Dead End

As Xie Xu muttered to himself, Wei Fen and Li Zihua hurried over.

Tang Zheng had lost both legs, his life hanging in the balance; Zhang Zhen had suffered fractures throughout his body, his life hanging in the balance; Bai Yi was still in the vacuum ravine, and they needed to rescue him.

Now Wang Ziyi had also had half her body torn away by the demon, her life hanging in the balance.

The Pulse-Wheel Albatross had long since retreated into the black fog, preparing its next attack.

Helplessness filled Wei Fen and Li Zihua's hearts. Could they still make it back alive?

[Mental State: Fear 100/100]

The next second, Bai Yi appeared before them with Zhang Zhen slung over his right shoulder and Tang Zheng tucked beneath his left arm. The vacuum from before had not harmed him in the slightest.

His gaze swept over the four of them, and he immediately understood what had happened.

[Bai Yi: Healthy]

[Mental State: Normal]

After glancing at the information panel, Bai Yi gently set Zhang Zhen and Tang Zheng on the ground. An unmodified Hibernation Pod and a converter appeared beside them.

This was an Emergency Medical Pod Bai Yi had specifically prepared in case he suffered severe injuries and could not return to the shelter in time.

Unlike the medical pods in the shelter, it had only one function: maintaining the most basic life signs, ensuring the injured could hold on until they reached his shelter.

Bai Yi had stored five Emergency Medical Pods in his ring. He had not taken them out earlier because the pods were too large and difficult to transport.

But there was no time to worry about that now.

[No one will die here. You will all make it back alive.]

Bai Yi's calm voice from beginning to end gradually soothed the three of them. Xie Xu lowered his head without saying a word and silently placed Wang Ziyi into the medical pod.

As he was about to close the door, he discovered that Wang Ziyi was clutching the corner of his clothes tightly.

Xie Xu reached out and smoothed apart Wang Ziyi's delicate brows, which had been tightly furrowed in pain.

"Dog Bro said no one will die, including you. Don't worry."

The demon prowled through the black fog. It was already itching to move!

Bai Yi accepted the bone knife and fog lamp Xie Xu handed over. He knew Xie Xu had understood what he intended.

[Take Wang Ziyi, Zhang Zhen, and Tang Zheng back first. I'll lure it away.]

There were no tearful farewells, no attempts to hold him back, no reluctance to part.

The moment Bai Yi gave the order, everyone present began carrying it out without hesitation!

Xie Xu raised his head to look at Bai Yi. His blood-soaked eyes glimmered with an eerie light.

His lips moved. Though he had already gone deaf, his words were clear and resolute:

"Dog Bro, you won't die either. I'll find you. I swear!"

The corners of Bai Yi's lips lifted slightly. He said nothing, merely turned around and waved.

From that point on, the group split in two. The others returned to the shelter with the injured.

Bai Yi, meanwhile, stayed behind to draw the demon away.

[Talent Effect Remaining: 6 minutes 37 seconds]

To ensure the Pulse-Wheel Albatross kept its aggro on him, Bai Yi had to injure it. Fortunately, his previous rescues had already made the demon hate this little insect to the bone.

It ignored the food fleeing away, intending to crush the insect before it first, then enjoy its feast.

That was exactly what Bai Yi wanted.

[Sanity: 76/200]

He put a cigarette between his lips and lit it.

He had smoked too fiercely last time, leaving only one cigarette in the pack. Bai Yi had been reluctant to smoke it, but things were different now. To him, cigarettes could effectively dull the pain.

"Boiling Blood!"

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Flesh Alchemy activated once more, and his sanity began to slowly drop at a rate of 1 point per second.

Bai Yi had fed the last bottle of Sanity Recovery Elixir to Tang Zheng. That meant he had no way to restore his sanity from this point on and could only endure through sheer willpower.

The attack came down, but Bai Yi easily dodged it. Rather than evading it outright as before, he climbed up along the beak.

