Chapter 47 Reunion "Sister."
Xu Nuo ran barefoot on the scorching sand, wearing only underwear, with scrapes and wounds all over his exposed limbs.
Behind him, a bug-like mutant twisted its legs and approached quickly.
She raised her hand, and her spirit materialized into a blade that cut downwards, but the mutant was incredibly agile, and it easily dodged the attack by simply swimming and climbing up the collapsed ruins on its eight legs.
A-level myriapods possess exceptional innate speed and possess a mouthpart on each head and tail. The antennae above these mouthparts can analyze the scent of prey in the air and predict its location based on changes in scent. These antennae also serve as a means of attack. Once they penetrate their prey, they secrete venom that penetrates the skin, dissolving into the flesh and then ingesting it through their two mouthparts.
Xu Nuo didn't expect that he was so unlucky. He encountered an A-level centipede before reaching the core area.
She could at least give any other A-rank combat mutant a fight, but they would fly away if she couldn't defeat them. However, the centipede had no vision and was acutely aware of its prey's state. If she tried to enlarge Little Gu to join the fight, the centipede would pounce in an instant.
She could only rely on her psychotentacles to cover up the smell and run away on her own.
It had been two days since she entered the desert. It was now noon on the third day. Reversing her wrong route, she had arrived in the middle of the contaminated area. She was thirsty and hungry and could hardly hold on.
If she didn't possess the physique of an evolved human, she would have died of exhaustion from the high-intensity exercise and the extreme temperature difference between day and night.
She was a little impulsive when she decided to enter the contaminated area alone, but then she thought that if she was caught and brought back, she would probably be thrown into the contaminated area by Zhou Xuanyi, and there was no guarantee that they would send her directly to the core area.
Xu Nuo had no intention of entering the core area. Qi Qian, being an S-rank Sentinel, must possess the ability to sense things from a very long distance. In his prime, he would have likely spotted her the moment she reached the edge, but given the situation at the time, Fino had severely injured him, and it was unknown if he had recovered.
She could only wander around the central region for as long as possible, make some noise, and tell him that she had escaped. Even if he didn't show up - it would be best if he didn't show up, then she could leave. This way, she would be outside of Fino's plan and both of them could feel at ease.
“Ga ga ga…”
As his thoughts were swirling, he saw the centipede catching up with him like a piece of gummy candy. Xu Nuo made up his mind, ran forward, and rolled to the side.
The massive body of the centipede leaped past her. Its limbs were flexible and its reactions were swift, almost slamming to a halt on both legs. One mouthpart was still thrusting forward, while the other had bent at a strange angle and was stabbing at her neck.
Xu Nuo concentrated all his mental strength on his hands and grabbed the two tentacles that were coming towards him.
His hands immediately felt a burning pain, and blood began to ooze out the moment of contact. The poisoning spread from his hands to his arms, and the severe pain caused by the poison was like a piercing needle piercing his heart from his fingertips.
Xu Nuo shuddered in pain and his vision went black.
She gritted her teeth, screamed, and the mental power concentrated in her hands materialized. She pulled outward along with her arms. Under the severe pain of the poison and the effect of adrenaline, she actually broke off the tentacles as thick as two legs.
A large amount of venom sprayed out from the broken tentacles. Xu Nuo used all his strength to throw himself to the side, rolled a few times and fell to the ground.
The big bug was flapping and twisting around, perhaps out of pain or discomfort, and it was kicking up a lot of sand and dust.
Xu Nuo was already exhausted, but the other head was not dealt with yet - seeing the centipede spinning its body and its intact pair of tentacles stabbing at him, his will to survive erupted again, and the little mental strength he had left gathered again, condensing into a heavy hammer in the air, and smashing hard into the centipede's head.
The guide is an extremely attractive tonic for the mutants, but the guide's mental power is "highly poisonous" to the mutants.
The small hammer smashed towards the head, and the purifying effect of the mental power broke through the defense. It continued to purify and remove pollution during the falling process, until the hammer hit the mouthparts, directly smashing the entire head of the centipede into the sand.
Xu Nuo's chest heaved violently, her mental strength dried up, and her body trembled uncontrollably. Even though the corpse of an A-level mutant was right next to her, which might attract other mutants, she could only lie on the ground like this.
Suddenly, a strong spiritual power spread in the air.
Her dried-up body madly absorbed these spiritual energies, which restored her strength a little. She turned her head and saw the blue flames faintly dissipating behind the mouthparts of the millipede.
"This thing has a pretty high drop rate." She muttered.
After a moment's pause, Xu Nuo forced himself to stand up stumblingly.
She panted and said to the little Gu on her shoulder: "Today is the most tiring and painful day since I came into this world."
"Huh... Class A pollution zone, well-deserved reputation."
"But who knows? I, a B-level guide, killed an A-level mutant, right in the mutant's homeland. Who would believe this? Those sentinels would probably go crazy."
