Chapter 1162 - Whitey’s Findings (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Hao Ren did not conceal his worries. He told of the many doubts he had about the guardians’ insanity to those around him.

The general view was that there was a hidden hand behind all of this, and what happened in the Plane of Dreams had something to do with it. Lily was more than happy to make this hidden hand the source of all problems and be blamed for all the troubles in the future. Everyone was delighted to finally find a guy who could not possibly wash its hands off the matters.

But they had yet known the identity of this hidden hand.

Before that, Hao Ren had studied the insanity of the guardians in his own way. Other than the noticeable changes in appearance, he did not find any negative forces in the guardians. But he knew his investigation was not comprehensive, as proven by the corruption of Yggdrasil. What happened to Yggdrasil began from an illusory level, from where the corruption spread into the real world in its final stage. Since the discovery of this hidden corruption, could it be that other guardians also experienced similar condition?

Whitey floated around the Throat of Toka, first lamenting about the size of her compatriot before plunging headfirst into the bottomless abyss.

When Whitey jumped into the cave, the nerves in the Throat of Toka was responding. Lights came up from the cave, hopping along the tentacles, and causing a burst of electric arcs at the nerve-pulse needle towers. Hao Ren did not know what method Whitey was using to test the enormous creature that had a symbiotic relationship with the planet, but he knew Whitey had found something.

It was ten minutes later that the energy surge around the Throat of Toka finally subsided, and a white shadow emerged from a tentacle next to Hao Ren. “The situation down there is messy. This is the first time I have ever seen the internal of other First Born that is so different from mine.”

“Whitey? How come you become a formless light again?” Hao Ren was stunned.

Whitey froze, only now realizing that she had lost her human appearance. Embarrassedly, she asked, “How did I look like before?”

Everyone was speechless.

It seemed that Whitey was affected after entering the body of Toka, her memory was confused. But thank goodness, the MDT had the record of her image and Whitey was able to restore her earlier ‘humanoid interface.’ Hao Ren could not wait to know what she had found.

“It’s kind of hard to draw conclusions,” Whitey said apologetically, shaking her head. “He has neither brains nor soul. I could only detect the primitive nerve impulse deep inside the planet. But there is no way to determine if there is a tendency of depravity in the nerve impulse.”

Disappointed, Hao Ren had hoped the First Born as unique as Yggdrasil could find clues of the corruption of the other First Borns.

He had thought about Godslayer, who was familiar with the corruptive evil forces and had found the source of corruption in the spiritual world of Yggdrasil. Unfortunately, the sword had lost most of its power. It could only sense whether there were corrupting forces homologous to itself only after entering the spiritual world of the target. But just now, Whitey had mentioned that Toka had no brains and thinking ability. The sensory ability of Godslayer was useless here.

Even if Dr. Hao would like to repeat his feat of treating Yggdrasil on Toka, Toka had no brain.

“But it is not without any findings,” Whitey suddenly said.

“Stop letting us guessing!” Hao Ren said.

“It is only a suspicious lead, not something concrete,” Whitey said with a poker face. “I found some traces of suspected corruption in several ganglia of Toka. Those ganglia with traces of violent thinking were immersed in the lifeblood that has gone bad. The brain might have been removed, but the mental energy of the First Born is strong enough to leave behind these traces.”

“Signs of corruption? The lifeblood that has gone bad?” Hao Ren froze. “That is not right. I have left probes on this planet conducting a check on every inch of Toka before but found nothing.”