Chapter 886: with translation of chapter title

Heiyu.

The sky was overcast with dark clouds, a modern scene.

Two figures hid on the rooftop of a high building, and on the ground street a large crowd gathered.

"Lin An... I want to eat that..."

Shrunken in his arms, Mo Ling pointed excitedly at the crystal skull on the ground, surrounded by a large crowd, her eyes full of longing.

Tilting her head.

She could feel that inside the skull placed at the center of the altar, there was a large amount of refined deathly energy.

Unlike the deathly energy inside the strange things, this refined deathly energy seemed not needing digestion.

In her perception, the skull oozing dark purple energy slurry was just like sucking jelly, making one want to suck a mouthful.

Lin An glanced at the little Mo Ling in his arms, a hint of helplessness flashing in his eyes.

After leaving the Faceless One zone, he brought Mo Ling and sped up, breaking through three zones.

It's not that he didn't want to resolve a few incidents, hoping to get some good stuff.

But the subsequent incidents he encountered were nearly unsolvable.

A supernatural incident zone, the environment set in the 1980s.

When Lin An saw the 'Seven Sins' up to a hundred meters tall, composed of many twisted ghost faces, he decisively chose to run.

Having swallowed half a city's worth of undead, it's estimated someone triggered this zone's mission ahead of time.

Maybe it's the fleeing Yuan Feng, or maybe it's an Awakened One who mistakenly entered here earlier.

One Arcane Torrent can only blast a pit; even he has little way to fight this monster.

And Lin An had also seen this type of supernatural incident in the data of the Yingshan Safe Zone.

The Seven Sins incident is not scary, but tricky and troublesome, requiring a lot of time to find the seven deceased and respectively 'reformed' them.

Once the Seven Sins gather, the resulting undead body is nearly unsolvable.

Fortunately, that undead body moves slowly, has a single attack method; as long as you don't get close or touch certain strange things, you'll be fine.

Thus, most Awakened Ones who encounter it just pack some food and run in the Seven Sins zone.

And upon realizing that Yuan Feng might be ahead of him, Lin An became more vigilant.

The other two are the Witchcraft Curse and the Human-Faced Insect Valley.

The former, according to records, can yield a strange object that enhances attributes, but the cost is being parasitized by gu worms.

The latter is a special event; the number of monsters is so many it makes your scalp tingle; based on simple judgment, the Human-Faced Insect Valley should be suitable for few summoning-type Awakened Ones.

These two events aren't very helpful to him, so he simply charged through, leaving a marker to come back later.

But the fifth zone right now, the Meme Event 【Human Origin】, has piqued his strong interest.

This type of meme is not recorded; it seems to be randomly refreshed.

He also sensed it.

Inside the skull there is not only deathly energy, but also refined spiritual energy.

With a rough filter perception, it's at least not less than 10 points.

10 points of spiritual energy... that's almost half of his spiritual energy reserves.

Obtaining it would boost his strength by 50%; how could he not be moved?

But the situation here is a bit troublesome...

Lin An had observed for half an hour, but still dared not act.

Thinking back half an hour ago.

Even before entering this place, he and Mo Ling appeared in a coffee shop.

Just as he was preparing to act and scout, he saw a man like a vagrant stumbling in, pushing the door open.

"I'll tell you guys... a secret!"

Like a low growl, the vagrant, after rushing in, had saliva dripping from the corner of his mouth, his eyes fervent as he pressed down on the nearest woman.

Ignoring the woman's panicked resistance.

Only seeing his dirty hands pressing on the woman's shoulders, as if forcing, he brought his mouth to her ear to whisper.

Within just a few seconds.

Such behavior naturally drew astonishment from the white-collar workers in the coffee shop.

Before the woman could resist and loudly call for security, she seemed to have heard some unbelievable secret, instantly stiffening in her seat.

Her head bowed, body trembling, as if she had learned the most unbelievable thing in the world.

Moments later, the woman suddenly stood up, her eyes filled with the same fervor as the vagrant, almost devout, and she quickly rushed to another person's side.

And she whispered the same sentence in her mouth.

"I... tell you a secret!"

Such a bizarre scene naturally aroused Lin An's vigilance.

A few seconds later.

When the woman ran to the side of a white-collar worker in a suit, after whispering something into his ear while he was panicked...

The meme spread then began.

Two became four, four became eight, eight became sixteen.

When Lin An realized something was wrong, he immediately grabbed Mo Ling and rushed out of the coffee shop.

As he rushed out, an infected man in a suit tried to block him.

When Lin An decisively used Cain's Hand to simulate an arcane attack, although he instantly dissolved the opponent into a puddle of flesh, that puddle quickly reassembled into a human shape.

"I'll tell you a secret!"

Resurrected from death, the man's lower half was still a pile of fragments, his mouth opened to the limit, frantically trying to grab his foot.

The frenzy in his eyes made one's scalp go numb.

With a kick that blasted the opponent apart in midair, Lin An's heart jolted, and he directly broke free from the surrounding infected.

Within ten minutes, the entire street was filled with frantically running "infected," regardless of age or gender, everyone's face crazed as they seized passersby, endlessly repeating that whisper.

Demonic in its allure, every human who heard the secret was turned into an infected, becoming a carrier for spreading the meme.

"Lin An, what do you think the secret they're saying is…?"

In his embrace, Mo Ling whispered curiously.

The crowd on the street had all been infected; lacking a target to spread to, these humans stood like statues in place.

Waiting for someone to approach, they would then be "activated."

And that crystal skull, after Lin An observed it for a long time, he realized the skull must have been the first to appear on the street, with the vagrant being the first to come into contact with it.

His expression grave, Lin An glanced down at Mo Ling:

"Don't be curious."

"We're not sure what the meme's origin is, but once heard, one is likely to become infected as well."

One must admit, even without the infected's strange whisper invading the mind, merely hearing that repeated sentence made Lin An feel a strong curiosity welling up inside.

That feeling was like fine hairs constantly itching in the heart, making one desperate to know what the secret truly was.

What a strange meme…

To take, or not to take?

His eyes flickered.

This crystal skull was probably one of the biggest gains he'd encountered after entering Heiyu.

It's useful not only to him, but also to Mo Ling.

Moreover, it doesn't look like the meme's source; rather, it seems like a tool for spreading it.

Thinking silently, Lin An gazed toward another part of the city.

He rushed over, snatched it, and stored it in his ring.

Being able to store it in the ring meant, as he had anticipated, that it was a prop.

If not, he could only figure out how to resolve the meme incident before taking it.

Going down himself to get it would be too risky; Lin An wasn't sure whether there were other interferences near the crystal skull.

If he lost control for even a few seconds and an infected rushed up to whisper in his ear, the problem would be serious.

His eyes flickered.

In his thoughts, he quickly locked onto a crowd in the distance that had not yet been infected.

The corpse revival from the Death Heaven Disaster Skill…

He and Mo Ling wouldn't go for it themselves, but they could let a "corpse" test it out!

No matter how tempting the thing looked, Lin An remained extremely cautious, preferring to put in extra effort.

Be careful, that's always the right choice.