Mutants - Chapter 19
Chapter 19
The Light Radiation arrived faster than the experts at the Environmental Department had calculated. They had based their calculations on the normal speed of light radiation, but they hadn't anticipated that this time, it would be different.
Not only was the intensity different, but the color was as well.
The images captured by the satellite network appeared on the screen. Not just the people in the Environmental Department, but even the Think Tank and all the high-level executives shot to their feet, their faces filled with horror.
Red.
The Light Radiation was tinged with red.
Crimson light pierced through the cosmos. It was first captured by the satellites, but what the satellites also captured was the image of other satellites being instantly destroyed.
Frozen, their matter altered, the priceless, massive satellites instantly lost all function. They fell out of orbit and into the stream of space debris, where they were repeatedly struck until they exploded. The other satellites, lucky enough to avoid being hit, captured these images, but they only saw a field of red. They couldn't fathom its true nature, nor did they know what this red light carried or what it signified.
But everyone knew this wasn't the first time.
A century ago, the source of the first global cataclysm was a burst of red light radiation that reached Earth, causing drastic climate change, mass extinctions, and a devastating blow to the ecosystem…
Now, a hundred years later, it had returned.
And it was targeting these ruins zones, just as it had favored them back then.
The red light radiation descended, reaching the ground, penetrating the surface, and naturally entering the mountain of the excavation area in the B05 Ruins Zone. It also fell into the ice that had been in the deep sea a hundred years ago.
The light refracted terrifyingly within the ice. Normally, the effect of light radiation was extreme cold, but Sui Xin knew very well what red light radiation meant. On the verge of death, she almost wanted to laugh.
She was about to kick the bucket, and she had to run into this once-in-a-century "Red Disaster." Yes, the cataclysm from a hundred years ago was indeed called the "Red Disaster."
A crimson sun descending from the cosmos, a disaster for all life.
But no one ever said that the Red Disaster's light radiation would cause the ice to melt instantly.
A change in the state of matter?
Just as the massive chunks of ice, shattered by the explosion, were about to crush the frontline vehicles, they transformed into water in an instant. Icy cold water surged out, extinguishing the high-temperature flames that would have killed Sui Xin and the others, and instantly freezing the hidden cameras within the walls.
In the frigid cold, they were engulfed by the surging water.
It seems… I might still live!
Human willpower is a terrifying thing. Sui Xin tried to save herself. She clung tightly to the car door frame, using her last bit of strength to hide inside the vehicle and wait for the torrent of water to pass.
But man proposes, heaven disposes.
At that moment, a massive amount of water also rushed into the hole, sweeping the radioactive materials inside into the water.
One environment, one body of water.
The red light was the ultimate reactor.
The radioactive materials melted in the red light, turning into mercury-like beads floating in the air. Simultaneously, the Red Corrosive Ironworms in the hole were also swept out.
In the alternating heat and cold, Sui Xin felt as if she had been pulled back slightly from the brink of death. But a large amount of icy water also poured into her cracked helmet. She could even see the strange halo emitted by the radioactive fluid dissolved in the water, and the numerous Red Corrosive Ironworms in the water. Some had already died from the first wave of radiation, some from the explosion, and some from the red light.
In any case, she saw these radioactive beads enter her body, the red light enter her body. And because she was at the very front, when the massive octopus body was washed out, it pinned the car down.
The force of the water was strong, even pushing the car outward, but Sui Xin and the car were held down by the giant octopus's tentacles, unable to move. She could only watch in the water as large amounts of radioactive fluid and red light surged into her body at close range.
The Red Corrosive Ironworms, however, didn't dare to approach her body. They all sought other organisms to parasitize for self-preservation, but…
Sui Xin, her entire body nearly frozen stiff, watched as a test tube floated out from her torn clothes. The cap was already open, and a worm crawled out.
It was the Parasite King, the Salmon-Host Myxosporean King.
