"What are you doing?!" The vet was too weak to struggle. The man before him was more cunning than a ghost, he would not be surprised no matter what the man did. "Please let me go, I can stay to help you …"
"I really want to know where these carcasses came from."
"It's that monster's handiwork, I rarely torture …"
"Then who caused the countless wounds and stitches on the monster's body?" Han Fei's questions silenced the vet. "I am a very kind person, I will not kill the innocent. You can deal with this on your own."
Han Fei shoved the dying vet into the ghost tattoo. After attracting the Nine-lives' attention and anger, Han Fei started to use the vet as a bargaining chip to train the Nine-lives.
The most basic condition was that as long as the Nine-lives did not harm Han Fei, Han Fei would help it take revenge.
The veterinarian had never thought that he would one day become a cat teaser.
With the vet's help, the Nine-lives finally learned to listen to simple commands but its loyalty remained at zero.
Seeing the Nine-lives becoming more obedient, Han Fei picked up the vet's Lingering Spirit. He felt a sense of achievement. 'Is this why people like to keep pets? It's quite stress-relieving. '
After another 10 minutes, the loyalty did not change. In the end, Han Fei sent the vet into the ghost tattoo.
After the vet was killed by the Nine-lives, its loyalty finally dropped to 1.
At the same time, Han Fei received another system notification.
"Notification for Player 0000! You've successfully explored 10 buildings and lit up Yi Ming Street on the map. Obtained Random Exploration Reward Chest. Please open the map to make your selection! "
Han Fei had received the system notification before he left for Cattle Alley. Now he finally completed the exploration mission.
"Just to explore this street, I almost lost my life."
In other games, the players would have left the Beginner Village by now but Han Fei was still wandering around the streets outside the spawn point. His level was only 11, he had no idea whether his progress was fast or slow.
Opening the map, Han Fei saw several weak spots of light in the darkness. If one did not look closely, one would not notice them.
Han Fei zoomed in on the map to find his location. All the buildings that he had explored formed a line of light the width of a fingernail.
"Just how big is this cryptic world? Why do I feel like I won't be able to finish exploring it in my lifetime? "
Han Fei sighed softly. Then he pulled himself together and clicked on the treasure chest on the map.
"Randomly selecting reward …"
"Congratulations, Player 0000, you've gained Grade G Auxiliary Exploration Skill — Directional Item Collecting!"
"Please choose a certain type of item, such as money, food, weapons, etc. Once you've made your choice, there's a certain probability that you'll receive a notification when there's such an item around you while exploring the map. "
This was the first time that Han Fei had seen an auxiliary exploration ability. This kind of ability was very helpful for map deduction.
'In the cryptic world, money is like paper, food of unknown origin is no different from poison. Weapons are still useful but I'm heading to the Ziggurat, what I need the most is not weapons but cursed objects.'
After entering the Ziggurat, resentment would be sent to a random room. No matter how much resentment Han Fei brought with him, everyone would be separated. However, cursed objects did not seem to be affected by this rule.
After thinking for a while, Han Fei chose the cursed object, which was a rare type.
"You've gained Grade G Auxiliary Exploration Skill — Cursed Object Collector!
"This is a passive ability. When there's a cursed object around you, there's a chance to receive a system notification!
"Notification for Player 000! There's an undiscovered cursed object at the pet shop! Please retrieve it in time! "
Han Fei had just gained this passive ability when the system gave him the system notification.
"There's a cursed object inside this pet shop?"
The neighbours searched for it. Finally, they came to the medium-sized lingering spirit that was trapped inside the cage.
The blood chains that bound the spirit appeared to be the cursed object inside the pet shop.
"Open the cage, it doesn't matter who it is, but don't break the chains."
Han Fei's neighbours opened the cage and restrained the medium-sized lingering spirit. Then they waited for Han Fei to make his move.
The Blade of Rebirth sliced through the spirit's body easily. Perhaps due to the amount of sin it had committed, the blade sliced through the spirit's chest.
The spirit screamed hysterically. The scars and butterfly patterns on its body melted away. Dark red blood leaked out from the wound on its chest. Then a broken cocoon dropped to the ground.
"Human cocoon?"
Han Fei had not seen this thing for a long time. However, he remembered clearly that many of the non-locals that were controlled by the butterfly had cocoons inside their bodies.
The butterfly appeared to use them to control the non-locals and at the same time, it used the non-locals as a breeding ground for human cocoons.
The human cocoon was filled with viscous blood. The half-formed worm crawled on the ground. It looked like it was about to die.
Han Fei didn't pay attention to it at first, but what happened next surprised Han Fei a little. The souls that had accumulated in the pet shop seemed to be attracted by this deformed insect. They all wanted to get into the insect's body, as if they could be reborn this way.
The insect that crawled out of the cocoon did not have any beautiful butterfly patterns on its body, only black scars. It could not withstand too many animal souls, and it stopped moving after a few seconds.
"The human cocoon is used by the butterfly to control resentment. It feeds on human flesh and human nature. The more complicated the human nature, the more beautiful the butterfly pattern." Han Fei took out the human cocoon that he had obtained before from his inventory.
The small human cocoon had sucked enough blood that it was almost transparent. The thing inside appeared to be breaking out of the cocoon.
'What will happen if I don't let it feed on human nature?'
Han Fei had no use for the human cocoon. After a moment's hesitation, he dug out a blood pool under the pet shop and placed the mature human cocoon into it.
Initially, there was no reaction but slowly, blood vessels appeared on the surface of the cocoon. It started to feed on the blood of the surrounding animals.
Han Fei tossed the sewn animal carcasses into the blood pool. The animal souls attached to the carcasses did not want to die so they started to scream and howl.
As the skin of the human cocoon thinned, the souls seemed to smell the hope of survival. They surged madly towards the cocoon!
The blood pool at the bottom of the pit was soon filled with the souls of various animals. All the souls that had accumulated inside the pet shop crawled towards the human cocoon.
'Why is this happening?'
The human cocoon that was supposed to be fed with human nature was stuffed with countless pet souls by Han Fei. The worm inside the cocoon started to mutate.
The thumb-sized human figurine expanded. Layers of blood smeared over the beautiful patterns until all that was left was blood and madness.
After all the animal blood in the pit was sucked dry, the surface of the human cocoon finally cracked.
Han Fei and the few neighbors were on high alert as they stared into the pit.
Following a soft crack, the human cocoon was torn open. However, what crawled out was not a butterfly but a ferocious-looking worm with two horns on its head and spikes all over its body.
The neighbors looked at each other before turning to Han Fei. Han Fei was also confused. Why would a butterfly's cocoon give birth to such a thing?
The system could only identify items that Han Fei had touched. Seeing the spikes on the worm, Han Fei did not dare to touch it.
"Manager, I've worked at the convenience store for so long but I've never seen something like this before." Drake wanted to get close to the insect, but as soon as he got close, the insect started to attack him. Its speed was ridiculously fast.
The stalemate lasted for a while. Han Fei slowly realized that the worm did not have much hostility towards him.
'Is this related to the fact that I used my own blood to feed the human cocoon?'
Han Fei's courage grew. He tried to get closer to the worm. Seeing that it did not resist, he tried to touch it lightly.
"Player 0000! You've discovered Grade G Cursed Parasite — Great Sin.
"Great Sin (Grade G Larva): An extremely rare insect in the cryptic world. Its body is covered in spikes and the spikes contain soul poison. It will only appear during the Year of Catastrophe, a bad omen."
Han Fei did not pay attention to the system. He looked at his finger. "The spikes contain soul poison?"
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