World-saving Plan: The Only Savior-Chapter 663 - 498 Plague Church (Two in One)_2

"Have you come into contact with the stone there before?"

Zhang Xiaoman asked.

Wei looked somewhat spacey and after a moment of stunned silence, he finally spoke:

"Um... yes, when I first opened the door, I saw that stone immediately, but I closed the door right away, without taking a closer look..."

Zhang Xiaoman frowned and pondered for a moment before looking at the nearly man-high stone not far away, and said:

"You were indeed cautious enough, but this stone is different from the previous fragments; its Dark Energy Fluctuations are much stronger than those of the small stone. Even though you only came into close contact with it briefly, it was enough to get you contaminated."

Wei fell silent. He was no novice and, although he held reverence for life and death, he had long been mentally prepared.

Now, after the initial panic had passed, he gradually calmed down and knew that he wasn’t completely without hope.

After all, his Boss was still right beside him, and from his reaction, it didn’t seem like he was out of options.

Zhang Xiaoman, of course, had a way; to be accurate, it was Jiu Jiu, perched on his shoulder.

"You don’t need to worry, Jiu Jiu told me just now that it can purify the pollution in your body."

He said, letting Jiu Jiu perform the purification on Wei. Little Fox immediately jumped in front of the latter, hovering in front of his eyes.

A Mysterious fluctuation spread, and Jiu Jiu’s eyes emitted a burst of azure light. The flame-shaped engraving on its forehead also brightened.

Wei, watching the eyes of this pocket-sized Little Fox, felt his mind become clear, as if the whole world had reduced to only those eyes and the flame pattern within them.

Suddenly, a blue Flame churned within his heart, and a faint red aura leaked out, which was then consumed by the blue Flame, turning into nothingness.

Wei felt his body relax, as if in an instant he had shed an immense burden, and he felt much lighter.

It was only then that he belatedly realized.

His body had already been feeling slightly unwell, but for some reason, he hadn’t been aware of it at all.

Now, after the recovery, he suddenly experienced a sense of immense relief.

"So this is what spiritual pollution is, it can even affect the physical body through the mind. I wonder whether my Spirit Star Ring can be immune..."

Zhang Xiaoman, seeing the other healed, also let go of his worries.

This was his first encounter with so-called spiritual pollution, about which he still knew little, but Jiu Jiu, the Legendary pet, was indeed powerful enough to directly purify another’s contamination.

Wei now felt refreshed, as if he had never been so relaxed before.

His mindset was like suddenly transitioning from hell to heaven.

He had thought he was done for, only to find that the Boss had easily resolved the issue.

Remembering what the Star Lord had initially said about being uncertain of a cure, Wei couldn’t help but think he had been too naïve.

From the Boss’s relaxed demeanor, it was clear that what was an unsolvable predicament for him was merely a minor issue for the Boss.

It was solved just by the pet moving its eyes, without even the need for him to lift a finger.

The Star Lord’s so-called uncertainty seemed overly modest.

"Search around here and see if there’s anything we’ve missed, while I check out that stone."

Zhang Xiaoman instructed.

After agreeing cheerfully, Wei went off to inspect, discovering that clinging onto powerful support was indeed pleasant.

Zhang Xiaoman approached the wooden house, and through Spiritual Vision, he could clearly see the strange stone inside emanating Dark Energy Fluctuations.

Knowing that Jiu Jiu’s ability could remove the stone’s infectious effect, he had a lot less hesitation; as a test of his Spirit Star Ring as well, he pushed open the door and went inside.

Before him was a mess; the wooden house contained a reinforced laboratory, and in its center was a large white container.

The container was significantly damaged on one side, revealing a man-high black stone within.

Zhang Xiaoman did not enter immediately but instead asked Jiu Jiu to check if he had any symptoms of contamination.

"Jiu Jiu!"

"Hmm, good, it seems that the immunity to spiritual attacks provided by the Spirit Star Ring does include this kind of contamination..."

Receiving Jiu Jiu’s affirmative reply, he couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The Ultimate Item was indeed worthy of its name. With the ability to be immune to mental attacks, dealing with these things in the future would be much easier.

Only then did Zhang Xiaoman walk into the room and start to closely observe the black stone.

The stone was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, similar to the fragments he had seen before, completely black with many unclear red patterns inscribed on it.

The milky white container around the stone was mostly shattered, and its shape appeared to have been bitten by a series of massive teeth.

The surface was also pitted, as if it had been damaged.

Beyond that, there were seven or eight corpses in the room, dressed in black clothing.

They were all armed with weapons and equipment, probably the security forces Weiss mentioned.

Taking into account the traces at the scene, it wasn’t hard to conclude that this place must have been attacked, and the attacker was very likely the Mutant Beasts they were researching.

In an instant, a scene came to Zhang Xiaoman’s mind.

In a bio base hidden within the jungle, a Mutant Beast suddenly lost control, wildly destroying the surrounding structures, even releasing other monsters along with it.

The researchers were killed by the very creatures they were studying, and these security personnel rushed here as soon as they realized the situation was out of control, desperately protecting that black stone.

In the end, human strength was no match for the Mutant Beast. The monster broke in, killed everyone present, and even destroyed the milky white container holding the stone before leaving.

Basically, that seemed to be the situation, though other possibilities weren’t excluded, this guess was more logical.

Zhang Xiaoman looked around for a week, examined the stone more carefully, and began to think about how to deal with it.

However, while deep in thought, his gaze unintentionally swept across the corpses on the ground, and he noticed some kind of emblem on their chests.

Zhang Xiaoman speculated that it might be some badge, just like Star Alliance’s Eye of the Starry Sky.

He walked over and flipped the body over; it was an ordinary-looking Caucasian man in his thirties or forties.

The emblem on his chest was a small water droplet, with a quite peculiar appearance. Inside the water droplet were bubbles and shadows, making it very distinctive.

"Water droplet..."

Zhang Xiaoman muttered softly, staring at the object for a while, feeling something was off but couldn’t pinpoint what it was at the moment.

Frowning in thought, he took an even closer look at the emblem in front of him, trying to recall if he’d seen it anywhere before.

"This is..."

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed sharply, and a surge of information suddenly appeared in his mind.

"This is a kind of writing!"

Zhang Xiaoman’s face showed surprise.

The water droplet, no matter how curious it seemed, was in fact a peculiar kind of writing.

Now, with All Language Mastery, he theoretically could understand any language he came across.

So, after some thinking, he finally discovered what felt wrong.

To others, the water droplet might just be like any other emblem, but to him, it was a symbol containing a special meaning.

Interpreting the information in his mind, Zhang Xiaoman immediately knew its significance and couldn’t help but open his mouth slightly, uttering four words:

"Plague Church."