Wei Wufu's Egg

"Mutated Creatures were rare out in the open. Why were there so many here? We'd already run into two on this beach alone." Lin Shen knew he couldn't retreat now. The moment he retreated, he was finished.

Even someone as ruthless as Wei Wufu, with a blade that fast, had failed to defeat this mutated creature. The Superspeed Gunslinger stood even less of a chance.

Once the Superspeed Gunslinger died, Lin Shen would be meat on the chopping block, left to be slaughtered.

"Fire!" Lin Shen gritted his teeth and gave the order.

Without hesitation, the Superspeed Gunslinger pulled the trigger. The bullet roared from the barrel toward the mutated creature's head.

As he fired, the Superspeed Gunslinger twisted aside and narrowly evaded the mutated creature's fork.

The mutated creature tilted its head, dodging the Superspeed Gunslinger's bullet. Its speed was roughly equal to the Superspeed Gunslinger's. Thankfully, the Superspeed Gunslinger was a top-tier speed-type pet; otherwise, it would have been difficult to avoid that thrust.

"Catch." Lin Shen pulled something from his pocket and hurled it at Wei Wufu with all his strength. Though they had exchanged only one move, Lin Shen knew the Superspeed Gunslinger was no match for it.

Speed was the Superspeed Gunslinger's greatest weapon, yet it could not gain the slightest advantage against the mutated creature. In every other aspect, it was surely far inferior. There was no fight to be had.

Wei Wufu caught what Lin Shen had thrown him. It was a green, leaf-shaped Crystal Gene blade. He immediately pinched the blade between two fingers and stared fixedly at the mutated creature. At the same time, he said in a low voice, "Go."

Lin Shen ignored him. Even with a pet and a Crystal Gene Level Tang saber, Wei Wufu had been no match for the mutated creature. Now he had only a Leaf Blade. If he could beat it with that, pigs would fly.

"Find an opening and shoot it in the eye. Leave the rest to me," Lin Shen shouted.

Wei Wufu frowned slightly. He could not understand what Lin Shen meant. He did not believe Lin Shen himself had any ability to harm the mutated creature.

Wei Wufu said nothing. He also knew Lin Shen could not escape far. Once he and the Superspeed Gunslinger died, Lin Shen would die too. Whether he ran or not made little difference.

After dodging the bullet, the mutated creature flicked the fork in its hand and swept it at the Superspeed Gunslinger's waist. The Superspeed Gunslinger had not even had time to fire a second shot. Evidently, the mutated creature still held a slight edge in speed. Its speed stat might have reached the maximum value of twenty.

Of course, it might also have been like Dead Powder, with a speed stat that had broken through the limit of twenty and reached the beyond-limit value of twenty-one. But Lin Shen did not think it was as fast as Dead Powder. It probably had not reached twenty-one.

The Superspeed Gunslinger could only retreat swiftly, firing another shot as he did. The bullet still flew toward the mutated creature's face.

Lin Shen had done that deliberately, making the Superspeed Gunslinger continually shoot at the mutated creature's face.

At such close range, the mutated creature still managed to turn and evade the bullet. At the same time, it swung the fork in a wide circle and swept it at the Superspeed Gunslinger again.

"Now!" Lin Shen suddenly shouted. This time, instead of retreating, the Superspeed Gunslinger charged forward, nearly rushing right up to the mutated creature, and fired at its face.

Almost the instant the bullet left the barrel, the mutated creature's fork swept into the Superspeed Gunslinger's waist, sending him flying sideways. His waist was visibly twisted, and even his alloy spine appeared to have been snapped.

Because they were too close, the mutated creature had no choice but to wrench its neck aside to dodge the bullet.

A streak of green light flashed through the air and struck the mutated creature's left eye as it twisted its neck to evade the bullet.

That ruby-like eye was pierced by the green leaf, and the mutated creature reached out in agony to grab the leaf embedded in its eye.

Wei Wufu saw that Lin Shen had charged in front of the mutated creature at the same moment. His speed was actually faster than the bullet fired by the Superspeed Gunslinger.

Even after seeing such speed from Lin Shen, Wei Wufu still did not think charging in had been a good decision.

He could tell Lin Shen was simply someone without Gene Mutation who had used some unknown method to burst forth with that kind of speed for a brief moment.

Not to mention that such speed was not much faster than the mutated creature's—even if it were, Lin Shen lacked the strength to injure it. Charging over was no different from courting death.

Especially when Lin Shen actually used a single finger to jab with all his might at the mutated creature's waist, Wei Wufu believed Lin Shen's finger would definitely break while the mutated creature would remain completely unharmed.

