Chapter 24 Human Problems

Chen Ke did not dodge or evade, and let the toad's tongue wrap around his waist and quickly pull him towards the big mouth.

"You've been fooled!"

At this moment, a dagger suddenly appeared in Chen Ke's right hand!

The toad's eyes, which had been narrowed into a line, suddenly widened, and he looked at the dagger in Chen Ke's hand with fear. The tongue that was wrapped around Chen Ke suddenly loosened, trying to throw Chen Ke aside.

But under the influence of inertia, Chen Ke still fell rapidly in the direction of the toad. He held the sword with his backhand and inserted the sharp blade into the toad's left eye.

"Wow wow wow!!!!" The toad screamed in pain.

Chen Ke grabbed the hilt of the sword. Under the influence of the sharp blade and his weight, the sword not only pierced the toad's eye, but also pulled a horrifying bloody wound on its left face. Purple blood gushed out like a fountain, and at this moment, the sword finally couldn't bear the weight, turned into a diamond in Chen Ke's hand, and shattered into powder.

Chen Ke didn't know if the toad's blood was poisonous, but judging from its filth and tumors, even if it wasn't poisonous, it was extremely dirty. A flash of white light passed through Chen Ke's body, and a worn windbreaker suddenly appeared.

This was the first time Chen Ke used a clothing-related sacred object. He had never known before that if he already had clothes on his body, what form would these sacred objects take? Would it be clothes wrapped outside clothes, and shoes wrapped outside shoes? That would be too uncomfortable!

And when the windbreaker appeared on him, he understood it all at once.

The clothes he was wearing had become sacred objects in appearance, but the feeling of wearing them had not changed. In other words, clothing-related sacred objects simply replaced the appearance of existing clothes.

Purple blood splashed on Chen Ke's body, but Chen Ke's face and the worn windbreaker were not soaked. The blood drops turned into round water droplets and rolled off the clothes and his skin as if they had touched insulating materials.

It was indeed poisonous.

He fell into the dirty water, and his goal was achieved. The sword caused a huge wound on the toad's body that was bleeding profusely. Now it was the shield's turn.

A pair of worn-out boots suddenly appeared on Chen Ke's feet. Even in the knee-deep water, the 25% acceleration brought by the marching boots was still effective, and Chen Ke's wading speed was significantly improved.

He ran on the side where the toad's eye was blind, jumping in the water like a deer, stepping on pieces of water.

The toad circled around looking for Chen Ke, and the wound on its left face was still bleeding, looking very miserable. It shouted: "Do you think you can defeat me by blinding one of my eyes? I've been through hundreds of battles! You who take private jobs, don't think you can do anything to me by getting a holy object."

Now!

Chen Ke jumped towards the toad, and a round shield with thorns suddenly appeared on his right arm. He protected the shield in front of him and ran towards the toad's belly.

The toad saw Chen Ke, screamed, and his tongue was about to roll out again.

Chen Ke glared with murderous intent and pulled the trigger!

"Murderous Aura -50"

"Murderous Aura: 0/50"

A reddish murderous aura rose from Chen Ke's body and rushed towards the toad at a very fast speed.

"Huh? You..." The toad was startled and stunned for less than half a second.

"I'm different from them!" Chen Ke shouted, and rushed into the toad's abdomen with his shield.

There was a "pop" sound, which was the muffled sound of iron nails entering the flesh.

Just one second later, Chen Ke suddenly felt a strong elastic force, and he bounced back again.

He sat up from the dirty water again. The expected disgusting scene of iron nails piercing the toad's belly and internal organs bursting and flowing did not happen, but the toad vomited a lot of purple blood with undigested human remains.

"Kill you!" The toad was furious, but he vomited a lot of crumbs just after shouting. It seems that the previous blow hurt his lungs.

Chen Ke stood up, ready to attack again with the shield, but suddenly he noticed something. He lifted his feet out of the water. His marching boots had broken, and now he was wearing ordinary shoes.

"Damn it..." Chen Ke cursed inwardly. He changed the shield to his left hand, took out the Colt Python, and kept shooting at the toad.

"Are you done with your tricks? Good try! But don't try to kill me! I'm not afraid of fire!" The toad laughed.

The large-caliber flame Magnum bullets were like small plastic pellets at this moment. Even if they were shot at the seriously injured toad, they were all absorbed. It was simply a waste of bullets.

It makes sense for the Administration to develop six categories and eighteen kinds of bullets. It seems that different monsters need to use bullets with different attributes to cause substantial damage.

"I must eat you this time!" The toad's tongue whizzed around Chen Ke's neck and pulled him into the air.

At this moment, Chen Ke took out the M1911A1 and pulled the trigger at the toad's huge mouth.

In this underground world with green light, the punishment bullets dragged a holy white trajectory and drilled into the mouth of the toad.

Five consecutive .45acp punishment bullets were all shot into the mouth of the toad. This is the genuine product of the Administration!

A burst of white light suddenly burst out from the mouth of the toad, bursting out with the temperature of the scorching sun, burning the toad from the inside out. Its tongue was first burned off from the root, causing Chen Ke to fall into the dirty water for countless times.

