Chapter 5: Titan Cells

The summer sun scorches the ruins of the town.

The roar of a motor from outside the town broke the silence of the afternoon.

Eren retracted his thoughts and got up and walked out of the underground warehouse.

Standing in the shadow of the corner, looking through the broken glass window, looking out of the sound of the motor.

It's been a year since he came to this world, and this is the first time he's heard the sound of a car engine.

It is common sense to assume that motorists are mostly human beings from the civilized world.

The thought of finally being able to see his living kind, Allen's heart couldn't help but ripple.

For the sake of prudence, Alan did not plan to take the initiative to go out to greet him.

In the wasteland of troubled times, the humans who can survive so far may not be more cruel and vicious than the beasts!

It's not too late to observe the visitor's words and deeds and strength in the dark before deciding whether to go out and say hello.

……

A camouflage-painted open-top jeep appears on the long-abandoned street.

In the driver's seat sat an African-American young man in a floral shirt and sunglasses, and when he stepped on the brakes, the jeep slowly stopped.

Next to the assistant's seat, a girl wearing denim shorts and a camisole, with a short brown ponytail peeking out from the back of her baseball cap.

Judging from the color of her skin, this girl seems to be Latino, and she looks quite delicate, but she has developed a toned muscle.

On the side of the right arm, there is a conspicuous blue tattoo.

It looks like the letter W, with a feather-like pattern, and is decorated with a pair of folded wings.

Allen's gaze returned to the black buddy who was driving.

On his arm, a blue tattoo of the same style was also found.

If it's meant to make a statement, the tattoo will avoid crashes.

The young men and women who traveled together had the same tattoos, and Alan had reason to suspect that the two belonged to the same organization.

The blue W feathered tattoo is mostly the emblem of the organization.

The girl in the baseball cap held a thick hardcover book and looked at it absentmindedly.

The young man in sunglasses turned off the car engine, turned his head to his companion and said:

"Anne, don't look at it! The stories in the Bible are all myths that deceive children! ”

"Otherwise, how can we explain that thirteen years after the final judgment came, God's people have been in purgatory on earth, but the Savior has not been seen for a long time?"

"How do sinners know if they are worthy of salvation?" The girl asked angrily.

"It depends on whether you believe in double predestination." The young man in sunglasses shrugged his shoulders and opened the car door sideways, "That's the end of today's theological discussion, I have to go and shush first, and fill up the car by the way!" ”

"Beware of being bitten off by a mutant beetle!"

Anne teased casually and looked up at the window.

"Cato, when was the last time you came to Kangzhen?"

"Almost two years ago, what happened?"

"The atmosphere here, the silence is terrifying, have you checked the information of the local Titan cell infected people?"

"I looked it up, but it didn't work, the last update of the network database was two years ago."

"At least at the time, there were no C-grade or higher human infections in the town."

"As for the Titanmon, it may have evolved superpowers, but it has not exceeded the C-level ceiling, and we can easily deal with it."

Cato stood by the grass, unbuttoning his belt to urinate.

Anne nodded and muttered, "Maybe we should take a stroll around town and update the database by the way." ”

"I'm not against it if you want to, but before that, you have to fill up your car with gas." Cato lifted the waistband of his trousers.

"The building over there seems to be a gas station."

Anne looked at the ruins of the building where Eren was hiding.

"What do you expect from a gas station that has been abandoned for more than a decade? What's more, after the cataclysm, the world's fossil energy is polluted by Titan cells, and burning this dirty oil is equivalent to lighting explosives in the tank! ”

Cato sneered and shook his head, pulling out what looked like a music box from his toolbox and placing it on the hood of his car.

"I hate the chaebol, but I have to admit that the crystal nucleus generator invented by Solomon has kept the fire of civilization alive in this ruined world."

"If we hadn't had the crystal nucleus generator, we wouldn't have been able to drive this classic car to the ruins of Kangzhen, 500 miles away."

"Annie, give me a spirit crystal nucleus, and I'm going to try if the Titanmon trap invented by Daddy Butler is really as effective as he boasted."

The girl opened her backpack, pulled out a transparent crystal, and handed it to Cato.

Eren was far away from the two of them, but he still sensed that the crystal was emitting strong psychic magic fluctuations.

Through the conversation between the two, it is not difficult for Alan to deduce that the surviving humans in this wasteland have named the mysterious substance that causes biological mutations "Titan cells".

Mutant animals, known as Titanmon.

The magic crystals generated in the Titanmon's body are called crystal nuclei by them.

The so-called "spirit crystal nucleus" refers to the crystalline body that contains the magic of the mind.

There are a lot of similar things, and Allen also has a lot of them, all of which are obtained from the body of the mutant monster fish in the lake.

