Silent Extinction Cold Poison! A Desperate Gamble!

The third floor of the supermarket.

Chen Mo stared fixedly at the tentacle breaking out of the cocoon.

No, this thing was about to get out.

He had to do something.

Once it emerged, neither he nor Red Hare would escape!

He listened to the screams and the grinding of machinery downstairs.

Red Hare's battle was clearly drawing to a close.

Was he really going to run just like that?

He couldn't accept it.

Big Niu had been beaten so badly that his fate was unknown, and Xiao Ya had risked her life to buy them time.

He had exhausted all his strength, even chipping the Surgical Knife Wen Li had left him.

Lin Lu and the others had probably already left with the convoy.

After taking such an enormous risk.

If he walked away now, he wouldn't be Chen Mo.

Chen Mo glanced at the Frost Cicadas circling around him.

He began squeezing out the tiny trace of transcendent power that had recovered inside him.

He poured it all into the battered silver Surgical Knife in his hand.

You dared stand in my way.

Even if it killed me!

I'd tear a chunk of flesh off you today!

Crack.

Another sound of the cocoon breaking rang out.

A massive Frost Cicada head slowly emerged from the cocoon.

The instant the Frost Cicada's head poked out.

Chen Mo moved, whipping the battered Surgical Knife, infused with his last trace of transcendent power, forward.

He hurled it at the enormous cocoon with all his strength!

The blade sliced through the cold current, becoming a streak of silver light as it shot toward the enormous white cocoon.

Thud!

The silver light struck the enormous cocoon dead-on, sinking over an inch into it.

After that, Chen Mo could no longer hold himself up. His body buckled, and he scrambled and stumbled toward the stairs.

The instant he turned away.

A piercing scream erupted from the enormous cocoon on the third floor!

"Bzzzz..."

A second later, thousands upon thousands of Frost Cicadas stirred on the third floor's walls, ceiling, and shelves.

Their ice-crystal wings vibrated at high speed.

Countless fluorescent lights suddenly flared.

Every Frost Cicada detached from the surface it clung to.

The insect swarm whipped up streams of white cold air, sweeping into every corner of the supermarket.

The second floor.

With one kick, Red Hare tore off the Six-Armed Weird's last arm.

Red Hare deftly stuffed the Mechanical Arms scattered across the floor and the woman's enormous head into a sack.

All while cursing.

"Fuck, what a loss. All that work for this little crap."

"Almost fucking level three, and not even an energy core. Useless piece of shit."

Just then, the roar from upstairs made every hair on Red Hare's body stand on end!

That aura exerted a pressure that reached deep into Red Hare's soul.

It was an aura unique to a Variant!

Level four!

"Fuck!"

Red Hare let out a startled bray, terror written all over that donkey face.

With no time to think, Red Hare shouldered the battered sack, dropped onto all fours, and bolted toward the stairs!

Move, you damned legs!!!!

Red Hare immediately spotted Chen Mo staggering down from the third floor.

"Kid, hurry!"

Red Hare grabbed Chen Mo and tossed him onto the donkey's back beside the sack.

With a leap like an antelope plunging off a cliff, Red Hare charged down to the first floor.

Then bolted toward the entrance.

Just after reaching the first floor, Red Hare slammed on the brakes, nearly throwing Chen Mo off.

Four donkey hooves scraped across the floor with an ear-piercing screech.

At some point, the entire first-floor lobby had become packed with Snow Corpses.

Snow Corpses poured endlessly through the entrance.

They soon occupied most of the first floor.

At the sight of Red Hare and Chen Mo.

They all turned their heads and lunged at the man and donkey.

Even more terrifying were the Frost Cicadas sweeping down from the third floor.

They had become streams of white cold air, diving at the man and donkey from every direction!

Endless Snow Corpses ahead, an extinction cold tide behind!!!!

"Fuck me!!!!"

"I'm the king of kings among Variants!"

"I don't want to die!"

Red Hare let out a desperate bray.

