BFET Chapter 24

A warm breath tickled his ear.

Ignoring the unfamiliar and uncomfortable sensation, Xie Yi turned his head to meet Shen Shu’s eyes, his tone as calm as a casual chat, “What do you think?”

While speaking, Xie Yi’s only free hand didn’t hesitate at all. The moment the pre-prepared potent tranquilizer pressed against Shen Shu’s abdomen, it was directly injected into his body.

A slight sting, accompanied by a momentary swelling pain, brought a wave of disgust to Shen Shu’s eyes from a too-familiar sensation.

His left hand went straight for Xie Yi’s neck, “You…”

However, just as he started the word “you,” Shen Shu’s entire body went limp and slid down.

Xie Yi grabbed his hand with his backhand, turned around, and hugged him completely into his arms.

At the same time, the gun he had drawn from who knows when, faced the surrounding swarm of corpses, now within arm’s reach, and unleashed a barrage of fire.

The sound of gunfire was incessant.

The surging swarm of corpses was like silent puppets, without pain or wailing.

After the smoke cleared, there was only a ground of fragmented corpses, and grotesque bodies re-bonded and pieced together by the blood-colored mist-like flowers.

Taking advantage of the lull after wiping out a wave, Xie Yi bent down and propped up Shen Shu.

He scanned his surroundings, trying to find a weak point.

The moment he looked up, a flash of red and white crashed into his eyes from afar.

But it was instantly swallowed by the dense swarm of corpses.

Even with just a glance, a single color.

But Xie Yi immediately recognized it as a Curse Gu.

This direction was the one Shen Shu had been facing from the very beginning.

But why was it just standing there? Not actively attacking, what was it waiting for?

Countless thoughts raced through his mind in an instant.

Xie Yi avoided the Curse Gu’s position, carrying Shen Shu and dodging the increasingly grotesque swarm of corpses that kept lunging at them amidst the chaos.

It had to be said that carrying a burden, he clearly felt his stamina rapidly draining.

In the thick stench of blood, he was almost face-to-face with corpses several times, the blood-colored mist flowers brandishing their claws, and if he hadn’t reacted quickly enough, he probably wouldn’t know how many times he would have been pierced by those things.

He also had to take care of the person on his back.

Inappropriately, Xie Yi’s mind suddenly flashed back to Fei Yuelan’s words from a long time ago, that he was very reliable.

His face was expressionless, to the point of letting out a bitter, self-amusing chuckle.

…

Under the dim moonlight, the continuous sound of gunfire echoed.

Bright sparks continuously burst forth within the dense mass of dark shadows.

The sparks flashed like swimming dragons all the way, until the continuous gunfire suddenly ceased, and Xie Yi had already torn through the encirclement, rushing out while stepping on a ground of fragmented corpses!

His face and body were covered with a lot of blood and grime, and most of the bandage tape on his arm had been torn, revealing the black and red blood and flesh.

He was in a terrible state, but fortunately, he hadn’t been given a chance to be drilled by those blood-colored mist flowers.

Xie Yi panted heavily, feeling that his stamina was nearing its limit.

The numbness and tearing sensation brought by the Spider Puppet’s poison had been suppressed by him, and now it seemed to be emerging from the gaps in his muscles and bones in a frantic rush.

He braced himself, not daring to relax in the slightest.

The speed at which the shattered corpses were piecing themselves back together was getting faster and faster, and the number hadn’t decreased at all, but fortunately, their movement speed wasn’t that fast.

Since the Curse Gu showed no signs of actively attacking, as long as he could escape the line of sight of this group of things, he could have a chance to catch his breath.

Xie Yi looked around, and a map of Jiangbei’s terrain appeared in his mind, and he quickly had a target.

The pursuing swarm of corpses was like a plague of locusts, crushing one ruined house after another.

Amid the booming sounds, the rising gray-white dust gathered and dissipated, leaving behind a ground of rubble and debris.

And on this rubble and debris, a huge red and white thing was standing in the middle.

Bright red, blood-colored tentacles clung to white flesh balls of all sizes, and as they moved, blood-colored mist-like flowers bloomed at the joints of the flesh balls, the fine, thread-like petals swaying gracefully in mid-air.

The surface of the flesh balls, embraced by tentacles and mist flowers, seemed to have something constantly squirming, finally converging on the largest flesh ball in the middle. The dense, crowded wrinkles made the entire flesh ball look like a breathing brain.

The next second, the wrinkles on this brain cracked open in unison, revealing rows of sharp teeth covered in flesh and blood.

Dense tentacles protruded from between the teeth, whirling around in mid-air, and then stretched out in unison towards the direction the swarm of corpses was chasing, the tips of the tongues splitting open.

