Chapter 158 Evolved Mutant
In contrast to You Xi, who was painless and bloodless, Lou Rui was pierced through the chest by Bo Leng's sharp ice blade. Although he avoided the vital parts in time, the weapon he was tied to was destroyed, and he could not deploy the protective light arc. He did not expect that the ice blade would suddenly appear in front of his body.
The ice blade pierced his chest and flew out from his back, and blood immediately gushed out of the wound.
The smell of blood in the air became strong again, but the previous time it was artificial, and this time he was really seriously injured.
He thought that even without the protective light arc, with his current physical fitness, the enhanced weapon could not hurt him, but this ice blade without a handle could instantly burst out with huge force, and he could not resist this force.
But this was not the most surprising thing for him. The most surprising thing was that he found that the place where You Xi was shot was intact without any wound.
"How is it possible? The attack power of my weapon has been strengthened many times. Even the tasker can't be unscathed... unless--" The words after unless made him look at the other party in surprise, "You... have been alert to me all the time?"
You Xi didn't say anything. She controlled the ice layer in her coat that protected the vital parts of her body, and shook the bullets that were shot into the clothes and embedded in the ice layer from under the hem to the ground.
Just now, she was afraid that the movement of the bullet hitting the ice layer would be discovered by the other party, and it was not so easy for him to relax his vigilance and be fooled, but fortunately the coat was thick enough to weaken most of the sound.
Moreover, she had discovered before that Luo Rui's five senses had not been greatly improved like hers and Tang Yatong's.
Probably due to the points limit, he had made great improvements in other places - that is, everyone's development direction is different.
She controlled the ice layer, allowing them to quickly fly away from the body parts that were close to her, and at the same time formed a 360-degree protective shield around her. Except for a few tiny air holes, this ice layer protective shield had almost no gaps and loopholes.
After understanding several basic abilities of ice control skills, she practiced the ice layer protective shield the most, in addition to condensing ice blades and controlling ice blades.
The ice layer of this protective shield is not thick, so a lot of water is not needed, but it is strong enough, almost comparable to diamonds, and can be shrunk and expanded according to one's will. At the smallest, it can completely fit the whole body, like an invisible shield. As long as it is not in a place with strong light, others can't detect it at all.
As long as she is still alive and her supernatural power is not exhausted, she can always maintain the defensive ability of the protective shield. This inspiration came from the protective light arc of Lin Wu and Tang Yatong's weapons, which is used to make up for her high attack and low defense.
However, the ability displayed by You Xi at this moment made Lou Rui look shocked.
No wonder his weapon failed to hit her. All protective arcs have a layer of light visible to the naked eye after being turned on, but her protective shield is completely different, and can even be hidden, so that he thought she was defenseless, so he chose to attack.
"This is not the defensive function of the weapon, nor is it a skill. How can you... Are you from Neta? No--" He had come into contact with Neta's people in a mission, and even Neta's people did not have this ability.
This ability to control ice, not only can it change into various shapes, but also has both attack and defense capabilities at the same time. This is not a skill of the system tower world at all!
"You, you are not a missioner from the world of System Tower!?"
In the darkness, behind Luo Rui, there was still an ice blade suspended in the air, pointing at his back, but now, You Xi still had something to ask him: "Did the System Tower send you to kill me? Is it a public mission, or a world mission for you alone?"
The meaning of this was very simple. She wanted to know if there would be other missioners who would come and continue to hunt her down after she killed him and made him fail in accepting the mission.
This was also the reason why she had doubted him from the beginning, never trusted him, but never showed this distrust in front of him.
If this was a mission, then she would only injure him severely instead of getting rid of him. In this way, at least in this world, the missions he accepted would always remain in the "unfailed" state, to avoid a more powerful person coming over. By then, the whole world would be a suspicious target, which would be much more troublesome than defending him alone.
Luo Rui stared at her for a few seconds, and finally sighed: "It's the latter. Don't worry, I didn't lie to you this time."
**
This is a special mission. The system that had always existed with mechanical sounds suddenly changed. It was the voice of a teenager, with a careless coldness and an absolute sense of oppression.
The other party told him that the target of the mission he needed to eliminate was sitting next to him - after he arrived at the mission world, he would naturally see the other party.
As a result, the first thing he saw after waking up was the face in the distant memory.
Except for being thinner and paler, the eighteen-year-old You Xi in this world is almost exactly the same as the eighteen-year-old You Xi in the zombie world.
Because he was too shocked, after taking the gloves handed over by the other party, he still couldn't calm down.
He didn't understand why there was a You Xi in this world.
Moreover, was the other party really You Xi? Or was it another tasker disguised as "You Xi"? If it was the latter, he could do it without any worries.
