BFET Chapter 43

Bait

Bait

“Not so fast. Even if there were, it wouldn’t attract too many in just under three hours.” Xie Yi was only halfway through his sentence when he immediately felt a vibration under his feet.

He exchanged a glance with Shang Mengzhou, and they both rapidly retreated to either side!

At the same time, right where they had been standing, a giant four-headed worm shrieked as it burst out of the ground!

The air immediately filled with the characteristic stench of worm-like Mutated Entities.

Shang Mengzhou raised her hand and sent out a dozen frost flowers. The blue frost accurately landed on the worm, rapidly freezing it and solidifying the junctions of its heads and necks!

Then she narrowed her eyes, the cracks on her icy-colored face increasing slightly.

In the next second, amid a series of shrill screams, the junctions of the four-headed worm’s heads and necks instantly exploded, a bloody mess, as several thick ice thorns pierced through.

The giant worm thrashed for a few seconds before falling silent.

Shang Mengzhou couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, but before she could finish exhaling, the sound of countless things crawling and sweeping in, accompanied by a chorus of roars, approached rapidly!

She cursed silently under her breath, dragging Su Yunan along as she retreated, shouting, “Su Yunan, have you recovered yet! Enough is enough!”

Before Su Yunan could respond, Xie Yi’s voice came from the other side, “Meng-jie, can you do another Iceberg Cluster?”

“What?” Shang Mengzhou felt like her ears were playing tricks on her. “Do you think I’m an Iceberg-producing perpetual motion machine?”

Mental strength is the core of Ability control. Unlike the decline in mental strength caused by injury or prolonged use of Abilities, a single high-burst, high-intensity use of Abilities can easily cause a huge impact on mental strength, amplifying the short-term effects by seven or eight times.

Xie Yi was silent for a second, giving her a deep look.

Shang Mengzhou inexplicably saw a confirmation in that look: “…”

“I’ll find you a helper.” Xie Yi said, “Among the three people we rescued, the buzzcut guy is an Earth-type Ability Awakened.”

Shang Mengzhou frowned, “What do you want to do? Block them again? I’m afraid I can’t reproduce the effect from just now. He looks badly injured, can he do it?”

“We’re a group of several people, four of us are injured, and four are incapacitated.” Xie Yi said suddenly, “In this situation, it’s difficult for us to escape. Running separately isn’t realistic. If we continue like this, the best outcome is that we can luckily escape the Enclosed Zone, but we’ll also bring these Mutated Entities out with us.”

Shang Mengzhou’s expression was solemn. Bringing these things out was a very serious matter: “We shouldn’t have retreated in this direction. Let’s change direction and go deeper!”

“Go to die together?” Xie Yi glanced at her and said quickly, “Also, the two unconscious ones over there are in bad shape, their mutation speed is accelerating. I just gave them two shots of blocking agent. We must get them to the contact point before the blocking agent wears off, there’s a medical pod there.”

Unlike strong tranquilizers, blocking agents are drugs that forcibly suppress mutation. They have obvious effects but strong side effects. After they wear off, different reactions occur depending on the person, mostly acute spasms, and in severe cases, even toxic reactions.

It wasn’t good news. Shang Mengzhou felt a little irritable, “Then what should we do!”

The chorus of roars behind them was accompanied by rustling sounds, like a shadow following them. Xie Yi backhanded and killed a few leeches that were approaching, then continued to say to Shang Mengzhou, “Listen, I have an idea we can try.”

He said while paying attention to what was behind him, “I need you and the Earth-type Ability user to create another mountain barrier, and then I’ll go attract their attention. You guys take Shen Shu and the others and continue to retreat. Even if we can’t stop all of them, I can make most of them stay behind.”

As soon as Shang Mengzhou heard this, she felt it was a terrible idea, and her voice rose several decibels, “Are you crazy! So many high-level Mutated Entities, we’re already being affected to varying degrees just like this, and you want to go in there as bait!”

Xie Yi didn’t deny the bait part, “You know, my Ability is different from yours, pollution is nourishment to me.”

“Nourishment…” Shang Mengzhou was momentarily speechless. Of course she knew what his Ability was. She had seen his Ability during that cross-city mobilization mission, and she had also seen him lose control, “Even if your Ability can treat pollution as nourishment, there’s still a limit. Have you forgotten that you’ve lost control before?”

“I won’t lose control again.” Xie Yi knew which time she was talking about. He looked at Shang Mengzhou and said, “Believe me, there’s no limit anymore.”

Shang Mengzhou was stunned for a moment upon hearing this. She wanted to ask more, but at this moment, a earth-shattering roar suddenly came from behind.

Then a shadow appeared above their heads, and a dozen tentacles covered in pustules descended from the sky!

Xie Yi and Shang Mengzhou reacted almost simultaneously!

The sounds of gunfire overlapped in an instant, along with various squeaks and screams.

“Meng-jie.” Xie Yi agilely dodged the constantly attacking pustule tentacles, “Do as I said just now, look for an opportunity!”

“Xie Yi, I haven’t agreed yet!” Shang Mengzhou shouted, “And where’s the opportunity right now!”

Shang Mengzhou cursed, constantly avoiding the pustule tentacles while carrying Su Yunan on her back. Suddenly, she felt someone lightly touch her shoulder. Her face lit up with joy, “Su Yunan? How are you?”

Su Yunan’s voice was so hoarse it was unrecognizable, as if someone was still choking his neck, barely uttering, “I’m… I’m okay…”

“You’d better not talk.” Shang Mengzhou grimaced in pain as she heard him speak, “I can’t put you down right now, just stay put!”

Xie Yi, who had just handed Shen Shu over to the buzzcut guy and was moving towards Shang Mengzhou, noticed that Su Yunan was awake and immediately asked, “Su Yunan, can you use your Ability to make these Mutated Entities stop for a moment?”

Su Yunan had vaguely heard a bit of what they were saying just now. He hesitated, gave an okay gesture, and then held up one finger.

Xie Yi immediately understood: “Okay, 1 second is enough.”

“Wait for me to rush up, then you make them stop when I get close to the Mutated Entity swarm. Meng-jie, you create another Iceberg Cluster at this time. The buzzcut guy will follow you. After doing all this, retreat immediately!”

Xie Yi finished speaking extremely quickly, giving no one a chance to react. Then he turned around and rushed towards the tentacles behind him!

Shang Mengzhou, who didn’t have time to speak, felt a breath stuck in her chest. She was so angry she could die, but she could only do as he said. At this time, she could only trust him.

Xie Yi agilely weaved through the flailing tentacles, rapidly approaching the Mutated Entity swarm. Almost at the moment he got close, all the Mutated Entities in front of him collectively stopped.

Xie Yi silently praised him for the good timing, and then charged directly in, his Abyss indiscriminately attacking, instantly stabbing several Mutated Entities to death.

Then, just as he was rushing towards the Faceless Ghoul, a series of dull sounds came from behind.