Chapter Eighty-six Trouble

  Jiǔ Mìng raised his head and took a glance, several large strange birds flew over his head with a whooshing sound...

  Moreover, two of them seemed to have targeted him, who made him stand tall now? After glancing at the two strange birds flying over, Jiǔ Mìng quickly sliced one hand across their necks as they scratched with their claws.

  Two faint crackling sounds of bone fragments arose, not like the ones electrocuted earlier. When these two flew down, their wings flapped down a considerable amount of fine particles. These fine particles were very familiar, weren't they those spores?

  Is it spread through this strange bird?

  Continuing to think of somewhere else to go, they walked for a while. Along the way, Jiǔ Mìng saw that most of the shops were closed, and those that were open had extra bodyguards at the entrance. They could feel that none of them were weak. Upon closer observation, most of the pedestrians on the street weren't ordinary people either.

  Found a very tall building, Jiu Ming climbed up, normally doing this kind of thing is absolutely illegal, now Jiu Ming met several others like him 'Spiderman', everyone just exchanged greetings and went about their own business.

  "Hey, be careful on your way up!" One of the Abnormals hanging from the edge of the skyscraper had just lit a cigarette and saw Jiumeng continuing to climb upwards. After taking a drag, he loudly hailed Jiumeng, but his voice seemed to be a bit too loud, as several large strange birds flew over from the other side of the building, flapping their wings.

  "Not even a cigarette is allowed!" He cursed in a low voice, quickly pinching off the cigarette butt in his hand. With a "pa" sound, he pulled up the dustproof cover that had been pulled over his head. A few strands of fine wind swirled around his fingertips. Before he could react, several bolts of lightning struck down from above, and those strange birds instantly burst into flames, emitting thick black smoke as they plummeted towards the ground. Someone was clearing them away.

  "It's time to take a break." He responded to the person, and Jiumeng put away the super-energy crystal in his hand and quickly came to the top of the building. Standing high and looking far, plus his eyesight was not bad at all, so he clearly saw that the entire city was bustling to an extreme!

  Just like the rocket flying soldiers, those people... well, let's just say they're not worth mentioning. But now, Jiǔ Mìng sees them everywhere, and in the sky, he can still see large strange birds flying in from other places, diligently spreading seeds of disease throughout the city...

  "Huh? What's this?" Anyway, standing at the top of the skyscraper for not long, Jiǔ Mìng soon saw a 'Rocket Flying Soldier' quickly flying towards him, seemingly to greet him, but in fact, it seemed like he was seeking help...

  Behind him, dozens of large strange birds were following closely. The substantial lightning was gathering through the super-energy crystal in Jiǔ Mìng's palm. With one hand, Jiǔ Mìng made a downward motion, and the people approaching him quickly understood his intention. As they drew near, he suddenly made a high-difficulty 90-degree vertical dive.

  "Ahh! Out of fuel!" The man's angry shout slowly rose from below, his voice growing fainter and fainter as he plummeted rapidly towards the ground...

  It should be okay, shouldn't kill you anyway.

  The lightning that had gathered in the hands of the nine suddenly burst forth, sweeping horizontally forward. A large number of charred giant birds fell to the ground like rain, while the remaining few surviving ones let out strange cries as they flew away into the distance.

  He tossed the high-energy crystal in his hand, and Jiumeng smiled slightly. This thing was quite good as a long-range attack weapon, and with his previous output level, the consumption of this thing wouldn't be too severe either. The consumed energy could recover quickly.

  "Hey, thanks a lot. I see you're always looking far away, so this is for you." He pulled out a thin steel wire and climbed up, took off his helmet to reveal a head with a buzz cut, then took out something like a bottle cap from his chest armor and tossed it to Jiǔ Mìng.

  Telescope?

  Jiǔ Mìng looked at the thing in his hand, both of them had lenses and were retractable. When fully extended, it became a 15-centimeter small telescope.

  "Thank you."

  "No big deal, I should thank you instead." The man with a buzz cut smiled refreshingly, "Earlier, I was a bit too hasty and almost burned out the fuel. Those beasts didn't even give me a chance to land. That move of yours was quite impressive!"

  "It's generally okay to clean up." With the telescope, Jiǔ Mìng saw a clearer view of the distant situation and couldn't help but shake his head. It seemed that the city was just a small disturbance, "Has it become serious enough to start setting up defenses?"

  "It's not that serious yet." The short-haired man's refreshing smile was reined in, "Apart from those strange birds, there hasn't been any large-scale movement of other beasts... but it seems like the beast tide will definitely appear this year."

  "What about these strange birds?"

  "You... don't know?" The short-haired man looked at Jiǔ Mìng with great surprise.

  "These days I've been busy and haven't gone out."

