#2677 - Red thread disaster

"Bang!!!"

Under the violent impact, the structure of the filamentous bodies that made up the human body was instantly shattered, and vibrating filaments appeared in the air, which then quickly reassembled into a human shape.

What the hell?

Fang Heng's heart skipped a beat.

The filamentous lifeform formed strands, using this method to dissipate the force of the punch?

Huh?

Almost instantly, the filamentous lifeform returned to its human shape, its filaments rapidly twisting and wrapping around his hand!

What monster?

Fang Heng's heart jumped. He activated his mental power, instantly igniting flames on the wrapped part of his hand to burn the filamentous lifeform, while quickly retreating. A holy longsword appeared in his hand, and he swung it forward fiercely.

"Bang!!!"

The holy power seemed to have an extremely strong restraining effect on the lifeform. With a single sword strike, the red filamentous lifeform that made up the figure suffered great damage, constantly emitting black energy.

[Hint: Player has dealt additional holy damage to the merging Calamity Lifeform (Elite)].

What?

Merging Calamity?

Fang Heng glanced at the game hint, his heart sank. He looked up again and saw red lifeforms formed from filaments crawling out of the River of the Underworld, slowly approaching him.

One is already difficult to deal with, and there are so many?

The situation is not good.

Fang Heng glanced at the Calamity self-destruct creatures rapidly gathering from all directions and thought, this is troublesome.

In this state, not to mention comprehending and absorbing the power of the River of the Underworld, even persevering is not easy.

The red filamentous creatures had extremely strong short-range explosive power but were not good at long-distance pursuit. After chasing forward a few steps, they were separated from Fang Heng by a large distance. Then, they paused for a moment, returned the way they came, and re-entered the River of the Underworld one by one.

Not far away, above the River of the Underworld.

Mu Qingxin watched the direction Fang Heng fled with a hint of suspicion in her eyes.

She sensed the Seed of the Same Source from Fang Heng.

Who is it?

Which side's power is he from?

And why would he come to the Death Realm?

Never mind.

Mu Qingxin shook her head and continued to look at the River of the Underworld.

It will still take time for Proust to fully merge.

Before that, she only needs to protect the River of the Underworld.

Hopefully, that guy won't come again.

Otherwise...

On the other side, after escaping the red filamentous lifeforms, Fang Heng quickly summoned the Bone Dragon and flew into the sky. Relying on the Bone Dragon's high-speed flight, he avoided the surrounding Calamity creatures and flew all the way into the sky, returning towards the direction of the Nether Race's front line.

Very troublesome.

Fang Heng recalled the previous battle and fell into thought.

The Calamity creatures are quite strong, not to mention the strange filamentous creatures. It's impossible to absorb and comprehend the power of the River of the Underworld in that state...

How should I deal with this?

I have to find a way to get rid of the Calamity creatures in advance, but it seems difficult to do so at the moment.

Fang Heng lowered his head and fell into thought.

"Whoosh!!"

Not long after returning to the safe zone, Ji Xiaobo and Notal, riding Bone Dragons, flew over from the nearby high altitude and flew alongside Fang Heng.

"Brother Fang!"

Ji Xiaobo greeted him and jumped from the air onto the back of Fang Heng's Bone Dragon, leaning over. "Brother Fang, how's our situation?"

"Well, the situation is not good."

Fang Heng roughly described the Calamity creatures he had just encountered.

Ji Xiaobo's expression turned difficult upon hearing this.

Even Brother Fang can't handle it?

No wonder. If the Calamity was so easy to deal with, why would it be feared by the major forces?

"Now we can only hope that the Necromancer Council and the Nether Race can find a way to deal with the Calamity..."

"Oh, right, why not ask Mr. Qiu? He's been looking for you for the past two days, saying that the research report he gave him last time is out."

Qiu Yaokang?

Fang Heng raised his eyebrows. That's right, when he first came into contact with the Calamity, there was a special pre-quest that required him to extract a Calamity creature sample and give it to Qiu Yaokang's research institute.

At that time, he gave the sample to Qiu Yaokang, and there was no follow-up.

It seems Qiu Yaokang has found some clues.

Hopefully, he can give him some good news!

In addition, he received a large sum of Lord God points, and the modification plan for the Prototype Licker must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

"Well, let's go back and find Mr. Qiu quickly."

...

Central Research Laboratory of the Zombie Apocalypse.

Under the gaze of a group of high-level researchers, Qiu Yaokang took out a document.

"The reports are all here. It's tiring for you to read them, so let me explain them roughly." Qiu Yaokang looked at Fang Heng. "Well, I'll try to use language you can understand."

Fang Heng made a gesture of invitation.

"Simply put, we found traces of the Hela virus in the Calamity creatures."

What?

Fang Heng was stunned.

Hela virus?

What does that mean?

Is it the same type as the Hela virus in his body?

Is the Calamity also related to the Hela virus?

That's right!

After Qiu Yaokang's reminder, Fang Heng couldn't help but lower his head and think.

Now that he thinks about it, the appearance of the Hela virus was an accidental explosion when the Blood Clan brought the Calamity body, which landed in the Zombie Apocalypse world, causing the world-destroying zombie virus.

It's normal for the Calamity to be related to the Hela virus.

"What?"

Ji Xiaobo was still a little confused. Mo Jiawei had already thought of something and asked, "Mr. Qiu, are you saying that the Calamity is a branch of the Hela virus? Does that mean that Boss Fang's zombie creatures can also inherit the characteristics of the fusion virus?"

Fang Heng also suddenly looked up.

That's right! Is there such a thing?

Everyone immediately cast an expectant look at Qiu Yaokang.

"I'm afraid not." Qiu Yaokang shook his head and continued to explain: "More precisely, the Hela virus is a branch of the Calamity, and the Calamity you see in the Death Realm is a form of the Calamity."

Ji Xiaobo scratched the back of his head, completely confused, and asked, "What does that mean?"

"Let me put it this way, it may not be appropriate, but you can understand it this way. I think the Calamity is a special virus, and its main body is the Ouroboros virus. A large part of the Ouroboros virus source can be structurally changed, allowing it to quickly adapt to various environments and carry out various evolutions, thus forming the world Calamity in everyone's mouth."

"The Calamity encountered in each world is different because the initial virus chose different routes during the transformation and evolution process. Even if the initial differences are extremely small, the final results will be very different after several generations of evolution."