Under the flickering lights, two teams of Purgers and Cleaners were confronting each other.
Although they were both under the command of the Inquisition, one of them was responsible for purifying monsters, and the other was responsible for cleaning demonized people. But where there were demonized people, there would be a lot of demonized items. Therefore, the Purgers and Cleaners often had overlapping work scopes, and they often had conflicts over authority and command. They were not "worker bees" who did not have the ability to think independently. After being in contact with monsters and demonized people for a long time, they would more or less be affected and develop thoughts and emotions. At the very least, they had to simulate such things with their computational ability for their work.
However, when they saw Chu Zhixiao, the Purgers and Cleaners immediately stopped arguing and stared at her weirdly at the same time, as if she was some kind of alien that was covered in viruses.
Chu Zhixiao had long been used to such stares.
She pulled open the cordon and walked straight to the place where the smell of blood was the strongest.
"Major Chu —"
A Cleaner came up stiffly to stop her. "This is just a regular 'ghoul incident', and there are already four or five teams of Purgers and Cleaners here. I don't think we need to bother you … Yaksha Squad, you're here, aren't you?"
"A regular 'ghoul incident'?"
Chu Zhixiao did not even look at the Cleaner. She said coldly, "A regular ghoul incident doesn't happen so fast. In just twenty-four hours, thousands of ghouls have been born. Even the priests of the race of Ultimate Benevolence are involved. This is not a situation that you can deal with. Go away."
She reached out and tried to push the Purger in front of her away.
But before her hand touched the Purger, the Purger jumped away as if he had been electrocuted.
Chu Zhixiao's eyes rippled with insignificant emotions as he strode forward expressionlessly.
The Purgers and Cleaners in front of her were like water being separated by rocks. They automatically made way for her, and she came to the first scene where blood was everywhere.
This was the combustion accelerant mixing chamber. In the narrow, semi-open cabin, there were nearly ten corpses lying everywhere. All the corpses had obvious bite marks on their throats, arms, and even chests. The most miserable corpse even had its internal organs dug out, and its ribs were like broken spears poking into the sky.
The incomparably bloody and disgusting scene did not make Chu Zhixiao's eyelashes tremble. Her indifferent gaze swept over all the mutilated corpses. Her thick soled military boots indifferently stepped through the pool of blood, leaving bloody footprints with each step as she walked towards the cabin behind.
In the back of the cabin, there seemed to be a ferocious beast locked inside. It was constantly letting out brutal roars and banging sounds. The several inches thick cabin walls were bulging because of it.
"What's the situation? Are they ghouls?"
Chu Zhixiao suddenly asked before he stepped into the second cabin.
"That's right. They are indeed the poor creatures who have been infected by the 'Taotie Virus' and turned into ghouls. Also, judging from their strength and brutality, it is a certain upgraded version of the Taotie Virus. Its infectivity, lethality, and threat have all been significantly increased."
An unusually mellow voice came from the second cabin.
If a person's appearance was determined by their voice, then the owner of the voice must be a peerlessly handsome man.
However, judging from the expressions of the Purgers and Cleaners around as if they had seen a ghost and were facing a great enemy, there should not have been anyone in the second cabin at all ten seconds ago.
When Chu Zhixiao walked into the second cabin, the first thing she saw was a … monster that was bound tightly by chains as thick as an arm and sealed in a corner.
He was still wearing the tattered uniform of a battleship soldier, but the skin under the uniform had turned a burning crimson. Thick veins bulged and gathered from his limbs to his abdomen, causing his abdomen to swell abnormally, like a pregnant woman who had been pregnant for ten months.
There was not the slightest sense of piety and obedience in his dirty eyes anymore. Instead, he seemed to have degenerated into a ravenous beast. His brain was completely occupied by primitive desires. He bared his teeth and spat out saliva.
Judging from his drooling appearance, he seemed to be very interested in the 'meat fragrance' from Chu Zhixiao and wanted to lunge forward and take a bite. However, he was bound by the chains and could not break free no matter how hard he struggled. He was so anxious that he went crazy and screamed crazily, smashing his head into the steel plate of the cabin wall. His head was bleeding badly, and he was in a mess.
Then, a scene that made one's blood freeze happened!
After he smashed out a large cluster of blood on the cabin wall, he was attracted by the smell of his own blood. He extended his tongue and licked his blood greedily. After licking every drop of blood, he was still not satisfied. He shook his head again and crashed into the wall heavily, causing a large cluster of blood to splash out. Then, he continued licking.
