At the border between Jiang Jin and Nanyang, a six-wheeled truck was overturned on the side of the road.
The driver of the truck knocked his head on the steering wheel and fainted — except for a slight concussion, there shouldn't be any sequelae or obvious external injuries.
The fully-enclosed container carriage that was supposed to contain things had been torn in half a few meters away from the bottom of the carriage.
That's right, torn.
It was as if a monster like Godzilla had directly torn the entire carriage apart from the outside with terrifying strength.
What was surprising was that the carriage was empty, as if nothing had been in it before.
But in fact, a few minutes ago, there was a "cargo" in the container.
About three kilometers away from the site of the incident, there was a crater with a diameter of more than 300 meters in the deserted farmland due to the winter.
At the bottom of the crater, there were some remnants of charcoal — these were the only remnants of the "cargo" left in this world.
Xu Shenxing stood beside the crater. His right hand was clenched into a fist with white smoke curling up from it. He was talking to Qin Xingyan on the phone.
"Yes, that's right, it's solved. Although Mo Li pointed in the right direction, because the enemy is not in Jiang Jin, it took a little more time. "
"Sam?"
When Mo Li heard her name, she was sitting on a leafless peach tree and eating sweet potatoes. She looked up at Xu Shenxing in confusion, but when she realized that he wasn't calling her, she continued to eat sweet potatoes with a happy expression.
[It should be near Nanyang, right? Sorry, if I had thought of it earlier … Although it's a presumptuous request, can you tell me what the enemy looks like?]
Qin Xingyan seemed to be quite apologetic for not thinking of this earlier.
"Enemy? Ah … You're talking about that kind of thing … I don't think it's worth talking about. "
[Huh?]
Qin Xingyan sounded a little surprised by Xu Shenxing's statement.
Indeed, Xu Shenxing had invincible power. In Qin Xingyan's knowledge, there had never been an enemy that could be called a match for Xu Shenxing.
But no matter what kind of enemy it was, the previous Xu Shenxing would never express his contempt and disdain so blatantly.
"Simply put, it looks like a lump of meat that has long lost its human shape."
Xu Shenxing recalled the disgusting scene he saw when he tore open the container and couldn't help but frown.
"Before I smashed it, I used the cloud scale to briefly sense and roughly understood what it was."
[Okay, I'm listening.]
Although she couldn't see Qin Xingyan's face, she was probably sitting upright and waiting for Xu Shenxing's conclusion.
"That thing probably took over a body that didn't belong to it, but because the soul and body are not compatible, the body can't understand that it's still alive. Well, it's probably in a state of 'dying' for a long time. It belongs to the category above a corpse and below a vegetative state."
[Living dead? … No, it should be a state worse than that.]
"That's right. That thing should also be very aware of its own situation, so it used some method to disrupt the normal metabolism of the body, forcing the body to constantly 'grow' to replace the part that was constantly 'dying' and beginning to rot."
[…]
"But this abnormal growth has obviously been out of control for a long time, so in the end, the internal organs, bones, muscles, and even lymphoid tissues began to gradually lose their human appearance due to the disorderly growth. In the end, that guy became a barely 'living' piece of meat. Although it might be able to live forever under the premise of sufficient nutrients, that's all it is. Without the essence of being a human, it's not impossible to regard it as a piece of meat that simply grew cells. "
[Twisted eternal life …]
"Yes, even the ability to move is completely lost, and the brain has become a strange organization. Maybe even the ability to think has problems, and it can't even be called an enemy."
[I see.]
"Although a powerful soul itself also has a certain degree of thinking ability, it's just like 'a healthy soul that resides in a healthy body and a healthy spirit'. In fact, the soul will be affected by the body."
[Is that so?]
"Well, to use an easy-to-understand example, for example, there is a genre called 'transformation novels' in online novels. The general content is that the male protagonist reincarnates or transmigrates into the body of a woman for some reason. Although there are some protagonists who still do things their own way, most of the protagonists' behavior pattern will gradually become closer to that of a woman. This is the typical situation of 'the body affects the soul'. That guy's body has become like this, so his soul is probably also distorted quite seriously. "
[Senior actually has money to read novels?! Is it possible that you're reading pirated novels?]
"That's not the point! I still have the money to support the original version! "
Xu Shenxing complained with an embarrassed face.
"Judging from the fact that he ran away after seeing me, the instincts of the body probably still remain. But that's it … With that kind of broken soul, maintaining that kind of distorted body to carry out instinctive activities is already the limit. "
[Broken soul?]
"Yes, a soul so weak that it's quite pitiful. If the soul of an ordinary person is a bonfire, then the soul lodging in that piece of meat is like a child playing with fireworks. It's so weak that it will go out if you're not careful. "
[… Strange?]
After a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, Qin Xingyan muttered to himself.
"What's wrong?" Xu Shenxing couldn't help but ask curiously.
[Although I 100% believe senior's words, this conflicts with the information.]
"Conflicts?"
[Because at the beginning, the Bailu Temple learned of the existence of this monster because it killed a considerable number of people, extracted their souls, and carried out some kind of ritual to replace itself with a body … But if this monster's soul is as weak as a candle in the wind as senior said, can it really do this kind of thing?]
"There's actually such an inside story …"
Xu Shenxing couldn't help but be a little surprised.
It seems that I'm thinking too simply.
But the monsters he dealt with in Jiang Jin were basically monsters, and most of the monsters were quite straightforward because they looked down on humans.
Their thinking was basically: I want to be the king of this land, and whoever dares to stop me will be killed! Ah, this idea is a bit tricky, but I can't back down, I'll do it! Damn, I can't do it, I'll run away → F * ck, I can't run away, I'll be a coward → Spare my life, I'll do whatever you say …
[Senior!]
"What's wrong?"
[I just caught the ghoul controlled by that guy … I have very bad news.]
"What's the situation?"
[That guy seems to have implanted his soul fragments into the ghoul's body. While controlling the ghoul, he also used the ghoul as a 'base station' to form a soul network within a certain distance. And judging from the ghoul's still active situation, that guy isn't dead yet!]
"In other words, we have to annihilate all of those damn things?" Xu Shenxing's expression couldn't help but twitch, and he muttered regretfully, "If I knew, I would've left that guy's corpse intact and used it to cut off the karma line …"
[No, this kind of soul network isn't 4G, after all. It takes a long time to upload one's soul, and the ghoul's soul fragments have limited capacity. If the other party started uploading when he was attacked by senior, it would've been absolutely too late.]
"In other words …"
[That monster who pursues immortality, I'm afraid that before senior attacked his body, he had already found a carrier he liked.]
"Tsk."
Xu Shenxing clicked his tongue unhappily.
An ominous premonition spread from the bottom of his heart.
"Mo Li, don't eat anymore, let's go."
"Where are we going?" The little guy tilted his head and asked.
"Jiang Jin."
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