Human-shaped Fruit Tree

Now, just a thousand meters away, countless pairs of eyes were watching the strange and frenzied scene at the drained lakebed.

Three fully armed soldiers flew helplessly into the air. Their bodies twisted grotesquely, as if some invisible will were forcing them to turn around—stiffly and slowly, yet irresistibly. They even raised the guns in their hands and swept countless bullets toward their surroundings...

Yet under these circumstances, Lu Xin actually charged straight into the bullets.

He was running at high speed, but his body twisted and spun strangely, sending countless splashes of mud flying around him. Despite the dense gunfire, he somehow dodged every bullet, rushed to within three meters, and suddenly leaped into the air.

Beneath the Crimson Moon, he hunched over like a cat, his body trailing a fading afterimage as he shot straight into the sky.

With that leap, he drew close to one of the investigation team members.

That investigation team member was flying four or five meters above the ground, a height no ordinary person could possibly reach. Yet Lu Xin leaped up anyway, precisely catching the gaps between the gunshots and lunging viciously at him.

"Gasp..."

On the back of that investigation team member, a blurry yet clearly distorted shadow suddenly turned its head toward Lu Xin. Its mouth opened with seemingly limitless force, revealing a horrifying sight that made one's scalp tingle.

But Lu Xin swept out a hand and tore away half its face, then grabbed at its body with both hands.

"Ah..."

That investigation team member thought Lu Xin had come to kill him.

But instead, he suddenly felt his body grow lighter. The force restraining him vanished in an instant.

Before he could react, he felt a violent sense of weightlessness and came tumbling down, flailing wildly.

At the very moment Lu Xin helped free him from the restraint, before he had fallen, Lu Xin planted both feet on him and kicked off. Borrowing that force, he leaped toward another investigation team member four or five meters away in the air, freeing him from his restraint at the same time.

Then, using the same method, he used that person's body as a springboard and charged toward the third person.

"What is he doing?"

Likewise, in a mysterious building somewhere in Qinggang Main City, Chen Jing and Han Bing, a member of the Information Analysis Team, were watching the live footage transmitted by the cameras on the soldiers responsible for the blockade in Satellite City No. 2. Although the distance was too great and the Crimson Moon overhead cast only dim light, they could still see Lu Xin's ghostlike movements and frenzied actions.

His movements were nimble and uncanny, like a ghost.

Charging straight into the bullets and Mental Monster represented madness.

"He's dangerous..."

Han Bing had countless things she wanted to say, but when the words reached her lips, she could only utter this useless sentence.

Every member of the Information Analysis Team had access to a massive amount of information concerning Mental Pollution. To a certain extent, they were half-experts themselves. It was precisely because they were experts that they could offer professional advice during pollution cleanup.

In her eyes, every single thing Lu Xin was doing was extremely dangerous.

The No. 41 Pollution Source in Satellite City No. 2 had yet to be fully assessed.

But based on the live analysis, a single mental shock from the entity had destroyed more than half the lights around it and could repel the three armed personnel and Lu Xin at the same time. This meant that it possessed an enormous mental magnitude. The fact that it could pull three armed personnel into the air in an instant showed that it had an extremely powerful ability to infect—enough to infect people instantly.

Under such circumstances, the correct choice would have been to urgently withdraw everyone and immediately organize artillery fire to blanket the area.

In fact, under normal circumstances, once those three investigation team members had become trapped within the Pollution Source, they would already have been considered dead.

Yet under these circumstances, Lu Xin had actually charged forward.

Was he not worried about dying beneath the bullets?

Spider-type ability users did indeed have experimental data showing that they could dodge bullets, but if they were actually hit, they would still die!

Yet after Lu Xin did this, they soon saw that, with three leaps through the air, Lu Xin had rescued the three investigation team members who appeared to have lost their minds and begun firing at their comrades. The method was unclear. Even more astonishingly, the moment the three investigation team members hit the ground, they quickly got back up and retreated...

Their movements were nimble and orderly. This showed that they most likely had not been infected...

"He..."

Han Bing had already opened her mouth unconsciously.

Chen Jing, who was holding the phone and about to issue an order, also slowed down, both shocked and delighted.

After a moment, she immediately ordered, "Quick, withdraw with the investigation team members at once..."

But before she could finish, she stared wide-eyed at Lu Xin's actions in the blurry image on the screen.

"It's your turn..."

At that moment, after saving the three investigation team members, Lu Xin did not retreat with them.

Instead, he stubbornly charged forward again.

His target was the puddle at the center of the lake.

He had noticed something was wrong when the three armed personnel had been lifted into the air.

In the eyes of others, the three investigation team members had completely lost their autonomy after rising into the air.

But in Lu Xin's eyes, he could see that the thing lifting the three armed personnel into the air was a blurry shadow. Their turning and firing had also been caused by that shadow clinging to their backs and wrapping around them, tightening around their arms and fingers and forcibly making them fire. That was why the squad leader had vaguely shouted "Get out of the way!" while shooting!

That was also why Lu Xin had determined that they had merely been "controlled," not "infected!"

Thus, with Sister's help, he had dodged the gunfire, leaped into the air, and torn apart the shadows wrapped around them.

Those shadows were strange, but not sturdy. One tear was enough to destroy them.

Of course, it was also possible that Sister simply excelled at this. After all, she tore things apart all the time.

But even after rescuing them, they still could not retreat.

The main reason was that Sister did not want to retreat...

Her eyes were shining now as she stared fixedly at the puddle at the very center and pounced straight toward it.

"Glug glug..."

Lu Xin was moving extremely fast. At his speed, the seven or eight meters between him and the puddle could be crossed almost instantly.

But just as he was about to reach the central puddle, mud began bubbling around the doll and flying upward. Then, in an instant, a black shadow suddenly drilled out of the mud and rapidly expanded. Twisted branches spread in all directions, while countless strange tentacles frantically and violently coiled toward every side.

At that moment, Lu Xin's pupils contracted slightly, and he looked up.

It was a tree—a tree covered in countless vines, with each vine ending in a fruit.

And those fruits were one "person" after another.

They pounced down from the air, stretching their arms, legs, and bodies wide as if they wanted to give Lu Xin a huge hug.