Chapter 202: Desperate Pursuit p2
“Ha… ha… ha…” Lin Xiwan gasped, looking at the blackened flesh in front of her with some horror. Every time she breathed, she could feel the air leaking from the left side of her mouth, accompanied by bursts of tearing pain.
“There are spores on that bullet.” Lin Jiayao narrowed her eyes slightly, put the piece of flesh directly into the Item Storage Box for storage, and her face twitched slightly.
Still hiding spores on bullets and firing sneak shots…
Lin Jiayao’s rising anger was quickly suppressed by [Hunting Rhythm], and part of the anger was transformed into killing intent, which was more helpful in battle.
Just a slight carelessness, and her sister’s face was hit by this shot. Now Lin Jiayao couldn’t bear to look at her sister’s bloody face again.
Even if the bullet hit her, it wouldn’t make her so angry.
No matter how strong the other party was, no matter what kind of creature it was, this grudge was completely settled with Lin Jiayao.
“Sister, it’s okay… bear with it, I’ll heal you when we get out, there won’t be any scars…” Lin Jiayao tried her best to soften her voice and comfort her sister.
While controlling the Building-Tree Guardian to speed up the retreat, she opened the warehouse and glanced at her Blood Crystal Box.
Excluding the ten bags of Blood Crystal Serum she brought to Japan, she still had thirty Blood Crystals in her Safehouse…
Lin Jiayao directly took ten Blood Crystals and exchanged them for six bags of Blood Crystal Serum and ten Blood Crystal Combat Stimulants as backup.
The Blood Crystals in stock instantly dropped to twenty…
The blood on Lin Xiwan’s face seemed to have dripped onto Huayibai’s face. She opened her eyes slightly and was immediately startled by the scene in front of her.
“Sister Xi? Mommy? Woo… Huayibai is being chased by a big fish…” It could be seen that Huayibai got up groggily, seemingly eager to help, but Huayibai’s other flapping-wing insect clone seemed to be at a critical moment of crossing the sea.
“It’s okay, it’s over…” Lin Jiayao lowered her head and comforted Huayibai, then looked up at the retreat route.
The black Flesh Pillar Tree group had completely bypassed them and moved towards the direction they were heading just now. It seemed that there was no need to worry about being caught up in a short time.
“Phew…”
Lin Jiayao was slightly relieved. She asked her sister to sit down, took out a bag of Blood Crystal Serum, and began to repair the flesh on her sister’s face with the saliva from the tip of her tongue.
They hadn’t gone too deep into this city, and soon they had retreated to the place where the fire started.
The fire was still burning fiercely, and the entire building was engulfed in flames, with thick smoke rising into the sky.
In about ten minutes, they would be able to completely withdraw from Wangxi… The water here was deeper than Lin Jiayao had imagined.
As for the fire, that unseen fungal zombie must be even more anxious to extinguish it than she was, so it shouldn’t turn into a city-wide fire.
If it really did spread into a city-wide fire, Lin Jiayao wouldn’t mind either. At least she could come in and pick up Blood Crystals for free. Anyway, there shouldn’t be any living survivors here.
After the Building-Tree Guardian ran for about five minutes, Lin Jiayao had basically treated the wound on her sister’s face, leaving only a light, flesh-colored scar, which would also quickly heal due to her sister’s own recovery ability.
“Sigh… it’s really hard to guard against…” Lin Xiwan touched her cheek and said with some fear.
If her sister had discovered those “spores” a little later and let them spread for a while longer, wouldn’t her brain be directly…
Lin Xiwan didn’t even dare to continue imagining.
The most terrifying thing was that with her sharp senses, she didn’t even notice any spores invading her body.
Lin Xiwan didn’t have any experience fighting fungal zombies and had never experienced these unpredictable infection methods. Now she had learned a lesson.
Lin Xiwan sat next to her sister, looked into her eyes, reached out and gently pinched her cheek. All the words of gratitude were unspoken.
“We can wait for Huayibai to successfully cross the sea before coming back. There are still about two or three hours left, and we can rest during this time…”
Feeling the city quieting down and the wind blowing through her hair, Lin Jiayao arranged their next itinerary.
Obviously, Lin Jiayao didn’t plan to give up on this tough nut of Wangxi City, and planned to come back again with Huayibai after Huayibai met up with No. 5 and extracted.
