BFET Chapter 47

Target

A hand reached over from the side, covering Xie Yi’s hand that was gripping his left shoulder.

Xie Yi subconsciously looked up, meeting Shen Shu’s gaze. “Where is this?”

Averting his gaze, Xie Yi scanned his surroundings.

The area was filled with messy rocks, densely covered with dark green moss. Large and small roots crawled haphazardly along the cracks between the stones, covering everything around.

Bright, fragmented light streamed in from a clearly concealed opening ahead, accompanied by a faint, continuous sound.

“Just a place I randomly found, not sure exactly where.” Shen Shu took Xie Yi’s hand, moved it from his shoulder, and then used his fingertips to open the coat draped over him, checking the wound on his shoulder.

Following his movements, Xie Yi looked at himself and noticed that he was covered in bandages and tape. The injuries he hadn’t had time to deal with before were now all properly bandaged.

It was obvious who had done it.

Shen Shu: “The wound on your left shoulder was rotting badly. I took advantage of your unconsciousness to remove all the rotten flesh. It’s best not to move too much for now.”

Xie Yi slightly adjusted his posture, and immediately a piercing pain shot through his left shoulder as if it was being pulled. He couldn’t help but hiss softly, exhaling, “Got it.”

Xie Yi leaned back, half-closing his eyes, and then looked up at Shen Shu again, asking, “What’s the situation now?”

Shen Shu looked at him, his voice calm as if he were describing something ordinary: “Basically, it’s just Mutated Entities everywhere.”

Traces of heteromorphism hadn’t completely faded from Xie Yi’s face, and his bloodless lips pursed into a tight line upon hearing Shen Shu’s words.

Not long after receiving the alarm, a large number of Mutated Entities appeared in the Peripheral Zone, at least one or two times more than they had encountered the first time.

At that time, Xie Yi and Shen Shu were already on the edge of the high-risk Enclosed Zone’s Peripheral Zone. Assuming the worst, those Mutated Entities had probably collectively crossed the Peripheral Zone line and left the Enclosed Zone.

Why did those Mutated Entities suddenly riot? Even break free from the influence of the Gigawhale launchers near the Peripheral Zone. What does this have to do with the attack on the Safety Zone?

Xie Yi felt his mind was somewhat muddled, like rusty gears, heavy and slow.

At this moment, Shen Shu suddenly shook a white can in front of him and said, “Captain, have some water first.”

Xie Yi reached out and took it, subconsciously asking, “What time is it now?”

“Almost seven o’clock.” Shen Shu said, then suddenly paused as if remembering something, and continued, “Oh, right, during the time you were unconscious, the Smart Terminal received seven more alarms intermittently.”

Xie Yi’s movements froze, and he abruptly turned to look at him, then immediately raised his hand to look at the Smart Terminal.

The quiet Smart Terminal lit up, and the first thing that appeared on the screen was a free-floating black number: 8.

The Tianmu Gigawhale has been iterated for eighteen years and has been adjusted countless times in design, one of which is the signal reflection alarm, which is used for requesting assistance when a Safety Zone is attacked.

The alarm design integrates the principle of the Gigawhale launcher, which can ignore the magnetic field influence caused by pollution within one second after reflection, and can be encoded to a certain extent for transmitting information.

However, due to technical limitations, the information source and encoded information parsing and loading can only be done on specialized machines; the Smart Terminal can only receive alarms.

Xie Yi exhaled heavily, leaning back and closing his eyes, a rare hint of helplessness on his face.

There are currently only 26 Safety Zones of all sizes remaining in the country. Here, eight of them had problems all at once, in less than half a night.

If this continues to develop, the fall of all Safety Zones is only a matter of time, and the speed will be very fast.

Now something has happened on the high-risk Enclosed Zone side as well. Does the General Command know?

The General Command…

Xie Yi suddenly opened his eyes and blurted out, “We need to find a way to get back to the General Command first.”

As he spoke, Xie Yi took out an injection from the Space Button and was about to inject it into himself, but a hand stopped him.

“What are you doing?” Xie Yi frowned, giving Shen Shu a questioning look.

“I don’t think the captain’s current physical condition is suitable for using painkillers.” Shen Shu had an expression that said, “I’m doing this for your own good,” and forcefully took the painkiller from Xie Yi’s hand, then looked at him meaningfully and said, “Captain, why do you have this habit of injecting things into yourself at the drop of a hat?”

Xie Yi: “?”

Xie Yi looked puzzled and was about to say when did he have such a habit when he heard Shen Shu continue, “Besides, what’s the use of you going back now? What can you do? Are you sure you’ll still see the Safety Zone you remember when you get back?”

Xie Yi narrowed his eyes, noticing that Shen Shu used “you,” “What do you mean?”

“Seven hours, eight Safety Zones attacked, their fate unknown.” Shen Shu stated the facts calmly, “How can you be sure that Kui City isn’t one of them?”

Xie Yi didn’t respond, but his eyes silently refuted: What stupid things are you saying.

“Okay.” Shen Shu shrugged, “As one of the only three remaining large Safety Zones and the birthplace of the Tianmu Gigawhale, Kui City shouldn’t be that weak, but can you be sure that Kui City will still be safe and sound while you’re rushing back?”

“Those Mutated Entities’ target is you humans.”

“Shen Shu.” Xie Yi stared at him, “What do you mean by ‘you humans’? Aren’t you one too?”

Shen Shu met his gaze, and after a long moment, suddenly laughed and retorted, “Am I?”