At this time, on the ground.

While tracking the traces of the demonic aura outbreak, Zhang Fucheng, detecting an unusual sweet, fishy, woody fragrance, was coordinating with the local authorities. Under the pretext of a 'large-scale gas leak,' he mobilized patrol officers and firefighters to urgently evacuate hundreds of residents from three streets.

The streets were filled with the sounds of sirens, people talking, and children crying, creating a chaotic scene.

"This is miasma wood toxin! We must evacuate the surrounding residents as soon as possible, or we won't be able to bear the consequences!"

This was the reason Zhang Fucheng gave for his urgent evacuation, even if it caused a great deal of confusion.

But in reality, there was no need for this professor from the Zhengyi Academy to explain so painstakingly. Many patrol leaders who smelled this strange odor had already changed their expressions drastically. Perhaps due to working late into the night on cases, several patrol officers at the scene had already fainted and been sent to the hospital.

Seeing this, no one doubted that it was a lie.

To avoid causing large-scale casualties, Zhang Fucheng could only temporarily use the temporary authority granted by several important figures above to mobilize patrol officers and local armed forces and vehicles to send away as many unaware residents as possible. To this end, he even cross-system mobilized several helicopters from the surrounding armed forces, bringing several military blowers and supporting equipment to dispel the poisonous gas.

"It's still considered timely handling… it's just a bit of a fuss."

After busying himself with all of this, it was already more than an hour later. Only then did Zhang Fucheng realize that he seemed to have overreacted a bit.

The lethality of the miasma wood toxin was actually not that great, or rather, it wasn't poisonous at all. It just had a very strong hypnotic and anesthetic effect.

After testing on mice, the worst consequence of inhaling this toxin was a deeper dream, making it difficult to wake up on one's own—except for those with pollen allergies, because the essence of this miasma was actually the pollen of some unknown plant… It might have some weak toxicity, but it was definitely not fatal. Or rather, the fatal means were unrelated to the pollen, mainly playing an auxiliary role.

It could be roughly determined that most of the victims of the 719 major serial murder case had inhaled this pollen before their deaths, so they were captured silently without resistance.

"Don't worry, this is as it should be."

Although it was a bit of a waste of manpower, and strictly speaking, even creating panic, the few important figures who had been alarmed and were paying attention to this matter did not blame Zhang Fucheng for this. Instead, they praised his decisive action.

"This is an era of great change. It's better to waste a lot of effort than to ignore a trace of crisis. Fucheng, you've done well."

"But be sure to eradicate that monster, don't forget the most important core goal."

The voice coming from the phone was being buffeted by strong winds, seemingly on a lake or at sea, and there was even the sound of thunder. The voice, which was impossible to determine the age of, said calmly: "Demons that successfully awakened their spiritual intelligence before the opening of the heavens and earth will inevitably become a major problem in the future. Other places are fine, but Hong City is one of the thirty-four state capitals, and such a monster cannot appear."

"I grant you the authority to mobilize the 'White Emperor Guards', don't let this trust down."

The voice on the phone didn't say much, but granted Zhang Fucheng even greater temporary authority, and then hung up.

"Sigh…"

Professor Zhang's mood was naturally extremely complicated, with both the pride of being trusted and praised, and the headache of dealing with the complex situation. "A long time has passed since the initial spiritual energy outbreak, and that demon has probably already left. Moreover, the movement of transferring the masses earlier was too great, and it is probably impossible to quietly surround and capture it."

But even so, the things that should be done must continue to be done—at least Zhang Fucheng can mobilize military troops and armed patrol officers in the recent days. In terms of force, it can be said that it has been greatly improved.

July 28, 2014, 5:35 AM.

Several figures wearing sealed anti-gas helmets and white exoskeleton metal armor were quietly walking in the pollen mist of the sewer.

On the back of the metal armor, a strange metal emblem was flashing, flowing with spiritual light.

"Here."

One of them, who looked like the leader, seemed to have discovered something. He made a mouth shape in the helmet, and the automatic translation system transmitted the meaning represented by the corresponding mouth shape to the other four exoskeleton armored guards.

It can be seen that these warriors are all holding a strange kind of gun—the caliber of this gun is not large, only the level of an ordinary submachine gun, but the gun is engraved with all kinds of strange cloud patterns, making the entire gun flash with spiritual brilliance.

Soon, this team found the location that had been determined on the ground, and they also discovered the pitted and bumpy traces of battle located here.

The leader raised his hand, signaling everyone to stop advancing. He vigilantly looked around, and then various data flashed on the electronic screen in front of him, transmitting the video information here to the professional analysis unit on the ground.

——The target fought with an unknown enemy here.

——Unnamed spiritual plants and unnamed spiritual fungi were discovered.

——High spiritual mental influence has been detected and is being resisted… Isolation complete.

——Hypnotic pollen precipitation was discovered, and basic samples are being collected.

Silently advancing along the traces of battle, soon, this team of armored guards penetrated another piece of pollen mist. At the same time, the other five armored guards who were patrolling around the other sewer entrances also began to approach this team that had discovered traces of the target.

But soon, this team stopped in shock, because a huge shadow appeared in front of them. The strong sweet, fishy smell and spiritual power radiation reaction made the electronic detection interface appear with large patches of snowflake screen, forcing them to switch to physical lens assisted observation mode.

Then, they discovered it.

It was the giant centipede's body, still writhing even though it was dead.

Several hours ago.

Same location.

Su Zhou stood in a corner deep in the underground sewer, next to a sewer opening that had been completely occupied and covered by black moss, becoming warm and humid.

