Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers

Number: R-149

Name: Promiz Virus

Type: Dangerous Strain

Characteristics: Upon entering an intelligent lifeform’s body, the virus strengthens and upgrades the host’s genes, capable of evolving the creature’s life level to Bronze-tier.

Applicable Species: Rock Rank intelligent humanoid beings

Reason for Danger: During evolution, the virus shreds and reassembles the host’s cells, causing pain beyond biological endurance limits. If the host loses consciousness mid-evolution, the Promiz Virus’s cellular upgrade turns chaotic and random.

Once evolution ends, the host becomes a mindless humanoid monster driven only by instinct.

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“Promiz Virus, found!”

Yu Yuan suspected that the Promiz Virus that appeared in the Freedom Tower World had come from here.

It only took a single Promiz Virus to completely destroy a world, a civilization.

And dangerous strains like the Promiz Virus still remained here...

Yu Yuan surveyed the number of containers in the red preservation zone before him — 99.

There were a full 99 containers just for [Dangerous Strains] here, but only two types remained.

— [Silent Stone Mother Virus]: Upon infection, gradually silicifies the host’s cells, turning them into living stone while retaining clear consciousness and perception, yet forced to exist only as stone.

— [Echo Mitochondrial Virus]: Upon infection, the host’s cells begin delayed reactions. The infected live forever in the ‘past,’ with reality and response never occurring at the same time, delays ranging from hours to days, until eventually self-dissolution.

Yu Yuan handled the packaging of these two viruses with extreme caution.

Only when the strains were safely stored inside his Rabbit Ring did his ever-anxious heart finally settle a little.

If something happened to these two viruses, he might not even survive!

The [Forbidden Strains] and [Special Strains] were all completely empty.

Yu Yuan didn’t dawdle any longer and quickly headed to the research and evolution floor on the third level.

This was also a laboratory, but it looked more advanced than the one on the first floor.

Unfortunately, there were no evolution potions here that could upgrade him to Silver-tier as he had hoped. Still, the experimental equipment and resources left Yu Yuan quite satisfied after gathering them.

The fourth floor collected quite a few recipes for fermentation bacterial cultures, which had good effects on making food, alcohol, and medicine.

After collecting all of these, Yu Yuan finally stepped onto the fifth floor...

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As the ‘Death Reaper’ swung its scythe, a massive worm resembling a parasite that had just burrowed up from underground was severed at the waist.

The worm fell to the ground, writhing constantly, but its broken ends twisted and turned as they rapidly regenerated.

In just a few seconds, the two halves had become two complete parasites.

They opened their petal-shaped mouths lined with serrated teeth, aimed at Artus, and sprayed a stream of thick green acid.

“Damn it!”

Artus stood on his Death Carriage, dodging the spurting acid.

But at that very moment, the Death Reaper, which had just pulled back, crashed into one of the undead warhorses.

Although Artus managed to drop flat onto the carriage in time to avoid a direct acid shower, the Death Carriage still sizzled loudly.

This acid could corrode energy entities.

“Damn it, damn it! Why won’t these cursed bugs stop chasing me?!”

The undead warhorse had already dragged him high into the air, retreating into the black mist formed by the death aura.

Dozens of giant worms on the ground stared at the direction where Artus had disappeared, opened their mouths wide, and let out roars.

Meanwhile, Shadow Wolf, who had been hiding in the shadows all along following Artus, was now stunned speechless.

“Isn’t this guy Artus ridiculously unlucky?”

He had seen it clearly — from the moment they were at that tower earlier, Artus seemed extraordinarily unlucky. He would either inexplicably run into suddenly appearing mutated creatures, or be forced to flee in panic from beams of light that came out of nowhere.

And just now, a worm had appeared right beside him and had already spotted him. But right before it was about to attack, it suddenly changed direction and went after Artus instead.

It was as if Artus had done something terrible to them and they were determined to fight to the death.

The intensity of the battle left even Shadow Wolf feeling bewildered.

He almost suspected that this Civilization Relic’s defense system was specifically targeting Artus.

Now, he didn’t even need to make a move. Given Artus’s incredibly rotten luck, he might just get himself killed on his own.

“I have two invitation letters now. Artus has three. That shouldn’t be right... Where are the rest of the letters?”

Both Shadow Wolf and Artus had now set their sights on the remaining players.

But strangely, it felt like only the two of them were left in this Civilization Relic — an eerie, dead silence.

Artus was also now searching for Shadow Wolf’s trail.

Shadow Wolf, in turn, was looking for an opportunity to kill Artus.

This had reached an awkward stalemate.

And just as Shadow Wolf was deep in thought, he suddenly sensed something wrong.

The next moment, he hastily turned around.

He saw a massive parasitic worm silently approaching from behind him, mouth wide open as it lunged down to bite.

“Damn it!”

Shadow Wolf reacted belatedly.

Artus had deliberately hidden inside the death aura on purpose.

Although Shadow Wolf’s shadow camouflage could fool Artus’s perception, it couldn’t deceive these giant parasitic worms that traveled underground.

They were extremely sensitive to even the slightest vibration on the ground.

Now that Artus had vanished, Shadow Wolf was the only one still in contact with the ground, making him the obvious target.

And so, the hidden Shadow Wolf was forced out of hiding.

With a sweep of his hand, his cloak enveloped his body, and he transformed into a shadow, shifting five meters away into another patch of darkness.

After dodging the giant worm’s attack, Shadow Wolf knew he had been exposed and no longer bothered to hide.

Werewolf Transformation.

In an instant, he became that bloodthirsty wolf again.

Having witnessed Artus’s fight against the giant worms, Shadow Wolf knew how troublesome they were.

Moreover, now that battle had broken out, the other worms were all converging on him.

His priority wasn’t to fight, but to get as far away as possible.

His pupils instantly turned blood-red, and like a black bolt of lightning, he shot off into the distance.

But he had barely covered a hundred meters before his body suddenly stiffened and became immobile.

It felt as if his entire body was being locked down by some kind of force.

At the same time, seven giant worms closed in behind him, opening their mouths to tear into him.

The ground in front rippled, and two more giant worms emerged.

Further away, the other worms had heard the commotion and were giving chase.

But this time, their actions signaled the wind-up for an acid spray.

Shadow Wolf cursed in his heart: Damn Artus!

He was all too familiar with this trick. When they had taken down Demon Anta before, Anta had been restrained by this same move, allowing Artus to seize the opportunity.

Now, this move was being used on him.

But Shadow Wolf didn’t panic. The wolf fang pendant on his chest suddenly lit up, and the force binding him quietly faded away.

At the last possible moment, Shadow Wolf dodged the giant worm’s attack, his cloak wrapping around his body as he once again turned into a shadow and reappeared somewhere else.

He quickly fled, with the worms chasing after him, their movements so violent that they brought down the surrounding buildings.

Shadow Wolf ran like mad, dashing east and west through the Civilization Relic, trying to shake off the pursuing worms.

But it was useless.

Then Shadow Wolf noticed a gaze locked onto him.

He turned his head toward the sky and saw Artus wearing a cat-and-mouse grin at him.

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