Evolution: Negative Visual Membrane, Gray Fog Appearing in the City, Director Wen

Chapter 96 Evolution: Negative Visual Membrane, Gray Fog Appearing in the City, Director Wen

The menacing tentacles made a whistling sound as they pierced the air.

Tentacles, spreading from the rotting flesh, shot toward Shi Wen's face, emitting a chilling aura amidst screams and roars!

The temperature in the entire lobby seemed to be dropping rapidly.

Shi Wen remained expressionless, continuing to practice his martial arts while holding the stove, seemingly oblivious to the approaching object.

The strange thing is...

Just as the tentacle was about to approach his face, it seemed to be grabbed by an invisible arm, stopping in mid-air. No matter how much it struggled and roared, it could not reach Shi Wen.

"A woman dressed in Republican-era attire—what have I ever done to offend someone like that?"

"Could it be related to that eyeball from back then?"

A look of astonishment flashed across Shi Wen's eyes.

In a place invisible to both him and ordinary people, a rotten, purple, withered hand extended from his back. Its five fingers, much longer than those of an ordinary person, were thin and sharp, emitting wisps of gray mist, and it gripped the tentacles tightly.

Both seem to belong to the same kind of strange thing.

However, the former was a mysterious withered branch that Shi Wen had obtained from Bai Yingying some time ago.

The fantastical limbs obtained through Extreme Seal Evolution.

Imagine limbs that are invisible to the naked eye, yet they can realistically make an arm, invisible to the naked eye, appear on various parts of the body.

Using it will rapidly deplete his stamina and blood.

The more blood sacrificed, the stronger the gripping ability becomes, and even more bizarre and terrifying methods may emerge!

It seems to be able to pull out many strange things that are invisible to the naked eye.

But the cost is very high.

Shi Wen called it the Greedy Grip.

As for the latter tentacle, it moved so fast that it was almost imperceptible to the naked eye. If it were him a while ago, he would definitely have been hit.

"Did the owner of that eye come looking for me?"

A hint of suspicion flashed in Shi Wen's eyes, but he was not afraid at all.

He already has a lot of troubles on his hands, why should he care about adding another one?

"Extreme Seal".

Shi Wen silently grasped it with his left hand, and the Extreme Seal immediately responded.

[Special item detected, can be recycled/evolved]

[Given that the host has been selected, the current possible evolutionary branch 1 is negative retina: Under special circumstances, it can make the retina inside the eyeball appear grayish-black, allowing one to see things that the naked eye cannot see normally under clairvoyance. However, there are also side effects: the longer one looks, the less the brain can distinguish between them, and the brain will become confused by the overlap of decay and reality, and be contaminated by mysterious things, leading to disorientation and confusion (evolutionary time required: 1 day)]

Negative optic nerve?

Shi Wen fell into deep thought.

A strange light flickered in his eyes.

You see, right now he's stuck in a very stagnant and passive situation because he can't see what methods these so-called mysterious beings are using.

Apart from the strange things that appeared to be observed with the naked eye by those who were supposedly in charge of the new policies of the Republic of China.

Other things.

For example, the deceased Xiang Ju, the three mysterious men and women killed by the Red Lantern Gang some time ago, and the fight between Bai Yingying and Ye Li—he simply couldn't see what methods the other side used to create such mysterious and outrageous destructive power.

Mystery has always been part of what makes a natural barrier.

But if————

Is he able to observe with his eyes?

"But the side effects are also obvious. Whenever I go into meditation, I will be mentally polluted. If this goes on for a long time, I wonder if I am a monster or myself. Nobody can say for sure."

"These kinds of things, like fantasies about limbs, must have side effects."

"But without such things, I don't even have the right to glimpse these mysterious things."

"The Spirit Eye Technique will take more than three years to develop, and even the flesh of the Ice Silent Cold Death Lord will take more than half a month to develop. I can't be sure whether the flesh of the Ice Silent Cold Death Lord will give me the kind of abilities that the mysterious person Bai Yingying has, or just enhance my body."

"Forget it, let's try evolving. A day isn't that long."

"At worst, we just won't use it then."

Shi Wen ultimately resisted the urge to collect it as energy and instead evolved it.

Looking at the countdown printed on the screen.

He gradually calmed down and stopped thinking about too many things.

"Boss, we've made some progress on the gray fog you were tasked with investigating. It appeared in a house in the north of the city, and the scene was quite bloody. Many of the people who went to investigate died. Do you still want to go?"

Someone rushed over to report.

However, his expression was extremely unpleasant, as if he had witnessed something horrifying.

"Have they appeared all over the city?"

Shi Wen still held the stove with both hands, his eyes fixed on the True Strength Diagram, and practiced his skills frantically.

During this period of time.

Besides practicing his skills like crazy, he would go outside the city to find places where the gray fog was thin, hoping to hunt down those monsters and gather enough energy to be used for the evolution of the Extreme Seal.

Unfortunately, during this time...

The gray fog outside the city spread eerily into the deep mountains and forests. In places where the fog was so thick that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, and if you stood at the edge and looked into the fog, you couldn't see anything inside at all.

It's as if once you enter it...

You will fall into a bottomless abyss, with no way back!

Faced with this situation, Shi Wen dared not rashly step into the gray fog, fearing that he might not be able to get out.

There was nothing they could do.

Shi Wen could only instruct his subordinates to keep an eye out for any faint gray fog appearing alone outside the city, or any strange events occurring inside or outside the city.

After waiting for so long, I finally heard news like this today.

"Let's go take a look."

Shi Wen held the stove in his arms and the True Strength Diagram in his hand, maintaining his martial arts practice posture even after getting into the carriage.

Such diligence made Li Huoxing and the others' scalps tingle, and their hearts filled with even greater awe.

"Excuse me, candidate number 093, Li Wei, your grades are alright, but just based on the intentions shown in your application materials, it's clear that you have a problem with your attitude towards learning. Why are you unwilling to devote the time outside of eating, drinking, and using the restroom to studying? You actually want to sleep eight hours a day?"

Do you know how many hours of sleep our first cohort of students at National Chin Shou University did?

"They only sleep four hours a day, and the rest of the time they spend doing homework and meditating, meditating!"

"You sleep 8 hours a day, while others only sleep 4 hours. How much less study time do you have compared to others over a month?"

What about one year? What about four years?

"Everyone strives for academic success. Are you going to university to indulge in pleasure?"

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"Your attitude towards learning is very problematic. I'm sorry, you don't qualify!"

"You can go down now."

The interviewer waved his hand helplessly and sighed, "Director Wen, there are just too few qualified students these days. Should we lower the requirements a bit?"