BFET Chapter 16

It’s a Corpse Reef.

A mid-tier Mutated Entity, a monster born from the mutation of corpses. Even if they die, as long as the corpse remains, they can mutate and revive.

There’s a tagging anchor extraction point in this shopping mall, it needs to be cleared.

Xie Yi retracted his gaze. He remembered that the map showed an outer street behind the mall. While he was thinking, he suddenly sensed a faint, strange aura, fleeting in an instant. Before he could think about it, the chewing sound that had been echoing throughout the mall disappeared!

Xie Yi’s heart sank. Shen Shu beside him suddenly leaned towards him and said softly, “Captain, they seem to be coming.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a stench of decaying corpses approached from afar.

Immediately, Xie Yi saw a drop of black liquid fall in front of him, and then “splatter” onto the ground.

Xie Yi and Shen Shu looked up one after another, only to see a gaunt and shriveled, but with a bloated abdomen, dried corpse crawling above their heads, twisting its neck and staring straight at them with empty eye sockets!

The stench of corpses in the air continued to intensify, accompanied by a faint rustling sound. Centered around this dried corpse, more dried corpses emerged, like bamboo shoots after a rain.

Countless gazes from empty eye sockets converged on them.

“Split up!” Without any hesitation, Xie Yi directly pushed Shen Shu to the other side and flipped out from the side himself.

Countless distorted roars followed as they pounced from behind!

Those dried corpses had no lower bodies, but they crawled with just their hands, and their speed of wriggling across the ground was extremely fast.

Abyss was in his hand. Xie Yi swung his knife backhand, cutting the nearest one in half at the waist. It was then quickly devoured by the horde of dried corpses that followed.

Xie Yi clicked his tongue, his hand skillfully slashing at the dried corpses that were constantly surrounding him. A pile of blocky corpse fragments quickly scattered around him.

Corpse Reefs were like a bottomless monster nest. If the main body wasn’t dealt with, it would be easy to be dragged to death.

In the brief moments between attacks, Xie Yi glanced at the second floor.

The Corpse Reef’s main body was still entrenched in its original spot, but its size was several times larger than what he had initially seen. Dried corpse-like monsters were constantly crawling out of it, and then rapidly climbing towards him and Shen Shu along the sides.

The surrounding dried corpses also began to gradually change as they continued to devour.

It was as if they were evolving through mutual fusion by devouring each other. Some grew several heads, some sprouted new, emaciated limbs from their torsos, and some had bloated abdomens that seemed to be digesting, with new dried corpses crawling out from the tail end.

He had to get to the second floor.

The sound of “bang, bang, bang” came from the other side. Xie Yi quickly glanced at the positions of him and Shen Shu relative to the escalators, roughly calculated it in his mind, and shouted, “Shen Shu, second floor!”

After shouting, Xie Yi conveniently picked up a nearby trash can, and directly spun around and threw it forcefully backwards.

With a loud bang.

The horde of dried corpses chasing behind him was directly crushed into a ball by the trash can, and smashed into the adjacent shops together.

Taking advantage of the gap, Xie Yi agilely vaulted over the abandoned counters on the first floor, and rushed straight towards the nearest escalator.

At this time, Shen Shu had already reached the second floor before him, surrounded by just as many, if not more, dried corpses.

Xie Yi kicked over a few dried corpses that were crawling up from above, then stomped on their heads, and quickly strode up to the second floor.

After reaching the second floor, he didn’t stop, but instead went straight towards the escalator leading to the third floor.

The dried corpses crawling up the railings and constantly pouncing from the corridor, Xie Yi didn’t know when he had switched to a gun.

Bang! At close range, one shot pierced through several heads.

Black blood splattered, sporadically flying onto his expressionless face.

His movements didn’t stop. He backhanded with the butt of his gun, breaking the neck of a dried corpse, then directly picked up that dried corpse with one hand, and slammed it hard towards the horde of dried corpses that were rushing towards him on the railing.

Quickly disposing of the obstacles, he directly flipped over the railing and onto the escalator leading upstairs, quickly went up to the third floor, and then saw the full view of the Corpse Reef’s main body from the railing on the third floor.

The black Corpse Reef’s main body clung to the second-floor corridor. Dried corpses were constantly crawling out from the side revealed by the gap, while the other part hidden inside was wriggling on a hemispherical object, and several tentacle-like things were hanging down from that hemispherical object.

This thing was still feeding.

The newly crawled-out dried corpses noticed Xie Yi. They all raised their heads, bared their teeth, and roared at him before turning around and crawling up towards the third floor from inside.

The sound of dried corpses following him up also came from the escalator behind him.

Xie Yi turned around and glanced at it, ignored it, and directly rushed towards the location of the Corpse Reef’s main body along the corridor.

More than a dozen dried corpses crawling up from below were smashed one by one by Xie Yi, who conveniently picked up the chairs that had fallen on the ground, using them more smoothly than the gun and knife.

The iron chair was deformed by him, and finally, like the previous one, played its final effect, taking the dried corpses that had just poked their heads out on the railing and jumping off the building together.

Xie Yi grabbed the railing forcefully, used the leverage to flip down, and then his whole body landed steadily on the second-floor railing.

As if he had calculated the position and distance, he aimed the gun in his hand at the Corpse Reef’s main body in front of him, and bang! bang! bang! several shots.