The demon's head shake failed to fling Bai Yi away this time. With the fog lamp clenched between his teeth, he gripped the feathers along the side of its beak tightly and continued climbing.

The Pulse-Wheel Albatross flapped its wings and rose into the air, performing all manner of extreme maneuvers, but none of it affected Bai Yi.

At last, Bai Yi reached the demon's eye.

[I refuse to believe your eyes are this hard too.]

"Shnk—"

Holding the knife in a reverse grip, he drove the bone knife deep into the demon's eyeball until only the hilt remained.

"Skree—"

The aberrant demon threw back its head and let out a long howl. Its miserable cry spread outward with the pulses, reaching an extremely distant place.

Then it beat its wings repeatedly and shot upward. During this process, Bai Yi endured at least 20G of pressure—equivalent to twenty Bai Yis' worth of weight pressing down on his body.

After climbing to a certain height, it folded its wings, turned around, and dove downward in a streamlined posture. It wanted to smash Bai Yi to death!

The Pulse-Wheel Albatross crashed down from the sky, blasting a huge crater into the ground. As for itself, its hard exterior left it completely unharmed, with only a little dirt and dust clinging to it.

It raised its head and looked into the deep crater, but its single eye found no trace of Bai Yi.

At the very moment the aberrant demon landed, Bai Yi sprang upward. As he slowed his fall, he landed on a nearby tree. With the tree cushioning him, Bai Yi only gained a few extra scratches.

The instant he landed, he immediately adjusted his direction and ran into the distance.

There was no need to confirm it again. Bai Yi was certain that after he had blinded one of the aberrant demon's eyes, it would never go after anyone else.

As for turning back to fight? Don't joke around. Even with Steel Spine Will and Boiling Blood activated, Bai Yi couldn't even break the Pulse-Wheel Albatross's defense. They were on completely different levels.

By then, the aberrant demon had already found Bai Yi's trail. It let out an enraged shriek and sped after him.

What followed was a pursuit that lasted three full minutes.

Although Bai Yi's top speed was slightly faster than the Pulse-Wheel Albatross's, being in the forest meant he had to constantly avoid the trees ahead while dodging the pulses coming from behind.

Meanwhile, the Pulse-Wheel Albatross flew at full speed above the forest, launching attacks from time to time to slow Bai Yi down.

Under these circumstances, the distance between Bai Yi and the aberrant demon gradually shrank to less than fifty meters.

[Talent Effect Remaining: 3 minutes 03 seconds]

[Sanity: 1/200]

Bai Yi had no idea how far he had run, nor did he know which direction he was heading.

But within his painful, chaotic mind, he could still clearly sense a powerful rhythm ahead that was no weaker than the Pulse-Wheel Albatross.

He was going to shift the calamity onto someone else!

Bai Yi weaved continuously through the branches.

A minute earlier, after climbing a tree to avoid a pulse attack, he had surprisingly discovered that leaping between branches was much faster than running stupidly along the ground.

After that, Bai Yi had kept fleeing through the trees, but the distance between them continued to close.

Especially after the gap fell below fifty meters, the Pulse-Wheel Albatross's machine-gun-like pulses left Bai Yi scrambling for his life, and the distance rapidly shrank to ten meters.

Suddenly, the pulse attacks vanished, but the feeling of danger kept pricking at the back of Bai Yi's head.

He knew the aberrant demon no longer intended to blast him to death with pulses. Instead, just as it had attacked the others before, it intended to tear him apart with its teeth.

Bai Yi's speed gradually slowed. The prolonged full-speed sprint, the pain of his talent forcibly locking his sanity, and the burning caused by Boiling Blood had utterly exhausted him.

Five meters, four meters, three meters...

The distance kept closing. Bai Yi could already see the sharp teeth appearing beside him.

Yet he remained completely unmoved, a barely perceptible sly smile appearing at the corner of his mouth!

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