The Golden Silk Mask

Wu Hen had also realized just how formidable the golden Insect-Eyed Half-Human was. Even while vomiting and suffering from diarrhea, she had transformed into a holy fungus form in no time, and the form she took was astonishingly powerful—she had reached the level of Meiqing Muxiu!

"Run this way!" Wu Hen gave Wang Rui, who was flailing around like a headless fly, a hard tug.

The three of them burst out of the medicine warehouse and immediately turned into the passage along the outer wall.

The passage was short. Transformed into the Golden Fungus Centipede Woman, Yang Qin charged at Wu Hen, who was carrying a large box, with a dozen pairs of golden feet pounding the ground at terrifying speed.

The three reached the end of the passage and quickly dodged to one side.

At the same time, a group of Order Maintenance Personnel armed with rifles swiftly sealed off the entire passage. They formed two rows, some crouching and others standing, all raising their automatic rifles!

"Fire!" the female Order Maintenance Personnel commanded.

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

A dense barrage of bullets poured out. No matter how fast the Golden Fungus Centipede Woman, Yang Qin, was, there was no way she could dodge such overwhelming firepower!

"Clang clang clang clang clang!!!!"

The golden fungus shell was exceptionally hard. The bullets struck it as if they had hit steel.

Yang Qin, in her Golden Fungus Centipede Woman form, was driven backward by the rain of bullets. Row upon row of golden, soft legs that had sprouted from her body were also shredded by the gunfire.

But her body remained intact. Even her face had not suffered so much as a scratch, protected as it was by the golden mask.

"Hissssss~~~~~~"

Yang Qin was furious. Wu Hen had tricked her again.

That meant Wu Hen had never trusted her from the start. He had even set a trap like this, waiting for her to fall into it.

She twisted her slender body. From the wounds where her legs had been shot apart, she secreted a large amount of golden, soft fungal threads. They once again transformed into row upon row of centipede legs...

But unlike before, when all her legs had been for crawling, the front pair this time bore sharp golden blades, while the legs behind them were stronger and more agile!

"Thump!"

Golden Pupil Yang Qin leaped into the air like a golden leech!

"Keep firing!!"

The order rang out again. The Order Maintenance Force raised their guns and began another round of fire at Golden Pupil Yang Qin as she soared toward them!

But firing upward made it harder to keep their guns steady, and their accuracy suffered too.

Yang Qin no longer worried about being driven back by the gunfire. Though her body was covered in bullet marks, she had already plunged into the ranks of the gunmen!

Her front claws slammed down, piercing the head of a middle-aged Order Maintenance Personnel. Yang Qin impaled him on her claws, then hurled him hard against the wall.

She opened her mouth and flicked out her tongue. A mass of golden, stamen-like threads, like horsehair worms, tightly coiled around two Order Maintenance Personnel. In just a second, the threads strangled their necks and snapped them.

Her Fungus Tentacle Willow Blade swept across, cutting the bodies of three Order Maintenance Personnel who had not run far enough cleanly in half...

"Scatter! Fight separately!" the female Order Maintenance Personnel shouted.

The squad quickly spread out across the area. Some ran to the rooftops, some hid behind walls, and others fired while fleeing.

Bullets could still shred Yang Qin's soft legs. After all, the Order Maintenance Force from the entire campus had gathered here, bringing together their strongest firepower.

But the Golden-grade Insect-Eyed Half-Human secreted and transformed her limbs too quickly. Even after they finally shot all her legs to pieces, she could twist her body and regrow them. Her vital parts seemed to be covered in golden steel plates, and the bullets simply couldn't pierce them!

Golden Pupil Yang Qin glanced around. If she killed all these Order Maintenance Personnel, Wu Hen would have long since escaped.

She no longer wanted to waste time on this trash.

So she ignored the bullets and went straight after Wu Hen, following the direction he had fled.

Wu Hen had already reached the main athletic field.

In the buildings, countless students and teachers leaned out of the windows. They had no idea what was happening. They only knew that the gunfire was deafening, and something terrifying must have appeared.

Then, in full view of everyone, a golden centipede demoness crawled across the soccer field and onto the stage. One student after another—boys and girls alike—was so frightened they foamed at the mouth...

What was that thing?!

Had aliens finally taken over the Earth?!

How could something so hideous and terrifying, half-human and half-insect, even exist...

And Wu Hen's classmates recognized that golden, sinister face at a glance. Wasn't that Yang Qin???

Wu Hen was still sprinting across the athletic field. He was already moving faster than an ordinary person could, but he still couldn't shake Yang Qin and her dozen pairs of legs!

For the past two and a half years, Yang Qin had been his classmate and had schemed to pursue him relentlessly. Who would have thought that even in the apocalypse, the whole school would get to watch the same scene play out again...

The only difference was that the scene had gone completely off the rails. Wu Hen was still the same handsome, dashing Wu Hen, but Yang Qin was no longer the same Yang Qin!

"Wu Hen! Die, die, die!!"

"I'll carefully pick out every part of your body and eat it over the course of a hundred days!"

As a Half-Human, she naturally carried some of the original owner's resentment!

Yang Qin was furious not only because Wu Hen had ruined her plans, but also because he had known who she was from the start and had ignored her in Evil City.

Afterward, he had treated her like a servant, leaving her to do all the dirty and exhausting work.

Now she was no longer what she had been. Even if she couldn't take over this human settlement, she would tear Wu Hen limb from limb today!!

At last, Wu Hen stopped running.

The vast athletic field was certainly open enough.

Feeling the gaze of thousands of eyes from the surrounding buildings, Wu Hen's brain seemed to short-circuit for a moment.

There was no man alive who could resist showing off in front of the entire school.

