Chapter 654 Discussion

The undigested prey in its stomach affected the mutant snake's speed, giving Wu Yue time to catch his breath and also giving him a chance to fight back.

Wu Yue attacked and retreated at the same time, leading the mutant snake away from the temporary base, while quietly creating rows of sharp earth spikes on the path that the snake had to pass.

Compared with the mutant snake's scales, the earth thorns were not sharp, and their tips were quickly worn away after sliding. The mutant snake did not take the insignificant attack seriously.

At a distance from Wu Yue, he could occasionally see lone psychics hiding in the dark. These people, whom he had been unable to find before, might have advanced in their psychic abilities, but Wu Yue could easily capture the psychic fluctuations in the air.

As soon as Wu Yue discovered that the mutant snake's target had shifted, he immediately punched it.

After several rounds, the mutant snake was also enraged and no longer cared about the minions. It suddenly raised its upper body and rushed forward. The huge fist controlled by superpowers in the air had not yet reached it, but was hit by the mutant snake's head and fell to the side. It was quickly controlled by Wu Yue back to the vicinity of the snake's head.

The two lingering fists were shaken off by the mutant snake, and then returned to its vicinity and were attacked again. The mutant snake suddenly opened its huge mouth and swallowed a fist made of mud.

A huge ball swelled up on his neck, which made Wu Yue stunned. However, he could feel that he still had control over his fist, and an incredible idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

When Zhou He came back from the Mountain God Base, he said that their training for wood-type mutants was to stimulate the growth of seeds in living organisms. At that time, he was thinking that perhaps earth-type mutants could also work in the human body, but there was no way to do it.

Isn't this a godsend opportunity?

If the scales can never be broken from the outside, what about from the inside?

Wu Yue instantly added his supernatural power to the fist inside the mutant snake. As he changed his shape, the sphere gradually shrank. Before the mutant snake could react, the entire fist formed a 360-degree thorn ball, suddenly stabbing out from the inside to the surroundings.

The mutant snake that was attacked from the inside howled in pain, rolled around, and swung its tail around, crushing a large number of trees.

Wu Yue dodged its unconscious attacks while constantly manipulating the soil inside the snake's body, repeatedly shrinking and exploding the attacks, and even moving down its throat to continue attacking.

The entire jungle was in chaos as the mutant snakes rolled around, weeds and branches flew everywhere, and some rarely seen small animals fled everywhere. If they hadn't come out on their own initiative, Wu Yue wouldn't have known that there were so many "neighbors" nearby.

Looking at the mutant snake that was tortured and powerless to resist, Wu Yue finally let out a sigh of relief. However, before he could relax, the snake's tail swept across a small slope, stirring up dirt, rocks and weeds that flew towards Wu Yue.

The gap when Wu Yue hurriedly dodged gave the mutant snake some time to buffer. When he found a good hiding place again, he found that the fist that the mutant snake had swallowed was spit out again. Not only that, the mutant pangolin that it had swallowed before was also there. The pangolin's hard scales had been melted by the snake's digestive fluid and its original shape could not be seen. The whole thing became one piece.

Wu Yue's heart skipped a beat, and the mutant snake, now free of any burden, fixed its cold gaze on Wu Yue.

"All hidden!" Wu Yue roared, turned around and ran towards the depths of the jungle, leaving a trail of spikes on the ground behind him.

However, after getting rid of the burden, the mutant snake's entire body became extremely light, as if it had a pair of invisible wings. It leaped onto the tree branch and shuttled through the gaps between the forked branches. Except for occasionally breaking the branches, its speed was not affected at all.

It had completely given up on everyone else and locked its sights on Wu Yue.

Relying on his two legs, even with his super powers, Wu Yue was no match for the mutant snake. He could only use his super powers to go underground, travel for a while and then return to the ground to ensure that the mutant snake could find him and would not return to the temporary base.

Without training and familiarity with the SS-level supernatural power, he was unable to make careful use of every bit of energy, and the constant consumption caused his supernatural power to be greatly depleted.

Especially after entering the primitive jungle, the road became difficult to travel and Wu Yue's progress became increasingly difficult. His supernatural powers were gradually stretched to their limits, but from a distance, he could still vaguely see the location of the temporary station.

Wu Yue couldn't stop, nor did he dare to stop. He touched the crystal cores belonging to his comrades in his pocket again and again. At the moment when his superpowers were exhausted and he fell into the weeds, he still held one in his hand.

Night fell and dawn came. When the morning light shone on his face, Wu Yue didn't know where he was. His clothes were torn and scratched by plants. There was blood everywhere. Some places were scabby and some were still bleeding.

There was no trace of the mutant snake behind him. He didn't know when he had completely shaken it off.

