Chapter 89 The Fungal Remains Frenzy 50 An Unexpected Turn of Events.
The two powerful enemies who had previously joined forces to besiege Nanmen Jue are now chasing each other, the pursuer furious, vowing never to let him harm her...
This unexpected scene left Nanmen Jue dumbfounded. Watching the two chase each other into the distance, she followed without thinking.
"Hey!" she yelled from behind, "Who controls these parasites? If you don't want to fight me, can you at least tell them to back off?!"
But the two people in front of her were chasing after her so enthusiastically that no one paid any attention to her.
So a hilarious scene unfolded in the horde of zombies: three people chasing each other, running for their lives.
Two orange names and one mutated gold name—this display could scare any passing reincarnator to death.
As Nanmen Jue chased after them, she got a little angry. She took out a small flashbang, which she had taken from Hao Hong's group earlier, and swung it at the two men.
Although the flashbang was small, it was extremely powerful, illuminating the entire sky. Even the people on the distant base walls couldn't help but turn their heads in this direction.
Yu Wanyan stopped, but Cheng Xiuye didn't. He ran wildly into the distance, as if a ghost was chasing him.
Nanmen Jue leaped onto an abandoned car in front of Yu Wanyan, looking down at Yu Wanyan sitting on the puppet's shoulder, his eyes slightly narrowed.
She felt a murderous intent, but now was not the right time to act.
A few low-level parasites passed by, and when they saw the two of them walking this way, Yu Wanyan took out a small bottle that looked like a perfume bottle and sprayed it around a few times. The parasites stopped a short distance away, tilted their heads in confusion, and then walked past them as if they hadn't seen them.
Yu Wanyan didn't explain what it was, and Nanmen Jue didn't ask either. Looking at the little girl's smiling eyes, she twitched her fingers, a habitual action she took when she took out the white bone knife.
Yu Wanyan glanced at her hand, her smile fading with displeasure. "I don't even care that you're not living up to your name, so why are you still thinking about killing me?"
Nanmen Jue was both amused and exasperated: "Then I should thank you?"
“Shouldn’t you have stopped him? If I hadn’t stopped you, you would have been in big trouble today.” Yu Wanyan pointed in the direction Cheng Xiuye left. “He’s not quite used to the changes in his body yet, but Jin Ming is still Jin Ming. You have no chance against him.”
Nanmen Jue didn't respond to her question, "Why are you helping me?"
This was truly a puzzling matter; Nanmen Jue had only asked the question, but she actually managed to answer it.
This sixteen-year-old girl's every move was astonishing; it was impossible to fathom what she was thinking.
“I told you, I wanted to see you become a gold name again,” the girl said, muttering under her breath, “Who knew you really were a gold name… I thought you were just an orange name, and I was thinking that Cheng Xiuyebai would suffer a big loss by using an item, but it turned out that he really took your level away.”
Nanmen Jue was somewhat taken aback. She looked at the girl with a strange gaze. "What exactly do you want?"
"Are you deaf?" Yu Wanyan suddenly got angry. "I've already said, I want to see you become Jin Ming again!"
"But why?" Nanmen Jue wasn't worried at all about her suddenly losing her temper. "We're enemies. What good would it do you if I became Jin Ming?"
"I'm willing, I'm willing, I'm willing, isn't that enough!" Yu Wanyan frowned. "It's so annoying, why do you have to ask? Even if I like you, don't think you can nag me all you want."
Nanmen Jue glanced at her, silently turned around, jumped off the roof of the car, and walked away without hesitation.
Yu Wanyan paused for a moment, then rode her puppet to catch up. "You're just leaving like that?"
“I don’t want to fight with you right now, and I don’t get any answers to my questions. What’s the point of staying here with you to admire the stars?” Nanmen Jue said. “I’m a bit busy, so I can’t keep you company.”
Yu Wanyan suddenly stopped, and Nanmen Jue also stopped and turned to look. The little girl was biting her lip and glaring at her with a bit of grievance.
Nanmen Jue didn't tolerate her at all and turned to leave again. Yu Wanyan endured it for a while, then suddenly jumped off the puppet. At her command, the puppet shot towards Nanmen Jue like an arrow.
How could Nanmen Jue trust the enemy to expose her back? The moment the puppet moved, she reacted, dodging to the side while ignoring the puppet's renewed attack. A white bone blade appeared in her hand, and she charged straight at Yu Wanyan with incredible speed.
It was clear from the previous battles that Yu Wanyan herself did have combat power, but she was weaker than her puppets. The best way to deal with a puppeteer is always to directly attack the weakest puppeteer herself!
