Keep Killing

Zhou Diao's eyes were dazed by the intense white light.

In his haze, he saw a figure emerge amid the radiant glow.

The light was too blinding for him to see clearly. The scene only felt so sacred that he couldn't help wondering if he was hallucinating before death.

Hearing Feng Ling's voice had to be an illusion too, right? He must have been too helpless, too desperate to change the situation, so his brain had come up with such an exaggerated and absurd reaction. How could Feng Ling possibly appear draped in holy white light...

At that moment, Cao Hongyi shouted toward the front, nearly losing control. "Feng Ling! Save Xiao Li!!!"

The sound made Zhou Diao's ears ring.

He finally began trying to accept one fact: Feng Ling had really come.

Zhou Diao coughed up blood and muttered weakly from Cao Hongyi's back, "Fuck... it's like the Holy Mother descended..."

Feng Ling pressed close to the slope and slid all the way to the bottom of the pit, shouting, "Hold the light steady!"

Huangfu Miaomiao held the floodlight high above her head. A thick, long power cable still trailed behind her as she replied with difficulty, "B-but it's really hot..."

Feng Ling couldn't hear her. The moment she reached the bottom, she turned on the portable speaker, and deafening music instantly flooded the pit!

—Su Yuqing had requisitioned it from a nearby resident. It was normally used for square dancing, with plenty of volume and battery life. It was perfect for dealing with the Contaminants here.

The fervent rhythm shook the bottom of the pit, while the powerful incandescent light illuminated every Contaminant!

The creatures, which relied on sound to determine direction, froze briefly. By the time they realized they needed to flee, Feng Ling's Bone Blade had already unfurled!

Slash!

An extended neck was cleaved into two!

Slash!

A row of black side limbs was cut clean through!

As the soprano pushed the chorus into C major, Feng Ling smashed the mandibles apart with her battle axe!

She moved with agility and decisiveness, nimbly leaping onto a Contaminant's carapace. Her scythe-like Bone Blade swept a beautiful arc through the air, harvesting the constantly extending and retracting necks.

The music concealed her movements, and the light illuminated her vision. Even with only one Bone Blade, she could unleash a slaughter in sufficiently open terrain!

This was slaughter.

A slaughter belonging to her alone!

Qin Liang and the others in the distance had long since been dumbstruck. Watching Feng Ling bathe more than a dozen Contaminants in blood, they couldn't tell who the real monster in this insect nest was anymore.

And besides, was this really killing?

Smashing mandibles, chopping off necks, severing limbs, and letting the massive insect bodies roll and struggle clumsily in place—wasn't this torture by a thousand cuts?

No one could comment. They could only stare in stunned silence as it unfolded before them.

Among the Contaminants was one that was exceptionally huge, lying quietly in the corner.

Its mandibles were damaged and aged, its neck muscle slack, and even the limbs on either side were shorter than those of the other Contaminants. From its carapace to its abdomen clung a huge mass of thick Slime, as though it were carrying a pile of swollen, limp seaweed mud.

A corpse was wrapped inside the "seaweed mud," and something could vaguely be seen wriggling within its body.

Feng Ling approached with her axe in hand.

Huangfu Miaomiao shouted from above, "Be careful!"

Right before Feng Ling's eyes, the corpse within the "seaweed mud" had its chest forced open, its skin torn apart, and a Contaminant covered in bloody strands and mucus crawled out—

It was still confused from having just been born. The two mandibles on its neck probed around, then touched the head of the corpse with its wet hair scattered about. It clamped down with one bite and violently tore the head from the body.

The human head remained connected to the Contaminant's neck. Its mouth opened and closed as though it wanted to speak, but just as it made a single sound, Feng Ling chopped down with her axe, and the young Contaminant went still.

Feng Ling continued forward.

Until she was only one step away from that special giant creature.

She was so close that she could touch the culprit with one raised hand.

Everyone instinctively held their breath, staring at Feng Ling's back without daring to blink, ready to witness the end of the operation—

Feng Ling pondered quietly for a moment.

Then she did nothing and turned around.

Everyone: "???"

They watched as she dragged the Contaminant she had just killed off the ground and forcibly stuffed it back into the "seaweed mud." She even patted it without a hint of disgust, making sure the Contaminant wouldn't fall back out.

Everyone: "???????????"

Feng Ling waved at Huangfu Miaomiao. "Come down."

Huangfu Miaomiao hurriedly set down the floodlight and ran down the slope into the deep pit.

She even fell once halfway down from nervousness, practically rolling to Feng Ling's feet and getting dirt all over her face.

Feng Ling pointed at the Contaminants with their mandibles smashed and limbs severed, then said to Huangfu Miaomiao, "Kill them all."

"Ah... oh, okay..." Huangfu Miaomiao picked up her hammer and hesitantly looked around. "Uh... mm..."

Every one of them was an A-rank Contaminant, something she had never even dared to imagine facing. Yet now they all lay before her without any ability to resist, at her mercy.

Huangfu Miaomiao gripped the hammer handle tightly. Her tongue was dry, and she pressed her lips together, feeling as though none of this was real.

"You can take your time," Feng Ling said. "Wait until Deputy Captain Zhou stops breathing before killing the Contaminants for Points. The Supervision Bureau is so generous, they definitely won't hold it against you."

Huangfu Miaomiao: "!!!"

The iron hammer in her hand smashed down in a frenzy. Terrified that one blow wouldn't kill her target, she panicked and struck it several times in a row!

You killed an A-rank Contaminant (pseudo). Points awarded: 200.

"Two hundred!" Huangfu Miaomiao turned back toward Feng Ling in delight. "I have 200 Points now!"

Feng Ling remained calm. "Exchange them for injections and bring them over."

"Okay, okay, okay!" Huangfu Miaomiao nodded excitedly.

She immediately exchanged for three Recovery Potions, ran over and injected Zhou Diao with two, then gave Xiao Li one. Xiao Li had also been injured while rescuing Zhou Diao.

"If the injuries are too severe, recovery will take a little longer than before," Huangfu Miaomiao reminded them before hurrying back to the bottom of the pit to continue hammering the Contaminants.

You killed an A-rank Contaminant (pseudo). Points awarded: 210.

You killed an A-rank Contaminant (pseudo). Points awarded: 220.

You killed an A-rank Contaminant (pseudo). Points awarded: 180.

Message after message popped up, and Huangfu Miaomiao was kept busier than ever.

Feng Ling wasn't idle either. She repeatedly dragged the Contaminants Huangfu Miaomiao killed back into the mass of Slime that resembled seaweed mud. Before long, it was packed full of corpses.

The Special Forces members watched the two of them work, their feelings complicated.

Qin Liang thought, If the higher-ups saw this scene, who knows what kind of uproar it would cause.

He subconsciously touched his forehead and found it bare.

Only then did he remember that his headlamp and attached Micro Camera had been bitten to pieces by the insects as soon as they entered the cave.

For some reason, he felt relieved.

He turned to Zhou Diao and asked, "Deputy Captain, what's our next move?"

"Wrap it up and report back." Zhou Diao cursed as he coughed blood. "Fuck, those two freaks."

The team members all knew who he was cursing.

They exchanged glances, inexplicably wanting to laugh, but all tacitly held it in.

They supported Zhou Diao as they left the cave.

At the bottom of the deep pit—

Just as Feng Ling had guessed, the corpses in the Slime had hatched new Contaminants.

She controlled her Bone Blade and chopped off their mandibles with a series of cracks, then turned to Huangfu Miaomiao. "Keep killing."

The PK is over, oh yeah~~ Everyone, keep voting! Love you all! Hehe