Human-shaped Fruit Tree

A thousand meters away, countless eyes were now watching the bizarre and frenzied scene unfolding at the bottom of the dried-up lake.

Three fully armed soldiers were suspended in mid-air without any support. Their bodies were unnaturally twisted, as if an invisible will was forcing them. They slowly, stiffly, yet irresistibly turned around, even raising their guns and spraying countless bullets indiscriminately into the surroundings.

Yet, under these circumstances, Lu Xin charged directly towards the bullets.

Though he was running at full speed, his body twisted and turned with uncanny agility. Numerous splashes of mud flew up around him, but under such a dense hail of gunfire, he managed to dodge every single bullet, charging forward to a distance of three meters before leaping up abruptly.

Beneath the Crimson Moon, he hunched his back and crouched low, his body leaving behind a lingering shadow as he shot upwards.

With this leap, he closed in on one of the investigation team members.

This investigator was floating four to five meters above the ground, a height impossible for anyone to reach. Yet, Lu Xin had leaped up and, with pinpoint accuracy, seized the momentary lull in the gunfire, lunging fiercely at the man.

"Hiss..."

On the back of the investigation team member, a blurred but clearly contorted shadow turned its head towards Lu Xin. Its mouth stretched open to an unnerving degree, revealing a terrifying visage that made one's scalp tingle.

But Lu Xin swiped his hand, tearing off half of its face, and then grabbed its body with both hands.

"Ah..."

The investigation team member thought Lu Xin was coming to kill him.

However, the result was that he suddenly felt his body lighten, the force binding him vanishing instantly.

Before he could react, he felt a violent sense of weightlessness, flailing as he plummeted downwards.

And at the same moment he freed him from his bonds, before he could fall, Lu Xin kicked off his body, using that momentum to leap towards another investigator four to five meters away in the air, simultaneously freeing him from his restraint.

Then, following the same procedure, he used that person's body as a springboard to charge towards the third.

"What is he doing?"

Similarly, in a mysterious skyscraper in Qinggang Main City, Chen Jing and Han Bing, a member of the information analysis team, were watching the live feed from the cameras of the soldiers responsible for the cordon in Satellite City No. 2. Although the distance was great and the Crimson Moon hung high, casting dim light, they could still see Lu Xin's ghost-like movements and frenzied actions.

His movements were agile and eerie, like a phantom.

Charging headlong into bullets and mental monsters represented sheer madness.

"He's very dangerous..."

Han Bing wanted to say so much more, but only managed to utter this useless sentence.

Every member of the information analysis team had access to extensive data on mental pollution. To some extent, they were all semi-experts, and it was precisely because of their expertise that they could offer professional advice during pollution cleanup.

In her opinion, everything Lu Xin was doing was extremely dangerous.

The source of pollution, No. 41, in Satellite City No. 2, could not yet have its specific data determined.

But based on the real-time analysis, the entity's single mental shock had destroyed more than half of the surrounding lights and could repel three armed personnel and Lu Xin simultaneously. This indicated the entity possessed a significant mental magnitude. Furthermore, its ability to pull three armed personnel into the air in an instant demonstrated a powerful infection capability, allowing for instantaneous infection.

Under such circumstances, the most correct course of action would be to urgently withdraw everyone and immediately organize artillery fire coverage.

Under normal conditions, the three members of the investigation team, once deeply trapped within the source of pollution, would already be considered dead.

But in this situation, Lu Xin had charged forward.

Was he not worried about dying under enemy fire?

While users of the Spider-type abilities did have experimental data regarding dodging bullets, they would still die if hit!

And yet, after Lu Xin did so, they soon saw him make three leaps in the air, successfully rescuing the three investigation team members who seemed to have lost their minds and were firing at their comrades. The method was unknown, but even more astonishing was that the three rescued team members, upon falling to the ground, quickly got up and retreated rapidly.

Their movements were agile and orderly, suggesting that they were, in all likelihood, not infected.

"He..."

Han Bing had already opened her mouth subconsciously.

Chen Jing, who was holding the phone and about to issue an order, also slowed her movements, a mixture of surprise and joy on her face.

After a moment of reaction, she immediately ordered, "Quick, retreat immediately with the investigation team members..."

But before she could finish speaking, her eyes widened as she watched Lu Xin's actions on the blurry screen.

"Your turn..."

Meanwhile, Lu Xin, after rescuing the three investigation team members, did not retreat with them.

He pressed onward, charging forward again.

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

He had already discovered something amiss when the three armed personnel were lifted into the air.

In the eyes of others, the three investigation team members had completely lost their self-awareness after being lifted into the air.

But in Lu Xin's eyes, he could see that what lifted the three armed personnel into the air was a blurred shadow. Their turning and firing actions were also due to that shadow clinging tightly to their backs, wrapping around them, constricting their arms and fingers, and forcing them to shoot. That was why the Captain had vaguely shouted "Quick, dodge!" when he fired!

It was precisely because of this that Lu Xin was certain they were only "controlled," not "infected!"

That's why, with his sister's help, he dodged the shot and leaped into the air, tearing apart the shadows that were binding them.

Those shadows were strange but not strong; they broke easily when torn.

Of course, it was also possible that his sister was good at it, since she often tore things apart.

But after saving someone, they couldn't retreat.

Mainly, his sister didn't want to retreat...

Her eyes were shining at that moment, fixed intently on the puddle at the very center, and she lunged straight for it.

"Gurgle gurgle..."

Lu Xin was fast. At his speed, the seven or eight meters between him and the puddle were covered almost instantly.

But just as he was about to reach the puddle at the center, suddenly, around the rag doll, mud bubbled up and flew upwards. Then, in an instant, a black shadow suddenly emerged from the mud and rapidly expanded. Twisted branches stretched out in all directions, and countless strange tentacles wildly and fiercely wrapped around them.

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

It was a tree, a tree covered in countless vines, with fruits hanging from the ends of those vines.

And those fruits were people, one after another.

These people dove down from mid-air, stretching their limbs and bodies with all their might, as if wanting to give Lu Xin a big hug.