Chapter 1691: 565. The First Wave – Additional Update for Brother “Huo Zheng Ting Hao” [7/30]_3
“Ow! Kill them all!”
In a subterranean tunnel at a defensive line on the outskirts of Wasteland Mountain, Sister Pomegranate was conducting a pre-battle briefing, surrounded by a group of excited vampire players from the Blood Vulture Clan.
They were to be the main force penetrating the Ratman nest ahead, while players from other races further away seemed less enthusiastic compared to the vampires’ excitement and fighting spirit.
This was mainly because they didn’t have any reward benefits from their race storyline, although they could get loot, but looking at the bone sticks these Ratmen used, it was clear they wouldn’t drop anything of value.
Aside from increasing skill proficiency, it was basically a thankless task, no wonder the always “full of vigor” Big Bird Team all had pained expressions at the moment.
“I thought there was no suspense in Sister Pomegranate clinching the top prize in the race storyline this time, but unexpectedly Ayu later surged forward, surpassing Sister Pomegranate on the kill leaderboard.
No wonder the ‘Scarlet Valkyrie,’ Sister Pomegranate, is so full of fighting spirit today, she’s certainly determined to reclaim her rank.”
Meow Brother, providing fire support at the periphery, was playing with the Golden Flower cigar in his hand as he complained to the brothers beside him:
“Those student group guys really pumped up after taking Wolf Castle, each of them transformed like Super Saiyans, not just with heightened spirits but their personal strength also skyrocketed as if they had taken drugs.”
“No kidding, their professional advantage matured, that’s all.”
Old Qu cradled his hunting rifle and said:
“Sister Pomegranate is a vampire Martial Monk, such a combination has never existed for millennia; she has to explore on her own, so growing slowly is inevitable.
But Ayu and the others are Blood Vulture Clan power professions all the way, just reading a few notebooks allows them to learn many powerful combat techniques; and the student group basically left the kill opportunities for Ayu to help him take first place.
That’s basically a ‘N protect 1′ strategy, if they couldn’t win then it’d be spooky.
It seems they are determined to win Murphy’s sword, sigh, this is their race storyline, we can’t participate, otherwise with just the axe in your hand you’d be rampaging.”
“Why rush? We’ll definitely have chances to show our skills in the future.”
Meow Brother was quite optimistic and whispered:
“The epic quest Lord Qin triggered at the Klim Fortress is just a prelude to the race quest, I’m sure when it reaches the end it will trigger the race storyline for all Nord players… They’re starting to fight!
Come on, let’s go too, providing some fire support and practicing marksmanship proficiency at the same time.”
After speaking, Meow Brother grabbed the trench gun behind him, loaded a Dragon Breath Bullet, and shouting Avalon Mighty rushed forward.
His charge prompted the onlooking players to rush ahead, causing a panic among the Ratmen in the nest, forced to rely on instinct without a commander, but even in humanoid form, the Ratmen lacked strength, scattered by the vampires charging with unstoppable momentum.
What followed was a massacre.
But the area of this Ratman nest was actually quite large; originally a small abandoned mine, besides the tunnels where the Ratmen gathered, there were other small rooms.
While the vampires were completing the race storyline and killing Ratmen, other players skillfully began the “clean-up work” with ease.
And in doing so, they indeed found something interesting.
“Why is there a bizarre laboratory here, come on, come on!”
Threejin Sweet Potato Burn kicked open a partially concealed door, seeing inside a gas lamp and crate, a large table with various alchemical items, and a bed where clearly someone lived.
He was immediately interested, calling others to come in and collect items.
Lord Qin also came in.
But instead of being interested in collecting loot, he habitually collected some textual information from the strange house, finding a half-recorded diary and reading it using the Calculating Pearl’s translation:
“December 9th, the condition of the Mother Rat is stable, still producing Ratmen orderly. We’ve injected the improved hormone into Numbers 1 through 29, significantly speeding up the production of Ratmen.
After these few days of observation, we found that after Mr. Scholar improved the Ratman genome, these bio-weapons became significantly stronger in both reaction and perception, and they also seemed to awaken some strange talents.
When they moved through the underground in groups, it seemed even the earth was protecting them, making their sounds extremely faint.
After close-range testing, we can confirm that even the dwarves’ Earth Priest couldn’t detect the Ratmen’s excavation and movement underground; I suspect this is related to the peculiar sequences Mr. Scholar edited into the Ratman genome.
There is news that those sequences were extracted by Mr. Scholar from the genes of Sandworm, relating to earth powers.
Today, the honorable ‘Explorer’ sent orders; we are to begin the third phase of genetic modification for Ratmen bio-weapons, aiming to create Ratmen with Spiritual Energy talents.
Although the method of faster ‘Spiritual Energy erosion’ through Star Realm pollution can be used, as a biologist studying Creation Truth, I don’t find using Spiritual Energy to create Spiritual Beings anything to be proud of; we must adopt the scientific methods left by the creator to strengthen them, then use these creations to overthrow the stale world left by the creator!
This is the essence of the Scholar Faction’s philosophy.
Hmm, once Spiritual Energy Ratmen are born, maybe I can shed my apprentice status and truly join Mr. Scholar’s great endeavor.”
“Hey Old Qin, what are you reading?”
Noticing Lord Qin engrossed, Sour Cucumber leaned over for a look, saying disdainfully:
“Isn’t it just in-game text? All mysterious, the developers really know how to weave a story.”
“Right, it’s woven convincingly.”
Lord Qin laughed heartily, casually putting the diary and a chart on the table, which he couldn’t understand but seemed to be some kind of diagram, into his pocket.
But the light in his eyes was very serious.
Ratmen are not natural creatures!
Ratmen are bio-weapons genetically created by the “Scholar.”
This setting feels a little odd in a fantasy story, but considering this continent might actually exist, it sounds terrifying.
The creators of the Ratmen somehow have the power to rewrite genes and create! The diary’s author says he disdains using Spiritual Energy to create bio-weapons; in other words, these guys are using pure technology!
Even though the steam technology on this continent looks unreliable, for someone like Lord Qin, he seems to have found something “interesting” in this diary.
The diary mentions the “creator”…
Is this some kind of Divine Spirit?
Lord Qin soon threw himself into the battle to eliminate the Ratmen, pursuing with purpose until he found the “Mother Rat” mentioned in the diary, a terribly ferocious and giant Mother Rat; even as the vampires charged in, the Mothers continued producing small Ratmen where they had grown too large to move.
The scene was wicked and twisted, directly causing several young people to retch, eventually they poured out oil and set a fire to burn this terrible atrocity away.
As the fire rose, Lord Qin heard the mothers’ agonized screams. He suddenly felt a strange deja-vu; if such fast-breeding bio-weapons appeared in his world…
Stop!
Can’t think of that, such monstrosities couldn’t appear in his world, right?
Yet the veteran instinctively touched the diary and the chart in his pocket, feeling this matter wasn’t simple; it seemed the organization had sent a scientist into Transylvania.
Tomorrow he would ask her to look at the chart and diary, who knows, she might have some unexpected discoveries.