novelraw Chapter 138: Killing Lauris, Human-Salamander Genetically Modified Body
Chapter 138: Killing Lauris, Human-Salamander Genetically Modified Body
"Ahhh—"
Amid the raging flames, Loris also woke up, letting out an excruciatingly painful wail.
Yu Yuan didn't feel much about it, but Carmen and Er Xiao, watching Loris screaming in agony within the flames, felt a strange emotion rise in their hearts.
Loris, this commander who had always been controversial and feared within the Black Shield Police Department.
Who could have imagined he would die in a filthy sewer, burned alive by fire.
Loris wasn't as difficult to eliminate as Yu Yuan had imagined either. Under the continuous roasting of the flames, his screams gradually ceased.
On the Spirit Collector (Positioning Watch), a prompt appeared that only Yu Yuan could see.
Pure Spirituality collection progress — 8%.
Previously, when Yu Yuan killed the White-tailed Kite, the collection progress was only 2%, yet Loris alone contributed 6% progress.
Clearly, his modification progress far exceeded that of the White-tailed Kite.What surprised Yu Yuan even more was that after Loris's death, information about Loris actually appeared in the [Civilization Illustrated Book].
[Human — Salamander Gene Modification Subject]
Grade: Bronze
Spirituality Factor Level: Medium+
Spiritual Organ: Salamander Core
Comprehensive Evaluation: ★★☆
Introduction: This is the result of a forbidden experimental project that completely breaks the barrier between humans and spiritual creatures. It is research that could potentially lead to the destruction of civilization.
However, there's no doubt that this research holds extraordinary significance for civilization's understanding and control of spirituality.
The future direction of civilization lies in the hands of those conducting this research.
Civilization Points: +1
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The illustrated book results also confirmed Yu Yuan's speculation.
When he killed the Raven before, the Raven's Spirituality Factor Level was only Low, with a comprehensive evaluation of just ☆.
Loris's data exceeded the Raven's by several times.
As for those Civilization Points, their specific function wasn't clear yet.
Adding the Civilization Points obtained from killing the White-tailed Kite earlier, he now had accumulated 3 points.
Closing the Virtual Light Screen, the flames were still burning.
Yu Yuan looked at Carmen. Although he had several wounds on his body, none were serious.
Er Xiao's gaze kept shifting back and forth between Yu Yuan and Carmen, his eyes revealing very subtle curiosity and confusion.
Although he understood that the people before him weren't enemies, he still hadn't figured out exactly what was happening.
However, the composure honed through years of life-and-death struggles made him strive to maintain calm and collectedness.
He stood quietly behind Carmen.
"Loris is dead! You can take his body back later to report completion. But..." Yu Yuan paused slightly.
"Er Xiao, step aside for a moment!" Carmen said to Er Xiao, and Fang followed Er Xiao away from the area.
Carmen showed an inquiring expression.
Yu Yuan checked the time and said quickly: "Hogg's backer in the Aurora Animal Assistance Association is dead. There are others in the Aurora Animal Assistance Association eyeing Chief Hogg's position, and they might make moves recently. Be careful and handle it yourself..."
Yu Yuan briefly communicated with Carmen about the possible situations involving the Aurora Animal Assistance Association and the Black Shield Police Department in the future.
Their cooperation had been relatively pleasant so far, and Yu Yuan didn't want Carmen to be eliminated early, becoming a sacrifice in power struggles.
After explaining the situation, the rest was up to Carmen himself. With his abilities, if he handled things carefully, surviving shouldn't be a problem.
Then, Yu Yuan prepared to leave.
Turning the corner, Yu Yuan summoned Mie Mie, heading toward the zoo while conveying new commands to Alpha through the walkie-talkie.
First, search Loris's remains for something resembling a crystal or core. If found, collect it and store it carefully.
The body could be handed over to Carmen to take away.
Second, head to the Orleans Hotel near Johnck Zoo and prepare to receive him, but Carmen must not know about this.
After receiving the tasks, Alpha immediately took action.
When Yu Yuan arrived at Johnck Zoo, the battle here had reached a fever pitch.
The Iron Anchor Shipping Company's plan had succeeded—the zoo's south wall was directly blown open with a huge gap.
A mighty procession of combat vehicles charged into the zoo, launching frenzied attacks.
Their main targets were the three areas suspected to be entrances to the underground laboratory.
Wasteland motorcycles modified from beach buggies carried thugs scattering Molotov cocktails throughout the zoo.
