After the Global Evolution, I Stand at the Top of the Food Chain - Chapter 35

This chapter is translated by BigDivineBear, translation checked by Kensi, edited by Bluburry, and proofread by Kris Xian.

As the provincial capital, P City has developed well during recent years.

After a week of intense training, Lu Yan had finally set foot on the ground here again.

Perhaps it was due to the pollution disease that the plants here were particularly lush and prosperous. Large clusters of flowers could be seen everywhere on the street.

This time, Lu Yan was actually familiar with the person in charge of the reception at the PDC. It was the female officer from the last time when he made an emergency landing in P City.

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She looked even more haggard than last time, with scary dark circles under her eyes. “I’m very grateful to the SpecOps Division for designating P City as the assessment site for the final drill, and our two A-Class Enlighteneds from P City also agreed to assist in invigilating the exam. If there are any problems, we will enter the examination room any time at once for rescue.

“Truth be told, there have been too many changes in P City during the past half month, and the botanical garden area has been completely blocked. However, the number of distorted people in the city is still growing steadily. Although at this time there are more newly awakened Enlighteneds, in general, the ordinary people have suffered heavy casualties.”

The staff distributed the materials one by one.

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The 60 students were organized into 20 teams, which were essentially composed of 2 combat systems grouped together with some other system. Lu Yan’s team were all old acquaintances.

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Lu Yan’s teammates were Iron Fist and Chen Anzhi. Iron Fist’s name was Zhou Zheng. Before his awakening, he was an underground boxer.

Chen Anzhi smiled and said, “Lu Yan, I didn’t expect us to be teammates this time.”

Iron Fist was full of energy. “In the end, the area where I spray pesticides will definitely be larger than yours!!”

Lu Yan really didn’t want to talk.

The weather in June was already quite hot, and with the addition of the oppressive protective isolation suit, it was like taking a sauna.

Although the assistant instructors had repeatedly emphasized many times that the final drill did not depend on the results, in order to incentivize the students, they were still equipped with credit calculating devices. Points were awarded for each Pollutant killed.

Perhaps because they were in the Luochuan Botanical Garden, the plants in this polluted area were extremely lush. Branches poked out from within abandoned buildings, from the cracked road, and from the pores of the underground waterway, the roots intertwining endlessly.

Because Lu Yan’s group was relatively strong, the spraying areas assigned to them were relatively deep in the forest and quite dense with plants.

Lu Yan’s team of three had just landed from the helicopter when they stepped on a clump of mushrooms on the ground.

[Today, we come to the Luochan Botanical Garden to identify the popular Pollutants on the Internet.]

[The white mushroom under your feet is called the White Poisonous Umbrella. After it rains, it is easy for it to grow everywhere, and it has a pollution value of 5. It is inedible even before its contamination, but now it’s almost a replica of a certain Pollutant.]

[Of course, because there are so many people stepping on it every day, it won’t be waking up for the time being. ]

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[To be honest, I only glanced at it casually. Nevertheless, I really recommend that you quit the SpecOps now before it’s too late.]

“Why?” 

[There are more than one perfectly evolved species here.] The System said vaguely, [Furthermore. I smelled a very nasty scent. But logically thinking, it should have been trapped in that island country and have been unable to get out.]

Lu Yan had always been good at grasping clues.

He remembered the information about the S-level pollution case “Kingdom of God” that he had seen when he first joined the SpecOps Division.

There had always been very little information regarding S-Level Pollutants. Nonetheless, because the “Kingdom of God” was so widespread, and in addition to the fact that there were some survivors around the world, it was actually more detailed than some A-level cases.

The Kingdom of God, creation of the S-Level Pollutant, “Holy God”.

Due to the fact that the pollution arose from the sea, the pollution diseases in some island countries were particularly severe.

It was undoubtedly a nightmare for ordinary people. Under these circumstances, a group of people gave up atheism and began to believe in “Ultimate Bliss teachings.”

Believers believed that the “Holy God” was the deity who controlled bliss and eternal life, and that the whole world was but a dream of the Holy God.

The more people that believe in it, the stronger it becomes. The “Holy God” evolved continuously from a low-level Pollutant, and by the time the island country sought help, the Holy God had already become the island’s one and only believed God.

Countless people died in their dreams and became nourishment for the “Holy God.” This Pollutant killed indiscriminately and could descend upon believers at any time. Regardless of whether the believer was originally an Enlightened or an ordinary person, they could all instantly gain a fraction of the power from the true body of the “Holy God.”

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Up till now, no one has seen what the “Holy God” really looked like.

Some people said that it was a mass of chaos hidden in the depths of a dream.

In the end, the Union Alliance could only abandon that island country.

Of the millions of people on the island, less than 10,000 survived.

Lu Yan’s face felt a little damp. He touched it and actually found some blood on his hand.

He was bleeding from the seven apertures.3 Although the injury was not serious, the faint smell of blood still spread in the botanical garden.

Numerous slumbering animals and plants slowly opened their eyes.

In the silent depths of the forest, the sound of insects flapping their wings could be heard.

[Ah… Who can spy on the gods without paying a price, neither No. 66 nor No. 6 can.] The System’s voice was very angry, [Damn it. As long as your spiritual power threshold was around seven or eight thousand, I wouldn’t be hurt by this kind of damned dog.]

His abnormality caught Chen Anzhi’s attention.

