Crushing

"Mom, is it thundering?"

The young child asked his mother, who was standing nearby.

A continuous roar erupted around them, yet not a single dark cloud drifted across the sky.

The child was even somewhat happy.

She didn't understand that rain required large cumulonimbus clouds; she only knew that rain represented water, gentle earth, and less dry air, which was something to celebrate.

The child's mother did not answer.

She held her child tightly in her arms, staring in disbelief at the scene before her.

Two seconds? Three seconds?

The Barren Earth Imp that had just surrounded them suddenly fell silent after a series of thunderous explosions.

More than ten arrows came from the west.

With a thunderous twang of their bowstrings, they pierced the heads or throats of these Barren Earth Imp in the blink of an eye.

All 21 Barren Earth Imp died in the blink of an eye.

Some were killed instantly, some were killed twice with one blow; in short, no one survived.

What was a life-threatening ordeal turned in an instant into a pile of corpses lying on the ground.

This sudden change is truly hard to process.

After their initial confusion, the two awakened individuals who were protecting the crowd immediately became alert.

"This... an Awakened One?"

The two men exchanged a glance, leaned against each other despite their injuries, and looked westward.

As they saw Linsey put away her bow and arrows and slowly approach, the wariness in their eyes instantly turned into despair.

"Tie Yu, the arrow from earlier..."

"I don't know! But it's definitely at least Third Stage!"

On the other side.

As Linsey walked over, she also carefully examined the group in front of her.

Of these 17 humans, apart from two awakened individuals, most of the others were young people or children. The oldest among them appeared to be only around 30 years old.

Upon noticing Linsey's approach, most of the adults became panicked.

The two leading Awakened Ones showed an impulse to fight to the death.

"What's going on here..."

Linsey glanced at the map.

Several children were Green Marker because he helped them, while all the other adults turned from yellow to red.

"Would an ordinary person react this way to their savior?"

Linsey quietly switched modules.

[Human male - 17 years old, Awakened, with injuries to the skin and muscle tissue.]

[Human male - 21 years old, Awakened, right arm fracture.]

[Human female, 19 years old], [Human male, 27 years old], [Human female, 3 years old].

All of this information seems perfectly normal.

Linsey continued to activate the [Information Combination] skill, and some fragmented images began to appear before his eyes.

That was the process of more than twenty people walking arduously across the wasteland, searching for food and water.

Now, only 17 remain in front of him.

"No settlements?"

"Impossible. Such a desolate world has no settlements; they must have died long ago. They must have been forced to abandon their former homes."

"..."

"I'll fight you to the death!"

"You guys run! Tie Yu and I will hold this guy off!"

As Linsey pondered, the awakened one opposite her had already lost his reason due to the fear in his heart.

Within a distance of just over ten meters, the two young awakened individuals could no longer contain themselves.

They gritted their teeth and charged forward, weapons in hand, looking ready to fight Linsey to the death.

"Hey! What's going on here?"

"Is there some misunderstanding? If I wanted to harm you, I wouldn't have helped you in the first place..."

Linsey's voice stopped abruptly.

The two young men had no intention of listening to his explanation.

One of them, wielding a sword and shield, and the other, holding guns in both hands, stood to the left and right, their bodies staggered, as they charged towards Linsey.

The two young men looked like they had been through a lot of battles, and they worked together very well.

The gunman first thrust hard into Linsey's left side, and another man took the opportunity to rise up from that direction, bracing himself against his shield as he charged forward.

Snap!

Linsey reached out and gripped the spear tightly with her rock-solid right hand, remaining motionless as it thrust forward.

"Ah?"

The man with the gun looked startled.

He didn't even see Linsey's movements clearly. Instead, he first felt that the spear was immobilized, and then realized a second later that his weapon had been forcibly grabbed!

How fast and how powerful must that be?

Immediately, he slid his spear forward.

Linsey reached out and pulled him back.

The young man was not only horrified by the weapon in his hand, but he himself seemed to be pulled forward by a truck, his body falling uncontrollably to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dry dust with a muffled thud.

Thump!

Meanwhile, the man who stepped forward with his shield was even more unlucky.

Linsey simply flicked his hand to the side, and the guy fell to the ground, shield and all, nearly injuring himself with his sword. He was unable to get up and fight for a while.

"Kate, run!"

At this moment, the man behind released his spear.

He prepared to get up and fight Linsey to the death, while still reminding his companions to run away.

But just as he straightened his upper body, another tremendous force pressed down on his back, causing him to fall back down with a 'plop'.

"..."

The young man turned his head to look.

Linsey's figure appeared behind him at some point.

The seemingly gentle pressure from the left hand felt like an entire house pressing down on his back, leaving him completely immobilized.

At this point, Linsey spoke again:

"Can't you two listen to people properly?"

"Can't you see the difference in strength between us? If I really wanted to do something to you..."

"You won't get anything from us again!"

Linsey didn't finish her sentence.

The young man with the sword and shield in front of him got up from the ground, supporting himself with his longsword.

A faint Essence erupted from his body; although the power was weak, the determination within it was as firm as steel.

Get off him!

Snort!

Reality is cruel.

The next second, the man wielding swords in both hands was also pinned to the ground by Linsey, and his weapons were thrown far away.

Just when both young men felt that their deaths were not far off.

Linsey voluntarily released her hands and stepped back to stand in front of the two people:

"I think you guys should calm down."

"I have just arrived in this world, so even if there is any deep-seated hatred, it cannot be related to me."

"You'd better explain things clearly."

"..."

The fact that they were spared time and again, and that the other party was willing to talk, was completely beyond the imagination of the two young men.

"Hey, your companions are about to leave. Should I stop them?"

Linsey gave a reminder.

The two young men turned around and saw that the others had already run some distance under their cover.

"If you don't say anything, I'll take it as a yes."

In this situation, Linsey chose to take the initiative.

He casually pulled a spear from his bag and hurled it at the group of people as they fled.

Boom!

The spear tore through the air, passing over people's figures.

With a loud bang, it plunged into the earth, and flames erupted all around, blocking the direction they were heading.

"..."

The people who were fleeing were also dumbfounded.

They dared not make any further moves, and simply turned their heads stiffly.

Then they saw Linsey pull the two young men off the ground and wave at them:

"Come back, I just wanted to ask you some questions, there's no need to be so nervous."