Virus King - Chapter 37

Chapter 37: The SSS-Rank Profession from the Abyss! Mutant!

TL: YYang

Demon Hunter.

This was the opportunity that had led to Chen Bai’s rise in his previous life.

Demons were a powerful presence within the secret realm dungeons.

Any adult demon, even those with inferior bloodlines, could not be compared to ordinary Evolvers of the same level.

And the Demon Hunter was a profession specifically designed to hunt demons.

However, when Chen Bai had obtained the profession transfer scroll for the Demon Hunter, the place he needed to go to complete the transfer was an extremely unusual one.

At first, Chen Bai hadn’t known, but later, after being informed by the Dark Mother Goddess, he understood what kind of place it was.

It was a place feared even by many gods.

The power within it was so intense that, at its deepest point, even the Cosmic Will couldn’t penetrate or restrain it.

Its terror was such that even ordinary divine avatars dared not walk within its bounds.

That place was madness, fury, brutality, bloodshed—any dark descriptor could fit there.

That place was called the “Abyss.”

There, a profession lay hidden, one that stirred Chen Bai’s heart to a fever pitch just from hearing faint clues of its name.

Unfortunately, in his previous life, he hadn’t had the strength to even touch this forbidden profession.

But if he had the chance, in this life, Chen Bai wanted to give it a try.

However, Chen Bai also knew that to fulfill the transfer conditions and tasks, which had seemed like an insurmountable chasm in his past life, his current power was still far from sufficient.

Thinking of this, Chen Bai looked at Song Ziqiong:

“How’s the virus progression at the hospital?!”

For Chen Bai, Song Ziqiong and the entire Song Group’s resources were his biggest assets to leverage.

Beyond establishing a base under his control, they were also essential for enhancing his own strength.

The little nurse had to go to great lengths to obtain viral specimens from the hospital, risking exposure as she sneaked around to accomplish these tasks.

But Song Ziqiong had no such limitations.

Her enterprise included hospitals and biological research labs.

Some of these viruses even had high-concentration pathogens!

They were far more potent than the extracted blood samples used for testing!

Over the past few days, Chen Bai had already had Song Ziqiong send him a few of these samples!

However, Chen Bai discovered something particularly frustrating.

Based on his expectations, the evolution points provided by these pathogens should have been enough to give him enough points to raise the Darklight Virus to the next level, bringing it to the 1% percent awakening threshold.

But he realized he’d been overly optimistic.

The Virus Sovereign talent gave him this sense of potential, but he had overlooked one crucial fact!

That was the need for evolution points. After reaching 0.9% in awakening, gaining further levels wasn’t as easy as before!

A full 1% would mean the Darklight Virus would be completely revived. Apart from boosting his attribute points, he’d likely unlock some unique abilities exclusive to the Darklight Virus!

Precisely because of this, the evolution points needed to break from the 0.9% threshold to 1% were far more than what had been required to go from the previous 0.1 to 0.9 percentages.

And annoyingly, it was a round number!

10 full evolution points!

In the past few days, aside from laying the groundwork for his future city-building plans, all of Chen Bai’s focus had been on gathering virus evolution points.

However, even with Song Ziqiong’s influence and connections, pulling these virus pathogens from various institutions had only allowed Chen Bai’s evolution points to reach 8!

There was nothing he could do!

It was the same issue as before.

Unless it was a special virus like the zombie virus, capable of self-evolution, possessing various abilities, and also recognized by the Cosmic Will as a form of evolutionary virus, other viruses, even if they contained some variation, provided far fewer evolution points upon repeated absorption—decreasing by several times, even a dozen times in some cases.

Beyond the initial sample, the evolution points they provided barely filled in the gaps.

Chen Bai even considered just giving up.

He wondered if he should shift his focus to awakening the evolution path of infectious diseases instead.

But in the end, Chen Bai held back.

The Darklight Virus was an advanced evolutionary virus, unlike the common diseases of infectious viruses; the difference between them was significant!

After two days, though, he was stuck at just over 8 points—just two points short, which was beginning to test his patience.

Hearing Chen Bai’s words, Song Ziqiong shook her head:

“We’ve gathered all the pathogens. No new variants or other rare and valuable pathogens have appeared.”

Chen Bai nodded and sighed helplessly. It seemed that for the last two evolution points, he’d really have to wait until the apocalypse fully broke out, when some special evolved forms of zombies appeared.

Only by obtaining the special evolved zombie virus could he complete those remaining points.

Thinking of this, Chen Bai couldn’t help feeling a bit disappointed.

Waving his hand, he returned to his room, spending a little time to clear his thoughts.

Then, he opened the group chat on his account. Compared to a few days ago, the group was now far more lively.

Over the past few days, as the apocalypse approached, some talented Evolvers were awakening further, and with less reason to go outside, people had more time to surf the internet.

This led some Pioneers to discover this unique forum!

And this time, among the newcomers to the group, Chen Bai finally saw some familiar faces from his previous life, besides the “Water Monarch.”

[Overlord]: @Bai, White Emperor, big brother, check this out for me! How did I do? Any room for improvement? 😎😎

[Overlord]: [Video]

[Your Han King]: Damn! Brother Overlord’s this badass?!

[Liu Huai]: 666

[Shui Chuan]: This kind of real man’s battle has nothing to do with me and Little Han!

[Yezi]: Truly impressive. Right now, aside from White Emperor, Brother Overlord might be the strongest, huh?

[True False Illusion]: This poor Daoist is quite envious!

[…]

In addition to Han Xiao, Shui Chuan, and Liu Huai—who was suspected to be the future “Ghost Mother of Ten Thousand Trees” in the service of Heaven—three new people had joined the group in recent days.

Among these three, the first speaker, Overlord, as well as Zhen Xu Zi, were famous figures from Chen Bai’s previous life.

This Overlord, known by such a nickname, had even been titled “Overlord” after he ascended to the level of an Emperor. Chen Bai didn’t know his real name—only that his surname was Xiang.

But whether he was truly a descendant of the historical Xiang Yu, the “Hegemon King of Western Chu,” was unknown.

The video Overlord had sent intrigued Chen Bai, raising his interest.

Overlord’s combat style seemed to resemble his own in some ways!

Just as Chen Bai was about to click on the video to have a closer look, there was a knock on his door.

Song Ziqiong walked in, visibly shaken.

“Something’s happened!”

Chen Bai shifted his attention away from the group chat, looking at Song Ziqiong with a hint of surprise on his face:

“What is it?!”

“A mutant has appeared in Jiangcheng! It was originally a big shot’s experiment on zombies, but when they were kept together, one of the zombies mutated and devoured all the others.

It then evolved into a special giant zombie, and regular bullets are completely ineffective against it. It ate up that big shot, along with the researchers, bodyguards, and workers!”

Song Ziqiong spoke with a touch of panic; Chen Bai had mentioned the terror of mutants to her more than once.

As for Chen Bai, his pupils suddenly contracted,

Then his eyes flashed with an intense, almost unimaginable joy.

…

666 means “that’s sick” in China internet slang.

@Bai – Bai means White, so you’ll find Chen Bai referred to as “Bai” and “White”.