  "Ah, I see." The short-haired man nodded and began to explain, "After these strange birds were found to be maliciously spreading spores, their numbers started to surge, and there were even cases of blatant attacks on pedestrians. However, that's about it. Now most of the strange birds have been sniped at the edge of the city, and the remaining ones are what we need to clean up."

  The short-haired man said, and the helmet he was wearing suddenly rang out, "Anyway, thank you very much, I have to rush to the gathering now."

  "Alas, trouble again." He shook his head and turned around to walk into the waves that had appeared beside him.

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  "What the...?!" Li Ruiming held a transparent container in his hand, his eyes twitching slightly as he stared at the bizarre parasitic worm soaking inside. He couldn't help but touch his own chest, his expression turning pale with fear. This thing... was one of those spores that had hatched...

  Even if the chances of hatching are very low, and there are only a few examples now, just thinking about those spores turning into this thing is enough to make people sick. No one would want something with signs of other life inside their body.

  "This was taken from a spore-infected person, and fortunately there are not many examples of this so far, just a few cases. If there were more, it would really cause a commotion. 'How is that person doing?'"

  Li Ruiming took a deep breath and put the container in his hand to one side. The parasitic worm with quite a few tentacles inside showed a semi-transparent color, which was a bit difficult to detect. Fortunately, the current level of science and technology is not bad, and it can be scanned out with the help of instruments.

  "It's all over, now it's all relying on external nutrient intake to sustain life." The person next to Li Ruiming shrugged and replied, seeing the parasitic worm in the container, his eyes twitched slightly, those scattered spores everyone had more or less inhaled some, strong bodies, those spores couldn't survive, but... what if?

  "Got it." Li Ruiming pressed his forehead, this parasite was taken out of the other party's brain, the process went very smoothly, and the other party did not die from it, but simply became stupid, compared to the previous highly aggressive manic state, being stupid is just being stupid...

  The possibility of recovering normally is not great.

  "What a nuisance, what has this strange beast brought out again? Does it want to cause a biological crisis?" Li Ruiming said helplessly. Fortunately, these spores don't seem like viruses, with strong survival abilities all over the place, and even the chances of hatching parasitic worms are very low, or else it would really be a troublesome thing.

  “……”

  “……”

  The nine lives that were stared at by those golden eyes finally couldn't bear it anymore, put down the book in his hand and opened his mouth reluctantly, "Hey, it's already been two hours, isn't it just because you didn't bring back today's custom pizza... they're closed."

  "Is it closed? Bankrupt?" C.C. asked in a daze upon hearing the news, "Could it be that pizza is not popular in this world?"

  "Of course not, this can only be said to be a man-made disaster, not a beastly one." Jiǔ Mìng shrugged his shoulders, "I saw the notice there, occasionally opening for business might be possible, but if it's closed, at least several months, at least... until after the possible outbreak of the Beast Tide this year."

  "What!?" C.C.'s face was frozen in shock, as if she had encountered a nightmare, "So long?!"

  "Hmm, for you... it shouldn't be long, right?" Jiǔ Mìng scratched his head and pulled out a sealed card, shaking it towards the empty space beside him. "Because of our gluttony during this period, the remaining pizza stock isn't much either."

  "How could this be?" The green-haired girl had a disappointed expression she'd never shown before, "Pizzerias are supposed to be open all the time..."

  "So, how obsessed are you with this thing? How about a change of flavor... Beijing roast duck?"

  "...you eat it slowly yourself."

  She threw off the blanket on her body, wearing only **, C.C jumped agilely to the front of Jiuming's body, stretched out her hand and grabbed the card with the remaining pizza from his hand. "A man's words, defending the family and country is a must, right? Just a beast tide, can you solve it?"

  Can be solved? Can solve a single egg! Good Han is difficult to do, since it's called the Beast Tide, will the number of beasts be small? Alone... Nine lives pinched his chin, and said, I should... probably die?

  "It's not your world, what are you worried about?"

  "It's okay... It's not my world anyway, what am I worried about? But you'll probably interfere again later, won't you?"

  Jiǔ Mìng snorted and rubbed his nose, this he really couldn't guarantee, at that time maybe he would get itchy hands or maybe he would pass by with a mentality of joining the excitement to watch, then while watching he would unconsciously participate in it. He didn't know about the Beast Tide thing, even if he did, it was still hard to say.

  "Hmph, I'm indeed a good person!" He let out two strange laughs, and Jiumeng tugged at the hair in front of his forehead. "It's just a Beast Tide, not experiencing it would be too regrettable! Speaking of which, since my debut, I haven't had a truly intense battle yet!"

  "... boring." With a tilted head, C.C. calmly glanced at Nine Lives and slowly spat out two words after a long pause.

  "You're much better than this pizza girl who does nothing but eat and sleep! Aren't you afraid of getting moldy?"

  "Not afraid..."