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Chapter 206 - 190 Train

Chapter 206: Chapter 190 Train

The newly boarded passenger was a strangely shaped monster.

Its appearance was similar to a reindeer of the real world, standing upright on its hind legs, nearly two meters tall, with a body covered in fluffy gray fur. The area that should have been the cranium faced forward, cleanly flattened, with three pairs of yellowish eyes grown on the flesh.

A string of white bone bells hung from its pointed horns, clashing and cracking as it moved.

Such an eerie monster surprisingly possessed elements of human society—

It wore an ancestor bird hardshell jacket from a few years ago, carried a canvas bag, covered the cranium break with a sun hat, held a fishing rod in its left front limb, and carried a metal bucket in its right, from which the sound of a large fish tail slapping the water faintly emerged.

Could this monster actually be a fisherman?!

Apart from Li Cheng, the expressions of the other three were somewhat rigid, their weapons concealed under the table, exceedingly vigilant.

The reindeer creature seemed to have not noticed their tense expressions and nodded amicably at the humans before putting away the fishing rod and finding a nearby seat in the direction of the train head,

Even adjusting its sitting posture, resembling a retired old man enjoying life leisurely.

Bang!

The compartment door closed, the train started again, entering the ocean and tunneling into the seabed rock layer.

"It’s dangerous, I can feel it..."

Unwilling to speak, Midnight Howl wrote on paper with pens, his expression especially solemn.

As a member of the Monster Alliance guild, Midnight Howl has seen various bizarre monster transformations. The oppression from the reindeer was even more intense than that from the senior leaders of the guild.

Zhao Zijing rubbed her forehead. She tried to enter the physical features of the reindeer beast into the tablet computer as text for searching in the Global Supernatural Alliance database.

But every time she tried to type, her thoughts became chaotic and disordered, making it impossible to describe the reindeer beast in human language.

Obviously, the reindeer had the traits of meme pollution.

Sudden inspiration struck Zhao Zijing, and she quietly held up a piece of paper to block the silhouette of the reindeer,

First, sketching the outline of the reindeer with the light shadow, then emptying her mind and filling in the internal characteristics based on vague impressions, before scanning the sketch under the tablet camera.

And then...

[Scan failed, please use a clearer image]

Looking at the pop-up window on the tablet, Zhao Zijing’s expression stiffened and she silently closed the prompt.

No matter how skillfully she played with telekinesis, her artwork was terrible. The reindeer looked one-third like a donkey, one-third like a dog, and one-third like a pig.

The headless reindeer did not mind the faint noise from the rear of the car, and continued to open the canvas bag, taking out a metal lunchbox and silverware set to enjoy the meal.

The lunchbox faintly emitted a rich stench of rotting meat, unknowing of what species it belonged.

Red Driver wrote on the paper, asking Zhao Zijing: "Why not just take a photo?"

Zhao Zijing responded helplessly in writing: "Meme pollution has various levels; lower levels cause cognitive dissonance, higher levels distort reality. GOC management stipulates that no matter the level of meme pollution source, its initial photo cannot be directly input into the computer to prevent contamination spread."

"Any non-initial photo will do?" Li Cheng suddenly brightened, writing: "I have a way."

"Really?"

Red Driver breathed a sigh of relief. This Ant brother, although usually offbeat, with a wicked sense of humor, and an unconventional thought process, was quite reliable in handling matters... right?

Snap!

Li Cheng slapped his forehead, his left hand swiftly outlining with a pencil on the back of a paper, soon producing a finely detailed sketch.

With meticulous detail, perfect lines, and impeccable lighting and shadows, even the water bucket at the reindeer’s feet was drawn with a metallic texture.

The other three players were astonished, amazed not just by the drawing skill, but also how Ant easily blocked meme pollution.

Could it be that he carried some special equipment item? It shouldn’t be; such equipment is extremely expensive and usually comes in the form of helmets, glasses, or headphones.

The three remained puzzled, unaware that ever since Li Cheng became a player through killing the Ink Spider, he paid extra attention to meme creatures, searching for ways to counter them.

Li Cheng’s slap to his forehead was actually using the special effect of the Assembly Puppet, severing his corpus callosum.

The corpus callosum is a band of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain. When the corpus callosum is severed, the two hemispheres act independently.

This type of surgery was first used by doctors in the 1940s to treat epilepsy patients, during which scientists discovered that split-brain individuals exhibited many strange symptoms,

Such as a patient shopping in a supermarket where one hand would pick up an item, and the other would put it down, each controlled by a different hemisphere, appearing as though at odds.

Or when a patient viewed an object with the right eye, they could clearly state the item’s name. With the left eye, they couldn’t articulate what they saw but could easily draw it.

The left brain tends towards logical, the right brain towards imagistic.

Using this, Li Cheng employed the special effect of the Assembly Puppet to separate his left and right brains, and without thinking, solely used his right brain and left hand to draw the specific image of the reindeer beast.

Once finished, he used the Assembly Puppet one more time to reattach the hemispheres.

The entire process was internalized in the brain, appearing as magic to Zhao Zijing and the others.