nucmednet Chapter 24 Feeding
Chapter 24 Feeding
After cleaning the underground pipes,
Bai Yuze then led Ye Yue through the underground pipes to the dark alley area. The exit was an abandoned factory. As soon as they came out of the underground pipes, they could smell a pungent, metallic rust smell.
Ye Yue, however, didn't care at all.
She turned to look at Bai Yuze, blinked her bright eyes, and said excitedly:
"Little sticky rice cake, it's over here! Can I eat as much as I want?"
"Yeah, but you'd better be careful of magical girls, otherwise not only will we not be able to eat, but we'll also easily be chased by them."
"But what if I don't provoke them, but they come and provoke me?"
Hazuki blinked her clear, large eyes.
"Then eat it."
"Great! I'll save half for you, little one." Ye Yue nodded excitedly.
Bai Yuze's expression suggested he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Compared to the dead,
He actually prefers to be alive.
The two walked out of the abandoned factory and, after about ten minutes, arrived at a city cluster.
Speak out
It might be hard to believe,
Surprisingly, the street environment and popularity of the dark alley area in the occupied zone were better than those of the Parrot District.
The houses here are not much worse than those in other areas, they just look a bit dilapidated.
People come and go on the road, and the things sold in the shops are not much different. You can buy anything here that you can buy outside, and you can also buy things here that you can't buy outside.
For example, the Viper Gang and the Wild Dog Gang wanted him to help promote the ash powder.
There were frail human children locked in cages...
Here
If you can think of it, you can buy it.
As they were walking,
Ye Yue suddenly stopped, her bright eyes fixed on a small stall filled with miscellaneous items on the street corner. She grabbed Bai Yuze's hand and pulled him there, her voice full of excitement:
"Onii-chan! Look at that!"
Bai Yuzhe looked in the direction she pointed and saw a pile of rusty wreckage in the corner of the stall. One of the broken magic wands stood out. The original bright color of the wand had faded, and the magic gem at the top was cracked in two, dull and lifeless, just like a toy that had been broken by a child.
The stall owner was a burly man with a face full of scars. Seeing Bai Yuze stop, he immediately approached, a shrewd smile plastered on his face:
"Good eye, sir! This is genuine remnant of a magical girl's artifact, still containing a trace of magical energy. One price: 30,000 Federal Credits!"
"Thirty thousand?"
Bai Yuze frowned instantly, his tone turning somber, "Why don't you just rob it? This is obviously just an ordinary children's toy; I wouldn't take it even if you gave it to me for fifty yuan."
"Let's not beat around the bush. No one who comes to Dark Alley is an ordinary person. I don't believe you can't tell that this is a genuine magical girl's magical artifact. Even if it's wrecked, it's still more valuable than ordinary junk!"
The stall owner waved his hand, giving him a "take it or leave it" look, and said, "Let me tell you, I'm the only shop in Dark Alley that has things used by magical girls. If you don't buy it, plenty of other people will!"
Ye Yue ignored their argument.
Squatting in front of the stall, she cautiously touched the magic wand with her fingertip, her eyes full of curiosity. Then she looked up and tugged at Bai Yuze's sleeve, pouting sweetly:
"Onii-chan, I want this, okay?"
Seeing Okasan's rare display of coquettishness, Bai Yuzhe rubbed his temples, suppressing his urge to kill and rob, and looked at the stall owner with an unwavering tone:
"A maximum of eight thousand Federal Credits, not a penny more. This thing is garbage. If I weren't a magical girl fan, I wouldn't buy this piece of junk. It's useless except for being displayed. If you don't sell it to me, I'm leaving now. It's not like I absolutely have to buy it."
As he spoke,
He was about to leave.
Seeing Bai Yuze's resolute attitude and the fleeting murderous intent he had just witnessed, the stall owner hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth.
"Alright! Eight thousand it is, consider it a good deed on my part!"
"Ugh."
Bai Yuze sighed helplessly. When he took out his phone to pay, he saw his balance instantly decrease by one-fifth, and his heart ached slightly.
