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Volume 1 Chapter 119 Counter Blade

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    Chapter 119 Counter Blade

    In less than five minutes, six skeleton soldiers were dragged into their lair by the mutated creatures lurking in the backlit corner.  In the eerie underground of the building, in the dark drainage pipes, the screams of human beings dying were heard one after another, as well as the crunching sounds of muscles being torn and teeth chewing bones.  Occasionally, there was the noise of grenades exploding or bullets being fired, but it was quickly covered up by the greater chaos and fighting.  What was left was the strong blood that was carried by the air current and floated back and forth over the city, gradually spreading.

    Lin Xiang bent over, like a cat in the night, walking quickly and silently among the ruined buildings.  His footsteps have been following Claude, far or near, always within a distance of twenty to fifty meters.  The routes he chose were all on rooftops or open spaces with plenty of light. His flexible footsteps and agile movements ensured sufficient speed.  The divergent perceptions centered on him, forming a circle with no actual shape.  The brain can immediately detect the slightest movement of the mutant creature hiding in the darkness, and at the same time, under the guidance of the nervous system, it urges the body to make instinctive avoidance.

    Claude is also running, but his running speed is not as fast as Lin Xiang.  A high-level parasitic with a five-star level shouldn't move so slowly, but the lieutenant colonel had no choice - he had to take care of his soldiers.  Even elite warriors who have obtained the third-level evolutionary ability cannot run at full speed and defend their backs without cover.

    ¡°Whoosh¡ªwhoosh¡ª¡±

    The silver filament shot down from the second floor of the building on the adjacent street accurately penetrated the right knee of a skeleton soldier.  The powerful coagulation ability of the silk thread and the nerve-paralyzing toxin contained in it were like an invisible giant hand, grabbing his whole body.  Looking at his teammates getting further and further ahead, an extremely ferocious and violent look suddenly flashed across the soldier's face.  He took out the fighting dagger from his waist, aimed at the joint at the top of his knee, and slashed it with all his strength.  Surprisingly, the sharp zigzag blade only made a thin, light white crease on the sturdy combat uniform - the combat uniform issued by the Skeleton Knights, its defensive capabilities are really amazing.

    The soldiers were like crazy, taking off their clothes as fast as possible.  Soon, the entire uniform had fallen off his body. He looked at his right leg, which was penetrated by sticky white silk threads and became harder and harder like a stone. He had no feeling at all. With red eyes, he raised the dagger again and gritted his teeth.  Slashing towards the leg.  As heart-rending screams erupted from deep in the throat, the fragile flesh was split open on both sides, revealing the bones that tightly jammed the blade and were harder in texture.  The pale-faced soldier gasped for air, with enough pain and despair to drive him crazy. He grasped the handle of the knife with trembling hands, pulled it out with force, and slashed again.

    Once, twice, three times

    The boiling blood was splashed on the dry ground, and was immediately absorbed by the concrete and bricks that maintained their natural residual temperature.  The soldier who finally cut off his thigh raised his body with his arms and crawled hard on the rough road.  The thick white marrow fluid flowing out from the center of the leg bone mixed with the blood, leaving a long wet mark.  More than ten meters away, the broken leg that originally belonged to him but had been ruthlessly abandoned was still standing crookedly.  It seems like a sculpture made of special materials.

    "Whoosh¡ª¡ª"

    A thin silver thread shot out from the dark corner again, drilling into the soldier's neck accurately and hard.  The sudden attack caused the young man's eyes to freeze suddenly. He tried his best to hold himself up, as if he wanted to speak, but could not make a sound.  The strong paralyzing toxin quickly spread inside the body.  Soon, he could no longer accept any commands from his brain, and could only maintain stiff and fixed movements, completely frozen in place.

    This is the closest street to the outside of the city.  Now, it has become the best battlefield for mutated creatures to slaughter and round up prey.

    They are afraid of light, but that doesn¡¯t mean they are also afraid of humans standing in the sun.

