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The gathered magic instantly spiraled out of control; all the runes exploded like fireworks and vanished like bubbles.

"How, how is it possible?!"

Rin's expression froze on her face.

Her theory and her methods were flawless, so why did she fail?

It shouldn’t be!

"Your theory is perfect."

Gu Chuan had already walked up to her side without her noticing, and calmly pointed out, "But you are trying to use the 'grammar' of your world to forcibly command the 'elements' of this world. They don't understand, so they will naturally resist."

He stretched out his hand and casually tapped it in the now silent air.

That's all.

It was as if a switch had been flipped in some other world.

The magic that had just dissipated was instantly reassembled and straightened, then rapidly circulated in a manner a hundred times smoother and more graceful than when Rin constructed it. Finally, a solid barrier, radiating a faint glow, perfectly flawless, and almost invisible to the naked eye, silently enveloped the entire apartment building.

Rin was completely stunned.

Before she could recover from the shock, Gu Chuan took a step forward, his body almost touching hers, his deep voice, like the whisper of a devil, sounding in her ear:

"The 'spiritual veins' of this world have dried up. You can no longer extract energy crudely as before. You need to use your own magic as the heart and gems as the blood vessels to build a self-sufficient, closed energy cycle..."

He was too close.

Rin could clearly feel his warm breath brushing against her sensitive earlobe as he spoke, bringing waves of tingling, numbing sensations.

She could smell his unique scent, the scent that made her heart race.

He not only easily accomplished what she couldn't, but even... revealed the core secret of her magic system in a single sentence.

This overwhelming intellectual and physical dominance from Gu Chuan completely shut down the genius magician's brain.

"You...you...you idiot..."

She tried to push him away, but her body was too weak.

She wanted to retort, but her tongue was tied in knots. In the end, she could only squeeze out a weak and tearful complaint through her teeth.

Gu Chuan looked at her pretty face, which was as red as if it were about to bleed, and her misty, indignant blue eyes. A smile flashed across his lips.

53 The Source of Pollution and the Last Clue

Gu Chuan looked at her pretty face, which was as red as if it were about to bleed, and her misty, indignant blue eyes. A smile flashed across his lips.

He stopped teasing the genius magician, who was almost "ripe," and instead took a step back, creating a heart-pounding distance between them, before turning away and leaving behind a calm remark.

"go to bed early."

After saying that, she went straight back to her room, leaving Rin Tohsaka alone on the balcony, covering her burning cheeks and stamping her foot with mixed feelings.

That night, almost all the girls in the apartment building suffered from insomnia.

The next morning, after a brief rest and discussion, the team decided to set off for their next destination, which was also their last hope—the super shelter built by Saya Takagi's parents, known as an impregnable fortress.

Moreover, Gu Chuan encountered an unexpected name: Nan Lixiang.

Under the skillful driving of Nanriko, a top S.A.T. elite, the modified Hummer, like a steel beast, once again drove through the desolate city.

With the added power of their enchanted weapons, the group felt much more confident, but the atmosphere remained tense because everyone knew that the real threat was the "active volcano" looming at the edge of the horizon.

Just as the Hummer was passing through a residential area, a childish yet piercing cry drew everyone's attention.

"Dad...Dad! Wake up..."

The group exchanged glances, and Gu Chuan calmly said, "Stop the car."

Saeko slammed on the brakes, bringing the car to a steady stop.

They saw a little girl, who looked no more than seven or eight years old and had cute pink curly hair, kneeling beside a lifeless man in front of a two-story building, shaking his body.

Around them, a dozen or so undead creatures, drawn by the cries, slowly gathered around.

“I’ll go save her!” Gong Yueyi was the first to push open the car door.

“Let’s go together.” Saeko also drew her Murata sword.

Under the cover of Rin's precise magic bullets, Saeko and Rei, like two sharp blades, instantly sliced ​​into the horde of corpses. The "enchanted" weapons displayed astonishing power; Saeko's blade sliced ​​through the corpses like butter, while Rei's spear thrust forward, the faint light at the tip easily piercing the heads of the "armored bodies" each time.

Soon, all the corpses in front of the small building were cleared away.

However, as they helped the little girl named Alice up and prepared to enter the building to search for survivors, a burly man with a fierce face leaned out of a second-floor window and roared, "Don't come in! The food and water here are mine! Get out!"

He saw that the group had dealt with the corpses, but instead of being grateful, he was afraid that they would come in and take away his supplies.

When Alice saw him, she immediately cried out, "It was you! You're the one who pushed Daddy out! You killed Daddy!"

The truth is self-evident.

Miyamoto Rei was so angry that she trembled all over. She raised her spear and was about to rush forward to argue, but Gu Chuan held her shoulder down.

Gu Chuan looked up and glanced coldly at the man still shouting at the window. He felt no anger, no murderous intent; he simply looked at him as if he were a noisy insect.

He ignored the man and said to the crowd, "Take the little girl with you, let's go."

“But…that bastard!” Li said unwillingly.

"Don't worry about it." Gu Chuan's tone was completely calm. "He himself will pay the 'price' for the sins he has committed."

After he finished speaking, he picked up the still-shaken Alice and turned to walk towards the Hummer.

Just as they were about to get into the car, a terrified scream suddenly came from the small building.

"Ahhh! No! Don't come any closer! How did these things get in?! Help! Help..."

The screams abruptly stopped.

Everyone turned to look and saw that all the doors and windows of the small building had been completely sealed off from the outside by an incomprehensible force. More and more corpses, attracted by the previous commotion, were pouring in from the broken parts of the building, turning it into a desperate, living tomb.

Gu Chuan didn't even look back once more.

