Chapter 491 - Bait and Trap (1/2)

Meng Chao returned to the other side of the roof and looked at the full view of Leprosy Village.

It might be known as a village, but in truth, it was a cluster of rising and falling tilted buildings.

It was as if the villagers used reinforced concrete to somewhat stabilize the ruins that had fallen a long time ago, then built new ruins above them.

It also looked like a nest for pests that had been magnified ten thousand times.

Leprosy Village was surrounded by mist that was a mix of faint purple, dark brown, and dark red.

Meng Chao was very familiar with this slightly pungent mist, since he grew up in an old residential area.

It was the exhaust released by low-grade crystals, because they were filled with impurities and had poisonous substances. The chemical reaction was also not strong enough.

Compared to Blessed Heavenly Garden, the exhaust around and above Leprosy Village was ten times thicker. It practically hid the sky, so the village did not look like it belonged to this dimension. Instead, it was a village built at the bottom of hell.

By the looks of it, the crystals Leprosy Village used were ten times worse than the ones used in Blessed Heavenly Garden.

It was the lowest quality crystal that not even public buses would use. It produced severe pollution and radiation and had unimaginable consequences to the human body.

But the villagers were already products of the “unimaginable consequences” born from the effects of the Other World continuously invading the bodies of Earthlings.

For the sake of survival, they needed cheap sources of energy, and they couldn’t be bothered about anything else.

Under the heavily polluted smoke, Meng Chao found the trash-filled drain surrounding Leprosy Village.

Most of the trash had rotted and gone bad, which turned it into something that resembled humus and was incredibly sticky and foul-smelling, like something found deep in a jungle.

But more trash was thrown on top of the rotten trash, forming hills that floated above the humus.

Quite a number of the children from Leprosy Village did not care about the humus floating past them. They climbed up the hills of trash and chose the resources that still had some bit of value.

Countless thick, squirming vines covered in thorns also grew from the deepest parts of the humus.

They climbed out of the drains like ivys and stuck to the walls of the buildings in Leprosy Village, turning the colorful, mottled, and damaged buildings into strange creatures that looked even stranger and more twisted, as if they were deformed things that were rotting and fighting for their last breath. It brought about a completely different picture compared to the normal residential areas.

‘This place… is really troublesome!’

Meng Chao scowled.

Leprosy Village was shrouded by heavily polluted smoke, so it was difficult to observe and scan the situation inside.

This meant that they were blinded, and the difficulty of the mission increased by leaps and bounds. The number of sacrifices they had to make would also be higher.

He cast his gaze on the small black market at the entrance of Leprosy Village.

The villagers and normal lair citizens traded without coming into contact with each other and used the barter system.

The entire black market was divided into two sections. On each side were rows of huge storage shelves, along with manually-controlled gears and transportation belts.

The resources brought by the roller bladers were placed in the storage shelves or the transportation belts.

The villagers would then personally crank the gears and pull the daily necessities and raw materials for cultivation to their side.

Then, they would use the same method to transport the gene medicine they created or the weapons they had modified until they no longer looked the same but had ten times the damage.

Because of it, neither side would bother each other, and it reduced the possibility of them getting into conflict.

Meng Chao saw quite a number of villagers on the side belonging to Leprosy Village. They were the descendants of the zombie virus infectees.

Most of them covered themselves tightly with huge cloaks and bandages.

But based on how some of them looked too large or swollen, it was obvious that they were different from normal people. At the very least, normal people would definitely not grow more than 2.5m or have a shoulder width of more than 1m.

There were also some villagers who carefully pulled off their hoods and revealed their true faces to test the armor, fighting suits, and all sorts of weapons and equipment sent by the outside world.

Perhaps it was because they were the second or third generation of the infectees, but the mutated genes had slowly stabilized, and they were not as deformed or hideous as Meng Chao imagined.

Some people’s facial features were no different from those of normal people. It was just that they had blue or red skin.

Some of them had really fair skin, and their faces were even more beautiful than those of normal people. But their ears perked up, and fangs revealed themselves, which proved that they were also descendants of the infectees.

Some people were short and stout. They did not look like dwarves, but were like burly bodybuilders who were squashed until they were half their original height, squeezing more than 100kg of muscles into a body that was less than 1.3m tall. They were covered by hair that looked like steel brushes, and when they jumped around, they were like steel bombs that would explode on contact.

Some people also had a faint layer of scales on their arms. Their cheeks had traces of parotid glands, and they looked like they were more suited to live in water compared to land.

In truth, some people even had four arms and could use them with great agility. If they lifted four guns at the same time, the firepower they unleashed would be twice as good as that of a normal person.

When Meng Chao saw the legendary infectee descendants, he was a little stunned, and a strange sense of familiarity rose in his heart.

‘Why do I feel like the descendants of the zombie virus infectees are about the same as the local human-like species who have been living for millions of years in the Other World?’

But the relationship between Earthlings and the Other Worldlings was not what he should explore right now.