    They are very smart. In the process of evolution to resist radiation, their increasingly large brains have also produced unimaginable wisdom.  They know how to create darkness to block light, and they also know how to maximize their advantages.  Especially those mutated creatures with the ability to projectile and splash. They are densely clustered inside the buildings on both sides of the street. From a position that the sun cannot reach, they shoot venom, hardened needles, hair tips, or other things at the soldiers running on the street.  are other similar weapons.  Without the cover of armored vehicles, the fragile human body is simply unable to resist such a terrifying and vicious attack.

    Pull out your pistol and blow the head off a canine creature that sneaks up behind you and wants to launch a surprise attack.  Lin Xiang jumped up and bounced onto the outer wall of another building, using the force of his left and right kicks to slow down his fall.  As soon as his feet landed on the ground, his body instantly moved sideways and quickly approached the direction of the skeleton lieutenant colonel.??

    He felt that these mutated creatures posed a great threat to him.  Compared with the last encounter between Osvid's team, they are obviously much smarter.  The method is no longer a mess of fighting independently, they actually know how to cooperate, how to create obstacles to offset the opponent's advantage, and how to use the terrain to encircle and kill.  If nothing unexpected happens, every skeleton soldier who attacks the city along this road will be killed.  Even if they had three times the strength and speed of ordinary people (level three evolution), they would not be able to leave this horrific ruins alive.

    Without the physical strength and adaptability of beasts, wisdom is the only advantage for humans to rule the earth.  Lin Xiang does not believe that all mutant creatures in the ruins are intelligent, but judging from their army-like organization and division of labor, there should be a leader in the ruins who can control and order them.  There may be only one, or more.  As for the specific types and biological characteristicsonly God knows.

    Dozens of corpses lay scattered on the ground. Many people's wounds were still oozing blood, and their bodies and limbs were still twitching slightly under the control of residual nerves.  The beautiful light gray battle suit was completely soaked with red liquid. Even so, there were still sharp horny thorns and filaments shooting out from the darkness, densely piercing the surface of the body that was not dead - a tactic adopted by mutant creatures.  , strikingly consistent with ancient hunters.  They also use superior firepower to annihilate or kill the target, and then collect the benefits they deserve after the hunting activity is over.

    There is still at most half an hour before sunset. Although they are very hungry, they are patient enough to wait for the damn ultraviolet rays to completely disappear from the sky.  At that time, the thrilling and cruel hunting will turn into a feast of enjoying the trophies.  There wasn't much to eat in this era, and even the smelly carrion was delicious.  Human corpses exposed to the sun for half an hour would not decompose so quickly and still remain fresh.

    Claude has lost his usual composure and calmness, and the surface of his white skin shows an angry red color caused by accelerated blood flow.  He deftly pulled out the empty magazine from the assault rifle, took out a new one from the equipment bag on his back, and pointed it at the slot under the gun body.  He pulled the gun bolt hard, rolled on the spot, nimbly dodged two horny spikes fired from the bottom of the building, and fired continuously in the direction of the attack.  Turning his head, he roared at the top of his lungs at the remaining soldiers on the highway: "Run! If you don't want to die, run as fast as you can¡ª"

    ¡° He has always believed that it is very safe to enter the ruins during the day.  But they never dreamed that intelligent mutated creatures had turned this place into a hunting ground full of traps.

    A total of fifty skeleton soldiers, including Lin Xiang, entered the ruins.  Now, there are only six people left within the sight range that can be seen by the naked eye.

    They are already running as hard as they can.  Although the movement speed is not as agile as that of Lieutenant Colonel and Lin Xiang, it is obviously higher than the normal standard of level three evolution, reaching at least level four, or even higher. Faced with the threat of death, the human body can indeed explode beyond imagination.  powerful ability.

