"Huh? The apartment is closed?"
Luke and his group arrived below the Green Home apartment building and found the main gate tightly shut. Yoon Ji-su was quite puzzled.
"Someone died here; I smell blood," Emma sniffed, stating confidently.
Yulenka glanced at her. "How do you know that? Have you killed someone?"
Emma looked around evasively and stammered, "I haven't! I've only seen some injured animals."
"Then you must have done it," Yulenka immediately guessed the reason.
Emma neither admitted nor denied it.
If it weren't for Luke, she would have started a massacre long ago.
Being born evil is no joke.
Of course, Yulenka is not a good person either.
However, her methods are superior to Emma's; even when she kills someone, she can make sure others are completely unaware, ensuring no suspicion falls on her.
Cheryl, standing beside them, nodded expressionlessly and said, "There are monsters in the apartment building, and people have died."
Yulenka and Emma looked over simultaneously.
They exchanged knowing glances.
What a coincidence, none of them were good people.
Cheryl had killed many cultists in the Inner World, making her extremely sensitive to the smell of blood.
Upon hearing this, Yoon Ji-su immediately grew anxious and was about to step forward to open the apartment door.
"Be careful, there's a virus inside."
Luke stopped her, taking out an Undying magic Immunity talisman and handing it to Luna Snow.
Luna Snow accepted the talisman, and it transformed into a beam of light that merged into her body.
"What is this?"
"This talisman can grant you immunity to magic below a certain intensity. It can also keep you in peak condition at all times, allowing you to resist external abnormal intrusions, such as the virus in this apartment building."
Through a 3D stereoscopic map, Luke could see the text description of Green Home—this was an ordinary apartment building invaded by the Desire Virus.
The virus originates from "Sweet Home 2020 ‧ Horror series."
The method of transmission is unknown, but infected individuals will experience symptoms such as nosebleeds, hallucinations, abnormally low body temperature, and intermittent fainting over a period of time.
Once infected, there is no cure.
During the fifteen-day incubation period, the virus mutates based on a person's desires and obsessions, transforming humans into monsters with special abilities.
The horse talisman, reinforced to its latest version, can effectively remove the invading virus from the body, granting a different kind of "immunity."
"Thank you, this must be very precious, right?"
Luna Snow felt extremely embarrassed. When she heard that this talisman could even grant immunity to aging and natural death, she felt the talisman was burning hot in her hands.
Such a divine artifact, if placed in the outside World, those high and mighty big shots would definitely fight tooth and nail for it.
It wouldn't even be impossible for it to trigger a Third World War.
Just imagine, who could refuse the temptation of becoming immortal and invulnerable to all poisons?
If a certain ruler got his hands on it, he would become the King of Ten Thousand Ages!
Although Luna Snow really wanted the talisman, it was too precious, and she didn't dare to take it.
How could a small figure like her possibly possess something like this?
"Why don't you take it back? I don't have anything I can give you..." Luna Snow said nervously.
Luke waved his hand. "It's fine. It's just a small item manufactured in batches. I still have a huge pile of them here."
Yulenka rolled her eyes and laughed. "Sister Luna Snow, you don't need to refuse. We all have one of these talismans."
As she spoke, Yulenka extended her small hand, and an identical talisman appeared in her palm before immediately merging back into her body.
"If you feel uneasy holding the talisman, then just stick with us for the summer and help us out with a few things. Consider the talisman your reward."
Yulenka saw immediately that Luna Snow was Luke's next target.
There was nothing she could do; as a daughter, she had to put in extra effort and actively try to bring the two together.
What good was her mother, Jenny?
Luna Snow felt this made sense. Although she didn't think she could be much help, she shouldn't freeload, right?
Thinking this, Luna Snow volunteered to open the door.
Luna Snow pushed the door and found that the entrance to the Green Home apartment had been locked from the inside.
So she sprayed freezing air to ice the door. At extremely low temperatures, steel loses its toughness and becomes very brittle.
She gave it a kick, and the door shattered onto the floor with a bang.
Just as Luna Snow was about to step inside, heavy footsteps sounded from outside the door.
A Muscle Monster, at least five meters tall and entirely green, walked out from the other end of the street.
It had a grotesque smiling face, and fresh red blood stained the corners of its mouth, suggesting it had just finished feeding.
