Help Me, Brother Hen

Inside the Tropical Pavilion.

Yu Yu retrieved some potatoes from the soil cultivation area on the third floor.

Carrying the basket of potatoes back into the secret room, the moment Yu Yu closed the door, she caught a whiff of a stench like a dead rat.

It was coming from the other floors. Yu Yu immediately pinched her nose.

She didn't know why, but after sleeping in her brother's arms, she felt like the scents around her had become exceptionally intense upon waking up. Even the smell of sweat on her brother was becoming somewhat unbearable.

Therefore, while her brother was dead to the world, Yu Yu had thoughtfully wiped his entire body down.

Back in her own room, she used to wash her body pillow herself; if there was any strange odor, she wouldn't be able to sleep soundly at night.

"Brother is starting to stink again today. He needs a wash!"

Yu Yu fetched a towel. With water resources being abundant, she had to bathe her brother frequently!

To be honest, her brother was actually quite handsome when he wasn't talking. Why couldn't Heaven have just made him a mute? That way, she would have the best brother in the entire world.

First, wipe the face.

Then, wipe the chest...

"What are you doing??" Suddenly, a voice rang out right against her ear.

Yu Yu was so startled her face turned pale, then flushed bright red as she stared at the human-shaped body pillow that had suddenly woken up!

"Giving... giving you a wash," Yu Yu said, waving her small hands.

"You didn't do anything weird to me, did you?" Wu Hen questioned.

Yu Yu immediately shook her head, her little braids whipping back and forth.

Wu Hen looked at his own arms. Sure enough, they were covered in a dense row of small tooth marks. It seemed that whenever she was even the slightest bit unhappy, this little kitten would bite him!

Wu Hen didn't stand on ceremony either; he reached out and pinched Yu Yu's soft, chubby cheeks.

"Yi yi ya ya!!!!"

Yu Yu couldn't speak, but that didn't mean she couldn't make noise. She was clearly calling out to her mother for help!

Sure enough, Yu Yi appeared in a flash and immediately slapped Wu Hen on the back of the head, huffing, "Bullying your sister again!"

In this house, one thing always subdued another; Wu Hen naturally didn't dare to be arrogant anymore.

After dealing with Wu Hen, Mother Yu Yi suddenly realized something. Looking at the awakened Wu Hen, she reacted with belated excitement: "You're awake? You've woken up again?"

Wu Yingting also hurried over. Seeing his son had regained consciousness once more, he immediately pulled him into a big hug!

"Dad, I'm here on a mission this time. The situation is a bit complicated," Wu Hen said.

"Can you handle it? Do you need any help?" Wu Yingting asked.

"I should be able to, but..."

"Yu Yu must have awakened her sense of smell," Wu Yingting said with certainty.

"Really??" Wu Hen was also quite excited, then immediately added, "Then where exactly are my underwear?"

Yu Yu could take it no longer and stomped hard on Wu Hen's foot.

"If you have to deal with that kind of creature with a keen sense of smell, it's best to let Yu Yu go with you." Wu Yingting felt quite gratified in his heart.

He hadn't expected both of his children to become Awakened.

Of course, Wu Yingting still had some doubts. They were both his kids, and both had awakened, so why hadn't he, despite all his hard work? Where exactly had the process gone wrong?

I suppose I really am getting old.

"Alright, if we run into the Insect-Eyed Half-Human again, we won't be so passive," Wu Hen nodded, deciding to bring this young girl ninja along.

They descended into the secret passage once more.

Wu Hen and Yu Yu snuck into the school's air-raid shelter.

Having successfully entered the school's back mountain, the two were wearing school uniforms, so even if they accidentally ran into the Order Maintenance Personnel, they didn't need to worry about being questioned.

They crossed the sports field and arrived near the teaching building.

Wu Hen saw figures moving inside the teaching building. These were likely the students who hadn't fallen into the Desolate Dust but were under closed-off management. Some had quite optimistic mindsets and were playing around in the classroom corridors.

"Yu Yu, use your little brain. The school is so big; how are we supposed to find the parasitized Insect-Eyed Half-Human?" Wu Hen said.

Back in the air-raid shelter, Wu Hen had explained the matter of the Insect-Eyed Soul-Resting Tree to Yu Yu, so that his sister, who loved playing detective, could help him sort out the logic.

"Go to the Medicine Warehouse and wait for them to come to us," Yu Yu said.

"There are Order Maintenance troops armed with weapons over there. We can't get close, and the Insect-Eyed Half-Human probably can't either," Wu Hen said.

"If I were an Insect-Eyed Half-Human, I would find a way to create chaos, for example, by setting a fire, poisoning, or mur..." Yu Yu hadn't finished her sign language when a commotion suddenly erupted from the direction of the teaching building!

Wu Hen and Yu Yu frowned. They turned to look at the teaching building's corridor and were shocked to discover a humanoid monster covered from head to toe in Silver Mycelium, waving countless tentacles and attacking the students in the teaching building indiscriminately!

Both of them knew the Insect-Eyed Half-Human would definitely create chaos, but they hadn't expected them to start a massacre directly!

In the brief moment they were stunned, several students playing in the corridor were slashed down, blood spraying everywhere.

"Quick!! Protect the students! Protect the students and evacuate them!!" a female Order Maintenance Personnel shouted.

Soon, six Order Maintenance Personnel holding firearms ran rapidly toward the corridor.

