Latent Syndrome

Chapter 75 75. Swamp Culture

Eugene held his hands to his lips and exhaled hot air to keep warm. The temperature in this damn place was extremely low, and she didn't dare to walk around for fear of stepping on some weird white bugs that would burst out with disgusting juice and splash on her clothes.

She is quite fond of this outfit.

"Hmm...that's incredible."

Liszt expressionlessly cut open an insect that was longer than a mineral water bottle with the dagger he carried with him. The blade cut through the wrinkled and black-spotted skin, exposing the rich tissue inside.

"What are you doing……"

Eugene's pretty face looked like he had eaten a lemon, his eyes squinted and his facial muscles twitched upwards, which really made her sick.

"It's just that this creature is so amazing."

"You see, it just has a primitive digestive circulation cavity and will vomit out food residues, which satisfies the characteristics of a coelenterate."

"At the same time, its movement is not just based on the contraction of the wrinkled epidermis. It has many body segments, flagella and warped feet to assist in movement, which also meets the characteristics of annelids."

"Well... look at this. This is the prototype of flying wings. It's an amazing structure. Can it still fly? They are the larvae of even weirder animals."

Liszt made this judgment.

"Please, stop talking."

Eugene retched, his face full of discomfort, Liszt's perversion was far beyond her imagination.

When Liszt stood up with the knife, the knife covered in filthy liquid passed by Eugene and almost touched her. She quickly took several steps back.

"It's actually clean."

Liszt wiped the liquid on the blade with a paper towel and shook it off. He burned the blade with a lighter and put it back into the knife holster on his waist without warning.

"Can you stay away from me?"

Eugene was extremely disgusted. When he first saw Liszt, he thought he was a serious man. This guy was too perverted, whether it was his mathematical logic or behavior.

"It has been wiped dry and disinfected with high temperature. Even if there are still some germs remaining, they have lost their activity and are harmless."

He said extremely seriously.

Eugene was too lazy to talk to him. What he understood as clean was fundamentally different from what he understood.

The two of them explored deeply, and an hour or two passed quickly.

Because the surrounding trees are relatively tall, the dark green lush leaves cover the sky, and the sky cannot be seen at all, because the visibility is even worse due to the thick fog.

This lingering thick fog is not white. Since there is no light shining on it, it is just darkness caused by erosion, invisible darkness.

As we continued deeper, the visibility became worse and worse, and there was a lingering nauseating stench in the air. The plants and trees here were instinctively disgusting, and Liszt had to take off the small spare flashlight.

Click.

Eugene accidentally stepped on something, and the atmosphere was already a bit depressing, so she was startled and ran away quickly.

Liszt looked with a flashlight and saw that it was an iron road sign that had been corroded for a long time. After wiping away the dirt and slime on it, although the white characters on the red background had become mottled and blurred, the information could still be barely discerned.

It had a cute logo of a cartoon animal, but it was too mutilated to tell whether it was a marmot or some kind of rodent, and the letters spelled out Welcome to White Rock.

"This is Baishi Town?"

Eugene was extremely shocked. It was hard to imagine what kind of fierce people would live here. He must be a warrior who was no less powerful than the infected.

"Hmm...I probably understand."

"The speed of light here is different from the outside world. I can capture that this is an independent world isolated from the real world."

Even Liszt's expression also changed somewhat.

"What the hell? Does it mean we are not on Earth now?"

This is how Eugene understood it.

"That's not the case. This is indeed White Rock Town, but it is not a town in the real world, but one that was polluted by the abyss."

Liszt carefully considered his words to explain to Eugene.

"Wait a minute...you mean, the abyss can not only infect people, but also...this is outrageous, and it can also infect a certain place?"

Although this statement is a bit perverted, Eugene changed his previous aversion to this place, because patients with abyssal syndrome will feel familiar with the abyss.

"I didn't say that. You misunderstood me."

"I remember telling you that Richard Dawkins proposed the concept of a meme, which is a basic unit of culture that is passed on not through inheritance but through imitation."

"Society and civilization are formed through communication, historical processes, intellectual symbols, and finally a spiral of silence forming a symbolic concept with a huge memetic unit, which is the symbolic world."

"When multiple memetic units of the same concept are superimposed..."

Liszt hasn't finished speaking yet.

"speak English."

The situation was already bad, and having to listen to this weirdo's nonsense made it even worse for Eugene.

"This is Baishi Town, but not exactly. Do you know the so-called other world?"

“A concept created by film and television culture, but also different.”

Liszt continued in the most popular language: "Do you know the difference between S-class infected people and other infected people?"

He believes that the information conveyed must be accurate at such moments in order to increase the survival rate.

Eugene shook his head.

Lister added: "Because they dive too deep and deviate too far from the symbolic world, they have a strong individual will and they are already a symbol, and they do not belong to the material world and the spiritual world at the same time, because of this will It is too strong. In addition to the wounds in the real world that the abyss has opened on them, they themselves can also open wounds in the real world and form something called the symbolic realm, which is why they are so powerful."

"In layman's terms, it is the evolution of visions and abilities, but sometimes it is also a kind of degradation. Many quasi-S-infected people will be torn apart by themselves in the process, or lose their fighting ability, go completely crazy, and can only be extremely powerful. Only infected people can become S-class."

"That is to say...this may be the domain of a super infected person, or a similar place."

Liszt finished speaking.

"Is that still an infected person? He is already a god! Hey!"

Eugene felt a little creepy for a moment, why are you having fun like this? Wasn't it just waiting to die? The two of them had walked several kilometers along the way. She didn't dare to think about it deeply. The more she thought about it, the more terrifying she became.

"That's the problem. Even an S-level infected area isn't too big. A radius of one hundred meters is considered very powerful."

"And this place..."

"There is a high probability that it is not the domain of a single infected person."

"I think... it may be the crazy townspeople here. With the outbreak of latent disease, alienation has occurred here."

"Of course this may not be completely correct, it is just a guess, but I am 60% sure."

"Do you know about swamp culture, Eugene?"

"Gothic culture in the south of the North American continent, jungle, voodoo, sacrifice, disembowelment, intertwined souls and cause and effect, Kakosha."

Liszt kept talking.

Eugene became more and more frightened.

"We have to hurry. The mayor's only daughter... is very dangerous. This area will make everyone who passes by get lost and unable to escape."

"Will be trapped here forever."

"It's up to us now, Eugene."

"The most important thing right now is to find the mayor's daughter. The secondary goal is to find Colin and Heller. We must all be here to ensure we can fight against what is hidden in the black mist."

"I don't know what it was, but I thought... pretty scary."

Liszt spoke extremely calmly, as if he was ready to die.

"Find Colin first..."

The man who could always solve everything gave Eugene a sense of security.