But later, after seeing her various behaviors with his own eyes, he was sure that the other party was You Xi - You Xi in the zombie world. You Xi has never been an aboriginal, she has always been a tasker.
At this point in the whole thing, the only thing that puzzled him was her appearance, why there was no change in the two worlds.
Later, when she personally confirmed to him that she was the same person in both worlds, he finally understood why the system tower wanted to get rid of her - she seemed to be different from ordinary taskers.
She was more like a variable, a rebel in the orderly world; a jumping alien in the pure gray world.
Such an existence must be cleaned up.
He struggled for a long time, wanting to do it, but always couldn't bear to do it. Killing someone you like - at least someone you once liked very much, is a test.
For him, Youxi represents the pure self he once was, she is special.
But if he doesn't kill her, he will fail in his mission and die.
On the contrary, as long as he successfully gets rid of her, he can immediately enter the inner tower world.
So he finally took action, but he failed.
How could he kill a person who was much more powerful than him and was always wary of him? Since it was a dead end, it would be better to die in her hands than to fail the mission and be wiped out by the system tower...
So, this time, he didn't want to lie again.
You Xi believed what he said. No one would deliberately choose an answer that would put themselves in danger: "Will the system tower know what happened to you here?"
"Don't worry, 'it' doesn't know or interfere with too many details, otherwise there would be no need for us taskers." He knew what she was asking, and suddenly understood why the other party had always been wary of him but never took the initiative to attack him.
The other party was much smarter than he thought.
When he saw her unconscious in the desert, he did think about taking action, but she woke up instantly and took a defensive state. She was highly alert and had a strong physical fitness, which made her much more difficult to deal with than he thought.
Therefore, he began to plan carefully, and even consciously covered for her in front of other classmates.
At the Nigerian Travel Company, he hesitated for a moment and decided to save her.
One reason was that he didn't think a powerful tasker would die so easily surrounded by mutants. If he wanted to complete the mission, he had to ensure that the other party was completely dead in his sight. Another reason is naturally to gain trust.
He has natural advantages. As long as he lets her know who he is, plus the friendship of saving her, and her accumulated trust in him, at a certain special time, he can win with one blow.
But now he realized that when he was calculating the other party, the other party was actually testing him.
She didn't trust him at all.
He lost this round convincingly.
But - he was not willing to accept his fate.
Luo Rui suddenly threw out an enhanced tear gas bomb, ignoring the ice knife that instantly pierced his body again, and slammed into the door of the stairwell on the side, trying to control the person in the wheelchair behind the door.
He knew that You Xi would not be so heartless as to let You Zhengqing stay alone in the dangerous darkness. She must have set up an ice shield around him.
But he didn't intend to attack the other party. He planned to take the other party away as a whole to open a way for himself to escape.
From the importance she attached to You Zhengqing before, it can be known that her mission should be related to him. As long as the other party is in his hands, he can use this to threaten him.
He is fast, and You Xi is faster than him. Seeing him reaching out to You Zhengqing, she frowned and hummed softly. The ice layer shield that originally protected You Zhengqing was growing sharp ice spikes at a very fast speed -
but the speed of the ice spikes was not as fast as the speed of You Zhengqing raising his hand.
In the darkness, a sharp blade formed by a golden arc of light appeared in You Zhengqing's hand, and pierced his heart fiercely a second before Lou Rui reacted.
"Taskers?!" Lou Rui spat out a mouthful of blood, and rolled down the stairs. In the next second, he broke through the window glass and fell from a height of nine and a half floors.
You Xi flew to the window and saw the other person's body hanging on a rope. He was not dead yet.
He fell into the grass, and the blood and movement immediately attracted the mutants nearby. He waved a dagger, covered his heart, and stumbled towards the hospital gate. Behind him, three mutants followed closely.
You Xi turned around and looked at the person in the wheelchair on the stairs. He was holding on to the handrail and slowly stood up: "I thought you would be more vigilant after the acid rain apocalypse underground laboratory incident."
You Xi was stunned for a few seconds before coming back to her senses: "Lin Wu?" The only person who knew about her experience in the acid rain apocalypse underground laboratory was Lin Wu.
"..." The other party frowned slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but You Xi suddenly interrupted him.
"How did you come to this body? Where is my brother?" Although she knew that if the indigenous consciousness was strong, they would come back after the tasker left, but You Zhengqing was originally a patient, he might not be able to hold on for that long.
"He's still here." The other party pointed to his forehead, "He's just resting temporarily. I will wake him up before I leave."
It was the first time that Youxi heard this statement, but if Qu Yichen from the Storm World could come back, it means that when the tasker descended into the body of the aboriginal, the original consciousness did exist at the same time.