Xie Yi’s speed didn’t decrease but increased, but the roaring sound behind him always followed like a shadow.

A bad premonition gradually emerged in his heart, the distance of this sound was not right.

It felt like it was approaching.

If this continued, he wouldn’t even be able to escape its line of sight, and would probably be caught up soon.

Xie Yi quickly abandoned his initial thoughts in his heart, and re-calculated in his mind.

At this moment, a burst of urgent “beep beep” sounds suddenly came from the distance.

Xie Yi looked up, and then saw a car speeding towards his direction from the distance!

He narrowed his eyes and smiled silently.

Then he changed direction nearby and entered a street next to him.

The speeding car turned in the same direction shortly after he changed direction.

Xie Yi constantly changed direction along the street that was cut off by broken walls and ruins. Finally, when he rushed towards an intersection, a black jeep braked sharply and stopped there first.

The rear door was pushed open from the inside, and at the same time, You Xue’s figure appeared from the lowered passenger window.

She shouted anxiously, “Xie Yi, hurry!”

The moment the car stopped, Xie Yi burst out like an explosion.

Behind him, the pursuing swarm of corpses suddenly missed.

He threw the person on his back into the car, and Xie Yi followed closely behind.

The car door slammed shut, “Go!”

The engine started instantly, and the jeep shot out like an arrow.

“Xie Yi, are you guys okay?” You Xue looked at them from the rearview mirror, “What’s wrong with Shen Shu?”

“It’s okay.” Xie Yi closed his eyes, and shook his slightly trembling hand, “He just mutated, I gave him a tranquilizer.”

You Xue’s breath hitched, she was just about to ask again when she suddenly saw in the rearview mirror that Xie Yi was taking off Shen Shu’s clothes!

You Xue: ?

“Focus on driving.” Xie Yi didn’t look up, his movements were quick.

You Xue awkwardly retracted her gaze, endured for two seconds and couldn’t help but ask, “Why are you taking off Shen Shu’s clothes? When did I not know you had this hobby? And I’m still here!”

Xie Yi: “What nonsense are you thinking about, I’m just checking.”

You Xue gave an “oh” and subconsciously understood that Xie Yi was checking Shen Shu’s degree of mutation, so she closed her mouth and didn’t look sideways.

Xie Yi undid Shen Shu’s team uniform and looked around, confirming that he hadn’t been parasitized by those things before he relaxed.

Rustling sounds rang out from the back seat, and only stopped after a while. Then, You Xue heard Xie Yi ask coldly, “Didn’t you take ELE-14?”

You Xue gave an “ah” and glanced at the rearview mirror: “I did, how would I dare to come in without taking it.”

“Then what’s wrong with the right side of your neck?” Xie Yi looked at the side of You Xue’s neck, only to see that there was a centipede-shaped sarcoma about half the size of a palm.

“…Because I accidentally took too much, and there was a rejection reaction.” You Xue shrank her neck uncomfortably, “After dispersing, I didn’t see you guys come out, and I couldn’t contact you, so I drove in directly. I took one before coming in, but I didn’t expect the pollution concentration to suddenly surge in the middle, so I added two more…”

ELE-14 is a special type of resistance agent that can provide the body with pollution resistance in a short period of time. The dose should not be too much at one time, otherwise it will produce a rejection reaction.

“Is it because of those things?” You Xue asked, “The Mutated Entities recorded in Jiangbei don’t look like that, a new mutated species? I’ve never seen a Mutated Entity that looks so strange, and there are so many of them.”

“No.” Xie Yi re-applied the bandage tape for himself and wrapped it up, “Those are the Mutated Entities that are active in the Mid-Section Zone and Central Zone of Jiangbei, but they were constantly shattered and reorganized.”

“There’s a Curse Gu here.”

“?” You Xue looked at the rearview mirror, and said in disbelief, “You…are you kidding?”

That was a Curse Gu, a pervasive parasite, causing cognitive distortions that made people kill each other.

It was because of this thing that the battle a year ago was called the most tragic one in nearly ten years. Everyone who survived that battle had more or less stained their hands with the blood of their comrades.

How could this thing appear here?

You Xue looked at the rearview mirror again, and saw that Xie Yi’s expression was cold and stern, and he didn’t mean to joke at all. She quickly calmed herself down, “Then what should we do next? Contact the main team for support?”

Before Xie Yi could answer, there was a loud bang!

The rear of the jeep suddenly sank, the tires rubbed against the ground making a series of screams, and the entire car was shaking violently. You Xue desperately grabbed the steering wheel and looked at the rearview mirror, “It’s that group of things! When did they catch up! They’re dragging the car!”