OBS Chapter 3 The Land Where Kings Fell
Chapter 3 The Land Where Kings Fell
The next morning, at Donglin No. 13 Middle School, Class 2.
As soon as Jiang Feng stepped into the classroom, Li Wei, who sat in front of him, came over mysteriously, his chubby face covered with acne filled with despair and resentment.
"Jiang Feng, something terrible has happened! This wretched place is about to change drastically!"
Jiang Feng pulled out a chair and sat down, casually asking, "What? Has the Abyss God invaded our Donglin?"
"Even more disgusting than that!" Li Wei said in a low voice, gritting his teeth.
"It's those top-tier privileged kids from Tianyuan Star! Those prodigies who awakened the 'Purifying Water Dao Bone' and the 'Anti-Demon Holy Body' have all violated regulations these past few days, being demoted and transferred to various high schools in our Donglin!"
Hearing this, Jiang Feng raised an eyebrow. "A genius from Tianyuan, transferred to this godforsaken place?"
Donglin Star is located in the Southern Star Region, or even the easternmost part of the entire empire, near the Dark Sea. After experiencing many great battles, it has been abandoned by the empire and is a barren little planet.
What are those geniuses doing here?
"Isn't it all about seizing opportunities!"
Li Wei clenched his fist and slammed it angrily on the table.
"Insider information! An unknown [King Wu's Ruins] has just been discovered in the deep sea area just outside our Donglin No. 3 Middle School. Ruins of this caliber are filled with pristine, unpolluted star resources that can transform a person!"
"We Donglin should have kept quiet and made a fortune from this site, but somehow those idiots from Tianyuan Star found out, and now they're not even bothering to pretend anymore!"
Li Wei grew increasingly indignant as he spoke: "We local students are already practicing weak stance training, how can we compare to them? All the spots will definitely be snatched up! These people were born in Rome, and now they're driving their war chariots back to crush us!"
The other students in the class who heard the news were all gloomy and dejected.
However, Jiang Feng, sitting in his seat, was surprisingly calm.
He quickly convinced himself of this.
If he didn't have a cheat code, even if those geniuses didn't come here, he wouldn't get any of the benefits.
Even though I now have a cheat code, it's impossible for me to surpass those students at the third or even fourth level of the Heavenly Realm in a short period of time, let alone those geniuses from Tianyuan who possess spiritual bones or even Dao bones.
Since I can't gain anything either way, there's no point in agonizing over it.
Just focus on developing your character safely.
……
After school in the afternoon, Jiang Feng refused Li Wei's suggestion to go to the arcade and instead went to the Beast Slaughterhouse in the lower city as usual.
This is where he works part-time to earn a living; his usual job is to dissect the corpses of low-level infected beasts.
The monthly reward is 1500 Star Coins.
However, the slaughterhouse was unusually quiet today.
The usual roar of the machines and the workers' vulgar shouts and curses had all vanished without a trace.
Walking through the slaughterhouse, Jiang Feng's breathing began to grow heavy.
The concentration of starlight radiation... seems to be exceeding the standard?
Jiang Feng's eyes narrowed, and he slowed his steps, walking slowly towards the deepest part of the heavy-duty cold storage.
"Creak..."
He pushed open the door of the cold storage room forcefully.
What lay before them were not the usual piles of ordinary animal carcasses, but scattered entrails and limbs.
North of the cold storage, the slaughterhouse owner, Mr. Huang, who was usually somewhat mean and liked to take advantage of others, was now facing away from Jiang Feng, like a wild beast, lying on the corpse of a monster that emitted a faint blue light, frantically gnawing on its flesh.
"Smack...smack..."
The chilling sound of chewing echoed in the cold storage.
Jiang Feng's gaze swept over the corpse emitting blue light, and he instantly understood the cause and effect.
It seems that what Boss Huang bought this time was not an ordinary beast at all, but an [unknown type of contaminant] that is strictly prohibited from circulation in the black market.
This refers to a type of corpse for which testing technology in the following urban areas is unable to determine whether the body is safe.
In this world, the unknown means danger.
This greedy boss Huang definitely bought this thing at a low price from the black market to save money, intending to process it and sell it to the common people in the lower city.
As a result, during the unprotected dissection, they inadvertently inhaled the abnormal spores contaminated inside the body.
Hearing the door open, Boss Huang stopped chewing and stiffly turned around.
Jiang Feng looked at the other person, and could vaguely see glistening tears in their eyes.
"Jiang...Feng...you...are...here...."
The boss's voice had become completely distorted, turning into a thick, heavy tone.
His eyes were completely bloodshot and bulging, and his already obese body was now swelling wildly like an inflated balloon, bursting through his blood-stained apron.
Without a doubt, this is a **Level 1 Aberration**.
"Tear!"
The skin of this Level 1 aberration could not withstand the sudden increase in flesh size and cracked, from which several pink fleshy tendrils covered in mucus twitched and emerged.
A strange, chilling, and insane atmosphere instantly enveloped the entire cold storage.
If it were any other student who had just become a martial artist, upon seeing such a monster that strikes straight to the soul, even if the opponent's strength was not high, they would be instantly terrified by this spiritual pollution, their legs would go weak, and they would scream and cover their heads.
But Jiang Feng stood still, his breathing slightly disordered.
After experiencing last night's real battle and the 4th layer of passive, he was not afraid at all. Instead, he calmly scanned Boss Huang's body, which was swollen like a mountain of flesh.
"Completely lost its human sanity, its skin became keratinized, and its body size tripled..."
"Typical characteristics of a [First-Order Aberration]: apart from having a high health bar and great strength, it has no intelligence and moves extremely slowly."
As Jiang Feng recalled the knowledge he had learned in class, he gripped the handle of the cold storage door with his other hand.
"Click".
With a crisp click, he locked the metal door of the cold storage from the inside.
This is a monster of the same level as him, and there's only one of it.
He certainly didn't want to miss this opportunity to stack passive skills and gain more practical experience.
After locking the door, Jiang Feng slowly put down his backpack, turned around and walked to the worktable next to him. He pulled out a heavy boning knife that he often used, which was half a meter long and was used to chop the leg bones of strange beasts.
As he gripped the cold, heavy hilt of the knife in his palm, a hint of bitterness appeared on Jiang Feng's usually calm and composed face for the first time.
"Old Huang... we've only been apart for a day, how did you end up looking like this...?"
His voice was soft, yet it drowned out the sounds coming from the mutant's throat in the empty cold storage.
"I've known you for so many years, and I know you've been a lonely person your whole life, with a dark heart, always fixated on deducting from my meager salary, arguing over the smallest things, like an old hedgehog no one cares about. But I also remember, back when Weiwei and I were just two kids who couldn't even get enough to eat, you were the one who always gave us buns to eat, and even took me in to work for you..."
His Adam's apple bobbed slightly, then he chuckled self-deprecatingly.
"But when I think about what you've done all these years, and how if you hadn't gotten into trouble today, you would have sold this meat to Li Wei and his gang sooner or later... I feel like you really deserve to die."
"A person can't live a life without any bottom line, right?"
After saying this, he picked up the half-meter-long heavy boning knife with one hand, the tip of the knife leaving a streak of sparks on the cement ground, and approached the roaring mountain of flesh step by step.
"You must remember this lesson well in your next life," Jiang Feng said, a forced smile on his face, enunciating each word clearly.
"Brother, I'll send you on your way now."