The massive pig was sliced into countless pieces in the blink of an eye. The scene turned bloody and messy in an instant.
"Are you sure the mutant vampire leeches won't get chopped to death too?" Jing Shu sounded a little worried.
"They won't. They're basically immortal. At most, their bodies get cut into a few pieces, but they'll recover after a while by infusing themselves through their antennae. Just like what you saw before. This trait is both their strength and their weakness.
You can think of it like a cicada shedding its shell. After they mate, they pump all their nutrient fluid and bodily fluid into a newly formed body. They keep producing new bodies that suit them. No matter how many times they're chopped up, they can live on without any loss. But their weakness is that they can't reproduce the next generation."
The staff member sighed again and shook his head.
Jing Shu, on the other hand, suddenly thought of a lot of things, especially those creatures she ran into in the United States during the competition. Those were immortal too, or even more twisted. In the end, Xiao Dou had eaten them clean while pooping at the same time.
But those things were disgusting, and the price for immortality was way too high. They were nothing but rotting corpses with no chance of being tamed. They were just piles of meat made up of trillions of bacteria that kept themselves alive.
So Jing Shu's curiosity toward the mutant vampire leeches grew.
"Alright, once the space shrinks, we can take them out." The staff member grew even more cautious and reminded her, "Never let these leeches get close to you. Don't give them any chance. You must raise them in a completely sealed environment."
The large space began to shrink like four bulldozers pushing inward from every direction. Soon, all the chopped pig pieces were pushed into a narrow space.
The mutant vampire leeches seemed to sense danger and started frantically absorbing the broken meat.
The chunks of meat shriveled up visibly.
The staff member removed all the dried husks of meat, leaving behind two soft creatures that were much smaller than the original leeches. Their whole bodies were covered in antennae. They no longer looked like shell-less snails. Even though they'd been chopped up, their bodies filled back up through fluid infusion.
It looked magical.
And at this moment, when she looked at them again, they didn't seem scary at all. Jing Shu even felt they looked better than the huge ones she saw earlier.
Maybe it was because they didn't have weird bumps. Maybe it was because their pure black skin didn't look nasty but instead had a sleek, polished feel.
The staff member placed the two mutant vampire leeches inside a sealed glass container and handed it to Jing Shu with a very serious expression.
"This glass container is a special instrument. Normally, you just open this latch to feed them. But no matter what, don't ever let curiosity make you release them. Once they latch onto you or burrow inside your body, there's no way to get them out. Not even surgery can remove them. Once that happens, all that waits for you is death."
He'd personally watched several teammates die after being sucked dry by these leeches.
Because of their traits, even if someone was fully anesthetized and emergency surgery began, even if they cut off the entire piece of flesh the leech was in, or even sawed off the entire leg, it still didn't help.
"Once they start feeding, or even just inject their fluid into the target's body, billions of tadpole-like particles will swim throughout the body in no time. They'll be ready at any moment and will sacrifice themselves to fill up the leech's new body with nutrients. If you force them apart, the mutant vampire leech will go berserk and drain every bit of energy until it turns the target into a dried corpse. But if they're well fed, they can go a long time without eating. We tested it. Even without any food for three months, they survived."
The staff member recalled his darkest memories. Fear flickered in his eyes. These things were devils.
Jing Shu raised a brow. "Damn, they're that strong?"
"Remember everything I said. If you don't, the only outcome is death, and it'll be miserable."
Jing Shu nodded like a pecking chicken. "Thank you, thank you. I'll be careful."
She accepted the two ugly black creatures. They looked harmless, but according to the staff member, they were the most dangerous beings here.
Jing Shu's eyes began to gleam. It seemed this trip to the capital wasn't a waste at all. As for the real value of these creatures, she shook the glass container lightly. That depended on how well she could make use of them.
The staff member jumped in shock and quickly steadied the container. He had never guessed this woman would be so reckless. He warned her again, "Be careful."
"Alright, alright." Jing Shu put the container inside a box. The moment she closed the lid, she stored it inside her space.
The staff member was right. With something this dangerous, storing them anywhere else was much less safe than keeping them in her space. Inside the space, she was the only ruler. She could study them as much as she wanted.
Jing Shu's expression grew distant. Almost all her attention was already inside the space. As for the confidentiality and liability forms she had to sign outside, she completed all of them on autopilot.
When she finally walked out of that heavy, prison-like place, the driver uncle waiting at the door greeted her. "All done?"
Jing Shu snapped out of it and smiled, nodding.
"Then let's go." The driver uncle turned back to the car, then glanced at her again. "Huh, I was only gone for a bit, and you changed into new gloves? They look nice and thick. I should get a pair for my girl too. She gets frostbite every winter."
"Right? They really feel thick. I guess I won't have to worry about frostbite anymore." Jing Shu lowered her head, smiling at the mutant vampire leeches wriggling in her palms.
Even she hadn't expected that this trip to the capital, aside from getting tons of items, rewards, and even the pharmaceutical rights, would end with her getting what was supposedly a top-tier dangerous creature that could masquerade as a self-heating glove.
Of course, the self-heating glove was only one of the mutant vampire leech's features. This little trick was something she'd just discovered.
Wearing gloves powered by mutant vampire leeches was basically like giving herself extra insurance. Jing Shu spent a long time thinking about how to use them to fill in the gaps in her combat strength and daily life.
So now let's to talk about what had just happened inside the space.