dkrc Chapter 23 Data Collection
Chapter 23 Data Collection
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The dark pipes were silent, filled with an eerie darkness, broken only by the occasional sound of dripping water in the distance.
The air was thick with rotting silt and some kind of pungent, abyssal miasma.
In the darkness,
Bai Yuze held Ye Yue's soft hand. Compared to the tension and unease that vaguely surfaced in his heart, Ye Yue seemed as comfortable as if she had returned to her own home, and the smile on her face never faded.
"Onii-chan, I love this place so much! How about we move here?"
"No!"
Bai Yuzhe rejected the other party without even thinking about it, not to mention how harsh the environment of the underground pipe was.
Even if they really move here, living here will definitely ensure they have no worries about food and drink.
But if you walk by the river often enough, you're bound to get your shoes wet.
In daily life,
Those fake humans and abyssal monsters who acted arrogantly in the city center were often smashed to pieces by the magical girl's iron fists before they could even run rampant for two or three days.
He didn't want himself and Yeyue to be treated like mini-bosses and defeated.
Rather than hiding in the sewers and living next to rats, he would much rather live openly with Ocasan in a beautiful, affluent neighborhood.
"Oh well."
Yeyue pouted unhappily and didn't mention it again. Her little sticky rice cake was good in every way, but now that she was grown up, she no longer wanted to listen to her, her old man.
Humph,
Not cute at all!
When Mingming was little, he would do whatever she asked him to do; he was so adorable.
After walking for about five or six minutes,
Suddenly, they heard rustling crawling sounds around them. It wasn't aimless crawling, but rather a precise attempt to surround them.
In the deep darkness,
If an ordinary person were to enter, it would likely be pitch black.
But Bai Yuze isn't really a person.
He slowly raised his head.
On the main pipeline directly ahead,
A huge shadow almost blocked the entire pipe.
That's a Pit Mantis in its split-limb stage.
It resembled a gatekeeper boss clad in obsidian armor, its three pairs of compound eyes gleaming with a cold, scarlet light in the darkness.
Although its wings, covered in metallic feathers, were not fully unfurled, the edges of the slightly open wing membranes were already sizzling with distorted miasma.
no doubt,
The opponent has already entered an offensive state, as if they will launch an attack on Bai Yuze at any moment.
Bai Yuze turned his head away.
Besides directly in front,
In the shadows of the side passage to his left and on the wall of the side passage to his right, a pupa-like Abyss Mantis slowly emerged, its forelimbs, which resembled giant bone scythes, crossed in front of its chest, their blades flowing with a viscous, eerie light.
Other than that,
A molting Abyssal Mantis slowly appeared on the path behind them. Although it had not yet grown its deadly scythes, its cocoon shell had hardened like a shield, like a small armored vehicle blocking their retreat.
The encirclement formed by the four Abyss Mantises exuded a suffocating killing intent.
Ironically, both sides wanted to make the other their dinner.
Normally,
If a limb-splitting Abyssal Beast appears in the Maple Leaf Zone,
That would trigger a Level C alert.
And now,
If this family of four were to act together, it would be enough to trigger a Level B danger alert.
In the shadows beside him,
The tentacles inside Yeyue's dress trembled slightly with excitement, and her eerie green eyes locked onto the largest prey directly in front of her, her killing intent rising.
Just as she was preparing to act,
Bai Yuze reached out and gently grasped her cold little hand. "Okasan, you used to hunt for me, now it's my turn to hunt for you."
"I knew Little Sticky Rice Cake was the best! You'd better keep up the good work!"
Upon hearing Bai Yuze's words, Ye Yue's murderous intent vanished instantly, and she stood aside with great interest.
Bai Yuze's gaze returned to the mantis in the split-limb stage.
His body slowly shifted to one side, his bones emitting a teeth-grinding grinding sound. A sudden, excruciating pain erupted from his spine, and four mutated, arthropod-like limbs burst forth from his body, hovering behind him like sharp scythes. Crackling arcs of electricity at his joints drew tiny flashes of light in the darkness.
The original skull was also covered by smooth, thick armor.
Only two narrow energy rifts remained, spewing out a chilling pale purple light.
When the last strand of human skin was covered by scales
Bai Yuze has completely changed.
His height increased by nearly twenty centimeters, and his angular exoskeleton resembled liquid obsidian solidified, with every inch flowing with a cold luster.
Its arms swelled to an exaggerated size, and its claws were wreathed in crackling black miasma.
It looked extremely ferocious and terrifying.
But a complex sense of helplessness flashed deep within Bai Yuze's azure eyes.
From small to large,
He then discovered something very strange.
That is, the Abyss Beast's body undergoes extremely rapid transformation and growth.
For example, these mantises in front of us, from hatching to their current limb-splitting stage, probably only take six months to a year. Their evolution seems to be driven wildly by some invisible force.
But he himself was different.