A Parasite King that could control a corpse by hiding in its brain wasn't particularly rare, but it had survived the initial radiation. Now, entering the red-lit water, it was subjected to the most primitive red light mutation radiation. Under this stimulation, driven by its survival instinct, it was much stronger than other ordinary worms. After its body was twisted by the influence of the red light, it frantically searched for another host.
There weren't many targets for it to choose from. Either the giant deep-sea octopus, or Sui Xin, pinned under the octopus's tentacles.
Everyone else had been swept away, whether they were alive or dead.
A choice between two.
It clearly looked down on the weak, E-class good-for-nothing, so it rushed towards the giant deep-sea octopus.
However, it was grabbed. The dying Sui Xin used her last ounce of strength to stuff it into the exposed wound on her arm.
She was trying to save herself!
She knew she was dying—her constitution couldn't withstand this continuous damage, and with the radioactive fluid entering her body, she could already feel the agony.
Either she croaked just like that, or she could take a gamble, utilizing the Salmon-Host Myxosporean's effect on ATP and its ability to maintain muscle activity.
The Salmon-Host Myxosporean King had no other choice. Upon contact with the wound, which had been seared by the explosion, it immediately burrowed in with all its might.
Simultaneously, after the others died, the Salmon-Host Myxosporeans hidden in their bodies also emerged, swimming towards the giant deep-sea octopus.
In this era, this special era, the world's strongest biologist, King Alish, once said something.
"In the most extreme and harsh environments, the instinct of all life is to survive, regardless of the level of their genes. In such an environment, there will be a war between life and death, and the activity of cells will reach its peak. If the conditions for stimulating the gene chain, supplementing energy, activating nerves, and having a sufficiently strong will to survive are met, then mutation is achieved."
A living organism cannot lack neural control, otherwise the body will disintegrate. Even if the gene chain meets the conditions for mutation, the mutation cannot be completed. Therefore, the so-called destruction and evolution, the final probability of survival, is not entirely luck; it is mostly related to the will of the living organism itself.
But Sui Xin probably couldn't complete the mutation, because she lacked a crucial link—energy.
Her body was too weak, and she was a top-tier good-for-nothing. The Salmon-Host Myxosporean King probably felt it had been scammed the moment it burrowed in.
Is this a host? It's just a broken sack, not a single bit of ATP to squeeze out.
It was over.
Fortunately, the Salmon-Host Myxosporean King was not ordinary. It had been said before that humans are far more difficult to mutate than other creatures because they are too complex. Their life structure is intricate, and mutation is an extremely dangerous process. Humans often die before they can make it through.
On the contrary, low-level beings like the Red Corrosive Ironworms had completed some mutations. The Red Corrosive Ironworm was a finished product.
The Salmon-Host Myxosporean also showed signs of mutation after being irradiated by the red light. So, after entering Sui Xin's body and realizing this body was a trap, it immediately activated its small bit of mutated ability—its ability to control other Salmon-Host Myxosporeans was enhanced.
Those Salmon-Host Myxosporeans that had burrowed into the deep-sea octopus's body controlled a part of its body.
The tentacle moved, entered the car, and wrapped around Sui Xin.
She had no energy, but the deep-sea octopus did. Inside its core was a core of bio-energy fossil accumulated over ten thousand years, located in the octopus's abdominal sac—Sui Xin, this country bumpkin, didn't know about this. It wasn't that the entire body was a fossil, but its bio-energy core could be dug out and used as a Pure Marine Fossil.
At this moment, that fossil core was activated. An amount of energy greater than the total of all the energy bars in the entire outpost was drawn away.
In the surging, icy water.
Human, worm, radioactive fluid, red light, cold current, deep-sea octopus… at that moment, they completed a unique mutation.
The cold current was still surging, sweeping away one half-dead person after another, who were also struggling on the verge of death.
Under the red light radiation, at the entrance of the excavation area, Zhou Xingxing, who had killed several Fungal-Insectoid Mutants but ultimately succumbed to his severe injuries, was already lying on the ground, feeling death approach.
A large number of insects crawled towards his body.
