Chapter 523: Chapter 10: The Undead Virus Nemesis

After two rounds of "drinks," the virus creatures on the ground also followed the scent of natural energy to where Baining was.

"Oho, the buffet is finally about to begin."

Baining stopped moving, becoming completely still as it waited in silence. Only its needle-like leaves were still faintly emitting a natural aura.

Once the ground beneath it was teeming with virus creatures, it began to climb down from the surrounding trees. At the same time, its needles stopped glowing, and its natural aura vanished completely.

Having lost their target, the virus creatures on the ground became bewildered and started scurrying about in confusion.

Just then, Baining reached the ground. It supported itself on a few of its main roots while the rest of its roots sprang into action.

Just as it had demonstrated for Lin Yu before, its secondary roots first plunged into a virus creature’s body, absorbing its internal fluids, soft tissues, and Undead Energy.

After the virus creature was immobilized, the secondary roots would break it down and feed it, piece by piece, into the small mouths that had opened on its main roots.

However, compared to its gentle demonstration during the day, the Baining of this moment was like a gluttonous behemoth. Its countless roots whipped through the air, leaving afterimages as they rapidly processed the surrounding virus creatures and devoured them one by one.

Faced with Baining’s actions, the surrounding virus creatures offered no resistance, as if they were completely unaware they were being eaten.

’This thing is the absolute bane of the Undead Virus creatures!’

Lin Yu, watching Baining’s performance from its body, couldn’t help but sigh in amazement.

"But why aren’t these virus creatures fighting back?"

"They can’t perceive me!"

After a bout of frenzied eating, Baining seemed less ravenous. Its dining pace slowed, and it even spared a moment to answer Lin Yu.

"Why not?"

"I don’t know. But as long as my leaves don’t glow, they don’t know I’m here!"

"Want to test that?"

After saying this, Lin Yu felt a little embarrassed. After all, asking that would mean interrupting Baining’s meal, which wasn’t a very polite thing to do.

"Okay!"

Unexpectedly, Baining agreed without the slightest hesitation.

Its needle-like leaves began to glow green again, emitting a faint pulse of natural energy.

The virus creatures on the ground instantly stirred. They launched an attack on Baining, their countless sharp claws raking viciously across its body.

They tore gashes across its body, then these limb-like creatures latched onto the wounds, injecting their entire viral payload into Baining’s system.

Having lost its virus, the limb stiffened and dropped to the ground, only to be trampled to dust by other virus creatures.

Baining let the virus creatures attack it for a few minutes before it stopped its needles from emitting natural energy. The virus creatures immediately lost their target and began to move about randomly again.

"See? It’s just like I said."

"If I glow and let out a little aura, they can see me, and it becomes a food delivery service."

"But I don’t like it this way. It makes a mess of my body, and I have to waste energy repairing myself."

"Besides, if there are too many of them, they might even mess up my hairstyle."

"So, I still prefer to do the eating myself."

After speaking, Baining went back to its buffet.

Lin Yu understood now. Combining this with his previous encounters, he deduced that these virus creatures had no sight. Their method of perception—or at least one of their primary methods—was energy-based.

More specifically, it was a specialized perception tuned to life-force and its various derivative energies.

As soon as they detected the target energy, they would swarm it.

They would either attempt a direct infection or manipulate undead puppets to harm the target before injecting the virus.

But once the target’s life-force vanished, the virus creatures became like headless flies again. They would treat anything without a life-force as an inanimate obstacle, like a rock, and wouldn’t waste energy attacking it.

’I see. If that’s the case, purging these virus creatures will be much more manageable.’

Lin Yu watched the virus creatures on the ground and began formulating a plan to eliminate them.

A little while later, Baining had finished clearing out all the nearby virus creatures, ignoring those that were farther away.

It tossed all the leftover virus creatures into the hole it had emerged from, and Lin Yu finally understood the origin of the creatures in that hole.

They were the little snacks Baining saved for itself to eat when it woke up during the day.

Seeing that Baining didn’t intend to attract another wave of virus creatures for a buffet, Lin Yu proposed, "Baining, can you take me to see where these virus creatures are coming from?"

"What do you want with them?"

"If you go there, you’ll be swarmed by them!"

"I don’t want you to become food too."

Baining was puzzled. It couldn’t understand why Lin Yu wanted to go get himself killed.

Lin Yu was touched, but also wanted to laugh.

"I’m not an idiot. Why would I willingly become your food!"

"I have a mission on this planet. I need to get rid of all these virus creatures!"

"Once I find their nest, I can wipe them out."

"No!"

Hearing Lin Yu’s plan, Baining refused point-blank.

"Why not?"

Baining said indignantly, "If you get rid of all of them, what will I eat? I’ll starve to death!"

"But aren’t there a lot of them? How could you starve?"

"No, there aren’t that many. Their numbers aren’t increasing. Every one I eat is one less. I only moved here because I was afraid I’d eat them all too quickly."

Lin Yu understood. These virus creatures had wiped out every infectable organism on the planet. The entire planet was left with nothing but plants, and for some reason, these plants had undergone a uniform mutation, allowing them to avoid the risk of viral infection.

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