Clang!

Lin Shen's finger viciously jabbed into a depression in the mutated creature's waist, producing a dull impact and Lin Shen's pained grunt.

Just as Wei Wufu had expected, Lin Shen's finger bone broke from the jab, twisting into a shape that made one's heart go cold at the sight.

And just as Wei Wufu had thought, the mutated creature was completely unscathed. Even though Lin Shen had attacked one of its vulnerable spots, he still could not harm it in the slightest.

Yet everything that happened next left Wei Wufu rooted where he stood.

The mutated creature actually froze in place, maintaining the posture of holding the fork in one hand and gripping the Leaf Blade in the other, like a robot that had suddenly run out of power.

"That hurts like hell!" Lin Shen bared his teeth in pain. His twisted finger had swollen like a little radish.

But the look in Wei Wufu's eyes as he watched Lin Shen had turned strange, as though he were seeing him for the first time.

He had seen Lin Shen immobilize the Superspeed Gunslinger with a Pressure-Point Strike, but he had never expected that he could immobilize even this mutated creature. What kind of power was that? Wei Wufu had never heard of it.

A human without Gene Mutation actually possessed such speed and such incomprehensible methods. Lin Shen had something to him.

"Don't move. Come here." Seeing Lin Shen pull a bottle of medicine from his pocket and prepare to apply it to his finger, Wei Wufu suddenly spoke.

Lin Shen had already grown used to Wei Wufu's way of speaking and could not be bothered to ask. Dragging his heavy body, he shuffled over to Wei Wufu's side.

"Squat. Hand," Wei Wufu said again.

Lin Shen understood what he meant. He squatted down and held his injured finger out before him.

Wei Wufu's fingers flashed. He suddenly ran them over Lin Shen's injured finger, and a crisp crack immediately sounded. The pain made Lin Shen let out a miserable scream.

"Apply the medicine," Wei Wufu said.

Lin Shen's scream stopped. Once that instant burst of pain passed, his finger actually hurt less, and it felt much better.

Looking down, he found that his twisted finger had been straightened.

Without saying anything more, Lin Shen dripped several drops of medicine from the bottle and rubbed them over his injured finger, while his gaze remained fixed on the mutated creature.

Fortunately, the mutated creature was not as formidable as Dead Powder. Its pressure point had been struck, and it could not move again. Lin Shen just did not know how long the effect of the Pressure-Point Strike would last.

His gaze shifted to the Superspeed Gunslinger. Its spine was broken. Though it was not dead yet, it could not even crawl anymore, much less fire another shot.

Lin Shen gritted his teeth and moved before the mutated creature, reaching out to pull the Leaf Blade from its eye. But the creature was gripping the blade, and no matter how hard Lin Shen tried, he could not make it budge in the slightest.

"You... don't have Gene Mutation..." Wei Wufu looked at Lin Shen with a strange expression as he asked.

Previously, he had been absolutely certain that Lin Shen had no Gene Mutation, but now he was beginning to doubt his own judgment.

"No." Lin Shen helplessly lowered his hand, looked at Wei Wufu, and said, "Your hands can still move. Can you come over and kill it yourself?"

"Can't kill it. Take this." Wei Wufu pulled something out and tossed it to Lin Shen.

Lin Shen caught it and discovered that it was an egg.

Yes, an egg—not a Gene Mutation Egg.

Gene Mutation Eggs all had metal or crystal shells, but this egg was like a chicken or duck egg, with a grayish-white shell, thin and fragile. It was rather small, only a little bigger than a pigeon egg.

"I'm not hungry yet..." Lin Shen thought Wei Wufu wanted him to eat the egg. Never mind that he was not hungry—even if he were, such a small egg would not do much.

"Don't eat it. Use it for Gene Mutation," Wei Wufu said.

"Use this egg for Gene Mutation... Are you sure?" Lin Shen's mind filled with question marks. How was he supposed to undergo Gene Mutation with this thing? He thought Wei Wufu was joking, but there was not the slightest hint of a joke in Wei Wufu's expression.

"If you want to live, use it for Gene Mutation." Wei Wufu saw Lin Shen's confusion and continued.

Lin Shen still could not believe that this thing could be used for Gene Mutation. And even if it could, Gene Mutation was a long process—at the shortest, three to five days; at the longest, half a month, perhaps even one or two months. How could he undergo Gene Mutation in a place like this?

Before he could finish the Gene Mutation, the Pressure-Point Strike would likely have worn off. The mutated creature would come over and kill him with a single thrust of its fork.

"Very strong. Very fast. Difficult. Succeed, live. Fail, die," Wei Wufu said again.