"Since we're all classmates, we should die together, all neat and tidy. You came at just the right time, Wu Hen!" Zhou Guang threw his mouth wide open, his tongue split into threads like the stamens of an insect!
Who knew whether it was some lingering obsession from the past, or if he had always been a lunatic.
One of Zhou Guang's long claws had bound class beauty Luo Yuying, and he was licking her with those insect-stamen threads. Thick, revolting slime smeared across the girl's skin.
Luo Yuying had been scared witless, like a fawn that had lost its soul. Her eyes were full of terror.
She had never imagined that all she had to do was reject Zhou Guang's advances for him to turn into such a hideous creature.
"His, his. The Wu Hen you like is here, isn't he? Why don't you open your eyes and take a good look at how I tear him limb from limb?" the half-human Zhou Guang said manically.
With that, the half-human Zhou Guang tied Luo Yuying to a pillar. It seemed he planned to deal with Wu Hen first, then take his time enjoying her.
Wu Hen was baffled. He had no idea that class beauty Luo Yuying had a crush on him.
And Zhou Guang had rejected her on the grounds that she liked him?
But after thinking it over, it made sense.
So many girls at this school had been infatuated with him. Even after he dropped out, he was still the stuff of legend.
Holding the White Radiance Bow, Wu Hen moved step by step toward the silver half-human.
As he approached, Wu Hen kept signaling to his best friend, telling him to rescue Luo Yuying while Wu Hen distracted the silver half-human.
His best friend was true to form. He picked up a wooden chair and, while Zhou Guang's attention was on Wu Hen, slammed it straight into the back of the silver half-human's head!
After transforming into a half-human, Zhou Guang had become a demon. Who wouldn't be terrified of him and beg for mercy on their knees?
He never would have expected Wang Rui, who had been scared shitless, to smack him in the back of the head—and with a little personal grudge mixed in, too!
"Holy shit! How dare you?!"
Wu Hen was stunned, but he hurriedly charged at the silver, insect-eyed half-human.
Another second, and Wang Rui might have been the first one torn limb from limb!
The half-human Zhou Guang was so furious that he had lost all reason. Silver Mycelium burst from him, like steel spikes stabbing viciously toward Wang Rui!
Fortunately, Wu Hen arrived just in time. He pressed the White Radiance Bow right up close and fired shot after shot in rapid succession, like a Gatling gun on full auto!
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
In moments, the half-human Zhou Guang's head was studded with white arrows!
Having learned from experience, Wu Hen knew that this kind of insect-eyed half-human was weak around the eyes. As long as he killed the fungal insect in its eye socket, the half-human would vaporize.
But the insect-eyed half-human Zhou Guang had become was clearly more advanced. Wu Hen had shot right through his entire head, and he still wasn't dead!
"Whoosh!!!"
A Demon Fungus arm slashed at him. It had completely transformed into a saw blade, ready to split Wu Hen in half vertically!
Wu Hen had excellent hearing. Normally, he could clearly hear such a vicious attack coming. But because this insect-eyed half-human had such an unusual physique, Wu Hen could hear only the sharp rush of the wind, not the movements of his body. That naturally slowed his reaction.
"Xiao Yi, shield!"
At a thought from Wu Hen, a Mystic Silk White Shield quickly formed over his left arm!
He raised his arm to block, but his opponent's strength was beyond anything Wu Hen had expected.
Wu Hen almost dropped to one knee. The ground beneath him was crushed out of shape!
"Xiao Yi, Qilin Arm!"
Wu Hen knew a bow was no longer an advantage in close combat, so he immediately had the Black Miracle change form.
From the skin of his right arm, a great deal of White Radiance Crystal Silk seeped out. Like ice silkworms, like dark ice, it quickly covered his entire arm, extending into a sharp, icy spike at his palm.
As though wielding a fencing foil, Wu Hen turned aside to dodge the huge axe blade crashing down at him, then thrust upward, piercing straight through his opponent's abdomen!
A large amount of pus flowed from Zhou Guang's belly, but the insect's eye wasn't housed there. Wu Hen had no choice but to retreat quickly and put some distance between them...
Where the hell is it hiding? Wu Hen wondered.
Zhou Guang's whole body had been colonized by fungus. Only when the insect was in its larval form could it remain confined to a person's eye socket, so Wu Hen now had to find the organ where the insect's eye was hiding.
Not the heart.
Not the eye socket or the head.
Not the stomach, either.
There were so many organs in a person's body, and Wu Hen couldn't pierce his opponent every time he got the chance.
"Wu Hen, something's wriggling at the back of his neck!" Wang Rui shouted, giving Wu Hen a vital clue.
Wu Hen's eyes lit up!
What a brilliant idea, buddy!
So that's where it was hiding...
Got it!
Wu Hen glanced up at the canopy over the corridor, then focused his mind.
"Xiao Yi, hook onto the ceiling!"
A moment later, Mystic Fungal Silk shot from Wu Hen's shoulders and back.
Like steel cables, the sticky strands instantly anchored themselves to the roof above the corridor!
Wu Hen's body shot into the air, and he ended up stuck upside down to the ceiling like a highly skilled assassin!
