Gu Hao thought at first that he had made a mistake and stared at it for a long time.

"What the hell is that?"

He was right, the pillar was really moving.

It's very slight. The problem is that they are still far apart. If they continue to get closer, they will probably move more obviously.

Although Gu Hao didn't want to admit it, as he got closer to the big pillar, he had a vague feeling that the pillar was alive.

"Too bad..."

Gu Hao calmed down and set off again.

After he realized that he would also be affected by the alienated area, he deliberately restrained his desire to fight and avoided fighting as much as possible.

Even so, the endless stream of strange beasts still hindered his forward speed. He didn't want to kill but had to kill.

……

More than a month later, Gu Hao came to Kyle's former hometown.

Ludaxi, a southern town in the old federation.

Gu Hao's impression of this small town still remains on the night when the alienated virus broke out, when he took Kelly to escape in the storm.

More than thirty years have passed, and everything in the small town has changed beyond recognition.

There are collapsed houses everywhere, and all kinds of ferocious alien plants grow out of the ground, entangling the buildings, making it impossible to see their original appearance.

There is a huge monster wandering on the street of the town. It has a human body, but there is no head on its neck. Instead, it has a deformed tumor, like a beating heart, and four hooves on its lower body.

The monster is very huge, like a hill. Every step it takes makes the ground vibrate. It has no hands, a bulging belly, and a mouth on it.

He opened and closed his mouth, spilling all kinds of rotten things in his stomach to the floor, and then stretched out his big tongue full of spikes to add it back.

"Moo~~~"

While eating, it leaked and made a strange sound, which sounded a bit like a cow's braying.

It wanders aimlessly in the town, devouring everything around it, even mud and rocks are his food.

Gu Hao frowned and quietly moved away from the monster.

After going deep into the south, there will be such a monster in many abandoned towns. They are like the leaders of an area, and their strength is comparable to the fifth stage of the alienated gene.

Based on the genetic hierarchy of humans, it is a perfect body.

But in Gu Hao's view, these guys are not perfect at all. It doesn't mean that their appearance does not match his aesthetics, but that they have no intelligence at all.

The wisdom that increases with the level of alienated genes does not apply to these boss monsters. They have great strength, but their thinking is extremely chaotic.

Once a boss monster appears, there will be no second alienated monster in the entire town, and even the lowest level monster will be devoured by them.

These guys seem to have no other concepts in their minds except eating.

Gu Hao has tried to fight these boss monsters before, and it can only be said that they are extremely difficult to deal with, even he finds them difficult.

After this month of intense fighting, Gu Hao has a clear judgment on his own strength.

John's physical body is a genetically enhanced fourth-stage body. Coupled with his martial arts consciousness, the strength he can exert is no less than that of a perfect fifth-stage body.

The actual combat power is between the perfect body and the ultimate body.

But if he wanted to completely kill a perfect monster, Gu Hao couldn't do it.

The brain of the perfect alien beast is not very good, but its strength is not weak at all. Even if it is reduced to a pulp, as long as there is still one cell that is active, it cannot be killed.

It won't take long for them to fully recover and there will be no fatal injuries.

As for where the energy for them to restore their bodies comes from, Gu Hao speculated that it was the alienated land beneath their feet.

As long as you are in the alienation disaster area, there is no way to completely kill the perfect alien beast.

They have an absolute home field advantage and can be resurrected indefinitely.

The opponent has a resurrection hook, and there is no way to fight the infinite resurrection. It is a complete waste of energy.

After understanding this, Gu Hao would take a detour every time he saw a perfect beast. Fortunately, these boss monsters have no thinking ability and can easily get rid of them.

Of course, saying it is easy means that the strength has reached Gu Hao's level. If the alienated person in the third stage of human genes encounters the leader of the perfect body, there will be no possibility of survival.

Gu Hao didn't know if he had the same ability on this land.

He didn't dare to try, because if he didn't, he would really be dead if he died.

Gu Hao bypassed the small town of Ludaxi, and a few days later...

He looked at the huge penis in front of him. No matter how many times he looked at it, his scalp still felt numb.

After nearly two months, Gu Hao finally arrived at the location of the Pillar of Babel. It was not until he got closer that he could really see what it was.

What kind of pillar is that? It’s just a huge tentacle!

