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Those people had blank stares, their complexions and the color of their lips visibly paled, the veins beneath their skin were exceptionally clear, and the liquid within pulsed and flowed, albeit tinged with black.

Xu Shuo squatted beside one of them to take a look.

Different monsters seemed to have different ways of influencing.

The contamination of Qing would cause the eroded person to regurgitate what it had ingested, dying alive from the direct act of vomiting.

Moreover, the conditions for erosion were unknown; it was as if being affected was a mere matter of making eye contact.

The Abyss creatures he had encountered in other script spaces had never exhibited a similar ability; the dancer was like a ghost and a monster at the same time, its ability was to directly open the Abyss.

As for the little girl on the train, she was too weak, the only young man who got contaminated even possessed a Character Card from The Holy Side.

Abyss creatures were like a contagious disease, and moreover, a disease that spread from mental contamination to the body.

Xu Shuo examined the person lying on the ground, noticing that the black blood flowing beneath their skin seemed to be converging to one place, and gradually, the person's belly seemed to be swelling up.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Shuo put on gloves and nimbly undid the person's equipment and clothing.

"What are you doing?!"

Suddenly, a voice of rebuke came from behind, followed by the sound of approaching footsteps.

Xu Shuo turned his head and saw the dark muzzle of a gun pointing at him.

The man who had run over was panting heavily, his hand holding the automatic rifle trembling uncontrollably, his lips already starting to unnaturally pale, yet his eyes were determined.

He watched the unfamiliar young man warily and demanded, "You're not one of us? Who are you, how did you get in, and what are you after?"

At his words, Xu Shuo tilted his head, "Still have the energy to get distracted and run over here asking these questions? Seems like you're quite spirited, I think you have the qualifications to be recruited by the space."

"..."

The man's face turned even whiter.

It wasn't merely a figure of speech; that kind of paleness was like translucent glass, pathological and fragile, like a diminishing life value.

After all, these people were ordinary, unlike the players in the Script Space, who after completing a play would receive a "thank you for playing" reward of [Psychic Power Boost +10 points].

One could say that the people there had quite strong immunity.

This world, in some respects, was also experiencing the erosion of the Abyss for the first time.

During the brief conversation between the two, the person lying in front of Xu Shuo suddenly started to twitch slightly, the blood beneath the skin pulsated and leaped, and his belly swelled larger and larger.

With his clothes unbuttoned, it was possible to clearly see something squirming beneath that thin layer of skin, eerie and chilling.

Xu Shuo quickly stood up and moved a bit further away.

"What on earth is happening to Little Zhang...?"

Seeing this, the gun-wielding man subconsciously wanted to move closer to inspect the situation but was suddenly grabbed by Xu Shuo, who seized the strap of his bulletproof vest and then forcefully flung him backward!

Pop——!

The man's belly, swollen as if he were pregnant for ten months, burst open!

A mass of pitch-black viscous substance squirted out, and immediately afterward, a round-headed, limb-bearing little creature crawled out from within.

The creature was entirely black and decayed, about thirty centimeters small, with a head that was featureless and made up half of its body, and the rest of it was limbs without fingers, utterly irregular in shape.

"What in the world is..."

Before the man could even finish his exclamation, the creature lunged at Xu Shuo!

Its jumping power was astonishing; it nearly reached him in a blink of an eye!

Xu Shuo remained calm, his left hand suddenly producing a dark green Bamboo Joint Cane, which he swung without hesitation from below upwards!

Bang!

The Little Ghost, leaping in mid-air, was instantly smacked apart, exploding into a pile of black goo that fell to the ground and after a while, this goo slithered away towards a distant place.

There lay a gigantic creature.

Xu Shuo propped the cane on the ground and turned to look at the man beside him.

At that moment, that man was in such discomfort that he was half-kneeling on the ground, gasping for breath and convulsing, yet also doubling over as though vomiting, with veins on his pale face faintly bulging.

"You don't look so good," Xu Shuo commented.

Xu Shuo squatted next to him, took out a red pill from his pocket, and handed it over, his eyes full of sincerity as he said, "Buying medicine? It's not expensive, I'll give you a discount, eleven thousand for one."