The red light was causing his body to change.
He was changing, and some "people" were also changing, because the ubiquitous Salmon-Host Myxosporeans were frantically searching for hosts.
The conditions for mutation were largely similar for everyone, yet different for each individual. Their states were also different, so their mutations were naturally different as well.
But the premise was—to survive.
Honestly, this live broadcast had exceeded everyone's expectations. Whether it was the instigators or the deceived audience, they were all terrified.
The only silver lining was that the red light radiation zone was over at the ruins.
But!
The people in the 18 ruins zones from the live broadcast were dead, but there were many personnel in the other ruins zones!
There were even high-level executives.
"Young Master Keli is supervising work in the ruins zone!"
"We're doomed! Those few are all in the ruins zone!"
"The director of the branch company in Y City is also there…"
This time, it wasn't just Tianxi Group that was shaken. All the consortiums had basically suffered heavy losses. And all the various governments and forces, as long as they were still in the ruins zones, had encountered this disaster.
Regardless of how high their status was, they were all caught in this deadly Red Disaster.
The catastrophe of the century had descended once again.
Lin Sui looked at the red on the screen. After the initial shock, she received instructions from the higher-ups—after the red tide, the company would dispatch rescue personnel to the various ruins to rescue the high-level executives trapped inside.
Was it useful?
"Isn't death certain under the Red Disaster? Special Assistant Lin, do you know about this?"
The researchers were discussing among themselves and also asked Lin Sui, who had come out of her private lab.
Lin Sui: "It's useful. If they are hiding in special shelters, it's still possible to survive. According to research on the first Red Disaster, the length and material of its light radiation are limited. Some Gobi mountain walls that withstood the first wave of the Red Disaster back then can do so again this time. Also, some of the food storage cellars and freezer areas in the outposts can theoretically withstand the Red Disaster."
"But the mountain in the excavation area is 100% unable to withstand it, otherwise it wouldn't have become an excavation area."
One look at the situation in B05 was enough to know. That mountain was the best evidence; it just couldn't hold up back then.
Therefore, facing the situation where some important figures were trapped in the normal ruins zones, Tianxi Group couldn't possibly not rescue them. So, a super-large-scale rescue team was being assembled, just waiting for the Red Disaster to pass.
"The Red Disaster lasted for 24 hours back then. I wonder how long it will be this time."
"There's definitely no need to go to those 18 ruins zones from the live broadcast. They're all dead."
"Definitely!"
Lin Sui's feelings were complicated. She knew very well: a century of change. She didn't know what kind of development this change would bring. Perhaps humanity would be destroyed because of it.
"Wait, look!"
"Look at what?"
"Am I blind? Why do I feel like that corpse lying over there just moved."
What?
Attracted by her subordinate's words, Lin Sui looked towards the screen in the hall and happened to see the horribly bloody corpse in the image moving.
This person was pinned under a car, his bones and flesh a gruesome sight, but his fingers were moving. After a few twitches, his consciousness probably returned. He was in great pain. In his agony, he grabbed the car that was crushing him and let out a roar.
Boom!
The entire heavy tank-like vehicle shifted.
It was moved.
Everyone looked at each other, more shocked than when they saw the Red Disaster descend.
And in another live broadcast room for the C09 Ruins Zone, a man with a ferocious face woke up. He lay on the ground, staring blankly at his hand.
It wasn't a hand anymore.
What the audience saw was a sharp, thick wolf's claw. In his terror, he tried to get up, but he found that when the wolf's claw touched the car body…
A sharp cutting sound.
The claw easily sliced through the metal skin.
He was as shocked as the audience, but soon, his face revealed a wild joy.
"Hahaha, I've mutated!"
In his ecstasy, he saw the young man lying in front of him and suddenly revealed a murderous intent.
"Dan Benxi! I'm going to tear your corpse apart!"
