Great Terror

Niu Niu excitedly grabbed Fang Yue's hand.

"Brother Ye, from now on, you are my sky! You're my professional booster... no, you're my golden thigh!"

Fang Yue's face darkened.

Damn, how did I not realize this guy had such a fetish before?

Fang Yue quickly shook his hand free and put some distance between them.

"Men and women should not touch!"

"No, Brother Ye, I just want to follow you! I don't mean anything else!"

Niu Niu quickly explained, afraid Fang Yue would distance himself due to this misunderstanding.

Follow me?

I can barely figure out how to follow myself.

Fang Yue twitched the corner of his mouth, saying nothing.

Niu Niu suddenly gasped, as if remembering something, and quickly asked, "Right, Brother Ye, what is the Anomaly state? How do I get rid of it? And how do I put my right hand and heart back in?"

Without the Analysis Pupil, the statuses on the status bar were just names, with no explanations.

So Niu Niu had no idea about the effects of the Anomaly. If Fang Yue didn't explain, he'd have to find the Captains and other strong individuals to ask for clarification.

Fang Yue briefly explained and demonstrated with his right hand.

"It's that simple? It'll recover when the time is up?"

Niu Niu found it unbelievable. It was too easy. He had been scared half to death.

But he couldn't see the countdown Fang Yue mentioned.

Without the Analysis Pupil, Niu Niu was clueless about this information. Fang Yue couldn't help him either. Niu Niu could only assume that, like Fang Yue, he would recover in 24 hours, or two days.

He placed his severed hand on his severed arm, and a "-1" blood loss notification immediately popped up above his head.

At the same time, the wound on his severed arm didn't feel itchy, but rather painful.

Using the Soul Fire as a torch, Niu Niu looked down and his face immediately turned grim.

The flesh around his severed arm was rotten and festering, with disgusting pus flowing out.

This was completely different from what Fang Yue had described.

Is this really going to automatically recover when the time is up?

Seeing Niu Niu's pale face, Fang Yue quickly comforted him, "Perhaps it's because the wound is too large. Try your heart?"

Niu Niu put down his severed hand and tried to stuff his heart back into his chest.

The result was that the heart and the palm-sized gap in his chest didn't fit. It was as if... the cavity in his chest had inexplicably grown larger, or some corrosive force had eaten away at the surrounding flesh and blood.

"B-Brother Ye!"

Niu Niu looked at Fang Yue in panic. Fang Yue spread his hands.

"I don't know either."

"But your right hand wasn't..."

"Niu Niu, people's physiques can't be generalized. You saw it yourself, I killed an Anomaly in extreme rage. Can you do that?"

Damn! He can get angry about that too?

Niu Niu shook his head, "I can't!"

"So, if you want to live, you'll have to find Doctor Hong or the Captains for help."

The Captains...

The closest one I remember is... Captain Chen's mansion!

Thinking of Chen's mansion, Niu Niu suddenly remembered something very important.

"Right, Brother Ye, I was too excited earlier and forgot to ask. How did you get back? Weren't you far ahead of me, carrying that guy who was scared stiff? Where is he?"

"Dead."

Fang Yue was concise.

Earlier, Fang Yue had indeed run away with someone. He had run very fast and had no intention of coming back to help Niu Niu fight the Anomaly.

After running a certain distance, Fang Yue had let the scared teammate follow on his own.

That guy was a little fatty. Carrying him was too much of a drain on Fang Yue's stamina.

The two continued to run, one after the other. Finally, when they reached Chen's mansion, Fang Yue discovered...

A human head was hanging at the entrance of Chen's mansion.

On the ground lay a dismembered corpse.

The head belonged to Chen Mu.

The corpse was Shi Wuliao's.

Fang Yue's pupils constricted, a chill crawling up his spine, his whole body trembling.

Chen Mu, the foremost of the three captains of Ancient Moon Village! The one who passed down his Blade Technique and mental cultivation... he was dead! Dead silently, right at his own doorstep!

Damn it!

Fang Yue's first instinct was to turn and run.

But before he could make a move, the chubby kid beside him suddenly screamed, his voice so loud it could be heard throughout the Chen mansion.

"It's, it's Shi Wuliao! He's dead!"

As soon as Fang Yue heard him shout, he knew something was terribly wrong, his heart pounding with fear.

Almost without thinking, he retreated frantically.

Barely a moment after Fang Yue had retreated, he saw the chubby kid's body suddenly split into four or five pieces. The chubby kid couldn't even scream before he died on the spot, a terrifying, blood-red number appearing above his head.

-1161!

What the hell!

One-shot kill from full health!

Damage overflowed tenfold!

Fang Yue was stunned, not daring to linger for another second.

He ran for his life, not looking back, using every ounce of strength he had.

Whether it was because he retreated quickly or because the Anomaly didn't want to leave the Chen mansion, Fang Yue managed to escape, shaken but unharmed.

Recalling the scene just now, his legs were still trembling.

Damn it, I don't even have 1000 HP! I only have 200 HP! That attack, whose method I couldn't even see, would have instantly killed me if it landed!

Fang Yue clutched his rapidly beating heart, orienting himself, and realized that in his panic, he had run all the way back to where he had separated from Niu Niu. Not far ahead, he could see firelight and the sounds of battle.

No way, Niu Niu's not dead?

Fang Yue found it incredible. Then he thought about it again.

If Niu Niu wasn't dead, wouldn't that mean the Anomaly fighting him was trash?

It was time to steal the kill!

Fang Yue crept forward in the darkness, thinking to himself.

If Niu Niu was dead when he reached the battle, he would take over and kill the Anomaly.

If Niu Niu wasn't dead, he would protect Niu Niu.

"Protecting the boss is my duty! Killing the Anomaly is the best form of protection!"

When Fang Yue finally crept back in the darkness, he saw Niu Niu and the Anomaly "grappling."

Fang Yue's face lit up with joy.

Niu Niu, with his 3.7 Control Power, was fighting this Anomaly evenly. So, wouldn't my intervention be a sure thing?

I'm here to protect the boss!

He secretly picked up a torch and seized the opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

But after he stepped in, he shed tears of regret, realizing he had miscalculated; this Anomaly was not simple.

And Niu Niu hadn't been fighting the Anomaly for long. He had simply been running fast, dragging out the fight for a long time, and only then did they engage, just as Fang Yue returned.

What happened next, everyone knew.

Of course, Fang Yue certainly wouldn't tell Niu Niu about his calculations, only relaying some key intelligence.

I, Fang Yue, never betray anyone!

Professional high-level player, reputation guaranteed!

After listening to Fang Yue's simplified account, Niu Niu was shocked.

"Holy crap! There's an Anomaly in the Chen mansion? Captain Chen is dead? Shi Wuliao is dead too? And you're the only one who escaped?"

The information was overwhelming, and Niu Niu had trouble processing it for a moment.

After a while, he finally understood the implications of this information and looked at Fang Yue with a strange expression.

"Brother Ye... you don't think Ancient Moon Village might have already been overrun by Anomalies?"

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