# Chapter 996: I Want to Be Friends with You
However, holding the iron bull in his arms, Wu Liang's expression stiffened!
A strange sense of moral transgression surged in his heart!
But seeing Miaomiao crying with tears streaming down her face like pear blossoms in rain, he still held her in his arms with pity!
The scene was quite beautiful for a moment!
But just then, Li Si looked at the roadside in horror!
Because there lay a corpse, covered in large shoe prints, and there was even a tire mark on its face!
The body was grayish-blue, emitting a rotting stench, clearly dead for who knows how long!
(•'口'•٥)☛ "He... this... you... sss—"
Li Si was momentarily at a loss for words!
The corpse was lying right by the roadside, and they didn't care about it?
Jiangnan asked in confusion: "Fourth Brother? What's wrong? Something happen?"
Li Si pointed at Zhang San's corpse, his face full of terror!
"You... you don't see it? There's a corpse right here!"
Jiangnan and the others all looked in the direction Li Si pointed, looking bewildered!
(๑·•᷄ࡇ•᷅)?
"What corpse? You're not hallucinating, are you?"
"Exactly, how could a corpse appear here? Stop messing around!"
Li Si panicked, rushed over, and lifted Zhang San's corpse!
(｡˘•口•˘)つ(#˘～˘#)
"It's right here! Don't mess with me!"
Liu Mang: (≖_≖)...
"That's the lamest joke I've ever heard!"
Li Si: !!!
No way? Can I alone see this corpse?
In an instant, Li Si's face turned pale. He swallowed hard, cold sweat pouring from his forehead!
Zhang San's spirit was incredibly uplifted!
Who is this brother? He can actually notice my existence?
Oh my god!
Is this the destined encounter?
At this moment, Zhang San almost wanted to cry. Lying here, run over by cars, stepped on by people...
Finally, someone noticed me!
I want to be friends with him!
The 24-hour death time is almost up. Wait for me!
Li Si's heart was panicking now, and he didn't dare move.
A corpse that only I can see?
Then what exactly am I holding?
Isn't this a ghost?
Just then, the side effect time passed, and Zhang San woke up.
His eyes were bloodshot from extreme excitement, glowing with a red light.
He whispered softly in Li Si's ear!
"You... can you see me?"
(☍﹏⁰٥)(›͡’～ಠ‹)
Li Si's body suddenly stiffened, his face ashen. He mechanically turned his head toward Zhang San!
The corpse... spoke?
Oh my god, he asks if I can see him?
This thing is definitely not human! How did such a dirty thing get into 097?
Li Si's legs trembled like small rubber bands!
His voice quivered hoarsely: "You... are you a ghost?"
Zhang San's tears immediately fell! He can really see me!
"I'm not afraid of ghosts, because ghosts have never hurt me a bit."
"I'm very afraid of humans, because humans have left me bruised all over."
Li Si's eyes were full of terror!
You're a ghost, so of course you're not afraid of ghosts! You're not afraid, but I am!
(‧̣̥̇͡ʘ口͡ʘ) "Ah—ghost!"
A high-pitched scream like a marmot echoed. Li Si pushed Zhang San away and ran off without looking back!
Zhang San panicked: "Why are you running? Don't run! I want to be friends with you!"
With that, he chased after Li Si!
Li Si cried as he ran, turning back and shouting!
O͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡╮(;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)╭O͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡ Aaaaah!
"Don't come near me, dammit!"
Everyone watched Li Si running away in tears, all looking stunned.
Could the parasitic spores also cause adverse mental effects?
They'd send him to the lab later for Yang Cheng to slice and study.
Jiangnan and the group headed to the lab. On the way, he reported the details of the operation to Guan Tai.
Guan Tai gritted his steel teeth!
"Blood bank? Damn it. No wonder there were reports of massive population disappearances from Rock Country. They must have all been caught and used as blood bags."
"The crux lies with that Fog Swamp Mother Vine. What is its purpose in sucking up so much blood?"
"Our understanding of the Mother Vine is still too limited. Without key information, we can't break the situation."
Shanmao nodded solemnly: "The Brahma Society is very tight-lipped. Even the ordinary high-ranking members don't know much about the Mother Vine."
"It's hard to get key information."
Jiangnan was also worried. That Vivian even committed suicide rather than be captured and reveal information about the Mother Vine.
The more they hide it like this, the more it shows something is wrong.
"Brother Tai, don't send any more Dark Night troops to Fan Country for now. Given the situation there, unless we send the Spirit Martial Force to sweep through."
"Otherwise, no matter how many people we send, they'll be drained by the blood vines. It'll just cause more casualties, and we still won't get the intel easily."
