouched down and pried open the stainless steel drain cover with his hands, revealing the dark opening of the pipe underneath.

"Go."

He aimed the Devourer in his hand at the hole and gave the command softly.

"Go against the current and find the source."

"Eat everything that is not water."

The mutated monster seemed to understand his command.

With a slight twitch of its newly grown limbs, its entire body, like the slipperiest eel, silently slid into the sewer pipe and vanished into the darkness in an instant.

Li Haotian stood up, put the drain cover back on, and clapped his hands.

"Done."

He turned to look at Su Wan, who was still standing there in a daze.

"Now we can rest assured and wait for the results."

Su Wan opened her mouth, but her mind went completely blank.

Looking at the drain that had returned to calm, she felt that her worldview had been completely shattered and then rebuilt in those few minutes.

Just then, Li Haotian's old cell phone rang again.

It wasn't a phone call; it was a text message notification.

He walked over, picked up his phone, and glanced at it.

It was sent with the same gibberish again.

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[Game, start.]