eurekapd Chapter 228 Black Orb
Chapter 228 Black Orb
Chapter 228 Black Orb
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The deafening explosions continued unabated. The monster, carrying the force of thunder, was sent flying uncontrollably backward and crashed heavily to the ground.
He streaked across the sky like a shooting star, first crashing through a towering office building. The building's glass curtain wall shattered instantly, and the reinforced concrete structure collapsed under the monster's impact.
He then crashed into the shopping mall behind him, his already mangled body smashing through the roof and causing the shelves and merchandise inside to explode.
The monster did not slow down at all. After hitting the ground, it continued to roll forward and smashed through the wall like a football.
After destroying several more residential buildings, his speed gradually slowed down.
Walls shattered, buildings collapsed, and terrifying explosions echoed in the darkness.
The monster was barely breathing; his broken body lay scattered among the ruins, a black, viscous substance resembling tar wriggling slightly.
In the pitch-black environment, all that could be heard was the strange man's weak cough and faint gasps.
Just then, a faint glow appeared from afar. Sensing the light, the strange man shakily raised his head.
His dark eyes were fixed on the direction of the ball of light, and his muddled mind became even more chaotic at this moment.
The ball of light drew closer, faintly illuminating the world shrouded in shadow.
Along with the light came a steady, rhythmic sound of footsteps.
"I have killed many monsters from other worlds and fought against all sorts of negative energy, but for you, I must admit..."
Tang Zijun flexed her wrists and spoke seriously.
"You're really tough."
Silently reaching out, Tang Zijun grabbed the strange man's hair and pulled him directly out of the ruins.
With the help of the halo emitted by the hyacinth, Tang Zijun finally saw the other party's true face.
"As expected..." Tang Zijun narrowed her eyes slightly as she looked at the humanoid creature in her hand, which was mostly covered in black slime.
Hyacinth, standing nearby, stared wide-eyed at the strange object in Tang Zijun's hand—the part below the chest had completely dissolved into black liquid and was dripping down. "Seriously?! You can recognize it like that?!"
"Although it has fallen into depravity, its scent will not change." Tang Zijun frowned slightly, her eyes revealing no emotion.
Tang Zijun was puzzled when he saw Jia Gang in the dock warehouse. He could hear breathing and heartbeat, but he couldn't smell any human scent at all.
Unless one is completely transformed into a monster, their natural human scent will not disappear. And that Jia Gang back then...
But how could someone with a human body not have any personality?
Now, seeing the completely black and repulsive creature in her hands, Tang Zijun finally understood the methods of the Shadow Clan.
"So, this guy is the real Jia Gang?" Hyacinth pinched her nose and asked curiously.
"Yes...no."
"What do you mean?"
Tang Zijun shook her head slightly. "I originally thought that the Shadow Clan's modifications to humans were only physical, but... I must have underestimated them."
Having dealt with negative energy for many years, he never judges new creations solely based on his past experiences.
Just like when she faced the heretics before, Tang Zijun did not choose to deal with them in the same way she dealt with those who were greedy, because fundamentally, they were not from the same world.
The same applies to the current Shadow Clan.
Tang Zijun took a deep look at the humanoid creature in her hand and said, word by word, "This thing is Jia Gang's shadow."
"Jia Gang's shadow?" Hyacinth looked somewhat surprised.
Before she could figure it out, the humanoid creature in Tang Zijun's hand suddenly shot up.
The seemingly heavily injured shadowy figure suddenly raised its hand, its five fingers coming together to form a sharp shadow blade.
A terrifying aura erupted at that moment, and the shadowy monster let out a non-human roar, raising its hand blade and stabbing it directly at Tang Zijun's head.
click!
Just as the blade was millimeter away from Tang Zijun's face, the shadow abruptly stopped with a crisp metallic sound.
And it could not advance even an inch further.
Tang Zijun's hand was gripping the shadowy monster's arm tightly. Her hand, which didn't look particularly strong, contained terrifying power.
"Strange methods, strange energy, and even the ability to move after the body is destroyed..."
Tang Zijun exerted force with her palm, tearing with all her might, and forcibly ripped off the shadow monster's arm.
Black slime was scattered all over the ground, but no sound was heard. The liquid turned into a shadow the moment it touched the ground, blending into the surrounding environment.
"This is really troublesome. What on earth is this thing?" Hyacinth clicked her tongue in amazement.