When the Muscle Monster saw Luke and the others near the apartment, it began striding, easily covering a distance of tens of meters.
Its legs were thicker than an elephant's, leaving no doubt that he could easily flatten a person with a single stomp.
"Let me handle this!"
The moment Luna Snow saw the monster appear, she stepped forward immediately. Without waiting for Yulenka to cast magic, she pushed her hands out, spraying cold air that froze those elephantine legs within two breaths.
However, this monster's physique was immensely powerful, and it broke free of the ice with a slight exertion of force.
Seeing this, Yulenka quickly threw a basketball-sized particle sphere. The blue electric orb slammed into the Muscle Monster's chest, only causing its movement to pause briefly.
The Muscle Monster looked down at its scorched chest, then looked at Yulenka and Luna Snow, curling its lips into a mocking smile before rushing forward again.
Luke recognized at a glance that this monster was the Muscle Monster from the original work, after having devoured many other monsters.
In life, he was a skinny, ordinary person. Because of his desire for a strong physique, he was affected by the virus and became the protein-craving Muscle Monster.
It could absorb protein and energy by devouring humans and other monsters, making itself taller, stronger, and bulkier.
Starting from just over two meters tall, it had grown to its current height of two stories.
It resembled a mountain of muscle, capable of easily lifting a sedan weighing several tons.
Just by looking at it, the Muscle Monster was even taller than Hulk and Abomination...
But the two were fundamentally incomparable.
No matter how strong the Muscle Monster was, it was only a carbon-based life form; artillery shells were enough to pose a threat to it.
Although Hulk and Abomination were smaller, they could grab missiles and play with them.
Luke didn't pay any attention to such a small monster.
Yulenka frowned, and magic energy surged from her palm toward a three-meter-tall humanoid stone statue nearby.
After being injected with activation magic, the statue blocked the Muscle Monster, engaging in the most primitive form of combat, trading blows.
However, because the statue was too "small," although its physique was hard, it was still at a disadvantage when facing the Muscle Monster.
Luna Snow assisted from the side, constantly releasing freezing air to restrict the Muscle Monster's movements.
Seeing that they still couldn't defeat the Muscle Monster,
"Yulenka, that's not how you use magic."
Seeing this, Luke decided to instruct Yulenka. With a wave of his hand, he used mental power to manipulate the surrounding stones, metal, and sand, mixing them into a humanoid creature.
If any other Transmigrators arrived, they would instantly shout out its name—Tiga!
Luke then injected a stream of activation magic to grant it life.
He followed up by injecting several more streams of magic, giving it certain magical abilities.
These methods were all sub-branches of the Merlin system of magic, and with Yulenka's talent, she could barely achieve this level.
In fact, this was already enough to defeat the Muscle Monster.
But Luke thought for a moment, then took out a Rat Talisman and injected it into the stone statue.
Instantly, Tiga flashed!
"Ha!"
The stone statue Tiga struck a classic fighting pose, but unlike Daigo, it didn't blindly rush forward for close combat.
Instead, it opened its hands and extracted light from its chest, forming a beam of light energy. Aiming at the Muscle Monster, and after a brief charge, it positioned its hands in an L-shape, unleashing a blinding ray that slammed directly onto the Muscle Monster's body.
The Muscle Monster had no chance to struggle. Its eyes were wide open, as if saying: Who uses their ultimate move right at the start? You have no martial ethics!
Bang!! The Muscle Monster shattered into pieces on the ground.
[Killed abnormal target Muscle Protein Monster. Gained 700 Anomaly Points. Current Anomaly Points: 1700 / 7000]
Yulenka was stunned. "So strong!"
"Want to learn?" Luke patted Yulenka's head.
Yulenka nodded heavily.
"Take this."
Luke took out a new Rat Talisman. "If you can later create a forty-meter-tall Tiga—that is, this humanoid Ultraman—and grant it the Rat Talisman, then it will be able to unleash at least city-level destructive power.
In the Ultraman Universe view, theoretically speaking, all combat-type Ultramen with names possess star-busting power.
This fake Tiga is certainly not as powerful as the original, but under the enhancement of the 7.0 version Rat Talisman, it still possesses all the weakened abilities of the standard Tiga, making city destruction easy.
Based purely on strength, it is enough to rival an ordinary Titan!
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