There were two reasons.
It injured her sister; it had a rich reserve of Blood Crystals.
Although Lin Xiwan’s ability could clear a large area, it was obviously not as efficient as Huayibai in clearing out small fries.
And the more Huayibai devoured, the larger she became. She wasn’t afraid of a large number of low-level Awakened at all. As long as they were all below C-rank, she could devour as many as they came.
Soon, Lin Jiayao and Lin Xiwan, sitting on the Building-Tree Guardian, saw the highway exit of Wangxi City, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
It was really too dangerous just now. No one expected that towards the end, the frequency of “Awakened” appearing would be so high, and they even used firearms.
It made people wonder if there would be rocket launchers or something if they went deeper.
Lin Jiayao lowered her head and looked at Huayibai, who had closed her eyes again in her arms, waiting for good news from Huayibai.
No. 5 still hadn’t found any Awakened in Japan. Now Lin Jiayao could only hope that Huayibai would safely cross the East China Sea soon and be able to re-enter Wangxi City with her and her sister.
“Yao—!”
Lin Jiayao suddenly heard her sister shouting her name and turned her head curiously to look at her sister.
But after Lin Jiayao turned her head, she only saw her sister’s dumbfounded expression.
“Sister… did you call me?” Lin Jiayao asked with some confusion.
“I… I also heard it…” Lin Xiwan stammered, “It wasn’t me…”
“Yao—!”
The two turned their heads almost simultaneously and looked towards the end of the road.
In the distance, a slightly blurry, naked figure with long, naturally curly black hair was rushing towards them at an extremely fast speed, so fast that Lin Jiayao could only see an afterimage.
Lin Xiwan was the first to react. Her arms quickly filled with black blood, and a large amount of blood threads erupted, forming two giant black blood arms outside her body. She jumped high and punched fiercely towards the distance.
“Shing—”
The naked figure in the distance was also filled with black blood threads. Her back ejected a huge amount of black blood recklessly, forming a tall and terrifying blood shadow, and also threw a straight punch towards Lin Xiwan.
“Boom—!”
The two giant hands, both formed from black blood, slammed into each other, making a huge tremor, even the ground shaking.
Lin Xiwan was sent flying, tumbling and landing on the ground, while on the other side, the asphalt road under the naked figure’s feet cracked like a spiderweb, seemingly also suffering a huge impact.
“Yao—!”
The naked figure became even more frantic. After roaring, the originally shattered black blood arms reformed. This time, they blasted towards Lin Jiayao.
She cloned her sister!!! It was the spores just now that recorded her sister’s genes and cloned her!!!
Was she recalling those Blood Crystals just now to power the gestating B-rank “Awakened”?
How was that possible! In such a short time!
The thing Lin Jiayao was most worried about still happened… this cloning wasn’t limited to the Awakened in Wangxi City.
Even Awakened infected with spores, it could also clone.
Seeing the black giant fist getting closer and closer, Lin Jiayao instantly made a decision – the supplies and mount couldn’t be saved.
Lin Jiayao grabbed Huayibai with her left hand, and at the same time, controlled the Building-Tree Guardian to raise its head.
The Building-Tree Guardian’s two front legs raised high, like a spider making a warning gesture. Its millstone-like serrated mouth was exposed at the bottom, just blocking Lin Jiayao and Huayibai on its back.
“Boom—”
The black fist instantly slammed onto the Building-Tree Guardian’s millstone-like round mouth. The solid B-rank power directly smashed the Building-Tree Guardian to pieces.
The supplies on its back were all scattered, and Lin Jiayao also used mycelium to pull a piece of the Building-Tree Guardian’s debris, holding Huayibai and clinging tightly to the back of the debris, flying backwards.
The moment Lin Jiayao flew backwards, a black shadow flashed past her, charging into the naked figure’s arms and sending her flying with an elbow strike.
That black shadow was Lin Xiwan.
At this time, Lin Xiwan, who had sent the other party flying with an elbow strike, did not stop her attack. She kicked off with her right leg, almost simultaneously catching up to the flying naked clone, raised both fists high above her head, and slammed them down on its abdomen.
“Thump—!”
“Boom—!”
