Chapter 653 Wu Yue Upgrades
Wu Yue instantly fell down and rolled to the side, but he ignored the collapsed underground palace not far away. He was caught off guard and fell directly into a pit. With his last look, he saw the huge head of the mutant snake that had fallen into the underground palace sticking out.
The long tongue with a fishy smell rolled towards him, but he dodged and missed it.
The man who was originally hanging on the tree no longer struggled. He punched the snake's head hard. There was no supernatural power of any attribute that was controlled by him, but a burst of energy appeared in the air. As his fist was thrown, it hit the mutant snake's huge head and knocked it to one side.
This was as powerful as the mutant plant just now. Wu Yue was still wondering when someone with such a strong ability appeared in their base when he landed. But then he heard a suppressed roar of pain, "Hide——!"
There was a "crunching" sound, which was the sound of bones being crushed.
Wu Yue's eyes suddenly widened, and without caring about anything, he immediately controlled the land to send him back to the ground. The man who originally had a chance of survival was swallowed by the mutant giant snake, and his tall and strong figure only formed a human-shaped bulge under its head.
In contrast, the mutant snake's abdomen seemed to be carrying a huge fetus, a ball-like protrusion several meters long, which made it move extremely slowly. The snake's body slid across the ground, making a hissing sound and leaving deep marks on the ground.
Wu Yue pinched himself tightly with trembling hands, blood dripping from his fingertips and completely blending into the soil and disappearing.
He buried his head between his walls, suppressing the sob in his throat. The only sound he could hear was the slow and harsh sound of the mutant snakes slithering around him.
There was silence all around, with occasional screams. Wu Yue's teeth were grinding, and when he could no longer bear it and was about to give in, a cold hand pressed on his shoulder.
Wu Yue turned his vicious eyes and saw Zhao Gang with only half of his body left. He was dragging Zhao Lei on his back. It was unknown how long he had been hiding here.
Normally, even though he was disabled, he would use his special powers to keep himself clean and take care of his brother like an ordinary person. At this time, his body was covered in blood. He and Zhao Lei's entire bodies were wrapped in the ground, leaving only a small area covered with ice for breathing. This concealed the breath of the two to a large extent, and even though they were so close to the mutant snake, the other party could not discover them.
He shook his head at Wu Yue and said silently, "You can't save them."
"Then I will die with them." Wu Yue gritted his teeth. In this world, death is just a word to them. He doesn't want to die, but he has already prepared himself to die at any time.
"What about the rest of the people?" Zhao Gang asked him, "They need a leader to tell them what to do." Zhou He hasn't come back yet. Zhuang Mingxu is an ordinary person who needs protection from others at the critical moment of life and death. There are people who disobey him at ordinary times. How could anyone listen to him regardless of everything at this time?
Wu Yue did not answer, and Zhao Gang continued, "Maybe they... don't want you to help."
The chewing sound was incessant, sometimes accompanied by suppressed groans, and sometimes screams, but without exception, no one ever asked for help.
Wu Yue had felt more than once that the training of this group of people was unsuccessful and that they were selfish, but at this moment they were able to distinguish the priorities.
This also made captain Wu Yue feel that he could not just stand idly by.
"If I die, please help the rest of the people. If there is a chance to return to Yueban Bay, tell them that I promised to help you heal your brother. They will do it no matter how difficult it is." Wu Yue's eyes were firm. He wanted to do what a captain should do.
Zhao Gang held him down even harder, looking at the underground palace that was already mostly buried, "If... you can upgrade, maybe you can try to drive it away... At worst, you can still lead it away..."
Wu Yue didn't want to upgrade, but the lack of crystal cores meant that he was only one step away from upgrading.
But when he looked in the direction Zhao Gang was looking, the dim light illuminated a small area of the underground palace, and he could clearly see several psychics who had no time to dodge and were crushed underneath by the collapsed underground palace. Some of them had only one foot exposed, and in others, one could vaguely see a head lying on the ground. Without exception, they were already dead.
It took Wu Yue a while to understand what Zhao Gang meant. His eyes widened instantly and he looked at Zhao Gang fiercely.
Zhao Gang looked calm and didn't wait for him to speak, "I'm just saying, this is the fastest way."
"..." Wu Yue said nothing.
He seemed to be split into two people, one was listening to the mutant snake slithering on the ground looking for the traces of the lone psychic, and the other was staring at his dead comrade for a long time.
The time seemed as long as a century, yet it was only a few minutes. Wu Yue made a decision in his heart.
Under the control of his supernatural power, the soil around him took him back to the underground palace. The soil squirmed and spit out the supernatural people buried in it one by one. Some of them had been smashed beyond recognition, while others could still be seen in their appearance before birth.
Wu Yue knelt between them, holding a knife in his hand, and was hesitant to take action.
Tears silently flowed down his face, and his hands were shaking so much that he couldn't even hold the knife steadily.
