Arknights: Suika's Journey as a Messenger
Chapter 284

Massacre

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"Are you stupid? That just proves there's someone in the house!" someone sharply retorted.

"But there was such a loud commotion inside just now, I think she must have heard it," someone else pointed out, indicating what had just happened.

Silence fell in the room once again.

Outside, Suika walked all the way to the end of the village, but all the houses were tightly closed, and no one opened the door.

She sighed and walked back. When she reached the entrance of the restaurant, a slight smile appeared on her lips.

Because a bag suddenly appeared in the middle of the road not far away.

After entering, Suika opened the bag and looked inside; it was filled with various spices.

Seeing this, Suika shook her head, picked up the bag, and walked out of the village.

After she left, a sigh of relief rippled through the village.

However, Suika did not go far after leaving the village.

The main problem is that it's almost afternoon now, and she hasn't eaten anything yet.

There happened to be a pond nearby, so she decided to relieve herself there.

Arriving at the pond, she gathered some branches and skillfully pierced the Rift Beast's Paw.

Although the spring- Rift Beast claws are not as plump as those in winter, she, a traveler who eats her way through life, has no right to be picky.

If it weren't for this Rift Beast, her food today would probably have been those Fang Beasts.

Although the Fang Beast tastes pretty good.

Just as she was focused on roasting the Rift Beast leg, ripples appeared on the calm lake not far away.

While grilling, Suika suddenly sighed. She had felt something was off about this village when she first came here.

However, life was tough for everyone in Iberia after the Great Silence. Coupled with the oppressive rule adopted by the Inquisition to identify traitors in the Church of the Deep, it's not impossible that some people couldn't stand it and hid in the deep mountains and forests, making it a paradise for Terra.

However, once she entered the town, she realized that her assumptions were largely wrong.

Because the fishy smell in the town was too strong.

As a town that is not by the sea and only has a lake, it shouldn't have such a strong fishy smell.

That's why she deliberately walked and shouted as she went from one end of the village to the other.

But she didn't find anything unusual, and she could understand why the people here didn't want to see her.

However, she felt she couldn't just leave like that; she needed to confirm whether her judgment was correct.

That's why she chose to have a barbecue by the river.

The result was exactly what she least wanted to see.

Dozens of figures emerged from the lake.

They have long fins and their bodies are covered with scales.

The sharp teeth seemed capable of severing any life that entered its mouth.

"It's a pity I don't know the name of this town... Maybe we should just call it Innsmouth..."

With her back to the lake, Suika flipped the grilled meat to prevent it from burning, then stood up.

"Let's finish this quickly, everyone, so I don't miss out on my meat."

As she finished speaking, the last Seaborn emerged from the water.

They opened their claws and pounced on Suika like Fang Beast.

Seeing this, Suika chuckled.

"I just killed a bunch of Fang Beast, and now a bunch of poorly made imitations have arrived."

With that, the iron chain in his hand seemed to lengthen in the wind.

Suika had never personally dealt with the Seaborn, so she wasn't sure if they would receive any treatment after going into the water.

So, with her swinging, her chain went around the front, cutting off Seaborn's retreat before snapping back.

By the time Seaborn realized what was happening, they were already trapped.

Chapter 506 Massacre

Before Seaborn could react, the two iron chains simultaneously pulled inwards.

The next moment, all the Seaborn were snapped in three pieces at the waist.

"Fire!"

The next second, Suika a roar, and intense heat emanated from her body.

As these Seaborn were being strangled, the blood that gushed from their bodies fell around them and transformed into fine fungal carpets.

These fungal mats began to wriggle outwards as if they were alive.

"Miasma"... As a veteran player, Suika is no stranger to this thing.

This special substance is something that Seaborn specifically researched and developed.

As marine life, Seaborn cannot stay away from water for too long; it's in their nature.

So they created this thing called "Miasma".

When Seaborn walks on it, it feels like he is in the ocean.

Not only can they reduce the discomfort of the land, but they can also use some strange abilities on it.

However, Suika responded very quickly, spreading the high temperature along the iron chain and rolling it twice on the fungal carpet.

In an instant, the once vibrant fungal carpet turned pitch black and emitted a foul, acrid smell.

However, before Suika could clean up the fungal carpet on the ground, another batch of Seaborn emerged from the lake.

After Suika, jump and chop heavily, then move to the side of the roasted meat.

He calmly glanced at the grilled meat first.

"Please keep an eye on the barbecue in Shanghai for me, and let me know when it's ready."

After saying that, he ignored Shanghai, who was spinning around sprinkling spices on the barbecue, and rushed towards the Seaborn that were coming ashore again.