The bullets shattered the dried corpses that had just crawled out of the main body, and then constantly disappeared into the main body.

In an instant, the dried corpses crawling everywhere in the entire mall seemed to have been struck by lightning. They froze in place for a moment, then collectively turned their heads and quickly crawled towards Xie Yi and the main body!

Shen Shu, who had been unexpectedly looking up into the distance while playing with this group of things on the second floor, happened to see Xie Yi jumping down from the railing, holding a gun, and walking towards the Corpse Reef in front of him while shooting.

The pollution sac of the Corpse Reef was generally located in the middle of the main body, but obviously this one wasn’t.

Xie Yi was a little impatient. The actions of the surrounding dried corpses were very fast, and it didn’t give him time to slowly search.

Xie Yi turned around and shot down a few dried corpses that were pouncing from behind. The bullets in the gun in his hand were also exhausted.

He walked quickly over, used his left hand to hold Abyss, directly cut off the dried corpses that were crawling out of the main body again, and then stabbed straight into one direction.

Using Abyss, Xie Yi instantly locked onto the location of the pollution sac. Just as he was about to stab through it from inside, several withered hands quickly grew out from inside the main body, tightly binding him from the inside out.

The next second, a dried corpse crawled out from the withered hands, opened its mouth with the stench of corpses, and bit towards his face.

Xie Yi’s movements were as fast as lightning. The other hand holding the gun slammed over heavily.

The dried corpse’s head exploded. A strong black blood with some viscous things sprayed all over his face. At the same time, the hand he stabbed into the Corpse Reef’s main body, holding Abyss, also pierced through the pollution sac.

The dried corpse crowd that had already climbed up from all around stopped moving at this moment, then quickly withered and shriveled, like heavy rain falling to the ground.

Xie Yi lowered his eyes and looked at the hand that was still inside the Corpse Reef.

The clothes on his arm were torn, and the skin exposed outside was dyed a faint blue, with several blood streaks on it, which were scratched out by the withered hands when he used force just now.

Almost at the same time as he looked over, he immediately pulled his hand out.

Along with his hand, there also came a string of large and small, hugging together, yellow follicle-like pustules.

The yellow follicle-like pustules densely clung to his forearm, still undulating like breathing.

A stinging sensation constantly came from the skin under the pustules, as if something was constantly burrowing inside!

Xie Yi reacted extremely quickly. He threw away the gun with his other hand, immediately pulled out Abyss, and chopped down at the things on his forearm.

Crimson blood immediately dyed his entire forearm.

Dripping and pattering, it quickly accumulated a pool of blood.

Xie Yi’s complexion suddenly turned a little pale, and large patches of veins bulged on his neck and arms.

But there was no change in his expression, and he didn’t look at his forearm, but instead directly looked at the string of follicle pustules that he had cut off.

That thing rolled on the ground, along with a piece of bloody flesh, and countless oral-shaped things were drilling around on that layer of skin.

Xie Yi frowned, and turned around to touch the gun, but quickly remembered that he had just thrown it away. He was about to directly stomp on it, but before he could move, a cold voice came from behind him, “You’re injured?”

It was Shen Shu.

Xie Yi turned his head to look over, only to see Shen Shu standing at the corner.

The usual gentle smile on his face was gone. His handsome features seemed to be dyed with a layer of frost, making the whole look a bit cold and sharp.

His eyes stared at Xie Yi’s blood-stained red forearm for a few seconds, then moved away and walked towards Xie Yi, “Why aren’t you stopping the bleeding?”

While walking, Shen Shu took out a gun from his Space Button, and without even looking, fired several shots at the string of follicle-like pustules that were already wriggling on the ground, directly blasting the thing to smithereens.

The toe of Xie Yi’s shoe was also splashed with some yellow thick liquid.

The smoke cleared, leaving only some dense black bullet marks on the ground.

When he walked up to Xie Yi, Shen Shu happened to put away his gun, and directly reached out and grabbed Xie Yi’s still bleeding forearm.

Xie Yi originally felt that his arm had become numb, but at this moment, Shen Shu squeezed it a little painfully. He subconsciously wanted to pull it out, but couldn’t move, “What are you doing?”

“Captain can’t tell?” Shen Shu took out hemostatic gel and bandages from his Space Button, “I want to help you apply medicine.”

Shen Shu didn’t look up when he spoke, and his voice was very soft, without much emotion. Xie Yi inexplicably heard a trace of unhappiness from it.

He frowned, confused, and subconsciously thought he had misheard, saying, “Are you sure? Then why are you holding so tight? I thought you wanted to cripple my hand.”

Shen Shu’s movements paused, and he immediately released it a little, “Sorry, I’m a little nervous.”

Probably because he felt that the constantly flowing blood was a bit dazzling, Shen Shu moved very quickly. In the end, he was even afraid that he couldn’t wrap it tightly, so he wrapped several more layers of bandage on Xie Yi’s arm.

Xie Yi looked at it, wanting to say something but stopped.

Moving the hand that was wrapped not very conveniently, Xie Yi turned around and walked towards the Corpse Reef’s corpse behind him.

He stared at the corpse for two seconds, hesitated, then looked at the corridor in front, as if he couldn’t find what he wanted, and then turned to look at Shen Shu behind him, raised his chin towards the corridor behind him, and commanded, “Go over there and move a few chairs over.”