But turning his head,
Seeing Yeyue holding the magic wand, smiling with her eyes crinkled as if she had obtained a rare treasure, she swallowed back the complaint that was on the tip of her tongue.
That's it,
Since Okasan wanted it, we had no choice but to accept the price, no matter how expensive it was.
Ding-dong-
It seems get out of class is over.
As the familiar school bell rang, Bai Yuze and Ye Yue turned their heads to look at the same time.
Not far away,
They could even see a primary school—Raven School.
Over there,
You can see all sorts of vendors occupying the school gate selling snacks, pets, rice balls, as if everything were just like in an ordinary city.
At least that's how it appears on the surface.
Ye Yue's nose twitched slightly, and her eyes instantly lit up. She took Bai Yuze's hand and said coquettishly:
"Onii-chan, didn't you want me to go to school? I want to attend this school!"
Bai Yuze turned his head and saw a group of people suddenly gathered in the alley not far away. It looked very lively, and every now and then a few wails could be heard, which seemed to be human, but not human.
Bai Yuze withdrew his gaze, his expression serious.
"No, you are the future flower of our motherland, how can you mix with these people?"
His expression was one of anger, like seeing an innocent younger sister suddenly want to go clubbing.
Ye Yue looked at Bai Yuze's serious face, pursed her lips, and remained silent.
It's so nice here.
Eat whatever you want.
In human society, however, there are restrictions on what you can and cannot eat, making life very uncomfortable!
unhappy!
Click,
With a crisp sound, Hazuki swallowed the black market merchant whole.
In an instant,
All eyes in the room were fixed on Bai Yuze.
Before they could even make a move,
Hazuki's tentacles had already swallowed up three or four fake humans that were approaching Bai Yuzhe.
In an instant,
Those people went back.
It wasn't that they were cowards, but rather that everything was too bizarre. Throughout the entire ordeal, all they could see was Bai Yuze and their companions who had mysteriously vanished without a trace.
Bai Yuzhe looked at the aggrieved Ye Yue, then at the group of fake humans nearby who looked wary, and said:
"Okasan, I don't mean to stop you from coming here, but if you want to come, you have to ask me to come with you. That way, if anything happens, we can solve it together, okay?"
"Oh well."
Ye Yue looked at Bai Yuze's serious face and couldn't help but snort in her heart. In the end, wasn't it just because he was worried that Okasan would suddenly disappear?
How adorable!
Bai Yuzhe didn't know what Ye Yue was thinking, but as he watched more and more people gather, he pulled Ye Yue and started walking in the opposite direction.
They had only walked a few steps
Behind them came the muffled sound of an explosion and faint screams and commotion, and the good order of the street was instantly disrupted by the rising black smoke.
Bai Yuze didn't stop walking, and didn't even glance at the direction of the chaos, but quickened his pace toward the darker and more dilapidated neighborhood.
Not long after,
Above his head, he saw two brilliant streaks of light, one red and one blue, trailing long tails, like shooting stars moving in opposite directions, rapidly piercing the night sky and hurtling toward the location of the riot.
Oh wow,
Magical girls have been deployed.
wrong,
Are there magical girls managing and maintaining order in this dark alley area?
Or is it that,
Are they preparing to retake the alleyway area?!
Bai Yuze only glanced at it once before paying no more attention.
A few minutes later,
Bai Yuze arrived at an abandoned factory.
Let's get to work.
Report on the Physiological Adaptation and Potential Risk Analysis of Individuals Exposed to Low Concentrations of Miasma
The individuals mentioned here include various categories: humans, animals, plants, and microorganisms.
People are definitely the most important of them.
If it were in the parrot area, there would certainly be no shortage of people, but places with thick miasma would be rare.
In the dark alley area,
There are many places with miasma.
However, there are too many abnormal humans here, and very few normal humans who truly meet his requirements.
no way,
I'll have to do it later when I have time.
boom!
"Kid, I've been looking for you everywhere!"
Five figures emerged silently from the shadows.
They blocked the only exit of the abandoned factory, their eyes greedily fixed on Bai Yuze's still slightly open wallet and the backpack on his back that looked like it was full of good stuff.