In the previous live broadcast, they were originally the leaders of two teams. However, Dan Benxi was the captain of this expedition team. After entering the excavation area, he wasn't killed by these seniors. Instead, he severely wounded the team of several hundred people, earning him the title of a god of slaughter, because he had already broken through to the Martial Initiate level at that time, a complete monster.
But even so, he couldn't withstand the final radiation and the Red Disaster.
The man felt that his luck was heaven-defying. He had actually mutated. So he quickly ran towards the young man's corpse.
As he ran, he also discovered that his physique and speed were several times what they used to be.
Mutation had indeed given him terrifying power.
"Go to hell!"
He swiped his claw towards Dan Benxi's head on the ground.
With its sharpness, it could tear through the iron skin of a car, let alone a mere human brain.
He really hated this junior who had beaten him.
So…
Smack!
A hand grabbed his wrist, forcefully stopping the claw in front of his face.
The man couldn't move.
And the person lying on the ground opened his eyes. The moment he opened them…
He disappeared.
Yes, he vanished in an instant.
The man was bewildered. The next second, he howled in pain as a bullet from behind pierced his heart.
In the image, the cave was seven or eight meters high, and a black shadow was suspended at the very top.
The audience could barely make out his figure. Soon, he disappeared again.
The next second.
Swish!
A bloody hand suddenly grabbed the camera. The button was taken off and aimed at a face.
Dan Benxi looked at them expressionlessly.
He had no injuries on his body. His skin was delicate and smooth, but his pupils were dark red. He spoke slowly to the camera.
"Enjoying the live broadcast?"
"What a pity, we're not dead."
"Wait for death!"
He crushed the button, and the screen instantly went black.
In the conference room where the Tianxi Group's Think Tank and high-level executives were, they were originally discussing the rescue plan for other high-level executives, having completely forgotten about the pitiful wretches who had died in the previous live broadcast plan. They never expected…
And Dan Benxi's words and blood-red eyes were like a death notice.
Were they scared?
At first, they were.
Mutation. They had created true Mutants.
"Just now, was he floating?"
"Yes."
The CEO of Tianxi Group folded his hands in front of him, resting them on the table. The lenses of his glasses reflected the cold white light from the screen.
"Flight ability, then."
"How interesting."
"Change of plans… those 18 live broadcast ruins zones are the priority. Send out the Adepts. And for ruins zones like C09, which have super-strong Mutants like Dan Benxi, send the Sentinels."
"Capture them alive, extract their genes."
Sentinels, the offensive and defensive powerhouses among the Adepts, were generally the strong Adepts who stayed by the side of the highest-level core figures of the consortium.
These people could easily dodge bullets with their physical skills and fighting abilities, and could slaughter an army of hundreds with their weapons.
Undoubtedly, people like Dan Benxi had become the group's number one target.
The other high-level executives also knew the seriousness of the matter, but someone hesitated, "Originally, these Adepts were to be sent to rescue the various heirs. Now…"
If they remembered correctly, several scions from the board of directors were in the ruins zones.
And this CEO's own younger brother was also there.
The CEO pushed his glasses with his finger and said softly, "Now is the golden period for capture, when these Mutants haven't adapted to their abilities and haven't recovered from their injuries. If we let them be, they will become a great enemy of our Tianxi Group. Compared to the interests of the group and our own survival, what is the sacrifice of a few individuals?"
"Besides, it's not like we're not going to rescue them. You can all apply to the board of directors and ask those few whether their scions are more important, or obtaining the genes of these Mutants is more important."
Everyone fell silent, with no further objections.
Mutation. If they could also mutate… that would be truly placing their life class forever above the mortals of this world.
The era would change for them.
The water had receded.
Sui Xin opened her eyes. In the dimness, she belatedly realized she wasn't dead. Not only was she not dead, but she was in pretty good shape.
A very strange feeling.
She had been weak since she was a child. Apart from the full and happy feeling she got when she was well-fed, she was always experiencing the pain of being a weakling.
Listless.
But now… she felt like she could beat a bull to death.