Yu Wanyan was clearly not facing this situation for the first time. She reacted quickly to the fierce attack, summoning back the puppet while dodging. However, Nanmen Jue was faster than the puppet. Before the puppet could arrive, she watched helplessly as the tip of the white bone blade came to her face, just a hair's breadth away from piercing her eye socket!
Yu Wanyan's pupils contracted sharply. In that instant, Nanmen Jue's killing intent was so intense and dangerous that she had no doubt that the tip of the knife would pierce her eyes and penetrate her brain. Nanmen Jue had always been a ruthless person.
Yu Wanyan wouldn't normally be this fragile, but she was defeated by underestimating Nanmen Jue's explosive power. She thought that because Cheng Xiuye had stolen her level, Nanmen Jue was much weaker now, just like Cheng Xiuye before, and his threat to her had greatly decreased. However, she didn't expect that personal willpower would play such a crucial role in the battle. The same level data was able to unleash even greater power on Nanmen Jue, and that sharp killing intent swept towards her.
Suddenly, Nanmen Jue turned the blade around, pointing the tip at himself, and then kicked Yu Wanyan away.
If they don't kick her out, she'll be injured by the remaining blade.
Because of this action, Nanmen Jue was unable to completely avoid the puppet that followed her. She could only raise her arm to take the blow head-on, and the powerful metallic force almost dislocated her shoulder.
However, the puppet did not continue its attack.
Only a puppeteer can stop a puppet. Nanmen Jue did not continue the pursuit. He stopped and saw Yu Wanyan, who had rolled around a few times and looked a bit disheveled, standing up and glaring fiercely at Nanmen Jue.
"Why didn't you just kill me? You clearly had a chance just now."
"You helped me this time, so I'll spare you this time. We're even now," Nanmen Jue said coldly. "Next time, if I can kill you, I won't hold back."
After saying that, Nanmen Jue turned and left, this time leaving with unusual decisiveness.
Yu Wanyan stood still, staring at her back, her eyes shifting between anger, shame, infatuation, and confusion... She still didn't move.
...
Just as Nanmen Jue had predicted, without Yu Wanyan and Cheng Xiuye's interference, even though there were quite a few of these low-level parasites, the quarantine facility was, after all, the largest human base and the current military and political center. Under the suppression of heavy firepower, by the time Nanmen Jue returned to the city walls, the parasite group had already lost much of its power.
She easily dispatched a few slightly more advanced parasites, their corpses piling up at the foot of the city wall, forming a high platform. She used this platform for leverage and leaped onto the city wall.
A group of people were gathered in a circle on the city wall, seemingly having a heated discussion. Nanmen Jue's sudden appearance startled everyone, and they all turned around and stared at her intently.
Jiang Li and Jin Jian were among them, their eyes burning with intense desire as they looked at her.
Nanmen Jue looked down at himself; his clothes were intact, not torn. "What happened?"
"Boss!" Jin Jian rushed over, unable to contain his excitement. "You're really alright!"
As soon as Nanmen Jue jumped down, Jin Jian guessed what she was going to do. Nanmen Jue, who couldn't bear to see the natives die, knew that she was definitely going to deal with the A-level parasite alone, either to kill it or to lure it away.
But Jiang Li didn't believe it, and neither did any of the natives in the base. They couldn't believe that someone could single-handedly deal with an A-level parasite, and even trying to lure it away didn't work, so at first no one took it seriously.
However, as the energy symbolizing advanced power receded into the distance, everyone gradually became dumbfounded.
Before Nanmen Jue returned, they were having a heated discussion about whether Nanmen Jue had actually done it, and whether they needed to make any countermeasures.
Nanmen Jue understood and said decisively, "It should be alright for now."
At first, she guessed that the siege was orchestrated by Cheng Xiuye, but she wasn't sure. She went alone to quickly eliminate Cheng Xiuye or some parasite, but in the end, she actually confirmed it was Cheng Xiuye, and even identified Cheng Xiuye as the parasite...
Is it because he is currently experiencing a distorted energy leak, or because he has actually been infected?
Putting the question aside for the time being, and seeing the strange looks from everyone, Nanmen Jue thought they didn't believe that the A-level person had left. Just as she was wondering whether she should try to persuade them, an old man walked forward shakily, bent his knees, and knelt down in front of her!
Nanmen Jue was dumbfounded, but the distance was a bit far and her arms couldn't reach that far. Fortunately, Jiang Li was right there and helped the old man up.
"You scared me!" Nanmen Jue breathed a sigh of relief. "That's going to shorten my lifespan."
The old man was still a little unhappy after being helped up. He raised his cane and tapped Jiang Li twice. Jiang Li didn't dodge and just took it, with a helpless expression on his face.
"Why are you stopping me? Why are you stopping me? I want to express my gratitude to my benefactor!"