She wiped the sweat from her forehead, not realizing her vision was blurry. "So, guides have an innate advantage in combat. They can easily break through mutants' defenses and can also purify themselves. No matter how badly injured they are, as long as, as long as they're alive..."
"And then, this B-level just now, upgraded to..."
Little Gu stood on her shoulder, chirping along with her. Sometimes he flew onto the girl's blackened arm and pecked at it, and sometimes he looked into the distance and flapped his wings anxiously.
Xu Nuo's language system seemed to be in chaos. He stood there shaking his head. His foot turned in the air and fell back to where it was.
"Where did you go? Strange... Where's Qi Qian? Qi Qian! Get out here!"
"You little heartless guy, you actually lied to me. I hate being lied to the most!"
"If I don't beat you up when I see you, I'm not your sister! Qi Qian, Qi Qian!"
Her cries grew louder, and as the dust cleared, the stench of death and decay, a Class A mutant, grew stronger. Little Gu began circling her, chirping in different directions, a warning signal.
"Qi Qian! Qi Qian!"
Her strength was exhausted once again, and she fell to her knees. The burning sand made her conscious for a moment: "Xiao Gu, I seem to be poisoned... I..."
Under the influence of the poison, her vision became increasingly blurred. The scorching sun and the scorching sand became her death warrant, making her likely to collapse at any time.
"Xiaogu, am I...?"
"want……"
Dead.
The sand gradually became quiet, with only the rustling sound of wind and sand. The next moment, the unconscious girl fell into his arms.
The young man knelt on one knee, supported her neck, and put his other hand through her legs to pick her up by the waist.
He looked around the battlefield, and black air swept out of his body, instantly devouring the remains of the centipede.
After seeing him, the bird finally calmed down and circled around the two of them.
It felt a little timid when it saw the black energy surging around him, but after thinking for a moment with its small head, it decided to follow its master's heart and found a place to stand on his shoulder.
The young man carried a man and a bird as he moved towards the center. Wherever he passed, the mutants that had been following the scent of the rotten corpses and the guide and hiding in the dark retreated like a tide, leaving an exaggerated boundary between them and him.
They soon reached the core area.
Compared with the outside world, the presence of living things here is very weak, and even A-level mutants are rare.
It wasn't that they didn't want to occupy such a large territory, but there had once been something even more terrifying living here. However, that thing fought hard with the new creature for dozens of days and was eventually devoured by it.
The core area now held a strange human aura, surging with destructive pollution. No mutant dared to set foot here—for if they did, the overwhelming black energy would instantly tear them apart.
When Xu Nuo woke up again, it was night again.
He was covered in fur of some unknown species, with the moonlit night above him and a rickety iron bed beneath him.
Still in the contaminated area?
She rolled over and got out of bed, but her legs went limp and she fell headfirst onto the ground.
She was only wearing underwear, her mental strength still not recovered, and she shivered in the cold desert night. She rolled and crawled, pulling off the fur to cover herself. Sitting there in a daze, hugging the fur, Xu Nuo's eyes fell on the ruins in the distance.
There are even more ruins here, with even the wreckage of buildings several meters high stuck in the sand. Broken furniture, tables and chairs, and garbage fragments are everywhere. It seems that this was a residential area before the chaos.
She stayed in a building with only a few low walls sticking into the ground. Other furs and various waste products were deliberately placed next to the iron bed, and there was even a well-preserved wooden table.
Is this... nesting behavior?
Is she in some mutant's lair?
This thought made Xu Nuo ignore his still weak legs and force himself to get up, but as soon as his skin touched the cold air outside, he involuntarily shivered back into the warmth.
When Qi Qian came back with a few relatively intact clothes, he saw the girl wrapped in fur, holding the broken knife he had picked up, and retreating stealthily.
She stepped back in front of him, her soft hair touching his arm. Qi Qian closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again, his eyes calm and he said softly, "Sister."
Suddenly a voice was heard, and Xu Nuo was like a frightened bird. He threw away his fur to protect the back of his neck and turned around to swing his knife.
With the broken knife against his neck, Qi Qian didn't even blink, but just handed over the clothes.
Caught off guard, Xu Nuo looked at the familiar face and was in a trance for a moment.
He... is Qi Qian?
His face was exactly the same as Wei Yan's before, with slightly twisted eyebrows, sharp and narrow eyes, a high nose bone, and lips with a little light red lip beads and a superior curvature... Such facial features were impeccable, but too cold and sharp, and with the murderous aura around him, he gave off an aura that kept strangers away.
But Wei Yan's pupils were dark, while his were clearly bright green, and his lips were more rosy. These two vivid colors diluted the momentum brought by his facial features, and actually made his eyebrows and eyes look a little softer.
Qi Qian lowered his eyebrows obediently and looked at her calmly. His bright green eyes gradually overlapped with the little boy in his memory who kept chasing after her and stumbling and calling her sister.
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