Sequence 9: Resentful Corpse

Surrounded by a crowd, Su Man suddenly looked up at Lin Yu. After a moment's thought, she pushed past the people beside her and walked over to him, speaking earnestly:

"If there's anything you need me to do later, just say the word. Anything at all!"

"Maybe... now that I've been injected with Gene Enhancement Fluid, I can be of some small use."

This was another attempt to win Lin Yu's favor.

Lin Yu nodded without speaking.

Against supernatural horrors...

What use could ordinary people possibly be?

Even those injected with Gene Enhancement Fluid were no different.

The real fighting would still fall to Shen Sui and the other four.

Once Su Man spoke, the other survivors could no longer hold back. They all crowded over, showering Lin Yu with flattery.

"Me too, Mr. Lin! If you need anything, just give the order!"

"Brother Lin, one word from you, and I'll brave blades and fire without a moment's hesitation!"

"Our lives are all in your hands now! You're our savior!"

"Big brother, please use me however you like, whenever you like!"

Lin Yu completely ignored their flattery.

Protect them?

Give me a break.

If a supernatural horror really came, he didn't even know how he would protect himself!

Sure, he had a comb, but he had no idea how to use it!

What the hell was mental power, anyway?

As the countdown reached zero.

Suddenly!

A knocking sound came from the first house on the right.

Knock, knock!

Someone was knocking from the inside.

In the silent village, it sounded eerie and terrifying!

Shen Sui and the other four stared fixedly at the house, bracing for a formidable enemy.

Zhai Guang and Yellow Hair stepped forward without being told, shielding Shen Sui and Ye Qing behind them. Both were warrior-type Transcendents, tough and durable, so naturally they needed to stand at the front in a fight.

Shen Sui and Ye Qing were fragile "mages."

Cheng Yuening was more of an unconventional assassin, and she had already slipped into hiding without a sound.

After knocking a few times.

The horror seemed to realize it could simply push the door open, so it slowly opened the door.

"Creeeak..."

The old wooden door gave a piercing creak, and a pale arm reached out first. It was so deathly white that it was almost terrifying, without a trace of color...

Then a corpse, pale all over and dressed in tattered cloth garments, walked out one step at a time.

It was a male corpse roughly 1.65 meters tall, with disheveled hair and grayish-white eyes. An intensely chilling aura radiated from its entire body, heavy with resentment.

Lin Yu narrowed his eyes slightly and instinctively edged back a step.

If things went badly.

He would need to keep everyone in front of him as a shield, too.

The survivors' eyes widened and their faces drained of color. They were a hair's breadth from screaming in terror.

For many of them, this was their first time seeing a supernatural horror so clearly!

Meanwhile.

Shen Sui's gaze remained calm as he quickly analyzed it:

"A corpse-type horror. It has a physical body and a shadow. Its resentment isn't strong. It should have only just entered Sequence 9."

Once they got a clear look at the horror.

The Transcendents breathed a sigh of relief.

It had a physical body and a shadow, and it wasn't particularly strong. That made it an easy opponent among supernatural horrors.

What they least wanted to encounter were incorporeal spirit-type horrors.

They couldn't even see them, and touching them was difficult.

They could only rely on supernatural attacks to lock onto their targets.

Those were the most troublesome to deal with.

One careless mistake could spell disaster.

Shen Sui continued:

"The skin is pale. Though it lacks color, it still contains moisture, which rules out dried-corpse and zombie-type pathways..."

"My preliminary assessment is the resentful corpse pathway, Sequence 9: Resentful Corpse."

The more Shen Sui analyzed it, the more amused the Transcendents looked.

So...

It was just a little Resentful Corpse.

The resentful corpse pathway was one of the easier corpse pathways to deal with!

A cold glint flashed in Zhai Guang's eyes, and his lips curled into a vicious smile as he said icily:

"Keep it locked down for me. I'll take it head-on!"

Terrifying blood energy erupted from Zhai Guang's body. In an instant, he became a streak of dazzling blood-red light, charging straight at the Resentful Corpse!

Almost instantly!

Zhai Guang reached the Resentful Corpse.

He gathered his strength!

Then threw a ferocious punch!

Boom!

His fist, wreathed in blood energy that reeked of gore, slammed squarely into the Resentful Corpse's head with unstoppable force.

In an instant!

Blood-red light burst outward, sending the Resentful Corpse flying.

As the Resentful Corpse flew into the air, its body suddenly found its balance in a bizarre posture, hanging suspended above the ground. A mocking smile curled its lips, and resentment abruptly erupted from its entire body!

Black resentment descended in a violent surge, seeming to blanket the sky!

The resentment carried potent negative energy, corroding everyone present.

At that moment.

Boundless fear rose involuntarily in Lin Yu's heart. Sweat seeped from his forehead, and he wanted to flee!

At the same time, a savage impulse welled up inside him, making him want to destroy everything before his eyes!

Shit...

The resentment was affecting him!

Lin Yu realized it immediately and bit down hard on the tip of his tongue, instantly suppressing the negative energy inside him.

When he looked around again, everyone else's reactions were even worse.

Su Man was already sobbing uncontrollably, her tears smearing her makeup. Her pretty face was filled with pain and despair as she kept murmuring, "I didn't want to... I didn't want to be like this..."

"I wanted to be a normal woman, too."

Wu Han wailed, hanging his head and stamping his feet:

"My company only just went public! Why did the apocalypse have to come?"

And the effects on them were still harmless.

Others were far worse!

A foul-smelling man in his forties with a face full of stubble lunged at a two-hundred-pound woman beside him, lust gleaming in his eyes:

"Hahahahaha! It's the apocalypse! Let me have some fun!"

A burly man held a knife, licking his lips with a vicious expression:

"I'm gonna kill someone!"

The situation was moments away from spiraling out of control!

Lin Yu's expression darkened.

Fuck!

So this was a supernatural horror!

Even Sequence 9 wasn't that easy to deal with.

A single surge of resentment had driven every ordinary person fucking insane.

No wonder Transcendents looked down on ordinary people so much. They really did live in completely different worlds!

Lin Yu glanced at Su Man beside him and, without a second thought, swung a backhanded slap at her.

He put sixty percent of his strength into that slap!

Sixty percent of a genetically enhanced human's strength!

Smack!

The sharp slap rang out, instantly leaving a bright red handprint on Su Man's fair cheek.

The blow snapped Su Man out of it. She stared at Lin Yu in disbelief, then immediately realized something.

"Tha-"

"Thank me later. Slap them awake!"

Lin Yu spoke quickly, then immediately turned toward a burly man holding a large saber and launched a flying kick at him!

Thud!

The burly man went flying!

The tremendous force nearly broke his ribs, and that was with Lin Yu holding back.

The burly man instantly came to his senses:

"Holy shit... what happened to me..."

"Forget that! Save people! No! Hit people!"

Leaving those words behind, Lin Yu continued charging through the crowd, delivering a barrage of blows!

Lin Yu noticed that when these people were affected by the resentment, the resentment surrounding the airborne Resentful Corpse grew denser as well. It seemed capable of strengthening itself through other people's negative energy.

So.

Lin Yu needed to cut off the negative energy coming from these ordinary people first.

He might be slacking off, while Shen Sui and the others were the main fighting force.

But even a slacker could be useful!