Subsequently, Hu Qi followed the others and returned to the floor where the female Black Blood Species corpse was located.
“Based on the comparison of the Black Blood concentration in their bodies, these two should have just recently transformed.”
The woman named Zhang Lian squatted down.
She pulled out a test strip, similar to a pregnancy test, from her 懷中.
As one end of the strip was dipped into the dark red blood on the ground, it quickly began to change color.
Zhang Lian looked at the degree of color change on the test strip and explained in a low voice.
“Does that mean that the Lower Black-Blood Species is very likely still in Qirong City?”
Helinta’s gaze was sharp, and an invisible red glow seemed to leap around her body.
It made the surrounding air feel scorching, like a furnace.
Walking down floor after floor and seeing one dead body after another made her expression increasingly grim.
“Find it for me! Find that guy, I’m going to tear its tendons and peel its bones!”
A cold voice, as if squeezed from between her teeth, rang out.
The expressions of the others changed slightly, and they quickly nodded in agreement.
Afterward, the others walked around and inspected the area again, confirming that the facts were indeed as Hu Qi had stated.
After confirming that the cause of death for these people was indeed due to the Black Blood Species.
Helinta then had Lin Tong take Hu Qi away first.
The two walked out of the residential area.
They arrived at the intersection.
“How about it? Where are you going now?” Lin Tong turned to look at Hu Qi.
“Why don’t you crash at my place for a bit?”
It seemed that with Helinta gone, his expression relaxed a lot, and he talked more.
“No, that’s too much trouble for you. Any hotel will do.”
Hu Qi smiled. He had too many secrets, and he personally didn’t like living with others.
Then, he changed the subject.
“By the way, Senior Apprentice Lin, could you tell me more about the Black Blood Species in detail, for example, where do these things come from?”
Hearing this, Lin Tong shook his head.
“This is too complicated to explain, and there might be omissions.
I’ll send you the information about the Black Blood Species in a bit, you can read it yourself, and ask me if there’s anything you don’t understand.”
“Alright, thank you, Senior Apprentice Lin.”
Hu Qi couldn’t say anything more about that.
“Don’t be so polite.”
While the two chatted briefly, Lin Tong drove the car to their destination.
This was a hotel near the Red Scale Club.
It should have been intentional on Lin Tong’s part.
After reminding Hu Qi to call if anything happened, Lin Tong stepped on the gas, the wheels turned, and he drove away.
Hu Qi watched the disappearing car lights and the dark street, carrying the bag with the Zhangcha Duck, and turned to enter the hotel behind him.
The hotel was very large and very expensive.
After paying the deposit, Hu Qi took the elevator all the way to his room on the 32nd floor.
After a quick shower, Hu Qi dried the water off his body with a bath towel.
At this moment.
Although it was only around four in the morning, due to the summer season, the dark sky had already faded and turned a deep blue, with a faint hint of dawn appearing on the horizon.
Hu Qi drew the curtains, turned on the air conditioning, lay on the bed, pulled out his phone, and began to check the data files Lin Tong had sent.
The file was not large, only a few megabytes, and it downloaded quickly.
Hu Qi opened it and began to browse through it.
Most of it was text, with occasional hand-drawn illustrations or pictures interspersed within.
Contrary to Hu Qi’s imagination, it didn’t start with information about the Black Blood Species.
【More than a hundred years ago.
Earth Star was in an era where the Purple Gold Empire and the Dragon Abyss Empire were divided.
Many small countries in that era either became vassals of the two Empires or were destroyed.
At that time, people were experiencing a gold rush.
The largest gold mine was located near Qika County in Trabum Province of the Purple Gold Empire.
Initially, when this gold mine was discovered, due to the large reserves of copper Ore in the upper layers, it was always mined as a copper mine by the locals.
It wasn’t until more than ten years later, when the upper copper Ore was almost exhausted, that the huge gold mine hidden beneath was discovered.
Subsequently, large-scale mining began.
The proven gold reserves exceeded ten thousand tons, and the gold content per ton of Ore was: grade 5.1 g/t.
With such a high ratio, countless people went crazy for it.
Facing profit, human hearts can never be satisfied.
Through continuous mining, the depth of the mine shafts also became deeper and deeper.
Finally, the total length of the tunnels and inclined shafts reached 9000 meters, making it the deepest of all mines.
A round trip from the surface to the bottom of the mine took nearly 6.7 hours, and it usually took miners about three hours to descend from the surface to the deepest part of the mine.
However, the gold within not only did not decrease, but as the depth increased, the proportion of gold contained in the Ore became even higher.
But just as the depth reached ten thousand meters, a sudden anomaly occurred.
Miners who entered it mysteriously disappeared, neither seen alive nor found dead.
The only clue was a few pieces of Ore soaked in blood on the conveyor belt.
As the mine with the largest gold content, when such a situation occurred, the Purple Gold Empire immediately organized personnel from relevant departments to investigate thoroughly.
But in the end, there was no news, as if those investigators had also disappeared into the mysterious and unpredictable bottom of the mine.
A few days later, nearly a thousand people stationed outside were all killed or injured.
It was only then that people discovered the culprit behind all this: a monster from the Earth Core World. They were indistinguishable from ordinary people in their normal state, the only difference being that the stronger the monster, the closer their blood was to Black Blood.
Therefore, they were named Black Blood Species.】
Below, there was also an old photograph.
It was a blonde man dressed in coarse linen clothes.
At first glance, he looked no different from an ordinary person, but upon closer inspection, one would notice black bloodstains still clinging to the corners of his mouth.
Compared to the reference objects next to him, his Physical Body was excessively tall.
And on the ground beside him lay some tragically dead bodies.
Below the photo were a few lines of handwritten notes.
【Krov, the first Lower Black-Blood Species discovered. His Physical Body was extremely sturdy and could withstand ordinary bullet shots.
He could tear a person in half with ease and smash through thick walls made of concrete with a single punch.
Eventually, he was killed only after the Purple Gold Empire mobilized several tanks and nearly a thousand fully armed soldiers.
After his death, his body was divided among various countries for research, providing a huge sample for the Late Stage research of the Black Blood Species.】
【And the above is not an isolated case.
As time went on, the number of Black Blood Species discovered also increased.
Knowing that these Black Blood Species had no possibility of peaceful coexistence with humans.
Facing these monsters that preyed on all humanity, the Dragon Abyss and Purple Gold Empires had no choice but to put aside their grievances and hatred for each other and jointly established the Xi Ya Federation.】
The more Hu Qi read, the more solemn his expression became. Immune to bullets, only able to be killed by missile bombardment?
And this was not even the strongest.
According to the known information.
The strength of the Black Blood Species, from lowest to highest, is divided into: Blood Slave, Lower, Middle, and Upper.
And the Black Blood Species named Krov described above could only be considered a Lower Black-Blood Species among the Black Blood Species.