Unlike the effect of the flame bullet, the burning effect of the punishment bullet is not burning, but more like "purification". The skin, flesh and bones of the toad were slowly eaten away by the white light and flames, and disappeared out of thin air.

The toad, which was losing limbs continuously, was still struggling in vain in the dirty water. It could only watch its fat lower limbs and belly slowly disappear. Finally, it was burned to only half of its limbs and quieted down.

Chen Ke approached the toad, and its only intact eye blinked at Chen Ke, and its mouth opened and closed slightly, spitting out two words.

"... Damn... Why?"

After saying that, it died.

The toad's broken body was like a large pool of purple shit in the dirty water. A purple mist suddenly rose from the body and flew towards Chen Ke.

"You want to disgust me even after death?!"

Chen Ke was startled and thought it was poisonous mist, so he ran away. But the mist was very fast and penetrated into Chen Ke's body in an instant. Suddenly, a white light flashed in front of his eyes, and fragments of the toad's memory emerged!

He saw himself crowded together with a large group of toads.

Turning his head, he realized that he was put into a mesh bag.

The toads were all silent, but Chen Ke knew they were all worried because as food, the fate of being bought by customers was death.

People in the United Federation do not eat toads, but the Scarlet Phoenix people living in the United Federation like them.

It raised its toad head and looked at the buyer, a Scarlet Phoenix...

...

This Scarlet Phoenix was a good cook, he was very good at killing fish and toads.

It squatted in the net and watched its companions being slaughtered quietly.

Their heads were pierced from the top of the head to the chin by a nail, and then the Scarlet Phoenix grabbed their legs and cut open their stomachs and skinned them.

All the red and white in the stomach were cut clean and thrown on the side of the chopping board.

There were fewer and fewer companions in the net, and finally it was my turn...

...

I don’t know if it was God’s blessing or the Scarlet Phoenix was careless.

It escaped, broke free from the Scarlet Phoenix’s hands, and jumped all the way to the bathroom.

Following the dirty sewer pipe, in the dirty water full of filth, it was washed into the drainage system of the Opportunity City.

The toad hopped and hopped, wandering in the dark underground world, living on rotten things washed down from other pipes...

...

It grew bigger and bigger, even bigger than the people who wanted to eat it before.

A tumor grew on its skin, and poisonous water oozed out from time to time.

But because of this, it could no longer jump.

In this narrow place, jumping is meaningless.

It was satisfied, it was happy, it had gained freedom and power.

...

A tramp appeared in the sewer, with yellow skin, the same skin color as the people who wanted to eat it at that time.

They used to want to eat it, now, it wants to eat them.

Humans taste really good, and since eating people, it can talk.

...

It eats more and more people, and gains more and more knowledge.

Its power grows day by day, and some new abilities are gradually unlocked.

It can turn tramps into toads, and it can also add magic to some items.

This ability is not groundless, it is divine revelation...

It began to believe that fate chose it and let it use its divine power to defeat humans.

And it only lacks an army...

...

"Kneel down."

"Listen to my call, become my slave, and fulfill your wishes."

"Tell me your wish."

"Give you a miracle."

It reached out from the dark passage and sent a colander with a distortion curse and foul magic to the woman.

Everything is going according to plan...

...

Chen Ke came back to his senses and gasped. He felt that this memory flashback was much longer than before. The purple mist turned out to be the soul of the toad!

As the memory faded, the life countdown in the upper right corner of the field of vision changed, and a line of small words popped up:

"Life limit +5 hours"

"You have 9 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds left..."

Looking at this line of text, Chen Ke was so surprised that he couldn't speak. When he looked at the toad's body again, a message box popped up in his vision:

[Alienated individual level: extraordinary]

[Status: dead]

[Form: biological]

[Category: corrosion]

[Attributes: acid, spell]

Chen Ke recalled the colander that was also an alienated object. The curse of distortion came from this toad.

The truth finally came out. A toad that escaped from the human kitchen was infected by corrosive psychic energy in the filthy underground drainage system and became a monster with acid and spell-related abilities.

It can gain knowledge and power by eating people and unlock new abilities. After eating quite a lot of people, it had many ideas.

Coincidentally, the starving people such as the female diner were also infected by psychic energy of unknown attributes and became monsters.

Even after death, the female diner could not let go of her hatred for the world. She set fire to her boss's family who made her unemployed and became a companion with a group of wanderers who also starved to death and turned into monsters in a half-demolished apartment complex in the downtown area.

The female foodie used various methods to fight against the amnesia caused by alienation, and was committed to helping the homeless wanderers. Finally one day, it met the toad in the sewer.

Compared with the female foodie, this toad is just like the protagonist of a fantasy novel! God knows what it will eventually become if it keeps eating people to upgrade?

Chen Ke put away his gun, restored the holy object to diamond and put it in his pocket. Although he lost a sword and a pair of boots in this battle, he gained a 5-hour life limit, which would allow him to act more calmly in the future, which was not bad.

However, he just used Parker's psychic pistol and fired five shots in a row, which was equivalent to sending the location coordinates to the Administration five times in a row. Now he had to leave quickly!