Chen Anzhi, who was spraying pesticide, turned his head and looked worried. “Lu Yan, why are you bleeding?”

“Ability warning.” Lu Yan said solemnly, “Told me that there will be a danger.”

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Iron Fist sprayed the medicine for a long time but didn’t see a single Pollutant. He immediately said with disdain, “Stop fooling around. What danger could be there?”

Lu Yan was too lazy to pay attention to him. He was already used to the setting that he would trigger the [Hell Difficulty Buff] whenever he went out.

He felt that it was because of that time when he became the sister of the “Unlucky Star”4 in the dream, which had now caused him to have bad luck.

He put down the pesticide sprayer and raised his bow.

Although it wasn’t some legendary weapon worth 30,000 contribution points, it was still one of the D-level psionic weapons with higher attributes.

It was lent to Lu Yan from the Headquarters, and he had to return it when he went back.

The arrow feather ignited a ray of flame and plunged deep into the bushes. A mantis the size of half a human was killed by the arrow and fell from the tree.

This mantis was almost completely integrated with the surrounding environment, and the edge of its sickle was dark and extremely sharp.

At that moment, Lu Yan’s scoreboard jumped, and he was awarded 0.2 points. This was an E-Level Pollutant.

Lu Yan’s gaze took on a cold and indifferent look, “Did you really think that a simple spray of medicine can last until the end of the drill? Did the evolution cause your brain to regress into a piece of iron waste?”

It was possible that Lu Yan didn’t realize that he had fallen into an abnormal state after overusing his ability.

Lu Yan put down his bow, his fingers trembling slightly.

After overusing their abilities, Zhou Qiming would become weaker, Tang Xun’an would go berserk, and Lin Sinan would excessively blame himself.

System, [I suggest the Host to control your emotions. I know that in the face of negative emotions, such as fear and pain, you always like to look for ‘him,’ like a child who subconsciously looks for his mother after a fall. However, you’re no longer the you from back then, are you?]

Lu Yan took a deep breath and asked the System, “I haven’t seen the chief instructor since I got off the plane. Where is he?”

[Tyrant…] The System said, [He’s sharpening his knife and preparing to enter the botanical garden to deal with the big banyan tree.]

Tang Xun’an wiped Yellow Dust very quietly. When he lowered his head, a few strands of hair fell down to his forehead. Because his expression was somewhat gentle, he looked much younger.

The students had already entered the polluted area. In mid-air, hundreds of pollution detectors were moving and videotaping. These detectors were covered with a special coating that caused them to be regarded as one of their kind by the Pollutants.

Tang Xun’an was waiting for the teammates arranged by the Headquarters.

Ever since the accident 13 years ago, Tang Xun’an had become accustomed to being alone when he went out on a mission. However, the headquarters said that the volume of Pollutants was too large this time, and thus specially transferred the experimental subject 07 from the First Research Institute.

07: Spiritual Power Threshold: 7,900. 42 Ability — Karmic Fire. Mutation Degree: 73.

This flame-type ability was always greatly useful when facing plant-type Pollutants.

At exactly 12 noon, a military car drove up.

It was like a prison car.

Several staff members got out of the car with an abnormally pale teenager.

He was wearing a snow-white prison uniform. Half of his face was terrifyingly scorched, the edge of the wound was like a layer of red lava.

The boy was wearing a special handcuff, the chain in the middle was exceedingly long, yet it did not hinder his movements. In addition, he had an obvious black tattoo number, 07, on his arm.

“Leader Tang, hello. I’m Ren Xuan, a researcher from the First Research Institute. I’m a senior engineer.” A middle-aged man in a white coat walked over with 07. “07 is a particularly precious experimental subject in our research institute. I am the person in charge of him. Please bring him back in full health.”

As he spoke, 07’s face was expressionless, and his eyes were empty. Like some sort of product being sold.

Tang Xun’an felt a little uncomfortable and frowned. 

He felt that he knew where this uncomfortable feeling came from.

The researcher looked at him in the same way that he did at 07.

It was as if he wasn’t looking at a person, it was more like he was looking at a perfect tool that he had created.

“Aren’t you going to unlock his handcuffs?” Tang Xun’an asked.

The researcher answered in a straight-forward manner, “Just like how your muzzle never leaves your face, 07’s handcuffs have a similar function. His mutation degree is already very high, so it will be dangerous to unlock it.

“By the way, the director said, if you can resolve the banyan tree, we hope for you to bring back the special materials peeled off from it. It’s a critical material for our next experiment.”

Tang Xun’an listened to half of it and replied half-heartedly with an “en.”*It went in one ear and out the other, and he completely did not take it to heart.

If the difficulty of disposing Pollutants was 9, then the difficulty of stripping special materials from Pollutants was 10. It had to be stripped from the body while it was still contaminated and alive, which was much harder than just slaughtering it.

It’s not every day that one could be lucky enough to meet a perfect evolutionary species like the Dragon Maiden either. 

The researcher nagged a lot before finally leaving the scene reluctantly. He would go and wait at the Pollution Disease Prevention and Control Center.

Tang Xun’an looked at 07’s face. “What’s your name?” 

“07.”

“I didn’t ask for your number.”

07 tilted his head and thought for a long time before saying slowly, “I’m sorry, I forgot.”

He pointed to his head. “Daddy had sliced off a bit.”

Translator’s Note