Chapter 432 Convergence

Wow!

Heavy rain fell.

The water curtain covered the entire earth.

The weather was sunny and hot not long ago, but it suddenly became gloomy and dark, and it also brought an increasingly strong cold and chilly feeling.

Because the weather changed too quickly.

A gust of wind blew, and the heavy rain had already poured down, causing many pedestrians to be caught off guard and they could only look for places to shelter from the rain.

But even so, many people were still drenched by the rain.

While protecting their heads, they quickly rushed to the nearest store.

Until this time, more and more people were surprised to find that the clouds gathered in the sky were not black, but presented a gloomy and strange blood red.

Even the rain was the same blood color, which made people's scalps numb and their bodies cold.

The frightened people gathered in front of the window, talking about the sudden strange rain.

Suddenly, a scream came out from the crowd without any warning.

"What are you doing!?"

"Biting, someone is biting like crazy!"

Then, there were screams of terror.

The sounds of flesh tearing, chewing and swallowing were mixed in, covering the entire commercial area.

"What happened outside?"

"Why are there so many screams?"

A waiter stood in front of the door, looking at the blood rain outside, his face full of doubt.

Suddenly, a person was soaked and appeared outside the hotel.

It immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the store.

It was a woman.

She was bright red all over.

She looked like she had just come out of a pool of blood, covered with dirty blood from head to toe.

She staggered and twisted, running towards this side in the rain.

The hotel waiter was about to open the door to let someone in, but a hand suddenly pressed his shoulder.

"I advise you not to worry. She looks a little bit strange."

"Not so strange?"

The waiter opened his mouth and was about to say something, but he shuddered and stared at the woman outside, his face instantly turning pale.

At this time, the distance was closer, and he could see that there was indeed something wrong with the woman.

Her walking posture was quite strange, as if her joints were locked, and her whole body showed a mechanical stiffness.

But this was not the point.

What really surprised and frightened him was that the other person's eyes were actually scarlet, not at all like the black and white of normal people.

And her skin was constantly tearing, revealing the muscle tissue inside, and even large and small tentacles were moving in and out of it. Just one look was unacceptable, and people couldn't help but vomit all the lunch they had eaten.

"Roar!!!"

The woman suddenly opened her mouth and let out a shrill scream towards the glass door of the restaurant.

The waiter's legs went weak and he subconsciously stepped back.

Only Wei Tao was left standing there, staring at the woman with twisted movements across the door.

She roared again, interweaving with the screams in the restaurant at the same time, shaking the glass door and making it buzz.

Then there was a crisp sound.

The woman smashed the door directly and rushed forward with her teeth and claws.

Swish!

A bamboo chopstick flew out at this moment and sank into her eye socket like lightning.

The woman just staggered, but still did not stop, and continued to rush forward with that mechanical weird posture.

Swish, swish, swish!

In an instant, two more bamboo chopsticks flew out.

Followed by a fork.

Pierced into her throat and heart respectively.

If it was a normal person, this would be a fatal injury that would make her fall to the ground.

Even if the medical staff were right in front of her, it would be basically difficult to save her.

But in this woman, she was like nothing happened, and even her movements were not affected much.

Wei Tao had a blank expression on his face, dodged the woman's bite, and a dinner knife appeared silently in his hand.

Crack!!!

Suddenly, blood splattered, and flesh and bones flew everywhere.

It quickly covered a large area of ​​the first floor lobby of the hotel, making the ground bloody and slippery.

After a dozen breaths.

The woman finally fell down with convulsions, and never got up again.

Wei Tao carefully observed the inhuman corpse, with a look of realization on his face.

"Her twisted and rigid posture, her fearlessness of ordinary injuries, and her desire for blood and food are quite similar to the zombies in Resident Evil, and they are also evolved and enhanced zombies."

"But looking at her torn body, the muscles that can be seen surging and swelling, plus the tentacles that shuttle and swim inside, are fundamentally different from Resident Evil."

"This chaotic and bloody feeling reminds me of the awakener reflected by the golden ring, but compared with the awakener, she seems to have lost her mind, and only has the instinct of eating like a zombie.

So, mutant humans like her can no longer be called awakeners, but should be invaders affected by external forces."

Wei Tao had a blank expression on his face. He cut open her chest and opened her skull with force to study the changes in her body in depth.

He recalled the awakeners he had met before, and then turned his thoughts back to the woman at his feet, sorting out and summarizing the situation he had mastered bit by bit, and thinking and deducing based on this.

"The former Reflection Awakeners are equivalent to the mark signposts, or the tentacles of the chaotic blood light that penetrated deeply into the Golden Ring World.

