Linan Road, Xingfu Community.

It was already 12 o'clock in the morning, and the city was still bustling with traffic, but there were not too many pedestrians in places that were not pedestrian streets.

In a dim corner where the street lights could not reach, a little old man was curled up in the shadows on a small trailer carrying waste paper.

The cardboard became a bed. The old man was wearing a thick black cotton jacket and a black cotton hat. He had his hands tucked into his sleeves and was taking a nap on the cart.

No matter how glamorous a city is, there are always dark corners like this. No one cares about such an old man who picks up rubbish... Even if someone passes by occasionally, they will look at him warily once or twice, and then quicken their pace...

The old man was sleeping soundly, his eyes closed and his face full of wrinkles.

It was quiet all around, and in the second half of the night, there were even few people passing by.

Suddenly, a piece of black matter appeared in the shadows and squirmed. The next moment, a figure emerged from the shadows...

Of course it is Qin Jinnian.

Qin Jinnian looked at the old man in front of him. To be honest, if it weren't for the black mist on his head that was extremely conspicuous to Qin Jinnian even in the dark... I'm afraid no one would have thought that such an old man would be a "weird species"...

The strange seeds are the existence of strange things that come into contact with humans and leave "strong" polluted seeds in the human spirit.

It's a bit like being possessed by a 'weird' being.

But there is one difference.

Because possession is usually one-on-one, just like Qin Jinnian occupied the original owner's body... This is a serious possession.

But the weird can pollute the weird seeds. The same 'weird' may leave polluted seeds for many people at the same time. People whose pollution reaches a certain level will become 'weird seeds'.

So it's more like a 'contagion'.

The consciousness of the infected person will be completely destroyed. The lower-level weirdness, without wisdom, will be detected at the first time and then eliminated. Just like Chen Feifei's cousin, who showed the state of a "bug" and was finally caught and eliminated by the night watchman.

But the advanced weirds, to some extent, have the same intelligence as humans. They invaded the earth, obviously for their own purpose, the specific purpose is not yet known, but the 'weird species' they polluted will disguise themselves as normal people until the night of the blood moon when they erupt again...

Qin Jinnian extremely suspected that the mountain of flesh that he had seen with his own eyes at the beginning was one of the strange species left behind by the previous blood moon... Of course, there was no evidence, and he had not asked the night watchman similar questions, so it remained a mystery for the time being.

Therefore, facing this weirdness, although Qin Jinnian felt a little sympathy for the contaminated old scavenger, he did not intend to hold back.

Jiang Yetong asked them not to make too much noise, and Qin Jinnian himself didn't want to make too much noise either.

Therefore, the next moment, the shadow beside the old man suddenly began to move.

At a certain moment, it jumped violently, and in an instant, it turned into a shadow thorn, piercing the old man on the cart from all directions.

The sudden terrorist crisis seemed to have triggered something. The old man, who had his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes. He immediately saw that the pair of eyes that seemed very cloudy during the day were now completely dark.

A sharp, inhuman cry suddenly came out of his mouth, and his face instantly became ferocious. A black mist suddenly spread over him. At the same time, the black mist above his head suddenly spread and turned into a huge black shadow.

It was a human-shaped phantom with long arms and legs. It looked skinny and pitch black, with only a pair of eyes glowing scarlet... It looked very much like the insect-shaped phantom that Qin Jinnian saw on Chen Feifei's cousin's head that day!

The moment this strange human figure appeared, it immediately locked onto Qin Jinnian, who was surrounded by black matter not far away . Qin Jinnian's panel also instantly refreshed.

[You are mentally polluted. Under the influence of the authority "Dark Pupil", all mental pollution from the dark world will be exempted. You are exempted from this mental pollution. ]

As soon as this thing appeared, Qin Jinnian was mentally polluted.

But Qin Jinnian had expected this and his expression did not change at all.

Everything was almost at its peak. Almost at the moment when the black figure with long arms and legs appeared and stared at Qin Jinnian, the shadow had already penetrated the body of the old man who was collecting rubbish! Puff, puff! The old man who was collecting rubbish suddenly turned into a hedgehog.

Especially the brain, which is Qin Jinnian's focus.

