Volume 1 - CH 28

Name:The Fallen Merman Author:
He Suowei used on time the J1 ability Total Lunar Eclipse to block the sight of the three of them, but the steps downstairs were blocked by the corpses of the Empire Awakening team members, and the route behind was also cut off by the corpses of Du Mo. For a while, the only one option was to go upstairs, but they were in Building B, and the body of the Snake Girl wandered on the 19th floor, and they didn’t even know which floor he was on. These corpses controlled by the Snake Girl were to drive them to the vicinity of the body, making them the killing target of the Snake Girl.

The corpses of the four members of the Empire Awakening team were twisted and entangled together, rolled into a stiff pile of corpses, and it was impossible to tell which arm or which leg belonged to which person.

He Suowei didn’t dare to look up, or even open his eyes for too long. The three of them were surrounded by at least ten floating eyes, and their covetous gaze was focused on them.

The stiff corpses’ hands clasped their ankles and arms tightly. He Suowei took out a tactical dagger but couldn’t cut off the hard and petrified claws of the corpses. They had already been locked in position by the floating eye, and soon the Snake Girl would rush down to confront them head-on. With the monster’s powerful attack power, they were afraid that they would have no strength to fight back.

“Gu Wulu, you take the omega away.” He Suowei pushed Mo Chan, who was in the crook of his arm, to the Husky Alpha, “Look for an opportunity to go downstairs and meet the others.”

Gu Wulu’s limbs were also tightly entangled by the corpse’s hands. He took the almost dying o, Mo Chan, turned his head with all smiles and told his team leader: “Ge,you can shoot yourself if you can’t carry it. But don’t scare me like that.”

“Nonsense, go quickly.”

However, in one breath, all the corpse hands entangled in them were torn off by an instantaneous force. Gu Wulu and Mo Chan immediately left the original place, and their backs disappeared downstairs from the junction of Building B corridor and Building C in the distance.

Husky gland J1 differentiation ability, no let go: detachment type of ability, break free from all restraints within a limited time, break through obstacles in the way.

He Suowei closed his eyes and gave himself a recovery serum, avoided the slow-moving corpse pile, then tapped on the communicator with his back against the wall: “Surname Bai, I asked my team member to take the little O(is this supposed to be omega?If it is then the o would be better capitalised) away. I will leave the rest to you.”

There was a burst of electric current that sounded in the communicator’s earphones. Bai Chunian actually responded.

“Where are you?”

He Suowei was a little short of breath: “At the entrance of the left-hand staircase on the tenth floor of Building B.”

“Get down.”

“?” He Suowei was stunned for a moment, but under an emergency, instinct drove him to obey Bai Chunian’s order and immediately got down on the ground.

At this time, he only heard the faint sound of friction on the elevator sliding rope. The B1 elevator quickly ascended to the tenth floor, and the elevator door slowly opened to both sides. Inside, the two sticky bombs stuck on the wall made a musical warning sound, followed by a loud explosion.

The explosive wave mixed with flames destroyed the entire wall opposite the B1 elevator. The heavy wall had no support and began to collapse The corpses of the four members of the Empire Awakening Team were all swept out of the building by the explosive wave. The tiles on the wall shattered and were lifted off by the force of the explosion. Sharp broken tiles scattered everywhere, and several floating eyes were chopped apart by the broken tiles, losing contact with the body, and gradually turning into stiff round stones, which fell to the ground in a mess.

He Suowei relied on his own J1 ability, the Total Lunar Eclipse, to withstand the impact of the explosion. At the time of the explosion, he took advantage of the chaotic situation to run towards Building A.

Lu Yan and Bi Lanxing, who guarded the two elevators on the third floor of Building A, couldn’t stay where they were. Lu Yan used the J1 ability Cunning Rabbit’s Cave to pass through the floor, and quickly climbed towards the tenth floor of Building A, where Bai Chunian was located. Bi Lanxing inspected the stairs of Building A, and used vines to block the stairway on each floor.

A huge gap blew in the middle of the three buildings of the research institute, and a hole was blown out from the tenth floor of Building B. The upper and lower floors slowly fell due to the loss of support, exposing the steel bars. The morning light shone through this huge gap. Outside the gap was the roaring sea and the reef washed by the waves.

The dim sunlight shone obliquely into the tenth-story hall. Bai Chunian was holding an SA80 rifle, and his pure black team uniform was tinted with a honey-colored band of light by the sun.