"Kid, do you know whose territory this is?"
The leader grinned, the skin at the corners of his mouth taut unnaturally.
"We don't have any eager-to-learn citizens like you in this back alley area. Leave everything you have with you, and maybe you'll suffer less."
A few minutes later.
Bai Yuze shook off the non-existent stickiness from his fingertips, and the limbs on his back slowly retracted into the gaps in his spine.
"I'll ask, you answer."
Do you experience shortness of breath or a rapid heartbeat when you sleep at night?
"When you're resting at night, do you experience strange whispers or buzzing auditory hallucinations? How frequent are they?"
Have you recently observed any abnormalities in the speed at which your wounds heal? For example, do minor cuts heal completely within 24 hours without leaving scars?
"Has there been a significant change in the color or odor of the excrement? Please describe it in detail."
"..."
After ten minutes,
Bai Yuzhe carefully put the tablet back into his backpack, then bowed to the kind citizens.
"Thank you for your contributions to Holly City!"
After doing all this,
Bai Yuzhe walked to the clothes and skillfully rummaged through them to find the stack of banknotes he had just handed out, putting them all back in his pocket without missing a single one, and sighed softly:
"You don't know the value of firewood and rice until you're in charge of the household."
When he finished doing all that and rushed to Yeyue's side, he found that she was like a husky with its collar off.
In a dozen seconds,
The few fake humans hidden nearby didn't even have time to complete their battle form transformation.
Yeyue's whiskers had already wrapped around him like ghosts.
There was no violent physical contact.
There was no blood splattering.
The tips of those tentacles, like the most precise straws, gently adhered to the exposed energy nodes or alienated cores of the pseudo-human.
Then,
The monstrous, grotesque body of the fake man shriveled and withered rapidly, like a punctured balloon. His distorted limbs lost their luster and eventually turned into grayish-white powder that fell to the ground.
All the vitality and energy were greedily absorbed by those few dark red tentacles.
Yeyue retracted her whiskers.
Somewhat reluctantly, she touched her flat stomach, her eerie green eyes scanning the surrounding silence and darkness, as if dissatisfied with the scarcity of food nearby.
She tilted her head, extended her snow-white index finger, and gently bit the corner of her mouth, from which a drop of golden blood, as brilliant as gold, slowly oozed out.
Almost the instant that drop of blood was exposed to the air.
Centered on her,
The miasma within a radius of several hundred meters seemed to ripple like water after a stone has been thrown in. The already thin miasma in the air frantically converged towards her, its concentration rising sharply. The leaves of the twisted plants around her all turned toward her, as if on a pilgrimage.
Upon entering the factory,
Bai Yuze was standing next to a tree with newly sprouting buds, observing and recording.
They were the first to discover this.
On the laptop screen in his hand, the miasma concentration index was soaring, instantly exceeding the threshold for daily monitoring.
He sighed softly, but did not look up or say anything. He simply turned the sampling frequency of the equipment to the highest level and continued to focus on recording the instantaneous effects of high-concentration miasma pulses on the chlorophyll activity and cell structure of the surrounding vegetation.
he knows,
The following data will be very abundant.
really.
The silence was completely shattered.
in all directions,
The shadows are boiling!
Crust-mutated reptiles, multi-legged stalkers, and writhing, mushy devourers...
These low-level abyssal beasts, hidden throughout the ruins, surged forth as if they had heard an irresistible call.
On the other side,
The fake people who flocked in seemed to have lost their minds as well.
They no longer maintained their fragile disguises and revealed their fighting forms. Although their outlines resembled humans, their limbs and bodies no longer possessed any human characteristics. Their pale arm blades spewed out a foul-smelling and corrosive slime.
They frantically headed towards that drop of golden blood.
Or,
They rushed towards Yeyue like moths to a flame!
Faced with this surging tide of greed and madness,
Yeyue seemed very satisfied.
She no longer maintained the facade of a well-behaved little girl that she had when she was by Bai Yuzhe's side.
form,
A subtle change.
