The Girl Graceful as a Startled Swan

Across from the cold storage, a crack had opened in the door of the storage room.

Four eyes were peering out, filled with terror and shock. They belonged to Wu Hen and Yu Yu, who were hiding inside.

Wu Hen was covering Yu Yu's mouth with one hand, terrified that his sister, who couldn't speak, might let out a scream.

What on earth was going on?

Was this guy insane?

Why would he set fire to all the medical supplies?

If the Black Shirt Organization had truly turned against humanity, why would this guy kill his own Black Shirt companions?

And what was the deal with those White Mycelium weapons growing out of his body?

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~~~~~"

The firelight reflected out from the cold storage. To make the fire burn even fiercer, the Eye-Patterned Man had even tossed in liquid oxygen, ensuring that every single medicine in the cold storage would be burned to ash!

Seeing that the fire had reached a point where it was impossible to extinguish, the Eye-Patterned Man closed the door with satisfaction and prepared to leave.

As he turned around, Wu Hen caught a glimpse of his face through the crack in the door!

To Wu Hen's shock, the eye pattern on his forehead had expanded like frost-white veins, covering the upper half of his face in an exaggerated manner, looking exactly as if he were wearing a half-mask of corpse-white skin.

The most horrifying part was his eye sockets, which looked as if they had been colonized as a nest by some kind of insect. The crystalline lenses of his eyeballs had long since been eaten away, and those pupils, resembling white larvae, were actually swimming back and forth between the left and right eye sockets!

Trembling.

The petite, delicate body in his arms was trembling uncontrollably.

Wu Hen felt a chill run down his own spine, let alone his sister Yu Yu.

Just as Wu Hen was wondering how to comfort his sister, Yu Yu's nervous little hand moved Wu Hen's large palm upward, signaling to her brother that he should be covering her eyes, not her mouth!

Wu Hen felt incredibly awkward.

He had been so stunned that he'd forgotten that if a child is scared, they just need to not look!

"What on earth is this guy? An Awakened, or a mutant?"

"His behavior is exactly like that of someone infected by mental corruption, but shouldn't anyone returning to the Nuwa Divine Terminal be cleansed?"

"How could such filthy things that only exist in the Desolate Dust be brought back to our homeland?"

Neither Wu Hen nor Yu Yu dared to make a sound; they waited quietly.

The Eye-Patterned Man walked toward the emergency stairs. As soon as he left, Wu Hen and Yu Yu would immediately flee this hellhole!

The outside world was truly too dangerous. Not only were there crazed gangs and radical extremists running wild, but there were even cruel Insect-Eyed Half-Humans...

"Click."

The sound of a door locking echoed from the end of the stairwell.

Yu Yu couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. Her nerves had been stretched too thin, and now her eyes were brimming with tears. She lifted her small, peach-colored face, looking aggrievedly at her older brother, Wu Hen.

Under normal circumstances, Wu Hen would have hugged her to comfort his little sister, but he couldn't do that right now.

Because Wu Hen had heard a very, very faint sound of footsteps. Like a venomous scorpion, it was inching closer and closer to the storage room where they were hiding!

"That guy locked the door from the outside... he didn't leave. He knows we're in here!" Wu Hen immediately informed Yu Yu of the situation.

Yu Yu, like a startled little ragdoll cat, spun around, not knowing where to run.

"How fragrant~" At this moment, the Eye-Patterned Man sniffed the air and began walking toward the siblings. "I bet one of you is a tender, pink-cheeked young girl."

Wu Hen's heart sank when he heard this.

Could it be that this thing had an exceptionally keen sense of smell?

That meant that from the very beginning, this guy had been tracking their scent; hiding had been completely meaningless!

"In the past, I would have cherished you, but now I think a girl like that must taste even better—it even saves me the trouble of using seasoning!" The Eye-Patterned Man followed the scent forward, the white, cold spikes on his hands still dripping with blood!

