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After Lin Feng's reminder, Zheng Yanying, who had regained her senses, looked at Shen Yue and Chen Shanshan and immediately noticed that the holy water on their bodies was more than half gone compared to the others.

As the two who discovered the third-order traces, they were subjected to a large amount of radiation pollution in a short period. If Lin Feng hadn't discovered it in time, once the holy water shield failed...

What awaited them would be the mental torture and pollution from hell and the abyss.

At best, their minds would be severely damaged and they would become listless. At worst, their brain nerves would be affected, twisted to the point of losing their self-awareness, becoming muddle-headed idiots, or preliminary corrupted individuals hijacked by the source of pollution.

In short, the consequences would be disastrous!

Zheng Yanying swung her warhammer and rearranged the protective shield of holy spring water for the two of them, while also informing the others present of how dangerous their actions had just been:

"Fortunately, Lin Feng reacted in time, otherwise the two of them might have been written off here. That thing is a true source of pollution, and even second-order evolutionaries can only barely resist it."

After hearing what Zheng Yanying said, everyone's backs were already dripping with cold sweat. Chen Shanshan and Shen Yue, as the parties involved, were even more terrified.

"Third-order blood, is it the bloodstain left behind by a certain third-order king back then?"

Seeing Zheng Yanying speak so strangely, coupled with the bizarre and eerie scenes they had just witnessed, the women present shrank their heads, feeling a chill down their spines.

But Lin Feng's thought process was different...

What he was thinking about was something else:

"If that pool of third-order blood contains a rich third-order source of life, if it is collected, can it help second-order late-stage evolutionaries advance to become third-order kings?"

Zheng Yanying looked up at Lin Feng, and the eyes of the others also gathered on him.

Lin Feng waved his hand:

"Logically, there shouldn't be any problems, right? Otherwise, why would so many mutated wasteland wolves gather at the Taishan shelter, resulting in the current Meteor Wolf Valley."

"If they can use the genetic radiation emitted by the wolf king's corpse to achieve evolution, then directly devouring the wolf king's third-order body, absorbing the third-order source inside, and assimilating the third-order cells, wouldn't they be able to become a new wolf king?"

Zheng Yanying did not refute, nodding in agreement:

"There's no problem. From the previous evolution ideas, doing so can indeed achieve third-order evolution..."

"But you forgot two points."

Zheng Yanying placed the iron hammer on the ground, supported herself with the handle, and raised two fingers:

"First, these third-order traces, including the third-order blood we just faced, should be called third-order polluted blood in a sense, which is more appropriate."

"Statistically speaking, that pool of blood should have been left behind by a human third-order powerhouse during that battle, but why can't we use it to achieve our own evolution like absorbing the power of the holy spring?"

"The reason is simple, because it has been polluted!"

"The third-order cells inside, after losing the control and nourishment of the main body, can only continuously absorb the flesh and blood of other lives in order to survive..."

"There are both the dead human evolutionaries here and the wasteland wolves that invaded the shelter. Their mixed genes are fused together, making the original pure third-order blood become third-order polluted blood, thus creating this life forbidden zone."

"The murmurs and whispers that our brains perceive, the strong mental pollution, are the lingering influences of these dead lives after being absorbed by the third-order cells, using the method of rebirth by taking over a shell..."

Zheng Yanying sighed softly and continued:

"There have been similar experiments before."

"There were second-order late-stage evolutionaries who, because their own evolutionary path had reached its limit, risked fusing a second source of life, absorbing the cells of other third-order kings..."

"In the end, they suffered severe rejection reactions, directly festering all over, and their bodies collapsed and died."

As she spoke, Zheng Yanying glanced intentionally or unintentionally at Lin Feng, who had raised the question, and then continued:

"Another situation is to absorb the already polluted third-order source, and the result is the same as what we are encountering in the forbidden zone now."

"There will be unsolvable mental pollution, the murmurs and whispers in the brain will continue, and nightmares will occur frequently even when sleeping and resting. More seriously, various hallucinations will appear."