From the looks of it, if no one stopped him, he could keep hitting and licking like this until he was killed or devoured alive!
Any normal person would've shrieked when they saw such a weird scene.
However, the two people in the cabin other than the monster, both 'Major' Chu Zhixiao and the middle-aged man who was as handsome as the stars and even more 'handsome' than his voice, were far away from the standards of 'normal people' of the Holy League, the Federation, and the Imperium.
Chu Zhixiao lost interest in the 'ghoul' after only one look. He turned around and looked at the handsome middle-aged man with long hair. The man was' Black Dream 'Yun Haixin, one of the four core members of the yaksha squad and an Immortal Cultivator who had joined the Holy League with a clear head and intact memories.
"I snuck into the guy's head just now and saw what happened in the engine compartment in the past twenty-four hours. It was indeed a typical scene of the outbreak of the 'Taotie Virus', except that it was faster and more violent than the outbreaks in the past."
Vague black mist was swirling in Yun Haixin's eyes all the time, hiding his real eyes and feelings in a black illusion. He said, "Also, one of the three priests on the Light Chaser has indeed mutated into a 'ghoul'. The Taotie Virus in the past was not so fatal and contagious. Even the most 'holy' and 'determined' priests have been enslaved by it. Haha!"
Chu Zhixiao ignored the obvious mockery in Yun Haixin's words and was deep in thought.
The 'Taotie Virus', which had spread out on the planets and fleets of the Holy League in the past two years, was not a real virus but a 'mental drug' that directly worked on the human brain.
Compared to the 'devilized people' of the Imperium of True Human Beings, the people of the Holy League boasted amazing telepathy and brainwave resonation abilities. They would open their brains every morning and night and bathe in the holy light. A lot of simple commands were directly transmitted through their brainwaves.
Such a way of communication and a social structure also meant that their brains were more vulnerable and vulnerable to the intrusion and interference of those with ill intentions. As long as the brain of one of the people of the Holy League was compromised, and everybody opened their brains in the rite of holy light, it was very likely that they would be cross-infected and develop into a large-scale outbreak of feelings and viruses.
The 'Taotie Virus' was a mental drug that worked on the brain and stimulated the primitive desires deep inside the soul. To be more exact, it stimulated the 'appetite' of human beings.
When such a secret and fatal mental drug was implanted into the brain of a person through the Spiritual Nexus, telepathy, or direct hypnosis, it would unlock the appetites of the people of the Holy League that had been suppressed for a long time.
At first, the 'Taotie Virus' would deceive their taste buds and their taste nerves, allowing them to taste the delicacies in the synthesized food that tasted like wax.
It was not hard to imagine how ecstasy it was for the people of the Holy League who had been drinking the tasteless paste their entire lives when their taste buds suddenly exploded.
Those poor people of the Holy League were often captured by the 'Taotie Virus' in the blink of an eye and reduced to slaves of their appetites. However, like all other drugs, such mental drugs were more and more unsatisfying. The more they swallowed, the more unsatisfied they would be, and the more unsatisfied they would be, and the more unsatisfied they would be, the more they would have to swallow more and more food. In the end, the stimulation of the mental drugs gradually died down, and no matter how much synthesized food they swallowed, they would not be able to taste any sweetness from it anymore. At this moment, the people whose mouths had been spoiled by the 'Taotie Virus' couldn't stand the monotony of the synthesized food anymore.
At this moment, their faith in the gods and their reverence for the Ultimate Benevolence Masters had been destroyed and swallowed by the gluttons in their stomachs. They were determined to find fresher and tastier food, real food, instead of the sticky excrement, by hook or by crotch or by crotch or by hook or by crotch!
Unfortunately, on most of the planets and starships that were short of resources, and especially within the reach of the 'worker bees' and the 'soldier bees' at the bottom level, there was only one thing that could be called 'delicious food'.
It was their bodies of flesh and blood.
Just like that, the 'ghouls' were born.
Their brains were deeply corrupted and paralyzed by the 'Taotie Virus', and their self-awareness was controlled by their strong appetites. They would bite anyone they saw, and they would eat meat, suck blood, chew bones, and swallow internal organs, and enjoy unparalleled pleasure in the bloody swallowing. That was the typical image of the ghouls, the pathetic victims of the Taotie Virus.
It was without a doubt that the 'Taotie Virus' was an evil weapon created by the 'Puppet King', the new leader of the Divine Heart Society, to overthrow the Holy League.
Also, in only one year, the Puppet King had been modifying and upgrading the damage of the 'Taotie Virus'.
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