Death match in the supermarket

Zhao Yong tried to pull the girl off the ground, only to find that her feet seemed rooted to the floor. He could not budge her.

Seeing that Zhao Yong was all right, Xu Min activated her innate ability too, and her entire body mutated.

If Zhao Yong died, fighting for her life would only add another death. She would be better off fleeing while Lin Ye and Li Ji held the monster's attention.

But under these circumstances, she might not get away even if she ran. Since Zhao Yong was still alive, fighting for her life gave her a better chance of survival.

Before she could charge forward, however, the situation changed again. The girl sent the enlarged Zhao Yong flying with a single punch. Fortunately, he blocked the attack this time and avoided serious injury.

The girl stubbornly turned back toward Lin Ye, only to find that Li Ji was already carrying him downstairs.

Lin Ye put on the Cross Necklace. He stared fixedly at the girl, locking onto her position with his perception while gripping the fully mutated CL0 Pistol.

There was only one bullet in the pistol now.

Only moments ago had Lin Ye figured out how the pistol's mutation worked. Its magazine could hold twenty mutated bullets in total. As the bullets mutated, their number gradually dwindled until only one remained, completing the mutation.

Lin Ye could not understand how the gun worked, but that did not stop him from using it.

The girl had only one mutated part, right in the center of her body. But she moved too fast. Lin Ye needed an opening.

The girl seemed to notice Lin Ye's "gaze" too. This time, she did not hurry to move, instead allowing him to put distance between them.

This was a battle of wits.

Lin Ye's perception had a limited range. The girl was waiting for him to move out of that range himself.

Lin Ye, meanwhile, was waiting for her to chase him and expose an opening. At a close enough distance, she could not dodge a bullet, no matter how fast she was.

At Lin Ye's signal, Li Ji stopped. Since the girl would not come to him, he would have to go to her.

Zhao Yong and Xu Min were on the second floor, while Lin Ye was on the first. The three surrounded the girl from three directions.

The girl stood at the top of the stairs, looking down at Lin Ye.

Her back was turned to Zhao Yong and Xu Min. She paid no regard to the other three at all.

Time ticked by, and the stalemate continued.

Zhao Yong and Xu Min wanted to hold out until dawn. The girl was in no hurry at all. Li Ji still had not figured out why Lin Ye was not running. Lin Ye was the only one who needed to hurry.

He could barely hold on anymore.

The Cross Necklace's side effects were growing worse. He was already seeing double.

But he merely signaled to Li Ji, calmly and unhurriedly, to find him a stool.

Although it did not affect his shooting, he did not want to face the enemy while being carried bridal-style.

Sitting on the stool, Lin Ye took out a metal syringe, stuck it into his neck, and injected all the liquid into his body. This was the Life-Saving Injection from the medical kit.

[Life-Saving Injection]

[A life-saving injection mass-produced by the organization. Produces the effect of a final rally before death.]

[Note: Watch the dosage, or it really will be a final rally before death.]

The Life-Saving Injection was frighteningly potent. In just a few seconds, it restored Lin Ye from helpless to normal. But a few seconds later, he realized something was wrong: the injection was still improving his condition.

Time began to slow. The empty syringe slipped from Lin Ye's hand, taking forever to reach the ground.

Lin Ye's perception first spread outward, then abruptly contracted. It ceased to be perception, becoming some more concentrated form of power.

"Attack!"

Lin Ye knew his current state would not last long, so he drew Red Blade and strode toward the girl.

Zhao Yong was the first to react to Lin Ye's voice.

With a slight movement of his feet, he instantly closed the distance to the girl, then smashed at her head with all his strength.

Xu Min moved no slower than Zhao Yong, but she aimed for the girl's back. Psionic energy surged through her body. She intended to stab straight through the girl's back.

Yet the girl remained motionless, as if she had not noticed them. She stared only at Lin Ye, watching him approach step by step and letting their attacks strike her.

Thud!

Thud!

Their attacks slammed into the Psionic Energy Protection one centimeter from the girl. No matter how hard they pushed, they could not advance even another millimeter.

Lin Ye "saw" that layer of Psionic Energy Protection. It was full-body protection constructed from a layer of high-density psionic energy, but psionic energy was not its only component. There was also some power similar to his condensed perception.

Lin Ye was already on the stairs. The straight-line distance between them was less than two meters. He could even see the coldness in the girl's dark red eyes.

Even at this distance, the girl still showed no intention of moving, because she had long since sensed that Lin Ye possessed power capable of threatening her.

She could indeed kill Lin Ye easily if she attacked, but if he found an opening, he might seriously wound her.

Lin Ye tried no fancy tricks. He simply rammed his condensed perception at the girl's vital point. She could weave Psionic Energy Protection with this power, while he knew nothing about it, so he was better off abandoning any notion of competing in skill.

The Psionic Energy Protection collapsed instantly. Lin Ye's vision went black, and his head swam. But he did not need his eyes or his brain now. He only needed to charge.

The girl seemed not to have expected Lin Ye to destroy her Psionic Energy Protection, but she still blocked Red Blade, into which he had gathered all the psionic energy in his body.

Boom!

Point-blank shot!

Lin Ye fired with the muzzle practically pressed against the girl's mutated part. The shot was immensely powerful and punched straight through her body.

But at the last instant, the girl still managed to react, shifting her vital point partially out of the way.

Even so, she was gravely wounded. Clutching the wound, she scrambled and rolled back into a corner to keep Lin Ye from pursuing her.

Lin Ye had no strength left to pursue her. The Life-Saving Injection's effects had faded, leaving him helpless again, unable to get up unless someone lifted him.

Still, he lay on the ground with his gun aimed at the girl, seemingly ready to fire at any moment.

Zhao Yong and Xu Min naturally would not miss such an opportunity. Although they were in poor condition too, now that it was time to fight for their lives, their condition no longer mattered so much.

A death match.

This was a brutal death match of flying flesh and blood.

It could end only in survival or death. Nothing more.

When it was all over, no one present could stand anymore.

After some time, the first to get up was, of course, Li Ji. She was lucky, so she naturally was not easily injured.

The second to get up was Lin Ye. He had stayed to the side, holding his gun as a deterrent, and had not joined the final death match. Of course, by then, he had already been unable to get up.

Lin Ye began sorting through the spoils. He could die, but he could not return empty-handed.

By the time Grandpa Zhao and Xu Min got up, covered in wounds, Lin Ye had already processed all the mutation organs he could find and packed several large woven sacks with them. Fortunately, this was a supermarket, so there was no need to worry about running out of woven sacks.

When the four regrouped on the second floor, hazy morning sunlight was spilling into the supermarket through the windows.