The thugs guarding the Black Shield Police Department's base also dispatched another group to provide emergency support.
In short, Johnck Zoo was now incredibly chaotic and devastated.
Battle raged everywhere, with continuous gunfire and explosions.
Amid such chaos, Yu Yuan entered the zoo almost without any hindrance.
It was so smooth it felt somewhat unbelievable.
But he knew that achieving this effect was the result of his step-by-step guidance and consuming a Gold quality card.
A virtual map unfolded before Yu Yuan, with a red trajectory marking the route to the zoo aquarium.
As long as he reached the aquarium and found the entrance to the underground laboratory, he would complete the first task of the [Regional Event].
With Mie Mie's equipment attribute bonuses, even though Yu Yuan was wearing the Enforcer Set, his movements were quite agile as he quickly ran toward the aquarium.
Along the way, there were destroyed combat vehicle wrecks everywhere.
Yu Yuan saw a severely injured Aurora Animal Assistance Association thug hiding behind bushes in a corner, performing self-first aid.
When he saw Yu Yuan appear, he instinctively picked up his weapon to attack.
But upon seeing Yu Yuan's Black Shield Police Department enforcer uniform, he felt relieved and paused his movement slightly.
Seeing the other lower his gun barrel, Yu Yuan also abandoned his attack intention.
Instead, he approached the other.
"How's it going? What's the enemy's current situation?"
"They're attacking the Reptile House and Aquarium... The Animal Tamers are organizing the beast army for counterattacks..." The thug said this far, suddenly paused and looked behind Yu Yuan.
"Just you alone?" He sensed something wrong.
But before he could do anything, Yu Yuan had already grabbed his head and twisted it forcefully.
With a "crack" sound, the thug's cervical spine was directly broken by Yu Yuan's brute force, and he collapsed to the ground.
Yu Yuan stripped the thug's clothes and put them on himself. He also found an instrument on the thug that seemed to have identity recognition functionality.
He immediately took it along.
He smeared some blood on his face and neck, and put the Combat Detector back into the Rabbit Ring, since that item definitely wasn't Aurora Animal Assistance Association equipment.
Picking up the weapon the other had dropped, he ran toward the aquarium direction.
Countless mutated animals, under the control of Animal Tamers, were already engaged in combat with the Iron Anchor Shipping Company's thugs.
These mutated animals were clearly failed experimental products that hadn't reached the level of spiritual creatures.
They still had normal animal sizes, but each was deformed and grotesque—hippos with eight eyes, goats with three heads, all sorts of strange forms.
But they shared one common trait: these mutated animals all had some special abilities to varying degrees, either able to emit sonic waves or fling their feces like cannonballs for attacks.
One rhinoceros had even mutated hardened skin resembling armor. Bullets fired at its skin all bounced off, and it eventually flipped over a combat vehicle.
Fortunately, someone took advantage when the rhinoceros opened its mouth to roar, firing a rifle grenade into its mouth, finally killing it.
And the Aurora Animal Assistance Association members were sufficiently sinister.
These animals had bombs hidden inside their bodies that would immediately detonate upon death.
Additionally, there were various birds and other flying animals carrying grenades or explosives, flying overhead.
When they flew over the Iron Anchor Shipping Company's combat vehicles, they would release their claws, dropping grenades directly downward.
Incredible!
They had essentially created a new combat unit—aerial bombers.
In summary.
These mutated animals' abilities weren't particularly strong. Some even had body strength no different from ordinary animals and could be killed with a single shot.
They weren't as powerful as those successfully mutated spiritual creatures, but under the Aurora Animal Assistance Association's control, they were exceptionally troublesome and utterly disgusting.
They significantly slowed down the advancement speed and consumed their ammunition reserves.
Watching this, even Yu Yuan was somewhat stunned.
"Hiss... fortunately, there are these good Samaritans sacrificing themselves to draw fire. Otherwise, if I were exploring here alone, I'd probably die without knowing how! The Aurora Animal Assistance Association is too sinister!"
Only one thing made Yu Yuan quite happy.
Although these mutated animals were all laboratory failures, they still contained some faint spirituality. As long as mutated animals within 100 meters of Yu Yuan died, streams of faint Pure Spirituality would be absorbed by the Spirit Collector.
Each animal provided very little Pure Spirituality, mostly 0.5%, 0.3%, and some even as low as 0.06%, but the numbers made up for it!
Watching the spirituality charging already cross the 15% mark and still slowly rising.
Yu Yuan felt absolutely ecstatic.
"I really came to the right zoo!"