CHAPTER 485: CHAPTER 278: FIERCE BATTLE (10,000-WORD RELEASE!)

Rumble!

The night was about to fall. Above the horizon, the center of the Extreme Cold Vortex was constantly erupting with wild thunder, and the silver lightning illuminated the massive storm canopy, like a giant beast about to devour the land.

The blizzard howled, ice crystals freezing even steel-reinforced concrete completely. Under the hurricane, suspended icicles were hanging almost horizontally everywhere.

In this environment, even wearing cold proof clothing, ordinary people could no longer stand outdoors.

Buzz buzz~

A dozen or so military polar vehicles were shuttling through the relatively desolate and remote streets of Xilan City. Surrounding the convoy were special combat vehicles and small flying devices providing protection. This was a mobile research laboratory.

In one of the vehicles, the cramped and crowded laboratory cabin was filled with instruments, while various data continuously calculated on the computers. Wei Kexue sat blankly on a stool in the corner, wearing the protective clothing specially prepared by the Investigation Corps for them.

Yu Yuheng was tapping on the computer beside him, retrieving various data.

"The Aviation Patrol Team was marked, which means our guess was right." Wei Kexue removed his worn-out black-framed glasses and wiped them with a somewhat clean corner of his clothes, saying, "What instructions did those monsters receive, why are they giving us a Dark Mark?"

"How can they sense our purpose?" an old researcher said, looking puzzled.

"If this is true, it means our research direction is correct. The ’bonfire’—no, the Dark Mark does indeed exist, right!?" another female researcher said at this moment.

"Professor Yu wants to know how they communicated, which led that big bug to attack the research building..." Wei Kexue, tired, pinched the bridge of his nose. Perhaps it was due to staying up late continuously; whenever he closed his eyes, he would always see the faces of his deceased colleagues, his whole demeanor emanating a sense of desolation and sorrow.

"I feel it might be the Hell Black Chrysanthemum that detected our purpose."

Ding Junyi, having just finished a call with Lin Xian, stood up and approached the cultivation chamber of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum. Looking at the extinguished black chrysanthemum, she said, "Professor Guo’s experiment must have made those Snow Demons aware of the existence of the Disaster Plant. The rampage might just be a manifestation, and there must be other ways for Abnormal Bodies to transmit information that we haven’t discovered yet."

"Are you saying that the sudden rampage of experimental subject 13, biting off limbs, could be some special behavior?" Yu Yuheng stopped typing and looked up at Ding Junyi.

Ding Junyi, with one hand in her pocket, looked coldly at the time on her watch and said,

"There is no better explanation."

"I don’t think so..."

Wei Kexue put his glasses back on, looked up, and said desolately, "First question: There are no marks in the city. If these Snow Demons received some command not to release this mark, then according to the theory of night silence, Xilan City should not be attacked, yet we are continuously facing demon attacks every day."

"Second question: If those monsters don’t want us to discover the Dark Mark, then why was the Aviation Patrol Team suddenly given a level five mark? Isn’t this contradictory?"

Upon hearing this, the cabin fell into silence. The polar vehicle drove over the snow, and the laboratory inside the cabin swayed, causing many experimental devices to emit a series of dinging sounds.

Several researchers frowned deeply. Meanwhile, as darkness approached, the tension within the cabin grew palpable.

Ding Junyi looked towards Yu Yuheng at this moment and spoke.

"I remember Emperor Group’s previous research concluded that high-level Abnormal Bodies would command lower-level Abnormal Bodies in a collective manner, right?"

"That’s right." Yu Yuheng nodded.

Ding Junyi responded: "Then let’s hypothesize: If there is an S-Class Abnormal Body in the sky over Xilan City now, conveying such information to the monster tide without emitting a Dark Mark pheromone to the outside, but because this S-Class Abnormal Body itself has already discovered Xilan City or has existed for a while, then utilizing this kind of command to launch an attack on Xilan City, can this hypothesis be explained?"

Yu Yuheng and Wei Kexue glanced at each other and then said, "Just to counter our research? It sounds a bit far-fetched, like today, wouldn’t marking the people outside the city be simpler and also interfere with our research."

"Yeah, and if it was Professor Guo’s experiment that exposed the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, there’s one strange thing that can’t be explained, which is why there were no marks in the city before." Wei Kexue frowned and said, "Do the monsters have the ability to foresee the future and know that our research group in Xilan City is studying the Dark Mark?"

"Right, I can’t make sense of it. A pot of Disaster Plant, and the monsters can grasp our research content. I always feel there’s something incredible about this."

"Or perhaps the monsters just purely want to seize this pot of Disaster Plant," Yu Yuheng said: "We are overthinking it. After all, from the Phoenix Society’s current research on the Disaster Plant, it’s extremely rare, with special capabilities, having high research value for us humans, and similarly for these Dark Creatures."

Upon hearing this, Ding Junyi fell silent, her gaze fixating on the black chrysanthemum inside the transparent cultivation chamber in front of her. Her chaotic thoughts made it hard for her to calm her mind.

At that moment, she suddenly had a thought.

Perhaps, don’t look at it from a scientific perspective...

But rather... with Superpower?

As soon as this thought came up, it wildly grew in her heart. Being a person with a rational personality, Ding Junyi was used to examining any problem from a scientific and theoretical perspective. Now, she reached out and touched the green sprouting grass hidden in her hair, her pupils slightly solidified.