Harvest

"Winuo, that guy..."

Seeing Walter split in half by Winuo's axe, Yosef felt a heaviness in his heart.

He knew the other party had used special drugs, relying on his mutated body to endure and unleash greater potential.

This greatly increased his strength, speed, defense, and even his restorative power and vitality, far exceeding the effect of adrenaline on ordinary people. But the consequence was a decrease in sanity.

Not only might he be unable to distinguish friend from foe during combat, but it could even increase the likelihood of madness!

However, with things having reached this point, coupled with the restraint this acidic blood had on Winuo, the other party likely had no other choice...

Boom~

Another booby trap was triggered, and an approaching Alien was blown to pieces, with a few drops of acidic blood splashing onto Yosef.

Yosef looked at the remaining three booby traps before him, his expression sinking.

These damned things were far more numerous than the dozen or so they had seen before!

They deliberately created hope and illusions for them!

Glancing back at Winuo, who had begun a slaughter after taking the drug but was increasingly covered in acidic blood, Yosef sighed.

"Buddy, we split up and run!"

As he spoke, he retreated to the edge of the cliff. His foot dislodged a pebble, which rolled down into the valley below. He also saw three distinct groups of escapees below.

Damn it!

It was this troublesome even before officially entering the Cannon Fodder Sequence. Otherwise, why would they dare to run?!

Standing at the cliff's edge, numbers reappeared on Yosef's irises, and his legs visibly changed.

Looking at the lower valley opposite, which was nearly a hundred meters wide, he took a deep breath.

These things were too difficult to deal with if they pursued him. His ammunition was definitely not enough; he could only go for it!

He exerted force with his feet, and as he leaped, flames erupted from the bottom of the box that looked like an ammunition case on his back, assisting his jump!

As he began to fall in a parabolic trajectory, Yosef, adjusting his direction in mid-air, activated the jets again.

After adjusting four times in the air like this, he landed heavily on the lower opposite bank of the valley, crashing into a tree branch.

Using the continuous breaking of branches as a buffer, Yosef finally fell to the leaf-covered ground.

He then struggled to his feet and quickly ran into the rainforest.

In contrast, Winuo was indifferent to his companion's departure, still fiercely engaging the Aliens in a frenzied state, appearing utterly mad.

Facing Aliens whose agility, speed, and strength surpassed human limits, the strengthened Winuo felt an inability to get close.

He charged around, his acidic blood splattering.

Double-bladed axe, collisions, headbutts – every strike was brutal.

He could even grab an attacking Alien's tail, throw it to the ground, and stomp it flat!

And he showed no intention of using this power to escape.

He let the acidic blood corrode his weapons and armor. Even his once-intact full-body armor had several areas that had fallen off due to corrosion.

Much of the acidic blood landed on his keratin-like skin, but he seemed to feel no pain.

But at this moment, a tail whip, far exceeding that of an ordinary Alien, shot out from the depths of the rainforest and pierced Winuo's body.

Winuo, who could grab and even whip back the tails of ordinary Aliens with one hand, was helpless against this sudden attack, only managing to hold onto the tail tightly with both hands.

His feet on the ground, his abdomen pierced, his hands tightly gripping the long tail of the far-superior Alien and pulling, the frenzied Winuo seemed to want to drag out the owner of the long tail in the rainforest.

But as the long tail exerted force, lifting him and leaving his feet off the ground, his movements became somewhat comical.

With a rustling sound against the ground, a massive Alien, completely different from the ordinary ones and possessing a slight outline of a giant python, slithered out from the shadows of the rainforest. Under the moonlight, it looked terrifying.

Its body was covered in black exoskeleton, with no hands or feet, but its head resembled a giant trilobite. Its length was comparable to a giant python, but it was much thicker!

It was less like a giant python and more like a super-giant trilobite with a long tail!

Slowly lifting Winuo's frenzied body and bringing it closer, the giant python Alien seemed to sniff Winuo. It did not unleash its more disgusting mouthparts to kill him but instead flicked its tail, flinging Winuo into the rainforest.

Ordinary Aliens quickly swarmed towards where Winuo had been thrown. Then, the giant python Alien fixed its gaze on the opposite side of the valley, let out a roar, and charged towards the opposite bank.

It had no interest in the few small fry who had escaped. Besides the few ordinary Aliens that remained after transporting Winuo, they also charged towards the opposite side of the valley.

Although they couldn't leap such a distance, the steep cliffs of the valley were like flat ground to them, and they were not affected at all!

They easily crossed the valley, climbed up, and disappeared into the woods.

The previously fierce battlefield instantly returned to silence, leaving behind a ground littered with Alien corpses and piles of giant python corpses below.

The night wind blew, carrying a scent of sour blood and fishy stench.

After a moment, as the shadows distorted, black smoke in the shadows seemed to coalesce into a human figure.

Tao Yu, still chewing on the Blood Orchid, looked at the battlefield before him with a solemn expression.

"As expected of disciples from the Inner City; their pockets are indeed deep, and they have quite a few trump cards."

Seeing the Aliens blown to pieces, recalling Yosef's automatic-targeting booby traps, and Winuo's sudden frenzied trump card, Tao Yu couldn't help but sigh.

How could dealing with those giant snakes from the beginning show the limits of these two people?

If they really used the situation back then as a reference to deal with the two, they would truly die without even knowing how!

However, the Aliens were indeed strong.

Looking back now, the people from that primitive tribe probably didn't flee to avoid the giant pythons. They were most likely captured by the Aliens to be used as incubators.

Encountering Aliens here, besides his own gunshots, it's even possible that the Aliens came to capture these giant pythons!

Thinking of the terrifying Giant Python Alien at the end, Tao Yu's heart skipped a beat.

If these twenty to thirty giant pythons were all captured by Aliens, it would be a hellish difficulty for newcomers like them who had just awakened!

However, Tao Yu didn't have time to think too much. He endured the nausea and began searching for the Wish Power items condensed by the dead Aliens.

Most of the Wish Power had gathered in the Aliens' tails, with a small amount in their mouthparts. Tao Yu didn't care about the acidic blood that accidentally got on his hands during collection. Relying on the "One Proof, Eternal Proof" ability, which was even more exaggerated than "Combat Continuance," he accelerated his collection.

Actually, Tao Yu was worried before that the Aliens might be able to sense him. But after he cautiously approached one or two lone Aliens and confirmed with "Bullet Time" observation that they truly couldn't detect him, his courage grew.

He had been waiting for an opportunity in the shadows from a distance.

Maintaining stealth in the shadows consumed a significant amount of mental power. Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't have been able to last this long.

But with the continuous effect of consuming Blood Orchids to strengthen himself, his mental power was also rapidly replenished.

Eating Blood Orchids not only strengthened his body but also provided energy far exceeding ordinary meat, allowing the consumption from his stealth to be outpaced by the replenishment.

For ordinary people, it might just provide a sense of fullness and energy, as Blood Orchids have no healing properties.

But for Tao Yu, the wounds sustained from the acidic blood while searching for spoils were also repaired in the process!

Now was the time for harvest; it was worth the wait