Chapter 096: Subsequent Arrangements - Part 1

Bai Yuxi was taken aback. Is it really possible to do that? Judging by the electric arcs he inadvertently emitted earlier, the voltage he generated must not be low. He’d never practiced this, so...

“Xiao Ke, maybe we should let it go?” As the captain, Luo Fei finally couldn’t bear it any longer. “Look, Willy’s eyes are rolling back in his head. Maybe there’s some other factor we haven’t figured out...”

Upon hearing this, Willy, who had been rolling his eyes, suddenly lifted his head, looking at Luo Fei with excitement, sputtering foamy words incoherently. No one could tell what he was saying. Yet Bai Yuxi managed to read a clear message in his black-and-white gaze: Captain! You really are my good captain! I adore you!

“What if he gets electrocuted?” Luo Fei hesitated. “Our squad only has a handful of people. Maybe you should wait until I recruit some new members before you try again?”

Willy, who was on the metal lift test platform, whipped his head around and collapsed with a loud clang.

The other members of Squad Seven collectively chose silence.

But jokes aside, and scaring the dark-skinned foreigner aside, the various experiments and tests were still carried out by the female academic prodigy in an orderly manner. Whether this was considered her mischievous delight or not, she seemed to particularly enjoy bullying Willy, the foreigner.

Bai Yuxi surmised it was because Willy, that dark fool, always talked behind her back and never learned his lesson despite repeated warnings...

As he watched the female prodigy’s black mouse experiment, Bai Yuxi’s thoughts drifted to the follow-up matters of their recent mission.

“…So that’s how it stands.” “No one has discovered the whereabouts of that high-risk dimensional creature.” As captain, Luo Fei explained, “So the LDH Overlimit Management Division has entirely sealed off the area around Iron Ting Village, claiming externally that it’s for real estate development…”

“At the same time, the LDH people are quite amazed that a rookie like you, ranked only F-class, managed to survive under those circumstances.”

“But thanks to Xiao Ke’s fabricated identity information for you, which is logically impeccable, it’s almost impossible to detect any anomalies without accessing the underlying data.”

“Of course, this also has to do with the fact that you’re just a newly registered newcomer.”

“Since the LDH found nothing suspicious, they simply copied the data from your battle recorder as the official event record and archived it.”

“Coincidentally, your battle recorder was heavily damaged in combat, so they couldn’t find much anyway.” Luo Fei felt the whole situation was almost too coincidental, and shrugged helplessly. “So this matter will simply fade away, at most there’ll be a routine inquiry afterward.”

Bai Yuxi pondered. Although he’d lost consciousness due to severe injuries in the final stage, upon careful reflection, he could still recall some clues.

For instance, before he passed out, he vaguely glimpsed that cluster of light, shattered like broken glass!

Iron Ting Village had shown signs of “dimensional spatial force field fluctuation” only once, a year ago, and for a very brief period. Considering the timeline, a common native toad, mutated by X-particle contamination, couldn’t possibly evolve into a high-risk aberrant creature like the “Abyssal Thunder Toad” in such a short span.

Therefore, the phenomenon in Iron Ting Village a year ago might not have been just a “manifest dimensional overlap point”; it likely also opened a “multidimensional spatial rift” simultaneously!

In other words, the Abyssal Thunder Toad was not a “native terrestrial unidentified biological entity (EN-UMA),” but a “multidimensional unidentified biological entity (MS-UMA)!”

It probably entered Earth’s space through the briefly opened anomaly point a year ago.

Only because the underground construction environment happened to suit its needs did it settle down, conveniently avoiding the patrols of the LDH Overlimit Squad.

It was fortunate that the Abyssal Thunder Toad possessed such a contented “homebody” nature, and combined with the secrecy of the underground site, it spent the past year hiding comfortably in the warm, moist depths, breeding countless offspring.

Had this newly arrived “immigrant” not been ignorant of Yan Nation’s “family planning policy,” foolishly following the species’ reproductive instincts and spawning a horde of toads without restraint, it wouldn’t have exceeded the underground facility’s capacity, causing the minor aberrant creature surge that drew the attention of the LDH Overlimit Management Division. Perhaps it could have continued living safely underground as the old toad ancestor.

And Bai Yuxi, who carried the “frequency resonance effect,” happened to activate the multidimensional spatial rift again upon entering Iron Ting Village, which resulted in the appearance of the Thunder Ze Electric Lizard—a natural enemy of the Abyssal Thunder Toad. The clash between these two titans triggered the subsequent series of events...

Strictly speaking, the dangers encountered by Squad Seven could all be blamed on Bai Yuxi, the “troublemaker.” No wonder the female prodigy had previously said that the squad would never lack monsters to fight so long as he was around.

From Bai Yuxi’s recollection, the Abyssal Thunder Toad should have died in its fight with him; the lack of a corpse was probably related to the newly opened anomaly point.

Since he had previously managed to fuse with an anomaly point and absorb dimensional creatures to enhance himself, it seemed not impossible to do so again.

After the Abyssal Thunder Toad was slain, its body fell to the bottom of the sinkhole, and under the influence of Bai Yuxi’s “harmonious synergy of self and object” constitution, interacted with the spatial rift’s force field, transforming into extraordinary energy that he absorbed. As a result, the LDH Overlimit Squad members who arrived later naturally found no trace of the corpse.

If the LDH Overlimit Management Division had no knowledge of the Abyssal Thunder Toad, that would have been easy enough. Yet the traces left by its battle with the Thunder Ze Electric Lizard were impossible to conceal—the vertical shaft at the sinkhole’s bottom, blasted open by high-energy plasma and surrounded by molten earth, was something Squad Seven couldn’t explain.

Moreover, Bai Yuxi wasn’t the only one with a battle recorder at the scene; the other Squad Seven members’ recorders also faithfully captured images of the Abyssal Thunder Toad.

Had it not been for the female prodigy’s quick thinking, realizing that their battle recorders also contained footage of Bai Yuxi’s fight and urgently tampering with the data before the LDH personnel requisitioned their recordings—erasing and corrupting the segments where Bai Yuxi used the “Particle Blast Fist”—the existence of Bai Yuxi as a pseudo-“supernova individual” would surely have been exposed to the LDH Overlimit Management Division.