Chapter 430: What the hell are you researching?!

Pa—pa.... pa—pa....

The blood disaster, using all four limbs, crawled slowly toward Zhang Jie; its limbs landed on the ground, producing a sound like bare feet walking on the ground.

With each step, it left behind bloody footprints that writhed like living things.

"Humans! Run! Run!"

Boom!

Before Xiao Jiu's words had even finished, Zhang Jie had already acted.

A powerful energy exploded in an instant, instantly tearing the monster before him to shreds and scattering blood everywhere.

Those who didn't know thought the people here had spontaneously exploded.

"I thought it'd be something else, but it's just this?"

Xiao Jiu turned blankly and saw Zhang Jie holding an exquisite handgun; with high-tech enhancement, his weapons were no longer limited to physical firearms.

A pure-energy blast pistol could fully make up for the lack of power.

But the next moment, Zhang Jie was dumbfounded.

He saw the blood that had been blasted all over the ground begin, contrary to reason, to gather, clump, and reshape....

"This thing...."

"It's pretty amazing."

Zhang Jie seemed utterly unafraid, rose and stepped forward, intending to collect the writhing pool of blood with some containers, but the next moment he suddenly levitated in place.

"????"

"Hey!"

Xiao Jiu, this stubborn lump, directly hoisted him up; she wasn't just a Ship Girl who always ate peaches to stay cool.

She is a stubborn Ship Girl!

"Stupid human! If you won't go, I'll drag you!"

"Wait! I want to collect a bit to study!"

"What the hell are you researching?!"

Just as Xiao Jiu said, the next moment the sky rained down dense blood-colored specks, like tiny dumplings, continually falling from the heavens.

Only then did Zhang Jie realize how dangerous his actions had been, even foolish.

"Stupid human, don't just stand there—clear a path for me!"

Zhang Jie then came to his senses, raised his miniaturized handgun, and began clearing a path for Xiao Jiu.

At that moment, Luzhou was in chaos, blood disasters continually falling, and crowds of humans fled madly through the streets.

Zhang Jie personally witnessed a human entangled by a blood disaster, from the initial struggle to being torn apart, until his blood throughout his body became animate, seeping out from every part and forming new blood disasters.

All that remained was a human desiccated corpse; the whole process resembled a zombie apocalypse from fantasy.

Of course, Zhang Jie also saw the mecha he himself designed constantly counterattacking the blood disasters, but unfortunately, it had little effect.

Zhang Jie looked up; above the sky, countless blood-colored warships hovered in the firmament, blood streaming along their hulls and turning into solitary blood disasters upon reaching the ground.

"This thing—can't it be killed?"

"Of course there is! Rest easy, human!"

Xiao Jiu's petite frame bore Zhang Jie, her legs pumping fast; the extreme size mismatch gave the feeling of Lü Bu riding a dog....

"All we need to do now is take shelter and wait for the Iron Law Star Alliance's aid!"

"With a civilization this great, there should be no chance of it being overrun by a natural disaster."

"Okay!"

"You all left Luzhou, and along the way you blasted every blood disaster into puddles with your miniaturized handgun, successfully reaching the shelter on the wasteland."

"Now the outside is overrun with blood disasters, and gunfire occasionally comes from the direction of Luzhou; you and Xiao Jiu just wait like this inside the shelter."

"But you ultimately couldn't suppress your curiosity, asking Xiao Jiu to get you a blood disaster sample; for some reason, this is the first time you've felt such intense curiosity toward a living thing."

"'Fine, stupid human, Xiao Jiu will grudgingly help you!' Xiao Jiu reluctantly procured a blood disaster sample for you, warning you to handle it carefully."

"Once touched or it gets into a wound, it will rapidly assimilate human blood, directly birthing a new blood disaster; its endless assimilative capacity is what makes it most terrifying."

"As a seasoned scavenger, you quickly cobbled together a rudimentary research setup from surrounding materials; though crude, it lacked none of the essential functions."

"Having never touched biological research before, you began learning on the go, studying fervently; you believe you will surely be able to develop powerful weapons through this miraculous species."

"But this is hard on Xiao Jiu; without your company, she can only boredly eat cake, and as she has for years past, she silently watches your back, like a little dog in a dark corner."

"Such a life didn't last long; just as you thought you were about to get results, an invisible blue light flashed, and all your blood disaster samples in hand died, as if something had erased them."

"You were furious, yet Xiao Jiu, who knows nothing about research, widened her eyes in delight."

"Damn it! Grandpa! I beg you—don't die!"

The last clot of blood in the petri dish quickly shriveled, congealing into a dark-red scab.

"Unbelievable!"

Zhang Jie wore a speechless expression; something must have happened, causing all the blood disasters under his control to die simultaneously, not a single cell surviving.

"Human! All good!"

"The blood disasters outside are all dead! Let's head back!"

Xiao Jiu looked quite excited, hoping the damage to Luzhou wasn't too severe, otherwise she wouldn't get to eat tasty cake.

The two pushed open the shelter's door, and before them lay the familiar supermassive warship Zhang Jie had seen before.

At that moment it hovered above the firmament, a blue beam shooting straight down from its hull toward Luzhou and continually spreading outward.

The planet has a total of forty-six Luzhou oases, and above each one hangs such a warship emitting mysterious beams, completely covering the planet in light.

"How magnificent...."

"But...."

Why did you kill my experimental sample too!

You let out a helpless roar; facing such a thing, you can't do anything—cough, cough—but this doesn't affect your continued study of Xiao Jiu's body.

But you keep worrying about your broken blood disaster; but alas, with your ability you really can't obtain this, and this blood disaster descent incident is merely a mistake of the Iron Law Star Alliance, and cannot affect anything.

And you, in your day-to-day exploration and insights from studying the blood disaster, have noticed a clue in Xiao Jiu's body.

You seem to have finally found the reason why she cannot deploy her hull.....