His forehead was pierced by the shadow thorn almost instantly. His eyes widened to a pair of pitch-black eyes with no whites at all. His ferocious mouth opened wide, revealing a mouthful of fangs that had inexplicably become sharp and jagged...

At the same time, the black shadow with long arms and legs above his head seemed to have suffered a severe blow. It danced its arms and legs in the air for a few times, but finally, with a sudden spin, the shadow seemed to be shattered and suddenly disappeared.

Looking at the old scavenger again, his body had also undergone a strange transformation... His hands and feet had become extremely slender, and his skin was also pitch black...

Suddenly, the shadow that appeared above his head just now changed.

but……

The changes have been terminated.

Qin Jinnian's shadow thorn ended the old man's life in an instant, which seemed to be the reason why the change stopped.

BANG!!! The cart was pierced by Qin Jinnian's shadow and fell apart with a loud noise.

"What's going on?"

"Yes, what's that sound?"

"It came from over there..."

The old man's screams and the sound of the cart falling apart immediately attracted the attention of some passers-by in the distance. Their faces changed and they all looked towards this dark corner in surprise and suspicion.

Qin Jinnian was also a little surprised when he looked at the old man's body... because the speed of this strange change was really a bit unexpected.

You know, he controlled the shadow to attack first, and then the weird creature reacted and began to "transform".

But before the shadow pierced his head and killed him completely...his body had already undergone such a big change.

It sounds slow, but in reality, the whole process probably took less than a second! In other words, if the strange creature wanted to transform... it would transform in seconds! There was no "pre-swing" at all! This surprised Qin Jinnian a little, and he frowned.

It might be a bit troublesome to take action afterwards.

This weirdo is on the street and has no family, so it's okay for him to act like this.

But many of the other weird species have families, and one is even a child... and sleeps in the same bed with his parents.

If the transformation of the strange species is so fast... then even Qin Jinnian will find it difficult to guarantee the safety of their families.

He concentrated on thinking, but the next moment, he heard some footsteps and someone was approaching this side cautiously.

As soon as he thought about it, the shadow behind him suddenly surged and directly "swallowed" the old man's corpse, which had already turned into a strange corpse, and completely wrapped it up.

At the same time, Qin Jinnian's figure also melted into the shadows.

Then, all that was left was a broken cart and paper boxes with many holes in them scattered all over the ground...

But there was no blood.

He had a deep impression of the first strange thing he encountered. Knowing that strange flesh and blood could change, he naturally would not fail to pay attention.

So at the moment of piercing the opponent's body, a part of the shadow thorn that passed through the body extended out and turned into a shadow film, wrapping the opponent's body and blood inside, so no blood flowed out.

Some people who came over cautiously were stunned when they saw this situation...

"What? It's just a broken cart..."

"You scared me, I thought something was wrong..."

"What was that scream just now?"

"There's no one here. Could it be a cat's meow? The sound just now didn't sound like a human..."

"Well, it seems so..."

…

…

There was a rooftop not far away. Qin Jinnian spread his wings and flew over. After landing, he discovered that there was a huge "black bag" behind him.

After he landed, the 'black bag' also slowly fell to the ground, and then naturally opened up, revealing the body of the scavenger old man inside...or the body of the weird creature.

He looked carefully and found that the blood of this weird species did not undergo any other changes. He thought for a moment... It seems that not all weird things are the same as his good sister's weirdness... Or, in other words, not all weird things will undergo changes like the weirdness of the meat mountain.

Then he looked at the corpse of the strange creature with bright eyes...

He accepted this commission for three billion in addition to the fact that he was also a human being. If the evil church and the weird species really wanted to do something, it would be difficult for him to stay out of it, so he also wanted to get rid of these weird species...

Another reason is... he felt that the strange species would definitely bring him a lot of shadow points.

He is so short of shadow points now.

All powers must be upgraded to level 3 before they can be integrated into "intermediate" powers. Now, except for Shadow Control, the others are only level 2.

To upgrade from lv2 to lv3, each authority requires 10,000 shadow points... Four authorities require 40,000 shadow points.

After upgrading to level 3, do you still need more shadow points to integrate authority?

Based on the nature of the panel, Qin Jinnian estimated... most likely it would.