"Even if you advance to become a third-order king, the time you are conscious will be far shorter than the state of being mentally unstable, becoming a tragic and terrifying mad king."

"The above is why the flesh and blood tissues containing the third-order source in the ruins cannot be used, because most of them have been polluted and become the source of pollution in the ruins."

Zheng Yanying retracted a finger and continued:

"As for the second point, the third-order source cannot be absorbed casually. Think about the situation when we first absorbed the source of life and achieved leapfrog evolution..."

"With the help of thousands of years of technology, the danger has been reduced to the current level, but there is still a certain probability of failing to absorb and evolve, and the end of failure is death."

"Third-order evolution lacks effective rules due to the scarcity of samples, and everything depends on self-exploration."

"Absorbing the third-order source not only requires one's own foundation to withstand the powerful load of life's qualitative change, but also requires extremely tenacious will."

"Even in the church, it is difficult for a level 29 high priest to withstand the Lord's test and be promoted to a formal third-order bishop in hundreds of years."

"The Oasis Bishop is only a nominal acting bishop, and the actual degree of evolution is only a high priest."

"So for so many years, even the complete third-order body of the wolf king who fell below the Taishan ruins has not been polluted by other things, and it is difficult for a second-order late-stage wasteland wolf to inherit the will of its ancestors..."

"They can only rely on its blessings to maintain the continuation of the race."

After spending two or three minutes introducing and explaining, Zheng Yanying, regardless of whether everyone understood or not, directly said:

"There are still three minutes, everyone look for it again, remember to be careful of the source of pollution formed by the third-order traces."

"Like the strange scenes in the warehouse just now, where many dry husks gathered and worshipped in one direction, it is likely the place where the source of pollution absorbed the source of life."

"The first time you encounter it, you must stay away!"

"Our purpose is to find the wolf corpse, and return the same way directly after searching."

"Remember, don't be curious! Don't overthink!"

After explaining, everyone continued to search.

Lin Feng pondered while searching.

He always felt that something was missing. If the source of pollution could also drain and seize the lives of the mutated bodies, then why haven't the mutated bodies in the ruins decreased over the years, but have become more and more numerous?

The number of exploration teams that dare to enter the shelter ruins is already very small, and there are even fewer who become corrupted.

Relying solely on outsiders to replenish them is definitely not enough.

Not to mention that exploration teams like Lin Feng's will kill even more mutated bodies.

Therefore, in order to maintain the number of mutated bodies, the forbidden zone may have evolved an independent ecological cycle, but it has not yet been discovered.

Perhaps the whole truth is at the bottom.

If Ding Yi was here, she could give the most reasonable analysis and reasoning, but unfortunately she is not here.

Lin Feng planned to let her help analyze the situation in the forbidden zone after returning this time.

This way, he would be more confident the next time he entered.

More than two minutes later, everyone successively walked out of the hibernation warehouse area, and finally found another first-order wasteland wolf. Although half of the area had not been checked, due to time constraints and the state of the people, they had no choice but to retreat first.

Leaving the hibernation area where the source of pollution was located, everyone returned to the fourth-floor entrance and breathed a sigh of relief.

Sometimes they would rather face the mutated bodies in the darkness that they were already prepared for than endure the constant torment brought by unknown fear.

Especially this kind of danger that is invisible and intangible, seemingly illusory, but ubiquitous.

It is really not as good as a mutated body that can be shot to death with one shot.

Retreating to the entrance of the negative fourth-floor staircase, everyone rested for a while, and their condition recovered somewhat.

Zheng Yanying slowly opened her mouth:

"We have found three so far, and the harvest far exceeds expectations. Do you still have the state to explore?"

Except for Shen Yue, the remaining three members of the team looked at Lin Feng.

As the captain of the team, his opinion could influence whether everyone would go or stay next.

