Gluttonous Warlock

Chapter 337 The Era of Catastrophe
According to Cato and Anne's understanding, humans are infected with Titan cells and develop to the cancerous stage, causing their body size to expand uncontrollably.

Until the late stage of cancer, the excessive reproduction of Titan cells bursts the host's unbearable body!
This process of gigantism is considered irreversible.

Until now, a living counterexample stood in front of them.

The mysterious young man across from him has clearly shown the characteristics of cancerous cell growth, so how can he still shrink in size?
Cato and Annie were filled with questions.

Allen put on his cloak and asked first:
"Cato, Anne, tell me what's wrong with the world."

"Uh... I can't explain this question in one or two sentences."

Cato forced a smile.

"Can you tell me first, what should I call you?"

Allen groaned and said slowly: "A year ago, when I came here, the memory in my mind was incomplete, and I even forgot my own name."

"I don't know who I am or how I got here, but I clearly realize that I came into this world with a sacred and great mission."

"My name is not important. What is important is that I will walk in this wasteland and save the suffering people."

"For convenience, you might as well call me 'Prophet'."

Allen had a deep look on his face, a solemn tone of voice, and a very good temperament, which made the two young people stunned.

"So...you are God's messenger, the Messiah?"

Annie asked cautiously.

"According to your religious habits, it is not a bad idea to understand it this way."

Allen said calmly.

"Okay then, Prophet, in order to facilitate communication, can we connect to the Internet first and add each other's address book friends?"

"In this way, I can package and send you the major news after the catastrophe through telepathy."

"Internet?" Allen frowned, "What network do you mean?"

"Of course it's the Titan Network! To be precise, it's an escapist network based on the Titan Network and the Free Agreement. We have separated from the Metropolis, and we can't continue to use the cursed Solomon Network and endure the perverted Solomon Agreement!"

Allen was speechless for a moment.

He understood every word Annie said, but when combined together they became incomprehensible.

Anne noticed that he looked confused and asked tentatively:
"You shouldn't...understand what Titan Network is, right?"

"I understand the literal meaning of the word, but I don't know how to connect to the Internet." Allen shrugged and spread his hands.

"It's very simple. As long as you use your mind to control the Titan cells in your brain, send out mental fluctuations, establish a spiritual link with me, and accept my guidance, you can enter cyberspace and apply for real-name registration."

"Cato and I both have the authority to approve registration."

"Although we don't know you well enough, I believe that you are not a minion of Salomon Company. We can skip the identity verification and help you register a network ID."

"After registering, as long as you stay focused and meditate, you can connect to the escape network at any time and get a simple operation interface. We call it the Titan system."

"The Titan system consists of several panels."

"For example, on the status panel, you can check your physical and mental data, superpowers, health status, especially the diffusion rate of Titan cells and whether there is a risk of cancer."

"Information panels include databases for querying publicly available information, public forums, and encrypted databases and forums that require special authorization to access."

"There is also a communication panel. You can add your friends' network IDs to it and you can conduct remote telepathic communication with your friends at any time."

The more Alan listened, the more surprised he became.

The "Titan Network" Anne describes sounds like the original Internet.

However, the Titan Network does not require network cables, nor does it rely on electromagnetic waves to transmit data. Instead, it connects to the Internet through the spiritual fluctuations emitted by the human soul.

Even the network terminal and operating system only exist in the user's brain, which is called the "Titan system".

This reminded Allen of his Taotie system.

I have to suspect that at the moment when I merged with the origin of the Ancestral Titan, some of the memories of my previous life were extracted, and combined with the memory fragments left by the Ancestral Titan in the original space, I gave birth to such a weird wasteland punk worldview!
"Prophet? Prophet? Are you okay?"

Seeing that he was in a daze for a long time, Cato couldn't help but call out.

Allen came back to his senses and shook his head calmly.

"Don't worry, I was meditating just now, and I vaguely felt a hint of divine enlightenment... Having said that, there are no Titan cells in my body. Can I still connect to your network if I use telepathy in other ways?"

"how can that be?!"

Cato raised his voice and shook his head.