Hearing these incredibly perverted words, anger ignited in Wu Hen's eyes!

"Run toward the elevator shaft; I'll deal with him!" Wu Hen patted his sister, signaling her to retreat in the other direction.

Yu Yu nodded and immediately ran along the other end of the corridor, heading toward the elevator shaft.

"Tsk tsk, are you sweating with fear? It smells so sweet," the Eye-Patterned Man made a sickening sound.

He quickened his pace, chasing them down the corridor.

Just as he turned the corner, a figure suddenly flashed out from a doorway. Wu Hen, holding a semi-automatic pistol, unleashed a barrage of fire at the Eye-Patterned Man!!

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!!!!!"

Seven shots in total—Wu Hen emptied the magazine in one breath!

This semi-automatic pistol had naturally been taken from his father's collection and had been tucked at his waist the entire time.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, nice marksmanship. Every shot was aimed at my head, but it's a pity that this kind of firearm can't hurt me..."

The Eye-Patterned Man had not been killed, because a massive amount of white mycelium had sprouted from his arms. These mycelia acted like a raised bulletproof shield, blocking every one of Wu Hen's bullets!

Wu Hen frowned.

This guy's ability is absurd. He can actually auto-block bullets?

Xiao Yi can help Wu Hen lock onto targets, so usually, Wu Hen just needs to pull the trigger.

But this opponent seems to have white fungal matter inside his body capable of automatically intercepting bullets; the rounds simply couldn't pierce through him!

With no other choice, Wu Hen had no option but to flee toward the elevator shaft for the time being.

The Eye-Patterned Man seemed to know Wu Hen was reloading, so he chased rapidly along the corridor.

The Eye-Patterned Man's speed was incredible; his movement felt like a person in a movie played at double speed, which left Wu Hen astonished.

"Bang!! Bang!!!"

At a corner, Wu Hen suddenly fired from a blind angle, catching his opponent off guard.

At the same time, the Eye-Patterned Man's nose twitched, and immediately after, the two white worm-like pupils in his eye sockets began to churn rapidly!

A large amount of white mycelium appeared on his body again; one part manifested on his abdomen, while the other covered his chest... and these two sudden bullets were aimed exactly at those two spots on the Eye-Patterned Man!

It seemed that the Eye-Patterned Man could not move while the white mycelium was growing or retracting into his body.

He stood frozen in place, looking down at the blocked bullets, his entire face becoming even more hideous and twisted!

"In a moment, I will shove your sister's heart into your mouth. If you spit it out, I'll kill you; if you swallow it, I'll spare your life!" the Eye-Patterned Man said cruelly.

Whether growing into armor or drilling back into his body, the white mycelium moved with great speed.

The Eye-Patterned Man chased after them again, fierce and menacing!

Wu Hen had limited ammunition, so he could only run toward the elevator shaft while turning back to fire, hoping to stall for time.

"Brother, I can't open the elevator shaft by myself," Yu Yu gestured toward the approaching Wu Hen.

Wu Hen glanced at the elevator shaft.

At the Eye-Patterned Man's speed, even if he and Yu Yu escaped into the shaft, he feared they would still struggle to survive.

"Don't be afraid!" Wu Hen stopped thinking about running and quickly reloaded his magazine.

He aimed his muzzle at the corner, waiting for the opponent to approach.

The Eye-Patterned Man's nose twitched a few more times.

He smelled the scent of sweat on the siblings; they were waiting to die at the elevator.

He also smelled a scorching gun barrel, the scent of gunpowder thick in the air.

The moment the gunfire erupted, the Eye-Patterned Man could capture the scent of danger, and the Pupil Worm would instantly block it.

Therefore, the Eye-Patterned Man did not hesitate. Even though it meant walking straight into the muzzle of the opponent's gun, he still took a large step forward.

The instant he stepped out, the Eye-Patterned Man caught the dangerous smell of gunpowder!

