Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 179 – Spirit Energy Colonization

In the desolate ruins, on the top floor of a half-collapsed building.

Lin Fan sat on the edge of the rooftop, the wind lifting her dangling silver-white ponytail.

Her legs, clad in high-heeled leather boots, swung in the open air.

In her right hand, she held the Level 4 gorilla Crystal she had just obtained. In the palm of her left lay another—one from the Dragon Spirit Continent, dug out from the head of a member of a gnoll hunting party.

The two Crystals were worlds apart in appearance.

One was as crimson as blood, its internal energy violent and chaotic.

The other was pure azure, its energy as gentle as water.

Lin Fan closed her eyes, her Mental Strength transforming into two invisible threads that cautiously probed the interior of the Crystals.

Beneath their completely different exteriors, the energy fluctuation frequency at their deepest core…

Was almost identical.

“Just as I thought.”

Lin Fan opened her eyes, a cold glint flashing through them before vanishing.

She returned the two Crystals to her Storage Space. Countless overlooked clues in her mind were now connecting and reorganizing at an astonishing speed.

Strengthening potions.

Radiation shockwaves.

The Zombie Virus.

The Chosen Ones.

And… the almost luxuriously abundant Spirit Energy of the Dragon Spirit Continent.

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“The so-called strengthening potions…” Lin Fan murmured to herself, a trace of mockery in her tone, “are not technology at all.”

That stuff was the product of the most primitive form of concentrated Spirit Energy.

She recalled the scenes from Bai Lu’s memory.

Five years ago, the Federation, through a miniature Rift, claimed to have deciphered the “strengthening potion formula” of an alien civilization.

Thinking back now, it wasn’t a formula at all.

It was the most rudimentary Spirit Energy extraction and concentration technique, deliberately leaked by the Dragon Clan.

The Federation’s top scientists, completely unaware, had become free labor for the Dragon Clan. They processed the thin Spirit Energy seeping from the Rift into potions and then… personally injected it into the bodies of their own compatriots.

Truly a brilliant black comedy.

This Spirit Energy slowly settled within the human body. Because there was no external Spirit Energy to interfere, it formed a fragile internal cycle.

Until five years later… the first shockwave erupted.

That wasn’t solar radiation.

It was the Dragon Clan opening one hundred and three Rifts, simultaneously pouring a massive amount of Spirit Energy onto Blue Star, like opening a floodgate.

The violent external Spirit Energy instantly surged in, shattering the pitiful balance within the bodies of the strengthened individuals with devastating force.

In ninety-nine point nine percent of people, the Spirit Energy in their bodies spiraled out of control, their genes collapsed, their sanity was burned away, and they ultimately became walking corpses with only the instinct to kill.

As for the surviving zero point one percent, the so-called Chosen Ones…

“They’re just a group of lucky ones with constitutions different from ordinary people, who managed to survive the torrent of Spirit Energy,” Lin Fan’s eyes were icy.

They weren’t chosen by the heavens; they were just “strong” enough to rely on their innate talent to forcibly suppress, absorb, and claim that power for themselves the moment the Spirit Energy became imbalanced.

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As for ordinary people, they had no accumulated Spirit Energy in their bodies, so the first shockwave had little effect on them.

But once scratched by a Zombie, the out-of-control Spirit Energy within the Zombie’s body would invade them like a virus.

An ordinary person’s body couldn’t withstand it at all. It was only a matter of time before they were assimilated into new Zombies.

This was also why the probability of ordinary people on Blue Star evolving by consuming Crystals was so low.

The people of the Dragon Spirit Continent, having been bathed in Spirit Energy since birth, had an absurdly high compatibility with Crystals, which were aggregates of Spirit Energy.

And Evolved beings like Lei Li, who were different from the Chosen Ones, were another kind of accident.

Their bodies were naturally adapted to Spirit Energy. Under the shockwave, they had a blessing in disguise and ascended in a single step.

“So…”

Lin Fan took a deep breath, the air she exhaled turning into a white mist in the cold.

“There is no Zombie Virus in this world at all.”

“This is a premeditated Spirit Energy invasion, through and through!”

She slowly stood up, the curves outlined by her tight leather suit glinting coldly under the moonlight.

The heel of her high-heeled boot tapped the concrete edge of the rooftop with a crisp “thud,” as if sounding the death knell of a countdown.

If her deductions were correct…

Then the so-called second radiation shockwave was the Dragon Clan’s second infusion of Spirit Energy into Blue Star.

Its purpose was to further transform this planet’s environment and accelerate the evolution of all its creatures.

Zombies, Mutated Beasts, plants… everything was being forcibly catalyzed, evolving toward more powerful forms.

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Ultimately, Blue Star would become a second Dragon Spirit Continent.

And all the living beings on Blue Star, from Zombies to the Chosen Ones, would become “resources” for the Dragon Clan to harvest at any time.

“Raising gu.”

Lin Fan let out a cold laugh, devoid of any warmth.

“Using a planet as a gu vessel, letting billions of creatures slaughter each other inside.”

“Then, harvest the Crystals, harvest the strong, and harvest the life essence of the entire planet.”

She remembered the vast Dragon Clan empire from Long Ningshuang’s memories.

Its territory was immense, yet its resources were never enough.

The Pureblood Dragon Clan was high and mighty, but few in number.

And those branch families and demi-human races were nothing more than cannon fodder that could be sacrificed at any time.

They needed more soldiers, more resources, more… colonies.

Blue Star was just the first experiment.

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Magic City Base.

In the command room, the atmosphere was so oppressive it was hard to breathe.

Chu Chen stood before the massive floor-to-ceiling window, a lollipop in his mouth. The candy had already shrunk from being held in his mouth, but he never bit down on it.

“Commander, we’ve detected a further intensification of the Rift’s energy fluctuations!” The communications officer’s voice, tinged with an unconcealable tremor, broke the silence.

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Chu Chen spun around abruptly. “What’s the ETA for it to fully open?”

“Energy model projections estimate… two hours at most.”

Two hours.

Chu Chen’s pupils contracted.

If she didn’t make it in time… he would have no choice but to press that red button and activate the “Scorched Earth Plan.”

A plan that would burden him with countless lives.

“Where’s Shi Ming?” Chu Chen’s voice was a little hoarse.

“Captain Shi is on the eastern defense line, reinforcing the final fortifications.”

“And Sun Jing?”

“Vice-Captain Sun is in the medical bay. All medical personnel are on standby.”

Chu Chen nodded and walked back to the command console, watching the red data streams flicker across the screen.

Magic City Base currently had five Level 5 Evolved beings and thirty-seven Level 4 Evolved beings.

This was the combat strength they had barely managed to scrape together by emptying their entire stock of Crystals.

The five precious Level 5 Crystal Cores obtained from the last tidal wave of beasts had only allowed four peak Level 4 Evolved beings to successfully break through.

But this amount of power was no different from paper in the face of a potential Level 6 monster.

Chu Chen irritably crunched the lollipop in his mouth.

He had to make all the necessary arrangements. Even if that woman didn’t make it, he had to be prepared.