Tang Zijun sighed gravely. "This is different from the previous reports from the bureau. It seems the Shadow Clan has already found a way to modify humans."
Unlike established corporations like the Greedy Ones and the Outer Demons, the Shadow Clan, as a newly emerging small force, has not produced many monsters, let alone possesses sufficient combat power.
Apart from the Shadow Woman, all other eyewitness accounts focus on the Shadow Clan.
But the Shadows, in the end, are no different from the Dark Scum; they are the most basic grunts who don't "drop equipment" when they die.
In this situation, from the perspective of the Shadow Clan, their most important task is to create new elites, captains, or even cadres of their own kind as soon as possible.
Only in this way can the Shadow Clan be qualified to sit at the table and eat.
However, the probability of cultivating powerful peers through the natural generation of negative energy in the shadow world is extremely low, especially since the Tree of Life has now cut off the flow of negative energy from the real world to the shadow world.
Therefore, turning their attention to the source of negative energy is their only option.
The simplest and most efficient way is to find humans who carry negative energy and use the power of shadow to erode and corrupt them.
After all, that's how the greedy people of yesteryear started their fortunes.
Unlike the heretical demons born from the emotions of killing and despair, every greedy person is a reflection of humanity, and because of this, their combat power increases more rapidly.
It can be said that all of the Shadow Girl's previous actions revolved around this goal, but she took the wrong path at the beginning.
She pinned her hopes on the corruption caused by human depravity, but she forgot that the human body is incapable of bearing that level of power.
The Outer Path Demon can also possess humans, but when the Outer Path Demon transforms into a human body, it does not cause any harm to the human body. This is why the possessed human has a chance to survive after the Outer Path Demon is defeated.
But shadow transformation is different. This evil method will transform an ordinary person from the inside out, at the very core of their soul. No one can withstand this transformation; death or being devoured by the shadow is inevitable.
Now, the Shadow Clan seems to have found the right path—they no longer modify humans themselves, but rather their shadows.
By letting the shadow fall into the shadow of a human, and then driving the shadow to awaken its own consciousness, rise from the ground, and kill the original body, the combination of these two different negative energies may create a new shadow race.
However, this is only a theoretical possibility. In reality, they did succeed, but they also failed.
The success lies in the fact that they did indeed create a figure close to a low-level cadre through Jia Gang, while the failure lies in the fact that this guy's mental development was incomplete and he had no independent thought at all.
Thinking of this, Tang Zijun clenched her left hand and punched the head in her hand, smashing it apart. The black shadow shattered like a broken watermelon, leaving no shape.
After doing all this, Tang Zijun flipped his hand over, and a black pearl appeared in his palm.
The hyacinth, with its sharp eyes, noticed the presence of the pearl and quickly came closer.
"Could this be...?"
"Ah." Tang Zijun nodded. "Something like Dark Crystal, Mirror Core, and Dream Stone. The fact that they can gather this thing means the Shadow Clan is very close to success."
The hyacinth landed in Tang Zijun's palm, and she held the black pearl in her hands, examining it closely. "So what should this thing be called?"
"Have you forgotten? This is the first time I've ever seen something like this either."
"I know," Hyacinth turned her head. "What I mean is, as the first person to discover this thing, shouldn't you have the right to name it?"
"Let's leave the naming rights to the experts in the bureau." Tang Zijun didn't care about that; he was more interested in the energy within this thing. "So, have you discovered anything?"
The dark crystal transforming into emerald crystal can make one immune to all diseases, and the mirror core can make one more beautiful. Tang Zijun did not believe that this black bead did not have any special abilities.
Hyacinth observed carefully for a while, then her expression suddenly turned somewhat strange.
"This bead..."
"What's wrong?"
Hyacinth suddenly looked up at Tang Zijun.
"This bead contains the power of natural magic!"
"Natural magic? Magical girl!?"
Tang Zijun's tone rose considerably. Before, it was just a guess, but now, his heart sank.
The Shadow Clan was indeed after the newly awakened magical girls; they wanted to take advantage of the girls' early awakening and their lack of combat power to deal with them.
I just don't know why the magical girl's energy would evolve into the energy source that gives rise to the Shadow Clan monsters.
Seeing Tang Zijun lost in thought, the hyacinth fluttered its wings and flew away.
"I said, now is not the time to think about these things."
In the darkness, an ominous aura resurfaced.
"Let's leave here first, otherwise those Shadows will surround us again."