Su Qi felt that even though Night Demons were powerful,
as long as one found a method, killing a Night Demon wasn't too difficult.
Ultraviolet light on, speakers audibly set, combined with Dark Wind Boots and the Hundred Man Slaughter Blade, he had instantly boosted his attribute to 60 points, far exceeding his current level.
Along with the weaknesses recorded in the little notebook Kran had given him.
It only took him three rounds to brutally pierce through the chest of the Night Demon, creating a bloody hole. It screamed and fell to the ground, and without hesitation, Su Qi pointed the ultraviolet flashlight at it.
It struggled to crawl into a corner, covering its face with its claws, trembling, even appearing somewhat pitiful.
Su Qi roughly knew the identity of his opponent, it was likely that woman Kran had mentioned.
However,
it seemed somewhat different; although its eyes were blood-red, completely that of a crazed Night Demon, it was wearing its own patched clothes, and there were signs of fire-making around.
"It's like Kran, able to recover consciousness in the night?"
Su Qi's gaze turned to another side, where there was an entrance to a cave; he walked over and became even more certain that this Night Demon could recover human consciousness. There were built beds and tables, and even an old notebook.
He picked it up, opened it, and flipped through. Although well-preserved, it had aged considerably, the papers were mottled and yellowed.
"I had intended to record everything here after I ended, but I had no idea I would have to write about such matters..."
"After the fall, I didn't die immediately, but I was close to death; I'm sure my femur broke and I was bleeding severely both internally and externally; there was no way I could live. But at that moment, I saw that red boulder—it wasn't a rock at all, but... a huge red flower bud. The fruit it sprayed actually healed all my injuries, not only that, my body felt extremely strong, and my strength and speed were beyond ordinary."
"I felt like I could leave this place, and of course, I took the fruit with me, it's truly miraculous, and maybe it could even cure my mother's cancer."
From here, a page was skipped, and the handwriting changed, becoming somewhat fearful and anxious.
"I must have killed someone..."
"I returned to the city, my body rotting, consciousness as if invaded, feeling terrifyingly thirsty. I only remember pouncing on a woman, then biting through her throat, and then… I remember nothing."
"When I returned here covered in blood, I had regained my consciousness, but the fruit was no longer on me. Why would I do such a thing? And my body was still changing."
As Su Qi continued to read, it seemed the person would lose self-consciousness during the day or if she strayed too far from the flower bud.
She struggled and researched, trying to leave the pit.
But when she finally found a way to briefly preserve her consciousness and leave this ravine after a month, she had seen a Hell on Earth!
The entirety of Srilan City had fallen completely.
"The speed of the fall was definitely not just because the bitten turned into zombies—it seems… it's mainly because of that fruit she brought out," Su Qi pondered, the destination of the fruit was clear.
It was the great oak tree in the Night Demon Nest.
"Didn't expect the source of everything… wasn't in the Night Demon Nest, but here."
Su Qi closed the notebook; to prevent going out to harm others and to stop that thing from harming others, he just stayed here for twenty years.
"Now, let's see what exactly this so-called flower bud is."
Su Qi walked towards another direction, roughly more than ten steps.
Next to a shadowy area, he too caught a glimpse of the huge red flower bud.
Twenty years had passed.
It was no longer in the shape of a flower bud.
Its diameter was now a whole ten meters, rooted on the ground like a giant brain, surrounded by dense red branches, intertwining and twining like blood vessels, even pulsating.
"This is…," Su Qi felt his heartbeat being affected, and his ears ringing with a buzzing sound.
[Spiritual power -5]
His gaze sharpened as he found the source of this familiar sensation, "Is this stuff a pollutant? And it reduces this much so quickly?"
Meanwhile,
System information popped up in Su Qi's eyes.
[Congratulations, player Su Buxian, you have triggered a personal hidden world line task]
[The hidden world line task is not restricted by instances, gameplays, or plot. The progress of the task does not reset at the end of the instance and still exists when entering a new instance]
[Note: This task is related to the new version of Paradise, completing it will provide related information]
Su Qi frowned.
The next moment.
[Please process this Level D pollutant, method of processing: destroy all the flowing liquids]
[Note: The pollutant is a flowing liquid; once a large amount leaks, it will cause the pollution source to transfer]
[Progress 0/1, rewards can be obtained upon completion]
Su Qi had seen pollutants before, the last instance involved the Ancient God's Heart, which seemed to be a pollutant of a ridiculously high level, impossible to display.
It was only with the help of the Traveling Merchant that they managed to treat and recover from the pollution.
And now, to his surprise, he encountered it again and even triggered a special hidden task.
"So the question now is... how do I handle so much polluted liquid?" Su Qi immediately started pondering.
Destroy it? And prevent it from seeping elsewhere?
Su Qi found it to be a thorny issue, this ten-meter diameter bud was filled with the liquid pollutant, and the surrounding thick blood vessels resembled the tentacle hell from certain comics, which was sanity-dropping to look at.
He opened his item slot, wondering if he could collect it there?
It seemed not.
The item slot rules had many restrictions, no loopholes to exploit.
Suddenly, Su Qi's gaze stalled, looking at the Ancient God's Heart in his item slot, which seemed to have just beat momentarily?
And a [?] appeared on it.
[Dying heart, weak bloodlines, these liquids seem to nourish it]
Transfer the pollution source into this heart container? After having fully witnessed the terror of the previous pollution, Su Qi was considering the risks.
And there was another line after the [?].
[Low pollution level, it won't affect it]
Su Qi squinted his eyes, interesting.
He had planned to keep this dying heart and unseal it later to see what effect it had, but now it seemed to have more recovery vitality than he had imagined.
"It looks like, I must reach level 20 soon."
Otherwise, Su Qi was also afraid he couldn't suppress it.
He took out the Ancient God's Heart, and at that moment... the bud seemed to get startled, emitting a friction-like piercing scream.
All the red liquid started boiling as it were.
It all surged towards the heart in Su Qi's palm!