Chapter 380: The Infected
Feng Ling had noticed long ago that a Red Dot was trailing her team.
But she had never paid it much mind. The Red Dot was tiny and inconspicuous, and countless Contaminants lived in the forest. It was normal for a few curious ones to be drawn over.
In the blink of an eye, Lin Pengpeng had already tackled the Werewolf!
She moved with incredible speed, raising her knife to slash at the Werewolf's throat, when the Werewolf quickly spat out a sentence in human speech!
Lin Pengpeng froze at those words.
In the instant of her shock, the Werewolf rolled over and sprang to her feet, leaping seven or eight meters forward! Then she stared tensely at Lin Pengpeng and rattled off another string of words!
Though no one understood them, the pronunciation sounded very much like Lorias Language.
How could a Werewolf speak a human language?!
Seeing that Lin Pengpeng was no longer attacking, the Werewolf slowly straightened her lowered upper body, revealing a human face beneath the wolf head.
At last, everyone saw the Werewolf's full appearance—
A young girl clad in wolf skin.
Her face was extremely youthful, probably no older than eighteen. Her lake-blue eyes still held the terror Lin Pengpeng's attack had just caused.
"She's an Infected." Feng Ling reminded Lin Pengpeng. "And one of the luckier kinds. Gene Pollution didn't cripple her; instead, it improved her physical coordination."
Lin Pengpeng said hesitantly, "She seems... not hostile?"
"Yes. You scared her," Feng Ling said flatly.
Zhang Lu let out a breath. "More like she scared us! Why was she following us around in wolf skin? That was way too easy to misunderstand!"
Lin Pengpeng stared at the Wolf Girl ahead and slowly shook her head. "No, the wolf skin isn't