Published: March 2, 2025
Recently, the demonic clan in the African war zone has encountered some strange occurrences.
Patrol teams have been disappearing for no apparent reason. Since the first batch of cannon fodder patrol teams, composed of black-skinned demon creatures, went missing half a month ago, nearly every day has seen one or more patrol teams going off the grid.
This is strange, but for the demonic clan, it is not a major issue.
Since the fall of the New Hope Gathering Place and the escape of Sequence Two, the demonic clan's campaign in the African war zone has been largely declared a success. However, the New Hope Gathering Place does not represent the entire African continent. Amidst the rampant plague, the African continent, despite having suffered greatly, still retains forces of resistance.
There are still many mutated creatures above level four—those that have neither evacuated nor aligned with the New Hope Gathering Place. In fact, their numbers may even surpass those gathered by Wen Yu.
Not to mention the newly spawned divine beast species triggered by the plague.
Earth's counterattack continues, and in a situation where large battles are absent but small conflicts are ongoing, the occasional disappearance of one or two patrol teams seems to be nothing out of the ordinary.
…
In the Soul Laboratory, Wen Yu's research continues.
“Master, this is the harvest from the past half month.”
The mountain puppet's avatar walked into the laboratory, raising its right hand, which glowed with a flicker, containing a large amount of Creation Energy.
Wen Yu took a glance, slightly disappointed, and turned away, casually waving his hand.
“Use it for yourselves. Expand the clan first. There’s no need to submit the Creation Energy to me for now; prioritizing clan expansion is the first choice.”
Wen Yu's army has collected a considerable amount of Creation Energy over the past half month, but this still far from meets his needs—wanting to attach souls to Faceless and the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine will require astronomical amounts of Creation Energy! At the moment the mountain puppet handed over the harvest, Wen Yu immediately changed his mind.
Rather than continuously exploiting the limited Creation Energy to accumulate it for attaching souls to Faceless and the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine, it would be better to expand the scale of the army. Once it reaches a certain level, he can use a stronger military force to launch a direct war against the demonic clan, thereby collecting more Creation Energy.
Well, anyway, Faceless and the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine have been muddling along for such a long time; Wen Yu doesn’t mind waiting another year or so.
Hearing Wen Yu's order, the mountain puppet was about to retreat when he was called back again.
“How is Little White doing?”
Little White is the first complete soul creation created by Wen Yu based on the bone demon's physical form, capable of utilizing the professional system—or rather, it has transcended being just a soul creation and has become a truly independent life form.
Since Little White's birth, Wen Yu entrusted it to the mountain puppet to take it along and learn about the world. The newly born soul differs from a newborn child; at the very least, its learning speed is quite fast.
“Except for some lack of experience, everything else is fine.”
The mountain puppet's answer was somewhat vague, but Wen Yu could also hear the mountain puppet's difficulties—its own experience is not much, and now Wen Yu is asking it to take care of a child, which is indeed a bit of a stretch.
“Bring him over. My experiment has made some new progress.”
…
“Master.”
When Little White entered the laboratory, it saw Wen Yu playing with a white light orb.
“Sit.”
Wen Yu nodded at Little White, signaling it to sit down, and then spoke.
“How has it been these past few days?”
The bone demon's fierce head nodded repeatedly: “It's okay; this world... is very wonderful...”
The answer felt somewhat insincere—since its birth, Little White has been wandering around the Soul Laboratory and hasn’t felt any of the so-called wonders.