She was soaking wet all over, but she didn't feel cold. She observed her surroundings. Her first reaction was to look at the walls. She found them covered in frost. Even if the cameras were still working, they wouldn't be able to capture the situation outside.
She felt much more at ease. Then she found that she was still in the same place. The car was there, the tentacle was there.
Tentacle?
She looked at the shriveled octopus tentacle skin draped over her stomach. Then, through the car window, she saw that the giant octopus in front had disappeared—only the shriveled skin on the ground remained.
Wait, what's going on?
She looked at the skin. As she looked, she inexplicably felt a burning sensation in her stomach. Then she found that her arm was particularly itchy. From the place where the Parasite King had burrowed in, it was both painful and itchy. Sui Xin took a closer look and saw that the wound area was changing… the skin… had also turned into another kind of skin.
Octopus tentacle skin.
???
She had known since she was a child that her brain worked better than others. She always seized opportunities to absorb all kinds of knowledge to enrich herself. But at this moment, she was still lost in confusion for a while. But soon, she figured it out.
She had mutated.
In that extreme environment, she had survived and mutated in the once-in-a-century Red Disaster.
But what kind of ability was this?
In the process of acquiring knowledge, it wasn't like she hadn't read some fantasy novels. Mutant Abilities were not an unfamiliar concept.
But an ability like turning into octopus skin still made her unable to laugh.
She would rather have strength, speed, or other combat or survival-assisting abilities.
"Transformation? Can I transform into anything or just one thing?"
Filled with curiosity, Sui Xin placed the octopus tentacle skin on a dagger in the car, held it…
Change, change, change!
Bang!
Her stomach burned again. She had indeed changed.
Her upper body had turned into a sheet of octopus skin, draped over the chair, but her lower body was still a complete human body.
Just two octopus eyes were strangely attached to the octopus skin.
Sui Xin: "…"
She wanted her palm to turn into metal to help in combat! Not to become a half-human, half-fish dried octopus!
Sob sob sob.
What kind of crappy ability was this!
But what was the brain for?
For exploring.
Sui Xin soon realized that this complete transformation and disguise of hers should also be extraordinary.
"To change my form in such a short time, I don't believe my ability is useless. I can't transform into a weapon, is it because I can only copy living or organic matter?"
"And this time, my body seems to be much stronger than before. All my wounds have healed."
"If it's a perfect copy, it would be even more terrifying."
Sui Xin changed her way of thinking and immediately became energetic. She felt her body again and found that the change seemed to be related to her stomach.
There seemed to be something in her stomach that could control it.
After a while, Sui Xin vaguely felt that she had sensed that thing in her stomach.
Change, change, change…
Bang!
Sui Xin returned to her original form.
She got out of the car and jumped on the spot. She found that if the physical fitness of a normal frontline combatant was 10, she, this little weakling, was 1. But now she was probably at a level of 20. Although she couldn't compare to Zhou Xingxing and the other near-Adepts, at least she had a very healthy body and could handle general fights.
But the key was definitely the ability she got from the mutation.
Sui Xin decided to test it again.
There were no other living or organic beings here.
Corpses?
Sui Xin squatted in front of a corpse pinned under a car and tried.
It didn't work.
Was it because it had to be a living being? But the octopus wasn't alive either.
Then… Sui Xin searched around and only saw a dying Red Corrosive Ironworm.
She tested it with a stone and confirmed that it had no combat ability after mutation. Only then did she approach it, press down half of its body with a wooden board, and then touch it with her finger.
The moment her skin made contact, Sui Xin felt it.
Was this a skin-based simulation and disguise ability?
In just a few seconds, her stomach burned again.
A worm. She had turned into a worm.
A giant Red Corrosive Ironworm as tall as a person.
A super plump worm crawling gloomily on the ground…
Sui Xin: "…"
After several tests, Sui Xin finally confirmed her mutation ability.
It wasn't an awesome perfect copy ability, but a simulation and disguise that required skin contact to complete. But for now, she couldn't disguise herself as other people—the human body might be too complex. It probably wouldn't work for either the dead or the living.