There were only a handful of crystal cores left from nearly a hundred people. Facing the rising sun, Wu Yue stared blankly at the crystal cores in his hand. He staggered and knelt on the ground, covering his eyes with his hands. Tears flowed from between his fingers, and he uttered a faint "I'm sorry" along with sobs.

After returning to the temporary base, the surviving team members had been rescued. Out of a team of about 1,300 people, only more than 600 were left alive, and nearly half of them were seriously injured.

Groans and cries of pain spread throughout the small temporary residence, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.

Sun Cheng, who was helping Wu Yue bandage his wounds, looked at his comrades with pale faces. After a while, he whispered, "Captain Wu, they are seriously injured. If they are not treated, I'm afraid..."

"Where's our medicine?" Wu Yue asked in a hoarse voice. He had no appetite at all after smelling such a smell. He had to force himself, who had been hungry for a day and a night, to bite the dry biscuits that were brought to him.

"I used everything," Sun Cheng said with his head down. The cloth in his hand that served as a bandage was obviously torn from some clothes, "but it can't save my life."

Doctors can only cure diseases, they cannot save lives.

Wu Yue understood what he meant. He looked at Sun Cheng blankly, "You want..."

"They have a healing system." Sun Cheng's eyes were bloodshot, and it was obvious that he had not slept yet.

"Have you found Mingxu? He might still have some..."

"Captain Wu, no amount of medicine can save his life." Sun Cheng didn't let him finish his words. He looked at the crowded patients in this small space. Those who could cry out in pain were of mild illness, while the serious ones were already unconscious and on the verge of life and death.

"But there..." Wu Yue knew more and more specific information than Sun Cheng, but he couldn't say a word when he looked at the people in the room.

"I know." Sun Cheng looked like a man in desperate situation, and randomly wiped his messy hair. "Captain Wu, I don't want to watch them die."

"Let's give it a try, just as..." Sun Cheng's determined eyes showed a determination to die, "Let's take a gamble."

I'd gamble my life for them. I'd live and die with them.

Those who had been paying attention to the conversation between the two people looked over at this time. Many people did not know the situation of the Mountain God Base, but seeing that the base had not interacted with the other party's goodwill, they understood that the purpose might be unknown, but at this time it was the hope for many people to survive.

They did not fight for themselves, but just looked at Wu Yue, waiting for him to make a decision.

Even if this decision concerns their life or death.

"Lao Mo——" While Wu Yue was hesitating, a suppressed cry broke the silence.

Following the sound, I saw a young man kneeling on the ground crying. In front of him lay a person who had been unconscious for a long time, with a towel wrapped in ice covering his forehead. His abdomen was pierced by something, and only basic sutures and hemostasis were done in the simple environment. The flush caused by the high fever could still be seen on his cheeks.

"He's not breathing. Give him first aid."

"Make way, let me pass."

"Save him."

"His son is only ten years old, and he promised the child that he would go back."

"Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, quick—"

"No, my abdomen is bleeding again. Is there any hemostatic agent?"

"Unable to identify the bleeding point..."

“I can’t stop…”

…

"sorry!"

In just a few minutes, a person's life and death came to an end.

Accompanied by low and suppressed sobs, Wu Yue's dazed brain seemed to be covered by a layer of fog. He seemed to see those comrades whose crystal cores he had absorbed surrounding him and condemning him.

Didn't you absorb your comrade's crystal core in order to save everyone?

Who did you save? What are you doing

Admit it, you sanctimonious hypocrite.

That's just the excuse you made to absorb your comrades' crystal cores.

Admit it!

You don't want to save them!

"No," Wu Yue held his head and murmured softly.

"Captain Wu!" Sun Cheng's voice woke him up again. He looked at him with red eyes, "We don't have time."

"Let me lead the team. I have experience and know the way." Sun Cheng stood up and stood in front of him. With courage, he looked at everyone without waiting for his answer.

"Not far from our base, there is a mountain god base. Their base has healing psychics, but their base was split from a base that eats the flesh and blood of psychics. There are many secrets hidden in the base. Our base leaders suspect that they want to attack our psychics, so they have always kept a distance from them, which is also a kind of protection for us."

"I'm not sure if their friendliness towards us is a trick on us, but I want to take them to fight for a chance of survival."

Sun Cheng looked at the figures who could no longer be delayed, paused, and smiled bitterly, "Of course, it may also be a dead end with no return."

"Maybe when we go there we will immediately become someone else's food, or maybe something else. I can't guarantee anything, but... they can't wait."

"I can't promise you anything, but don't worry about one thing. If they plot against us, then..." Sun Cheng stood straight, like a poplar standing tall in the winter, "You will be safe before I die."