The dense mist on the negative seventh floor is thick and sticky; to be precise, it shouldn't be considered mist but rather a black mass of mutated bacteria, floating and condensing mid-air.

The mucus under everyone's feet was also very thick. On the negative fourth to negative sixth floors, the bacterial mucus deposited and proliferated on the floor was just a thin layer, very slippery.

Now stepping into the negative seventh floor, the accumulation under the soles was about to submerge the insteps.

These alone weren't enough to make everyone tremble in fear, but on both sides of the path and near their feet, piles of empty shells and corpses were stacked, with only hollow hulls remaining.

It looked extremely unsettling.

Everyone present had seen blood, and some had lives in their hands, not in the hundreds or thousands but dozens, having long been accustomed to scenes of blood and flesh churning.

But the scene before them was more chilling and spine-tingling than dead bodies and fragmented flesh.

Because the number was simply too great.

And the manner of death was exceedingly bizarre.

There were no signs of burning, yet only a hollow shell remained.

It was like when Lin Feng once discovered a Tier Three bloodstain pollution source in the Restricted Area on the negative fourth floor, where the dormant warehouse was full of figures kneeling on the ground, and upon closer inspection, there was only a hollow shell.

They were once living beings, just like everyone else, now turned into hollow statues, like relics covered in volcanic ash, forever frozen in the moment when disaster struck.

Their struggling actions and expressions of fear, under the direct light, were still vivid and lifelike.

Accompanied by whispers and murmurs ringing in their minds, gradually turning into screams and high-pitched yells, anguished howls, as if the terrifying cataclysmic radiation back then,

was happening right before everyone's eyes!

Occasionally, there were wriggling buds of flesh, parasitic on the surface of the hollow shells, swaying up and down like blooming flowers, preying on the bacteria floating in the air.

Accompanied by piles of corpses turned to fossils...

The scene before them exuded an indescribable eeriness.

Lin Feng, along with the Salvation Army's main force, descended and looked at the disaster scene frozen in time, feeling like a stone was pressing on his chest, making it hard to breathe.

Undoubtedly, a serious incident occurred back then, leading to a disaster that swept through the bottom three floors, killing tens of thousands of humans.

Such as the tragic fall of a Tier Three King.

As a result, the bottom three floors were filled with the densest genetic radiation, completely shrouded by contamination, making it unbearable even for ordinary humans and Late-stage Enhanced People to endure for even a few seconds.

Their flesh cells would be instantly twisted by this wave of radiation energy.

The chromosomes within the cell nucleus would, after replication, display genetic sequence information carried by the radiation, causing newly divided cells to assimilate into mutants.

This change is akin to being penetrated by high-energy radiation particles all over the body, except physical particle bombardment would shatter the proteins that make up chromosomes, leading to cell death and causing the individual to suffer from full-body decay and organ failure.

However, genetic radiation would twist genetic information, exhibiting traits of assimilation, which is clearly more terrifying.

During assimilation, every cell within the body under radiation would separate from neural control, even causing the brain to uncontrollably divide.

One could even clearly perceive half of their body consuming the other half.

Mutated cells devour normal cells, then proliferate into more thoroughly assimilated counterparts.

Of course, this situation would only occur in gradual infection, whereas the intense cataclysm before them wouldn't allow infected individuals the chance to slowly decay.

Radiation would instantly drain the internal biomass, transforming ordinary cells into evolved mutant cells, turning into contaminated Life Source Material, after which this part of Evolutionary Meat would detach from the body, approach the pollution source, and be utilized by it.

Ultimately leaving countless hollow shells formed from filth and waste, like burned char, shattering at the slightest touch.

This led to the countless hollow shells resembling statues before them.

Even after thousands of years, the genetic radiation here showed little sign of diminishing.

Faced with such intense radiation pollution, even with everyone wearing sealed armor, the interfering energy released from the pollution source could still penetrate the protective suit, entering people's brains or bodies.

Affecting their minds and bodily flesh.

Not to mention Late-stage Enhanced People, even an Early Tier One Evolver coming here, would experience various contaminations under the distortion of radiation energy.

The first to suffer is spiritual contamination.

People with slightly unsteady wills, under the dual effects of contamination and the eerie scene before them, would see various illusions and hallucinations, becoming mentally disoriented and frantic.

The team currently consisted of seventeen people in total—with Bai Ye leading the way at the front, and Lin Feng at the rear—the remaining fifteen were all Tier One Late Stage Evolvers.

Only with such strength could the evolutionary cells within their bodies withstand the intense radiation contamination at the bottom three floors.

But they couldn't stay long either, for human tolerance has limits; once exceeding the threshold of extreme resistance, they would lose control and become mentally deranged.

Therefore, Bai Ye moved swiftly, while attempting to deploy spatial superpowers to fend off the nearby radiation pollution assault.

And in the negative seventh floor, filled with Tier Three Pollution Sources, the only advantage was unlike the layers above, it did not harbor a multitude of low-grade mutants.

The radiation energy emanated here was too intense, rendering even ordinary Tier One mutants and Early Tier Two mutants incapable of setting foot within.

The severe radiation contamination would cause their internal mutant cells to metamorphose, equivalent to forcibly triggering level evolution, refining and concentrating all low-grade mutant cells into Tier Three mutant cells.

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