Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 672

Chapter 672: Chapter 228: Tan Ming Shows His Might, Encountering Gold Once Again! (Part 3)

Cheng Ye was utterly stunned; he hadn’t expected Tan Ming to still have such a trump card up his sleeve.

Back then, what exactly had he wanted to do to transform the land so that Stone Province could grow Extraordinary Plants?

Could it be that he intended to extract the life-force of other plants and stack it onto a single plant to catalyze it?

This was a completely unexpected pleasant surprise. When he blasted open the passage back then, Cheng Ye had only wanted to see if he could the curse to pin down the Immortal Objects and reduce the nighttime pressure; he hadn’t thought it would end up being this effective.

You had to know that even if a hundred thousand Crab-men were lined up for him to kill, he still wouldn’t finish slaughtering them after three days and three nights.

But now, with the Petrification Curse helping to clear things out, maybe he really could wipe out this troublesome Crab-man army.

As Cheng Ye was pondering, he suddenly sidestepped; more than a dozen Crab-men rushed over at the sound and surrounded the three blood-red humanoid figures, their giant pincers slamming down again and again.

The blood water and human forms kept switching back and forth, and the plants around them withered patch by patch along with it.

Only when there was no longer the slightest bit of life within fifty meters around the figures to draw on, and the three figures were smashed into blood water by the crab pincers, did they finally let out a shrill wail, turning into threads of red aura that completely evaporated into the air.

“So they weren’t truly immortal, but as long as they had a supply of life-force, they could resurrect infinitely?”

Cheng Ye reacted at once, then started walking again, continuing toward the lake.

Along the way, he sometimes passed through dead, withered yellow zones, sometimes through lush green areas brimming with life, and from time to time he could hear sounds of fighting from afar.

With this, the picture became clear. The purple light gate should be the entrance to the karst cave. The crack he had blasted open earlier had let Tan Ming’s cursed aura seep in, turning into blood-red humanoid figures rampaging all over the cave.

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And the Demon Eye Sponge keeping the Crab-men stationed at the light gate was probably to guard against those blood-red figures entering.

But Tan Ming’s curse had also contaminated the light gate, not allowing Crab-men with Cotton patterns to pass through.

With those two moves, the other side’s path was completely choked off, and the two factions were locked in a dead stalemate!

“Nice!”

Cheng Ye couldn’t help sighing inwardly, “Lord Tan, this time you’ve helped me; someday I will definitely fulfill your last wishes!”

When he finally reached the lakeshore, the joy in his heart was beyond words.

Smaller!

It had finally gotten smaller!

The Ten Thousand Orders Land Conch, which had been as huge as the sun, had actually shrunk by a third in size overnight.

Although compared to what he’d seen in the intel space it was still too enormous to contain by conventional means, this massive change had already pointed him toward an excellent path.

“The handbook didn’t lie to me. To contain an infection source, strength is one thing, but more important is your brain…”

“This move of pitting a tiger against a wolf— even if it were just an ordinary person bringing in a bomb, as long as they picked the right spot, they’d still have a shot at doing it!”

Thinking this, Cheng Ye couldn’t help feeling a bit of regret. Would even more cursed aura seep in now?

But this wasn’t a hopeless situation; now that he had the right idea, there would be a way to keep executing it.

Looking again at the lakeshore, most of the Crab-men who had been there worshipping before had scattered, leaving only a small portion still kneeling under the glow of the Ten Thousand Orders Land Conch.

From time to time, faint whitish halos rippled across the surface of the conch, as if it were still trying to repair this space eroded by the curse.

Yet every time the halo swelled, dozens of the worshipping Crab-men would explode into white points of light, which then drifted into the conch’s body, as though replenishing its energy.

“This thing definitely counts as an evil object; it’s way too bizarre.”

Cheng Ye furrowed his brows, suddenly recalling what the Elder had said: using Immortal Objects came at an unimaginable price.

At this moment he finally understood a bit. If that price was the sacrifice of countless lives to feed it, then once such an Immortal Object fell into the hands of someone with ill intent, it would absolutely lead to a catastrophe.

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After observing for a while, Cheng Ye turned and left.

He didn’t rush back to the light gate to study how to destroy the entrance, but instead moved over to a nearby battlefield.

Unlike the three blood-red figures he’d seen earlier, each fighting on its own and eventually being picked off one by one by the Crab-men, in this battle there were five figures being besieged. Two of them, after being smashed into blood water, didn’t recondense into human shapes; instead, they clung rapidly to the companions beside them like living things.

The blood light surged explosively, and the two possessed blood-red figures instantly shot up to two meters tall, almost on par with the Crab-men. Their punches and kicks clearly gained power; a single punch could crack a Crab-man’s shell.

Only…

Attempting to search the enlarged blood-red figures… no response!

It seemed these blood-red figures had no intelligence; they were merely cursed power concretized in human form.

If he could “kill” them, could he log them into the illustrated manual and extract their traits?

Cheng Ye pondered as he tried using the Wishful Size ability.

Disappointingly, although the ability provided by the Shrinking Earth Giant Louse was at Lv5, the rune controlling body size within the Cotton Room ranked higher than Extraordinary, so there was no way to break through its suppression.

Right now, with a height of only a bit over thirty centimeters, even if his physical stats hadn’t dropped, this size left him unable to properly throw his weight around; his combat power was greatly reduced.

“If the rune suppresses usage… then what if I enlarge my body with the ability before coming in?”

Cheng Ye sorted out his thoughts.

Whether he was guessing right or not, a single test outside would tell him.

Besides, he didn’t have any weapons on him right now, and the crab pincers in the hands of ordinary Crab-men were quite awkward to use.

He hesitated no longer and sprinted toward the light gate.

Near the entrance, he deliberately created a commotion on the outskirts to draw the Crab-men’s attention. Once they closed in, he used his “petite” body to slip nimbly through their encirclement and burst through the light gate.