Chapter 223
“Master, detection shows aberrant energy intensity is at Tier 1, but it is increasing at an extremely rapid rate.” After scanning the strange figures in the office area, Xiao Qi reported.
Seeing the figures begin to converge towards the entrance, Shen Ge didn’t retreat. Instead, he stepped forward into the office area and immediately activated his “Formless” state, attempting to bypass the nearest creature.
“To have aberrant energy intensity increase right after ‘birth’, before even doing anything… that alone makes them stronger than the aberrants and twisted humans back in the real world. However, these twisted humans have completely lost their consciousness; they can essentially be equated with aberrants…” Shen Ge observed the figures while moving towards a corner.
Strangely, the creature kept its gaze fixed in Shen Ge’s direction, emitting the guttural swallowing sounds unique to aberrants, and continued its slow, steady advance toward him.
“Not targeting by sight?” Shen Ge continued backing into the corner. While these Tier 1 twisted humans posed no real threat to him—a couple of swipes with his butcher’s cleaver would suffice, let alone using the Aberrant-Eradicating Revolver, and he could even earn some system points in the process—his primary goal wasn’t to eliminate them. He needed to understand the behavioral patterns of these “new-type twisted humans” so that the Special Countermeasures Department would have strategies to deal with them if they ever appeared in reality.
“Soundless.”
Shen Ge entered a dual-trait state and continued backing away. The twisted human didn’t stop, still growling and moving forward, seemingly locked onto his position.
“Traceless.”
Upon activating “Traceless,” the twisted human suddenly halted, standing motionless and dazed as if it had lost its target.