Then, after the erosion of this blood rain, the mutated humans are also the same, and they are no longer just marks, just like the diseased cells inside the Golden Ring World, more and more affected by the chaotic blood light."

There was a crisp sound.

He threw away the broken dinner knife in his hand and looked at the still dense blood rain outside.

This pattern of erosion is completely different from what he imagined.

I thought it would be a group of outsiders coming, just like what he saw in the Northern Wilderness of the Great Zhou, but it turned out to be a heavy rain, which triggered a disaster similar to the biochemical crisis.

He still doesn't know the scale of the blood rain, how much range it can cover.

If the whole world is covered, it can definitely be regarded as a big deal beyond expectations.

The damage caused is even greater than that of the descenders, and it can even cause the collapse of human society in an instant.

It seems that his previous analysis of the chaotic blood light seemed to be somewhat underestimation, and he did not really appreciate its power.

At this moment, more than a dozen people ran out of a store opposite.

They looked terrified and kept looking back, as if there were demons and monsters chasing them.

The next moment, several eroders with stiff movements and twisted bodies broke out of the door and threw the last two people to the ground, and started to tear and bite them regardless of anything.

The chewing and swallowing sounds became one.

The blood mixed with the red rain under the steps, and the two gathered together and could no longer be distinguished from each other.

The people who escaped by chance rushed into the rain curtain.

Some people fled frantically to the distance.

The remaining few saw the restaurant opposite, and after a little hesitation, they ran in directly.

Then within three seconds, they were all knocked unconscious by Wei Tao and lined up on the ground near the bar.

A moment later, the eroders who were eating heard the movement and rushed over again with a roar.

Bang!

They flew backwards like lightning.

He was quickly caught up and smashed into a pile of mud.

After doing all this, Wei Tao pulled down the metal shutter door and returned to the hall to look at the few people who fell into a coma.

After a period of observation, he could confirm two things.

First, those mutated humans can be classified as weakened versions of the reflection erosion awakeners.

They have lost their minds like zombies, and only have the instinct of eating.

However, compared with the single diet of zombies that only eat blood, these weakened awakeners are not picky at all. As long as it is edible, they always accept everything.

Second, the condition for mutation is erosion by blood rain, and simply being bitten by the erosion will not cause mutation.

Further consideration, not all people eroded by blood rain will become like this, and the proportion of alienation is about 60%.

However, he only observed the samples of dozens of people nearby, and there is no more big data sample support, so he cannot determine the accuracy and authenticity of the inference.

In addition, there is the last thing that is closely related to him.

Wei Tao took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

He secretly used the Qi-drawing and body-tempering method to observe the mountain.

Compared with the time before the blood rain came, he suddenly had a completely different and strange feeling.

At this moment, the Qi he drew was no longer the pure heaven and earth Qi.

Instead, it carried an inexplicable bloody smell.

More importantly, after careful attempts, Wei Tao found that the effect of Qi-drawing and body-tempering was more than doubled.

Not only did it make up for the deficit in the previous skill improvement, it even opened the barrier and accelerated the subsequent practice path.

The only bad thing was that after absorbing the bloody Qi, this split spirit was also affected by some negative effects.

However, after experiencing the torture of all kinds of true meanings and mysterious thoughts, the result was that his mood became a little irritable, which was simply a trivial matter.

Wei Tao took a deep breath and kept breathing.

With the experience of previous practice, without using the gold coins in the status bar, he quickly changed from observing the mountain to entering the mountain, and then from entering the mountain to breaking the mountain, and began a deeper level of Qi-drawing and body-tempering.

Time passed little by little.

His body was getting bigger and bigger, and his muscles were tangled like the roots of an old tree, as if he was wearing a hideous flesh-colored armor.

Accompanied by a creaking noise.

The rolling door of the hotel was slowly opened.

A strong man with a height of more than three meters, with muscular and blue veins, walked out slowly, standing in the corridor and looking up at the pouring scarlet blood rain.

"After adding the bloody smell, the efficiency of drawing air and tempering the body has increased by more than double, so if I go deeper and take bigger steps, I should be able to try it.

Thinking further, since I have already had the experience of drawing air into the body and condensing air into liquid, I can try to absorb rainwater to temper my body, and maybe I can go to a higher level and greatly improve my practice progress again."

The world is wide when a thought arises.

Once the mind is opened, the whole person seems to have put down a heavy burden.

All that is left is the eager expectation.

Tick-tock!!!

Wei Tao still stood in the corridor, just slowly stretched out a finger and caught a drop of falling rain.

He closed his eyes and carefully felt and felt.

The expression on his face changed with the passage of time.

Finally, it all turned into a smile of joy.

Boom!

After a long silence, he suddenly took a step forward.

The whole person was enveloped by the blood rain.