From the Titan Cell and the Titanmon, Alan thought that the origin space he was in now was the creation of the Ancestor Titan.

Organisms infected with Titan cells become larger and larger as Titan cells continue to proliferate in their bodies.

Hugeness is the most distinctive feature of the Titans!

In this case, why do the young men and women on the street still look like normal human bodies?

Didn't they infect the Titan cells?

Or use some means, such as Allen's carcinogenesis inhibitor configured with his own blood as raw materials, to prevent the uncontrolled spread of titan cells in the body, and escape the fate of self-explosion?

With these questions in mind, Alan continued to observe the two uninvited guests on the street to see what they planned to do next.

A young black man named Cato puts the spirit crystal nucleus into a music box and fills it with clockwork.

The music box then emits a melodious melody.

The note came into his ears, and Alan felt a trance.

I can't help but feel the urge to move towards the music box.

Fortunately, his spiritual resistance was high enough, so he woke up in time and used the "Prayer Technique" to simulate the 8-ring "Spiritual Barrier" and bless himself.

Within a day, resist the following negative mental states of the legend.

Then, Alan gave the rooster Phoenix a "psychic barrier" to prevent it from being hypnotized by the melody of the music box and exposed to outsiders.

Squeak –

Squeak –

In the ruins of the building, there was a rat scream that was magnified a hundredfold.

Two mutant rats the size of wolfdogs are drawn to the hypnotic music.

"Daddy's invention is really good!"

Cato sighed in admiration, raised his right hand, aimed at a mutant rat, and gestured to shoot.

Cato made a gusset gesture and his mouth was not idle, simulating the sound of a gun.

"Bang!"

A silver light shot from his fingertips.

Hit the mutant rat and get a headshot on the spot!

Another mutant rat witnesses the tragic death of a companion on the street.

Stimulated by fright, he escaped the hypnosis caused by the music, screamed and turned his head into the hole.

"Bang!"

Cato "shot" again.

The silver shockwave formed by the condensation of the magic power drew a strange arc in the air and burrowed into the hole.

Twist your way through narrow tunnels, avoid obstacles, and catch up with the fleeing mutant rats and kill them.

Allen, who was secretly watching, raised his eyebrows.

Cato's move is similar to "snap a finger wave", but it is more powerful and has a longer range of auto-tracking.

If measured by the magic guide martial arts of the Warlock World, it is equivalent to a third-order martial art.

"Stupid! You killed the mutant rat in the burrow, do you want the crystal nucleus? Anne angrily counted her companions.

"I don't want to go into the hole and find dead rats, forget about that one, let's catch a few more Titanmons and get together a pound of crystal nuclei to use as batteries, and it's enough to drive the car home."

Cato picks up the music box, turns up the volume, and plays it again.

This time, the music travels farther, and it stands to reason that more mutated creatures should be attracted.

However, after a piece of music was played, the streets were still silent.

Cato and Anne looked at each other, both realizing that something was wrong.

In this town that has been abandoned for many years, there are far fewer mutated creatures than they expected, which is unreasonable!

"Maybe we should check out the gas station over there."

Anne's eyes narrowed slightly, and her gaze became extremely sharp.

"Compared to the ruins of other buildings, the entrance of the gas station looks too clean, and the grass at the entrance is ...... There seem to be footprints. ”

After she reminded her, Cato also felt something unusual.

Focus on releasing mental fluctuations and scanning the ruins of the gas station for life signals.

In the shadows, Eren sensed a circle of invisible magic fluctuations, which were spreading towards his location, similar to some kind of prophecy magic.

"Have the humans in this wasteland evolved psychic abilities?"

Alan found it getting more and more interesting.

Both he and Phoenix have blessed the "Psychic Barrier", which is enough to shield this level of psychic scanning.

Eren hasn't been exposed yet, but he doesn't plan to continue lurking.

With a mental swing, he tells Phoenix to go out and test Cato and Anne to see how much more they can do.

……

"Strange, why can't you sense the life signal?"

Cato looked dazed and was about to approach the scouting when a rooster crowed from the opposite side!

The huge rooster, clad in brilliant feathers, rushed over.

Fierce momentum, like a running dinosaur!

Cato hurriedly raised his hand to fire the "spirit spear"!

Phew-

A wave of silver gas whistled and shot at the oncoming Titan rooster.

The rooster crowed, and the shock wave that erupted from his mouth collided with the spirit spear, and broke out into an earth-shattering roar!

Violent air currents kicked up dust in the streets.

"Ahem...... I should have known that the intelligence of two years ago was unreliable! Cato choked on the dust blowing in front of him and coughed, "That hateful big rooster is definitely a B-class Titanmon!" ”

The vigorous figure of the Titan rooster quickly broke through the smoke and dust and pounced on Cato in front of him.

