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Chapter 1030 - 682 Population Source

Chapter 1030: Chapter 682 Population Source

Li Changhe had also seen similar deformed humanoid creatures.

They were the indigenous wild men on Mysterious Island, with their twisted and horrifying bodies, and among them, completely mutated subspecies had emerged. Some were huge, some had numerous arms and legs. On Mysterious Island, they had caused Li Changhe quite a bit of trouble.

But that was all right, for they were but a clone army infected by the insect god.

To consider them enemies and eliminate them was the option.

However, at this moment, the Bottom Nest before Li Changhe’s eyes... was full of beings who were once human but had been transformed into monsters by some power.

They were originally just ordinary humans, but under the operation of the Xuan City Queen, they had turned into these monsters.

In this sunless underground city, they fought over territory like beasts, scrambled for food, even resorting to cannibalism...

And who would have thought, beneath the beautiful and envied Xuan City, such Ghost Eels existed!

The Queen of Xuan City... heh...

Li Changhe looked back at the three-armed girl. If she really was Guo Yi’s aunt, the scouting party that lost contact ten years ago,

then she had clearly suffered inhuman treatment.

"Brother Ting, is she still rational?" Li Changhe asked softly. After using the Seal of the Heroic Spirit to extract the girl’s mental strength, Yun Ting could easily discern her thoughts.

"Yes, but it’s very weak. Her thoughts are highly chaotic, and I’m not sure if she bears hostility towards humans," Yun Ting responded softly. Although the three-armed girl no longer had the appearance of a normal human, she still retained some rationality, which was evident from the way she handled food with a cross-cut.

"For specifics, we’ll probably have to let Chen Yu take a look," Yun Ting said.

Chen Yu’s Sequence was Nightmare, capable of constructing worlds in dreams; her abilities were perfect for investigation. She could even find out everything without waking the three-armed girl.

Li Changhe silently nodded and then contacted Xiao Nan, Chen Yu, and Qiu Wentian in [Friends].

Afterward, he said to Yang Ming, "Take her back the way we came, to the inn, and hand her over to the general’s wife."

"We’re going back? What about you, General?" Yang Ming asked.

"Me?" Li Changhe looked at the eerie city beneath his feet and said, "I’m going to take a look down there. To settle a score with that damn insect god!"

"General, I will accompany you!" Wu Jie immediately said, "This place is too dangerous; you can’t go alone."

"Right, General," Yang Ming also advised. Their original plan was to infiltrate the Bottom Nest and find the insect god. They couldn’t bear letting their general go alone.

"Enough, I have Disguise methods. If I go with you, we’re more likely to be discovered," Li Changhe replied, "And if discovered, I can make it out on my own. You go back first; that’s an order."

After a moment of hesitation, the soldiers silently nodded. Armored warriors indeed had difficulty hiding and were at risk of being discovered.

So, they took the unconscious three-armed girl and returned to the cave.

Meanwhile, Li Changhe began to disguise himself. He first changed into a black tight-fitting outfit, then took out [Mimicry Clay] and [Mimicry Blood Repository].

He spread the clay on his arms, and soon the Effect of the clay was triggered, solidifying into a layer of artificial skin on Li Changhe’s arms.

This made his arms appear larger, and then Li Changhe carefully pulled his arm out of the clay, acquiring a ’genuine leather glove.’

Next, Li Changhe filled the glove with the Mimicry Blood Repository. He then connected the Blood Repository to his abdomen. To an onlooker, it would seem as if an extra arm had grown from Li Changhe’s abdomen.

This way, the ’phantom limb’ of the Mimicry Blood Repository was created.

The Mimicry Blood Repository was actually a type of armor, which players could freely control to assemble human organs and make them function as they should. In critical situations, it could even replace a damaged windpipe and keep functioning.

Now, disguised as clay, Li Changhe sprouted an extra arm.

With this, at least in appearance, Li Changhe was indistinguishable from these mutants.

He picked up the fish blood that had been left in a clay pot by a three-armed girl, smeared some on his face and body, and after making sure he hadn’t missed anything, Li Changhe headed towards the edge of the stone pillar and began to descend it.

The disguise indeed worked.

But the other mutants, upon discovering Li Changhe, either hid their food behind them after a glance or issued a threatening roar at Li Changhe.

Clearly, they did not suspect Li Changhe’s identity.

However, Li Changhe also noticed some distinctive traits among them.

The closer to the ground, the more pronounced their mutations became.

The mutants on the stone pillars had at most an extra arm or leg and lived upon the pillars, warily watching each other.

Below the pillars, the degree of mutation skyrocketed. Some had parts of their bodies grotesquely enlarged, with powerful muscles tearing through their skin. Others had their heads and faces deformed, similar to the Ghost Eels Li Changhe had encountered before, equipped with sharp oral appendages. There was a variety of mutations.

These mutants often fought each other, and as Li Changhe made his way down, he witnessed a fight between two of them.

One had four arms, each strong limb tipped with sharp claws.

The other was endowed with thick and powerful legs, trailing a tail as thick as the mouth of a bowl. Its pointed tail tip scraped sparks off the ground like fireworks.

They were already very close to the Ghost Eels that Li Changhe had seen before. He wondered if, with further mutation, they might become fully formed Ghost Eels.

Their fight was brutally fierce until the four-armed mutant broke its opponent’s arm with a punch and slit its throat, bringing the battle to an end.

After the combat, the four-armed mutant tore open the corpse, pulled out its spinal column, and began to gnaw on it voraciously.

Upon discovering Li Changhe, it let out a threatening growl.

Presumably, the Protection from the Human Guardian made it uneasy about Li Changhe. It didn’t attack immediately but quickly left with the spinal column.

Li Changhe watched it calmly and continued to move forward.

As Li Changhe delved deeper, he encountered an increasing number of mutants.

When he reached the ground, he even saw mature individuals that had completely transformed into the likeness of Ghost Eels, along with some even more bizarre entities.

At that moment, as if responding to some signal, they rapidly scattered.

Li Changhe took the opportunity to hide behind a dimly lit stone wall and saw a crane slowly lowering from the top of the Bottom Nest.

It was filled with fully-armed female warriors from Xuan City who, unlike the soldiers Li Changhe had seen before, were part of the Inner city’s Royal Guard. They were the personal guards of the Queen of Xuan City and represented the most coveted position among the people of Xuan City.

At that moment, the Queen’s Royal Guards, paying no attention to the monsters around them, quickly jumped down from the crane and opened the iron cage at the bottom of it.

One by one, the younger mutants were herded out of the cage. They cried and fled into the darkness, and no one knew how many of them would survive in the end.

Then, Li Changhe understood.

The source of the Bottom Nest’s population... was those children sent into the Inner city.