This is...
Shen Heng stood still, his gaze fixed on the two figures fighting fiercely in the distance.
One of them resembled a grayish-green guinea pig.
Its body was bloated and rotting, with short, thick limbs and a gaping mouth that stretched all the way to its ears.
The other one is in a form resembling a human.
He was two or three meters tall, clad in dark red armor, and wielding a Greatsword.
Shen Heng's gaze swept over the rotting guinea pig, then settled on the figures of those people.
I could understand the guinea pig, it was a genuine Calamity Beast, but what's wrong with this guy?
Humanoid creatures, wielding swords, are still fighting against the Calamity Beast...
"A person?" Le Gu Nan turned to look at Shen Heng.
"Unsure." Shen Heng's eyes narrowed slightly as he gazed at the figure in the distance.
His intuition told him that the figure in the distance was definitely not human.
But reason told him that, judging from all the signs, it was likely a person, or had been a person.
Humans possessed by Calamity Beast? Or something else?
Shen Heng pondered for a moment, then pressed and held his finger on the headset for a few seconds.
Soon, the communication was connected, and Fan Hong's voice came through the headset.
This is Fan Hong!
" Captain Fan, when you received the alarm, were there two Calamity Beast here?" Shen Heng asked into his headset.
"Two?" Fan Hong was slightly taken aback, then immediately said, "Wait a moment, let me have someone confirm."
"Um."
Putting his hand down from the headset, Shen Heng looked up at the figure in the distance.
The perspective shifts subtly.
The Origin Power surged wildly across the sword-wielding figure like a roaring Tsunami.
That restlessness was different from that of normal humans and Calamity Beast.
Normal humans and Calamity Beast, although they all have Origin Power overflowing from their bodies, are generally relatively stable and would never be in this state.
The figure's current state doesn't seem to be its usual stable state; rather, it seems to be in a state where its Origin Power is abnormally unstable.
Because of this instability, it's difficult to accurately assess his strength, but at most he's only at the upper-middle level of the Second Tier tier.
This strength, against that corrupt guinea pig...
"Clang! Clang--Roar--"
The sharp clanging of metal, mixed with roars, echoed continuously across the square.
The figure wielding the sword roared madly.
He kept swinging his longsword at the rotting guinea pig.
In terms of momentum, he firmly held the upper hand.
However, although the corrupt guinea pigs seem to be driven back time and time again, the actual harm they suffer is negligible.
Instead, the figure wielding the sword would be constantly approached by the Rotting Guinea Pig, leaving wounds on his body that were difficult to heal.
Shen Heng looked at it for a while, then lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, deciding not to go and deal with it for the time being.
If he goes there now, both sides will most likely attack him together.
Although he wasn't afraid, the figure with the sword was behaving strangely, Shen Heng wanted to observe it more closely.
If you go directly there, it will be difficult to observe further.
After confirming that the two Calamity Beast were evenly matched in the short term, Shen Heng turned his gaze to Le Gu Nan.
"Treat the wounded first; I'll keep an eye on things here."
Le Gu Nan nodded slightly.
The two walked quickly toward a restaurant on the side.
The Calamity Beast appeared to have attacked this roadside restaurant first.
The restaurant, which should have been brightly lit, looked somewhat dilapidated at this moment.
The restaurant's glass wall had a large hole.
Inside the hall, there were overturned tables and chairs, spilled food, and...
Shen Heng turned his gaze to the waiter huddled under the table.
When the Calamity Beast attacked, it wasn't early, but it wasn't late either; there were still quite a few people in this commercial plaza.
However, the moment it appeared and attacked, everyone around who could run started to run.
At worst, they would hide in a relatively safe place.
The rest either didn't have time to run or couldn't run at all, and could only find a place to hide.
Of course, there are also those who can no longer escape...
Shen Heng glanced at the several corpses lying on the floor of the restaurant, then turned his gaze to Le Gu Nan.
Le Gu Nan was gently bending down, looking at the waiter huddled under the table.
"Come out, it's okay."
The sudden sound made the waiter, who had been facing away from the aisle, tremble.
She immediately turned around, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that it was a short-haired girl who had called her. She quickly replied:
"Quickly, come inside! There are Calamity Beast outside!"
"It's alright, we're just here to deal with them!" Le Gu Nan said with a light laugh.
The gentle voice quieted the waiter down a little, but the key was the content of the words.
She looked at Le Gu Nan, tears quickly blurring her vision.
Why did it take you so long to arrive?!
"It's alright, it's alright!" Le Gu Nan reassured her softly.
As she spoke, she glanced at the waiter's leg, from which blood was still flowing, and said:
"Come out, let me bandage you up first..."
" Shen Heng, I checked, but I didn't see how the other Calamity Beast appeared. I only know that the beast-shaped Calamity Beast rushed in for a while, and then it was suddenly knocked out again. Immediately afterwards, the two Calamity Beast started fighting." Fan Hong's voice came through the earpiece.
Did it come from inside the restaurant...? Shen Heng glanced at the scene inside the restaurant, then raised his finger and pressed it on the headset.
"Okay, I understand!"
After putting his hand down, Shen Heng began his own treatment.
There wasn't much complicated treatment to be done; minor injuries were simply bandaged, and more serious injuries were treated with appropriate medications depending on the situation.
The supplies received by the Linhai Supervision Bureau in the past few months have been consumed primarily through this expenditure.
After giving another person a simple bandage, Shen Heng took the bandage and walked forward.
Suddenly, he stopped in his tracks.
Two figures were seen sitting next to each other in front of them.
One of the men, who looked to be in his forties or fifties, was slumped in his seat, panting heavily. There was a large patch of blood on his chest.
The other one was a girl who appeared to be uninjured, wearing a pink hair clip.
She was staring blankly out the window, her gaze fixed on the two figures fighting outside.
" Yu Chunhe?"
Under his gaze, the girl turned around blankly.
What met Heng's eyes were those lifeless eyes and dried tear tracks...
However, those eyes lit up immediately upon seeing Shen Heng.
A tearful plea echoed through the restaurant.
"Mr. Shen Heng, please, I beg you, save my brother!"
"Save your brother? Yu Jingming?..." Shen Heng was taken aback. He opened his mouth to ask where Yu Jingming was, but then suddenly stopped.
A figure wielding a sword, surging with restless Origin Power, staring blankly out the window at Yu Chunhe...
Shen Heng looked up and glanced at the dark red figure still fighting the Calamity Beast in the distance.
Although their appearances were completely different, the sword techniques seemed so familiar...
Shen Heng paused for a moment, then asked, "How did he become like this?"
"I don't know, we were having a nice meal here when the Calamity Beast suddenly appeared," Yu Chunhe said rapidly.
"Then my brother got knocked away while trying to stop it."
"After that, for some reason, my brother, who was lying on the ground covered in blood, suddenly turned into that."