It was as if BT's inner cosmos had erupted. She would slay any god or Buddha who stood in her way.
The tachi she wielded flashed up and down, stirring up a bloody storm.
Not a single aberrant could get within two steps of her.
In mere seconds, severed arms and legs littered the ground.
But there were simply too many Mutated Ones.
As if a cesspit had exploded, more and more shit-yellow Mutated Ones were closing in from afar.
By then, the shelter's main gate had opened. After Qin Ze jumped inside, he immediately closed it through the terminal.
"BT, get in here!"
Qin Ze shouted as he laid down covering fire with the Mighty Dragon, firing in short bursts.
BT cut down several Mutated Ones with one slash, then accelerated toward the shelter.
Just as she was only a dozen or so steps from reaching it, a high-level flying aberrant descended from the sky and blocked her path.
"Damn it!"
Qin Ze's blood and qi erupted throughout his body, but just as he was about to attack from behind, the high-level aberrant slapped him back into the shelter.
"Cough, cough, cough~"
"My lord, go! Don't worry about me!"
Seeing that the high-level aberrant was trying to squeeze through the gate, BT hurriedly launched a fierce attack.
The aberrant flew into a rage out of humiliation and turned to fight BT.
With a bang, the shelter's gate closed.
Through the last narrowing gap, Qin Ze saw BT's stubborn refusal to yield.
"I want to see what's happening outside the gate!"
Qin Ze tapped away at the terminal, but the screen remained black.
The shelter AI replied, "All surveillance equipment outside has been damaged. Unable to transmit real-time footage. Please replace it promptly."
"Fuck!"
Qin Ze kicked the gate, then grimaced in pain.
He knew BT's burst of strength just now had only been a final flare of life. She couldn't hold out much longer.
Surrounded by the high-level aberrant and its huge gang of lackeys, her fate was easy to imagine.
Qin Ze rubbed his face and returned to the manager's office, where he began going through the documents left on a bookcase to one side.
He wanted to find more information about the Mutated Ones, Sky Island, and humanoid combat weapons.
Unfortunately, the documents on the bookcase were all shelter management files. Not one was useful.
"Forget it."
Qin Ze opened the shelter's map navigation, preparing to head to the east dormitory area and leave the alternate realm.
There were two routes to the east dormitory area.
One had been dug by the Mutated Ones and filled with poison gas.
The other was a shelter passage. Although it had an alloy gate, the area outside the gate had also been filled with poison gas.
Worried that the Mutated Ones were guarding the entrance to the passage, Qin Ze didn't go back the way he had come and left through the gate instead.
He vented the poison gas beforehand, then pumped it back in after he got out.
Qin Ze glanced at his locator instinctively and discovered that it had been damaged when he first passed through the poisonous fog.
"That poison gas is really corrosive. It can even rot mechanical equipment."
With the map on the terminal, Qin Ze finally no longer had to run around like a headless fly.
Besides a large residential area, the fallen zone also had some areas with living facilities.
After winding through several doors, Qin Ze ran into someone he hadn't expected.
"Qin Ze!"
He Bi had been studying the route map on the wall. Hearing footsteps, he spun around.
And there stood Qin Ze, whom he had killed five times, still completely unharmed.
He was far too hard to kill.
"Are you a man or a ghost?"
He Bi backed away warily, putting distance between himself and Qin Ze.
The area was simply too large, and he had gotten lost.
On top of that, his locator was acting up for some reason and couldn't receive a signal.
Even if he wanted to call for help, he couldn't.
Qin Ze said coldly, "Enemies really do meet on narrow roads."
He Bi took out the short sword his second brother had given him. "I don't know how you've made yourself so hard to kill, but it doesn't matter."
"Since you've survived time and again, I'll just kill you a few more times, until you're dead."
He Bi gripped the short sword tightly and slashed down at an angle, sending out a streak of blood-colored sword qi.
"A Martial Artifact?"
Qin Ze rolled like a donkey to dodge the sword qi.
He Bi raised an eyebrow. "At least you know something."
"It's an honor for you to die under my Martial Artifact."
"Any last words?"
Qin Ze rolled his eyes. "You sure talk a lot of shit."
With a flip of his wrist, Qin Ze took out the Mighty Dragon and aimed it at He Bi.
Looking at the toy-like Mighty Dragon, He Bi's lips curled with disdain.
"Trying to scare me off with a toy pistol? How naive..."
Bang-
Before He Bi could finish speaking, his stomach suddenly jerked backward, bending his entire body into a bow. At the same time, a cloud of blood burst from his back.
With a smack, he was plastered against the wall behind him like a flattened pancake.
Blood splattered across the white wall. At first glance, the scene looked rather artistic.
He Bi looked down at the enormous hole in his stomach. His intestines had all been blasted to pieces, and he could see straight through the hole to the other side.
In that instant, he had felt as if he had collided with a train speeding straight toward him, leaving him no time to react at all.
Thud~
He Bi crumpled limply to the floor, his body twitching as blood kept pouring from his throat.
Qin Ze came over to him with the Mighty Dragon raised and pointed the muzzle at his head.
He Bi recognized the gun in Qin Ze's hand.
A Martial Artifact.
That was a Martial Artifact.
Why did an ordinary student from an ordinary family have a Martial Artifact?
He couldn't understand.
"You think having money and power makes you better than everyone else?"
"Why does every world have scum like you?"
By comparison, a humanoid combat weapon was more like a person.
He Bi was afraid.
Born with a golden key in his mouth, he had stood above others all these years. He had never been so terrified.
He Bi's eyes widened, his face full of pleading.
"Don't..."
Bang!
He Bi's head was blasted to pieces with a single shot.
"When a common man rages, the whole world wears mourning white."
"Not just anyone can withstand the wrath of a lowly peasant."
Qin Ze had always lived by the principle, "If others don't offend me, I won't offend them."
He Bi had truly crossed his bottom line.
Qin Ze didn't take He Bi's Martial Artifact. He found a weak aberrant and punched it to death, then dragged its corpse over to He Bi and staged the scene to look like an aberrant attack.
There were no surveillance cameras or eyewitnesses around anyway.
Even if the He Family suspected him, they had no evidence.
"He Family, we have a long road ahead of us."
Qin Ze had already written the He Family down in his little notebook.
Sending He Guang to the police station last time had started a grudge. Now that he had killed He Bi, it was a fight to the death.
"I need to hurry and improve my strength."
This world was far too dangerous.
Qin Ze tightened his grip on the Soul Orb BT had given him.
After arranging the scene, Qin Ze was about to leave when he suddenly heard a faint bout of coughing from a room nearby.
Qin Ze frowned, raised the Mighty Dragon, and slowly approached the door.
Click~
Qin Ze turned the handle. The door was locked from the inside.
Bang-
Qin Ze fired a shot at the handle and kicked the door open.
"Teacher Yao!"
Qin Ze was startled when he saw the person sitting in the corner of the room.
This was a bit troublesome.
It had been so loud outside just now; she must have heard everything.
Should I silence her?
Teacher Yao was badly injured, her breathing weak.
At this distance, Qin Ze was confident he could blow her head off with one shot.
The fact that he had killed He Bi absolutely could not get out.
"Cough, cough, cough~"
Teacher Yao coughed violently several times, seemingly having sensed Qin Ze's intent as well.
"I actually didn't hear anything."