The tip of Rimbaud’s tail was rolled on the steel bars that were exposed to the wall due to the impact of the explosion. He carried an M25 sniper rifle slung across his back, and a desert eagle hung from his fingertips. It formed an angle with Bai Chunian’s position and diagonally pulled off a section of the gun line.

A man slowly walked out of the shadow from the opposite corner.

The alpha had long supple hair hanging down, his eyes were wrapped in medical gauze, his jawline was clean and handsome, and his appearance was no different from that of a young man in his twenties.

He tilted his head slightly to listen to the positions of the two people on the opposite side, feeling the mutual hostility of the pheromone in the air, and smothered a laugh: “I sense a familiar savage aura.”

Rimbaud lowered his eyes and glanced at his nails, showing a look of disdain.

The Snake Girl was facing Bai Chunian’s direction, with an unfriendly sneer hanging from the corners of his lips: “You’ve grown so much taller than you were then, little guy. I still remember the way you fell at my feet and curled up like a poor kitten, wailing with a broken hand, but still refused to beg for mercy.”

“Now it seems that your level is much higher… I am really impressed.”

No matter how strong he was, it was inevitable that he would feel ashamed when it mentioned the dire straits of his youth, but Bai Chunian was indifferent and wasn’t stimulated. Coldness and calmness were his only expressions.

Bai Chunian couldn’t take his ridicule to heart, but it didn’t mean that Rimbaud was as generous. Rimbaud’s body, which was originally hanging from the steel bar, arched angrily. The scarlet dorsal fin pricks were erected, showing fangs at the Snake Girl. A low growl of intimidation escaped on his throat.

He loosened the steel bars, supported his body with strong electromagnetic force, and rushed towards the Snake Girl. His sharp claws stretched out from his fingertips in an instant, and a half-arc with lightning was drawn in front of the Snake Girl’s face.

The alpha gently dodged backwards, and the lower half of his snake tail hooked onto the stair railing to carry himself off the original place and out of the range of Rimbaud’s attack.

When biological characteristics were displayed on an alpha, there were only two possibilities: Either his glands had evolved to A3 grade, and the excess energy of the glands lead to overflow, causing glandular cells to overproliferate in order to carry energy, perhaps because he was a snake, and after its transformation, one-half of human mimicry had grown.

The Snake Girl belonged to the latter, because the glands that could undergo A3 grade evolution were too rare, and the evolutionary conditions were harsh, and the probability was very small.

“Why are you still in the cultivation stage? He doesn’t give you any soothing pheromones at all?” Snake Alpha fought back at Rimbaud, and his palm covered with writhing scales easily cut off a strand of blonde hair from the side of Rimbaud’s ear.

The experimental subject in the maturity stage suppressed the strength of the experimental subject in the cultivation stage and was stronger than imagined. Bai Chunian raised his gun and fired, and a few bullets pierced the snake’s hands that were about to come into contact with Rimbaud’s body.

“Rimbaud, come back.” The trial ended. Bai Chunian intended to call back Rimbaud to switch to a conservative tactic.

But the snake obviously didn’t want to easily let go of this omega. He shook the tip of his tail slightly and made a rustling sound unique to rattlesnakes. Bai Chunian thought he was going to use the second associated ability “rattling tail” to randomly select a target to resonate. When Bai Chunian was ready to deal with his associated ability, the snake, however, stopped swinging its tail, and at the same time, more than a dozen rotating floating eyes rose behind him, and his gaze turned to Bai Chunian at the same time.

It turned out that the rattling tail was only used to confuse the target, and his purpose was to summon the floating eyes in all corners of the building.

Bai Chunian lowered his eyes and didn’t look at any of the eyeballs, but in this case he couldn’t accurately determine the position of Rimbaud and the snake, and it became very difficult to set up the gun.

He covered his eyes with his right hand, and raised his gun with his left hand to shoot. The bullets fly as if they follow a preset orbit. Each shot avoided Rimbaud’s body. Rimbaud took the opportunity to take off the huge sniper behind him and blasted a shot against the snake’s left chest.

A mist of blood burst out of the snake’s chest, shaking his body backwards, but his chest, which was blown apart by the sniper bullet, was healing quickly.

The sniper rifle couldn’t be fired continuously. During the interval of changing ammunition, the snake lunged and pressed Rimbaud tightly under his body. The snake’s tail, which was incredibly powerful, wrapped around Rimbaud’s neck and waist. The scales shrank, tightening Rimbaud and suffocating him.

Rimbaud struggled to reach for the Desert Eagle Pistol that fell not far away, but a golden eyeball suddenly flew next to the gun and stared into Rimbaud’s eyes.