Even with Okasan hunting and feeding them large amounts of food day after day.
But his physical growth and transformation were still as slow as a snail crawling.
More than a decade later, based on his own physical characteristics, he judged that his strength should be at the same level as the Abyssal Mantis in front of him, at the Limb Split Stage.
This enormous difference left him feeling utterly powerless and in great pain.
otherwise,
He won't try to integrate into human society like those pseudo-people.
Ok,
If they can grow up normally,
He had already gone to the occupied territories to recruit Abyssal Beast minions and become the boss of the Abyssal Beasts. Who would stay in human society every day, flattering and acting as a lackey?
The greatest misfortune in the world,
Okasan Yeyue never disliked or abandoned him.
Bai Yuze sometimes thought,
Imagine if you suddenly had a change of heart and adopted a child, providing them with good food and drink every day, and even hiring various teachers to carefully instruct them in their studies.
More than a decade has passed.
If the other person only knows addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, he will most likely be so angry that he will send the other person back to the orphanage.
But Ocasan did not.
She would only occasionally poke his slow-growing shell and mutter, "Little sticky rice cake, you grow so slowly."
Then the next day,
Bring back more delicious prey.
......
Bai Yuze shook his head, trying to stop thinking about these random things.
Instead, they focused their attention on these abyssal beasts.
Quietly,
The encirclement formed by the four Abyssal Mantises was slowly tightening, and the scarlet light flashing in their compound eyes grew increasingly intense.
Their predatory instincts are growing stronger.
Call ~
Bai Yuze took a deep breath and stopped suppressing the power within him.
click-
Suddenly, the skin on his right arm tore open, but not a drop of blood flowed.
Amidst the churning, dark miasma, a stark white bone scythe, like a broken wing bone, suddenly pierced out from the inside of his arm, extended, and took shape!
Whoosh!
Bai Yuze moved.
fighting,
It erupted in an instant.
Directly ahead,
The most cunning of the Abyssal Mantises was the one in the limb-splitting stage. Instead of attacking immediately, it flapped its wings and, in the blink of an eye, unleashed dozens of corrosive pale green wind blades, sealing off all of Bai Yuze's escape routes.
Left and right sides,
Two young mantises, like phantoms, seized the opportunity to approach, their crossed, sickle-like forelegs tearing through the air with a piercing shriek.
For a time,
Bai Yuze is caught in a bitter battle, surrounded by enemies on three sides.
"Ha, the same old trick."
Bai Yuze's eyes narrowed.
Almost instinctively, he swung the bone scythe that had split off directly from his body, leaving a black trail trail of miasma wrapped around it.
Next second,
His body twisted like a ghost, narrowly avoiding most of the wind blades. The scythe in his hand drew a cold arc, precisely blocking the scythe limb that attacked from the left.
"clang--!"
Amidst the piercing chorus of sounds,
Bai Yuze's bone sickle cleaved a deep gash into the Abyss Mantis's hard scythe-like limbs, and the dark miasma spread and corroded the limbs along the gash like a bone-deep infection.
at the same time,
He slammed his left palm backward, and a solid, pitch-black miasma acted like a shield, blocking the attack from his right side.
It kept the Abyss Mantis, which was trying to launch a sneak attack, several meters away.
The sneak attack failed.
The abyssal mantis on the right retreated quickly.
Having hunted together for a long time, their cooperation had become incredibly seamless. At this moment, the Abyssal Mantis in the Split-Leg stage finally made its move, using the wind blades as cover to swoop down from the air, its huge shadow completely enveloping Bai Yuzhe.
Boom!
The sickle clashed with the carapace.
Sparks flew everywhere.
The pitch-black miasma and the dark purple miasma clashed and hissed at each other.
Bai Yuze's movements were extremely swift. The silver-white bone sickle in his hand seemed to come alive, and each swing was accompanied by a deadly elegance.
However, he was fighting three opponents alone, and the enemy's shell was extremely hard, making it difficult to achieve a decisive victory in a short period of time.
The battle reached a stalemate for a time.
despite this,
Bai Yuzhe's face became even calmer. If it were before, he would probably have retreated by now, but now that Okasan has come, he can try out the new moves he has developed.
From Professor Mu's book,
He came across two theories about abyssal energy: one was abyssal energy phase shift, and the other was abyssal information disturbance. Through his own research and understanding, he felt that these two theories could be put into practice.
boom!
After parrying the mantis's attack once again,
Bai Yuze used the momentum to retreat half a step, holding his long bone scythe in his right hand horizontally in front of him, while his left hand, with its five fingers spread, aimed at the mantis in the split-limb stage that was preparing to launch another attack.
The dark miasma surrounding him converged towards his palm at an unprecedented speed, but it was not a simple energy surge.
Under extreme compression and a certain high-frequency vibration, the miasma changed its properties, exhibiting an ominous, absolute darkness that seemed to absorb all light.
