Chapter 398: The Fourth Blood Moon Descends (Part 2)
The Blood Moon, a disaster, yet also the hope for human evolution.
For the advancement of human biotechnology,
we have no choice but to make the prisoners suffer.
This is what we call waste utilization.
Serious offenders don't qualify for human rights.
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Those who choose to bathe in the Blood Moon are essentially the lower class.
For many of them, the Blood Moon is actually an opportunity to change their fate.
But not everyone likes this chance.
Some panic and head early to the shelters prepared for them by the Z government.
Even if the possibility of becoming a Mutant is low,
they're not willing to take the risk.
This option is also the most popular.
According to the Galaxy Federation, once you become a Mutant, it's a path of no return.
After becoming a Mutant, your heart becomes corrupted by desire.
Only enough determination is the sole way to redemption.
Stand firm, and you become the pillar of society.
After registration,
as long as you cooperate with regular experiments, you can enjoy a new, affluent life, transcending your previous class.
If you can't withstand it, the outcome is unmentionable.
Thereafter, every thirty years you have to endure the intensifying pollution of the Blood Moon.
The key is once you've bathed in the Blood Moon and become a Mutant, there's no turning back.
Even if you hide in the Earth's core when new Blood Moon pollution arrives, that energy will seek you out.
Use your life to gamble for thirty years of wealth.
Few people choose to gamble.
Today, many low-grade Enhancement Reagents have already entered the market,
though they're expensive, and the purchase review is rather troublesome,
but ultimately, it's better than the treatment of Mutants.
It's like real estate.
If the whole family works hard, even the lower class can afford it.
If not, there are still mortgages.
Though you will thereafter bear loans for Enhancement Reagents and Beastification Reagents, ultimately, there's hope.
Those with ability are unwilling to take the risk.
Those without ability or courage are also unwilling to take the risk.
The remaining ones wanting to take the risk are mostly those who see no future and hope to use their lives to gamble for thirty years of wealth at the bottom.
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Time passed minute by minute.
Just as the time for the Blood Moon's arrival neared,
Brian bid farewell to a group of family and pets who accompanied him, hugging his wife, son, and daughter one by one, before resolutely becoming a streak of rainbow light flying towards the Moon.
Watching his disappearing figure, Li Zheng clenched his fist.
Dad.
In the days you're not here, I will protect my younger brothers and sisters!
Yes.
This year, Susan is pregnant again.
It's a boy.
Last night, Brian pulled Li Zheng aside and quietly told him about this, and gave some instructions.
Li Zheng is not stupid.
He realized that his father's action this time lacked some confidence.
But he kept this matter in his heart and didn't tell anyone.
Once dad leaves, as the only man in the house, he'll have to hold it together!
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On the other side.
Flying towards the Moon, Brian was filled with reluctance.
This time, besides the Blissful Space bound to him,
he brought nothing else.
Long is the key hope for him to escape the Blood Moon.
Even if not for himself, for his children, his woman, his subordinates, and those innocent creatures... Brian couldn't possibly let the other party have a chance to escape.
He had never been so determined to do something.
This time for a battle.
If he can't conquer Long,
Brian was prepared to use his body to suppress at the spatial junction of the Blood Moon Relics and the planet, using the Blissful Space as a barrier to completely sever the connection between them!
Seeing he was about to break through the atmosphere and enter outer space,
Brian looked back towards the direction of his home, eyes filled with reluctance.
Whether it's capturing Long or bodily suppressing the spatial node,
Brian had a premonition that it might be long before he returns this time.
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In Los Angeles time, at twelve o'clock,
the originally bright white moon was gradually dyed red.
The Blood Moon had arrived.
At the spatial node,
Long saw countless dark red energies spewing out along the spatial junction and sighed in relief.
The Blood Moon had finally arrived.
That figure still hadn't appeared.
The future I saw will no longer appear!
It silently waits for the power of the Blood Moon projection to surge forth.