At first, they thought some thugs had broken into the academy, but when they saw the shocking half-human monster on the corridor, their faces were filled with terror and confusion!

What on earth is this!!

Did it drink nuclear wastewater??

Even eating undercooked mushrooms wouldn't cause such bizarre hallucinations!

"Fire!" the female Order Maintenance Personnel ordered.

The six of them immediately raised their guns, and bullets swept toward the Insect-Eyed Half-Human like a rainstorm.

However, a large amount of mycelium grew out of the Insect-Eyed Half-Human's body. These mycelia were comparable to the most advanced fiber materials, condensing in front of the silver half-human as if erecting a dead-angle-free riot shield.

The six of them emptied a magazine of ammunition onto the silver fungal shield, only managing to make the silver Insect-Eyed Half-Human retreat a few steps.

Fortunately, this attack also prevented the silver Insect-Eyed Half-Human from moving, allowing the students at the other end of the corridor to seize the chance to escape!

"Help, help!!" A curly-haired man in the classroom closest to the corridor shouted at the top of his lungs.

Wu Hen took a closer look and realized it was his best friend Wang Rui!

It seemed he hadn't managed to evacuate from the last classroom in time, and the target of that silver Insect-Eyed Half-Human was precisely this classroom!

"Xiao Yu, you hide here first," Wu Hen said.

The firearms of the Order Maintenance troops were not on the same level as Su Li's meta-machinery. Their bullets could at most hinder the Insect-Eyed Half-Human's pace; they couldn't hurt this parasitic fungal monster at all.

With that, Wu Hen ran toward the direction of the teaching corridor.

Upon arriving at the corridor, the female Order Maintenance member recognized Wu Hen, whom she had met once before. She glared with wide eyes and scolded, "Student, hurry up and run! Why are you running toward it!"

"Leave this to me. You must immediately order your people to reinforce the protection of the Medicine Warehouse. The real goal of these guys is to destroy the Medicine Warehouse!" Wu Hen countered the female Order Maintenance Personnel's order instead.

"Don't cause trouble at a time like this!" the female Order Maintenance Personnel said, somewhat angrily.

Wu Hen didn't have time to explain to her. He grabbed the woman by her collar, pulled her in front of him, and then said coldly, "You are the one who shouldn't cause me trouble. I am an Awakened dispatched from above; I am in command here!"

After saying that, he shoved the female Order Maintenance Personnel hard against the wall, hoping that such dominance and pain would help her wake up a bit.

The female Order Maintenance Personnel, dressed in military gear, was stunned by Wu Hen's imposing manner. Before she could react, Wu Hen walked head-on toward the terrifying Insect-Eyed Half-Human!

"Xiao Yi, bow!"

Wu Hen extended his right arm forward. Soon, White Radiance Profound Silk grew out from his palm. These profound silks shaped themselves extremely quickly, transforming into a remarkably elegant White Profound Bow!

"Arrow, come!"

Wu Hen spoke again. Quickly, a substance resembling crystalline silk appeared between the fingers of his clenched right hand. While growing and taking shape, it was incredibly supple, comparable to silk fabric, but once fully condensed, it became as hard as cold iron!

"Swish!!!"

A snow-white arrow streaked through the air, even coated with fine, dense electric luster, making it quite eye-catching in the campus as dusk approached!

The silver Insect-Eyed Half-Human regained its mobility. When it saw the arrow flying toward it, the corners of its mouth curled slightly.

Bullets couldn't even pierce its body; what use were cold weapons like bows and arrows from the previous era?

"Pfft!!"

The arrow suddenly pierced through, and then, it erupted with astonishing thunder and lightning within the parasite's chest, blasting half of the Insect-Eyed Half-Human's chest to shreds!

However, the monster's chest was no longer human tissue. From the festering area, one could see it was densely packed with silver tapeworms; they were simultaneously the skin, muscle, blood vessels, and fascia.

As Wu Hen blasted its chest open, a large number of breeding silver larvae even fell out.

Once they detached from the main body and touched the outside air, they rapidly vaporized.

"Cough, cough... cough, cough... isn't this Wu Hen??"

"You dropped out, so why did you come back to school... cough, cough..."

"Back when we were in school, you were the one I couldn't stand the most. Looking at you now, you're still just as annoying!"

The silver Insect-Eyed Half-Human turned its face to the side. It was a boy with short hair and fierce brows. When Wu Hen dropped out, he had been the one who gloated the most.

Wu Hen hadn't expected that the guy so thoroughly parasitized would be his classmate, Zhou Guang. It seemed the theory that spiritual perception chooses a good tree to perch on was correct; carrion flies would inevitably gravitate toward human maggots!

No wonder this silver-eyed half-human had prioritized slaughtering his own class!

Wu Hen cast his gaze toward the depths of the corridor and saw many familiar faces in that classroom:

Class beauty Luo Yuying, best friend Wang Rui, top student Tianjiabao, academic underachiever Zhu Feiyu, and the class heartthrob who was also the school heartthrob... oh, that was himself.

"Wu... Wu Hen????"

"It's Wu Hen!!"

Inside the classroom, the students were so terrified that their snot and tears were mixed together. Suddenly looking up and discovering that the person who had descended from the sky was Wu Hen, who had dropped out not long ago, they were all in disbelief!

"Help me, Brother Hen!!" His best friend Wang Rui screamed at the top of his lungs, sounding as excited as a cracked-voiced old lady!