Eye of Calamity

The RV sped across the wasteland.

It had to be said, the effect of the guardian demon skin was immediate.

That fear aura, originating from an s-class entity, struck terror into the hearts of low-level monsters.

Along the way, let alone attacks, even mutant rats had to take a detour the moment they saw the vehicle.

However, when the car reached the entrance of a valley surrounded by mountains, the situation changed.

Behind the car, it was still three o'clock in the afternoon with a bright sun and not a cloud in the sky.

Yet, the valley ahead was shrouded in thick, grey storm clouds.

Rain poured down in torrents, the wind howled, and there was even the faint sound of muffled thunder rolling through the air.

It was as if an invisible boundary had split the world in two.

"Zz."

Wang meng slammed on the brakes, his expression grave.

In the passenger seat, guo shuai was gnawing on a dry compressed biscuit, crumbs falling all over himself.

He looked at the starkly different sky outside the window and swallowed hard.

"Brother wang, this valley... something isn't right."

"The yin energy is too heavy. Even though my senses haven't triggered an alarm yet, I've got a bad feeling about this."

Wang meng nodded and glanced at the scroll left behind by liu yuqing.

The red dot on it was flickering; their target was within reach.

"It's right ahead."

Wang meng said in a low voice, "Notify the big boss first."

Inside the car.

On the large bed, jiangnan was holding chen tong's long, beautiful leg, helping her perform soothing rehabilitation exercises.

"Hiss... take it easy..."

Chen tong bit her lip, her cheeks flushed, her eyes filled with a mix of shyness and reliance.

Jiangnan signaled for her to endure it with his eyes; as a leader, he pampered his own woman.

Especially since it was the first time for both parties, some after-sales service was still necessary.

On the sofa on the other side, Liu Yuqing was hugging a pillow, catching up on sleep.

Meanwhile, in the open kitchen, Yu Shishi was lost in deep thought while staring at the rice cooker.

She was contemplating an ultimate philosophical question that had plagued humans for thousands of years.

When steaming rice, should you add water or not?

"Hmm..."

Yu Shishi bit her finger, her brows furrowed.

"It seems... you don't add water, right?"

"I remember the rice we usually eat is dry. If you added water, wouldn't it just turn into porridge?"

"Right! Exactly! That must be it!"

Yu Shishi slapped her forehead, feeling like a total genius!

She had managed to analyze such a complex logic perfectly!

"Heh heh, this time I'll definitely make the perfect rice and stun everyone!"

Just as she was feeling smug, the soundproof door of the cockpit opened, and Wang Meng delivered a message.

Yu Shishi quickly put down the rice cooker and ran to the bedside to report.

"Boss! Brother Wang Meng says the weather outside has changed; it looks like we've arrived!"

Jiangnan nodded, helped Chen Tong tuck in her quilt, and then got out of bed to walk over to the monitor screen.

Looking at the eerie, rain-curtained valley on the screen, Jiangnan stood with his arms crossed.

It was indeed very strange.

But he didn't feel any fear at all.

With word spirit at his side, he could go anywhere in this world.

He typed out an order directly on the main control panel.

"Guo Shuai, get out of the vehicle."

"Go investigate the red dot."

Upon receiving the order, Guo Shuai did not dawdle.

He swallowed the remaining biscuits in two or three bites, grabbed the jacket from the chair back, and his gaze turned resolute.

This was his first battle since obtaining the Eye of Calamity, and the moment to prove his value to the boss!

"Be careful."

Wang Meng opened the car door and pointed toward the southeast. "Follow this road; that is where the red dot is located."

As he spoke, he rummaged through the toolbox in the back, pulled out a rusty cleaver, and tossed it to Guo Shuai.

This was a torture device they had grabbed from the cellar earlier; although it was a bit rusty, it had plenty of heft.

"Don't worry, Brother Wang, I'll be back."

Guo Shuai caught the cleaver, took a deep breath, and stepped into the rain curtain.

He pulled a compass from his pocket and gripped it tightly in his palm.

"Bless me... Old Yang."

Guo Shuai closed his eyes and prayed for a second, then snapped them open and headed toward the muddy mountain road in the southeast.

Wang Meng watched his back gradually disappear into the rain and mist and sighed.

"I hope you can make it back alive, Guo Shuai."

The rain grew heavier.

Guo Shuai walked with uneven steps along the muddy mountain road.

After about twenty minutes, he suddenly stopped and crouched down.

On the muddy ground, there were two tire tracks that had not yet been completely washed away by the rain.

"Wide tires, off-road pattern... someone has been here?"

Guo Shuai felt a chill in his heart.

It seemed that the terminal signal tower was likely just ahead, and there was already an early bird.

He stood back up, looked at the winding slope ahead, and tightened his grip on the cleaver.

It was time to climb the mountain.

However.

Just as he prepared to take a step, he suddenly saw a humanoid figure in the shadows of the woods not far away, seemingly waving at him.

The movement was very stiff, but it was hard to see clearly through the rain.

If it were a newbie who hadn't yet been beaten down by reality, they might have thought they had encountered a survivor saying hello.

But Guo Shuai, who had just experienced the scarecrow boss and nearly been killed, felt the alarm bells in his brain ring instantly!

"Monster!!"

"It must be a monster!!"

Guo Shuai immediately held his cleaver horizontally across his chest, his muscles tensed, his vigilance at its peak!

The scarecrow had given him despair and left him with severe PTSD.

In this ghost place, any sudden, friendly, or strange phenomenon was definitely a monster playing tricks!

Sure enough.

Seeing that Guo Shuai wasn't falling for it, the "waving" figure stopped pretending.

"Roar!!"

The figure abruptly dropped its hand, let out a hoarse roar, and then charged forward!

Behind it followed two more identical weird figures!