Through the glass mask, seeing the tired and weary faces of Chen Shanshan, A Lian, and A Ming, Lin Feng hesitated for a moment before replying:

"The short ten minutes near the source of pollution is more tiring than an hour outside. Later, let's not go to the uninhabited area on the left first, and explore near the main road..."

"The main thing is to understand the mutated bodies and familiarize ourselves with their attack patterns, and come back after walking three or four kilometers."

Lin Feng's compromise was quickly approved by Zheng Yanying and the team members.

Everyone cleaned up and then walked on the main road on the negative fourth floor, leading to the deepest negative fifth floor.

This road had been repeatedly tested and verified by past adventurers, and there were no sources of pollution left behind by the third-order king along the way.

Without a source of pollution, it also meant that mutated bodies could appear on both sides of the road at any time.

Moreover, the density was much greater than the upper three floors.

Lin Feng's purpose was naturally to let everyone experience the experience of encountering a mutated body attack, and accumulate experience for the next in-depth exploration.

As the team of six advanced along the main road in a three-three formation, countless bones appeared on both sides, including human skulls and withered corpses of wasteland wolves.

Unfortunately, the sources in these wolf corpses had long been collected and plundered by former adventurers or mutated bodies, and now only withered bones filled the main road, silently telling the tragic nature of the war back then.

But soon, the sound of bones breaking nearby indicated that danger was approaching.

Following the direction of the sound, they saw a group of slowly moving figures suddenly appearing in an area shrouded in black mist at a fork not far from the team.

Everyone instantly became nervous.

Grasping the weapons in their hands tightly.

A reminder also appeared in the corner of Lin Feng's eyes:

"Detected a nearby light source of pollution approaching!"

As the crowd of heads surged, slowly approaching.

Under the illumination of the three searchlights, the three people in the front row gradually saw clearly the unknown creatures that were attacking.

It was a group of monsters secreting mucus all over their bodies. Although they had a general human shape, they had long become unrecognizable, and the facial features on the head covered by mucus were extremely distorted.

Some mouths grew on the tops of heads, while teeth were squeezed onto the neck and Adam's apple. Some eyeballs and limbs grew together, with pupils sliding left and right on various body parts.

This was a group of low-level Mutants. The aura emanating from them was mixed with first-order evolutionary cells, but in reality, they were like slow-moving zombies.

Overall, they were only around the ninth level of enhancement.

Although they posed no danger to the team of Evolvers, failing to deal with them would result in them tailing like remoras.

Unless they shook them off by creating enough distance to escape the perception range of this aggregate monster group.

Zheng Yanying waved her hand, stopping A'Lian and A'Ming from firing.

Holy Water hollow-point bullets were long-range heavy hitters; wasting them on these mutated flesh mountains would be too wasteful.

Once the Mutant aggregate got close, Zheng Yanying seized the opportunity, swung her warhammer, and struck the wriggling, deformed heads hard.

The Holy Water released from the hammer sprayed and dripped onto the Mutant's body, which had lost its mucus protection. Like sulfuric acid, it instantly corroded small holes into the mutated flesh.

Then, like hot oil, subtle crackling sounds rang out, and wisps of pale white smoke drifted from the wounds where the Holy Spring invaded.

With one swing, seven or eight heads rolled off.

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The dozen or so fused aggregate Mutants fell to the ground one after another as the warhammer purified them.

This bizarre and stimulating scene made A'Lian and A'Ming's pupils dilate, invigorating their spirits.

Zheng Yanying swung the warhammer like this, clearing a path, and in less than a minute, she successfully dealt with this group of twenty to thirty corpses fused into one Mutant monster.

Scattered on the ground and piled together, the torsos and limbs were covered in layers of mucus, still wriggling and struggling.

After knocking down this group of low-level Mutants, Zheng Yanying slowly spoke in a low voice:

"They are not dead yet, just temporarily unable to move. Once they digest and clear the Holy Spring power in their bodies, they will fuse again and become new monsters."

Hearing Zheng Yanying's words, everyone looked at the wriggling, slimy flesh and limbs on the ground, and their stomachs churned.

