BFET Chapter 10

Returning to the team

When Xie Yi opened his eyes again, he vaguely heard someone calling him.

In the hazy night, he saw a face that wasn’t clear.

Before he was fully awake, he reacted instinctively, flipping the person over and pinning them beneath him, his hand tightly gripping their neck.

A familiar laugh rang out, muffled, “The captain’s reaction is so fast after just waking up, seems like nothing’s wrong.”

“Shen Shu?” Xie Yi released his hand, looking at the figure slowly sitting up to face him, “You’re alright?”

“Thanks to the captain for getting me out in time.” Shen Shu paused deliberately on the word “sending.”

Xie Yi frowned, looking around.

The surroundings were all broken tree trunks and rotten roots, the air filled with a fishy smell mixed with a faint fragrance.

It seemed they were still in the Source of Pollution.

Seeing Xie Yi silent for a while, Shen Shu asked with concern, “Captain, what’s wrong? Not feeling well?”

“No.” Retracting his gaze, Xie Yi looked at Shen Shu, “How long was I unconscious?”

Shen Shu hummed, “About ten minutes, less than that.”

“Ten minutes.” Xie Yi murmured, his mind flashing with the rapidly withering Lantern Mushroom before he passed out, and the suddenly uncontrolled, expanding, and exploding pollution sac.

Out of control, why did it suddenly go out of control?

That was an extremely rare occurrence that only happened when a high-level Mutated Entity suffered a fatal injury.

That Lantern Mushroom was at most a mid-level subspecies, and besides, it was already withering at that time.

Xie Yi closed his eyes, suppressing the overly chaotic images in his mind, forcibly ignoring the subtle abnormality he had been feeling in his body since just now, and got up to walk towards the deep pit.

Seeing this, Shen Shu followed.

In contrast to the periphery, the surroundings of the deep pit were filled with floral fragrance, beneath which lurked a fishy smell that was gradually turning rancid.

“That flower died pretty thoroughly.”

Shen Shu followed behind Xie Yi and said, “But the seeds from before are full of vitality, not only did they eat that flower, but when I found you, they were growing towards you.”

As he spoke, the two had already returned to the edge of the deep pit. Shen Shu looked ahead, “They’ve grown even more lush in such a short time, if these things all evolve, the Fengjiang Zone might have to be upgraded to high-risk, right?”

Xie Yi: “If they aren’t dealt with in time, anything is possible.”

The deep pit had now become a sea of flowers, gradually growing into saplings in the shape of Lantern Mushrooms, still constantly rotting and re-sprouting and growing within.

Xie Yi suddenly asked out of the blue, “Shen Shu, are you really just an Evolutionary Awakening?”

Shen Shu: “What?”

Xie Yi tilted his head and looked at him silently for three seconds, “Nothing, let’s go.”

Affected by the Source of Pollution, the attack power of the plants in the vicinity that were already showing a desire to feed increased sharply.

It took some effort for Xie Yi and Shen Shu to escape.

The two retreated along the original path, and before they reached the place where they had hidden the car, they heard You Xue’s voice: “Xie Yi! Shen Shu!”

Immediately afterwards, a figure came running towards them.

Xie Yi: “Stop, don’t come over.”

You Xue was still a few meters away when Xie Yi suddenly shouted at her, she stopped subconsciously, somewhat blankly.

Shen Shu beside Xie Yi was also somewhat surprised to look at him.

“I didn’t disobey orders!” Thinking of something, You Xue explained anxiously, “I retreated as soon as abnormalities appeared near the Source of Pollution, I’ve been waiting here for a long time and you haven’t come out, and I’ve already contacted the main team.”

Speaking of the end, You Xue’s voice became a little quieter, “The main team has arranged for reinforcements to come over, this area near the Mid-Section Zone has been very calm, so I waited here for a while.”

“I’m not going to settle accounts with you, but don’t do it again.” Xie Yi sighed with some headache, and said slowly, “Go to the trunk and get the diluent and safety box, open the rear seat baffle, and turn on tranquilizing mode.”

You Xue immediately widened her eyes and looked at the figure in the shadows, her voice a few degrees louder than before, “Xie Yi, you’re messing around again!”

Xie Yi: “I’m not, hurry up and go.”

You Xue also knew that she couldn’t waste time, and immediately turned around and ran towards the car.

Shen Shu had been staring at Xie Yi, “Captain, the scale-like things on your face… seem to be getting more numerous, and the color is getting darker.”

“An Ability reaction, nothing’s wrong.” Xie Yi took two steps back and leaned against a giant tree.

You Xue returned quickly, this time without Xie Yi saying anything, she automatically stopped three meters away, and then took out a spider-shaped machine to drag the things to Xie Yi and the others’ position.

Xie Yi paused, got up and walked out.

You Xue subconsciously gasped, she saw that the exposed skin on Xie Yi’s body was almost covered with dark scale-like things, which was more serious than any time she had seen before.

“Shen Shu.” Xie Yi threw a bottled thing over, “You Xue will drive in a moment, you sit in the passenger seat, the pollution concentration on your body is too high now, this bottle of diluent can decompose it quickly, spray it clean before getting in the car.”

“I sit in the passenger seat, then what about you, Captain?” Shen Shu rubbed the diluent in his hand, thinking of what Xie Yi had just said to You Xue, “You’re going to sit in the back?”

“Yeah.” Xie Yi opened the safety box and put the black knife he had been carrying with him inside.

Shen Shu stared at Xie Yi: “I think I can be with you.”

“No.” Xie Yi looked at him, and handed the safety box in his hand over, “From now on, your task is to help me keep this box safe, and hand it over to the Symbiotic Product Containment Room after returning to the main team.”

Symbiotic product?

Shen Shu looked down at the safety box Xie Yi handed over.

After Shen Shu and You Xue got into the car, Xie Yi followed into the rear compartment.

There was a chill in the rear compartment under tranquilizing mode.

Xie Yi glanced at the instrument panel on the baffle, which showed the maximum value, and the compartment was filled with a high concentration of gaseous diluent, which greatly alleviated his discomfort.

This tranquilizing mode that came with the car was specially prepared for contaminated personnel.

The tranquilizing mode was equipped with pollution diluents specially researched by the research institute, which could curb the mutation speed of contaminated personnel to a great extent in a certain period of time, buying time for treatment.

After he leaned on it for a while to adapt, he opened the Smart Terminal.

Before getting in the car, he asked You Xue who the support team was, and according to the time, the support team should have already arrived in the Fengjiang Zone.

He thought for a while, and sent out a brief summary of the current situation of the Source of Pollution.

Exiting the communication page, Xie Yi saw that there were several unread messages.

They were all sent to him by You Xue at different times, the earliest of which was nearly three hours ago – Shen Shu is gone! He seems to have gone to the Source of Pollution to find you!

Xie Yi squinted his eyes at this time, calculating that it should have been not long after they separated.

But he didn’t receive this message at the time, it was estimated that the signal breakpoint in the Source of Pollution delayed it.

Looking at it this way, Shen Shu had been following him from beginning to end.