Darting and weaving across the first floor, Red Hare evaded the corpse horde and cold currents.

Just then, an even deeper, louder cracking sound came from the third floor.

Crack...

That thing was out!

Chen Mo lay on Red Hare's back, utterly drained. All he could do was twist his body and quickly scan their surroundings.

Suddenly!

A green glow flashed past.

[Emergency Exit]

Chen Mo summoned the very last of his strength and raised his three-fingered right hand.

He pointed toward a corner of the lobby.

"Over there, the emergency exit!"

Red Hare turned slightly and understood at once.

Smashing through a Snow Corpse blocking the way.

Red Hare charged toward the emergency exit.

Just as the man and donkey were about to rush into the emergency exit.

A pale blue ice spike silently appeared behind them.

Its target was Chen Mo's head!

At the critical instant, Chen Mo twisted sharply on combat instinct, dodging the fatal strike!

Shhk!

The ice spike plunged hard into Chen Mo's left shoulder.

The pain he had expected never came.

There wasn't even the slightest ache.

Only a faint chill flowed along his blood vessels and into every part of his body!

Chen Mo's consciousness plunged into endless darkness in an instant, and his body went completely limp on Red Hare's back.

Red Hare burst out of the building's rear entrance with Chen Mo on the donkey's back.

Screeech-

A blue Dump Truck swung around in a perfect sliding turn and braked to a steady stop in front of them.

It was Red Hare Two!

The door opened automatically, and Li Xia's anxious voice rang out.

"Get in!"

"Lin Lu and the others have already left!"

Without wasting a word, Red Hare jumped into the passenger seat and kicked out with a hoof.

The kick sent the unconscious Chen Mo through the connecting passage and into the truck bed.

Only then did Red Hare notice the ice spike in Chen Mo's body.

A look of disbelief crossed that donkey face.

"This kid hit the fucking jackpot!"

"Silent extinction cold poison. An origin-level toxin."

"If he can't get rid of it, he'll turn into a human-shaped ice sculpture in two months at most. Not even a god could save him!"

Hearing that, Li Xia's voice immediately grew anxious.

"Then what do we do? Where do we go now?"

The donkey glanced at the Snow Corpses about to rush out.

Then looked at Chen Mo in the truck bed, breathing out far more than he breathed in.

Baring those big front teeth, the donkey visibly wrestled with the decision.

Red Hare pulled the woman's enormous head out of the sack and slung it onto the donkey's back.

Then dumped all the Impersonator potion seized earlier over Chen Mo and the Dump Truck.

Everything else went into the passenger seat in one heap.

Finally, Red Hare slipped a yellow paper talisman into Chen Mo's pocket without drawing attention.

"What do we do? We're screwed!"

"That thing's already locked onto both of us. With this half-dead guy along, none of us will get away!"

The donkey jumped out and kicked the door shut.

"Split up! Take him and go!"

"At least one of us can live!!"

With that, Red Hare bolted down the street, carrying Six-Armed's enormous head!

So fast that a black-and-white afterimage trailed behind.

Li Xia let out a shrill cry, shouting after Red Hare!

"Meet up in Camel City!"

Already dozens of meters away, Red Hare didn't turn around, merely raising a forehoof and waving it haphazardly in the air.

Then ran on without looking back.

The truck and donkey disappeared into the boundless wind and snow in two completely opposite directions.

A long while later.

At the top of the Shopping Mall.

An enormous Frost Cicada, massive yet elegant, with a body like ice crystal, stood silently on the rooftop.

It turned its head and looked in the two directions where the truck and donkey had disappeared.

A thick white tentacle gently curled around the Surgical Knife lodged in its body, then suddenly tightened.

Crack-

The battered silver Surgical Knife shattered completely into ice crystals that scattered through the air.

A cold yet gentle female voice emerged from its mouthparts.

"A Variant among Variants, and a... Sequence One brat who dared turn his blade on me..."

"Very good."