Chapter 256

Jiang Yunu's wording might be a bit harsh, describing the alienated people who were once normal students and employees as a kind of objects, like objects that can be recycled and placed at will, and can be used repeatedly.

But Shen Yijing felt that she was right.

Captain Shen was the only one who encountered this alienated employee at the time. He was on his own exploration trip when the alien appeared from behind the green plants on the side of the road and tried to launch a sneak attack, but was successfully defeated by him.

Because he personally encountered and attacked the opponent, Shen Yijing was extremely sure that he had completely deprived the opponent of his ability to move.

"Based on his condition at the time." Shen Yijing pursed his lips slightly, "I think there is absolutely no possibility for him to stand up again, let alone join the battle again."

Captain Shen has always been a talkative and ruthless person. He used a black knife to break the mutant's spine.

"Then he will definitely never be able to stand up again." Jiang Yunu did not make any comments on Captain Shen's violent behavior, but only focused on the established results. She knew how much a broken spine would restrict the body's movements.

This is obviously unreasonable.

She frowned as she looked at the mutant on the ground.

"Besides," Shen Yijing lowered his voice and added, "I think his alienated state has changed."

If this mutant was exactly the same as the one he had met before, Shen Yijing shouldn't have failed to recognize him immediately. He was the kind of person who remembered all his opponents and enemies.

The fight would definitely leave an impression in his mind.

"What did he look like before?" Jiang Yunu asked.

"The altered parts are also in the upper limbs," Shen Yijing replied, recalling the past. "But it's not that exaggerated. You can see that the arm joints have become metal skeletons, the skin and flesh at the joints are curled up, and the bulging muscles are about twice the size of a normal one."

The muscles of the mutant lying at the feet of the two men had expanded by more than twice their size.

Moreover, the opponent's joints have been tightly wrapped by muscles that are swollen like air, and there is no trace of metal bones.

Could it be that after the mutants in the camp are secretly recovered, they can be "re-transformed" in a short period of time?

This speculation seemed a bit too shocking, but somehow, Jiang Yunu had an intuition that this shocking guess might be close to the truth.

"What now?"

For the first time, Captain Shen, the man who had the final say at Duma Academy, also sought advice from others.

He looked at Jiang Yunu, as if he fully supported Jiang Yunu's decision whether to advance or retreat.

Jiang Yunu said, "I want to keep moving forward."

Shen Yijing lifted his leg and stepped over the body of the mutant on the ground, answering with both actions and words: "Okay."

They are indeed people on the same wavelength.

Continuing forward might bring greater risks, or perhaps someone behind the scenes is hiding in the shadows, intentionally guiding their actions. But if they don't move forward, they might never reach the core of the unsolved mystery, never get a glimpse of the answer.

The love of creating obstacles for young warriors to hinder and guide their paths is probably a common problem among all villains in the universe.

Just like a strange screening mechanism, not all warriors can meet the villain. The other party has to take the initiative to screen and carefully select those who they think are qualified to stand in front of them.

The mutant who had undergone a second transformation was indeed just an appetizer.

After continuing to move forward, Jiang Yunu and Shen Yijing encountered attacks from mutants one after another.

Some of the mutants had unfamiliar faces to both of them, whom they had never met anywhere else in the camp before; some of the mutants looked half-familiar, but when the two looked closely during the battle, they could find traces of secondary transformation on each other.

And both of them could feel that the level of the alienators was gradually increasing.

Before they knew it, they had walked deep into the underground base along a passage that seemed to have no end.

"Don't let us continue fighting and suddenly find that there is a laboratory in front of us and we can see the mutants being recycled and transformed." When Jiang Yunu said this, the supernatural light lingering on his hand had not yet dissipated.

A dull thud of a long sword's back hitting another object was heard from the front, and then a mutant with a mutated lower body knelt down in a twisted posture. His hind legs, which had been transformed into horse hooves, had already been broken by Jiang Yunu's psychic vine whip, and Shen Yijing's long sword struck him on the back and side of his neck, causing him to faint before he knelt down.

"I have a request." Captain Shen said.

Jiang Yunu: "Please speak."

“Please tell fewer ghost stories.” Shen Yijing said calmly.

Jiang Yunu said, "My words don't count. You've misunderstood the cause and effect. You should first persuade those behind the scenes to stop doing these ghost stories. Then there will naturally be fewer ghost stories for me to tell."

Shen Yijing only thought for a second: “You are right.”

He supported this view unconditionally.

If someone is really testing them behind the scenes, then it is clear that this round of "qualification testing" is far from over.