Currently, she could only disguise herself as living and organic beings with simpler compositions, like the Red Corrosive Ironworm or the octopus skin.
If a complete deep-sea octopus were in front of her, she probably couldn't simulate it.
When simulating and disguising, she could control the size and part of the transformation. However, because the body cells of the Red Corrosive Ironworm were relatively simple, she could transform her whole body. But the molecular structure of the giant deep-sea octopus's cells was more complex, so she could only maintain a partial transformation. That's why she could turn into a complete worm and a perverted dried octopus.
The transformation speed could be controlled within three seconds. The duration of the transformation depended on the consumption of the heat in her stomach. She could feel that the longer she maintained it, or the more thorough the transformation, the greater the consumption. For example, when she just turned into a whole fat worm, she clearly felt that the thing in her stomach had shrunk significantly.
To save energy, she quickly reverted after each transformation.
A very good disguise ability, good for escaping.
If used well, it could save her life. It just lacked combat power, and each time she reverted, she needed to touch the corresponding skin again to transform again.
The limitations were a bit big.
But she could find ways to continue developing it in the future. Even the protagonists in novels couldn't possibly get a super-divine ability right from the start…
Sui Xin tried hard to comfort herself. She put the Red Corrosive Ironworm on the ground into a test tube and added a little water to keep it for now.
Suddenly, Sui Xin remembered something. She quickly looked at her watch. Fortunately, this thing was still working, and it recorded the time.
"Damn it, there are only two hours left until the final explosion!"
Sui Xin's scalp tingled. She immediately prepared to leave. But as she was looking for a car that could still be started, she remembered the giant octopus's Pure Marine Fossil.
She rummaged under the octopus skin and found that it was gone.
"Could it be that I absorbed it all?"
"Such a powerful energy source, couldn't it give me some direct and crude abilities? Like flight or super strength or speed. Why did it have to give me this spy-specialized disguise ability?"
People love what they lack. Sui Xin actually admired high-combat personnel. She got lucky and mutated, but it was this kind of sneaky ability. How could she not be depressed?
Sui Xin was about to leave when she suddenly heard the sound of a car.
Someone was coming?!
It couldn't be the company. During the Red Disaster, even if the light radiation period was over now, travel time had to be taken into account. At the fastest speed of the flight team, dispatching personnel from the nearest M City branch would take at least 48 hours.
So it was impossible for anyone from the company to come now.
Unless it was a team that the company had arranged to be stationed near the ruins zone to kill or capture the survivors of the live broadcast. But they would also be within the range of the Red Disaster's light radiation.
Also a mutated survivor?
Sui Xin's heart pounded. She knew she wasn't a high-combat personnel. A direct confrontation would probably not end well. Then…
Swoosh. She looked around, her gaze falling on the huge octopus skin. She also saw a corpse next to it still holding a gun, with a long knife at its waist. So she went over to check the handgun and found that the ammunition was soaked and would only misfire. It was useless. Helplessly, she pulled out the knife, walked to the side of the octopus skin, judged the position, lay down, and then disguised herself as a Red Corrosive Ironworm, playing dead next to her hand. Of course, the knife couldn't change with her, and her clothes were also stuck there, just waiting for her to change back and put them on.
Actually, this was also quite an awkward situation.
After a while, the car stopped, and a man stumbled out.
Sui Xin took a look and was greatly surprised.
Liu Yong.
This old man wasn't dead.
Not only was he not dead, but his body was a size larger, giving the impression of bulging muscles and immense strength. However, it was also true that he was a bit weak now. The wounds on his body were still there, blood was still flowing, his steps were a bit unsteady, and his breathing was heavy. He was heading straight for the deep-sea octopus.
His purpose was naturally the Pure Marine Fossil.
This person was greedy to the bone. He had mutated and survived, but he wasn't in a hurry to leave. Instead, after finding a car outside, he was eager to find the fossil.
However, Liu Yong's face changed drastically when he saw the octopus skin.