A minute later, Suika dragged the last Seaborn to the shore and then kicked its head off.

Seaborn had lost his head, twitched a few times and then fell silent.

Just when Suika thought it was over, another group of Seaborn, equivalent to the sum of the previous two groups, came ashore.

"Will this ever end?!"

Suika grabbed the iron chain and charged forward again.

Five minutes later, she sat back down by the fire.

She cleared away these Seaborn in less than a minute, but the problem wasn't them, but rather that Suika discovered their blood turned into Miasma after they died.

This is a very troublesome matter.

Although marine Seaborn also create these, they still cannot integrate themselves into the fungal carpet.

If these creatures return to the sea, this ability will be shared by the Great Swarm.

Then Iberia will face an even more difficult battle.

After all, the Miasma not only enhances the Seaborn, but the neurotoxins on it also cause severe torment and threat to any creature that steps on it.

So she spent most of her time cleaning up these Miasma.

After doing all this, she returned to the fire.

Just then, the roasted Rift Beast was ready, and she picked it up and started gnawing on it.

While she was eating, a change occurred in the small mountain village in the distance.

More than a hundred villagers appeared in the mountain village that was just "empty".

They were young and old, men and women, and all of them were looking in the direction of Suika with tears streaming down their faces.

However, their eyes held not the relief of being rescued, but hatred.

If you look closely, you'll find that these people are different from normal people. Their bodies reflect a layer of phosphorescence, and they have a thin layer of webbed feet.

They look very similar to the Adakris have experienced severe atavism.

However, their physical appearance clearly shows the characteristics of the Liberi.

These people walked towards Suika while crying, holding knives, wooden sticks and other "weapons" in their hands, looking as if they wanted to die together with Suika.

Suika didn't turn to look at them; instead, she kept her head down, eating the Rift Beast leg in her hand.

Suika stopped what she was doing when those people were less than ten meters away.

"You shouldn't have come out... If you had stayed inside, I could have pretended not to see it, for the sake of the spices."

"And what about us? Are we just going to stand by and watch you kill our parents, brothers, and children and pretend we didn't see it?"

One of them pointed at Suika and spoke in a shrill tone.

"They are not human, they are Seaborn."

Seaborn must die!

Suika's tone was unusually cold.

Unless the Doctor finds a way to stop the Seaborn from expanding and never leave the sea, the Seaborn, which expand without limit for "survival and development," will always be the enemy of terrestrial life.

"They aren't! They are our family!" the man who had just spoken roared in despair.

"Relatives... when you ate their flesh and blood, did you consider this question?"

The mockery in Suika's eyes made those being stared at take a few steps back.

"There's only one of her, and there are so many of us, kill her!" Someone in the crowd shouted, sensing that morale was starting to waver.

Suika two steps back, and Shanghai drew his lance and blocked her way.

"Kill them all, Shanghai, leave no one alive."

Facing these "commoners" who had mustered up the courage to rush forward, Suika pursed her lips, her eyes filled with regret, but her tone was very firm as she spoke.

As Suika finished speaking, Shanghai shot towards the crowd like an arrow released from a bow.

The terrifying impact pierced through the crowd in an instant, and before they could react, she raised her lance again and charged back.

Suika did not look at the crowd being massacred in Shanghai.

They may indeed be pitiful, perhaps they just want to live a peaceful life, but when they placed their hope of survival on Seaborn, they had already embarked on a path of no return destined for destruction.

Suika now understood why the other party had chosen this godforsaken place.

Hiding here, unless an Iberia familiar with the terrain comes to investigate, there would be no way of knowing that there is such a village, fed by Seaborn trapped in a lake, in this desolate place.

But this place had long been abandoned by Iberia, so no one would come to investigate.

She gazed at the deep, still lake before her.

In her view, there must still be Seaborn in this lake, and at least an elite unit.

After all, ordinary Seaborn don't have the ability to evolve to the point where they can transform their blood into Miasma.

The other party is definitely hiding in the deepest part of the lake, watching everything outside.

How can I kill the other person?

Suika gazed at the vast lake, lost in thought.

Shanghai flew in front of her, indicating that the enemy had been completely eliminated.

Suika pointed to the village

"Let's go check out the village... Since we've already done it, we shouldn't leave any survivors."

After hearing this, Shanghai flew around Suika twice before heading towards the village.

Suika a deep breath, looking at the calm surface of the lake, knowing that the other party was pretending to be dead underwater, and couldn't help but sneer.

"I, Ibuki Suika, don't have the habit of just taking a beating without fighting back."

As soon as she finished speaking, Ibuki Suika grew taller and taller, reaching almost the height of the mountain next to her in less than a minute.

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