……

After speeding along the wrecked highway for hours, the Hummer finally arrived at the coordinates that Saya Takagi remembered.

However, the scene before them plunged everyone's hearts into despair.

The supposedly impregnable ten-meter-high wall was pierced by a massive breach, as if it had been blown open from the inside out. The heavy alloy gate was twisted into a lump of scrap metal. The once tidy park was now filled with thick smoke, and everywhere were burning buildings and mangled corpses.

Thousands of all kinds of evolved beings roamed and roared like a tide in this enormous ruin.

This place has already fallen.

"No...impossible..."

The color drained from Saya Takagi's face instantly. This was her last hope, the pillar that had sustained her spirit all along. Looking at this hellish scene before her, her legs gave way, and she collapsed to the ground, letting out a desperate sob.

"Mother...Father..."

Just then, a series of crisp and rapid gunshots came from the rooftop of an administrative building deep within the ruins.

"It's the sound of an M1A rifle!"

Saeko immediately deduced, "And it's been specially modified!"

"It's Mom! It's Mom's gun!"

As if grasping at the last straw, Takagi Saya suddenly raised her head, a glimmer of hope rekindling in her eyes.

"go!"

Gu Chuan made a decisive move, and the group immediately rushed towards the direction of the gunfire.

After paying the price of Nanami Rika being shot in the arm and Rin losing nearly half of her magic power, the group finally made it to the rooftop of the administration building without any major incidents, where they successfully reunited with Yuriko, who had run out of ammunition and supplies and was holding out with only a dagger.

"Mom!" "Saya!"

The mother and daughter embraced and wept, finally giving the others a chance to catch their breath. After confirming that Yuriko had only suffered minor injuries, everyone's mood calmed down a bit.

Just then, Gu Chuan's gaze was drawn to the corpse of a "heavy armored body" that he had just killed with his ice spear not far away.

The corpse of this elite monster emanated a negative energy that was much denser and more "solid" than that of other undead.

He slowly walked over, and amidst the puzzled gazes of the crowd, he squatted down, reached out, and placed his hand on the top of the corpse's head.

"Kawa, be careful!" Rin couldn't help but warn him.

Gu Chuan did not respond.

He closed his eyes, and the power of [Observation] was activated instantly.

The world before my eyes instantly transformed into an endless torrent of data.

Ignoring the surface flesh, bones, and viral tissue, he went straight for the core of this elite evolved being—the logical center that drives its immense power.

Soon, he found it.

Within that chaotic core of viruses and malice, there is not nothing.

A silver ring, long since stained black and severely deformed, floated there silently, like a beating, evil heart.

On the inside of the ring, a line of inscription can still be faintly seen: "To my beloved, S.Y."

The moment Gu Chuan's "gaze" touched the ring, a vast and chaotic surge of emotional information flooded into his mind—it was the most extreme [unwillingness], the most ardent [love], and the deepest [despair] of a young man who, during the apocalypse, was overwhelmed by a horde of zombies while trying to protect his beloved girl.

This ring carries the last and all the obsessions of a departed soul.

"Is that really how it is?"

Gu Chuan slightly opened his eyes, took a picture, and posted the information he had just obtained to the chat group.

[Alicia]: So that's how it is... Using humanity's strongest emotions as 'nourishment' and 'beacon', what a cruel yet beautiful way of 'creating' it is. [March 7th]: A ring a boy gives to a girl? Ugh... It's supposed to be something romantic, why did it turn out like this...?

[Gem Magician]: So, the real enemy is these corrupted 'emotions' themselves? This is troublesome; how do we eliminate this kind of thing?

Esdeath: Emotions must have a cause; no emotion exists independently.

[Butterfly Dance]: That's true. Just like how the members of the Demon Slayer Corps are so ruthless towards Muzan, they each have their own reasons.

Gu Chuan suddenly opened his eyes, a look of understanding flashing in them.

"I see……"

He stood up and muttered to himself, "'The source of contamination' is not the virus, but the 'obsession' itself."

He finally understood.

The "aggregate" does not create monsters out of thin air. Instead, it uses these "relics" that carry strong human emotions as coordinates and cores, like sowing seeds, to implant them into certain specific dead bodies, thereby "catalyzing" powerful elite individuals. Using these individuals as network nodes, it firmly controls the "contamination process" of the entire world.

The moment he grasped this core secret, the connection at the level of "rules" was established—

"--roar!!!!!!!"

A silent roar, seemingly capable of tearing apart the soul, that belonged to no creature in this world, suddenly erupted from the horizon!

That mountain-like "aggregate" sitting in the center of the city seemed to have been pierced by an invisible probe. For the first time, its chaotic "face" composed of millions of faces had a clear "focus"!

It "saw" it!

It saw this insignificant "foreign object" that dared to pry into its roots!

Enrage! An unprecedented rage!

Amidst the horrified gazes of everyone, the distant "aggregate" began to writhe and contract violently. Then, a small mountain of "children," composed of the purest flesh and blood and malice, suddenly split and peeled off its body!

The "sub-body" was like a black sun, carrying an endless horde of corpses that could block out the moonlight, rushing toward the direction of Gaocheng Manor with an unstoppable and overwhelming momentum!

The final alarm was sounded.

True despair has only just arrived.

54 The Ice Barrier and the Human Heart

True despair is a deathly silence where even a sound cannot be uttered.

When the mountain-like "sub-body" that split off from the "aggregate" came crashing down with a horde of corpses, everyone in the High City Manor felt as if their souls were being seized by an invisible hand, and even their breathing stopped.

The apocalypse, in an irresistible and irrefutable manner, proclaimed its final judgment.

"Everyone, stand back!"