As the team skirted around the pile of flesh on the ground, Lin Feng turned his head to look at the mutated fusion monster that resembled something from the movie 'The Thing,' and frowned slightly.

A few hundred milliliters of Holy Water was simply not enough to kill such a large Mutant monster.

To completely eradicate them, they would have to douse the entire shelter ruins with tons of Holy Spring water, or burn them to ashes.

The Holy Water and demon-banishing weapons in the team's hands could, at most, severely injure these Mutants, causing them to temporarily lose their ability to move and no longer pose a threat.

Shen Yue, who was next to him, felt a chill down her spine when she saw the fused monster on the ground, with an indescribable discomfort, especially since they still had obvious human characteristics.

Seeing such a grim and bizarre thing felt like a stone was blocking her chest, making it hard to breathe.

Chen Shanshan also stole a glance or two, and found that these fused monsters were somewhat similar to some of the mutated and evolved freaks she had seen in the pilgrim caravans back then.

Only, paired with the mucus-filled ground and the dark, humid environment, they appeared even more ferocious and bizarre.

However, although Chen Shanshan felt her scalp tingle, Zheng Yanying's sweeping attack made her fear of these Mutants no longer intensify due to the unknown.

Instead, after seeing their real existence, she felt that she could try to take them down with a single shot.

In fact, this was also one of the reasons why Lin Feng asked everyone to continue moving despite their fatigue.

To help the rest of the team dispel the mystique, recognize that the so-called Mutants were not invincible, bizarre things, and that they could be easily defeated with the help of Holy Spring water.

As the group continued to explore, they arrived deep within the ruins, three kilometers away from the entrance.

Here, the team members saw that the living area on the former fourth level not only had a large gymnasium, but also two large shopping malls, as well as cafeterias and shops.

As Zheng Yanying had introduced before, the three large shelters near Mount Tai were essentially a small underground kingdom.

Capable of accommodating tens of millions of people to live in.

Lin Feng couldn't help but imagine that if it weren't for that war, if the Mount Tai shelter had remained closed and always lived safely underground, perhaps even the curse of the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone would not have been able to harm the survivors in the shelter in the slightest.

As long as they permanently sealed the doors and did not come into contact with external sunlight, they would not be affected by the curse.

Large shelters like this, with rich living areas and well-functioning life-support systems within the base, could completely operate independently underground for hundreds or thousands of years.

If order was maintained well and they were a little more frugal, perhaps it would be possible to maintain stability for thousands of years.

However, the harsh surface environment back then was several times more severe than it is now. Even the grass roots were eaten, and the only way to survive was to kill each other.

This meant that any shelter that leaked news would become a fat piece of meat in the eyes of the wasteland forces.

Not to mention the Wasteland Wolf tribe, even other wandering human forces in the wasteland would covet it.

They would find ways to break open the doors and invade it.

After that great war, now, apart from the broken buildings, decaying bones, and hordes of Mutants, there was no longer the hustle and bustle of the past.

One could only glimpse the past prosperity from those buildings that had not been weathered and collapsed.

While Lin Feng was feeling emotional, a crisp cracking sound suddenly came from the houses not far away.

It was the sound of glass breaking!

Something was moving!

Hearing the sound, everyone became alert again.

They gripped their weapons tightly, aiming at the area they were responsible for, ensuring that no monsters would attack from other directions.

The most nervous was Shen Yue on the left rear side of the team, as the sound came from her side.

She was the only member of the team without offensive means or combat experience, and could only passively take a beating, serving as a meat shield for the three people in the back row.

Fortunately, as the team continued to move forward, the area she had been watching became a common defense zone for her and Lin Feng.

Lin Feng's rapid-firing gun had been transformed into a ninth-level premium AK, which could fire the thirty empowered Holy Spring hollow-point bullets in the magazine. The power of the bullets was enough to severely injure first-order early-mid stage Mutants.

