The Old President of the Alliance personally visited Pupil City, urging everyone to avoid monopolistic practices and suppression among the aristocratic families. He emphasized the need for unity and to rally all forces that could be united to resist the Evil Gods. However, many families continued their covert and overt manipulations. In response, the Old President divided Pupil City, excluding the central area, into twenty-eight special administrative districts, assigning their management to the aristocratic families.
The goal was to see who could manage well and who would falter.
Out of the twenty-eight districts, only ten families heeded the Old President's advice. The rest either suppressed the common people or treated them as less than human.
The Old President's wrath descended like a thunderbolt, and in a single night, eighteen families were obliterated.
Among these eighteen families, seven were millennia-old clans with Epic Bloodline Talents, yet they were still annihilated.
Now, the ten major families managing the districts are trembling with fear, taking their responsibilities seriously, and are extremely cautious not to provoke the Old President.
"Dusha District Second Women and Children's Hospital."
Li Cunxu looked at the sign and snorted coldly.
Other districts had only one women and children's hospital, but Dusha District had two.
The first was a standard women and children's hospital, while the second specialized in abortions.
Dragons are inherently lustful, and so are snakes.
The Medusa Family had a rather poor reputation in that regard, leading to a trickle-down effect that made Dusha District particularly liberal, with a high number of abortions.
Li Cunxu donned a Human Skin Mask, changed into a set of clothes, and disguised himself as a middle-aged man, anxiously walking into the hospital, seemingly aimless.
He wasn't truly wandering aimlessly; his real purpose was to scout the location.
"What? You didn't go for an abortion? You lied to me? Idiot, this is not something to joke about."
After scouting and familiarizing himself with the hospital's layout, Li Cunxu, disguised as the middle-aged man, pretended to receive a phone call and hurriedly left.
As night fell, the sky turned ink-black, and the bright moon hung high above the hospital. The cold moonlight filtered through sparse clouds, casting mottled shadows on the hospital's white walls and towering spires. The dim interior lights contrasted with the external darkness, seemingly hiding unknown secrets.
In the hospital lobby, occasional night-shift nurses hurried by. Li Cunxu, cloaked in an Invisibility Cloak, moved with Lightness, wearing Silent Step Shoes, and headed towards a little-known elevator in the corner.
There were four elevators, and Li Cunxu entered the fourth one.
He looked at the elevator buttons.
The first and second basements were parking lots.
The third basement was the morgue.
The third basement was supposed to be the lowest level, but in reality, it wasn't. This hospital concealed a fourth basement.
Li Cunxu took out the Blood Demon Jewel, activated its Bloodfiend Disguise, and the aura of a Blood Cultist filled the elevator. The button to the fourth basement appeared.
This step was crucial. Without the Blood Demon Jewel revealing the button to the fourth basement, Li Cunxu's plan would be impossible to execute.
The elevator descended to the fourth basement, and the doors opened.
What greeted him was a massive pool of dark red blood, quietly flowing. Tiny bubbles continuously rose from the bottom of the pool, popping on the surface. Pale infant bodies floated silently in the blood. The air was thick with the metallic smell of rust, a stench of blood and decay intertwined.
This was the Blood Infant Pool, filled with the remains of countless aborted infants.
In the game, Li Cunxu felt nothing upon seeing the Blood Infant Pool, knowing it was fake. But in reality, an unquenchable rage surged within him.
The Blood Cultists truly deserve to be torn limb from limb.
The creation of the Blood Infant Pool was naturally the work of the Blood God Sect. They aimed to summon the Blood Infant God Child under the Scarlet Blood God, thus colluding with abortion clinics.
The high abortion rate in the Dusha District was not only due to the overly liberal atmosphere of the Medusa Family but also because of the Blood God Sect's covert activities, which induced young girls to mature early, become pregnant, and then have abortions.
However, the Blood God Sect's dream of summoning the Blood Infant God Child would never come true.
Because the Blood Infant God Child had already been secretly killed by the Old President, something even the Scarlet Blood God was unaware of, let alone the Blood God Sect.
"The elevator door opened. Is the delivery here?"
"No one came out. Why did the elevator door close again?"
"Go check it out."
The Blood Cultist Foreman threw down the playing cards in his hand and pointed at the Blood Cultist Thug who had won money from him.
Li Cunxu, cloaked in his Invisibility Cloak, observed the four figures in their blood-red robes. Only one of them had a bloodstain on his chest.
No bloodstain on the robe signified a Black Iron level, while one bloodstain indicated a Bronze level...
The Blood Infant Pool was guarded by only one Bronze-level Blood Cultist.
Li Cunxu was somewhat surprised. Originally, he had planned to use the Blood Demon Jewel to disguise himself as a Blood Cultist, but now it seemed unnecessary.
Recalling the peculiarities of the Blood Infant Pool, Li Cunxu understood why there was only one Bronze-level Blood Cultist guarding it.
The Blood Infant Pool was a gathering place for the Grievance Energy of countless infants, which had coalesced into a curse.
The Blood Infant Curse.
Once ensnared by the Blood Infant Curse, one would become pregnant, consuming a vast amount of life force to nurture a Blood Infant.
After ten months of gestation, the Blood Infant would tear open the pregnant person's belly and then devour them.
The Blood Infant Curse was uncontrollable, indiscriminate, and would affect everyone, even the Blood Cultists themselves.
Even Silver-level Blood Cultists, though the Blood Infant posed no threat to them, did not want to experience the ordeal of pregnancy.
The Blood Cultist Thug stood up to investigate, opened the elevator door, and peered inside but found nothing.
"Boss, nothing unusual."
"Who?"
As soon as the words were spoken, the Blood Cultist Foreman turned his head and spoke quickly.
A smooth Burst Bead suddenly appeared and struck the Blood Cultist Foreman's chest. A searing light erupted from the shattered bead, and red flames instantly engulfed the three, with a shockwave sweeping through the area.
Hearing the explosion, the Blood Cultist Thug froze, immediately realizing there was an attack. He also realized that there were no high-level experts stationed at the Blood Infant Pool; they were all up in the hospital. The Blood Infant Pool was covered by a Concealment Array, so the outside world couldn't hear anything. He had to go up and notify them immediately.
"Xiao Ruan, Grass Blade."
Sensing the threat behind him, the thug turned around, his pupils contracting sharply. Whose Grass Blade was two meters long?
The Grass Blade swept across, and the thug's head fell as easily as an apple.
"Silver Sword."
Xiao Ruan's chubby little hand threw out a silver-white sword, which embedded itself in the thug's head.
The Silver Sword had a decapitating effect on undead creatures with extremely low health, and the Blood Cultists' physiology was similar to that of vampires, both belonging to the undead category.
The smoke from the explosion gradually dissipated, revealing the bodies of the three Blood Cultists, including the Bronze-level Foreman, scattered everywhere, with limbs strewn about.
Looking at the Blood Infant Pool filled with bones, Li Cunxu curled his lips, thinking they got off too easily with such a quick death.
As the smoke cleared, the figure of a two-meter-tall Ironhide Pig emerged.
The Ironhide Pig bore no signs of burns from the explosion; it had been released a second or two after the Burst Bead detonated.
When a Beast Tamer dies, their Beast Taming Space will shatter. If the Pet Beasts are not released in time before death, they will be swept into the spatial turbulence. There is a high probabili
ty that they will be torn into countless fragments, and a small chance they might survive and be randomly transported to another location.