Zhao Gang came down from above at some point, like a human pig with two hands, standing next to him, leaning on the bones connecting his thighs to his buttocks.
Although he was said to be standing, he was actually the same height as the kneeling Wu Yue. The muscles on his face no longer moved, and it was unknown whether they were necrotic or not, but seemed to be welded to his face and would no longer move with his expression. He was no longer weird, but instead made him look even more gloomy.
"I have absorbed too many crystal cores of superpowers, so there may be problems even if I upgrade. Otherwise, let me take over."
He tried to explain to Wu Yue, but Wu Yue shook his head, his voice as if filled with sand, "I won't let you touch them."
He would not watch anyone destroy the bodies of his comrades, but now he had to be the one to do it.
Zhao Gang didn't say anything, just asked, "Do you need my help?"
After a while, Wu Yue closed his eyes tightly and said, "No need."
The veins on his hand holding the knife were exposed, and he carefully and forcefully reached out towards the forehead of the psychic closest to him.
Not long after a person died, the blood began to become viscous, but it had not yet reached the level of a solid. When the skin and flesh were cut, blood slowly seeped out and moistened the area between the eyebrows.
This is a water-based mutant. If you look closely, the crystal core shows the truest blue of the sky, like a pool of clear sea water.
This feeling is very strange. In fact, there are many unwritten rules in the base. When a psychic teammate dies, their crystal cores will be dug out to prevent them from being eaten by other people or animals. Wu Yue and his team used them to feed the mutant plants on the island, and they didn't find it difficult to do so before.
I don’t know if it’s because the use this time is different, but Wu Yue couldn’t calm down for a long time.
After he had dissected out the crystal cores of nearly a hundred corpses in front of him, Zhao Gang helped him choose the earth element that was more suitable for him, and Wu Yue no longer hesitated at all.
He didn't know if it was psychological factors, but absorbing the psychic's crystal core made Wu Yue feel like he was absorbing another person's soul. He seemed to be able to hear that person's painful howling in his ear, which made his energy become less stable. Fortunately, he was determined and knew that he couldn't fall down at this time. He forcibly absorbed all the earth crystal cores in his hand, and the familiar feeling of upgrading came directly.
"You have to be prepared for the mutant snakes to come over," Zhao Gang reminded.
"I know" The hatred in his eyes made him more determined.
The energy stretched his body and then returned to it. Zhao Gang, who was close to him, was hit far away by the energy and did not cause any fluctuations.
Wu Yue upgraded successfully.
Without having time to adapt to the SS-level energy, Wu Yue immediately manipulated his supernatural powers to walk to the ground, and did not forget to remind Zhao Gang, "The remaining teammates are hiding underground one thousand meters away. I will lead him away and come back as soon as possible."
"Use your special abilities and hide underground," Zhao Gang reminded. After hearing his knowing voice from a distance, his figure disappeared from sight.
Looking at the corpses around him whose crystal cores had been dug out and there was no time to deal with them, Zhao Gang thought again and again, and used his supernatural powers to destroy the half of the underground palace that had not yet collapsed. The collapse buried the corpses again and also covered up this unknown incident.
When Wu Yue returned to the ground, he saw the mutant snake attacking several psychics at a glance. There should be a gathering of wood and fire powers. The crookedly growing giant trees weaved a dense net in front of the mutant snake, blocking the opponent outside. The mutant snake kept hitting it with its head, making dull banging sounds.
Not far away, a tiny fireball flew straight towards the other snake's eyes, but the mutant snake closed its eyes and the fireball landed on the scales of its eyelids. It did not cause any damage, but angered the mutant snake. Even with a big belly, it still wanted to swing its tail and slap that direction.
Wu Yue slapped the ground with both hands, then stood up again. His hands seemed to lift the ground, and the soil was instantly pulled out to form two pillars, which then covered his fists. As Wu Yue approached, a fist condensed from the soil layer swung towards the mutant snake.
There was a clanging sound, as if it hit metal, but the mutant snake's scales were not damaged, and Wu Yue's condensed fist only produced a little dust.
SS-level supernatural powers, even those methods used before, have completely different power now.
Seeing this scene, Wu Yue no longer cared. Rows of locks appeared on the ground along the mutant snake's body, fixing the snake's body to the ground. His two fists kept hitting the mutant snake.
After a while, it turned its attention from the several psychics. It struggled and rolled to break free from the ground, and flexibly flipped over to face Wu Yue. It stared at him with a pair of cold eyes, and after it finished speaking, it kept swallowing and spitting out its tongue towards him.
Once again, its body was fixed by the buckle that appeared on the ground. The mutant snake suddenly jumped towards Wu Yue, as fast as an arrow. Unfortunately, its round belly that had not yet digested its prey became a burden, causing it to fall back to the ground in mid-air.
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