“Wu.” Although Rimbaud immediately closed his eyes, the brief few seconds of stare still damaged him. After a while, all the muscles in his body became stiff uncontrollably, and a strong stinging pain rose from his bone marrow. Rimbaud let out a long whale-like cry, and the roar of pain echoed in the hallway.

The snake laughed as his shoulders twitched: “No matter how unbeatable the experimental subject in the cultivation stage, you are equally vulnerable in front of the maturity stage. You can only blame your alpha for not being good enough to you.”

The snake looked back at Bai Chunian: “How about it, I’m about to bite his neck off. Won’t you show me your higher differentiation ability?”

Bai Chunian fired a shot with his eyes closed. The bullet instantly penetrated the snake’s throat. The snake covered his throat and roughly coughed up blood. He couldn’t say a word until he recovered.

There was a faint sound of rubbing at the stairs behind Bai Chunian. Five pitch-black vines grew rapidly along the railing, rushing past Bai Chunian’s ears with the sound of wind, and wrapped around the body of Rimbaud. At the same time, a circular black hole suddenly appeared on the ceiling above the head of the Snake Girl. Lu Yan fell from the hole and closed his eyes holding the flamethrower and swept through.

The snake’s skin was burned by the fire, and subconsciously released the arm that suppressed RImbaud. Bi Lanxing controlled the black vine to pull Rimbaud back to his side, and separated a vine to hang around Lu Yan’s waist. He could pull Lu Yan back to safety at any time. Furthermore, he wrapped a layer of Poison Ivy Armor for Lu Yan that could offset one real damage in the shortest possible time. Immediately afterwards, the ability was activated again to protect Rimbaud.

Bai Chunian was stunned for a moment, then glanced back at Bi Lanxing: “What are you doing?”

“Sorry.” Bi Lanxing took a breath of cold air, and he also realized that he had made a serious tactical mistake-——his J1 ability Poison Ivy Armor was a single instantaneous ability that would be activated by sequentially wrapping around the protected target.

However, just now the situation was critical, Bi Lanxing, however, subconsciously chose to first wrap the poison ivy armor around Lu Yan, who was relatively safe behind the enemy, instead of Rimbaud, who was closest to the enemy’s attack range.

“No vision of the overall situation.” After leaving behind these words, Bai Chunian crossed over the curved steel bar and rushed towards Rimbaud. The snake’s claws were about to penetrate into Rimbaud’s defenseless back. Bai Chunian held Rimbaud at that moment and turned around, exposing his back to the snake’s claws.

Bi Lanxing made up for his mistake in time and wrapped the poison ivy armor around Bai Chunian without delay. The snake’s claws were met by the hard armor, the ivy armor burst and shattered, and the snake’s hands were flicked away at the same time.

But it was still too late. The snake reversed its direction, and the long snake tail swept across Bai Chunian sideways quickly. With just a fierce energy, Bai Chunian’s body pierced through the exposed steel bars on the wall, and the health bar on the chest of Bai Chunian’s team uniform plummeted to zero.

Rimbaud’s eyes widened, even his blue eyes turned bloody red, and lightning swam through his pupils.

The sky broadcast regretfully announced:

Experimental Subject No. 1513 killed [Casually Playing] Bai Chunian.

The snake wiped the corners of its lips in triumph: “He also has no vision of the overall situation. Tactical Commander should’ve ensured his own safety first, he didn’t, however. He’s even so cocky that he doesn’t even bother to use his J1 ability. But this can only blame you.”

“Hey, brother!” A brisk shout sounded from behind the snake. The snake frowned and turned to listen to where the sound was coming from. In the ruined connecting corridors and floors of Building B, the snake saw a person in the ruins of the connecting corridor one floor below him.

Husky Alpha jumped in the ruins, holding a floating eye in his hand, threw it up and shot it out with a flashlight, and piu, it hit the snake on the forehead.

This angered the snake, and suddenly all the gazes of the floating eyes turned to the husky.

When the sight of all the floating eyes was attracted, the only person in the field of vision of the snake girl was the Husky.

He Suowei suddenly exposed his head from the ruins of the tenth-story explosion, with a crossbow found in a fixed ammunition box in his hand. The crossbow arrow was replaced with a quick recovery serum, and the taut crossbow string was volleyed into the air. The only quick recovery serum placed in the entire examination room was injected into Bai Chunian’s body.

The already cleared health bar flowed up, Bai Chunian quickly opened his eyes, seized the tube of injection gun filled with pink accelerant elixir from Lu Yan’s pocket, and pushed it into the glands of Rimbaud’s nape.

“Kill him.”