"Die!"
After awakening, Wu Hen's coordination had become extraordinary. He stomped hard against the corridor ceiling, then launched himself down in an agile, wall-bouncing strike!
Wu Hen's trajectory formed an upside-down V. He not only dodged every frontal slash from the insect-eyed half-human, but also made it perfectly around behind him!
"Whoosh!"
Wu Hen slashed down, slicing open the insect-eyed half-human's nape in an instant!
The skin and muscles parted, revealing an insect's eye the size of a thumb. It was silvery white all over and already emanated a certain vicious aura!
Xiao Yi truly had the soul of a glutton. Without needing Wu Hen to say a word, a phantom appeared in the palm of his hand, taking the shape of a Little Witch Dragon that snapped its jaws around the plump, silvery-white insect's eye!
"Graaah!!!!!"
As the insect's eye was devoured, the half-human Zhou Guang let out a beastlike roar. A mass of hardened fungal growths sprouted from his back, and like an enraged hedgehog, he stabbed them toward Wu Hen from close range.
Wu Hen knew that a parasite had two insect eyes. He didn't get greedy with his attacks, lightly leaping back several steps as he thrust his right hand forward, using the Mystic Silk White Shield to block the frenzied spikes!
"Wu Hen, I'll chop you into pieces!" Zhou Guang went completely berserk. Silver Mycelium spread from every inch of his skin, from every pore.
The silver strands made his body swell and covered him in serrated blades. Soon, it was impossible to tell how many arms he had. As he swung those fungal blades, Wu Hen felt as if a meat grinder were hurtling toward him!
Wu Hen took a deep breath.
If class beauty Luo Yuying hadn't been tied to that pillar, he would have immediately leaped down from the corridor to avoid the half-human's frenzied attack.
But Wu Hen still had a lingering attachment.
If Luo Yuying had a crush on him, that meant she had good taste.
Wu Hen felt just a tiny bit guilty at the thought of watching someone with such good taste die right before his eyes.
Suddenly, Wu Hen noticed some viscous fluid on Luo Yuying. It was pale green. He remembered that when Yu Yu had shot through those two white larvae, the blood that spilled from them had been the same color!
So Zhou Guang had licked her just now, right?
Got it!
The other insect's eye was in Zhou Guang's stamen-like tongue!
"Xiao Yi, bring me a gun!"
Wu Hen immediately calmed down. He thrust his right hand forward, supporting it with his other hand at the wrist!
Xiao Yi was busy, too.
Black Miracle particles quickly gathered in Wu Hen's palm, forming a black Origin Mech Pistol in the blink of an eye!
He didn't need to worry about accuracy.
It didn't matter if he missed.
All he had to do was find the courage to face this fungal meat grinder!
"Let's see what's faster within seven steps—my gun or your fungus!" Wu Hen took a deep breath and let the terrifying meat grinder come hurtling toward him!
"Bang!!"
A shot rang out, carrying a bolt of lightning as it punched straight through the half-human Zhou Guang's throat and tongue!
It was only a pistol, but its power was no less than that of an armor-piercing sniper round. After being fed, Xiao Yi was clearly even stronger than before.
The Origin Mech bullet hit the moving silver half-human perfectly. It passed through his gaping mouth and struck the half-human Zhou Guang in the throat and tongue!
In an instant, everything above the half-human Zhou Guang's neck exploded, spraying pale green blood!
At the same time, the meat-grinder-like demon body began to collapse like a machine that had lost its power and come apart at the seams. As it crumbled, its body tissue began to vaporize.
Wu Hen remained standing right where he was. The fungal insects that had infested the body slid to a stop a foot away from his feet, then quickly evaporated!
The vapor blurred Wu Hen's upright silhouette, but only made his courage seem all the more tangible. Luo Yuying, still tied to the pillar nearby, stared at him, dumbstruck...
Back in the classroom, his classmates of two and a half years stood frozen in shock. When Wu Hen had dropped out, his retreating figure had seemed so desolate. Now, he stood so grand and imposing.
So Wu Hen was a pioneer!
The guardian of order in this world!!
"Waaah, Wu Hen, it's so good to have you here!" The girls' eyes brimmed with tears as they broke down sobbing.
"Wu Hen, does your family need a housekeeper?" Luo Yuying had practically lost her mind. She knew Wu Hen might not be interested in her, so she simply lowered her status.
"Does your family need a dog? The kind that guards the house!" Seeing the class beauty act like that, some of the boys were even more eager to volunteer.
Wu Hen hadn't expected his classmates to care so much about him.
Considering that Zhou Guang was probably a decoy sent by the Insect-Eyed Half-Human organization, Wu Hen had no time to catch up with his classmates. After leading them out of the dead-end classroom, he met up with his younger sister Yu Yu and hurried toward the Medicine Warehouse.
"Brother Hen, wait for me!" Wang Rui shamelessly tagged along, insisting that he had to help Wu Hen save the world.
Wang Rui might be afraid of dying, but every now and then, he came up with a brilliant idea. Wu Hen had a feeling that he could be very useful, so he slowed down to let Wang Rui catch up.
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