Releasing the Meme

Tap.

Bai Cangshu lightly tapped the frozen apartment wall with a bent finger. The next moment, the ice and wall shattered together. With Bai Cangshu’s current strength and control over force, walls without special reinforcement—even steel—could no longer withstand even a light tap from him.

That strength, comparable to a giant beast’s, could flow and reverberate through any material under the control of a Martial Arts Grandmaster, tearing apart all defenses.

Even against a tank or armored vehicle, Bai Cangshu only needed to lightly tap its armor once to kill every ordinary human inside through the shock.

Bai Cangshu stepped out from behind the wall, completely ignoring the roars of the Black Ball Team behind him and the shrieks of even more ghouls. The arrival of the alien ghosts threw the Black Ball Team into disarray. A massive number of ghouls broke through the blockade in an instant and charged into the Black Ball Team’s position.

A brutal slaughter had begun.

Yet Bai Cangshu turned his gaze toward where Kei Kurono had gone. The Ancient Alien God clearly had a particular interest in Kei Kurono, this "World Protagonist," and had exerted some influence over him.

In this world, aside from hunting powerful Plot Characters and Reincarnators, Bai Cangshu also intended to obtain Gantz’s technology.

With a tap of his toes, he soared high into the air and silently followed Kei Kurono. Before long, the roar of a Gravity Gun erupted from an apartment building.

Kei Kurono’s combat instincts had fully awakened. Even facing three opponents alone—two Hunters in Gorilla Suits and another continuously bombarding him with a Gravity Gun—he remained at ease.

He continually used the corners of the building for cover. Although he did not possess an overwhelming speed advantage, he exploited the weakness of the Gantz Gravity Gun: it could not lock onto individuals and had to target an area, causing several of their shots to miss.

In an instant, several enormous holes were blasted through the apartment building from its top floor by the Gravity Gun.

Kei Kurono seized the chance to leap down. Using the X-Ray Vision of his X-Gun, he killed the target holding the Gravity Gun from below, then grabbed the Gravity Gun and continued evading before the two Gorilla Suit Hunters could attack.

Bai Cangshu withdrew his gaze. Kei Kurono truly possessed combat potential among these Black Ball Warriors, but compared to Reincarnators, both his fighting ability and talent were still far too lacking.

At the end of the day, humans in this world had no path to the supernatural. All their power depended on technology bestowed by the Multi-Faced Star People.

Thinking of this, Bai Cangshu took out an item he had drawn from Cleaner Duke’s Scarlet Drop Card.

Meme: Vampire Strain

Quality: Special

Description: Records the meme of the existence, spread, and powers of Vampire Strain creatures.

Effect: After use, this world will acquire the meme of the Vampire Strain's spread. The powers and legends of the Vampire Strain will begin to continue in this world.

(Note: Using any meme-type item will not grant Singularity rewards for the resulting timeline changes and may violate the Space Regulations. Please use with caution.)

There were vampires in the Gantz world, but they too were a type of alien in this world. They could be considered fairly powerful, but were nowhere close to the vampires that had spread through other worlds.

Most of the time, using meme-type items could not bring Reincarnators immediate benefits. On the contrary, they often provoked hostility and attacks from Plot Characters and various factions.

Therefore, after obtaining such rare items, many Reincarnators would not use them and would instead seek to trade them.

After all, memes essentially introduced an intercepted special culture, story, legend, and power into a new world all at once. The Plot Characters were always the ones most directly affected.

And since the Space would not grant Singularities for changes caused by memes, Reincarnators could gain almost nothing from them but chaos.

In the One Piece World, Bai Cangshu had seen a Reincarnator use some sort of item to spread a frenzy called Blood Cross. In The Boys World, he had killed a Reincarnator and obtained a special curse meme, which had remained sealed away. Bai Cangshu planned to use it in the real world.

Now, with different thoughts in mind, he crushed this Meme: Vampire Strain.

Special Reincarnator EX051, you have used the special item Meme: Vampire Strain.

The legend of the Vampire Strain has begun to spread throughout this world.

It is said that somewhere in modern-day Shinjuku, Japan, someone witnessed a group of powerful special creatures that drank human blood and hid by day, emerging at night. They used their fangs to turn other humans into followers, kin, and a new population has begun to emerge...

EX051, your actions will have an irreversible impact on this world. Furthermore, according to the Space Regulations, this impact will not grant Singularities.

Looking at this world, already turned into a complete mess by several Reincarnator teams, Bai Cangshu added fuel to the fire without hesitation.

He was not satisfied with the Ancient Alien God’s power. This kind of Outer God that was too self-contained made Bai Cangshu feel that there was too little profit for him to reap.

A mere handful of reputation points that could be farmed through missions could not compare at all to that fox’s "investment." Early on, it had given him an ability akin to a trump card, and later lent him its divine power in full in the B711 World.

Bai Cangshu needed the Ancient Alien God to understand the importance of him, the "Outer God Patriarch."

Whoosh.

A faint sound of air splitting came from Bai Cangshu’s body. He flickered through the air like a ghost. Neither Kei Kurono nor the two Black Ball Hunters in Gorilla Suits noticed his presence at all.

The next moment, atop another apartment building, Bai Cangshu intercepted the Man in Black carrying a black laptop.

The man was waiting for Gantz’s teleportation when a hand silently landed on his shoulder.

He spun around in horror, his body instinctively tensing as his Reinforcement Suit instantly activated at full capacity. But the next moment, Bai Cangshu gave a light pat, and a surging force burrowed into the Reinforcement Suit and ran wild within it.

Pop, pop, pop…

Buttons filled with special fluid burst one after another. The fluid that could enhance an ordinary human’s physical abilities nearly tenfold completely drained away, signifying that the Reinforcement Suit had utterly failed.

"Give me a name. You know what I’m asking about~"

Bai Cangshu’s voice was calm, but Miyamoto was already scared out of his wits. The person controlling him came to mind involuntarily, yet he knew that if he spoke that name, his head would immediately explode.

Bai Cangshu suddenly smiled and patted the man on the shoulder.

"Very good. I’ve already heard that name in your mind~"

Miyamoto had no idea what had happened, but the next moment, he felt an intense pain in his head.

Bang!

The man’s head exploded. Bai Cangshu curled his hand and gave it a light wave, and a powerful gust blocked the rain of blood.

Then, leaning against the railing atop the building, he produced a small white fragment of a notebook in his hand.

The Death Note Fragment was not a single-use item. It would only lose its effect once there was no more room to write.

Bai Cangshu used this powerful item as a convenient tool for remote control and killing.

His control was extremely precise. He casually removed a section of finger bone, pinched it into a slender "pen tip," dipped it in blood, and wrote down a new name.

Shoji Kujo, while fleeing Shinjuku with valuable technology, will die of cardiac paralysis aboard a helicopter in one hour.

One hour later.

Boom!

A massive blaze erupted from a helicopter over the sea. Bai Cangshu left the flames behind, dragging a black ball with him.