Deities Are All Just My Food-Chapter 40 Pollution Intensity 50_1

40: Chapter 40 Pollution Intensity 5.0_1

40: Chapter 40 Pollution Intensity 5.0_1

In the train compartment, the scene was in complete disarray, with unconscious passengers sprawled haphazardly across the floor.

Lin Baici heard a series of hurried footsteps and immediately turned around.

Ma Yuan was there, his suit wrinkled and disheveled in a state far removed from the polished elite image Lin Baici had seen in the waiting hall, now looking much more pitiable.

“Xia Hongyao?”

As soon as Ma Yuan saw Xia Hongyao, he blurted out,

“You know me?”

Xia Hongyao tossed her ponytail.

“You should be asking, who in the Security Bureau doesn’t know you sisters!”

Ma Yuan couldn’t help but glance at Xia Hongyao’s chest.

He had never met her in person, but he had seen her photos and now, comparing them with the real person, he found her to be much bigger than the pictures had suggested.

Is that beyond a D cup?

Immediately after, Ma Yuan shifted his gaze to Black Shark Triton.

The hefty man was clutching the wound on his ribcage, from which blood was seeping through his fingers, soaking his clothes.

Compared to his earlier arrogant demeanor, this core member from Lost Coast was now looking much more subdued.

“Very good, I never expected that today, I, Black Shark Triton, would fall into the hands of two youngsters!”

Black Shark Triton bit down on his back teeth, glaring at Lin Baici with deep resentment, frustration killing him.

He had been very cautious upon entering, but still, he walked right into an ambush.

The opposition was even more meticulously prepared than he had anticipated.

“Actually, I only did some trivial things.

The main strategy was all Little Linzi’s design!”

Xia Hongyao was honest and didn’t want to take undue credit.

“No need for you to say that, it’s obvious to me!”

Black Shark Triton glowered at Lin Baici, his eyes filled with venom.

He had thought that the Muscle Buddha in shorts was the main attack, but in reality, it was a feint, meant to divert his attention.

The real trump card was this girl with the ponytail.

Why could he make such a judgment?

Because this ponytail girl’s expressions were too obvious, and with such a large chest, she didn’t seem like someone who would use her brain.

Of course,

the most important reason was Lin Baici’s demeanor when he got up and had those few words of dialogue—he was too composed, too much like a senior commander.

This was also why Black Shark Triton had subconsciously paid attention to him and been extra wary.

“Red Medicine, this man is…?”

Ma Yuan had been sizing up Lin Baici all this time.

Upon hearing Xia Hongyao’s remark, he took the opportunity to ask.

When did the Bureau recruit such an impressive new member?

But wasn’t the assessment for this year yet to begin?

“My friend!”

Xia Hongyao did not reveal Lin Baici’s identity, worried that Ma Yuan might try to poach him.

“The partner I killed, was it you?”

Black Shark Triton’s tone was icy, his eyes full of malice.

“I killed him!”

Xia Hongyao quickly chimed in.

Worried that Black Shark Triton might escape and seek revenge on Lin Baici, she took the blame herself.

“Just you?”

Black Shark Triton sneered, disbelieving.

“What, looking down on me?”

Xia Hongyao was not pleased.

“The stab you gave me was quick, accurate, and cruel, but…”

Black Shark Triton shook his head: “Such knife skills are still not enough to kill Takoyaki!”

Xia Hongyao did not argue back.

She recalled the process by which Lin Baici killed Takoyaki—it was a sequence of carefully calculated moves, twinkling with the light of wisdom.

“What, you dare to kill but not to own up to it?”

Black Shark Triton taunted.

“Heh, listen well.

The murderer is from Haijing Polytechnic, Lin Baici!”

Lin Baici straightened the kasaya on his body.

“Revenge?”

“Am I someone who is frightened easily!”

“Come at me if you can!”

Xia Hongyao and Ma Yuan’s eyes lit up upon hearing Lin Baici’s words.

“Dominant!”

Ma Yuan gave a thumbs up: “Do you want to join my squad?

I can be your sponsor, vouch for you!”

A God Hunter looking to join the Jiuzhou God Shield Security Bureau needed to go through several rounds of selection, but it would be much easier with a guarantee from a team captain.

“Hey…”

Xia Hongyao furrowed her brows.

Do I not exist to you?

This is the team member I’ve set my sights on!

Lin Baici glanced at Ma Yuan, thinking to himself that this loser couldn’t even manage to wear out the enemy!

The reason he asked Xia Hongyao to lie in wait in this train compartment, instead of providing support, was one he hadn’t shared with her.

It was to let the Dragon Squadron fight Black Shark Triton; if they won, both he and Xia Hongyao could avoid a fight.

If they lost, he could take advantage of the situation and confront a seriously wounded Black Shark Triton.

However, when this core member of the Lost Coast arrived, he was only slightly injured, with not much loss to his combat capabilities.

“Haha, that’s insane!”

Black Shark Triton sneered with a sadistic smile: “Do you think you’ve got me cornered?”

“Why isn’t he dead yet?”

Lin Baici frowned.

His bantering with Black Shark Triton wasn’t out of idleness, but rather, he was waiting for him to bleed out.

“Haha, the stab that girl gave me was very vicious.

A normal person would have bled out and gone into shock by now, but I am a God Hunter!”

Black Shark Triton was proud: “Even if I don’t take action myself, I have three ways to kill you all!”

[Hurry up and kill it!]

Eater God suddenly spoke up.

Without needing Lin Baici to urge them on, both Ma Yuan and Xia Hongyao sensed the danger and bravely lunged at Black Shark Triton, but it was already too late.

