BFET Chapter 37

Concern

Shen Shu heard this and slightly raised his eyebrows, a shallow arc appearing at the corner of his mouth as he looked at Xie Yi with a playful gaze.

Xie Yi’s eyelids twitched, feeling for no reason that nothing good would come out of this person’s mouth. Just as he was about to add something, he heard the other party say unexpectedly, “No.”

As if he hadn’t seen the surprise flash across Xie Yi’s eyes, Shen Shu continued, “Captain, you seem to be more concerned about those sounds than I am? Why?”

Why?

Xie Yi couldn’t help but recall his previous conversation with Hu Xianwei, when they had mentioned the sounds Shen Shu had heard.

Hu Xianwei had suggested that Shen Shu could hear them perhaps because of his special constitution, and that Xie Yi should pay more attention when he was with Shen Shu to see if he heard anything else.

At the time, Xie Yi had pressed Hu Xianwei, asking if that was why they had put Shen Shu on the field team, and even so easily put him in Bai Er now. Hu Xianwei had not denied it.

However, later, Xie Yi felt that there might be other, deeper reasons.

He couldn’t say these things directly to Shen Shu, so Xie Yi threw out an impatient sentence: “I’m afraid you’ll go crazy again.”

Shen Shu gave an “Oh” of realization, and said flattered, “So Captain is concerned about me.”

Xie Yi: “?”

“What’s wrong?” Shen Shu looked with interest at the changing expressions on Xie Yi’s face. “Captain is afraid I’ll go crazy, isn’t that concern for me?”

“…” Xie Yi wanted to retort with ‘What kind of garbage is in your head?’, but at the same time, he inexplicably felt that his words just now seemed a bit ambiguous.

The two thoughts swirled around in his head a few times before he decisively slapped them away, then forcefully dragged the topic back: “So what exactly were you looking at just now?”

“Nothing.” Shen Shu said casually, “I just seemed to hear faint gunshots over there.”

“Gunshots?” Xie Yi suddenly turned his head to the front right.

The rugged and dense trees entangled with scattered ruins firmly blocked all prying eyes.

Xie Yi stared in that direction for two seconds, thinking, “Let’s go take a look.”

Having only taken two steps, Xie Yi suddenly stopped and looked back at Shen Shu.

Hu Xianwei had told him that Shen Shu’s five senses had evolved significantly during his Awakening, but to avoid being too conspicuous, they had only filled in the visual direction on the registration form.

“Why did Captain stop? And why are you looking at me like that?” Shen Shu, who had been surprised that Xie Yi had believed him so easily, now met his gaze and chuckled, “Are you afraid I’m lying to you?”

“Your official file states that your biological evolution is in the visual direction.” Xie Yi looked at him meaningfully, implying, “That information is public within the team.”

After saying that, Xie Yi gestured for him to follow and turned back to the front right.

Although Xie Yi’s two sentences were vague, Shen Shu understood.

He was being told to act in accordance with the information in his file.

The smile in Shen Shu’s eyes faded. Although he had never cared about that information, what did Xie Yi know?

The afternoon sunlight filtered through the sparse leaves, illuminating the ruins intertwined with vegetation.

“Bang!” A loud noise rang out.

Several pieces of crumbling walls, leaning against each other, collapsed with a crash, and a large cloud of gray dust suddenly rose around them.

A series of dense, rapid creaking sounds reverberated from the dust.

Like the sound of teeth constantly grinding together.

At that moment, two figures suddenly darted out of the cloud of dust.

A man and a woman.

The woman, supporting another man who appeared to be half-unconscious, landed nimbly. Then, she spun around and thrust her empty left hand forward!

Immediately, countless thick ice cones pierced through the still-dissipating dust.

However, the next second, a long object crashed out from the center, and the newly formed ice cones collapsed with a loud bang.

The shattered ice shards suddenly shot out in all directions with razor sharpness!

The woman reacted quickly, retreating rapidly while raising her left hand. A huge ice shield instantly solidified in front of her, blocking the incoming shards.

Amidst the cracking sounds, the sound of something climbing quickly flashed by.

The woman turned her head instantly and saw a string of thick, thorny things lashing towards her.

There was no time to retreat!

Her pupils constricted suddenly, and she reflexively tried to form an ice shield, but before the shield was fully formed, the string of things had already whipped up with a whoosh!

She, along with the person she was supporting, was flung out.

The two figures instantly split into two parabolas in mid-air, crashing into several trees growing intertwined, and then falling to the ground.

The intense pain made the woman gasp and grunt. She endured the pain and quickly got up, walking towards the person who had rolled to the other side. “Su Yunan, are you alright?”

The person called Su Yunan didn’t respond, already completely unconscious.

Rustling sounds rapidly approached from the side, and a behemoth slowly stood up amidst the creaking sounds.

The behemoth only stood up halfway, but already looked five or six meters tall. Its entire body was light purple, covered with a calcareous exoskeleton, and the jointed limbs covering its abdomen were spread out to the sides.

Countless small eyes in the giant compound eyes on its head stared down at them, and the mouth, vaguely visible among the dense short whiskers beneath its eyes, writhed, making creaking sounds.

Several thick meat skewers extended from its back, densely covered with thornyThorny things, their tips split open, facing them.

The woman’s face, pale with pain, was filled with ferocity. She cursed under her breath, reached out and grabbed the unconscious Su Yunan, and threw more than a dozen ice spikes at the thing at the same time.

She wanted to take the opportunity to retreat to the side.

The behemoth shrieked and charged at the woman, braving the ice spikes.

Perhaps the spreading pain in her body slowed the woman’s movements, she hadn’t even run a few steps before she smelled a pungent stench, and the next second she caught the sound of a gust of wind.

It was a complete reflex that made her bend over and roll away with the person. The ground, a tangled mess of gravel and rough, dry branches, was like a form of torture at that moment. She didn’t know which wounds had been scraped, but the pain made her dazed for a moment.

In that moment of daze, the behemoth had already loomed before her!

“Bang! Bang! Bang—”

At that moment, several gunshots suddenly rang out from the side!

The bullets, briefly forcing back the behemoth, also startled the woman awake.

She quickly supported herself up and dragged Su Yunan away, then turned to look in the direction of the gunshots, and when she saw who it was, she exclaimed in astonishment, “Xie Yi?!”