    The sun has tilted to the point where it is only a thread-like distance from the horizon.  There was no wind, and the radiation clouds became thicker and thicker.  The ultraviolet rays shooting down from the sky are so weak that they are difficult to detect. If it were not for the fear of the last dim light remaining on the surface of the sky, the mutated creatures in the ruins would have already swarmed up.  Within the effective sensing range, Lin Xiang can even detect their strong murderous intent and impatient bloodthirsty impulse.

    "Boom¡ª¡ª"

    From the remaining wall on the left side of the street, a broken concrete pillar six to seven meters long suddenly flew out, like a cannonball that escaped from the barrel, hitting a skeleton soldier accurately on the lower back.  He didn't even have time to scream. His fragile body was like a baseball hit hard by a thick stick. He was knocked out more than ten meters and fell heavily into the ruins, stirring up a large amount of dust.

    "Roar¡ª¡ª"

    Following the direction in which the cement blocks flew, a tubular creature with a body diameter of more than half a meter crawled quickly from the bottom of the ruins of the building.  It squirmed forward like a snake, its twisted and twisted body extending more than ten meters from the ground, and there was no sign of its tail.  It quickly crawled to the nearest corpse, relied on muscle expansion to open its mouth into an oval shape with a width of more than five meters, and wrapped the entire corpse whole.  Its body is very soft, and its red skin secretes a layer of translucent mucus.  The traces of crawling on the ground were already soaked with body fluids.  The weak sunlight shines on its naked skin, emitting a burning sound and a pungent burnt smell.  The severe pain caused it to quickly tighten its body, and with the newly obtained prey, it quickly shrank back to the dark lair underground.

    This is probably a mutated earthworm that survived from the old era, or some other similar creature.  They live underground all year round and are obviously more sophisticated than other above-ground creatures.light.  They would rather endure the scorching sun than rush out to grab food. This can only mean one thing - the feast in the ruins is probably forced to be advanced due to the anxiety and hunger of the monsters.

    More meat tube worms crawled out of the ruins, and pieces of cement fragments, waste bricks, earth and rocks formed a dense net, raining down on the last few survivors trapped in it.

    The weapon in Lin Xiang¡¯s hand has been replaced by an AK100 with a higher rate of fire.  He moved very quickly. While the trigger was inserted between the fingers of his right hand, a long and narrow blade with a trimmed shape was also sandwiched between the middle finger and ring finger of his left hand.  The muscles on his body suddenly swelled up at the same time, and he ran with all his strength, nimbly dodging the cement bricks falling from the sky, and quickly ran towards Claude's location.

    The lieutenant colonel stood next to an electric pole on the left side of the street and pulled the trigger fiercely at a meat tube worm approaching from behind.  The dense warheads exploded a series of blood holes in the soft body. Amidst a strange sound like a baby crying, the injured creature raised its upper body from the ground, like an ugly and dirty heterogeneous water pipe, and struck hard at Claude.  Throw it down.

    "Get out of here quickly, there are too many of them¡ª¡ª"

    The lieutenant colonel instinctively turned his head and saw Lin Xiang running towards him like a train at full speed.  He instinctively turned sideways, and before he could fully adjust his posture, Lin Xiang had already slammed into his body.  He grabbed the lieutenant colonel's right shoulder with his left hand, lifted it up, and then started to speed up.

    The moment his wrist made contact with his shoulder, Lin Xiang's fingers had already grasped the blade and cut downward with force.  With just one stroke, regardless of whether it achieved its purpose, the sharp blade was thrown far away.

    This movement can only be done once - it can be explained as the natural pull of body collision.

    The second time it was cut repeatedly, Claude's keen perception could immediately tell what was going on.  He couldn't take risks without absolute certainty.

    The flexibility of the battle suit was too strong. Out of the corner of his eye, Lin Xiang glanced at the curled blade and ran faster and faster with the lieutenant colonel.  The assault rifle fired continuously straight ahead. After clearing several major obstacles within the line of sight, he slipped his arm into the gun belt and slid it onto his shoulder. With his free wrist, he took off the two anti-infantry grenades hanging from his waist and inserted them flexibly with his fingers.  He pulled the pull pin lightly, pressed down the latch, drew two irregular arcs in the air, and jumped to a place more than twenty meters away from behind him.