And the exact amount is currently uncertain.

But 10W is definitely the minimum.

Maybe there will be more than that.

So Qin Jinnian is now in urgent need of shadow points.

Although the blood moon night will come in more than three months, when weirdness will be rampant, with his ability, he will definitely be able to obtain a large number of shadow points by then...

But not to mention that it will take three months, even how much we can get by then... is still an unknown.

You know, he is only a primary authority now, and he will only be a mid-level authority after upgrading.

What about advanced? Is there anything above advanced? I don’t know.

Shadow points are just like attribute points. Qin Jinnian will only complain about having too few but never too many.

Maybe in the future, the shadow points of the strange species will be just a drop in the bucket for him. But at least at this stage, it is very important.

With some anticipation, Qin Jinnian used Shadow Devouring.

Suddenly, the shadow spread and the body of the strange creature slowly sank.

After about ten seconds, the body completely disappeared.

The black curtain transformed by Shadow Devourer retracted to the soles of his feet, and suddenly, the comfortable feeling instantly spread throughout his body, and a prompt appeared on the panel.

[You activate 'Shadow Devourer', devouring the flesh and blood of dark creatures, attribute points +374.14, dark points +1348.21. Mental and physical strength are greatly restored. ]

When Qin Jinnian saw the prompt on the panel, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"It actually increased by more than 1,300 points?!"

Although he knew that the Weird Seed would provide a lot of Shadow Points, he didn't expect that there would be so many! You know, when he ate those blood sacrifice corpses in the Church of the End, each one only increased by a dozen or twenty points...

And this strange species actually increased his power by more than a thousand?! He quickly looked at the panel.

Although he didn't go outside the Iron Dome every day during this period, he went there several times, so his attribute points have now reached 200,000+. But this 200,000 will not actually increase his mental strength much... After all, every time he increases his mental strength by one point, he needs more than 100 attribute points, and 200,000 will probably only increase it by a few hundred points.

To reach the limit of the current level, one needs 10,000 mental powers... There is still a long way to go, so there is no rush to add points for the time being.

In the shadow point column, the current shadow point has reached 2814.12.

The monsters outside will give some shadow points more or less, but the amount given by each one is too little, just a few points, about ten points, and the total amount is almost a thousand points.

And now, one strange species was given more than a thousand!

In other words... if I kill another seven or eight more strange species, I'll have another 10,000 shadow points? Qin Jinnian suddenly became excited.

Because this signifies that there is another authority... that can reach level 3! The improvement brought by upgrading these authorities is almost a qualitative change!

Now he has mastered nine strange species... and this is just one area.

According to what Jiang Yetong gave him, there are a total of eighteen areas!

Even if there are only ten weird species in each area... that's incredible! Does that mean that all his four powers can be upgraded to level 3 in a short period of time?

Then we can start the integration of power?

But when he thought about the fusion of power, which would require his mental strength to reach the limit of his current level, Qin Jinnian felt that there was not enough time.

He had to kill both weird species and monsters, and ordinary monsters could only give him a few attribute points...

“What a worry!”

Qin Jinnian felt the trouble of happiness.

But in the end, he didn't continue to dwell on it.

"Eat these weird seeds first!"

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath, and with a thought, his remote viewing perspective rose into the air. In just a short while, the nine strange species within a range of five kilometers appeared clearly in his field of vision.

Killing them one by one is too slow, and the transformation speed of the strange species is a bit too fast. If I go there myself, it will make some noise... If I alarm one of them, and they sense the danger and run away, that would also be a problem.

In this case...

Qin Jinnian licked his lips.

When the shadow control range reached five kilometers, some crazy ideas appeared in his mind more than once.

But never tried it before.

And after finding the correct way to open the dark pupil today, this thought became even more irresistible... because with the combination of the dark pupil, he could realize this crazy idea.

So now...

It's time to give it a try.

Qin Jinnian let out a light breath.

"This move, Shadow Control combined with Dark Pupils... let's call it... Shadow Domain!"

He muttered softly, and the next moment, dark substance instantly spread out from under his feet.

This is the first time that Qin Jinnian has used Shadow Control with all his strength since his Shadow Control reached level 3.

(End of this chapter)