"Uncle, are you blind?"

A wisp of the soft and soothing sound of milk lingering in my ears.

Ning Xiuyuan, who was browsing books in the library, looked down in surprise when he heard this.

I saw a little girl about five or six years old, wearing a floral princess dress, holding her head high, blinking her big eyes, looking at him curiously.

"No!" Ning Xiuyuan smiled.

"Then why are you wearing black glasses?" The little girl was confused.

"Because..." Ning Xiuyuan smiled: "I look very scary and will scare the children."

"More scary than Uncle Hester?"

Ning Xiuyuan was about to answer when a call came from not far away.

"JOJO, come to mom quickly!"

A young mother was holding a book and reaching out to greet her daughter. She looked at Ning Xiuyuan with a somewhat wary look in her eyes.

——When I arrived at the bookstore, I was still wearing reflective goggles. Is this person sick?

"Uncle Glasses, goodbye!"

The little girl waved her hands, swung her short legs, and ran towards her mother.

Ning Xiuyuan looked at this scene with a smile on his lips.

He is in a good mood now, not only because of the cute greeting from the little girl, but also because the Plague Disciple's extraordinary ritual is progressing rapidly.

Through preliminary experiments, he basically gained a new understanding of the extraordinary rituals of the Plague Disciples.

Many experiments have shown that only plagues that are destructive and can cause pain and death to infected people can meet the requirements of the ritual.

The more suffering and death caused by the plague, the faster the integration of extraordinary characteristics will progress and the more powerful it will be!

It is worth mentioning that:

——Even if the suffering and death of the infected person were not directly caused by the plague, this "karma" would be counted on Ning Xiuyuan's head.

This is also the fundamental reason why the death caused by the cultists in the small town of Commons accelerated his integration progress.

Ning Xiuyuan couldn't understand the principle of this.

However, this does not prevent him from using it "knowing it but not knowing why".

For this reason, after careful consideration, he secretly spread the influenza virus in several reservoirs, and used the characteristics of the Plague Disciples to enhance the contagiousness and weaken the pathogenicity.

He has tested that even the elderly and children with low immunity, infected with his extraordinary flu, can at most cause symptoms such as colds and fevers.

As long as it is administered in time, there is basically no fatality rate, and at most there will be some pain.

In doing so, he traded quantity for quality;

On the other hand, it is also taking advantage of the urgent need of the reservoir to mark the people in the city and put the "karma" of the dying person on his head.

He succeeded.

Only three days have passed since the ceremony was performed, and five-sixths of his plague disciples have been integrated.

It is estimated that it will take up to one day to completely complete the integration.

'It's settled!'

Ning Xiuyuan was in a good mood, holding the selected books and walking towards the bookstore counter.

Even if this matter is discovered by the Foundation and the tap water supply is cut off, the remaining marked people in the city will be enough to help him complete the extraordinary ritual.

'confused'

Just as he was thinking about it, the illusory sound that only the soul could hear suddenly sounded in his body.

Just like a bubble bursting, crisp and silent.

Ning Xiuyuan stopped in shock.

The Plague Disciples suddenly accelerated the fusion process at this moment, so that the fusion was completed in an instant.

The progress is faster than expected!

He also finally mastered the Plague Disciples and gained an essential understanding of it.

【Plague Disciples】

——Knock open the bodies of all living beings and draw the source of souls. The virus is the sickle of power, the plague is the blasphemous ritual, the disciples who spread the plague, and the non-returners who create death.

Ning Xiuyuan was stunned.

What shocked him was not only the nature of the Plague Disciples, but also...his power was growing crazily!

If his previous growth rate was like a gushing faucet;

So now it’s like a reservoir opening its gates, and the water is pouring out for thousands of miles!

What happened?

"Uncle Glasses!"

A sweet greeting came, interrupting Ning Xiuyuan's shock.

He followed the sound and saw that the little girl who had just taken the initiative to strike up a conversation with him was standing at the door of the bookstore, waving to him.

Ning Xiuyuan's expression changed drastically!

His five fingers were like dragons, clasping into the void. In an instant, the time and space where the little girl was standing was suddenly displaced, moving laterally by more than ten meters.

"boom!"

A black car, like a mad beast, crashed through the glass curtain wall of the bookstore, rushed over, and caused glass shards all over the sky!

"ah--"

Screams rang out, tearing apart the tranquility of the bookstore.

In the bookstore, countless people were shocked and fled in all directions.

The little girl's mother was holding her daughter with a confused look on her face. Her mind was a little confused and she didn't seem to understand why she suddenly ran from the door of the bookstore to the inside of the bookstore.

Ning Xiuyuan had no time to take care of the mother and daughter. He stared at the black car with horror in his eyes.

I saw a human sitting cross-legged in the driver's seat of the black car.

Let’s call them humans.

The hair fell off all over its body, and scar tissue was piled on its skin. Its chest was broken open, revealing its twisted arms, and spider-like joints sprouted from its back.

"Sizzle!"

It screamed strangely, squeezed out of the broken window of the black car, roared, rushed towards the nearest person, like a hunting dog, and threw one person to the ground.

The person who was knocked down was wailing, his limbs suddenly twisted, and large scar tissue appeared on his skin, and he was about to turn into a second monster.

"ah--"

"monster!"

The crowd was boiling, and countless people were so frightened that they rolled over and ran towards the depths of the bookstore.

Looking at the street outside the bookstore, I realized that the street had been in chaos for some time, like a purgatory on earth. Countless monsters could be vaguely seen, jumping between the streets, car roofs, and floors, attacking all living creatures crazily.

Including trees.

Everywhere you look, there are blood, limbs, and monsters, impacting the rational world.

"This is……"

This familiar scene made Ning Xiuyuan feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave, with chills all over his body!

He smelled a familiar scent inside these monsters.

——That is the extraordinary flu virus he spreads.

In fact, at this time, his power is soaring at an exponential speed!

The increase in strength caused his perception to also rise sharply.

He could feel that the extraordinary ritual composed of the plague was transporting countless soul sources stolen from the soul to his body.

This feeling is intoxicating!

He almost wanted to force his conscience, humanity, stupidity, and guilt...all out of his body.

What a wonderful feeling!

Why should I feel ashamed?

"Mother--"

The familiar cry suddenly awakened Ning Xiuyuan's intoxication.

He looked around and saw that the little girl who was chatting to him was crying in fear. Her mother had turned into a tree of flesh and blood.

Her legs were like the old roots of a horned dragon, piercing into the earth, and countless limbs sprouted from her body, waving wildly to attack any monster that came close to the little girl.
To be continued...