Chapter 195 Chapter 195 Evil Thoughts Become Demons
The muscular man left after saying this, leaving the 35 awakened ones looking at each other in bewilderment.
That's it?
However, they were all people who stood out through repeated training, and they quickly came to their senses from their initial confusion.
He Junxia picked up a recording bracelet and randomly picked up another one from the pile of black backpacks.
He put the bracelet on his left wrist and turned it on. A simple recording interface appeared on the screen.
[Points: 0 Monsters Killed: 0]
[First-level monster: 0]
[Second-level monster: 0]
[Level 3 Monster: 0]
[Fourth-level monster: 0]
He Junxia's gaze stopped at the last line of words.
The highest level among the 35 awakeners who took part in the first assessment was only level three, yet the training base had actually released level four monsters into this abandoned small county town.
The training base is quite confident in the students' abilities.
However, monsters also have a sense of territory, and the more powerful the monster, the stronger its desire to possess its territory. According to He Junxia's judgment, there will be no more than two fourth-level monsters in the examination area.
This should be a hidden task left for students. If you can kill a fourth-level monster, there may be extra rewards.
In addition to this, He Junxia was also very concerned about the fact that the recording bracelet could not be bound to personal information. He did not believe that the person who set up the assessment did not think of this.
"Song Qizheng, shall we go together?"
Meng Wenshi appeared with a black backpack. Wan Chengwang and Jing Yuhang were assigned to the second group. They were the only two people in Room 302 taking the first major exam.
"OK."
He Junxia lowered her head and opened her backpack. Inside were only some simple hemostatic drugs and food.
He asked, "What's in your bag?"
Meng Wenshi: "Compressed biscuits, canned food, hemostatic medicine, and bandages."
It seems that all backpacks have the same configuration.
Neither of them planned to recruit anyone else to form a team. Meng Wenshi released his spiritual weapon. The small green vine circled in his palm and finally blossomed into a small red flower in the southeast direction.
Meng Wenshi said, "Let's go this way."
He Junxia looked in the direction of his finger. It was the entrance to a large shopping mall. The huge sign outside showed how prosperous the mall once was.
Looking at the mall occupied by plants, another picture emerged in his mind. He hoped that there were no giant spiders that were not afraid of fire or water in this mall.
It’s not that He Junxia is afraid of spiders.
It's just an insect, those who understand will understand. A small one can be considered cute, but when it is magnified hundreds or thousands of times, it looks very strange, even like an alien.
So for the sake of his own eyes, He Junxia would rather encounter a plant or non-living monster, or at least a hairy one.
No, I was wrong
I shouldn't think that way.
The corners of He Junxia's mouth twitched unconsciously. He looked at the giant pine caterpillar showing off in the children's playground inside the mall, and his heart felt numb.
Giant pine caterpillars are more aggressive than humans. When they see them appear, they immediately arch their bodies, with the spikes on their bodies standing up high, flashing a cold light in the sun.
He Junxia warned: "Be careful, its thorns are poisonous. The poison of ordinary pine caterpillars can cause redness, swelling and ulceration of human skin." A demonized pine caterpillar like this one is likely to turn a person's internal organs into blood.
Meng Wenshi nodded, and the vine in his palm bloomed another small blue flower. He picked the flower and handed it to He Junxia: "It has certain detoxification properties."
"Thank you."
He Junxia summoned the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and prepared for battle.
Although the man who was responsible for distributing supplies did not say it explicitly, it seems that the training base would not completely disregard the safety of the trainees.
They must have other means of monitoring what is happening in this abandoned county town.
The man in front of the screen watched this scene with great interest. Another gray-haired old man pointed at the young man on the screen who was violently beating a giant pine caterpillar with a bronze tripod and said, "Is he the Awakener nominated by the D City Special Bureau?"
"Yes, his name is Song Qizheng. A year ago, before he started practicing, he used a bronze tripod to save a child from a third-level demonic snake."
"He has great talent and a good character. He has reached the second level in just nine months of training. We suspect his spiritual bronze tripod comes from the mythical story 'Yu Casts the Nine Tripods.'"
The person who spoke was a woman in her thirties. She had a serious expression and gave people the impression that she was the type who never smiled.
The old man smiled and said, "Captain Xie knows so much. It seems that he is very satisfied with him?"
Xie Ran remained noncommittal: "Let's see. Compared to him, your nephew is smarter. He is indeed a member of the Meng family."
She didn't like awakened people who only used brute force. If Song Qizhen was her team member, she would not allow him to use the bronze tripod as a tool to beat monsters.
The old man laughed and said, "This kid just likes to be clever."
In the surveillance footage, Meng Wenshi was seen climbing up quickly to make room for the fight when He Junxia was fighting with the giant pine caterpillar, and using vines to pull out the large gray thorns on the pine caterpillar.
After a while, the pine caterpillar lost most of its self-defense weapons and looked very pitiful with its bare body.
It had never had the upper hand in the battle with humans, and now it was beaten to the ground by the hard iron lump.
When the giant pine caterpillar was only breathing its last breath, He Junxia made way and said to Meng Wenshi on the slide, "You come and kill him."