"No one living in this wasteland can avoid being infected with Titan cells!"

"The infected person either loses their mind or spontaneously awakens telepathy..."

Cato suddenly thought of a possibility and couldn't help but widen his eyes:
"Wait a minute...are you crazy?"

How could an infected person lose the memory of the first half of his life and consider himself a savior if he hadn't gone crazy? !
Allen sighed and patiently explained:
"I'm not crazy, and I'm really not infected with Titan cells, believe it or not."

Anne and Cato looked at each other, still dubious.

"Prophet! If you are telling the truth, then you probably have the legendary special physique that can be immune to Titan cell infection, and you are a natural person!" Anne guessed.

The so-called "natural people", Allen could guess without asking, refer to humans who are not infected with Titan cells.

It is conceivable that in this wasteland filled with germs, infected people are everywhere, but natural people are extremely rare.

"But this cannot explain where the superpowers you possess come from?"

Cato questioned.

"After all, only those infected with Titan cells can evolve superpowers!"

"Superpower...you mean my stone giant form?"

Allen smiled and shook his head.

"That has nothing to do with Titan cells, it's an atavistic transformation."

"Atavistic transformation...?"

This time it was Cato and Anne's turn not to understand.

"Well... you can think of it as a manifestation of divine power."

Allen increasingly feels that playing the role of a stickman can provide him with a lot of conveniences.

"This is not an ability that only belongs to me. Anyone who is chosen by me and is willing to follow me on the road to salvation will also have the opportunity to obtain divine power."

"Believe me, you don't have to be infected with Titan cells, and you don't have to live in fear of pain and death. Through devout faith, humans can still gain the power to change their destiny!"

Cato and Anne were silent for a long time.

The face showed the inner shock that was difficult to conceal.

"Prophet... to gain the power you speak of, who should we believe in? Your God... or you?"

A strange light flashed in Anne's eyes.

"it's the same."

Allen looked solemn and slowly raised his right hand.

Point your index, middle and ring fingers toward the sky.

From this simple gesture, Anne realized the true meaning of the "Holy Trinity", and a look of enlightenment appeared in her eyes.

……

Two days later.

The engine filled with crystal cores drove the convertible and roared away from the ruins of Kangzhen.Cato is still responsible for driving.

Anne sat next to him, turning her head and glancing at the back row from time to time.

Cato glanced at his partner helplessly and reminded her in a low voice:
"The Prophet is meditating, you'd better not disturb him."

"If I were you, I would look to him at night for divine inspiration."

Annie heard that he was teasing her, and her face flushed.

"Stop talking nonsense! The one I'm looking back at is Phoenix. Aren't you curious? How can Titan Rooster become so small!"

Of course Cato knew that she was covering up and smiled without revealing it.

Allen heard the two whispering and turned to look at Phoenix, who was lying on the seat next to him.

Titan Rooster, who was experiencing driving for the first time, looked around with wide eyes, curious about the scenery passing by the window.

With the Phoenix's size, it would be difficult to squeeze into a Jeep.

However, with the help of the "Prayer Technique", it was just a piece of cake for Allen to temporarily turn it into the size of an ordinary rooster.

Withdrawing his gaze, Allen sat back in the back seat, closing his eyes and concentrating, while his brain was running at high speed.

Cato and Anne told him a lot about the world during the two days they were in town.

Some of the events are related to Allen's past life memories, but if you dig deeper, you will find a lot of details about the magic modification.

Allen had to admire the imagination of the ancestor Titan.

Add hundreds of millions of details to the memory fragments of a scaly claw, and use the theme to create a hodgepodge with a unique flavor!
According to this timeline of the magical transformation of the earth, 23 years ago, an extraterrestrial meteorite code-named "Titan" crashed into the Western Pacific.

The multinational company Dusen Consortium salvaged meteorite fragments and launched a series of studies.

The person in charge of the project, Dr. Solomon, is said to be the son-in-law of the consortium chairman.

With funding from his father-in-law, the Solomon Institute was founded.

Cooperate with old classmate Professor Butler to extract the cellular tissues of alien organisms from meteorite fragments.