Wei Tao frowned suddenly, and could clearly sense the chaotic energy contained in the blood rain, which was entering his body through his skin, corroding and affecting his spirit and body.

But with the full operation of the Qi Induction and Tempering Method, his whole body seemed to have turned into a black hole, transforming all the chaotic energy in the rain, and then absorbing it all without a drop left.

"This is the correct way to open the Qi Induction and Tempering."

"It's still a bit slow, and the current transformation and absorption speed is far from enough."

"With my talent and qualifications, such a bottleneck should not appear."

"If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools, so it is said that consuming a gold coin will improve the progress of Qi Induction and Tempering."

Boom!

The illusory status bar suddenly blurred.

A gold coin disappeared silently.

The mysterious aura was then infused into the body, and together with the pouring blood rain, more drastic changes suddenly began.

For a period of time in the next period of time.

The gold coins disappeared one by one.

The Qi-inducing and Body-tempering Method continued to accelerate, and he strode wildly towards an unknown direction.

I don't know how long it will take.

Wei Tao opened his already scarlet eyes, no longer satisfied with absorbing only through contact with the body surface.

He opened his mouth a little and began to swallow the raindrops falling from the sky.

Boom!

A burning sensation erupted from his stomach.

Compared with absorbing through the rain, this method is obviously more violent and direct, and can better meet his rapidly growing demand for rainwater.

Another period of time passed.

Suddenly there was a crisp sound.

Wei Tao broke off a drainage pipe hanging from the roof and stuffed the broken end directly into his mouth, and the conversion and absorption speed was immediately increased to a higher level.

At the same time, there were tentacles protruding from his feet.

Like a long snake, he sank into the pool of blood on the ground and started a new round of practice with two approaches.

Gulp!

Gulp gulp!

Absorb and transform, temper the body.

All his mind was put into it.

He was completely immersed in his hard practice with a completely selfless attitude.

It was not until he suddenly took a breath that Wei Tao opened his eyes in a daze and looked up at the sparse night sky above his head.

"Who am I?"

"What am I doing here?"

"I actually fell asleep standing here?"

A series of questions came to his mind. Wei Tao took a deep breath and subconsciously attracted the Yuan Hun body, and then slowly became sober.

Since he started practicing martial arts, this was the first time that he was so immersed in the improvement of his skills that he almost lost his mind and completely disconnected from his original self.

But the gains were also huge.

The last time he descended on the Golden Ring World, he finally reached the height of turning gas into liquid and condensing a hundred drops.

However, this time, after incorporating the blood rain into the practice system and embarking on a new practice path, and after breaking the limit with the gold coins in the status bar, the achievements he achieved have even exceeded this.

It is no exaggeration to say that he has no gas now, all explosive liquid.

A rough calculation shows that there are at least more than a thousand drops in total.

And all this happened in less than a day.

The moonlight fell, covering the entire earth with a layer of dim yellow color.

The rain had stopped at some point.

Even the ground was clean, without any trace of a red pond.

The surroundings were dead silent, completely unlike the commercial district when the nightlife had just started.

"Where are the people?"

"Did they all escape, or were they eaten by those mutated invaders in the rain?"

"No, the living people are gone, and the invaders are gone too. Did they run away too?"

Wei Tao looked around, and with the help of the dim moonlight, he suddenly found that the entire commercial district was covered with spider-web-like red branches.

And the center of this huge spider web seemed to be in front of the hotel where he was.

A gust of night wind blew, bringing a refreshing coolness that was refreshing to the heart.

And there were also suppressed sobs that came into his ears at this time.

Wei Tao slowly turned around and listened carefully.

He soon locked the source of the crying.

Crash!

He stretched out a finger and broke the glass of the upstairs box of the hotel before he used any force.

The moonlight then came in through the window, illuminating the men and women who were huddled together and shivering.

"I remember now, you are the hotel employees and two executives of the Baishan Group."

Wei Tao was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "Can you tell me what happened here in the afternoon, and where did those people who escaped the disaster and the invaders who turned into monsters go?"

What happened in the afternoon?

Where did those invaders who turned into monsters go?

You did it yourself, and you even had to break the window to ask questions?

Upon hearing this, the people in the box trembled all at once.

The two waitresses who were less courageous rolled their eyes and fainted directly on the stall.

Finally, the female executive of the Baishan Group stood up, looking at the hideous and terrifying giant body outside the window, and said tremblingly, "From afternoon to night, you have been weaving a blood net here. Other people who were not affected by the heavy rain have fled. As for those mutated people, all, all..."

She hesitated for a long time, gritted her teeth, "When they chased out, you caught and ate them all."

"Just kidding, when did I eat those stupid things?"