But if the tasker could subjectively awaken the original consciousness before leaving, why didn't Tang Yatong mention this when she left?
Youxi took away the protective ice layer outside the other person's body, and directly put these ice layers into the Star House warehouse, and asked: "What did you want to say just now?"
"Nothing, it's not important, let's go back to the ward first, it's not safe here." The other person slowly walked down the stairs, his steps were a little shaky, and it seemed that the illness of the body had affected him.
"You won't be affected by your body in this world all the time, right?"
"There will be a little, but not like now, because I just eliminated-eliminated that tasker, and it took some physical strength. It will be better after a while."
The other person slowly passed by her and continued to walk down, "I'll go first, you be careful."
Youxi nodded, but noticed the wheelchair on the stairs with the corner of his eyes. He didn't put the wheelchair into the space just now.
She didn't call him, but went upstairs to collect the wheelchair, and quickly followed him.
While going downstairs, You Xi took some time to ask the system: System, will Lin Wu's appearance on the mission target affect my mission?
There was no answer, and there was no movement of […].
You Xi was helpless: Ah Tong, can you be more reliable? Don't pretend you don't exist all the time, okay?
The tall man walking on the stairs below suddenly stopped and turned to look at her.
"What's wrong?" You Xi quickly realized that something was wrong.
The other person's eyes were not on her, but behind her.
They were passing the ninth floor, and not far behind her was the staircase door to the ninth floor. These doors in the hospital stairwells were all fireproof doors, and their quality and sealing performance were very good.
She could smell the blood in the corridor in the stairwell on the tenth floor because Lou Rui had left a gap in the door when he went out, so the smell could get in.
If the door was completely closed, even her sense of smell might not be able to smell the abnormality on the other side of the staircase door at the first time.
And now, Lin Wu was staring at the staircase door behind her.
You Xi turned around quickly and silently went down a few stairs and stood next to Lin Wu.
There was nothing unusual in the stairwell. From the narrow glass window above the tightly closed staircase door, a black thing slowly hung down from above. It was human hair.
Then, there were thin blood-red finger bones, and finally, half of a bloody face.
It was the evolved mutant she had seen in the ward!
The other party probably knew that he had been discovered, and slowly revealed a complete face from above, still hanging upside down, and smiled at them: "You found me..."
"Don't let her run away." Lin Wu said, and suddenly a light golden long sword condensed in his palm. The shape of this sword was a bit strange. It had no hilt and was only two-thirds the length of a normal long sword. It was as thin as a cicada's wing.
Almost at the moment he finished speaking, the lightsaber flew out, directly passed through the glass of the staircase door, and pierced into the opponent's right eye.
The evolved mutant screamed in anger and fell from the ceiling. The next second, the door panel was knocked open, and the opponent used all four limbs to crawl quickly on the wall like a spider, and instantly arrived in front of them.
Youxi's ice layer protection shield and Lin Wu's light golden arc of light unfolded almost at the same time. The mutant hit it heavily and bounced to the ground, then climbed up again and prepared to bypass their shields and attack from behind.
The ice layer and light arc quickly expanded into a 360-degree protective shield, and sharp and thin ice spikes grew on Youxi's ice layer.
The mutant was hit head-on, and several more blood holes appeared on her body. Seeing that she could not get close to them and her blood was completely blocked and could not contaminate the other party, she immediately turned cold and turned to the glass window on the middle floor of the stairs.
Youxi was just escaped by Luo Rui in this way, how could she repeat the same mistake now.
The seemingly fragile glass window not only did not break, but instead grew dense ice spikes, and the mutant who crashed upwards was immediately pierced into a hedgehog.
But she was still alive, and she was fixed by the ice spikes and grimaced.
But then, a scorching heat surrounded her. She struggled for a few times, but was soon burned to ashes by the high-temperature flames.
Only after the other party was burned to ashes did You Xi hold on to the wall to alleviate the negative effects of using her supernatural powers.
She took out a bottle of water and raised her head to drink it, but the other person on the stairs suddenly shook his body and fell to the ground with a thud.
You Xi thought she was very weak:...
Isn't it just a sword and a shield?
Is it so weak?
**
When he woke up again, it was already daybreak, and they returned to the ward.
He was placed in a wheelchair next to the balcony. The morning light shone in from the floor-to-ceiling sliding door, enveloping his whole body. The morning sunlight was light and warm, very comfortable.
"Not afraid of the sun, it seems." You Xi's voice came from the side, somehow, it sounded a little cold.
The next second, the person who was originally standing by the window flew over, wrapped in a cold and hard layer of ice, holding a short ice sword in each hand.
"You are not Lin Wu." An ice sword was placed on his neck, and an ice sword was aimed at his waist.
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