The immense force smashed into the clone’s abdomen, almost deforming its waist, and it slammed heavily into the ground, creating an earthquake-like tremor and a five-meter-diameter crater.
Almost all the bones in the clone’s body were shattered, but its strong body still allowed it to cling to life. It slightly opened its mouth, and judging by its mouth shape, it seemed to be calling out the word “Yao”.
Looking at the clone calling out her sister’s name, Lin Xiwan slowly clenched her right fist, her knuckles even turning white from the excessive force.
“Boom—boom—!”
After quickly punching the clone’s head twice, completely shattering it to the point where it couldn’t utter a complete sentence, Lin Xiwan slowly stood up with her fists and jumped out of the crater.
After confirming that the clone in the pit had lost its vital signs, Lin Xiwan didn’t pay attention to the few Blood Crystals that precipitated, but first ran towards the direction where her sister flew out.
Although the clone had B-rank evolutionary abilities, it didn’t seem to have a B-rank body or blood crystal reserves, and could only launch a few B-rank attacks. This was fortunate…
Soon, Lin Xiwan turned over a few pieces of the Building-Tree Guardian’s debris and saw her sister lying on the ground with Huayibai in her arms.
“Are you okay, Yao…?” Lin Xiwan helped her sister up, let her lean against her, and asked with concern.
Fortunately, her sister didn’t seem to have any external injuries, but the Building-Tree Guardian was shattered like this, it was probably beyond saving.
“Yao, it’s dead. It seems to have cloned part of my abilities, and the Blood Crystals stored in its body were only enough for three or four full-powered attacks.” Lin Xiwan quickly explained the situation of the clone to her sister, and casually picked up her sister and Huayibai.
“Let’s run, I feel that it will still…”
“Yao—!”
A familiar call came from the distance.
Lin Jiayao and Lin Xiwan froze, looking at each other.
So fast?
With the B-rank’s movement speed and extremely fast generation speed, if they didn’t quickly kill the clone chasing after them, they might have to face two clones of Lin Xiwan.
In the distance, in the turbid artificial lake of Nie Er Park in the center of Wangxi City, stood a huge “flesh pillar”.
This “flesh pillar” was formed by people clinging to and connecting with each other. Their mouths and anuses were stuffed with dry, black branches, fixing them to the tree and maintaining their lives.
Although their hands and legs could move, they couldn’t use any abilities. Whether male or female, they were all entangled with black, arm-like branches, seemingly in a deep coma.
A large amount of glistening, blood-red Blood Crystals had accumulated at its base, each wrapped in a black stem, occasionally being rolled up and absorbed into the pillar.
And from the top of this huge Flesh Pillar Tree, which was formed by hundreds of people, black branches sprouted, each with a nearly one-meter-sized, yellow, translucent egg on it.
Through the yellow eggs, she could even see the blurry human figures being gestated inside.
It was like a larger version of the Flesh Pillar Tree, except that the people entangled and bound to it seemed to be still alive.
“Crack—”
A sarcoma at the top of the giant Flesh Pillar Tree burst open, and a terrifying humanoid figure with the same figure as Lin Xiwan, but with all its useless skin, organs, and muscles discarded, leaving only its evolution and aggressiveness, landed on the ground.
After quickly scanning its surroundings with its single eye in the center, it turned into a black shadow and rushed towards somewhere.
Like a batch of mass-produced living weapons, after exhausting their life force and launching two or three attacks, they would directly die.
As long as there were enough Blood Crystals, there would be an endless stream of “weapons” being produced, exhausting their life force and launching fatal attacks towards the target…
The terrifying creations were being rapidly generated at a rate of almost one every five minutes, and the Blood Crystals it consumed were far less than one-tenth of what it took to raise a B-rank Awakened.
It was mass-producing “disposable B-rank Awakened” that could launch B-rank attacks…
And it was using the biological evolutionary genes cloned from Lin Xiwan.
As long as the main body was not destroyed, the continuously produced “disposable B-rank Awakened”, with their extremely fast movement speed, would chase the enemy to their death.
And the burning building before had already been extinguished by a “disposable Awakened” who exhausted its life force and used its evolutionary ability, which was why the “enemy” escaped for a few more minutes.
Now, the real desperate pursuit had truly begun.
“Their mouths and anuses were stuffed with dry, black branches” 😀 their 😀 what 😀 now? 😀