The water flow here was not fast, and it was blocked by dense black moss, forming a black water area like a green algae outbreak. It could be seen that there were a large number of gnawing marks on this numerous black moss, which must have existed as food for the previous wood centipede.

"It's actually a vegetarian… no wonder it can't be discovered." Su Zhou subconsciously complained, and Yala smiled: "The advent of evil spirits will always affect one side of the water and soil, and it won't be too eye-catching no matter what they eat—this is also a part of the spiritual energy recovery, and the alien customs will descend on the present world."

"Wouldn't that be a pioneer in greening? If it weren't for that big centipede, this black moss that purifies sewage would really be a divine object."

Su Zhou said this, but in reality, he had already activated spiritual vision—today's frequent switching on and off of spiritual vision, coupled with the consumption of battle, had already given him a bit of a headache, but it was fine if it was just for a moment.

And it was this moment that allowed him to see the location of the spiritual light in this centipede's nest.

"Heh."

With a chuckle, he strode forward. Su Zhou didn't care that the moss was slippery, and directly stepped into the center of the nest, then picked up the gun barrel that was only a little over a meter long and poked it into a bulging black moss sac, lifting it up.

And this time, what appeared under it was not human bones, but large clusters of densely packed, appetite-inducing cyan centipede eggs.

These centipede eggs were crystal clear, showing a characteristic of plants—they all had roots, immersed in the water, intertwined with many black moss, and the black moss supplied nutrients to these eggs, allowing them to grow.

One could imagine how the first wood centipede demon descended into the world, growing little by little on this layer of black moss.

"Centipede eggs…" Yala first looked up with great interest, then shrunk back into Su Zhou's hair in disappointment: "None of them have talent, it's a waste of time to raise them… These eggs are probably not long after they were laid, and eating them won't do much for spiritual growth. At most, they will replenish a little spiritual consumption and nutrition—similar to lobster meat, right?"

"It seems that the reason why this wood centipede ran out to attack people should be because it needed to replenish its spiritual energy after laying eggs."

After all, in an era when spiritual energy has not yet recovered, the few sources of spiritual energy, in addition to slowly condensing it themselves, are the flesh and blood of talented humans.

Yala seemed uninterested in these centipede eggs, but Su Zhou's purpose was not on these things—he pushed aside those cyan round eggs, then leaned down and reached out, scooping in the black water.

When Su Zhou retracted his hand on the water surface, there was a black crystal in his palm.

This crystal exuded a cold and dim aura. While the surface was shimmering with ripples, there was also a trace of bone-chilling coldness.

"What is this?"

Su Zhou observed the crystal with great interest. He could feel that the spiritual energy in this crystal was no less pure than the demon crystal in the wood centipede's body—except that it didn't have the aura from that great existence.

"The spiritual energy condensation of the underground artificial Yin and obscure earth veins." Yala replied lazily: "Now it is just the Yin and obscure condensate of Yin water attribute, like the spiritual energy fragments of wraiths, but it is much larger than them."

"If you put it back now, it may be able to condense into a Yin-attribute spiritual energy source point in the future. Taking it as the center, water gives birth to wood, and it can cultivate a nest of such wood centipedes."

"Then forget it." Su Zhou shuddered immediately and immediately put the crystal in his pocket, letting it accompany the demon core: "This thing's spiritual energy looks a bit dirty... Can it be eaten?"

"Of course not. If you eat this thing, even if you have a perfect body, you will be poisoned and weakened for ten and a half months—the most important thing is that it tastes smelly."

Yala was too lazy to complain about Su Zhou's peculiar Zheng Guo thinking: "But it can be used as fertilizer for the Wisdom Tree, or as raw materials for weapon inscriptions—for example, one of the materials for refining centipede mandibles and venomous thorns, making them not only poisonous, but also have powerful Yin spiritual power damage."

"When the time comes, you can find some Yang materials to process, Yin and Yang are harmonious, and you can even forge a powerful spiritual weapon that can carry many times more spiritual power than you can personally, enough for you to use until the 'extraordinary level' after awakening."

——This is indeed a good harvest.

The harvest of the centipede nest is almost these things—Su Zhou took away four larger and more crystal clear centipede eggs to cook and see what they tasted like. After all, Yala said that they tasted like lobster meat.

As for the rest, he left it to the official extraordinary people who would definitely come later. After all, the ecological relationship between the wood centipede and the black moss is quite wonderful, and it may have a good positive effect on the future sewage purification system—if a few of them can be tamed and cultivated, it can save a lot of resources for building sewage purification plants.

"Anyway, I took away that aura of greatness, so the remaining wood centipedes can't become new demons, right?"

"Almost, unless that other world continues to project information and disturb it—but in that case, it doesn't matter whether you take it or not."

Spiritual blood, spiritual liquid, weapon materials, advanced materials, weapon inscription materials… even the ingredients are all complete!

After confirming these, Su Zhou left with satisfaction. Yala was right, demons are full of treasures!

Kill one, and the whole family will be rich!

After confirming that the harvests on his body were all well preserved, he went directly to the sewage interception culvert gap where the wood centipede entered and exited the Fu River, and plunged directly into the water.

It was not until this time that Su Zhou discovered what the so-called 'assisted by water, not drowned' meant—it was not simply underwater breathing, but had a certain effect of avoiding water!

As long as he moved his mind, he could generate a vacuum layer on the outer layer of his skin, blocking or 'rejecting' the approach of water.

"With the help of feng shui, I can go anywhere in the world!"

Su Zhou disappeared into the water a few hours later.

The 'White Emperor Guards' and Zhang Fucheng, who had rushed to collect the bones of the victims and the corpses of the giant centipedes, finally arrived at the demon's nest.