This is the original sample of "Titan cells".

Ten years of research led to a series of surprising conclusions.

Almost all animals and plants on the earth can be parasitized by Titan cells, assimilated and transformed into Titan creatures.

During the transformation process, the body or spirit of the creature will be strengthened to varying degrees.

Become incredibly strong, incredibly agile, or awaken to supernatural abilities like telepathy.

However, while Titan cells promote biological evolution, they also bring a fatal curse.

Titan cells in living organisms, if not restrained, will spread like cancer cells.

People who are severely infected with Titan cells enter the cancerous stage, become huge and crazy, and lose their humanity, leaving only an insatiable appetite and violent impulses.

After comparing a large number of samples, the research team led by Dr. Solomon and Professor Butler came to an empirical rule:
Once the proportion of titan cells in an infected person's body weight exceeds 10% of the body weight, the cancer will become irreversible!

The Titan cells in the cancerous person's body continue to spread and expand in size until they spread throughout the body and usher in death.

The corpse of the deceased is likely to self-destruct, ejecting a large number of Titan cells from the body, like dandelion seeds, scattered in the wind, looking for the next host to parasitize.

……

Cato and Annie's descriptions of Titan cells reminded Alan of the Warlock bloodline.

In the world of warlocks, the purity of extraordinary blood in the human body does not exceed 10%.

Those born above 10% are not considered human.

Breaking through 10% the day after tomorrow often means becoming possessed.

From this perspective, those infected with Titan cells are actually warlocks in a broad sense.

However, the extraordinary bloodline given by Titan cells to infected people is a dangerous double-edged sword.

If left unchecked, it will eventually slide into self-destruction.

……

Thirteen years ago, an accident occurred at the Solomon Research Institute.

An experimental body code-named "Titan Primarch" lost control, broke through the protective device, and caused crazy destruction.

When it was finally subdued, the institute had been devastated.

140Four scientific researchers collectively fell into a coma.

No one knows what the Titan Primarch did to them.

From that day on, these victims never regained consciousness and all became vegetative.

Toussaint used its vast financial resources and political influence to cover up the truth about the accident.

However, a large number of Titan cells have escaped from the ruins of the institute.

In just two weeks, it spread to countries all over the world.

The situation spiraled out of control.

The rapidly spreading epidemic finally led to a doomsday catastrophe.

Within a year, almost all of humanity was infected with Titan cells.

At that time, there was no effective way to curb cancer, and the vast majority of infected people died of self-destruction within two years.

Survivors fled the epidemic area and went into exile, and social order completely collapsed.

The whole world fell into chaos of burning, killing and looting...

Human society has since entered the "Era of Catastrophe".

In just over a decade, the global population has plummeted by 99%.

At the same time, Dr. Solomon discovered an opportunity to prosper from the catastrophe.

Based on his research results, Dr. Solomon announced the first generation of cancer inhibitors.

Using this life-saving drug, a large number of infected people who awakened superpowers were controlled.

Immediately afterwards, Dr. Solomon replaced his father-in-law and became the helmsman of the Duson Group.

It is said that Dr. Solomon married the eldest lady of the Dusen Group and became his son-in-law in order to obtain scientific research funds.

Now that he has the power, he no longer needs to hold his tail between his legs and be a good person. He simply kicks away the women who are getting in the way and reorganizes the board of directors in a drastic way.

Toussaint Corporation became Salomon Corporation.

The metropolis where the company's headquarters is located has still preserved basic livelihood facilities despite the disaster, and has become a refuge for many disaster victims.

The Solomon Company replaced the government and replaced the police system with mercenaries, firmly controlling the wasteland city and the millions of residents living in the city.

To this day, there are hundreds of such shelters built on urban ruins around the world.

Either they accept the high-pressure rule of the chaebols like Metropolis and can barely maintain social order.

Or worse, it has become a Shura field where gangs and even warlords fight.

Outside the shelter, the vast no-man's land and the ruins of towns from the old era are occupied by all kinds of strange Titan beasts.

The ruins of Kangzhen, where Allen has lived in seclusion for a whole year, is one of the not-so-special examples.

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