Where was the giant octopus?
Where was my huge frozen giant octopus? How come only the skin is left? Who ate it?
Liu Yong's face was ashen. He rushed to the front of the octopus skin and lifted it to see if the fossil was hidden underneath.
However, he found nothing. But Sui Xin was stunned—this deep-sea giant octopus's skin was also very heavy, at least three or four hundred pounds. This Liu Yong lifted it with one hand.
This was at least ten times stronger than his normal strength before.
Look at his mutation, purely for combat. Then look at her own, purely for a double agent spy…
Sui Xin's mentality was a bit shattered. She also knew that she had made the wrong decision.
Her luck was very bad. The one she ran into was indeed a Mutant, and a combat-type Mutant at that.
The probability of killing the opponent was very low. But if she kept hiding, completely disguised as a small Red Corrosive Ironworm, the energy consumption would not be small. She wouldn't be able to hold on for long before she reverted to her original form.
So, in fact, when Liu Yong forcefully lifted the octopus skin, Sui Xin had already changed back.
She fiercely stabbed with her knife from behind Liu Yong.
She was aiming for his heart. It could have been a fatal blow.
But at that moment, a voice suddenly came from inside the car: "Be careful!"
There was someone else in the car!?
This warning made the unprepared Liu Yong instinctively dodge. The knife still pierced his chest, but it missed his heart.
As blood splattered, Liu Yong suddenly grabbed the blade, turned around to see Sui Xin, and roared in anger: "Xiao Tiantian!"
With a force of his left hand, the blade was snapped.
What kind of strength was this!
And Liu Yong's right hand directly pulled out the knife from his waist and slashed fiercely at Sui Xin's body.
Swish!
Sui Xin reacted quickly and swiftly dodged to the side.
The knife struck the car body next to her, directly splitting the car door. Sui Xin sidestepped to dodge. After all, Liu Yong had been stabbed in the chest. When he pulled out the knife and gathered his strength, his heart and lungs were damaged. He was already injured and weak. Sui Xin quickly counterattacked with a knife.
Clang!!!
Liu Yong slashed back with his knife, actually breaking the knife in Sui Xin's hand.
Scary, this strength is too…
Liu Yong, despite his severe injuries, saw this extremely detestable woman's terrified expression after her knife was broken.
Without a weapon, she was a lamb to the slaughter.
His anger soared, his mind filled with killing intent. He slashed with his knife again.
Go to hell…
Pfft!
Sui Xin instantly pulled out a short knife from her back waist and fiercely stabbed it into the man's heart.
She had seen it long ago. Liu Yong was a boss, good at giving orders, but he rarely fought. Firstly, he cherished his life. Secondly, he had capable and fierce men like Zhou Xingxing under him, so he was used to not doing the work.
Moreover, this person had just mutated and had no time to adapt and test his abilities, unlike her who had repeatedly tried and explored, so his control was very low. You could see his ability from how he just slashed into the car door with such force.
So…
She took advantage of his recklessness and weakness.
A finishing blow to kill.
After succeeding, Sui Xin quickly ran towards the hole, because the person in the car had already gotten out.
No gun. The other party couldn't use a gun either. Most likely, after being soaked in the cold water, the ammunition was basically wet, and the guns were damaged. Everyone could only find cold weapons.
Otherwise, Liu Yong would have been assassinated in the first round. Of course, Sui Xin would also have been killed by the person in the car.
Sui Xin looked back as she ran and saw the fiercely chasing Lao Zhang.
Lao Zhang had a wound on his abdomen, so he had been staying in the car before. He never expected the dead worm on the ground to suddenly come back to life.
And turn into the damn Xiao Tiantian.
This insidious and vicious bitch!
Sui Xin saw Lao Zhang's injury and thought he couldn't catch up with her. However… Lao Zhang's legs suddenly became thick, his muscles bulged, and his speed suddenly increased, quickly closing the distance.
Another effective combat mutation!
