Chapter 66
The bullet missed.
Ren Jian leaned slightly to the right, and the bullet grazed his shoulder.
How could that be?
Qin Nian's arm went numb from the recoil of the gun, and he quickly fired another shot, this time hitting Ren Jian's left shoulder.
Ren Jian rushed up to him and kicked Qin Nian to the ground.
"I originally intended to spare your life, but now it seems unnecessary."
A small opening appeared in Ren Jian's palm, like the mouth of something, with teeth inside. This was his talent—devouring.
Ren Jian can devour other people's talents, but can only use one at a time, and the next talent devoured will overwrite the previous one.
The talent he used to dodge the bullets was the one he had absorbed last time—foresight, which allows him to predict deadly dangers. If he could use only one of these talents, he wouldn't have let Qin Nian live.
Qin Nian's mask had been knocked off, and a hand with teeth approached his forehead. He struggled desperately, but was choked and pressed to the ground.
Just like the outcome of his repeated escapes in the garden.
But he can't die now; he hasn't finished repaying his debt to that person.
Qin Nian bit down on Ren Jian's wrist like a hyena, or perhaps he was one to begin with.
The two men wrestled together. Neither of them had offensive talents, so they chose the most primitive way of fighting—hand-to-hand combat.
Meanwhile, Xiao Shengyun was mixed in with a group of corrupted individuals, and the battle with the guards was nearing its end.
Unlike the last team fight, where Zhou Zhi wanted the pollutants to kill each other, weakening the enemy significantly, this time his teammates are all idiots who can only yell. Si Shi can control these pollutants, but he can't fully utilize their strength. It's like manipulating puppets; some people can make the puppets act, while others can only make them move.
Those polluters who were under control were quickly killed.
Xiao Shengyun could only fight against more than a dozen awakened individuals alone.
After the person in charge of defense died, the battle became much easier, and he moved through the crowd.
The exertion was too great, and every inch of my skin and bones was showing signs of exhaustion.
This battle is even worse than the last one. There are no pollutants for him to eat here, and the amount of source matter in a human body is like mosquito meat.
Xiao Shengyun dodged several enemy bullets and retreated behind a group of corrupted individuals, when he suddenly tripped over something.
It was a corpse.
At this moment, there was a contaminant on the corpse: the pupilless eyeball. Its owner was dead, and it had detached from its owner's eye socket.
He licked his dry lips; in this state, the thing felt like a small piece of pastry to fill a tooth gap.
Useful, but not much.
Perhaps sensing the danger, its eyes darted around.
If you put this in your eyes...
An absurd thought arose in Xiao Shengyun's mind. Before watching that performance, pollutants were food in his eyes, but now, if he could press the pollutants onto his body, he could use their abilities.
It can be eaten directly after use.
Use it first, then eat it.
Its eyeballs were bouncing around, and before it could even figure out what was going on, it was entangled by a tentacle.
Xiao Shengyun put the thing directly into his eye socket.
Even if both are pollutants, according to the principle of like dissolves like, he adapts faster than the pollutant.
The field of vision became clearer, or rather, slower.
The attacks of everyone in front of him were slowed down, and he could see almost every detail on the battlefield.
Amidst the chaos, unseen threads slipped through the gaps in the attacks, silently appearing behind the guards.
Then, a single blow kills.
With this kind of cheat-like gold-level assistance, the subsequent battles basically become easy.
Except after pressing his eyeball back into its socket for the twelfth time, Xiao Shengyun was getting a little impatient.
The pollutants are ultimately incompatible with this body, unless he reverts to his original form.
After taking countless punches, Qin Nian wiped the blood from his face. His eyes had also been hit, and his vision was somewhat blurred.
Ren Jian's arm was stuck on him. He turned his head and saw a gun three meters away.
Qin Nian raised his foot to kick Ren Jian, but the latter easily dodged it. However, he took advantage of the gap to get up and run towards the gun.
倏—
Something attacked from behind, but it was too late for him to dodge.
The dagger didn't pierce his chest; it was stopped by someone.
Si Shi killed the "Giant Strength" Awakener, but the bones in his tail must have been completely shattered. He endured the excruciating pain and climbed ashore, just in time to see Ren Jian holding a dagger and stabbing Qin Nian.
Si Shi crashed headfirst into Ren Jian, and the dagger flew out of his hand.
"You—" Qin Nian stared at the mermaid, who was almost covered in blood, and froze on the spot.
"Kill him!" The mermaid's voice was no longer clear and melodious, but filled with hoarseness and pain.
