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Chapter 369 - 368: A Way to Save Those Children

Chapter 369: Chapter 368: A Way to Save Those Children

"Phew..."

Sitting on the sofa, Fang Zheng closed his eyes and let out a long sigh.

So tired.

Fang Zheng had traveled through numerous worlds, but this world was the one that made him feel the most drained. It wasn’t physical tiredness, but rather a spiritual one.

He had already rescued many "Cursed Children," but it was still far from enough. Or rather, Fang Zheng felt he was caught in a strange cycle: the more "Cursed Children" he saved, the more he encountered their miserable conditions, which only fueled his desire to rescue all of them. However, this was not an easy task: although Fang Zheng had rescued quite a few "Cursed Children," it was still not enough.

This world truly sickened him...

Every time he thought about the plight of "Cursed Children," Fang Zheng felt both nauseous and heartbroken. These children weren’t powerless to resist; each of them possessed great strength and speed, even capable of hurling a car single-handedly without any problem. Yet, despite their power, these children had no choice but to endure even the cruelest mistreatment quietly. They simply didn’t know how to fight back or had anyone to protect them. Therefore, even with immense power, they could only submit to the brutality of others—because besides this, these children really didn’t know how to survive.

Fang Zheng had always thought the phrase "It’s not me, it’s the world that’s wrong" was rather melodramatic, but looking at it now, this world really seemed to fit the bill.

"Big brother... please have some tea..."

"Thank you, Midori."

Hearing that crisp, soft voice by his side, Fang Zheng opened his eyes and smiled at the silver-haired girl in front of him. He then reached out to accept the cup of tea she offered. Seeing the smile that appeared on the girl’s face, Fang Zheng felt substantially healed. This was also the reason he could keep going in rescuing these children; seeing them leave that painful and dark world behind to reveal innocent and pure smiles appropriate for their age made Fang Zheng feel that his efforts were not in vain.

"Big brother..."

"Hmm?"

Hearing Midori’s voice, Fang Zheng looked up, curious, and focused on the girl beside him. Fumie Busei showed a somewhat shy and uneasy expression faced with Fang Zheng’s gaze, but she still bit her lip and said in a low voice.

"Big brother, we... also want to help."

"Help?"

"Yes."

Fumie Busei nodded her head.

"Big brother has always been rescuing our sisters, but we don’t want to just stay here doing nothing. I, we also want to help you, big brother. We also hope to rescue other ’Cursed Children.’

"But..."

Hearing Fumie Busei speak, Fang Zheng furrowed his brow. It’s not that he hadn’t considered it. After all, his own strength was limited, and even though Heavenly Dao Palace could teleport him to any place in this world at will, relying only on himself he could only take away those gathered "Cursed Children." There were still some hidden or imprisoned "Cursed Children" that were difficult to find unless Fang Zheng used the Prophecy Spell.

To be honest, more people meant greater strength. Yet, Fang Zheng was reluctant to have these children act alongside him, as their experiences as "Cursed Children" were too horrendous. In fact, although Fang Zheng always managed to bring back quite a few "Cursed Children," there were others who were better off dead, and Fang Zheng had to personally help them leave this world. Even Fang Zheng, having traveled through multiple worlds, could not bear to witness such scenes, and he certainly didn’t wish for these innocent and pure-hearted children to face them either.

Furthermore, there was another major issue that restricted these "Cursed Children". freeωebnovēl.c૦m

Fang Zheng hadn’t yet brought these "Cursed Children" back to the Main World. The Heavenly Dao Palace, where they currently resided, was merely a "projection" of the Main World’s Heavenly Dao Palace in this world. The current "Pitch Black World" was still a mission world for Fang Zheng. If he wished to turn this world into a Free World, then Fang Zheng would need to establish a large and influential force like he had done in the World of Shana or Ironblood World, and intervene in the world’s processes to gain control.

This meant that if Fang Zheng hoped to protect all the "Cursed Children" in this world, he had to let them fight in this world to gain reputation and expand the influence of the Heavenly Dao Palace.

As for now, the biggest problem facing the "Cursed Children" was that as they aged, the rate of erosion by the virus within them gradually increased. After surpassing fifty percent, these children would turn into Intestinal Creatures.

Originally, Fang Zheng had hoped that the Zerg could find a solution to this problem, but just now, he had received a not entirely bad, but also not entirely good answer from Mirune.

The reason it wasn’t bad was because the Zerg had indeed found a way to handle the erosion rate of the Intestinal Virus.

The reason it wasn’t good was because this method... was not as perfect as Fang Zheng had envisioned.

According to the research conducted by Mirune and her team, the "Cursed Children", having been infected with the Intestinal Virus in the womb, had their genes mutated at birth. Many "Cursed Children", like Fumie Busei, had their bodily organs changed due to the strong influence of the Intestinal Virus, such as growing cat ears, and even having their skeletal structures altered. There were also "Cursed Children" who grew wings similar to those of birds, whose skeletal systems were nearly identical to birds, completely different from humans.

Under these circumstances, according to Fang Zheng’s thinking, the worst-case scenario would be nearly impossible to turn the "Cursed Children" back to normal human forms, unless they, like Fang Zheng, underwent genetic re-combination by the Zerg. But this method was not suitable for these children. That kind of genetic re-combination, Fang Zheng had only managed to endure because he had the system support, and it was uncertain if these children could withstand it.

Thus, the method Mirune proposed was to forcibly let the "Cursed Children"’s virus erosion rate exceed fifty percent and then enhance their own control by injecting Zerg cells, which would allow the "Cursed Children" to undergo a second phase of reintegration with the Intestinal Virus.

Originally, the "Cursed Children" would become creatures because, after the erosion rate exceeded fifty percent, the Intestinal Virus would erode and fuse with the human parts inside the "Cursed Children". Mirune’s method intended to enhance the human part of the "Cursed Children", thereby suppressing and taking the initiative in the fusion process.

This would result in the "Cursed Children" merging with the Intestinal Virus, rather than being overtaken by it.

However, this also had a flaw.

If the "Cursed Children" truly merged with the Intestinal Virus, then when they unleashed their power, their bodies would exhibit mutations influenced by the virus. For instance, Fumie Busei, infected by the cat-type Intestinal Virus, would develop features like ears and a tail after the merger. And it’s likely the same for other infectees.

Actually, for those infected with animal-type genes, it was still manageable, but for those with insect-type genes, it was a bit uncomfortable. After all, their bodies contained genes of spiders and even snails. If they underwent accelerated fusion, no one knew what they might turn into.

But one thing was certain, their form was surely not going to be pleasant to look at.

And if they wanted to change this situation, they would have to undergo another type of processing, namely a secondary decomposition and fusion, only retaining the useful parts of the Intestinal Virus, cutting off the excessive genes, and replacing them with Zerg genes.

Fang Zheng wasn’t sure if these "Cursed Children" would be willing to accept this method, and importantly, he hadn’t informed the "Cursed Children" about the Zerg. Considering their capacity to accept this, Fang Zheng hesitated, whether he should tell them everything, letting them make their own choices.

Perhaps looking at it now... that was the only method left.

"Midori."

Thinking this, Fang Zheng sighed deeply within his heart and then looked up at the cat-eared girl beside him.

"Notify everyone to gather. I have something very important to discuss with you."

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