Wasteland Border Inspector

"What’s wrong?" Cheng Ye signaled with his eyes.

Wang Kang immediately understood and shouted, "Inspector Cheng, someone just saw the river churning from the watchtower, but they didn’t see exactly what it was."

"Oh, it was a few Infected Bodies, and we’ve already dealt with them."

Cheng Ye said calmly, his gaze sweeping across the area, "There are quite a few things in this river. Inspector Luo and I are in a competition, so some commotion is inevitable."

It was more than just a little; the smashing sound was like explosions, rumbling loudly.

But with the cover of Spiritual Contamination, everyone instinctively avoided dangerous things and couldn’t see the Crab-men or their gigantic form.

This was the best concealment, with no worry of being discovered by the residents.

Hearing that the two Inspectors are competing, the residents quickly stopped adding to the excitement, fearing that their side would lose.

The residents of the Red Side didn’t care about winning or losing as long as they saw the four Inspectors were fine and felt at ease.

When they returned to the riverside, it was already three in the afternoon.

The crab net that had been torn before was once again filled and completed by new Crab-men, with their dense blue bodies wriggling underwater, making Cheng Ye frown involuntarily.

How much stock does the Demon Eye Sponge have hidden? Could it be that the 300,000 people who died in Yueye Shelter City were really transformed into Infected Bodies by it and are hidden in the cavities under the Cotton Room?

Luokuke squatted by the riverbank, holding out his Obsidian Battle Armor, his tone carrying a trace of sentiment, "Life, to have such an experience, at least it’s not for nothing, not a wasted trip."

"Will you still have the courage to go down later?" Cheng Ye took the battle armor and asked casually.

"Yes! Why wouldn’t I?"

Luokuke laughed freely, "Shelter City is just like a besieged city. When I’m inside, all I can think about is the desire for power. Only in the Wilderness do I understand the importance of strength."

"I’ll be right back."

Cheng Ye nodded slightly, shrinking his body and putting on the new Obsidian Battle Armor.

The shrunken Obsidian Battle Armor offered stronger protection and more thoroughly concealed his aura, like an inconspicuous black stone.

He calmly squeezed through the gaps in the crab net, sinking all the way down until he reached the bottom of the water where the Demon Eye Sponge was located.

"This charging speed, I wonder if it will catch up to the megawatt charging in the future?"

Cheng Ye mused, his hand already swinging the Purple Blade.

Pop!

The eyeball of a tentacle exploded instantly, and the charging value on the panel sharply jumped by 2%.

The Demon Eye Sponge was instantly furious, and all the tentacles lying on the bottom of the water stood up, twisting madly in the water, but it couldn’t even find Cheng Ye’s shadow.

But this time, Cheng Ye didn’t surface but quietly hid within the gaps between the tentacles.

When the tentacles began to retract because they couldn’t find a target, he suddenly moved, and the blade flashed repeatedly.

More than a dozen eyeballs shattered simultaneously, transforming into strands of light purple low-level symbol energy, automatically captured by the Collector.

5%, 10%...

Never before had he experienced such a light, pleasant, and simple charging experience, leaving Cheng Ye momentarily dazed.

The Demon Eye Sponge couldn’t see him and couldn’t defend itself comprehensively, leaving it passively harvested.

The released Crab-men formed a "mosquito net," yet how could this "mosquito net" stop him, only sixty centimeters tall?

Nimbly weaving through the sinister-faced Crab-men, Cheng Ye maintained his composure, continuously harvesting the tentacle eyeballs with his Purple Blade.

Until the panel alerted him that the charging value was at full capacity, he did not rush to surface but quickly exchanged it for two pieces of intelligence.

Regular Eye, Matrix Eye.

For now, he temporarily sealed them, not in a hurry to check, and with the cleared charging value, Cheng Ye continued his assault.

Another dozen tentacles were severed, and the new charging value was exchanged for the intelligence of "Coexistent Silk Pattern" and "Passage Silk Pattern."

This reckless usage essentially dismantled the Demonized Sponge’s capabilities entirely.

Even if replaced with the research institute in hand, Cheng Ye believed that they couldn’t have researched the Demon Eye Sponge so thoroughly for a long time.

"Again!"

A couple hundred tentacles out of a thousand were gone, not much visible change on the surface.

But the purple glow underwater had significantly dimmed, clearly showing that the Demon Eye Sponge had expended quite a bit.

After another round of harvesting, he had fully replenished four times, equivalent to 1600 degrees.

Just as Cheng Ye was about to exchange the freshly gathered Commanding Silk Pattern for intelligence, a sudden change occurred.

All the retracted tentacles suddenly snapped back at once, and the Crab-men that were blocking the water’s surface all retreated to the bottom through the previous gap, as if they received a retreat command.

"Is it... planning to retreat?"

Cheng Ye was stunned for a moment, only to see the Demon Eye Sponge retract all the Crab-men into the Cotton Room and wrap its tentacles around it, forming a massive purple sphere.

Boom!

A deep purple barrier descended from the sky, completely encapsulating the sphere, several times more solid than the barrier formed by the tentacles before.

Cheng Ye tried to activate the Scorching Eagle Coexistence State, slashing at the barrier with his Purple Blade wrapped in Earth Fire power.

A "zizi" sound echoed as the blade was bounced away, only making the barrier’s light more intense.

And facing the attack, the Demon Eye Sponge showed no reaction, not even a hint of counterattack, as if it had completely surrendered.

"Interesting, has it truly surrendered?" Cheng Ye did not continue trying to break the defense, instead pushing off his legs and floating to the water’s surface.

Pop, pop...

A few raindrops patted on his helmet, and he looked up to glance at the sky.

The forecasted rain that was supposed to come at night was already showing signs before four o’clock.

Dark clouds gathered, blocking the sunlight, casting the world into a gloomy twilight.

When he came ashore from the water entrance, Luokuke was leaning against the dock, dozing with his head bobbing slightly.