Guo Shuai's danger sense flashed red instantly!

"It really is a monster!!"

"Perfect! It's time for your debut, eye of calamity!!"

Guo Shuai felt no fear at all.

Just as he had said before, he had already died once; those who have nothing to lose are not afraid of those who do!

Hum!

His left eye activated instantly, and a dark gold data stream exploded in his mind.

[Analyzing target...]

[Target: wandering corpse (x3)]

[Race]: weird monster

[Ability]: None

[HP]: 78%

[Paper combat power]: E

[Weakness]: Neck, spine

[Comprehensive evaluation]: Low-level weird monster with low intelligence, stiff movements.

For you, armed with a weapon, it poses no significant threat.

[System suggestion]: The estimated win rate is a seven-three split. Do you need to immediately plan an auto combat strategy to kill it?

"Plan it immediately!!"

Guo Shuai roared in his heart without hesitation.

Because if he didn't fight now, the opponent's claws would be shoved right into his face!

Relying on his own amateur skills would surely mean he was done for!

[Understood, the plan has been generated.]

[Taking over the body's nervous system... takeover successful!]

[Auto combat execution started!]

The moment the voice fell.

Guo Shuai felt a violent trembling in his left eye.

Immediately after, his limbs and bones felt as if they were being pulled by countless invisible threads, and he instantly lost control of his body.

"Roar!!"

The three wandering corpses had already broken through the rain curtain, revealing their dark gray, mangled, and rotting faces!

They opened their mouths full of black teeth, lunging toward Guo Shuai's neck!

They were inches away!

Guo Shuai watched helplessly as those foul mouths approached, screaming frantically in his heart.

"Hurry up! Big brother! Do something! Slash them!!"

Just at the moment the wandering corpse was about to bite the tip of his nose.

Guo Shuai moved.

But... the movement was completely different from what he had imagined.

Plop!

His legs went weak, and he knelt down neatly and cleanly!

Guo Shuai: "???"

"Huh? Seriously, buddy??"

"Are you sure this is a fight and not a surrender begging for mercy?!!"

"That kneeling was way too textbook! Is this piece of junk actually broken after all?!"

Just as Guo Shuai was regretting his life choices, thinking he was about to be bitten to death on the spot, a miraculous scene unfolded.

The leading wandering corpse clearly hadn't expected its prey to suddenly shrink by half.

It lunged into empty air, slipped, and stepped right onto a smooth, moss-covered rock.

"Awooo?"

The wandering corpse lost its balance, its entire body flying right over the top of Guo Shuai's head!

And in that very instant, Guo Shuai, still kneeling on the ground, felt his right hand move as if it had a mind of its own, hoisting the cleaver up with the blade facing skyward.

Rip!

Utilizing the inertia of the wandering corpse's flight, the rusty cleaver instantly sliced open its belly.

It even severed the already rotting spine in the process!

Pat.

The wandering corpse crashed into the muddy water behind Guo Shuai, twitched twice, and went still.

"Holy crap..."

Guo Shuai's expression shifted instantly: "Ahem, I'm sorry Eye of Calamity, I shouldn't have been a hater."

However, before he could finish complaining, the other two wandering corpses lunged over as well.

This time, they had learned their lesson; instead of running, they jumped in from the left and right, sealing off Guo Shuai's route of escape.

"Surely I can't be forced to kneel again this time, right?"

Guo Shuai thought.

However, just as he had thought.

The Eye of Calamity did not choose to make him kneel, but instead...

It tipped backward!

Lying flat!

Literally lying flat!

Guo Shuai lay in the muddy water in a spread-eagled position, staring at the gray, overcast sky and the cold rain, his heart filled with despair.

I'm tired. Let the world end.

But the next moment.

"Swish! Swish!"

Due to a miscalculation, the two wandering corpses lunged over him and missed, slamming hard into each other.

As Guo Shuai lay on the ground, the cleaver in his hand inexplicably traced a semicircle through the air.

Squelch!

The head of the one on the left was sliced clean in half.

The one on the right had collided with such force that, upon landing, its neck happened to strike a rock.

Crack!

A crisp sound of bone breaking rang out, and it died instantly.

Triple kill.

[Combat ended.]

[All targets are dead. Auto combat mode deactivated.]

[Host evaluation: Your physical fitness is too poor, severely limiting the performance of this Eye.]

[Please improve as soon as possible, otherwise you will lower my standards.]

He regained control of his body.

Guo Shuai lay in the muddy water, staring at the line of text filled with disdain, ten thousand grass mud horses galloping through his heart.

"I haven't even started complaining about you making me win in such a pathetic way like a maggot, and you're already looking down on me?!"

"Is this even a battle? This is just insurance fraud!"

Guo Shuai sighed, climbed up from the ground, and shook the black blood off his blade.

"Forget it. Whether it's a black cat or a white cat, a cat that can catch mice is a good cat."

"At least I won."

He wiped the rainwater from his face and looked ahead.

"The terminal signal tower should be on the mountain. I'd better go check it out quickly."

Twenty minutes later.

Following the two deep tire tracks, Guo Shuai finally climbed to the top of the mountain, panting heavily.

"Finally... here... I'm exhausted."

Guo Shuai braced his hands on his knees, gasping for air.

He suddenly felt that the Eye of Calamity was right; his physical constitution was truly trash. It seemed he would have to figure out a way to train in the future.

However.

When he lifted his head and saw the scene in front of him clearly, his pupils instantly constricted into pinpricks!

He saw that at the eerie school gate ahead.

A dark green humvee off-road vehicle was parked there.

And beside the car and on the ground...

Three bleached-white skeletons wearing yellow-green special operations uniforms were scattered about!

Beyond that.

There were also several assault rifles, sniper rifles, and machine guns scattered in the muddy water!