The man who was struggling glanced at him in his spare time. He couldn't speak, but the incredulous look in his eyes was very clear.

Xu Shuo directly stuffed the pill into his mouth.
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He didn't know if the man could manage to swallow it. In the midst of this, Xu Shuo swiftly turned back around and with one strike of his cane, he smashed the Little Ghost that pounced from the darkness into smithereens!

The influence of the monsters in this village seems to cause the creatures that are corrupted to become pregnant.

The budding Little Ghosts use human flesh and blood as nourishment, rapidly undergoing a ten-month gestation period before bursting directly from the stomach.

"Cough cough!"

At that moment, the man who was almost contaminated and transformed pulled through, the veins that were originally protruding in his body also receded, and although his face and lips remained pale, he seemed to be doing much better than before.

He looked up at the corpse with its belly torn open nearby, and muttered in shock, "They all died the same way as those villagers... What the hell is this thing?!"

He was looking at Xu Shuo when he spoke the last part of his sentence.

However, Xu Shuo did not respond to him, but instead gripped his cane tightly and observed his surroundings.

Perhaps it was time for the gestation to complete, as Little Ghosts kept pouncing towards him from all around.

Although those things had no facial features, naturally no mouth or claws, the malevolence they exuded seemed to have transformed into gaping maws!

Luo Kai was able to block the big boss, but he probably couldn't spare the attention to deal with these small and agile parasitic creatures.

And these creatures, without hesitation, turned towards Xu Shuo!

The title in the Script Space was undoubtedly useful...

Xu Shuo complained in his mind, but his hands were incredibly fast and his expression remained calm and untroubled as the dark green Bamboo Joint Cane smashed down hard on a Little Ghost that sprang at him!

Rotten-smelling mucus splattered out, which he agilely avoided.

The Bamboo Joint Cane remained as smooth as new under the faint light.

However, the relentless stream of Little Ghosts was indeed a bit overwhelming, and Xu Shuo was so busy he didn't even want to speak. The next moment, a flurry of gunshots came from his side.

Following that was the man's voice, full of surprise, "It works!"

Ordinary bullets pierced through the Little Ghosts' skulls, also blowing them up into a slime.

After that, Xu Shuo had it easier because the man was an impeccable shot. He only needed to step in with his cane when the man was reloading.

From the beginning to the end, Xu Shuo never left the area half a meter under his feet.

The pitch-black, rotten, and viscous substance scattered around them, and after a few seconds of silence, it began wriggling and rapidly crawling toward the giant monster nearby.

These Little Ghosts were nothing more than parts of that sinister and ominous body of the monster.

Perhaps they were nutrients forcefully produced by the monster as well.

Dozens of Little Ghosts also meant that dozens of people had already been sacrificed.

After things quieted down on their side, the man slowed his rapid breathing and racing heartbeat, and once again turned his gaze towards the ground not far away, his eyes faintly filled with sorrow.

He was responsible for the guard on the outskirts and had immediately organized manpower upon noticing something wrong in the village.

Clearly, his support was of no use at all, and he himself had almost turned into one of these ghastly figures.

And his comrades who received no help had already turned into this.

Thinking this, the man suddenly looked up.

The young man stood tall and straight in the weak light, tilting his head as he seemed to be paying attention to a movement in the distance. The searchlight's beam shot towards the sky, and the spilling light descended and lingered around the young man, as if sketching a halo.

Then, as if he had sensed the man's gaze, the young man looked back.

His face was clear-cut and handsome, very kind, giving a good first impression, even though his expression was indifferent, it wasn't a stiff lack of emotion, but felt pure and harmless.

Of course, if the man hadn't seen the way he had just calmly and viciously struck with an impassive face, these descriptors would be unproblematic.

As he was observed by those black eyes, the man immediately recovered his senses and asked again, "You do know what's really going on here, don't you?"

Xu Shuo looked at him, rather innocently shaking his head, "Actually, I don't."

It was true, he didn't know; they were investigators, after all.

There was no hurry to find out until after the investigation was complete.