BFET Chapter 22

A piercing screech instantly echoed all around.

The Spider Puppet struggled violently, the flesh on its abdomen and back rapidly wriggling, bulging with dense blisters, trying to devour the person on its back.

Xie Yi glanced quickly, then reached out and grabbed its compound eyes, his sharp fingertips instantly piercing its head. Then, following the Spider Puppet’s struggling movements, he arched backward and flipped over.

Abyss, already stabbed into the Spider Puppet’s abdomen, slid recklessly, directly piercing a complete pollution sac near the edge.

The moment the pollution sac was shattered, the Spider Puppet let out a shrill howl, its entire body staggering and kneeling on the ground. Thick, black-green blood mixed with milky yellow fluid trickled from its abdomen.

Xie Yi, who had flipped over to the other side of the Spider Puppet, didn’t stop there. He quickly turned around, Abyss flashing brilliantly in his hand as he spun it into a beautiful sword flourish. Without the slightest pause, he stabbed into the Spider Puppet’s abdomen again!

The long howl hadn’t faded before a more miserable shriek was added.

The Spider Puppet struggled again in panic and bewilderment. Its dozen slender spider legs supported its massive body as it crashed against the nearby ruins, trying to knock the person off its back!

Xie Yi braced his feet against the nearest spider leg, stabilizing his body. Then, using Abyss as a fulcrum, he spun upward, landing on top of the Spider Puppet. He thrust his other hand, empty-handed, into the Spider Puppet’s abdomen, reaching for the only remaining undeveloped pollution sac in the middle!

The instant the pollution sac was in his grasp, Xie Yi crushed it without hesitation. At the same time, the last remaining complete pollution sac within the Spider Puppet was also torn apart by Abyss.

The Spider Puppet, constantly screaming and crashing into the ruins, suddenly fell silent. Its massive body staggered and fell forward.

After confirming that the Spider Puppet was dead, Xie Yi stood up from its abdomen and jumped to the ground.

He was in a terrible state, his sleeves torn and the exposed skin on his arms a bloody mess.

As he relaxed slightly, the paralyzing sensation that had already permeated his body from the Spider Puppet’s poison belatedly surged up. Xie Yi staggered, his strength failing, and he sat down, leaning against the broken wall behind him.

He sighed softly, looked at his hand, and frowned as he removed the smart terminal from his wrist.

The smart terminal had been taken in and out of the Spider Puppet’s body several times with Xie Yi. Fortunately, it was durable and hadn’t broken, except for looking dirty on the surface.

He took out some medical supplies from the space button, simply cleaned his hand, bandaged it casually, and then took out his goggles and communication headset, preparing to use the smart terminal to contact Shen Shu and You Xue.

However, the smart terminal’s signal showed a disconnected status.

Xie Yi clicked his tongue and could only temporarily abandon the idea of contacting them first.

He looked around. Based on the state of the ruins, this location was roughly on the edge of the Central Zone. There were quite a few Mutated Entities active around here, and with the Spider Puppet’s corpse present, it would easily attract other Mutated Entities.

As Xie Yi pondered his next course of action, a faint, intermittent wail suddenly came from a distance.

He paused for a second, and his entire body instantly entered a state of alert. He flipped over, maintaining a half-squatting position, and listened intently for a while. After roughly determining the direction, he used the surrounding broken walls to conceal his figure, found a gap, and peeked out in the direction of the sound.

In the dim night, a light mist blurred most of his vision, but with the aid of the goggles’ telescopic function, Xie Yi clearly saw that on the side from which the sound came, ruins were constantly collapsing, as if something was fighting.

Xie Yi hesitated for only a second before vaulting over the broken wall and searching in that direction.

He had originally intended to use the surrounding ruins to avoid any high-level Mutated Entities, but along the way, Xie Yi didn’t encounter a single one.

As he got closer to the source of the sound, he gradually smelled a bloody scent, and the smell grew stronger.

Boom—

A huge figure was sent flying, crashing straight into a dilapidated two-story building.

As the heavy dust dissipated, Xie Yi, hidden behind the ruins, saw not far away, the ground was covered with Insect Tribute mixed with strange-shaped sacs and multiple ghost masks, as well as the corpses of other Mutated Entities.

And in the middle of those corpses, a person stood with his back to him, his snow-white hair extremely conspicuous in the night, it was Shen Shu!

Xie Yi looked at that figure in shock, somewhat unable to react for a moment.

At this moment, from the building that had just been knocked down, a black shadow suddenly darted out, rushing towards Shen Shu with extreme speed.

Xie Yi’s body reacted faster than his brain, and almost instantly he followed, pulled out his gun and fired several shots at the black shadow!

The black shadow was hit and fell to the ground, it was something with a black-patterned leather-wrapped skull, it was the Insect Tribute’s main body.

When the gunshot rang out, Shen Shu’s figure had a moment of obviousStupid.

But Xie Yi didn’t see it. He glanced at the Insect Tribute that had been shot down, then raised his head to look in Shen Shu’s direction, and asked, “Shen Shu, what are you doing?”

Shen Shu didn’t respond immediately. He crushed the Insect Tribute’s head that he had been holding in his hand, and then slowly took out a handkerchief to wipe his hands clean, before slowly turning around, showing Xie Yi a smile, and gesturing around with his hands, “Captain, I’m killing Mutated Entities.”

“So many, all killed by me.” His tone was full of an unknown excitement, and he continued to say to Xie Yi as if waiting for praise, “Captain, am I very powerful?”

Leaving aside why there would be so many Mutated Entities appearing here together, how did Shen Shu get here?

Xie Yi looked around. One person killed all these high-level and mid-level Mutated Entities, but he was unharmed. How did he do it?

“Captain, why aren’t you talking?” Seeing that Xie Yi didn’t speak, the smile on Shen Shu’s face faded, and his voice took on a hint of grievance, “Is it too few?”

“No, you’re very powerful.” Xie Yi looked at Shen Shu again.

Shen Shu was completely lacking the usual gentleness. Although he was smiling, there was no smile in his eyes, and his whole person had a sense of distortion.

Xie Yi narrowed his eyes, something’s wrong.

“Really?” Shen Shu smiled again when he heard this, but soon his smile disappeared again, “But why do you look unhappy?”

“I’m not unhappy, I’m always like this.” Xie Yi explained, walking towards him, “With this number, the Mutated Entities within the Mid-Section Zone of Jiangbei should have been almost completely cleared by you.”

“Our Jiangbei mission can end early.”

Xie Yi stopped in front of Shen Shu, reaching out his hand to him, “Come, let’s leave here first, wait until we meet up with You Xue, find a place to rest, tomorrow during the day…”

Shen Shu: “No.”

Xie Yi’s words were interrupted by Shen Shu before he could finish, and then he saw Shen Shu’s emotionless eyes staring at him, tilting his head and leaning closer, whispering to him, “I haven’t found the voice that keeps calling me, how can I leave?”