So Wu Hen displayed a calm and composure he had never shown before, facing down the Half-Human leader who had brought terror to the whole school.

"I was going to live among everyone as an ordinary person..." Wu Hen began his signature line.

Most of the students still remembered that line. It was the classic farewell speech Wu Hen had given when he dropped out.

"But for the safety of my fellow alumni, I, Wu Hen, can't hide any longer..."

"That's right. I am humanity's last Order Keeper."

"From now on, you may all call me—Lord Wu Hen!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Hen raised his left hand, which was brimming with boundless divine power. A black Death Sword suddenly appeared on the tough skin of his left arm. The light radiating from it outshone the sun in the vault of heaven, shining with dazzling brilliance!

Without me, Great Wu Hen, born into this world, the path of showing off would be dark for all eternity!

"Sword!"

Wu Hen spat out the word with domineering force. At the same time, howling winds swept across the sky, and rumbling thunder threatened to break through the firmament!

The next word was already on Wu Hen's lips.

But suddenly, the Black Miracle Death Sword on his left hand vanished at astonishing speed, and the turbulent aura around them faded away in an instant!

The sword had bailed. Just like that?

What are you doing, Foster Father??

I've built this up all the way to heaven, and you pull this on me???

"Truly powerful beings in the Desolate Dust lurk behind the scenes..."

Suddenly, the words his Aunt had told him before they parted surfaced in Wu Hen's mind!

Could it be...

There was someone even stronger??

The Holy Father couldn't reveal himself now!

Got it!

He really had been too sensitive.

Yang Qin hadn't even laid a finger on him yet. Opening the Heavenly Gate right away wouldn't follow the proper progression, and it wouldn't help him improve through actual combat either.

"Then I'll use the Qilin Arm, Qilin Spike, Qilin Shield..."

Wu Hen put away his overly powerful left hand and slowly raised his right arm instead.

This power really was connected to Wu Hen's thoughts. It wouldn't let him down halfway through.

Soon, Wu Hen's entire arm took on the look of incredibly noble Silver Frost. Elegant, razor-sharp spikes extended from his palm, while a faint, crystalline sheen spread over his skin like a thin garment. At a thought from Wu Hen, it could all transform into a solid Silver Radiance Shield Helmet!!

"Hmph, Yang Qin. I knew you were trouble from the start."

"I'll use you to help me cultivate!"

Wu Yingting had said that fighting and wrestling with creatures from the Desolate Dust would earn the favor of spiritual perception.

If he wanted to grow stronger, then this kind of close-quarters combat was essential!

"Die!"

Wu Hen roared and charged straight at Yang Qin, the golden Half-Human.

If this had happened in peaceful times, Wu Hen's courage would surely have made all the female teachers and students scream with excitement.

On the athletic field, one silver figure clashed with one golden figure.

The silver figure was incredibly nimble, perfectly evading the many fungal blades and finding openings to land swift, precise strikes with his sword.

The golden armor covering Yang Qin's body, which bullets couldn't pierce, was easily pierced by Wu Hen's Qilin Spike. It even unleashed torrents of silver lightning that killed some of the fungal colonies inside her body.

The golden body was sinister and demonic. Though it had the slender torso of a woman, its sides were covered with hooked claws, willow blades, legs, and scorpion pincers. It looked like a female corpse-demon that had crawled out of an ancient tomb.

It had a bewitching, noble golden face, but the rest of its body was grotesque, deformed, and hideous. It was impossible to tell which side was its true appearance!

The golden fungal colonies inside her grew and transformed at astonishing speed. In close combat with Wu Hen, she felt like a mass of immortal, pus-like fluid. No matter how much destructive force struck her body, it could only deform her briefly; it couldn't truly kill her!

"Boom!!!!"

Dirt and rocks flew across the athletic field as Yang Qin's forelimb sent Wu Hen crashing through the air.

Fortunately, the Silver Radiance Mysterious Silk had turned into an armored shield just in time, protecting Wu Hen's chest. Otherwise, he would have been sliced in half.

Wu Hen rolled backward, then quickly got back to his feet.

He stared at Yang Qin, who looked like a golden demon from ten meters away, and calmly began to think.

I can't find the location of her Pupil Worm. I've tried just about every part of her body, Wu Hen thought.

Whether they were white, silver, or golden Insect-Eyed Half-Humans, they all had to have a core.

The white one's core was fixed in its eye socket.

The silver one's was somewhere among its internal organs and began to writhe when it used its powerful abilities.

Then what about the golden one??

After all that fighting, Wu Hen had noticed nothing unusual about Yang Qin.

He had even tried cutting off Yang Qin's tongue, which was like a golden metal wire. Even after he cut the whole thing off, it had no effect on her.

So where was it?

No, he couldn't kill Yang Qin by fighting like this.

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

Bullets suddenly flew in from all directions, striking Half-Human Yang Qin.

"Fire! Keep firing!" the female Order Maintenance Personnel stood on high ground, shouting orders to her subordinates.

By now, the Order Maintenance Personnel had spread out around the athletic field. Some had their rifles braced, some were crouching, and others stood their ground. A dense hail of bullets flew into the field, shredding all dozen of Yang Qin's soft legs!

Some of the bullets hit Yang Qin's body.

Unlike before, when the bullets had struck her like steel plates, these bullets all sank into her flesh.

"Clang!"

Suddenly, a bullet hit Yang Qin in the face, striking the noble Golden Silk Mask!

It still sounded like a shot striking hard steel. Yang Qin's face was unharmed, but she turned a cold gaze toward the Order Maintenance Personnel who had hit her squarely in the face...

The Golden Silk Mask??

Could it be that the mask was the fully formed Pupil Worm???

Or perhaps it was no longer a Pupil Worm. It should be called the Golden Face Worm!!

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