Chapter 72 Split
"Xiao Yue, my hand is injured." Major Jiang walked towards Zhang Yue and held up his bloody arm for her to see. "The aberrant beasts at the bottom of the mine love alien blood the most. I'm afraid I can't leave here."
Zhang Yue took a few quick steps to distance himself from him.
"Even after all this, you still won't forgive me?" Major Jiang's voice was filled with despair. "Xiao Yue, is it only if I die that you can forgive me?"
Zhang Yue pursed her lips with an expressionless face. She hurried forward, trying to distance herself from Major Jiang, and almost bumped into the warden who had stopped.
Then, his eyes widened, "What is this?"
The gray rat peeked out for a moment and then retracted its head. "It should be the Red Flame Bone Pit. I heard they say that one of the passages leading from the middle level to the lower level passes through a pit called the Red Flame Bone. There are many bones in it, which can be combined to form various bone beasts."
The pit in front is about five meters deep and ten meters wide. There are densely packed colorful bones at the bottom of the pit. These bones are not all human bones. There are densely packed fine holes on each bone, like exhaust vents.
These bones squirmed at the bottom of the pit and formed themselves into various bone beasts.
The bones at the bottom of the pit were densely packed, layer upon layer. There were so many of them, the pile was at least a meter high. These bones seemed tireless, constantly busily assembling themselves, fighting each other, being beaten to pieces by their companions, and then reassembling...
Zhang Yue asked the gray rats: "Do they have consciousness?"
"Yes, they can attack people." The gray mouse said, "Don't underestimate them, they are very scary."
"It's scary as hell." Major Jiang walked over calmly and said to Jiang He, "0112, give me the Earth Beast. I want to kill it!"
His voice was filled with gnashing teeth, as if he wanted to tear the Earth Beast into pieces. He even added, "If it weren't for you just now, I would have killed it."
These noble gentlemen who lived in greenhouses were terribly naive. The gray mouse shifted its body, putting some distance between itself and him.
Jiang He was observing the various bones at the bottom of the pit. Upon hearing this, he handed the earth beast in his hand to Major Jiang.
The earth beast opened its mouth so wide that it seemed as if it could swallow his head. Major Jiang could not see the teeth in the earth beast's mouth, but the heart-wrenching pain when it chewed his hand was unmistakable.
Suddenly, the Earth Beast hit him in the face and frightened him so much that he screamed and stepped back.
Jiang He waved the Earth Beast in front of him before throwing it into the Red Flame Bone.
The Earth Beast screamed in fear when it was thrown out. Before it could fall to the bottom of the pit, it was jumped up by one of the Bone Beasts. The densely packed holes and drill-like insects on the Bone Beast's body stuck to the Earth Beast and were swallowed up in an instant.
"What came out of those dense holes on the Bone Beast?" Zhang Yue asked the Gray Rat in astonishment. "They, they ate up all the Earth Beast in an instant."
"Corpse worms," the warden said. "These bones are infested with worms. They'll crawl out when they encounter living things."
Not only Zhang Yue's face was pale, but even Major Jiang's face was pale, and he even forgot to settle the score with Jiang He.
Jiang He turned around and asked Gray Rat, "Do you know how to get through the Red Flame Bone Pit?"
"There's a pungent, fragrant stone that, when applied to the body, will keep these bones away from people." The gray mouse said, "There are deformed people selling this, but I didn't know you were coming here today, so I didn't prepare anything."
"There's another way," Gray Rat continued, "The fragrant stone is very expensive, and most people can't afford it. They can crush the Jun stone and apply it all over their body, then hold their breath and walk through the bottom of the pit. These red flame bones will not attack..."
Jiang He nodded, took a step back, and found that there was almost no Jun on the surrounding walls.
It seems that most people will use the last method of the gray squirrel.
Seeing Jiang He had already started looking for Jun, Gray Rat added, "If you want to be absolutely sure, crush the Jun and stir it with urine..."
Before he finished speaking, the warden said in disgust, "Don't use such a disgusting method."
Gray Mouse: "Okay."
The warden stood beside Zhang Yue and asked her, "Why don't you care about your fiancé?"
Zhang Yue pursed her lips and did not respond, nor did she look at Major Jiang.
Major Jiang said to the warden, "Yingxue, at this moment, it's most important that we work together. Please stop sowing discord."
The atmosphere between the three of them was very strange, but whether it was Hui Shu or Jiang He, they were both walking forward, looking for Jun Shi seriously, and no one paid any attention to them.
Gray Rat said to Jiang He, "No wonder it's so spacious here. Jundu must have been dug out."
Jiang He nodded.
Gray Mouse looked at him secretly and saw that he looked calm, so he asked in a low voice, "Baba, are you really going to look for Brown Bear?"
Jiang He asked him, "What?"
Gray Mouse: "None of the three of them are suitable to stay here. I want to take them away."
"Oh." Jiang He: "Okay."
Gray Mouse strangely sensed a sense of relief in Baba's calm response.
Baba wouldn't think that his departure is like getting rid of a big burden, right?
After walking for a while, they met a few people from the previous two teams. Their melee was over, but no one got the crystal core of the level 5 colorful scale fish. They even opened their companions' stomachs but still couldn't find it.
Someone said, "It must be Iron Fist Tyrant who took away the Colorful Scale Fish Crystal Core." Everyone in the melee suddenly realized what was going on and the chaos finally ended. They looked at the corpses of their friends and companions on the ground and felt extremely sad.
Seeing Jiang He at this moment, their eyes instantly turned red, and they gritted their teeth, wishing they could cut Jiang He in half right there.