Her head had been completely mutated, yet it possessed a breathtakingly inhuman beauty.
The human face was covered by black silt, and in the darkness, a pair of pale golden eyes were revealed, their light as mesmerizing as a swirling nebula.
Crystal edge,
Twelve dark red, living tentacles extended gracefully, like the most exquisite hair ornaments cascading down, their ends adorned with fluorescent green dots that flickered like breaths, swaying lightly with her subtle movements, eerily beautiful, and deadly beautiful.
In the center of the crystal,
The three rhomboid golden energy cores, like eerie compound eyes, slowly rotated, each rotation refracting a cold and profound luster.
Her body still maintains an extremely slender human curve.
However, it was covered with a layer of black and red bio-armor that resembled a second skin, with smooth lines that tapered into a breathtaking curve at the waist and abdomen.
The armor surface is not smooth, but covered with intricate, openwork lace-like patterns. Beneath these patterns, purple liquid energy can be seen, like a imprisoned galaxy.
Most striking are the four pairs of thin, luminous membrane wings that stretch out on her back. The veins on the membrane wings are a brilliant gold, and the membrane material shows a gradient from deep black to dark purple.
Very beautiful.
It is beautiful beyond human aesthetics, reaching into a certain primitive and dangerous rule.
Even Bai Yuze, engrossed in recording data, couldn't help but catch his breath and glance at it a few more times when he caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye. But then, he shook his head sharply, suppressing that momentary flutter of excitement, and silently told himself:
This is the old man who raised me!
calm down!
This is a child's attachment to its mother!
……
Faced with the surging tide of beasts and fake humans,
Yeyue moved.
With a gentle flap of her four pairs of membranous wings, she hovered in the low sky, and her twelve tentacles, like a king serpent with its own independent life, suddenly burst forth!
Each one pierced precisely into the vital points of a calamity beast or a pseudo-human, not through absorption, but through pure and violent penetration and tearing!
The golden compound eyes rotated calmly.
Lock onto the next target.
Her movements were as graceful as a dance, yet carried the most efficient rhythm of killing.
The black and red figure weaved through the frenzied beasts, leaving behind a trail of severed limbs and mixed with strange bodily fluids, which rained down like a storm. The mad roars were quickly silenced by death.
She didn't seem to be killing.
It's more like a mother picking out fresh food at a market.
Each kill
She would always precisely leave behind a few pieces of the most active tissue or crystal nuclei, roll them up with her tentacles, and hand them to Bai Yuzhe with undeniable force.
"Little sticky rice cake, open your mouth!"
Her clear, mature voice echoed in Bai Yuze's mind.
With an undeniable seriousness.
"Look at you this week, you've gotten so thin! Eat up, it breaks my heart!"
Bai Yuzhe looked at the thick, miasma-filled chunk of flesh in front of him, which was still twitching slightly, and his lips twitched.
He really wanted to say,
I'm not hungry right now.
We'll eat later.
But faced with Ye Yue's transformed, tall, monstrous form, he readily opened his mouth, letting the chunk of meat brimming with rich energy be stuffed inside.
Then they immediately resumed their work on collecting data on the effects of miasma on the natural environment.
Don't look ahead,
He said whatever he wanted, as if he were the one in charge of the household.
Actually, all of that was Okasan playing multiple roles.
emmm...
It's also possible that he was hungry when he came to Dongqing City.
But in general,
When the other party returns to normal, Bai Yuze is very obedient.
Do not ask,
The answer is that he is filial.
……
It took about an hour.
Bai Yuze's laptop was already filled with data.
But unfortunately,
These records are all high-concentration information records.
It cannot be used.
He needs to find a different place to record it again.
Thinking of this,
Bai Yuze glanced at Ye Yue and asked, "Oka-san, have you eaten enough over there?"
Ye Yue glanced at the still relatively bright sky.
He patted his round belly again, then shook his head firmly.
"not yet."
Bai Yuzhe: "..."
never mind,
Since Okasan has finally gotten a chance to let loose, it's best not to go against him too much, since there's still plenty of time.