He himself was a space system with absolute mobility, and he almost didn't make it back.
Let alone the Dark Night Army.
Guan Tai worried: "But we must obtain information about the Mother Vine. We can't delay any longer, or else..."
Jiangnan grinned: "I cut off a piece of the Mother Vine's root and brought it back. First, send it to the lab for research. See if there's any progress."
"As for the Mother Vine intel, I'll make another trip to Fan Country later. Either I'll go straight to the Brahma Society's headquarters to take a look, or catch a prisoner for interrogation."
"Either way, I'll get it. Once we figure out the location of the blood bank and the Mother Vine's intel, we'll make a plan."
Guan Tai's eyes widened: "You... you got the Mother Vine's root system?"
How long had he been out? He destroyed a blood bank, rescued everyone, and even got the Mother Vine's root?
What terrifying efficiency is this?
We've been here for so long, tried every method, and haven't even seen what the Mother Vine looks like!
Jiangnan grinned: "I just cut off a little bit. But it should be enough for research."
Saying this, he pulled out the Mother Vine root, which was over seventy meters thick, from the alternate dimension and dropped it on the ground.
Guan Tai's mouth fell open!
"You call this 'a little bit'?"
This can't even fit in the lab!
Yang Cheng, wearing a white lab coat, was extremely excited. She pounced on the Mother Vine root!
Her pretty face flushed with excitement: "So much experimental material? This... this is amazing!"
"There's a lot of key information on the Mother Vine root. Maybe we can analyze the gene chain structure and find a way to break the situation."
She grabbed Jiangnan's arm and swung it back and forth, happy as a child.
"Nan Shen! You're awesome!"
Jiangnan puffed out his chest with pride.
(๑ᵔٹᵔ) "You see? By the way, I haven't asked you yet. Can the pig biscuit purify the parasitic spores in the air?"
Yang Cheng nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes! It's truly a miracle!"
"The air it sprays out, though still mostly chlorine-based mutated atmosphere, has all the parasitic spores purified out."
"But the atmosphere is circulating. To keep the air in 097 clean, we need at least three purification machines running non-stop for 24 hours."
Jiangnan frowned. The problem was that the zodiac biscuits were random. You never knew how many you'd have to eat to get the pig biscuit, and there were nasty side effects.
They could only have the brothers eat them one by one and try?
Then wouldn't 097 turn into a zoo?
Jiangnan hadn't drawn a lottery in quite a while. The resentment points in his system had accumulated nearly 20 million.
He wanted to save up to 30 million, draw all at once, and exchange for an upgrade card, in case the system reneged.
Once the little biscuits were upgraded, maybe he could choose what he ate.
There was still some distance to go to reach the goal. Jiangnan clenched his fist secretly—he'd have to be even more perverted.
"Hey? Where's Xiong Er?"
Guan Tai's face darkened at the mention.
"You mean that pervert bear? I had him arrested."
"I don't know what happened. After he was blown by the wind, he went around groping young girls. They all came to complain to me."
"I had no choice but to arrest him."
Jiangnan covered his face. God, a pervert bear? Xiong Er really plowed through the whole cabbage patch, huh?
"Let him go. The side effect time has passed."
"Also, tell the brothers and sisters at the outpost to watch their personal safety. There should be more perverts running around later."
With that, he took out a basket of zodiac biscuits.
Liu Mang: ???
"I'm not one of them, okay? Don't talk nonsense!"
In the end, ten reliable brothers were chosen to eat the zodiac biscuits in turns.
Until they got the pig biscuit, they would serve as human purification machines, continuously purifying the air for 097.
...
In the no-man's land at the border between Fan Country and Rock Country, mountains surrounded the area. Fog Swamp Blood Vines grew wantonly.
It looked no different from other places.
However, at the mountain pass, a large number of Brahma Society members were coming and going.
Truck convoys from Rock Country freely crossed the border and drove straight into the mountain pass.
The trucks carried large numbers of bound Rock Country personnel.
With the invasion of the Fog Swamp Blood Vines, Rock Country had long been unable to hold on. It was now only nominally existing.
Vivian arrived here. Every Brahma Society member he saw bowed their heads in respect.
Following the mountain pass deep inside, there was a huge underground space beneath the mountains.
The thick granite mountain body could even withstand a nuclear bomb impact.
This was a large underground military base built during wartime, now abandoned.
After expansion and renovation, it had become the Brahma Society's lair—Brahma Underground City.
Inside, all kinds of facilities were complete, everything you could need. Buildings were neatly arranged, not at all like a space dug out underground.
Vivian was familiar with the place and headed straight for the depths of the underground city...