Chen Huaian had never hated cancer so much!
This damn thing not only wanted to take full control of his body but even tried to devour his spiritual energy?
Most of the medicinal power of the Qi-Xuan Pill was devoured by the demonized cancer cells.
Not only did this operation fail to eliminate the cancer cells, but it also inadvertently boosted them.
“Do you really think I can’t deal with you?”
Chen Huaian’s face darkened, a glint of killing intent flashing in his eyes.
After midnight, he would directly use celestial divination to prescribe the right treatment.
He wanted the sky to no longer block his vision.
He wanted the earth to no longer bury his roots.
He wanted the cancer to kneel before him and call him Dad!
Chen Huaian picked up his water cup and took a big gulp, but the water that usually obediently flowed into his stomach now disobeyed, rushing straight into his respiratory tract, nearly choking him to death.
The water he coughed out flowed along the metal floor’s seams until it reached an aged wire.
The wire sparked and short-circuited with a ‘pop.’
First affected was Chen Huaian’s zeroth room, where the electrical system went completely haywire. Rooms 1 and 2 shared some circuits with room 0, causing a chain reaction similar to a falling domino effect.
Finally, all three rooms’ circuits collapsed.
All containment functions started malfunctioning.
The three containment rooms plunged into darkness, while the thick, special metal walls separating rooms 0, 1, and 2 slid open suddenly.
This all happened within a few breaths.
By the time Chen Huaian reacted, his room had already gone dark.
Pitch-black.
“Did I, uh, maybe, sort of, just cause a short circuit by drinking water?” Chen Huaian cautiously put down the cup, already feeling the allure of what was described as ‘loss of luck.’ It’s no joke when bad luck can make you choke on water, and drinking water could lead to such a big mess.
“Will the Demon-Slaying Division make me pay?… I’m already in debt for 680,000 yuan. Where am I going to find the money to pay…”
Looking at the pitch-black surroundings, Chen Huaian felt bitter.
Suddenly.
Boom—! Boom—!
Two heavy footsteps echoed, shaking the ground.
Chen Huaian turned his head and saw two crimson eyes glowing in the darkness of room 1.
They looked over and quickly approached with the heavy footsteps.
“Holy cow!” Chen Huaian exclaimed: “Baby Bear is alive!!”
…
“Something’s wrong in the zeroth containment room!”
In the monitoring room, a group of Demon-Slaying Masters and researchers looked at the darkened rooms 0, 1, and 2 with grim faces.
“It must be a problem with the electrical system.”
Xiang Xiaoyuan couldn’t see inside the rooms, but she remained calm despite her anxiety: “Get the electricians to fix the circuits as soon as possible. As long as the partition walls between the rooms haven’t opened, it shouldn’t be too bad.”
“It’s over!” A researcher exclaimed, sweating profusely: “The partition walls between rooms 1 and 2 have already opened by themselves!”
“What?!” Xiang Xiaoyuan’s face changed dramatically, stomping her foot: “It’s over, we’re really in trouble now!”
“Yes, Captain Xiang. The KSC-01 toy bear, with its iron wall-piercing strength, is almost like the Hulk; KSC-02, the Dragon Sniper, even at General Level, would be seriously injured if unprepared. Now it’s really bad, these two are together…”
The Demon-Slaying Master next to Xiang Xiaoyuan looked despondent.
Fixing the circuits is easy, right?
The hard part is figuring out how to separate the toy bear and the Dragon Sniper later.
If things go wrong, they might lose a few teammates.
“We need to bring KSC-67,” Xiang Xiaoyuan told a nearby Demon-Slaying Master: “Remember to wear protective goggles, and find another Demon-Slaying Master who isn’t on any important missions to operate KSC-67.”
“Uh, are you planning to use KSC-67 to calm down rooms 0, 1, and 2?”
“No…” Xiang Xiaoyuan shook her head, smiling bitterly: “I’m afraid room 1 and 2 will be killed by room 0.”
…
KSC stands for extermination, suppression, and containment.
KSC-67 is known as the Static Radiance Hourglass, an ancient-looking black wooden hourglass made of crystal funnels and soft blue glowing sand. Any creature that gazes at it gradually becomes calm. Currently, it is effective against General Level and below, but the user must be a Resurrector, and both the user and the observer will experience short-term memory loss.
Repeated use by the same person will gradually compound the side effects, leading to memory confusion after five uses, and even mental fragmentation after ten uses.
The Static Radiance Hourglass is the core spiritual artifact used by the Demon-Slaying Division in Province C to contain and manage Resurrection anomalies.
In the early days when containment facilities were still underdeveloped, containment breaches often occurred.
Without the Static Radiance Hourglass, the current containment facilities might still be chaotic.
Previously, due to a lack of understanding of the side effects, the Static Radiance Hourglass was abused, leading to a Demon-Slaying Master losing critical mission information and another forgetting their abilities. Only then did the Demon-Slaying Division begin to take the side effects seriously.
Now, they try to avoid using it whenever possible.
After all, losing a segment of memory isn’t much, but losing one’s own abilities would be a huge loss.
Five minutes later, everyone brought the Static Radiance Hourglass to the entrance of rooms 0, 1, and 2.
Inside the containment rooms, it was pitch-black.
Loud fighting sounds echoed, making the ground tremble.
Occasionally, sharp gunshots from the Dragon Sniper could be heard.
“They’ve already started fighting…” Xiang Xiaoyuan sighed and waved at the electrician: “Turn on the lights first!”
The electrician had already prepared the external circuits and immediately switched them on upon receiving the order.
Rooms 0, 1, and 2 lit up one by one.
Seeing the scene, everyone gasped in shock.
Even though Xiang Xiaoyuan had expected the outcome, she couldn’t help but twitch at the sight.
Inside the zeroth containment room, the shattered walls, deformed floors, and torn furniture created a Van Gogh-like scene.
A giant pink toy bear lay on the ground, panting heavily, with wires bursting from its body and the Dragon Sniper’s barrel wrapped around its neck like a bow. Feeling the gaze, the Dragon Sniper emitted a weak cry, and the vertical pupil in its sniper scope showed human-like pleading and helplessness.
Chen Huaian sat cross-legged on the toy bear’s belly, his upper body bare.
Faint spiritual energy could be seen swirling around him.
“Hey!” Chen Huaian waved at Xiang Xiaoyuan with a bashful smile: “These furniture, floors, and walls were all smashed by these two, not me. If you want to pay for damages, go after them.”
“Right, babybear?”
The toy bear couldn’t answer Chen Huaian’s question.
So Chen Huaian grabbed the toy bear’s neck, smashing its head into the metal floor.
Bam bam.
A spring burst from the toy bear’s head, shattering the metal floor.
Chen Huaian looked up at everyone with a kind smile:
“See, it nodded.”