Meng Wenshi was a little surprised.
Although killing the pine caterpillar was the result of cooperation between the two, Song Qizhen was the absolute main force, and he was at most an auxiliary.
In his expectation, he should first help Song Qi accumulate enough points, and then accumulate points for himself.
After all, when he was in the Capital Special Bureau, this was the pattern he and others used when training as a team.
As for whether combat awakeners will turn against you after gaining enough points, such a situation has indeed occurred.
But after the incident was exposed, the awakened one who turned his back on his friends could no longer find any auxiliary awakened ones willing to team up with him, and even a large number of combat awakened ones looked down on him.
Based on the fact that they had eaten, lived and trained together for several months, he believed that Song Qizhen was not that kind of fool.
But he didn't expect Song Qizhen to give him the chance to score first.
"Hurry up, it's recovering."
One of the most formidable aspects of monsters is their remarkable ability to recover. Even though the pine caterpillar had been beaten half to death, it would recover to 70% or 80% in a few hours if the root of the problem wasn't eliminated.
"Here I come."
Meng Wenshi slid down the red slide and decisively gave the dying pine caterpillar a quick death.
Watching the giant pine caterpillar's corpse shrink, wisps of black energy emanated from its body and returned to the heavens and earth. It would take at least two or three years for this evil energy to reach a concentration sufficient to select a host.
Meng Wenshi asked curiously, "What kind of demonic energy do you think is affecting it?"
He Junxia: "Hatred."
Meng Wenshi was curious: "Why?"
He Junxia: "Pine caterpillars are pests. They feed on pine needles and often cause large pine tree diebacks. Humans kill them to protect the trees."
Meng Wenshi thought He Junxia was just saying it casually, but he didn't expect him to speak so logically. He said with a smile, "I was wondering why a level three monster is so weak."
Seeing Song Qizhen beating the pine caterpillars to the ground, he thought Song Qizhen had broken through to become a third-level awakener.
For creatures like insects that have almost no self-awareness, it would take at least decades to gather enough evil thoughts.
Moreover, the demonic energy transformed from this evil thought will also cause the combat effectiveness of the parasitic host to be reduced due to the producer's low emotional fluctuations.
Meng Wenshi knows a contrary case.
A few years ago, a demonized willow tree appeared by the lake in Qiyuan Park. It was only level one. Anyone whose head touched the willow leaves would lose all their hair within three days, even those who had awakened to level three.
In the end, the Special Bureau destroyed the demonized willow tree, and the hair that had fallen out of the unlucky people slowly grew back.
The evil spirit that caused the willow tree to become a demon came from people's resentment towards hair loss. Because people's resentment was too strong, only a first-level demon tree could make a third-level awakener fall victim.
According to his great uncle, if it had been discovered later and allowed to continue to grow, the person who lost all their hair would have been in danger of death.
However, how could Song Qizheng be sure that the evil thoughts were caused by Songmao Chong's hatred towards humans, and not other reasons, such as the gray magpies that feed on them?
It was just a guess after all.
He Junxia didn't know what Meng Wenshi was really thinking, but even if she knew, she would just smile and fool him.
After all, the reason why he knew the reason why the pine caterpillar turned into a demon was because when the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron came into contact with the giant pine caterpillar, it absorbed some of the demonic energy from it.
If this news were to be known by others, He Junxia had no doubt that the people from the Special Bureau would force him to absorb the evil spirit.
——Losing one awakened person will benefit the whole world, it is a good deal no matter how you look at it.
The problem is that the reason why the Heavenly Dao of that world allowed him to take the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron away was because the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron had long been overwhelmed and needed to condense a new artifact to balance the turbid and clear energies between heaven and earth.
The evil thoughts and demonic energy that have gathered in this world have brought it to the brink of collapse, and this is not something that a Soul-Suppressing Cauldron can solve.
What's more, the human soul is simply not strong enough to withstand the evil thoughts of a world. Before the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron has any problems, he will collapse first.
Even the advanced soul protection shield of the Space-Time Administration may not be able to protect his consciousness.
Therefore, after receiving the information from the mission world, the system specifically reminded him not to let the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron absorb the foul air from the mission world.
He Junxia is not noble enough to sacrifice himself to save (actually, he cannot save) the mission world, not to mention that life will find a way out.
The emergence of demonic energy also gave birth to awakened people who can resist monsters. Perhaps in the near future, the number of awakened people will increase dramatically.
After all, the frequency of monsters appearing is so high nowadays that news of monsters injuring people will break out almost every two or three days, and it is impossible to suppress it.
"Is anyone there?"
"Save me, I will reward you handsomely."
A cry for help broke their thoughts. He Junxia said, "Go check the situation?"
Meng Wenshi nodded: "Okay."
He also wanted to know which unlucky guy was forced to surrender to other awakened people shortly after the assessment began.
However, when the two arrived in the direction of the sound, the scene before them shocked them.
Meng Wenshi immediately turned his head away, covered his mouth and lowered his head, his bent shoulders shaking wildly, and the sound of gloating that could not be suppressed came out of his throat.
“Hahahahahahaha, they…why are they hanging on the streetlight?”
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