Sui Xin was helpless. Relying on her now agile body, she glanced at the large number of Red Corrosive Ironworm corpses on the ground nearby. Her eyes narrowed slightly, and an idea came to her mind. She quickly ran past a fork in the road…
The distance between her and Lao Zhang had just shrunk from seven or eight meters to three or four meters. It looked like he could catch up in a few seconds, but this guy disappeared after turning a corner. A pool appeared in front.
The pool was full of icy cold water and Red Corrosive Ironworms soaked in it.
However, most of these Red Corrosive Ironworms were already dead.
Lao Zhang was also quick-witted. He immediately retreated and didn't rush into the pool. But just as he stopped, he saw the clothes on the ground.
The person turned into a worm!?
Could she be hiding among the worm corpses in the pool?
He was suspicious, his eyes flickering. While clutching the painful wound on his abdomen, suddenly, a worm fell from above and landed on his neck.
It's her!
Lao Zhang's face changed drastically. He quickly went to grab his neck, but the worm Sui Xin had transformed into had a clear purpose. The moment it landed, it crawled into his ear.
Lao Zhang tried hard to pull at his ear, but he couldn't reach it. He only felt a sharp pain coming from his ear.
Screaming, his body struggled, and he fell headfirst into the pool in front.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle. The strong corrosive liquid in the pool turned Lao Zhang into a bloody body in an instant. Soon, he stopped moving. And Sui Xin quickly crawled out of his ear. Before the corpse was completely submerged in the corrosive sweat pool, she quickly crawled over the worm corpses on the surface and crawled to the edge of the pool.
Just as she reached the edge of the pool, her body uncontrollably reverted.
The thing in her stomach was used up, and she couldn't maintain the transformation.
Completely naked, Sui Xin gasped for breath in the ugly and deep cave, clutching her stomach in unbearable pain. She couldn't even put on her clothes.
Her slender and flawless body was silently weakening in the dimness, like the primitive state and appeal of life—naked and hungry.
No, she needed nutrient solution, she needed energy.
This was no longer just her previous instinct. Now her stomach seemed to have a mind of its own, protesting crazily. This predatory need even made her involuntarily cast her gaze into the pool.
The worm corpses in her sight? Or the human corpse that was rapidly corroding with a strange and pungent smell of meat?
Sui Xin was shocked. She clutched her stomach and silently shouted: No, old friend, we at least, shouldn't, and can't…
At that moment, Sui Xin thought she had become a monster, to have such a strong desire to eat these disgusting corpses.
But she soon realized that what her stomach might want to eat was not these worms or Lao Zhang's flesh.
But—a cone-shaped red crystal that appeared on Lao Zhang's bloody thigh.
What was this thing?
Something that the Red Corrosive Ironworm's corrosive liquid couldn't corrode was definitely not organic. Then… metal? Or energy?
Sui Xin really couldn't resist her body's demands. She looked around, found a branch, and hooked the crystal over.
In her hand, the cold touch made her almost shiver.
How strange. It looked like a kind of mineral stone, very thin, like three or four snowflakes stacked together, in an irregular shape. In the semi-transparent red crystal, there were also very fine and complex blood filaments, and the pattern of the entangled blood filaments looked familiar.
At first glance, it looked like… a gene manifested into a physical fragment?
Sui Xin was almost amused by this thought.
But she saw that the skin of her palm naturally turned into a deep red texture after touching it, emitting a strange red light, and wrapped the crystal.
She ate it.
Just like that, it melted and was absorbed in her palm.
And this red light in the dark cave seemed so bloody and strange.
It cast a strange red glow on her fair face.
Her expression was so strange because when she absorbed this fragment, she received a prompt in her mind.
"Prophet's Guidance Life Evolution Progress: 1% + 0.4%. Current Progress: 1.4%."
"Evolution Direction One: Skin-Contact Simulation Camouflage Level 1."
Wait, what was this?
Her own hallucination?
Finally she levels up! So far her ability seems so so, I wonder how she’ll improve
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