Wasteland Border Inspector

The researcher stared at the plummeting curve on the screen, eyes flashing brightly, hastily printed an energy intensity report, grasping the paper as he rushed toward the innermost color steel room.

Bam bam bam!

The urgent knocking sounded.

"Enter." Shi Xu’s calm voice came from inside the room.

The researcher pushed the door open, holding the report as he hurriedly reported, "Group Leader Shi! Just now, the energy intensity of the Destruction Level infection source inside Dapo Town suddenly decreased, and it dropped by more than half!"

Shi Xu’s hands continued to tap rapidly on the keyboard, eyes fixed on the data stream rolling across the screen, asking without looking up, "Have you analyzed its basic model?"

"We have a general direction, it should be a sponge-like organism," the researcher quickly replied, "But there’s no existing model that matches since its size is too enormous. Monitoring data shows it occupies almost several kilometers of the riverbed bottom."

"What about the Immortal Objects’ energy reaction?" Shi Xu’s fingers paused for a moment.

Speaking of this, the researcher’s face instantly turned unpleasant, "The Immortal Objects’ reaction... has almost no change. The current data can’t determine whether its energy supply is directly related to the sponge organism; after all, the energy intensity of the Immortal Objects has remained very stable, completely unaffected by the sponge weakening."

"Speculation result?" Shi Xu finally lifted his head, gazing sharply at him.

Sweat appeared on the researcher’s forehead as he gripped the report tightly, "The speculation result is... there exists a stable energy supply in the space where the Immortal Objects are located. Combining the information previously sent back by Inspector Cheng and our tracing of the infection source of Ghost Water Cave Crab..."

He paused, lowering his voice, "Previously, upstream including Yueye Shelter City, an infection tide broke out, coupled with a natural disaster flood, over twenty thousand people went missing, and their whereabouts remain unknown. We have already sent a letter urging Yueye Shelter City to provide detailed information, but..."

"So, you’re suggesting that these twenty thousand people may be within the space where the Immortal Objects are located, becoming its energy supply victims?" Shi Xu’s face changed instantly.

This is the worst-case scenario. Once the life force of twenty thousand people is used as a continuous supplement, the energy released by the Ten Thousand Orders Land Conch will undoubtedly not fall below its initial design target, which was the average power estimated during its creation by the Extraordinary in Antarctica.

"We can’t currently determine the specific state of these life forms, but the likelihood is great." The researcher shook his head with difficulty.

"Additionally, we’ve discovered other anomalies in the monitoring data..." The researcher had just started to report further when Shi Xu interrupted.

"I’ve already seen it." Shi Xu redirected his gaze back to the screen, sliding his fingers across the touchscreen to call up a three-dimensional energy distribution map.

In the map, the bottom region of the White Water River was covered in rich green, representing a life force energy level curve that was astonishingly high, even surpassing the life density of the greenhouse zone within the Inner City of Happiness City.

"Is this its core efficacy?" Shi Xu stared at the screen, a trace of inexplicable shock flashing in his eyes.

In the barren Stone Province, eroded by the Petrification Curse for so many years, it had been ages since such vigorous plant life force was seen.

It is indeed hard to imagine, the power of the Ten Thousand Orders Land Conch could suppress the Extraordinary Curse directly acting upon the land, restoring vitality.

If mastered, wouldn’t it be the transformation opportunity for Stone Province?

"That’s enough, you may go out first, continue monitoring the data, and report immediately upon any fluctuation." Shi Xu regained his senses and instructed the researcher.

"Yes!" The researcher nodded quickly and turned to exit the room.

Yet, within just a few moments, the sound of machines outside started to blare wildly again, as if exploding.

The researcher who had left rushed back with a face full of anxiety, only to find Shi Xu already standing before the screen, staring at the scene with equal disbelief.

It was still the three-dimensional energy distribution map at the bottom of White Water River.

But this moment, within the originally rich green area, suddenly a hint of faint red breath seeped in.

At first, this red breath was just a slender thread, similar to the sparse distribution of curse energy in other regions of Stone Province, not noticeable.

Yet within mere seconds, the red breath suddenly expanded, thickened, as if drawn by an invisible force, forming a funnel-shaped airflow, frantically absorbed into the cave at the bottom of White Water River.

Simultaneously, a striking red warning surfaced on the right side of the screen:

[Petrification Curse energy reaction detected as anomalously rising]

[Current energy multiplier: 15.8 times (continuously increasing)]

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