The Pupil Worm spun rapidly.

Fungal Shell, guard!

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!!!!"

Another seven consecutive bullets were fired, and all of them were aimed straight at the Eye-Patterned Man's heart!

On the Eye-Patterned Man's chest, several layers of white fungal threads appeared. They looked like a fleshy shell protruding from his chest, blocking every single bullet!

The Eye-Patterned Man stood rooted to the spot once more. Although he had withstood every shot, the force transmitted through the continuous impact on the same spot made him grit his teeth in pain.

I will definitely eat that brat's sister alive right in front of him!

"You have made me very..."

Before the Eye-Patterned Man could even finish his sentence, a razor-sharp metal arrow shot out without warning from a distance of less than five meters!

"Swish!"

The arrow slammed into the Eye-Patterned Man's left eye socket. The power of the Compound Bow not only pierced through his skull but pinned him directly to the wall!!

Veins bulged across the Eye-Patterned Man's entire face, as if his blood vessels were about to burst through his skin.

Blood flowed endlessly from his eye socket.

Despite struggling frantically, with his head pinned, he could only twist his pained body in place...

A Compound Bow was eerily hovering behind a screen, and it was from there that the metal arrow had been fired. The Eye-Patterned Man would never have imagined that there existed in this world a modern Compound Bow that could fire itself like a living creature!

It floated in silence, drew its own bowstring, and aimed itself!!

"Ahhh, I will drink your blood and eat your flesh!!" the Eye-Patterned Man roared in agony.

He actually reached out his hand and forcibly pulled the arrow out from his eye socket and the wall!

Wu Hen was stunned to see this scene.

Pierced through the eye socket and into the brain, and he was still alive??

Unfortunately, the Compound Bow had a drawback compared to a semi-automatic pistol: Xiao Yi could not nock the arrows itself.

When setting up this ambush, he had to pre-load the arrow onto the bowstring before letting Xiao Yi crouch behind the screen.

His eye socket...

Soon, Wu Hen witnessed a horrifying scene. In the other eye socket of the Insect-Eyed Half-Human, two white larvae had actually appeared!

The moment Xiao Yi shot toward its left eye socket, that white Pupil Worm on the left had instantly migrated to the right eye socket!

It didn't die even after its skull was pierced. Could it be that its true body was the white pupil worm?

"Whoosh!"

Just as Wu Hen was contemplating his next move, an incredibly crisp sound flew past his ear!

After practicing archery for so long, one could tell whether an arrow would hit the bullseye just by the sound of it leaving the string.

Sure enough, a fierce arrow streaked through the air, flying straight toward the Insect-Eyed Half-Human. By the time Wu Hen refocused his gaze on the half-human's right eye socket, he discovered an arrow with its tail still vibrating, pinned right there!

Inside the eye socket, the two white larvae that had been clinging tightly together were skewered simultaneously, even being dragged directly out of the Eye-Patterned Man's skull...

The crazed half-human, who was still trying to pull the arrow out of its left eye socket, suddenly froze. White steam began to erupt from its entire body!

Its body seemed to be rotten to begin with, lacking even bones inside. As the massive amount of white steam surged out, the Eye-Patterned Man collapsed like a puddle of steamed, rotting skin, slowly sliding onto the ground...

It was clear that the Eye-Patterned Man was truly dead this time, especially the moment the two pupil worms were shot out of the skull.

However, when Wu Hen turned his head in astonishment, what he saw was a young girl as graceful as a startled swan!

Her beautiful figure was upright yet supple, her slender, elegant arms extended, and an exquisite Compound Bow was braced against her chest...

That focused profile possessed an elven, ethereal beauty, yet her eyes revealed a confidence and determination that belied her age!

That last arrow had been shot by her!

But good heavens!

Was this really the younger sister he had bullied for fifteen years, the one who would crawl into his bed whenever there was thunder?