Chapter 338: Experience Pack

Yang Yixie decisively activated the 【Scout】 skill; the black‑red pixelated mess before his eyes hurt his vision, and it was no longer something his naked eye could analyze clearly.

【System Prompt: Warning! Detected high‑concentration unknown energy entity! Contact may cause irreversible Mutation contamination!】

Mutation Value: 13 (slowly rising)

Yang Yixie merely glanced at that number, unconcerned.

Just a measly 13.

His backpack now holds at least three whole boxes of holy water, all courtesy donations from various factions.

Ying Duo pressed on without hesitation, and the dark red liquid rippled in circles as he advanced.

Honestly, the water here is a bit deep, barely passing his ankles.

Moreover, the "world" around him is slowly collapsing.

Not far away, an inverted building is gradually sinking—not falling, but melting point by point, finally seeping into the dark red mass.

As he moved forward, he finally saw a huge crack at the edge of the sky.

That crack spanned the very end of the world, stretching from the ground beyond his field of view, and deep within that fissure—

something.

Yang Yixie squinted; deep in the fissure seemed a massive, viscous black unknown substance.

It seemed to have a life of its own, constantly writhing, "existing" in a way far beyond human comprehension.

Even the pixel blocks that had been frantically flickering froze the instant they approached that black shadow, then silently vanished as if they had never existed.

Yang Yixie stared at the black mass, wondering if it was the Mutation Source inside Luo Jinyou, and promptly launched a 【Scout】.

【System Prompt: Detected unknown entity! Identity: ##￥#%#&*, Danger Level: Incapable of estimation!】

【Warning! Direct observation of this entity is not recommended! The entity itself will cause irreversible mental contamination to the observer!】

【Warning! Player is directly observing ##%#&*#!】

【Warning! Strong mental shock detected! Attempting to resist......】

Yang Yixie's breath stalled for a moment.

Not from fear, but because he saw it.

Though it was merely a writhing black shadow, and the system's prompt box was already flooding his screen,

he truly "saw" the name of that black mass and its Blood Bar above its head.

【"God", Lv.???】

Ying Duo blinked, as if confirming whether the object before him truly existed.

Hmm...... you mean he came in to rescue a teammate and pull the backstage boss out?

So this thing is an evil god, right? He just stares blankly—won't he get instantly killed?

【Mental Pollution Value: 7%...... 4%...... 2%...... 0%】

【Abnormal status cleared!】

Yang Yixie froze on the spot—could this be the legendary "ground" where he didn't even have time to feel what mental contamination was, yet was already cured?

Shouldn't these evil gods all be unspeakable, unviewable, and the like?

Now Yang Yixie only sees a wildly shaking mosaic.

That thing, in his eyes now, is even less vivid than Luo Wen yuan's colorful expression changes just moments ago.

Yang Yixie could only remain silent, and in his heart he silently gave a thumbs‑up to the developers of this pixel game.

He doesn't know where the game came from, but that move was truly awesome.

It's like a forced minor‑age protection system—no matter if it's an evil god or anything else, it gets punished.

Since the so‑called "God" can be temporarily ignored, the Luo Jinyou he's looking for should be somewhere in this chaos.

Ying Duo lifted a foot and kept moving forward.

He stepped, step by step, into that indescribable chaos.

In the distance, that writhing black shadow still quietly "watched" that direction.

Or rather, it "watched" this bold little Ying Guang Lu figure who dared to enter its domain.

The dark red liquid deepened, already rising from his ankles to his calves.

With each step Yang Yixie felt a viscous resistance, though only a bit more effortful in feeling; Ying Duo, after all, has no stamina bar.

Moreover, the surrounding environment was no longer uniform, and other things began to appear.

They were semi‑transparent dark‑red fragments, floating in the dark‑red space, emitting a faint glow.

Yang Yixie stopped, stared at one fragment for two seconds, and activated 【Scout】.

【System Prompt: Detected unknown energy fragment!】

【Note: Suspected to be a certain type of fragment, unremarkable in appearance, but seemingly harboring powerful power.】

Yang Yixie merely glanced at the string of characters the system gave, then raised his hand and grasped the nearest fragment.

The fragment's tendril was ice‑cold, like jelly taken straight from a refrigerator; before Yang Yixie could examine it, it instantly "melted" in his palm, turning into a flash of light that pierced his body.

【Devoured "Unknown Energy Fragment" x1!】

【Gained: Experience +800】

【Mutation Value: 13→31】

Yang Yixie was stunned for a moment.

800?

One fragment gives 800?

He recalled that he usually hunted Aberrant Species for Grinding Monsters; a single Aberrant Species yielded only a few dozen experience points, and elite monsters gave a few hundred at best. Now a fragment the size of a fingernail grants that much?

Then he glanced at the skyrocketing Mutation Value.

31.

It jumped directly from 13 to 31, increasing by 18 points.

According to this world's standards, a Mutation Value over 30 is already considered "light contamination", so an ordinary person should now be showing slight discomfort symptoms.

But he didn't feel anything.

It can't possibly be because the Mutation Source is a stone, making his bodily perception dull as well, right?

Yang Yixie intuitively thought this wasn't good news, but fortunately he could still check his own status through the system.

【Mutation Value: 31】

【Status: Normal (no Mutation Features detected)】

Yang Yixie decisively took a bottle of Holy Water from his Game Backpack, tipped his head back, and poured it into himself.

When it comes to valuing his life, he is serious.

【Used "Holy Water" x1!】

【Mutation Value: 31→19】

Yang Yixie watched the Mutation Value that had just risen drop immediately, and nodded in satisfaction.

Encountering the Mutation only spiked a little, but he had still free‑ridden that much experience.

His Holy Water came entirely from the school and Church he freeloaded, so by that calculation, it's a guaranteed profit with no loss.

He casually tossed the empty bottle into his backpack and scanned the floating fragments around him.

At a glance, there were at least a hundred pieces.

Yang Yixie's eyes lit up.

He had never felt so wealthy; from this moment on, the experience Fang Zhiyan gave him could only be considered a trivial gain.