Chapter 755: On-Site Destruction
Chapter 755: On-Site Destruction
"Followers, Deviators, Humans, Subhumans, Deities, Righteous Ones, High-Order Monsters..."
Lindsey muttered to himself as he walked, his words barely audible.
Behind him, the solitary figure of Arona followed closely.
The town Lindsey had previously rescued was filled with followers gathering supplies, and they naturally hoped that Arona would stay under their protection. Arona also pleaded with Lindsey to stay and safeguard humanity's future together.
However, after exchanging information, Arona still couldn't convince this man to stay.
As Lindsey set off again, Arona had no choice but to follow him.
The blind girl's final decision was to leave her fellow followers and catch up with Lindsey.
Her faith seemed to remind her that this man before her was destined for extraordinary feats, and she had to stay by his side.
Lindsey silently acknowledged Arona's decision.
After all, having a local with him would make things more convenient when encountering various situations, preventing confusion.
As he contemplated the current situation, Lindsey's thoughts also turned to the future.
All kinds of people and events converged here.
Entering the City of Law, the situation in the Dust Path World had already become so complex. What would happen when they returned home...
"I can't just go home and do nothing."
Whoosh—
At that moment, the scene before Lindsey's eyes shifted.
The spatial distortion occurred again.
Due to their position being closer to the center of the battlefield, the teleportation interval was longer this time, and Lindsey and Arona had already traveled half a day's distance.
The scene before them stabilized.
Immediately, a bloody aura filled their nostrils, and their vision was filled with a crimson hue.
"..."
Lindsey's expression darkened as he surveyed his surroundings.
Whether by luck or misfortune, he and Arona had been teleported to a small floating island completely covered in Corrupting Venom, making it difficult to find even a clean spot to stand.
"Waaaah—"
"What... what's going on here? I feel... uncomfortable..."
Lindsey turned to look at Arona, who was in distress.
Although the blind girl was also an Awakened, the concentration of Corrupting Venom on this floating island was too high. Even breathing could lead to malicious invasions, and Arona's Essence was not sufficient to completely counteract its effects.
Lindsey rushed to Arona's side:
"Quick, open your mouth!"
The dizzy girl opened her lips, and Lindsey fed her a Purification Fruit from a Withered Titan Arum.
In an instant, the dizziness in Arona's mind vanished completely.
She also felt her own body being strengthened by threefold by the fruit she had just consumed.
"What is this... Lindsey, what did you feed me?"
Lindsey replied softly:
"Purification Fruit, something to counter Corrupting Venom."
"I've dealt with these Deviators before, so I came prepared."
As Lindsey explained to Arona, he continued to observe their surroundings.
On the floating island covered in Corrupting Venom, there were no signs of any living creatures except for the two of them.
This was inevitable.
Lindsey and Arona had just experienced a spatial shift and were thrown here.
So, whoever was originally on this floating island, whether good or bad, subhuman or human, would have been teleported away.
However, when Lindsey activated his reconnaissance skill, a faint white light appeared on the corrupted ground, and he noticed a particularly conspicuous white light under a decaying tree not far away.
Lindsey immediately approached the area.
Arona, hearing Lindsey's footsteps, quickly followed:
"Lord Lindsey, this place is extremely dangerous. We must be cautious!"
Lindsey didn't respond.
In just a few steps, he reached the tree and saw what the white light was illuminating.
【A Subhuman Corpse - A subhuman body that had ingested an excessive amount of Corrupting Venom, leading to direct necrosis. Time of death was within three hours.】
A single subhuman corpse lay there.
And it was because they had ingested too much Corrupting Venom!
"..."
Lindsey fell silent.
He crouched down and turned the subhuman body over.
Some putrid, corrupted tissue hung from the corner of its mouth, extending from the throat to the abdomen. The flesh was rotting from the inside out, like a clear red river.
"He was... eating Corrupting Venom willingly?"
"Was he crazy? Or forced to do it?"
Lindsey's eyes showed disbelief.
【Corrupting Venom twists the body and the self's will. Even if one recovers their senses later, for Lindsey, this was no different from suicide.】
"..."
In the silence, Lindsey combined the white light.
Then he saw the scene he had imagined, yet didn't want to see.
The subhuman had been standing by the tree, using its claws to scrape off a piece of bark infected with Corrupting Venom. It then stuffed the bark into its mouth, chewed a few times, and forced it down.
It repeated this process several times.
The subhuman eventually succumbed to the Corrupting Venom's erosion, moaning as it fell to the ground.
Throughout this, Lindsey didn't see anyone forcing the subhuman; all actions were voluntary.
—Thinking of this, Lindsey immediately thought of Alice.
Out of a sense of justice, the Righteous Pathway Maiden was in contact with and protecting those subhumans. She didn't know about this yet!
Faced with this matter, Lindsey didn't hesitate to open the friend channel.
Lindsey: 【Alice, I must warn you! I've found another floating island covered in Corrupting Venom, and there are subhumans eating it!】
Alice: 【I'm already aware of this.】
Lindsey: 【You know about it?】
Alice: 【Most subhumans don't have skill reinforcement. They happened to discover Corrupting Venom on a floating island, so they're trying to rely on their strong physiques to utilize this venomous trick and master the Awakened's skills.】
Lindsey: 【And what's the actual situation you're seeing?】
Alice: 【This isn't a large-scale issue because voluntary infection is too dangerous and could easily take lives. As for the current situation—at least in my judgment, they aren't doing this with malicious intent; they're just protecting themselves.】
【...】
After the exchange, the two ended their communication.
Alice's perception and insight were extremely exaggerated, so her conclusion was unlikely to be wrong.
Lindsey then found and burned the subhuman's corrupted body.
He performed the funeral ceremony according to the teachings of the Death Cult.
After completing this task, he took out the Withered Tyrant Blossom seeds from his bag and began planting them, cleansing the floating island of Corrupting Venom.
Lindsey and Alice were different.
Even knowing that these things were the foundation of the subhumans' self-protection, Lindsey, considering the Deviators' harm, would not hesitate to destroy them!
(End of Chapter)
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