Qin Nian picked up the dagger that had just been thrown away and stabbed it directly into Ren Jian's chest.
He died.
All the nightmares vanished at that moment.
"Qin Nian, is that you?" Si Shi asked in a hoarse voice, seemingly in disbelief.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Qin Nian's knees buckled, and he knelt on the ground. He couldn't bear to look at the other person's scarred fish tail.
He was the one who attached the fish tail to Si Shi.
He watched as Si Shi was tortured by the people in the lab, but didn't recognize him.
He recalled what Si Shi looked like in the past, but Si Shi had changed a lot after becoming a mermaid. He could only deceive himself again and again, telling himself that it wasn't the person he remembered.
Qin Nian dared not acknowledge him, for fear of seeing the pain in his eyes.
He continued to lie in the shadows, plotting to kill Ren Jian and the organization behind him, in order to avenge Si Shi.
But to his surprise, Si Shi made his move first.
When Xiao Shengyun killed all the guards, what he saw was the two of them hugging and crying together.
To be precise, it was Qin Nian who was holding Si Shi and crying, while Si Shi lay on the ground, her long fish tail limp and slumped on the ground.
He was delirious from the pain of his fractured coccyx, but he still held the person in front of him tightly.
The long night finally passed, and the first rays of sunlight shone on the battlefield.
"Don't cry, I think Si Shi needs treatment right now."
Xiao Shengyun took out his phone. The banquet was over, and the hotel's signal jamming had disappeared. He reported directly to the action department, thinking that he could make arrests while some guests were still there.
"Thank you." Qin Nian originally wanted to express his gratitude, but he was first scared half to death by the pupil-less eyes in Xiao Shengyun's eyes. He didn't know what he was thinking, but tears started flowing again.
Xiao Shengyun tried to take out the Eye Without Pupil, but after thinking about it, he realized it was even more frightening.
"Could you fuse this with my body?"
Xiao Shengyun asked, "This thing works quite well; it would be great if we could equip it directly."
"Huh? Let me try." Qin Nian reached out his hand, and Xiao Shengyun instantly felt a warm current appear on his optic nerves, which began to try to connect with the Eye Without Pupil.
Wait, something doesn't seem right?
A sharp pain shot through his eyes; his human body repelled the pupilless eye, followed by a sensation in his brain as if he were being pricked with needles.
It felt like something inside my body was about to burst forth.
"How are you feeling? If you're not feeling well, just say so—"
Before he could finish speaking, the sound of clothes being torn came. Qin Nian watched as the human in front of him grew a long snake tail marked with blue patterns, and huge wings that were two meters long spread out behind him, almost covering his entire body.
When he realized what had happened, Xiao Shengyun froze.
To make matters worse, because of the message he sent, the operations department has already sent people over.
"How dare you act without our permission? I'm going to report this to the captain when I get back." Huang Yu and Chen Buyan stormed up and saw Xiao Shengyun's expression.
"What happened? Was it that masked guy who did it? Where is he? I'll kill him right now!" Huang Yu cried out, hugging Xiao Shengyun.
Xiao Shengyun and Qin Nian exchanged a glance. Although Qin Nian didn't know how things had turned out this way, the other party was still his savior, so he quickly came up with a flawless explanation.
He and Si Shi wanted to kill the mastermind, but they were outnumbered. Xiao Shengyun tried to save them, but was captured by Ren Jian's men.
Ren Jian devoured his talent, and then, in order to take revenge on the undercover agent of the Operations Department, he cruelly conducted a fusion experiment on Xiao Shengyun and other pollutants, but unexpectedly he was killed by the other party and Si Shi.
Ren Jian is already dead, so this explanation is almost flawless; the dead are the most effective at settling accounts.
As for how the other party will transform back into human form, that's up to them to decide.
But when it comes to making up stories, if you want to, you can always come up with something.
Xiao Shengyun patted Huang Yu's head comfortingly. This situation was truly beyond his expectations. The fusion was one reason, but more importantly, the source essence in his body was depleted, leaving him with no strength to maintain his human form.
If he cannot retrieve the source core, he can only maintain this form to reduce energy consumption.
Fortunately, someone else took the blame, so he didn't have to rack his brains to come up with an excuse.
Huang Yu howled even louder.
Although I had anticipated this scenario, I still felt a little awkward in front of the people from the operations team.
"You brat, I asked you to go on a mission, and this is how it turned out."
Captain Ye, lost in thought, also had tears welling up in his eyes.
Xiao Shengyun: "..."
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