There was no shortage of blood in Tian Yuan's lab to begin with, so Jiang Xue's bisected corpse didn't add any new color to this place.
"You… You…" Jiang Tian stared at Gu Nan in shock. Then his eyes turned red. "I'll kill you!"
So the sword flashed as it made another arc, and Officer Jiang Tian followed in his sister's footsteps.
Gu Nan, on the other hand, seemed like he'd just swatted two flies and said to Gu Zhaoyue beside him, "Let's go."
"My Lord, where are we going next?" Gu Zhaoyue floated closer to Gu Nan fawningly.
"It's time to set up a camp for survivors. The creation of the moon thrall's child requires experiments on living people," Gu Nan said, then muttered to himself, "I didn't expect this to be a zombie apocalypse dungeon."
"Oh, that's right, this continent needs to completely fall into chaos first."
...
The capital's No.4 High School was already a mess at this time.
After the mutant moon thralls escaped from the lab, they were like a virus that entered the human body and received the most abundant nutrients, spreading wildly.
Every human they bit to death would become a new moon thrall and join in spreading the infection.
Fortunately, the moon thralls' infection characteristic couldn't affect Heroic Spirits, or else the unrest would be even more serious.
But considering that such unrest happened simultaneously in the continent's 32 major cities, the severity of the incident was quite terrifying.
"Big Sister, let's go!" The moon spirit pulled on Lin Duo's hand and urged urgently.
"Okay, okay… What the hell is that?" Lin Duo naturally had no objections to running away, especially since everyone else was doing the same, but she was quite curious about the scary monster behind her.
"That's a moon thrall," a somewhat cold voice answered. The sun spirit had just spoken.
Lin Duo looked at him in surprise. Her expression seemed to say, "So you weren't mute after all," while the sun spirit just shook his head coolly.
The moon spirit interrupted their conversation, "We need to leave now before it's too late."
As if to confirm her words, a moon thrall suddenly lunged at them but was kicked aside by the moon spirit, crashing to the side.
Lin Duo swallowed and hurriedly agreed, "Yeah, let's leave…"
...
Inside the imperial capital's city hall, the president slammed his hand down on the table, roaring at the people below, "Just yesterday, an alarming incident occurred at a Heroic Spirit Temple, and today, over 30 cities—including the capital here—simultaneously reported riots… Can anyone tell me what the hell these monsters are?!"
The president's anger was conveyed clearly to his subordinates, one of whom stood up and said, "Sir, according to expert analysis, those monsters should be a kind of ancient Heroic Spirit—the moon thrall."
"You think I've never seen a moon thrall before?" Veins jumped out on the president's forehead, and he asked with an icy expression, "Since when did moon thralls attack humans without provocation and even turn the bitten into moon thralls?"
Back in ancient times, the moon thrall was merely a normal type of Heroic Spirit. At most, they were rare creatures. They didn't have the ability to turn infected humans into other moon thralls.
In fact, Tian Yuan was the one who endowed them with both an irrational aggression and the ability to infect humans.
In a sense, the moon thralls currently terrorizing the world could be considered a completely new type of Heroic Spirit.
The official who got up could only wipe away some sweat. The outbreak of moon thralls was too sudden; they really didn't have time to obtain more information.
Seeing the official's speechless expression, the president could only say with a cold face, "Continue investigating the cause behind the monsters' appearance, but the most important matter right now is to organize the people and have them take emergency refuge. At the same time, we must gather Heroic Spirit summoners to kill those monsters."
As the ruler of a country, the president naturally wasn't incompetent. He took the best course of action in this situation.
No matter why those monsters appeared, the government must not panic at this time. As long as they prevented the monsters from attacking ordinary citizens, the number of moon thralls wouldn't increase any further, and they would all be eliminated sooner or later.
As the president's orders were issued one by one, his subordinates' pens moved nonstop, writing down his instructions. The relevant policies were quickly decided upon.
"Alright…" The president let out a light sigh. "Everyone, act according to this temporary order. Let's bring the situation under control first… Why are you all staring at me?"
Mid-sentence, the president saw everyone present stare at a spot behind him, looking like they'd seen a ghost.
Chills suddenly emerged in his heart. He subconsciously looked back, only to see an entirely dark figure standing behind him holding a longsword in its hand.
The president himself wasn't a powerful fighter and was directly beheaded before he even had a chance to react.
The moment his head landed on the ground, he saw the overall situation at the meeting hall for the final time—a black shadow stood behind each of the twenty-plus people in this room, making the exact same decapitating motion with their swords.
'Everything's over…' This was the president's last thought.
The simultaneous beheading of all the top government officials was enough to throw the imperial government into complete chaos and render it defenseless against the oncoming crisis.
And after doing all this, Gu Nan leisurely dispelled all the shadow clones and left before the government's powerhouses arrived on the scene.
...
Near the capital's No.4 High School, Gu Nan and Gu Zhaoyue were standing on top of a tall building, overlooking the chaos and fighting below.
The sudden doomsday scenario exposed many people's true natures.
Greed, tyranny, bloodthirst—the darkest sides of human nature were revealed in just a few hours.
Of course, all this had nothing to do with Gu Nan. It wasn't any of his concern who had humanity and who didn't. He just came to check on Lin Duo.
Gu Nan didn't want anything to happen to Lin Duo in such a chaotic situation. If his reincarnation was forcibly terminated because of her death, then he'd really suffer a loss.
On the other hand, he didn't want to reveal his presence either, so he only sent a shadow doppelganger to tail her in secret, while he himself watched everything from the top of the building.
Gu Zhaoyue looked into the distance, watching the chaos and confusion coming from the direction of the government buildings. He was vaguely aware of what Gu Nan had left to do just now.
"My Lord, the government…"
Gu Nan nodded. "Although moon thralls are highly contagious, they're actually quite weak. The humans can't be allowed to fight them in an organized manner."
At best, the moon thralls were at peak Innate Realm. In terms of this world's power level, they weren't even considered Tier 2.
At this level, the moon thralls would be quickly encircled and killed once humanity's strongest leaders finally reacted.
Gu Nan wanted to create a child of the moon thrall, so of course he couldn't sit back and watch the moon thralls be wiped out.
So he killed off humanity's top-level officials. As long as the government descended into chaos, it would give the moon thralls some time to mutate and strengthen themselves.
The scene of fifty ordinary moon thralls devouring each other to gather energy still remained in Gu Nan's mind.
Gu Zhaoyue was silent for a long time. He roughly understood what Gu Nan went to do, but he still couldn't figure out the goal behind those actions.
'Don't tell me that there really is such a thing as an antisocial personality in this world?'
But he absolutely didn't dare to ask more questions. A moody person like Gu Nan might just cut him down as soon as he opened his big mouth.
"The capital won't be in chaos for long. I'll clean up the top military officials," Gu Nan said flatly. "Within half a month, I want to see a survivor camp with more than 2,000 people."
"Yes, My Lord." Gu Zhaoyue didn't even ask the reason and just bowed obediently.