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Chapter 379: Building the System: Part 2
Lin Sheng and the two patrol chiefs stood a dozen meters to the right of a black vehicle, looking at the driver’s side of the vehicle .
Behind the wheel was a man in his thirties with an army cut hairstyle . He wore a gray suit that looked like he had slept in it last night . On the inside was a blue shirt with a washed-out collar . His chin and above his lips were full of uneven stubble as if he had not shaved for days .
The man appeared calm with his hands on the steering wheel as if he was still driving . Lin Sheng would see it as a normal scene if it were elsewhere . A middle-aged man sitting behind the wheel was an everyday scene . But at this moment, Lin Sheng sensed something weird . The engine was off and the car was not moving .
The patrol chief took out his mobile phone and played back the video clip to Lin Sheng and explained, “This man was a member in my team . He was found three hours ago . Because we didn’t found him to be harmful, we didn’t give it a second thought . But we didn’t expect to see him still here after so long . So we suspect that he has some mental problem . ”
“It seems so . ” Lin Sheng nodded .
“But the problem is, he is not the only one behaving like this . We have found three more similar incidents in other locations,” said Tari .
“But we could still classify them as a mental disorder had we not seen two of them crawling out of a pile of corpses . It happened before the eyes of five of us . They came out and walked as if living persons and showed incomprehensible behaviors . ”
Hearing what Tari said, Lin Sheng’s heart skipped a beat .
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“Corpses?” Lin Sheng looked at Vers . “The same thing happened on your side?”
Vers had a beautiful mustache . He kept his hair neat with a lot of hair spray . This old gentleman, who still looked good at his age, looked grave on his face .
“It’s the same with me . Other than this one, I have encountered two cases, which I have put them in quarantine . And the problem with these people is that they just won’t die . After we shattered their bodies, they recovered after a while with no signs of injury . ”
Lin Sheng was startled . “They won’t die?”
He might believe it had he heard it from the mouth of an ordinary transcendent . After mutation, some powerful Darksiders could develop extraordinary regenerative ability . But it was the Five-Wing chief of patrol he was talking about .
This was not normal . A Five-wing elite could not kill these normal-looking guys? What was more, the two chiefs of patrol had the advantage of holy power the ordinary Five Wingers . They had the Divine Word skill .
“Let’s take a closer look . ” Lin Sheng strode closer to the vehicle .
The middle-aged man still maintained his driving position in the car . As Lin Sheng drew closer, the man slowly turned his head around and smiled at him . Lin Sheng slowed down and came before the window . Now their eyes met but neither of them spoke .
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Lin Sheng smashed the window with his elbow and grabbed the man by his collar and pulled him closer . “Can you speak?” Lin Sheng asked .
The man still smiled . A hint of chilling and tingling sensation travelled up Lin Sheng’s hand .
“What the heck?” Lin Sheng instinctively let go of the man . As he whisked his hand out, a black gaseous substance was thrown out of his palm onto the ground before it disappeared altogether .
The middle-aged man’s face turned hideous . He lunged out from the broken window trying to grab Lin Sheng with half of his body outside the vehicle .
Lin Sheng snorted and punched the man on his chest with his right hand . His movement was quick like a bolt of lightning .
The punch punctured the man’s chest with a hole the size of a watermelon . As if the man had felt nothing, he was grabbing Lin Sheng with both hands with his mouth wide opened .
The man shrilled, but it was the voice of a woman . The ear-piercing shriek sounded like the scratching on glass surface, it got on the nerves of everyone in the surroundings .
Lin Sheng raised his hand and sent the man a second blow on his head, smashing his skull . As the man died and the shrill stopped, a human-shaped shadow lunged out from his body towards Lin Sheng .
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As it approached, it made an even more harsh shriek . It then fled in the other directions .
“Where go!” Lin Sheng reached to grab the shadow . Propelled by his dark energy and holy power, his motion was as quick as lightning, his energy ferocious . In the blink of an eye, he had caught up with the shadow and grabbed it by his neck .
But Lin Sheng got the surprise of his life . It felt like he had grabbed nothing, as if the shadow was just a plume of smoke .
“Again!” Lin Sheng had a brainwave; he summoned his holy power . Holy flame rose from his body . Only when holy power came to a certain level of strength that holy flame occurred . The flame looked like fire, but it was not . It was a physical form of holy power .
With the holy flame in his hand, Lin Sheng reached to grab the shadow one more time . A familiar voice screamed . The white holy flame spread out along Lin Sheng’s arm as if it was a real flame and ignited the shadow .
The holy power burned and consumed the shadow, incinerating it into a pile of white ash on the ground . By then, Lin Sheng had exhausted one fifth of his holy power .
“This thing is tough . ” Lin Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the white ash on the ground in thought .
If he had remembered it correctly, he had seen the such ghostly images in his vast memory bank . This thing was called the Parasite . It was an extremely nasty monster . With no physical form, just a shadow, it could possess a living being by sinking into its shadow . The scariest thing was, the Parasite was immune to physical attacks, even fire and lightning . But it was vulnerable to mental and soul damage .
“If this is a Parasite, then we will have problems . ” Lin Sheng frowned . There was only so much the holy power could do . The Parasites had excellent camouflage ability . Once they blended in the crowd, it would be difficult to detect them even when bathed in the Holy Light . The only way to defeat them was attack them from the inside .
Lin Sheng wore a pair of disposable disinfected gloves . Using a collection tool, he picked up the white ash from the ground and seal it as a specimen . He then went to three other locations and checked the possessed corpses .
Every time Lin Sheng killed a Parasite, it wold consumed one fifth of his holy power . This was a terribly large figure .
At the limit of a Six Winger, his holy power had far surpassed any other transcendents . One-fifth of his holy power was more than the holy power of Tari and Vers combined . And this was also the reason the two failed to deal with the Parasite . Not to mention the Parasites were immune to physical attacks .
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