    "Boom¡ª¡ª"

    The smoke mixed with flames that rose into the sky filled the air instantly. With the help of visual cover that could only last for a moment, Lin Xiang almost dragged Claude and rushed into the ground floor of a building next to the street.  Several mutated rats with a body length of more than two meters rushed towards them ferociously, but were knocked backwards by a fan shot from the lieutenant colonel.  Lin Xiang didn't waste even a second, his feet suddenly accelerated, and he and the lieutenant colonel rushed into a green-painted steel door directly in front of him at an astonishing speed.  The moment his body just disappeared into the crack of the door, the last two grenades in his right hand were thrown heavily into the swarm of monsters, exploding into a thick, dirty mess of rotten flesh and blood.

    This used to be the cold storage of a fresh food supermarket.  The surrounding thickened walls and all-steel doors are enough to stop any mutant creatures.  The last time he followed Osvid's team into the ruins, Lin Xiang recorded all the available terrain and rooms along the route.  He searched with his perception ability and found no sign of mutated creatures here.

    The two of them worked together to press down the door latch, which was as thick as an arm.  The moment his wrist left the steel bolt, a military fighting dagger suddenly slipped from the cuff of Lin Xiang's right hand. He held the handle of the dagger with his backhand and stabbed it diagonally toward the side of Claude's neck.

    Lieutenant Colonel Skeleton seemed to have anticipated the sudden change.  His arms were crossed across his chest, his fingers turned into claws, and he sidestepped the dagger that was stabbing him. He clasped his hands backwards towards the shoulder and elbow joint of Lin Xiang's right arm.  Sensing the danger, Lin Xiang quickly lowered his body and used the inertia of his body to slide forward smoothly until he rushed to the opposite wall more than fifty meters away before regaining his balance.

    ?Claude turned his body half sideways, legs slightly bent, and stood in a standard fighting posture.  His expression was unusually calm, showing no anger at being deceived.  His gray pupils were slightly squinted, and while he carefully observed the internal environment of the refrigerator, he also deeply painted every detail of his opponent in his mind.

    "Did you kill Oswald and Hausen?" Lieutenant Colonel Skeleton spoke slowly, without any excitement.  It was as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

    "That's right!" Lin Xiang suddenly smiled unexpectedly, but his voice was terrifyingly cold.

    Claude twisted his neck and slowly moved his body joints: "Why? You need a reason to kill. I know that Oswald and Hausen have bad tempers, especially they have some very annoying special hobbies.  Young man, I'll give you a chance to appeal. If you can produce enough evidence??It's the right thing to do, and I don't have to pursue everything that happened.  "

    Lin Xiang was still smiling, and the dagger flexibly turned out a bright silver blade between his fingers: "I'm curious, how did you discover me?"

    "In the beginning, I didn't actually suspect you. But your disguise was so perfect that no flaws could be found at all. According to the information obtained by the Knights, there are at least two powerful parasitic warriors in Hidden Moon Town.  There are a lot of advanced evolved humans. They all take orders from you. I can't think of any more reasons besides suppression by strength or superb commanding ability. Refer to your mercenary qualification evaluation data in Crescent City  , I classify you as one of the average commanding talents. Captain Sock and Colonel Evans of the d212 base both speak highly of you, especially what you did against the two major forces of Sothbia and Ferdinand.  In terms of decision-making, you have almost never made any mistakes. Haha! Your performance is really good. I believe that there are geniuses in the world. But your appearance is too sudden, with no background and no relevant clues. Intelligence shows  You came from Rock Town, and at that time you were a pauper, without even a fig leaf on your body. It was as if you came into this world naked overnight."
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