At the same time, a reminder appeared in the corner of his eye, indicating that a mutated creature was approaching.

"Nearby moderate source of pollution detected approaching!"

It was actually moderate!

When they encountered the low-level Mutant aggregate before, the system's reminder was light, and in the negative third level, when they encountered the agile Mutants, it gave a low pollution rating.

So, it could be judged that among the moving sources of pollution, light was a source of enhanced pollution below the first order, and low was a first-order evolved Mutant…

And the moderate source of pollution in front of him naturally pointed to a second-order evolved Mutant!

At this moment, even Lin Feng, who had been strolling leisurely, became nervous under the system's reminder.

In order not to affect his judgment and to be able to react in time, Lin Feng directly held his breath and did not make any noise.

At the same time, Zheng Yanying, who was also aware of something, stopped in time to cooperate with the three people behind her in preparing for defense.

At this time, the four women sandwiched in the middle gradually smelled an unusual aura, stopped, and stared at the direction they were responsible for.

Six searchlights illuminated a space fifty meters in radius. This distance seemed long, but for a second-order evolved Mutant, it was an attack process of less than half a second.

Even a first-order late-stage Evolver could explode with a speed close to one hundred meters per second. Even if a second-order Mutant's own physique attributes were far lower than those of a second-order Evolver, it could still have at least one hundred meters per second.

In other words, members of the team like A'Lian and A'Ming, who only had the strength of a first-order early-stage Evolver, might not even be able to see the attack process of a second-order Mutant clearly.

Among the six-person team present, only the experienced Zheng Yanying and Lin Feng, who had the strength of a first-order late-stage, could handle a second-order Mutant alone.

As time passed, the Mutant hiding in the dark could not resist the thirst and urgency of the polluting cells in its body and launched an attack on its prey first.

A black shadow suddenly jumped out from a second-floor window of a building.

With lightning speed, it pounced on the four women in the middle of the team.

Although second-order Mutants had low intelligence, they could distinguish the strength of their prey. Launching an attack on weaker prey was naturally easier to succeed.

But its every move was under Lin Feng's attention. The moment it jumped out, it was locked on by the premium AK in his hand.

A series of six or seven bullets were fired directly!

Ping! Ping! Ping!

The silencer at the muzzle made a crisp sound. Although it was still very loud, it had been reduced by more than 95% compared to the vibration that echoed through the ruins.

At most, it would spread within a hundred meters.

After being shot, the hollow-point bullets containing Holy Spring water exploded directly on the monster's body surface, and the Holy Water-contaminated fragments tumbled within its body like a scattering of celestial flowers.

Directly causing more than a hundred points of doubled damage!

The corrosive cleansing from the power of the Holy Spring made the attacking monster feel intense pain, and it immediately fell to the ground, struggling painfully.

It kept scratching at the wounds, and the sharp claws on its paws pierced into its flesh, trying to dig out the fragments inside.

This second-order Mutant with gray fur was tearing itself apart alive in agony due to the invasion of the Holy Spring power, and had already torn off large pieces of gray-white flesh.

Before everyone could react, Zheng Yanying had already taken a step forward!

She raised the warhammer in her hand and slammed it hard at the Mutant, which was struggling and trying to escape on the ground!

The hammerhead struck the monster's back spine squarely, crushing its vertebrae, and the internal organs were squeezed out of its body.

As the Holy Spring water sprayed, this second-order Mutant contaminated with Wasteland Wolf genes gradually lost its breath.

Only its limbs were still twitching unconsciously.

Seeing the monster successfully killed in cooperation with Lin Feng and Zheng Yanying, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

But before they could recover…

The entire ground of the negative fourth level suddenly trembled slightly!

Then, with a loud bang, it thundered from the entrance of the negative fifth level at the end of the main road!

Instantly, all the lurking, dormant Mutants nearby were stimulated and awakened!

A Mutant riot crisis was about to descend!

Zheng Yanying's expression changed drastically, and she shouted quickly:

"Run!"