A sleepless night.
Their First patrol was uneventful and without incident.
However, this was only the First patrol; as the saying goes, if you often stand by the river, how can your shoes not get wet? It's hard to say what will happen with more patrols in the future.
Zhang Shou drove the car to the parking lot near the school, then he went to eat breakfast. Yu Xian didn't need breakfast, so he went to school early.
"Xian Yu, you're early today."
Chen Ling, holding her phone, was reading gossip in the classroom. She looked surprised when she saw Yu Xian enter.
"Good morning, you're early too today."
Yu Xian sat in his seat and responded with a faint smile.
He placed his hand in the drawer, and with a thought, the silver threads quickly appeared, instantly weaving into a glove.
Compared to knitting sweaters with yarn, the Silver Blood-made silver threads were much easier to control. As long as he mastered the correct weaving method, he could weave any protective gear he wanted with a single thought.
He practiced repeatedly like this, silver gloves constantly appearing and disappearing on both hands, with increasing speed.
After he could weave a glove in 0.1 seconds, he began to extend the length of the glove.
"Xian Yu, do you know?"
Chen Ling suddenly turned around, blinked, and looked at Yu Xian curiously after speaking.
Yu Xian was clearly wearing his school uniform, which was blue, when he came in, but now he was wearing a silver trench coat, and even the vest inside the trench coat was silver.
"You didn't change clothes behind me, did you?" Chen Ling asked with a shocked expression.
Yu Xian retracted all the silver threads the moment Chen Ling blinked. Chen Ling only felt her eyes blur, and when she looked at Yu Xian again, she saw him in his school uniform.
"Did I not sleep well last night?" Chen Ling muttered to herself.
Yu Xian smiled and asked, "What were you trying to say just now?"
"Oh, right, do you know? The East Sea Dragon King announced that he will enter the field of protective gear for ordinary people, creating equipment that can withstand attacks from extraordinary individuals." Chen Ling looked suspiciously at Yu Xian's clothes, but still couldn't help gossiping.
The East Sea Dragon King was actually just a nickname.
His real name was Li Donghai, one of the direct descendants of Dragon Ancestor, and also a wealthy tycoon.
The famous East Sea Dragon Palace Group was Li Donghai's business. In the past, he only dealt with extraordinary individuals, but now it seems he intends to earn money from ordinary people as well.
"Probably just empty talk again," Yu Xian commented.
The East Sea Dragon King was a bigmouth; netizens jokingly called him the Big-Mouthed Dragon because he latched onto every hot topic.
Undoubtedly, he released this news purely to capitalize on Silver City's traffic.
"It's fake, huh?" Chen Ling sounded a bit disappointed when she heard that.
She actually really wanted to buy useful protective gear. Her parents had bought her pepper spray, bear spray, and a taser.
However, these things were only effective against ordinary people; they probably wouldn't do much against extraordinary individuals. If there were equipment that could defend against attacks from extraordinary creatures for sale, she would definitely be happy to buy it.
"Extraordinary equipment must be very expensive. Even with cost compression, it would probably cost millions."
"The material costs are right there, what do you think?"
Yu Xian knew very well how precious extraordinary materials were. Not even every extraordinary individual had a piece of equipment, let alone making it accessible to all ordinary people.
"Alright, I was naive. I shouldn't have believed the Big-Mouthed Dragon's words."
After hearing Yu Xian's words, Chen Ling completely lost hope. She held her phone, talking and typing simultaneously, clearly preparing to rant under Li Donghai's account.
Yu Xian smiled slightly at this, took out his phone, and continued to practice his knitting skills while opening the Kylin APP to see if there was any real big news.
"A Flying Corpse has appeared in Twin West Mountains and is currently being hunted. Members below Eagle Rank are advised to stay away from Twin West Mountains."
"The internal ranking assessment will begin on the First of next month. Members confident in improving their ranking should sign up as soon as possible."
"The Kylin Research Department has found a detection method for the Alienated Insect variant - Brain-Eating Neural Worm. A nationwide sweep will commence in three days."
Yu Xian's eyes lit up immediately when he saw the third trending piece of information.
About two days ago, he had seen related reports. At that time, scientists within Kylin had already thoroughly researched this new form of Alienated Insect and named it 'Brain-Eating Neural Worm'.
This was because this Alienated Insect variant would transform its body into a structure extremely similar to human brain nerves, then infiltrate the target's brain, replacing their nerves, much like a large number of tentacles tightly embracing a person's brain.
At this point, the host's brain was not dead, but all information received would be filtered by the Brain-Eating Neural Worm. Simply put, whatever the Brain-Eating Neural Worm wanted the host to see, the host would see; whatever it wanted the host to hear, the host would hear.
They would completely become puppets of the Brain-Eating Neural Worm, with no room for resistance whatsoever.
Moreover, once successfully parasitized by a Brain-Eating Neural Worm, although the person was still alive, there was essentially no difference from death, because most current methods could not guarantee the host's survival after separating the Brain-Eating Neural Worm.
After all, the Brain-Eating Neural Worm devoured the host's brain nerves, and without that portion of brain nerves, a person naturally could not survive.
Yu Xian was now both happy and worried. Happy because the country finally had a way to prevent the invasion of Alienated Insects and Brain-Eating Neural Worms.
Worried because this sweep would undoubtedly lead to many families facing a shattered outcome.
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Dog-head Gold Mountain.
This mountain was named because someone once discovered a huge Dog-head Gold here.
However, as extraordinary creatures became more numerous, the humans living near Dog-head Gold Mountain had long since relocated to the cities, and now it had become a paradise for animals.
In a man-made cave on the mountainside, various animals gathered together: wolves, bears, tigers, and even many humans.
Clearly, this was not normal; these creatures could not possibly coexist harmoniously.
Suddenly, the ground shook.
A three-meter-tall giant white ape descended from the mountaintop to the flat ground on the mountainside. It turned, tore open one of the cave walls, and looked at all the creatures, laughing, "This body is really something, it's exhilarating."
"Third Brother, don't break this body; it's an important tool for us," Zhou Tai said, sitting on a rock and swinging his legs.
A tiger nodded and said, "Indeed. It wasn't easy to get an extraordinary creature. If you ruin it, you're dead."
Extraordinary creatures were more sensitive; any foreign object invading their bodies would be detected, making it very difficult for Alienated Insects to parasitize extraordinary creatures.
However, after the disastrous defeat in Silver City, Zhou Tai clearly understood that relying solely on parasitizing ordinary people, the Alienated Insects would never develop.
Therefore, after discovering that this giant ape was a loner, he sacrificed a large number of Alienated Insects, exhausting the giant ape until it was utterly spent, only then successfully parasitizing and taking over its body.
Alienated Insects, after gaining human intelligence, were actually also afraid of death and found it very difficult to unite.
Now, with Zhou Tai as their leader, the Alienated Insects could act in unison. Even if they were afraid of death, they had to go, finally achieving a breakthrough from zero to one.
Once they parasitized more extraordinary creatures, perhaps they could surround the cities from the wilderness and ultimately achieve world domination.