"Come on, try my newly developed Miasma Rasengan!"
He gave a low shout.
Extend your left palm.
The absolute darkness instantly expanded, transforming into a silent, rotating miniature black hole that generated terrifying gravity. The scythe-like limbs of the mantis in front of it seemed to sink into quagmire, its massive body uncontrollably being pulled towards the center of the vortex.
It struggled in terror, its shell creaking under the twisting force, then twisted and compressed like clay being kneaded by an invisible giant hand, finally being completely swallowed up with a muffled thud, leaving only a few broken pieces of shell with traces of emerald green blood on the ground.
One move,
Sold out instantly!
Bai Yuze was slightly out of breath; this move had taken a toll on him.
However, he was extremely happy, even happier than if he had masturbated. He had tried to develop new moves based on Professor Mu's theories before, but apart from the Miasma Flash for escaping, the others were either terribly weak or made him want to perform a self-destruction act on the spot.
How could he not be happy with this success?
He subconsciously turned his head to look at Ye Yue, who had been watching the battle from the sidelines.
however,
What he saw was a delicate little face filled with boredom.
Yeyue pulled out a lollipop from somewhere and was licking it listlessly, as if she were watching a boring children's cartoon.
A sense of indescribable frustration welled up in Bai Yuze's heart, and Ye Yue quickly caught his bitter gaze.
She tilted her head, blinking her big eyes, seemingly misunderstanding the meaning of that look.
"Hey, little sticky rice cake, are you tired?"
Her voice was filled with innocent joy, "You should have said so earlier! Look how hard you were fighting those abyssal beasts!"
The voice has not fallen,
There wasn't even any obvious movement from her; it was just that her slender, white index finger, holding the lollipop, made a light swipe forward.
No light,
There was no loud noise.
But the space seemed to have been sliced open by an invisible blade.
The two massive, juvenile abyssal mantises, along with the half of the tube behind them, vanished without a trace, like a pencil drawing erased by an eraser, leaving only their lower bodies standing frozen in place.
Devastating,
Absolute crushing victory!
In the blink of an eye, only the molting egg stage of the four Abyssal Mantises remained, blocking their retreat.
"Okasan, wait!"
Bai Yuze hurriedly shouted.
Yeyue's finger, which was about to tap, froze in mid-air.
He turned around in confusion.
Bai Yuzhe pointed to the terrified molting mantis and the hidden tunnel entrance behind it:
"Spare its life and let it guard this entrance. In the future, if you ever get hungry, you can just walk through this alley to get a meal."
Ye Yue looked at the skinny abyssal mantis in front of her, then at Bai Yuze, and pursed her lips:
"Okay, I'll listen to Little Sticky Rice."
As he spoke,
Ye Yue hopped and skipped over to the young Abyssal Mantis, pointed at it with her lollipop, and said in a tone as if instructing a pet:
"You, from now on, will guard this door. Don't let any other guys in, understand?"
Whether the young abyssal mantis understood or not, it frantically thrashed its body on the ground, conveying a mental fluctuation of submission and fear.
Bai Yuze watched this scene.
My heart was filled with mixed feelings.
Although the two Abyssal Beasts that Okasan killed weren't difficult for him to deal with, he couldn't do what Okasan did, dismissing them like cheap toys.
Both use abyssal miasma.
Why is the way Ye Yue uses it completely different from what I use?
Bai Yuze stared at the void left by Ye Yue's attack. He subconsciously condensed a wisp of his own dark miasma at his fingertips. The aura was full of corrosive and decomposing activity, as if it wanted to pollute and disintegrate everything it came into contact with.
slowly,
A strange idea popped into his mind.
All along,
He himself had never carefully studied his own energy system, assuming that the miasma of all the Abyssal Beasts was the same. Therefore, he was more like a martial artist with monstrous physical abilities, mainly relying on his powerful physique, swift speed, and the bone scythe that split off from his body to physically kill the Abyssal Beasts and pseudo-humans.
But now he realizes,
Although Okasan also uses abyssal miasma, the results are completely different.
Her miasma works like a white eraser on a computer canvas; with just a gentle wipe, the canvas, once stained with other colors, is instantly turned white.
And now,
As Bai Yuze felt the wisp of dark miasma on his fingertips, he felt as if he had gone down the wrong path from the very beginning, only paying attention to the miasma's most basic corrosive and destructive properties, while ignoring the application of the other properties of his own abyssal miasma.
This sudden discovery,
Bai Yuzhe scooped up Ye Yue and kissed her forehead hard.
"Okasan, I love you the most!"
"Huh?"
Ye Yue blinked, looking at Bai Yuze who was suddenly overjoyed, her eyes filled with doubt.
Why is Little Sticky Rice Cake suddenly so happy?
However, as long as the other party is happy
Then she would be happy.
After all, who wouldn't like their own child to show affection to them?