In the world of superhumans, attribute restraint is truly a miraculous thing.
The infinite proliferation human body was merely a disaster-class containment object. As long as there was a superhuman controlling flame or frost energy, it could be suppressed before it expanded to a certain extent.
However, in this dim underground palace, such a thing had become an almost invincible existence, easily accomplishing what many Assimilation realm superhumans could not, killing vast numbers of weak, low-level monsters.
Wen Wen was not worried about any superhumans in the underground palace being harmed by the proliferator. Assimilation realm superhumans rarely relied solely on physical attacks.
Even if they did, the proliferator's abilities were not enough to threaten Assimilation realm superhumans.
In fact, until now, Wen Wen had only harvested the carnosaur meat of two disaster-class monsters, and not a single calamity-class one.
Monsters formed from ordinary human bodies, no matter how they were combined, could at most kill disaster-class monsters.
But Wen Wen didn't need quality, only quantity. The proliferator's terrifying killing speed had also attracted the attention of other demon hunters. A few even followed Wen Wen's example, picking off kills behind the proliferator.
However, because the proliferator also attacked them, their harvesting efficiency was far lower than Wen Wen's.
More than ten hours later, the proliferator's volume had reached a point that even Wen Wen marveled at. If Zheng Feng had expanded to such a size back then, the Furong River demon hunter team would have been absolutely incapable of suppressing it.
Various human monsters that would give children nightmares began to appear.
Human centipedes, human scorpions, human snakes, human huskies, human leviathans...
Countless monsters composed of the proliferator rampaged throughout the underground palace. Some successfully hunted weaker monsters, while others were torn apart by stronger monsters, only to regenerate even larger and more bizarre proliferators.
Facing this all-out war, even with Wen Wen's full dedication to picking off kills, he only managed to claim a very small portion of the monsters killed by the proliferator.
"If this thing were placed in a world without superpowers, it might be able to destroy the world!"
Suddenly, Wen Wen's brows furrowed. He saw a human leviathan fall to the ground and be dismembered by other monsters.
This was not strange. What was strange was that its shattered limbs did not reassemble into new combined monsters. Instead, they gradually withered.
"Has the proliferator reached its limit, or have superhumans attacked the proliferator... No, it's those monsters attacking the proliferator!"
Wen Wen personally witnessed a shattered limb on the ground, just about to recondense, being pierced by a spike and withering away!
"Could it be... these things have evolved a toxin against the proliferator!"
Wen Wen's wariness of these monsters grew even heavier. He captured a monster and studied it briefly, discovering that his guess was correct. These monsters had indeed evolved a new toxin.
From the fall of that leviathan onwards, the proliferator and the monster army began a war of attrition, and the proliferator gradually fell into a disadvantage!
Once a countermeasure was found, the proliferator's flaws were exposed: weak upper limit, acting on instinct without intelligence, and so on.
However, from this evolution, Wen Wen also began to understand the evolution of these monsters.
With this toxin, their abilities in all aspects had decreased, and their strength was significantly weaker compared to before.
"Becoming stronger in one aspect makes other aspects weaker... It's somewhat similar to Yan Biqing's constitution. If that's the case, it's not overly monstrous. If it could truly evolve infinitely, these monsters alone would be a huge threat to the world."
"However, since they have weakened, that is a good thing."
Wen Wen chuckled and pounced on a calamity-class monster. Was there a better opportunity to capture a calamity-class monster than now?
At this moment, that monster was focused on dealing with the surging proliferator, while Wen Wen, hidden in the shadows, had taken out his ferocious Buddha's Gatling.
"I used half my bullets on that angel last time. The other half is for you!"
Wen Wen grinned menacingly and aimed the thick Gatling at the monster's back, pulling the trigger. A stream of golden-hued metal poured onto the monster's body.
Countless bullets tore its flesh, but it also incited its ferocity. It charged at Wen Wen, enduring the hail of bullets.
But it seemed to have forgotten that its body had been weakened to a certain extent to evolve the toxin against the proliferator!
So, by the time it reached Wen Wen's muzzle, it was no longer capable of biting him.
"Speaking of which, you're the weakest and easiest calamity-class monster I've ever captured, heh heh heh..."
A snake-like black chain sprayed from his hand, wrapping around the calamity-class monster and easily dragging it into the containment facility. Wen Wen patted his right hand with satisfaction.
Apart from being tricked by that giant egg during the third assessment, the harvest was quite considerable.
Not only did he capture two monsters, one calamity-class and one disaster-class, but he also gained a large number of carnosaur meat tumors that could be exchanged for demon hunter coins. The biggest gain was likely the three runes that were finally engraved!
After containing the calamity-class monster, Wen Wen checked the time and found that not much time was left until the deadline.
The proliferator's speed in harvesting monsters was now far slower than before, so Wen Wen did not want to continue. With a snap of his fingers, the massive proliferator began to disappear into thin air, eventually returning to the metal box in Wen Wen's hand.
The monster horde had evolved a way to deal with the proliferator. Leaving the proliferator here would only provide them with food that would never run out.
Taking advantage of the monsters' weakened state, he captured two more disaster-class monsters. The blue crystal on Wen Wen's body lit up, and Wen Wen understood that his time in the underground palace was up.
A faint blue light enveloped him, teleporting him out of the underground palace.
At that moment, the giant egg in the center of the underground palace gave a small turn...
...
The blue light completely vanished. Wen Wen was already standing on the ground. The sun overhead made him, who had been in the underground palace for over thirty hours, slightly unaccustomed.
Xun Qing stepped on his long sword, floating in mid-air. He counted and found that twenty-four demon hunters had come out this time.
This meant that five Assimilation realm demon hunters had been lost in this underground palace.
Among these twenty-four people, twenty-one had been assigned cleanup tasks by Xun Qing.
Those who had no cleanup tasks and lasted until the end were only Wen Wen, plus two other demon hunters: a slightly plump middle-aged woman and a super-powered individual who looked like a pretty boy.