No sooner had the fat man stopped speaking than he produced a palm-sized conch and blew into it forcefully.

Wuu wuu wuu!

A transparent bubble emerged from the conch and enveloped him.

At the same time, Lin Baici and the others were suddenly engulfed by a whirlwind of yellow dust, so dense that it blotted out the sky and obscured their vision, as if they had been swallowed by a sandstorm.

“Rule contamination?”

Lin Baici immediately summoned the Muscle Buddha and even tried to light a torch, but the swirling yellow sand stung his eyes, preventing him from seeing anything.

Fortunately, the sudden sandstorm didn’t last long, disappearing after six or seven seconds, but the environment around had changed.

“Where is this place?”

18D was completely baffled.

Wasn’t I in the high-speed train carriage just now?

This was an endless red clay pond, with 18D’s feet sinking into it up to his calves, the wet and slippery mud feeling terribly uncomfortable.

“Damn, it’s rule pollution!”

Ma Yuan cursed bitterly.

The thing he feared most had still happened.

“Little Linzi!”

Xia Hongyao took steps deep and shallow through the mud pond to reach Lin Baici’s side.

“What Taboo thing caused this, do you know?”

Lin Baici inquired.

Besides the four of them, the passengers on train G1955 had all been affected and subjected to rule pollution.

Some lay in the red clay pond, still unconscious, while others had begun to wake up, looking around confused and lost.

Xia Hongyao turned to Ma Yuan.

Ma Yuan pulled out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Xia Hongyao.

Taboo identification: A-025 (Temporary).

Pollution Intensity: 5.0.

Taboo characteristics: A clay human sculpture.

Once rule pollution begins, it will form a mire of a red clay pond, and a Clay Human monster will appear, forcing those polluted to mold clay humans.

Sealing method: Black Coffin Seal.

Disaster assessment: High rank.

Special precautions: Do not attempt to flee, as you would be killed and lose the qualification to craft clay figures.

“5.0?”

Xia Hongyao took in the number and gasped in shock.

“Is it serious?”

Lin Baici frowned.

“Quite serious!”

Ma Yuan managed a wry smile.

After decades of continued exploration and summarization, various countries had begun to understand the disasters from God’s ruins to some extent and had established a uniform disaster assessment standard.

A pollution intensity of 5.0 indicated that the disaster caused by this Taboo thing was equivalent to a minor God’s ruin.

For ordinary people, the survival rate was pitifully low.

“What is this place?”

“What happened?”

“Why are my clothes all wet?

Where’s the high-speed train?

What about my luggage?”

The awakening passengers were in a state of panic, asking each other questions, their eyes filled with wariness!

“Apprentices, come over here, the apprenticeship examination is about to begin!”

A dry, parched voice came from the nine o’clock direction, echoing over the red clay pond.

People turned their heads, looking in that direction.

“Apprentice?

Who?”

18D looked at Lin Baici: “Us?”

“Let’s go, there’s no choice!”

After Xia Hongyao finished speaking to Lin Baici, she clapped her hands vigorously to attract the passengers’ attention: “Everyone, come this way.

We’ve been affected by a Taboo thing’s rule pollution.

Only by listening to it do we have a chance to survive!”

The passengers were dumbfounded.

Many of them knew the words ‘God’s ruins’ and ‘Taboo thing’ from the internet and other sources, had heard they were terrifying, but no one had seen what they were like.

Now, suddenly hearing that they were polluted, they were horribly afraid.

“Are we going to die?”

“Who are you?”

“What exactly is rule pollution?”

The passengers all looked at Xia Hongyao, waiting for an answer.

“Just go over there, and soon you’ll know!”

Xia Hongyao would have liked to explain, but there was no time, because the rule pollution would kill everyone before she could finish schooling them.

Lin Baici walked towards the direction of the dry voice.

18D hurriedly followed, pleading in a low voice.

“Brother, if I have offended you just now, I ask for your forgiveness!”

18D followed Lin Baici all the way, witnessing his brilliant performance, knowing that staying close to him meant a greater chance of survival, so he took the initiative to curry favor.

This red clay pond was like a wetland swamp, too difficult to traverse.

18D hadn’t walked far when the shoe on his left foot got stuck in the pond, unable to pull it out.

Many people were having the same problem.

A series of three-character swears ricocheted all around.

Lin Baici walked over two hundred meters and saw a round red earth platform built up, about half the size of a soccer field.

On the platform, there were kilns about a meter high, half a meter in diameter, rounded like Mongolian yurts, all built from red earth.

Next to each kiln was a pile of charcoal and a wooden box about the size of a trolley case.

Lin Baici knew that object was called a bellows, a tool used in the countryside for cooking meals in the past.

A two-meter-tall clay human stood atop the platform, scrutinizing these apprentices.

“Can’t we just kill it and be done with it?”

18D noticed that the clay human was lifelike.

At first glance, it seemed like a real person covered in mud, and even the eyes were animated and intimidating.

But upon closer inspection, it could be seen that the whites of the eyes were the color of the soil, and as its eyeballs moved, some clay dust would softly fall away.

“Generally speaking, no!”

Ma Yuan’s answer was cautious.

[Warm-up before meals, let’s start.]

The Eater God joked: [I hope you have a good appetite when you eat later!]

“How do we get through this Taboo game?”

Lin Baici queried in his heart.

“Killing this clay creature is useless, just follow its instruction and mold a clay human to pass the test.”

The Eater God briefed.

“The apprenticeship examination begins now, follow my lead!”

The clay creature announced loudly and then, with long strides, walked into the mud pond.