Speak More If You Can Speak

Bai Ye frowned deeply. He had not expected to run into another Mutated Beast so soon. First hyenas, then gray sparrows, and now Black Snakes. Just how many Mutated Beasts had been unleashed in this damned Black Mountain?

"Li You, give them the Spear! Prepare for battle!"

Li You hurriedly called the soldiers over to take the weapons. At a time like this, they could not afford internal strife. They had to deal with the Black Snakes first.

Bai Ye yanked the officer to his feet and said coldly, "Have your men hunt the Black Snakes!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" The officer nodded frantically. Bai Ye did not even need to tell him what to do at this point. He could beg Bai Ye, a human, for mercy, but there was no use saying anything to Mutated Beasts.

Bang! Bang! Bang...

A barrage of gunfire erupted. The soldiers who had gotten weapons immediately joined the fight. If they did not fight, they would die anyway.

As for the Wastelanders, most fled in panic. Only a small number picked stones up from the ground and kept throwing them at the Black Snakes, but it was completely useless. Running only meant dying faster, and stones could not kill the Black Snakes at all.

"Ahhh!!"

Screams rang out one after another. A Wastelander who had fled blindly ran straight into the mass of snakes. More than a dozen Black Snakes burrowed into his pant legs and slithered steadily up his thighs.

The cold body temperature of the reptiles made every hair on his body stand on end, goosebumps instantly spreading across him. He screamed in terror, leaping about like a monkey and frantically scratching at himself.

He threw one snake off, but more quickly crawled onto him. Finally, a Black Snake climbed onto his neck, its raised triangular head flicking a scarlet tongue before plunging straight into his mouth.

"Mm... mmm..." His eyes bulged as he let out two muffled whimpers. Then his body stiffened, and he collapsed into the mass of snakes.

In an instant, countless Black Snakes covered him.

Bai Ye's eyelids twitched at the sight. Killing Ying and disabling the officer's limbs had taken him thirty-three seconds. Now, only fifty-seven seconds remained!

Fifty-seven seconds was not enough to kill the snakes. It might not even be enough to escape.

There were at least a thousand of them by estimation, carpeting the ground like a black tide.

He did not sit around waiting to die. Instead, he fired wildly.

Several scarlet blood vessels sprouted from the white Bone Spear body of [Breath of Bones], stabbing viciously into Bai Ye's palm and continuously draining his Blood Qi.

Bang! Bang! Bang...

Scarlet bullets shot out. A single powerful shot could take the lives of two or three Black Snakes. With luck, if it struck a densely packed area, one shot could even kill five.

Even so, it was still a drop in the bucket against the enormous number of Black Snakes.

"Fuck, what worthless trash. They provide even less Blood Qi than gray sparrows!"

Bai Ye cursed in dissatisfaction. During a pause to reload, he glanced at the Wastelanders nearby. Without weapons and in their panic, they had nearly all died. Only three or five remained, still struggling desperately as they ran madly toward the soldiers.

However, the soldiers could not hold out either. Bullets were inconvenient for dealing with Black Snakes writhing across the ground. Some soldiers who were approached at close range even abandoned their weapons, drew military daggers, and began fighting hand-to-hand.

Among everyone present, Li You had the highest efficiency in killing snakes!

Gritting his teeth, he swung his bandage-wrapped right hand. His Transcendence ability, Magic Hand, activated instantly. An invisible giant hand three meters long descended from the sky, and a single slap could crush dozens of Black Snakes to death, leaving even a massive palm print half an inch deep in the ground.

Bai Ye's eyes lit up. He had not expected Li You to be somewhat useful.

"Li Zuo, how much longer can you hold on?"

Li You panted heavily. "Three... three..."

Bai Ye was overjoyed. "Three minutes is enough!"

At Li You's rate, he could kill at least two-thirds of the Black Snakes in three minutes. The remaining third would be easy to handle.

"Two..."

Bai Ye froze.

"One..."

Thud. Li You's right hand dropped limply, faint crimson blood seeping through the white bandages.

"Li Zuo, you motherfucker... Is this really the time to be clever with me!? Do you think you're funny?"

Li You forced a smile. "Didn't I learn it from you, Brother Ye?"

"Can't you learn something good for once??"

Seeing that Li You was no longer reliable, Bai Ye turned his gaze to the officer. He figured that since the officer and Ying had dared lead people into Black Mountain, they must have had a way to deal with the Mutated Beasts along the way.

"What if I install your mechanical arm now?"

The officer gave a bitter smile. "It's useless. A mechanical arm cannot simply be installed. It has an internal neural connection system so it can move as naturally as a real arm. You already severed the device, so installing it now would be useless."

"Fuck, then I'll send you to see Ying." Bai Ye grabbed the officer, about to throw him into the snakes.

"Don't, don't... There's another way!"

Bai Ye narrowed his eyes and released him. "What way?"

"My mechanical arm has a self-destruct mechanism. It's meant to perish together with enemies and prevent them from dismantling the arm to obtain its technology. Though I can't activate the self-destruct mechanism now, severe damage to the inside of the arm can trigger it.

"You only need to use the Taboo Object to shoot the arm's joint, and it will trigger the self-destruct!"

"Why didn't you say so earlier!"

Bai Ye kicked the officer hard, nearly knocking the breath out of him.

The reason he had not said anything earlier was that he did not want to destroy his mechanical arm. One mechanical arm cost several million. His four limbs combined were worth over ten million. He had invested his entire fortune into mechanical limbs to gain his current status.

If his mechanical limbs were gone, he would never have another chance to rise again.

Besides, he had assumed that a powerhouse like Bai Ye could easily deal with the Black Snakes, so he had not intended to mention it. Now that Bai Ye was about to throw him to the snakes, he naturally did not dare hide anything.

Bai Ye picked up a silver-white mechanical arm from the ground and hurled it viciously toward the densest mass of snakes. Once it landed, he aimed at the joint and pulled the trigger.

Bang!

Nothing happened. The mechanical arm did not self-destruct.

"You dared lie to me!" Bai Ye flew into a rage and kicked the officer again.

The officer's face turned deathly pale from the pain. He hurriedly said, "That's impossible! I really didn't lie to you. There really is a self-destruct mechanism inside!"

"Um... Brother Ye, I think you missed." Li You reminded him quietly from the side.

Bai Ye's face immediately darkened. "If you can speak, speak more!"

He fired again. Bang! Bang! Bang! After three shots, he finally hit it.

When the bullet struck the mechanical arm's joint, a crisp metallic clang rang out. Then... BOOM!!

Like ten grenades exploding at once, a massive blaze shot into the sky, instantly blasting hundreds of Black Snakes away.

Countless charred half-bodies of snakes fell from the air.

The remaining Black Snakes seemed frightened by the enormous explosion. They actually turned and fled, burrowing underground and vanishing in the blink of an eye.

The crisis was temporarily resolved.

Everyone let out a relieved breath.