Chapter 113: Chapter 107: The Nest of Flesh Corpses and the Blood Feast
Zhu Xiong was taken aback before blurting out, "He knows this stuff too?"
Su Han's expression darkened, he knew Zhu Xiong was probably misunderstanding and said, "Don't jump to conclusions, don't you know him already?"
Zhu Xiong gave a sheepish laugh, then listened as Su Han slowly said, "That monster was bred, don't forget that although injections are an effective way to induce mutations, devouring large quantities of monster flesh and accumulating Spiritual Energy is also a feasible way to mutate, just less efficient."
He looked at another cage, his eyes settling on the mottled bloodstains covering the floor, and calmly said, "It isn't just that monster, Wan Yuzhou is probably also practicing with monsters, allowing his Angel Envoy to devour other monsters. A lot of devouring; there's a reason his tyrant looks that way."
Zhu Xiong's expression grew more solemn, "So this guy has real skills. If he has also dealt with a number of doctors..."
He too thought of the reason Zhou Ji and others went to the hospital, his expression turning solemn, and said, "Su Han, this guy must not be left alone."
Su Han gave Zhu Xiong a look, knowing that Old Zhu understood the principle of cutting weeds and digging out the roots.
Brother, steady.
"Bang, bang, bang"
As they spoke, the creature caged inside became even more agitated, as if this time it had not been fed, its voracious bloodlust could no longer be contained.
Everyone was startled, the cage rattling loudly as the arm-thick steel bars began to twist more severely, nearly on the verge of collapse.
"It's about to come out!"
The manager shivered uncontrollably, worried that the monster would break out of the cage.
Su Han's mouth quirked up, calmly stating, "It won't get the chance."
The Book of Blood Spirit glowed red, and the towering Scorpion Spider Demon immediately appeared in front of him, its six-meter-tall stature nearly touching the underground arena's ceiling.
As soon as the Scorpion Spider Demon appeared, it moved, stepping into the arena, its large form looming over the monster.
The monster, sensing the threat, became more violent and rattled the cage.
The Tail Hook directly entered the cage and struck it, immediately flipping the monster onto the ground.
Its frenzied behavior was suppressed, followed by the activation of Metal Control by the Scorpion Spider Demon; the cage gradually deformed, the hard steel bars immediately creeping towards the monster's body.
The monster struggled fiercely, but in the next moment it was directly impaled by two scorpion tails, hung mid-air, its blood dripping like a fountain.
The monster's huge arm tried to grab onto the Scorpion Spider Demon, but its sharp claws only scraped the Floating Pagoda Black Armor, making merely a clanging sound.
A Second-order Lower-level Monster, far from being a match for the Scorpion Spider Demon.
The metal morphed into chains, ropes twining around the monster's body, not just the original cage but also the metal from another nearby cage turned into chains.
In just a few minutes, the entire monster was tightly bound by the chains, forming a spherical monster wrapped in chains.
The chains interlocked, their intersections merging to form a much more impenetrable metal web.
[Detected a fusionable living body monster flesh nest, proceed with Fusion?]
Hmm?
Surprise flashed briefly in Su Han's eyes; the monster's name was actually called the Flesh Nest.
For a moment, his gaze flickered, pondering deeper.
No Fusion
He chose not to fuse, saying unassumingly, "Old Zhu, prepare a truck, we're hauling this thing back soon."
"Understood."
The underground arena incident was just an interlude; the Scorpion Spider Demon used the Coagulation Cannon to blast the door wider, then tossed the Flesh Nest out.
Although the Ancient Worm Tree did not come in person, its vines had already silently spread down, taking over from the Scorpion Spider Demon to pull out the Flesh Nest.
As daylight began to break, Zhu Xiong and Zhang Dahai, along with their subordinates, completed the cleanup of the entire Wanzhou Manor.
"There are 45 combat personnel left, half of them are injured, and the severely injured have been dealt with. Non-combat personnel, 264 in total, are currently all staying in the hotel lobby on the first floor, overseen by Old Zhang. Haven't had time to inventory supplies, but there are about 30 rifles, 43 pistols, and roughly 3000 rounds of ammunition."
Zhu Xiong grinned, saying, "His shooting club probably hasn't been shy about hiding private goods."
Wan Yuzhou's business isn't clean, even having a shooting club, but besides legal guns, there are quite a few illegal ones too; that's also why he rose up so quickly.
Of course, another reason is because he robbed the North City police station, not only seizing the equipment but also eliminating the official force in North City that was most likely to gather a large number of survivors.
"The guns must be strictly controlled," Su Han instructed, "Even if Second Order Lower Grade monsters can withstand a pistol, you might not be able to, so this thing can't be casually handed out now."
Zhu Xiong nodded earnestly, saying, "I know, these things are even less useful than a hand crossbow when searching for supplies."
The power of guns isn't small, especially against humans.
But in terms of scavenging supplies, in dealing damage to monsters, aside from shooting distance and speed, the hand crossbow isn't much worse.
But the noise is a serious flaw; the loud sounds can alert many monsters, nowhere near as useful as a crossbow arrow.
Zhu Xiong asked, "What about the other supplies? The villa isn't small, and the defense works are also quite decent."