The tentacles squirm and twist every moment, and there are countless suction cup-like holes on its surface. It continuously absorbs the gray mist in the air, and then spits out black particles.

This behavior is like breathing, happening all the time.

The black particles were spit out by the tentacles, drifted in the wind, and scattered on the ground like snow, gradually melting and seeping into...

As the penetration of black particles deepens, the earth changes, which is probably the fundamental reason for the formation of alienated disaster areas.

The tentacle is so big that it blocks out the sun and the sky. The closer you get, the less clearly you can see its full picture.

But when you get closer, you will realize that there are dark caves under its huge body, and alienated monsters are pouring out of the caves every second!

This tentacle not only alienates the planet environment, but is also the lair of alienated monsters.

Some of mankind's doubts now have answers...

Logically speaking, the emergence of alienated monsters requires other creatures as carriers. There is a total population of creatures in the southern part of the federation, and it cannot be infinite.

When all creatures become alienated monsters, where do alienated monsters come from?

The scene in front of him now solved Gu Hao's doubts.

The emergence of this tentacle makes the alienated monster no longer need other creatures as a carrier, but becomes a real species that can be produced through the mother nest.

There is no energy generated out of thin air in the world. As the mother nest of alienated monsters, tentacles must absorb nutrients in order to give birth.

Gu Hao looked at the disc on the surface of the tentacle that was constantly puffing out gray mist, and quickly figured out the various reasons...

Where does the gray fog in the sky come from?

It is the product of humans burning the corpses of alienated monsters, and these gray mist are the nutrients needed by the tentacles.

Humans kill alienated monsters, are burned and absorbed by this tentacle, and then transform into alienated monsters again.

No wonder humans have been unable to completely eliminate alienated monsters for so many years, and the frequency of alienated monsters is getting higher and higher year by year!

Human beings cannot leave the corpses of alienated monsters alone, otherwise the corpses will pollute the environment. Incineration is already the least harmful way of disposal.

And this is trapped in an endless cycle. The more humans kill alien beasts, the more nutrients the tentacles can get.

The process of absorbing nutrients through the tentacles is the process of alienating the planet, and it can also produce more alien beasts for humans to kill.

Absorb gray mist, swallow black particles, alienate the earth, give birth to monsters, kill monsters, burn corpses, turn into gray mist...

For tentacles, this is a perfect cycle.

It can be seen from the frequency of abnormal tides that the nutrients obtained by tentacles in this cycle are greater than the total number of alienated monsters killed by humans. This can explain why there are more alienated monsters year by year.

As for why this is the case?

Gu Hao believes that the key is that while the tentacles absorb the gray mist to produce alienated monsters, they are also assimilating the planet.

When the land is assimilated, the alienated monsters after birth can directly absorb some energy from the earth.

When the monster that absorbed the energy turns into gray mist after death, the energy will also be absorbed by the tentacles, allowing it to grow.

As the throughput of the tentacles increases, this cycle will eventually become unsustainable, but at that time it will no longer have anything to do with humans.

Because at that time, the planet had been completely assimilated by the tentacles, and all the nutrients of the planet had been absorbed, turning it into a lifeless death star.

Today, humans provide nutrients for the tentacles without knowing it, creating this terrifying monster.

Gu Hao made a sad discovery, so what if humans knew the truth?

Instead of hunting alienated monsters, wait for the alienated monsters to kill you?

Or should we not burn the monster corpses and let the environment be polluted to the point that it is unsuitable for human survival?

As long as human beings want to survive, they will inevitably fall into this cycle.

Before going south, Simon once told Gu Hao that the new federation had taken over all the nuclear weapons of the old federation and could use them as a final resort. The possibility of launching them was not ruled out if necessary.

Gu Hao looked at the tentacle in front of him that reached the sky and touched the ground, and sighed, what would happen even if all nuclear weapons were used?

He doesn't think the tentacles can be wiped out by relying on those nuclear weapons.

The New Federation should also know that alienated monsters have extremely strong adaptability.

Using the ultimate method may not work, and is more likely to speed up the destruction of the planet. Therefore, nuclear weapons have never been used to deal with alienated monsters in recent years.

The tentacle has grown, and it is an unsolvable existence for humans.
To be continued...