BFET Chapter 45

Sudden changes

The sudden infighting among the surrounding Mutated Entities created chaos, yet a strange safe zone remained around them.

Hearing this in such a bizarre environment, protected by Mutated Entities, Xie Yi’s expression instantly turned blank. He looked at Shen Shu with complicated emotions, as if silently questioning, “How can you even ask?”

Thinking about it carefully, ever since he met this person, every time he was in a mess, it was invariably related to him.

At this moment, Shen Shu’s calm voice sounded again: “Captain, aren’t you getting up?”

Usually, if someone offered a hand and the other person didn’t acknowledge it for a while, they might retract it.

But Shen Shu was clearly not an ordinary person. Not only did he not retract his hand, but he also urged again, pushing his hand forward another inch.

Giving the impression that if you didn’t take it, he would just grab you himself.

Xie Yi pursed his lips and looked down at the clean and slender hand. When he looked up again, he directly reached out his own hand, covered in blood and filth, and grasped it. Then, following Shen Shu’s strength, he stood up.

His face was pale, and his left shoulder wound was still bleeding. The wound was aggravated when he stood, causing him to tense and tremble unconsciously.

Xie Yi closed his eyes slightly, forcibly stabilizing himself, and gripped Shen Shu’s hand a little harder.

Although the self-healing speed brought by Gene Resonance was accelerating, it was obviously not at the level where he could recover instantly. The pain of the wound, the pollution left by the tentacle, and the effects of continuous bleeding were still very obvious in the short term.

It had been a long time since he had suffered such a serious injury.

Feeling that he had recovered slightly, Xie Yi was about to let go of Shen Shu’s hand, but unexpectedly, as soon as he moved, Shen Shu tightly gripped his hand in return.

He was stunned and raised his eyes, giving a questioning look. He then heard Shen Shu say, “Captain, you’re shaking, and your wound is still bleeding. Let me help you treat it first.”

The sounds of Mutated Entities fighting and roaring around them were constant, and the stench of blood was thick and choking.

Limbs and viscous liquids were occasionally flung at their feet.

“Shen Shu, is now the time to do this?” Xie Yi forcibly pulled his hand away, casually using a bandage to stop the bleeding from his left shoulder. Then, he asked the question that had been interrupted earlier, “Are you actively influencing and controlling these things?”

Although it was a question, Xie Yi’s tone was stating a fact.

Fighting each other was in the nature of Mutated Entities. No matter what caused these things to form a temporary alliance, the moment a traitor appeared among them, their nature would instantly take over.

Xie Yi looked around, his mind highly focused due to the constant pain.

The number of Mutated Entities that had turned traitor was as high as half, but their behavior repeatedly showed brief moments of sluggishness and struggle.

It was obvious that they were being influenced and controlled, which caused them to be at a disadvantage in most of their fights.

Xie Yi looked at Shen Shu, and the words Hu Xianwei had said echoed in his mind once again.

“Xiao Shu was born in a state where his mother was polluted and assimilated. His physique is very special, somewhere between human and Mutated Entity.”

“Xiao Shu entered assimilation when he awakened, but he didn’t gain abilities like you. However, we later discovered that although he doesn’t have abilities, he has a more direct influence on Mutated Entities. He is not affected by pollution, and can sometimes even suppress mutation.”

“Because of this, Fang Ganlang has always wanted to cultivate Xiao Shu into a secret weapon against Mutated Entities, but Xiao Shu’s situation is unstable and uncontrollable, so I refused.”

“I tried my best to let Xiao Shu grow up as a normal human being, to let him think in a human way, but the results were minimal.”

“Amazing, right? I just learned it,” Shen Shu stared at Xie Yi. “Captain, why aren’t you surprised?”

“Aren’t you disappointed that I’m not surprised?” Xie Yi looked at him calmly. “Either way, this time, you saved me. Thank you.”

Shen Shu, this person, had grown up alone since he was a child.

In his twenty-five years of growth, he had spent two-thirds of his time facing various sedatives, cold instruments, and enclosed containment rooms.

Hu Xianwei and Fei Yuelan, as guardians and keepers, only provided him with guidance and discipline, and he had little interaction with others during his brief encounters.

So he learned to pretend, to obey, to learn about what they called respecting life, protecting humanity, and responsibility.

But from the bottom of his heart, he disregarded these so-called lives, protection, and responsibility, and then, in one mutation after another, he became infatuated with his own unique—natural freedom.

He knew what he was, and he didn’t care. His behavior was entirely based on his preferences.

Being thanked for the first time, Shen Shu was a little stunned. For a moment, he forgot how to react, and after a long time, he replied dryly, “Oh.”

Xie Yi inexplicably felt that Shen Shu’s reaction was a bit strange, but the increasingly one-sided unfavorable situation around them didn’t allow him to dwell on it.

In the short span of a few words, the group of Mutated Entities actively influenced and controlled by Shen Shu had already been routed like a landslide. Xie Yi moved his body slightly and asked, “How long can you control these things? To what extent? Can you make them give a little more effort or control more of them?”

Shen Shu looked up, silent for a moment. “I think we might need to run first. I’m losing control.”

Hearing this, Xie Yi looked at him in disbelief. “You’re that weak?”

And this weakling just now had the audacity to want to treat his wound here. What kind of death wish was that?

“…” Suppressed by the words “thank you,” Shen Shu cautiously defended himself, “I just learned it, I’m not very skilled.”

Xie Yi had originally wanted to take advantage of Shen Shu’s momentum to clear out a wave, but now it seemed impossible. He immediately put away Abyss: “Withdraw.”

At the same time as Xie Yi said “withdraw,” Shen Shu forcefully controlled that part of the Mutated Entities to counterattack crazily like a dying struggle. The two took this opportunity to quickly break away from the encirclement of Mutated Entities and retreat towards the periphery.

“We’ll go find Meng-jie. The group of Mutated Entities just now was very abnormal. I need to figure out what those people encountered before.” Xie Yi glanced at the time. “By the way, I haven’t had time to ask, why did you suddenly mutate before? Did you hear some sound again?”

Shen Shu absentmindedly hummed in response, “There were some sounds.”

Xie Yi immediately pressed, “What kind of sound? The same as last time?”

Shen Shu hesitated, then shook his head. Just as he was about to reply, the Smart Terminals on their wrists vibrated violently at the same time!

Xie Yi suddenly stopped. When he raised his hand and looked at the terminal, dense black code on the lit screen rotated and converged in an instant, then shattered into countless dust particles in the blink of an eye.

“This is… a Safety Zone has been attacked!” Xie Yi’s pale face instantly became extremely ugly.