The two continued to move forward along the passage that led to an unknown destination, and encountered at least three waves of mutants. It was easy to see that the elemental attributes of the mutants were richer, and they were matched with different alienation characteristics.

This was like a round-robin test war, forcing Jiang Yunu and Shen Yijing to endlessly confront mutants of various attributes and characteristics, constantly testing their ability to respond, their energy core storage, and their own physical limits.

Shen Yijing once again used the back of his knife to bluntly strike the beak of an avian mutant. Jiang Yunu tacitly used the mutant vine to restrain the opponent's wings and tied the "human bird" to the ceiling of the passage, which was not very spacious.

Shen Yijing leaped down from the wall near the ceiling. The blunt blow knocked something to the ground, which made a "ding" sound when it collided with the floor, then bounced and rolled away.

Jiang Yunu dodged the liquid dripping from the ceiling with a nimble move. After he was out of the "dripping" range, he looked up again.

The beak of the "human bird" is empty.

What was smashed off was the sharp beak with a metallic luster.

"You're hitting harder." Jiang Yunu said softly.

Endless round-robin battles will wear down a person's willpower. She knew that Shen Yijing was a person whose willpower was not so easy to wear down, but from the opponent's playing style, she could still feel that Shen Yijing was becoming a little "urgent".

Without looking back at his "achievements," Shen Yijing's tactical shoes stomped over the bloody ground. He and Jiang Yunu walked forward a dozen meters in silence before speaking, "It feels strange to fight here. It's as if after staying here for too long, I'll forget that these mutants were once normal people and start to see them as mere obstacles."

When the two of them first encountered students wearing league school team uniforms, they would pause slightly and fall silent at the same time. After the fight, they would look down at the incapacitated uniformed bodies, as if observing a brief moment of silence for their former rivals.

But as the fight went on, Shen Yijing began to feel that there was no difference between the mutants wearing the academy uniforms and those who didn't.

The rotation of games affected his way of thinking.

Jiang Yunu said, "Next time you encounter a mutant, don't attack. Try to stop fighting and just stand aside and watch."

The attacking mutants are still upgrading, but someone told him to "just watch", and his words showed his confidence in the other party's own combat power.

Shen Yijing rarely has such moments of being "showed off" by others, but when it really happened, the person who was unconsciously showing off his superiority was Jiang Yunu, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Captain Shen, who never easily said he wanted to rest, said, "Okay, I'll try my best."

But after walking a long distance, the next battle still did not come.

Instead, a door suddenly came into view.

"Is this the first door we've seen since entering the passage?" Jiang Yunu stopped in his tracks the moment he saw the door. He was very cautious and didn't move forward rashly. "The door we came in through before doesn't count."

Shen Yijing replied affirmatively: “Yes.”

That door was located at the very front of the passage, as if indicating that their long "passageway battle" had come to an end.

"But I have a feeling," Jiang Yunu said, "I don't think we've reached the final stage."

The door ahead may just be the entrance to the next "test".

Shen Yijing asked, "Shall we go?"

Jiang Yunu: "Let's go."

Of course, the two of them headed towards the gate.

This door at the end of the passage is not locked in a special way. It seems to be placed here as a "reward" that can be easily pushed open as long as you pass the previous round-robin trial.

Jiang Yunu raised her hand and pushed open the door, but what awaited her and Shen Yijing behind the door was not the next battle.

——It’s a pit.

A huge pit that almost occupies the entire space behind the door.

The diameter and depth of this pit are very impressive. It is deeply sunken from the ground, and countless entangled objects are piled up at the bottom of the pit.

You need to look carefully to find that what are piled together like disordered Lego blocks are a large number of limbs and torsos.

Some are human, some are elemental beasts, and some are half-human, half-elemental beast mutants.

Shen Yijing frowned after taking one look at the scene, then he quickly glanced around, looking for a way to pass through this huge pit, and visually measured whether the area near the wall at the edge of the pit was wide enough for people to walk.

After a moment, Shen Yijing realized that Jiang Yunu seemed to be fixed on the side.

Jiang Yunu was very quiet, but not the kind of quietness that comes from someone concentrating on thinking or observing something.

Shen Yijing turned around and saw that the white-haired girl was just standing on the edge of the pit, looking at everything below in a daze.

A subtle palpitation suddenly crept into his heart.

"Jiang Yunu?" He called her name in a low voice.

The white-haired girl suddenly came to her senses, and when she looked at him, there was still a rare confusion in her eyes, as if she had been pulled out of a vacuum world that only she could enter.

"Yeah?" Jiang Yunu said, "I'm fine, don't worry."

She looked at the big pit in front of her and felt that it was very, very familiar.