Su Han shook his head and said, "Move everything back; we can't manage the place for now. Aren't there quite a few non-combat personnel? Let them handle loading the vehicles."
Zhu Xiong looked at Su Han with questioning eyes, "What about the combat personnel, all killed?"
"Not a single one from the Wan Yuzhou direct lineage survives; those who resist fiercely shall not be spared," Su Han's eyes flickered slightly as he stated calmly, "As for the others, it depends on their behavior. There are so many ordinary people at the camp, this can't be hidden."
Zhu Xiong nodded heavily. With Su Han's input, dealing with the situation became much easier.
Kill some, capture some; they didn't want to engage in actions that wasted their fighting force for no good reason.
Zhu Xiong pulled a group from the non-combat personnel, started listing all the materials, and pointed out which vehicles from Wanzhou Manor could be utilized.
Vans, coaches, and even sedans—the manor had quite a variety of vehicles to use. Excluding those without gasoline, there were still over thirty vehicles that could be operated, including coaches.
This made transporting so many people not a problem at all, and more efforts could be placed on the materials.
Wanzhou Manor itself had plenty of supplies, and the Wan Yuzhou combatants, divided into four squads, were continually looting supplies and plundering other survivors in the vicinity.
Therefore, the storeroom had a lot of assorted materials. Talking about a rough estimate of total amounts, there were nearly 10 tons of rice and flour, as well as various canned goods and dry food—a truly ample supply of resources.
Just the current stock alone, without considering storage consumption, was already enough for over four hundred people for about two to three hundred days.
But now, those goods belonged to Su Han.
It took an entire day of transporting people and continuous vehicle trips to move all the materials to Shanhu Villa District.
The large influx of materials and personnel almost overwhelmed Yan Meiyu, but fortunately, she had the help of Bai Xiao'e and others to barely cope.
Materials were temporarily stored in a villa nearby, with a patrol team deployed to guard them.
Newly joined personnel were sorted based on their previous status and behavior in Wanzhou Manor and were dispersed into various areas.
They were dispersed into several areas, living communally in the villas, with focused patrols keeping an eye until it was certain that no disturbances would occur.
As for the combatants, under Zhu Xiong's methods, the situation was roughly clarified.
Out of 45 people, 23 were originally Wan Yuzhou's underlings—each and every one was dealt with.
Among the remaining 22, seven were later recruits who had misbehaved and committed various acts of tyranny. As unstable elements, they were all executed as well.
Along with Zhou Ji's batch, after processing, only twenty people survived and were temporarily detained, awaiting further arrangements after some time.
As for Wan Yuzhou, Zhou Ji, and Cao Yu, they were not counted among them.
As Angel Envoys who had reached First Order Upper Grade, they held higher experimental value for Bai Qilan, who had numerous ideas and tests to conduct on them. Therefore, their lives were spared for now, but the outcome might not be more comfortable than death.
Having handed over the tasks to Yan Meiyu and others, Su Han then turned his attention to a newly captured Second-order Lower-level Monster—the Flesh Corpse Nest.
The name wasn't solely reflective of the monster's abilities, but it certainly related, and based on the combat power of the Flesh Corpse Nest, it might not be much stronger than Zhu Xiong's Glutton.
But given its significance to Wan Yuzhou and such a name, it intrigued him.
Su Han kept it imprisoned next to the Ancient Worm Tree, setting up a massive metal cage specially for it.
Then, he approached the slightly recovered trio from Wanzhou to initiate a leniency for candor.
Wan Yuzhou, however, was stubbornly tight-lipped, attempting suicide more than once regardless of the consequences.
Su Han was unrelenting, administering a dose of Paralyzing Poison before calling Cao Yubao and others to perform a minor surgery that made him completely docile, hardly different from a vegetable.
Faced with Su Han's methods, Zhou Ji and Cao Yu were finally frightened and confessed everything they knew about the Flesh Corpse Nest.
The Flesh Corpse Nest was the accidental result of an execution.
When they dropped disobedient individuals as food into a cell filled with flesh corpses, what should have been a scene of monsters feasting on living flesh spiraled out of control.
The flesh corpses not only devoured the living but also madly consumed all surrounding monsters.
Initially, Zhou Ji and Cao Yu wanted to kill the increasingly mutating monster, but Wan Yuzhou stopped them and watched the transformation unfold.
Then, a brand-new monster appeared before them, the very predecessor of the Flesh Corpse Nest.
Having realized that devouring monsters facilitated evolution, Wan Yuzhou began practicing on his Tyrant by feeding it after arena fights.
Feeding the Flesh Corpse Nest never paused until it matured into a Second-order Lower-level Monster.
It was during that metamorphosis that Wan Yuzhou witnessed it produce a half-meter-tall flesh orb from its split abdomen.
From that flesh orb, a horrendous monster resembling a flesh corpse hatched live.
The Flesh Corpse Nest could propagate monsters.
And what Wan Yuzhou wanted was precisely an army.
That was the secret of the Flesh Corpse Nest. Sadly, Wan Yuzhou lacked strength, just barely breaking through to Second Order Lower Grade, and now all the benefits went to Su Han.