Chapter 194: Rotting Giant Beast

【Insight activated】

【Name: Rotting Giant Beast】

【Origin: A twisted product formed when humus beasts devour each other and mutate. Their home turns to scorched earth; to survive they must devour each other! When a hungry humus beast consumes more than ten corpses of its kind, its flesh and blood boil inside, recombine, eventually tearing its shell and becoming this malformed existence stitched together from decay and greed. Every inch of its body slowly rots, yet constantly reborn within the rot, like the land itself, long devoid of life.】

【Weakness: … I think you're being overly cautious; just go for it.】

Cheng Shuili: "???"

What?

She stood in place, incredulous, and read the text after the weakness again.

What is this saying? Did her Abyssal Ring betray her? The first time the weakness was stated it was proper; the second time it's so casual!

Now it's just great!

Now they say nothing at all, just clamoring for her to go up.

That's certainly not good news.

While Cheng Shuili was still marveling at how the Abyssal Ring was becoming more human‑like, the long‑awaited Rotting Giant Beast opposite her rushed forward to attack!

Just as its nauseating maw was about to touch Cheng Shuili, a long sword sliced through its body's center, and the next moment, a system prompt suddenly popped up.

【Congratulations player Cheng Shuili, you have slain the normal monster Rotting Giant Beast, earning 20 points!】

Hm?

Cheng Shuili frowned; this thing looks terrifying, yet fighting it turned out unexpectedly easy to handle, huh?

And the feeling just now, when the long sword pierced the monster's body, was almost identical to the sensation of cutting an energy stone!

This is definitely the most fragile monster Cheng Shuili has encountered in her life.

However, worth mentioning, the corpse of the Rotting Giant Beast did not vanish outright; instead it turned into a clump of sludge‑like mush, sticky and gooey, smeared on the scorched earth, looking especially disgusting.

But Cheng Shuili breathed a sigh of relief.

That matches what Guanghui said.

When she first saw the monster's appearance, she thought only elite monsters dropped nutrient soil, but she didn't expect Guanghui's description referred to the monster after being slain.

Cheng Shuili used the long sword to prod the sticky sludge, rummaged for a while, and finally saw a small handful of nutrient soil.

Cheng Shuili sighed, this one will be dealt with directly.

After successfully collecting it, Cheng Shuili smoothly killed several more Rotting Giant Beasts.

The Abyssal Ring was absolutely right: just go for it, but that prudent quality certainly cannot be discarded.

After Cheng Shuili smoothly killed another Rotting Giant Beast, she crouched to collect nutrient soil and thought, "Now this material will definitely not be lacking; at this rate, in four hours I can farm several hundred batches!"

Here Cheng Shuili's monster‑farming path is especially smooth, while over at Zhao Hong's side things are becoming increasingly difficult.

Because of his previous unsanctioned actions, he is now a completely unwelcome figure in the organization. Almost everyone he can reach is giving him a hard time!

When items that should be distributed according to regulations are sent to him, the distributors deliberately hold him up, then sneer, saying, "Isn't this the big star of our 666 district? How did you end up like this now?"

There are even outright humiliations: "What are you, anyway? If you didn't have a bit of reputation and some of everyone's supplies, you couldn't even get on a leaderboard! We've been disliking you for a long time! You should stay exactly as you are now!"

Zhao Hong listened to everything, silently noting it all.

No one remains unchanged.

Indeed.

He is the same.

He is still staying in the organization, merely waiting for a suitable chance—a suitable chance to leave the organization without facing any retaliation!

Such opportunities are too few.

Zhao Hong has too much supplies on hand.

Envious people, jealous people, those he offended when he was spokesperson! Too many want him dead.

Now this stalemate is his chance!

He must find a way to survive, and also find a better path for himself to live well!

For him, Wu Ya is truly a good choice.

But why would Wu Ya want him?

He gave Wu Ya a blueprint, a Vehicle Card, but that was for exchanging information! Moreover, Wu Ya has never forgotten that transaction.

To pledge allegiance, he must demonstrate other value!

These past few days Zhao Hong has been slacking; each day he spends twelve hours driving, hoping to produce something good, but unfortunately… in this lousy world, effort doesn't always yield results.

Zhao Hong sighed again, thinking that today he still has to interact with someone in the organization, and he subconsciously sighed once more.

Cheng Shuili's path is not smooth either.

After slicing another Rotting Giant Beast, a violent rumble suddenly came from underground.

Cheng Shuili almost instantly recalled the description: "When an individual devours too many of its kind's remains, it mutates into a Mother Nest!"

In other words, now an elite monster has spawned underground!

The Mother Nest's slight writhing caused the ground to tremble; its size is hard to imagine, but the tremor is enough to remind her that this elite monster is certainly not the easy‑to‑handle soft target like the Rotting Giant Beast.

Cheng Shuili stood in place in a defensive stance for a while; this is what she learned from Su Rui.

But soon she realized how foolish she was!

Since that elite monster isn't coming up, why does she keep waiting?

Keep killing Rotting Giant Beasts!

Cheng Shuili's boot soles crushed the scorched earth, and her long sword traced a silver arc.

Again, after several Rotting Giant Beasts turned into sludge, the whole ground suddenly surged like ocean waves.

She staggered, kneeling on one knee, bracing herself with a hand on the ground; when she looked up, she saw a hill‑like bulge rising about thirty meters away.

Cheng Shuili rubbed her eyes, confirming that it wasn't there before, and a flash of brilliance instantly erupted in her eyes.

This is that Mother Nest! This is 80 points!

80 points!

She's here!

Cheng Shuili got up, hurried two steps, and after getting close, before she could even look around, she saw a shocking sight.

That mass of meat mountain formed by the fusion of countless rotting giant beasts was covered on its surface with writhing oral appendages, each mouth hanging half‑digested limbs of its own kind.

And those monster remnants that had been devoured were actually reassembling inside the Mother Nest, being expelled from the meat mountain like inflated balloons, and upon hitting the ground became new rotting giant beasts.

"So that's how they're formed."

The scene was truly terrifying; Cheng Shuili felt disgusted, yet couldn't help wanting to watch.

Having personally witnessed the birth of a rotting giant beast before, she finally realized the key point.

This "Mother Nest" seems not to actively attack humans?

From the moment she stood here, the only things crawling toward her were those feeble, easily shattered rotting giant beasts.