Before Wei Tao finished speaking, his eyes suddenly focused on a red tentacle not far away, and he could clearly see several severed fingers stained there.

He retracted his gaze and looked at the box in the window again, "Everyone who was not affected has run away. Why don't you guys run away? Aren't you afraid of being caught and eaten by me?"

Gudong!

Her throat surged and she swallowed hard.

"We saw other people running away from the window, and we originally wanted to take the opportunity to leave, but the hotel corridors and lobby were covered in your spider webs, and we couldn't leave even if we wanted to."

"Is that so? It seems that I have wrongly blamed you."

Wei Tao took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. The scarlet tentacles that covered almost the entire business district began to retract inwards and quickly submerged into the ferocious body.

Suddenly, he stopped all movements and turned his head to look at the distant countryside.

There seemed to be a few little things that interested him.

Outside the city, there were several figures hidden in the woods beside the road.

The heavy rain that had just ended did not seem to have any impact on them. Even the black combat uniforms they wore were as clean as new, without a trace of blood or dirt.

"Boss, we came here to collect those mutants, but we found something incredible here."

One of them wiped the sweat from his forehead, immediately took out the black mobile phone in his pocket, and dialed a phone number.

"You have to figure out your mission."

A sharp female voice came from the receiver, "I don't care what interesting things you find, I only care about the mutants in this city. How are you doing with your efforts to collect them?"

"Mutants, it seems there are no mutants here anymore."

"There are no more mutants?"

The sharp female voice suddenly became angry, "There are no troops stationed near this densely populated area, and there are no traces of rebel activities, so are you kidding me?"

"Even if I gave my subordinates some more courage, I wouldn't dare to make such a joke with you."

The man wiped his sweat again, his voice trembling slightly as he spoke, "And I suspect that all the mutants were eaten by that terrible thing."

The phone went quiet.

After a few seconds, the female voice sounded again, "What is that incredible thing?"

The man stared intently at the scarlet color in the distance illuminated by the dim moonlight.

He was silent for a moment, gasping as if he had a toothache and said, "Although I don't want to admit it, in my opinion, that thing is most likely a terrifying spider spirit that is taller than the building!"

After saying that, he was mentally prepared to be scolded.

But something strange happened.

There was no response from the other end of the phone.

It's completely inconsistent with the boss's bloody and brutal character.

Time passed little by little.

Until half a minute later.

The sharp female voice slowly sounded again.

And he didn't sound angry, and even sounded a little solemn.

"I understand. Your discovery may be important and has even attracted the attention of the Messenger."

"Now send me the exact address coordinates, and then you can be careful to get a closer look. As long as you can get more detailed information, I will strongly recommend you to sit in my current seat."

"My subordinate understands!"

The man hung up the phone with trembling fingers and was about to look up the coordinates and location information, but suddenly stopped without warning.

The faint smell of blood lingered in his nose.

What's even more frightening is that the surroundings are completely silent.

Several of the men he brought with him suddenly made no sound at all.

Quietly, a flash of cyan light lit up.

And blended into the dim moonlight, making the woods under the night more hazy.

There was also the seemingly non-existent sound of rushing water, which reached his ears at the same time.

"There is no river nearby, so why do you hear the sound of the river flowing?"

"What the hell is this."

The word "ghost" came to mind, and the man was suddenly horrified.

"I just discovered the spider spirit. Now I won't encounter ghosts hitting the wall again."

He murmured to himself, "It's better to seize the time and complete the task assigned by the boss. At least send the location information before talking about anything else."

At this moment, a soft voice suddenly sounded, with a strange accent, flowing slowly in his ears.

His thoughts were immediately interrupted.

It also put him into great fear.

"I'm not a ghost. Maybe it's because you have ghosts in your heart that you have thoughts related to ghosts."

The soft female voice smiled lightly and spoke slowly.

"I have a few questions that I need you to answer. One is about what kind of monster the spider spirit you just mentioned is.

The second thing is about the boss you are talking to through this little thing, and what kind of organization you are.

The third is about the strange changes in this world, whether it is the sudden rain of blood or the bloody light that briefly covers the sky, what is hidden in it.

I am very interested in all of this. If your reply satisfies me, not only can you survive this peaceful night, but you may even get a reward from me, so that you can be in the future... …”

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly fell silent.

Silence returned again.

Only the night wind that blows from time to time makes the branches and leaves rustle.

In addition, there were rustling sounds that surrounded the entire forest beside the road.

Only the man was left standing still, holding a black mobile phone in one hand and a map that had not yet been opened in the other, staring blankly at the scarlet tentacles winding outside the forest. Only one thought quietly arose in his mind and quickly occupied almost all of his consciousness.

"That spider spirit, is it here to look for the female ghost?"