The old man looked unsteady on his feet, yet his voice was surprisingly strong. Jiang Li's expression grew even more helpless, but he still held the old man tightly, quickly explaining to Nanmen Jue between breaths, "This is the previous mayor. He was very grateful to you for risking your life to deal with that parasite... How did you manage to do that?"
Her gaze toward Nanmen Jue was filled with awe, just like everyone else present. Although she knew Nanmen Jue was quite strong, it was hard for human imagination to believe that someone could actually fight against a high-level parasite.
They even returned completely unharmed!
"I didn't engage him; he ran away on his own." Nanmen Jue's words weren't exactly a lie, but everyone clearly didn't believe him.
Not just the frail old man, but everyone swarmed around her, surrounding her completely. Words of awe and gratitude overwhelmed her, even pushing Jin Jian, who was standing to the side, out of the way.
In the end, Jiang Li rescued Nanmen Jue. The two went to a relatively secluded corner of the city wall, where Nanmen Jue felt uncomfortable being stared at by Jiang Li's many eyes.
"Don't look at me like that, it really isn't me," Nanmen Jue said helplessly.
“Whether you did it or not, the fact that you dared to go out and find it alone shows that you are at least confident in dealing with it,” Jiang Li said.
"I'm not entirely confident either," Nanmen Jue said sincerely.
Jiang Li shook his head, not wanting to argue with her about it. "The quarantine facility owes you a huge favor. I'll help you with whatever you want to do in the future."
Nanmen Jue's heart stirred. With this promise from the quarantine center, she might be able to do her a great favor in the future. As for whether she would need it, it would naturally disappear after she left this world, so there was no need to worry too much.
So she stopped refusing and accepted the "repayment".
With the biggest crisis resolved, Jiang Li's expression softened. She looked at the situation gradually coming under control below the city wall, her eyes filled with determination.
Nanmen Jue looked at her, originally intending to leave without saying goodbye, but then quietly said, "I'm leaving."
Jiang Li suddenly turned her head, seemingly about to ask him to stay, but Nanmen Jue blocked her way and said, "Sister Jiang, remember this in the future: never easily trust people who exhibit strength that doesn't seem to fit human characteristics, like me."
Jiang Li was stunned. She seemed to read some terrifying information from Nanmen Jue's serious expression, and her face turned pale.
Seeing her expression, Nanmen Jue understood. "You've had that suspicion too, haven't you?"
Jiang Li's lips trembled, and fear showed in his eyes. "...When Nanmen Yu was still here, there was a man who was the president of the First Hospital. He was someone we all knew, but after the apocalypse broke out, he passed by us. He and Nanmen Yu did not recognize each other."
Nanmen Jue understood; this dean must be another reincarnator.
“They should have had a very good relationship. Nanmen Yu was a student personally mentored by Dean Li; they were the kind of people who would answer a phone call even at midnight,” Jiang Li said slowly. “But Dean Li not only didn’t recognize Nanmen Yu anymore, he also tried to kill her. I heard him say…”
Nanmen Jue listened intently, "What did you say?"
“…He said, ‘You can exchange it for two thousand points…’” Jiang Li stared at Nanmen Jue’s expression. “You can understand what he means by that sentence.”
Nanmen Jue's face suddenly turned extremely frightening, and he made no attempt to conceal it.
That old man was not only a reincarnator, but also probably a notorious villain with a red name. As soon as he came in, he set his sights on the older sister, who was a woman, and wanted to turn her into a corpse and take her out to collect points.
But the result was obvious: the older sister didn't die, so she asked indifferently, "And then did he die?"
Jiang Li's eyes changed slightly, and he nodded, "He was killed by Nanmen Yu himself. He died a terrible death, and his body and limbs were not found."
Upon hearing this, Nanmen Jue finally smiled, a smile that was exceptionally bright, yet sent a chill down one's spine.
“Yes, it’s people like us, including myself and Cheng Xiuye.” Nanmen Jue paused for a moment, “Especially when people you used to know suddenly become strangers, don’t doubt your intuition.”
Jiang Li's body trembled slightly, and his face turned pale.
"After that... will anyone still be able to trust me?" She tried her best to remain calm, but she couldn't help looking around with a panicked look in her eyes. It was as if the world she had grown up in had suddenly become unfamiliar. Looking around, she couldn't believe that anyone was there. Every face could be torn open at any moment and turn into a man-eating demon.
Nanmen Jue sighed softly, said nothing more, but held her hand tightly and whispered, "Take care."
She turned her head and saw Jin Jian waiting for her not far away. Receiving Nanmen Jue's signal, he followed her and the two went down the side stairs and disappeared on the city wall.
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