BFET Chapter 60

Heart

The outskirts of the Kui City safety zone were a chaotic scene of constant artillery fire, with swaying figures everywhere. Some fell, only to convulse and rise again in a different form.

“Xiao Ze!” You Xue, covered in dust, ran to a young man’s side, shouting while firing outwards, “Squad Leader Lu is ordering us to retreat! This area is almost out of control. Many field operatives have uncontrollably eaten the tainted flesh and are mutating. We’ll be wiped out if this continues!”

“What about the team responsible for the Harbinger?” Shang Zhouzhou shouted back.

You Xue replied, “Squad Leader Lu said he’ll arrange for someone to pick up Squad Leader Gu and the others!”

“Then I’ll go!” Shang Zhouzhou turned to her. “You Xue, you go and inform the other squads. Tell Squad Leader Lu that I’m taking people to pick up Squad Leader Gu and his team! Those still alive in Squad 7, follow me!”

“What…” You Xue watched Shang Zhouzhou leave with his squad without looking back. “Hey! Xiao Ze!”

Meanwhile, near the exclusion zone, although the fish-headed Mutated Entities had suddenly disappeared into the bloody vortexes, many people couldn’t resist eating the tainted flesh on the ground and began to mutate.

In just a few minutes, the field team had lost nearly half its members.

“Damn it!” Shang Mengzhou dodged a humanoid Mutated Entity attacking her while avoiding the bloody vortexes scattered nearby. “Xiao Li! Can you even handle this? Come and help!”

“Coming, don’t rush me! Damn, these things are so stinky, fishy, and disgusting, why do they make me feel so hungry! Everyone, stay alert!” Xiao Li forcibly tried to ignore the things on the ground, quickly condensing a lightning whip in his hand. He swung it, intending to entangle the Mutated Entity attacking Shang Mengzhou, but before the whip could touch it, two fish-headed Mutated Entities suddenly jumped out and intercepted it!

Xiao Li couldn’t help but curse, and the lightning whip, which he had been controlling the intensity of, instantly surged.

On the other side, Shang Mengzhou was preparing to take advantage of Xiao Li’s restraint of the humanoid Mutated Entity to rush over and subdue it with a potent tranquilizer. Distracted, she didn’t even have time to retreat and directly lunged headfirst towards the Mutated Entity!

At that moment, a hand suddenly reached out from the side and forcibly stopped Shang Mengzhou.

Shang Mengzhou abruptly turned her head and discovered it was Xie Yi. “Xie Yi! You…”

She stopped before she could finish, because she saw that half of Xie Yi’s body was still inside a bloody vortex!

“What are you doing?” Xie Yi frowned, his gaze sweeping past Shang Mengzhou, then he abruptly pushed her away. As he stepped out of the bloody vortex, he kicked the lunging humanoid Mutated Entity away.

In the next second, he quickly closed in, twirling Abyss in his hand, ready to strike, but Shang Mengzhou suddenly shouted from behind, “Xie Yi, don’t! That’s Su Yunan!”

Xie Yi paused, barely managing to retract Abyss.

He dodged the lunging “Su Yunan,” and in one fluid motion, pulled out a potent tranquilizer from his Space Button, restrained “Su Yunan” with one hand, and injected it.

“Damn, Xie Yi!” Xiao Li shook off the corpses of the two fish-headed Mutated Entities and moved towards Xie Yi. “How did you come out of these things? And that guy too. A lot of fish-headed Mutated Entities just went into this thing! Hey, where is that guy going? The Harbinger is over there!”

Xiao Li suddenly froze. “What’s going on with those Mutated Entities? Are they afraid of him?”

Hearing Xiao Li’s words, Xie Yi abruptly turned his head in the direction he was looking. He saw Shen Shu walking step by step towards the source of the writhing flesh-like substance. Mutated Entities were constantly surging towards him, trying to attack, but they stopped as they approached him, afraid to get any closer.

“Isn’t that Shen Shu?” Shang Mengzhou walked over. “He—”

“You guys get out of here!” Xie Yi shoved “Su Yunan” to Shang Mengzhou. “It’s going to be very unsafe here.”

With that, he immediately turned and chased after Shen Shu.

Those Mutated Entities, afraid of Shen Shu and hesitant to act, turned their heads and attacked Xie Yi, while the constantly writhing flesh-like substance on the ground also surrounded him.

Xie Yi glanced at these things with annoyance, and without any hesitation, directly attacked.

“Xie Yi!” Shang Mengzhou, who had followed him at some point, used her spear to fend off several Mutated Entities, frost instantly spreading from the tip of the spear. “You go and bring Shen Shu back, leave this to us!”

Xie Yi glanced back at the field operatives who had already surrounded him and joined the battle. He frowned, wanting to say something, but was interrupted by Shang Mengzhou, “Stop wasting time!”

“Then be careful!” Xie Yi didn’t waste any more time and quickly broke free from the Mutated Entities’ encirclement.

At this time, Shen Shu was already close to the Harbinger’s flesh cocoon.

The Harbinger, which hadn’t fully matured, trembled visibly as Shen Shu approached, as if afraid of something.

The writhing flesh-like substance around it constantly bulged, growing terrified human faces that huddled together, staring intently at the now-close Shen Shu.

Shen Shu’s eyes, which seemed to be almost entirely white, glanced indifferently, finally landing on the violently shaking flesh cocoon in front of him.

The Harbinger’s flesh cocoon was afraid!

Terrified human faces and countless eyeballs rose and disappeared from the flesh cocoon, vying with each other. Shen Shu quietly “stared” at it for two seconds, then raised his hand.

The human faces on the flesh-like substance surrounding him turned into countless overlapping screams the moment Shen Shu moved, silently shrieking to stop him. However, Shen Shu had already directly torn open the flesh cocoon and reached inside. In the next second, he pulled out something that looked like a black fleshy mass from the cocoon.

The thing was surrounded by grooves and was still pulsating rhythmically.

The moment this heart was dug out by Shen Shu, the Harbinger’s flesh cocoon began to wither, followed by the flesh-like substance surrounding it.

At the same time, all the Mutated Entities on the outskirts of the Kui City safety zone stopped moving and knelt down in unison towards the location of the Harbinger. Then, strange sounds chanted from the mouths of these Mutated Entities.

The surrounding field operatives looked at each other for a second, quickly reacted, retreated, and bombarded the Mutated Entities again with artillery fire.

Xie Yi, who had rushed over, didn’t know what Shen Shu had done, but he felt a strange sense of foreboding when he saw the constantly withering Harbinger on the ground. He subconsciously shouted, “Shen Shu!”

Perhaps hearing his name, Shen Shu slowly turned his head and locked onto Xie Yi with his eyes, which were almost entirely white.

Xie Yi saw what Shen Shu was holding in his hand when he turned around.

His breath caught in his throat. Although the color was wrong, he wouldn’t mistake it, judging from the shape and rhythmic throbbing. It was a still-beating heart!

The heart continued to throb, and black, vein-like things suddenly emerged from the surrounding grooves and climbed up Shen Shu’s wrist.

Xie Yi didn’t even have time to think about anything else, and he suddenly raised his head and shouted at Shen Shu, “Shen Shu, throw that thing away!”

But it was too late.

The moment those black, vein-like things climbed onto Shen Shu’s wrist, a terrifying pressure instantly swept out from Shen Shu as the center!