Now is not the best time to go upstream.
When this projection energy is at its peak, infecting the entire distant planet, that's when the space-time path is weakest, and the most suitable time to go upstream.
This time is very brief.
Measured by human time, it's only about twenty or thirty seconds.
Long counts silently in his heart.
He couldn't help but glance back at the void behind him.
There lies the direction of the human planet.
"What a pity, despite encountering the true Favored of the Blood Moon, I couldn't capture them, and instead was almost counterattacked by a lesser Favored. It's such a loss this time..."
Long sighed, his eyes filled with melancholy and reluctance.
Arrogance has been the greatest enemy throughout his life.
Due to arrogance, as a special cosmic race, in pursuit of rapid growth without considering the consequences, he actively intruded into the Inner World of the Blood Moon Relics but ended up as a power source.
Due to arrogance, he clearly found an undeveloped Favored of the Blood Moon but almost got counterattacked.
These two turning points of fate both ended in arrogance.
Regret filled Long's heart, yet he was helpless.
Fortunately, as a Longevity Species, he has plenty of time.
If this time doesn't work, there will be a next time.
As long as he doesn't die, there will eventually be a moment when he turns the tide!
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Long shakes his head, calculates the time, turns around, raises his legs, his whole body full of origin power burgeoning, ready to go upstream into the space-time path, returning to the Inner World of the Blood Moon Relics.
Just then.
A voice from afar came closer: "Friend, please wait!"
Long's heart trembled.
These words were ominous!
He swiftly turned his head but saw a man with a smile, still carrying afterimages, appearing behind him.
Ong~
Countless dark red Blood Moon energies vibrated simultaneously as the man appeared, resembling a cheering and welcoming of their king.
Long's foot, which had already stepped into the passage, became sticky.
His heart sank.
It's over.
Can't leave!
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"Huh~"
Wrapped in countless Blood Moon Pollution Energy, Brian only felt soaked in a warm hot spring, only comfort without discomfort.
After condensing his soul.
He was finally no longer affected by the Blood Moon Pollution Energy.
On the contrary.
In this energy environment, he felt like he had entered his own Domain, with his combat power significantly enhanced.
Once he slightly adapted, he turned his gaze to Long: "Close call, you almost got away!"
Looking at this unfamiliar yet familiar man, Long felt disgusted as though he had eaten flies: "I remember you, you're actually also a Favored of the Blood Moon!"
Long recognized Brian.
This fellow, he had contacted before.
The other party deciphered the code he left on a painting, attracting his attention.
Long created that code out of boredom, to screen potential food.
For this reason, he explained the Heart Domain matters to the man before him.
Only then did Long realize that the powerful figure in the shadows was the ant he once preordered as food.
At this moment.
Long, in a daze, had a sense of being arranged by fate.
Could it be a trap from the beginning, for him to descend in this area?
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Upon seeing Long recognize him, Brian merely smiled.
He walked beside Long, looking at the fragments resembling floated meteor pieces, which had lost the essence of soul, with a face full of regret: "Turns out all the prisoners that escaped here were cheapened by you, you, a fellow without even a body, ate them, such a waste."
"Kill you, and I'll have a new physical body!"
Long said coldly.
Since he couldn't leave, then he would fight!
He refused to believe.
A Fifth Rank Transcendence could kill his uniquely capable Seventh Rank!
Even if he didn't possess a body, his combat strength was only one-tenth of its peak, it wouldn't be that simple.
Moreover.
He wasn't short of trump cards!
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The two no longer spoke, merely stared at each other.
The surrounding void rippled invisibly.
Two enormously powerful fluctuations of rules stirred the surrounding expelled Blood Moon brilliance.
After staring for a while.
Seeing the spatial node had closed again.
Long sneered and turned to leave.
A vast amount of Blood Moon Energy remained here, Brian's domain.
Having suffered enough from arrogance.
This time, Long would go all out!
Destiny?
My fate is determined by me, not by heaven!