However, in the next second, Anne ghostly appeared in front of Cato.

With his arms crossed, his muscles swelled dramatically, as if inflated.

Boom!!

Phoenix was like a headfirst crash into a rubber pad and was bounced back by Annie's muscular arms.

Anne also suffered a huge recoil force, and the whole person was knocked into the air.

However, in the air, she can still stay steady.

Like a nimble bird, it rolls over in the air and lands lightly.

It was only at this point that Alan noticed that Anne was barefoot.

The soles of the feet spew out a strong air current, like stepping on an air cushion, suspended a foot above the street.

The naked feet spewed air like a humanoid rocket, leaping like lightning.

"Goo?!"

Phoenix hurriedly looked up and tracked down his opponent.

The blazing sunlight pierced it so much that it couldn't open its eyes.

In the blink of an eye, Anne had catapulted and punched the Titan Rooster in the chest.

"Big, lie down for me!"

Anne's beautiful face was murderous.

Just looking at the size difference between the two sides, the Titan rooster received a "small fist" from Annie, which seemed to be painless.

However, this is not the case.

Annie's fist, full of magic, swelled to ten times its normal size!

The moment the fist hit the rooster, the magic suddenly exploded, as if a barrel of dynamite had been ignited.

Rumble!!

Phoenix is knocked away by Annie's punch and screams into an abandoned building on the side of the street.

"Annie! Well done! ”

Cato raised his right hand and shot a silver light to chase down the prey that Annie had struck down.

However, at this moment, a huge and strange figure suddenly appeared from the ruins, blocking his trajectory.

Cato was stunned for a moment.

was still hesitating whether to read the ballistic, so as not to accidentally injure the strange man who appeared out of thin air, and the other party had already taken the lead.

Syllable!

The crisp snapping of fingers echoed through the streets.

Cato's eyes widened with astonishment.

A "spirit spear" shot with all his strength, the power is comparable to that of a bazooka, and it was actually blocked by the other party casually!

A tall and burly figure walked through the smoke and dust into the street.

Cato and Anne gasped together.

It was a giant with a head full of five meters tall.

Dark, smooth skin with a pearly glow.

Mutant humans infected with Titan cells and gigantic bodies, Cato and Anne have seen too much.

However, the black giant on the other side could not see any signs of cell cancer on his body.

Up and down, there is no trace of fat.

The toned muscles are carved out of obsidian.

Tall and well-proportioned body shape, calm and cold temperament, different from the infected people they have come into contact with in the past.

Anne gritted her teeth, and suddenly her feet exerted force, spewing out high-pressure air currents, and swooping down on the black giant like a raging wind.

After opening the fourth-order atavistic and incarnating in the form of a stone giant, Allen's face was not shocked.

With a keen "tremor perception", he accurately predicted Annie's sprint trajectory.

Raise your hand calmly and flick your fingers.

Boom!!

Before Anne could throw her fist, she was blasted away by the air explosion caused by the snap of Allen's fingers, and she tumbled to the ground.

His hair was messy, his wheezing was violent, and he looked a little embarrassed.

"Annie! Watch out for the back of you! ”

Cato's exclamation just blurted out.

Behind Anne, the Golem has been unearthed!

A big strong hand grabbed Anne by the back of the neck, like grabbing a chicken, and carried her into the air.

Anne struggled desperately.

Every pore in the body is spraying high-pressure airflow!

The hissing currents of air were like countless sharp blades that could easily cut through the steel plates, but they could not help her escape the giant's big hands.

The stone giant, naked, his skin cut by the wind blade, leaving no scars.

Anne's own denim shorts and camisole shirt were torn by the wind blade, revealing large patches of smooth, delicate light brown skin.

Thankfully, the twin peaks were tall enough to hold on to their broken corset.

"If you're smart enough, you'd better stop spraying so you don't even have to keep your bottoms."

The giant's deep, deep voice echoed in Anne's ears.

Anne shuddered, and gave up her resistance with interest.

Alan could see the change in her mentality, and the corners of her lips rose slightly.

Gently put her down and let go of the big hand that was holding the back of her neck.

Anne turned, her arms crossed over her chest, her head tilted to look at the black giant, her eyes wary and confused.

"Why don't you kill me?"

Alan didn't answer, turned his head and shouted, "Phoenix! ”

"Goo-goo!"

The Titan rooster crows happily and gallops over with his cloak in his mouth.

Alan caressed the rooster's neck, took the pale yellow cloak he had sewn from the curtains, and canceled the atavistic transformation.

A majestic giant that rapidly shrinks in size.

Dark complexion turns into a wheat color.

Cato and Anne stared blankly at the naked teenager in front of them, their eyes full of disbelief.

……

Ask for a recommended ticket for a commuter pass

(End of chapter)