The leader asked Jiang He, "Do you have the crystal core of the Level 5 Colorful Scale Fish?"
Gray Rat became nervous when he heard this. There were more than a dozen people in the two groups, but now there are only eight left. These people are so cruel that they killed their own people.
Although he knew that Iron Fist Tyrant was stronger than these people, Gray Rat felt that it was better to have less trouble than more. He was afraid that Iron Fist Tyrant would say "yes" because of his frank nature.
"Not here." Jiang He glanced at the people covered in blood.
Her eyes were cold, but when these ferocious-looking people met her gaze, their hearts began to beat fast.
They thought: Iron Fist Tyrant is stronger than them, and since he doesn't admit to taking the crystal core, he must not have taken it. Strong people don't need to lie.
"What about you, Gray Mouse? Did you take the crystal core away?"
Everyone's eyes turned to Gray Mouse, and suddenly they realized, "It must be him. He dragged those three people away."
"He must have stolen the crystal core when he dragged the person away."
"Asshole, I'm going to kill you to avenge my little brother."
"You're just a shady rat, damn it! I didn't work so hard just for a jerk like you to steal."
"My brother, my brother's death was so unjust, I will kill you!"
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In just a few words, the few people had already convicted the gray mouse and refused to listen to any of his explanations.
Gray Rat was powerless to defend himself and retreated repeatedly, pulling out the special bone knife on his waist. He had already understood that since these people could cut open the abdomens of his younger brothers and sisters to take out the crystal cores, they could also cut him open. They would only believe it after they were sure that he did not have it.
When one of them pounced on the gray rat first, Jiang He, who had been silent all the time, reached out, grabbed the other person's wrist and broke it.
The other party stepped back repeatedly in pain, and the others stared at Jiang He, "This is a feud between us and Gray Rat. Iron Fist Tyrant, you'd better not interfere."
Jiang He: "The crystal core is with me."
She glanced at everyone and said, "If you want it, come and get it from me."
After she finished speaking, she walked towards the crowd.
Everyone retreated.
The look he gave Jiang He was timid and crazy.
The crystal core was on Iron Fist Tyrant. This guy was strong enough to rob it openly, but he had to do something dark and steal the crystal core, causing the deaths of so many of their companions.
It must have been intentional, in order to make them kill each other and to reduce their strength.
Every time Jiang He took a step forward, these people took a step back. They were unwilling to give in and were filled with immense hatred.
If hatred could be tortured to death, they would have tortured Jiang He a thousand times.
Suddenly, one of them kicked the person in front of him towards Jiang He.
Before the man could hit Jiang He, Jiang He grabbed the man's arm with one hand and pulled it, and broke his head with the other hand.
She didn't stop, but quickly rushed into the crowd and grabbed the guy who was making small movements behind his back.
"Everyone hurry up, Iron Fist Tyrant is going to kill us all!"
Amid the other person's screams, Jiang He smashed his head with one punch.
It took less than two minutes to kill everyone. Jiang He stepped over the corpses and saw Jun at the top of the mine.
She removed the mechanical knife from one of the robot's corpses and used it to cut the Jun on the top of the mine.
Major Jiang commented coldly, "He has killed people without restraint and is extremely cruel. Such a person deserves to be shot a thousand times."
Gray Squirrel: ???
He ran to Jiang He and said, "Baba, I'll do this kind of work. You must be tired. You should take a rest."
Major Jiang: "Oh, they are not good people."
The warden sauntered over, leaning against the wall with his arms folded. "This is Planet A62. The inmates in the training camp are all heinous criminals. Don't apply your own set of life principles to this. It's inappropriate."
She glanced at Major Jiang's bloody wrist bone and said, "If I were you, I would search these people for medicine and bandage their wounds."
"Yingxue, thank you for the reminder." Major Jiang bent down to search these people.
The warden glanced at Zhang Yue and asked, "Why are you looking at me?"
Zhang Yue didn't avoid her gaze this time. She stared at the warden and asked gently, "Do you like him?"
"dislike."
The warden's response was so crisp and clear that Zhang Yue was stunned. She wondered if there was something wrong with her ability, but she still looked directly at the warden. "Then why did you seduce him?"
The warden chuckled. "Are you talking about the past or the present? In the past, he and I knew each other before you, and we fell in love before you. There was no such thing as seduction. As for now, of course, it's revenge for you getting me into this hellhole for him."
Zhang Yue had just adjusted the impact of her ability to the highest level. The two short questions and two short answers seemed to have exhausted all her energy. She spat out a mouthful of blood and leaned against the wall behind her.
Slowly wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth, she raised her head and stared at the warden in shock.
"Such a simple question, why don't you just ask me directly? Why use telepathy?" The warden raised an eyebrow and stared at her in amusement. "How insecure you are! If you have anything else to ask, go ahead. Don't worry, even without telepathy, I'll answer you honestly. I'm not as hypocritical as you."
"It was obviously you who despised me. You called me hypocritical. You said you never wanted to see me again in your life and that you wanted to go find your freedom. And you told me you'd never see me again in this life."
Zhang Yue was so emotional that she gasped for breath. She stared at the warden and said, "You said you hate hypocritical friends like me."
The warden didn't say anything. She turned her head and looked expressionlessly at Major Jiang who had found the medicine and was bandaging the wound.
"Who of you two threw me into this place?" the warden asked coldly. "Senior Jiang, when you were practicing for me, you said Zhang Yue found out about our relationship and had a breakdown, wanting to kill me. She even used her connections at home to throw me onto this planet full of prisoners."
She spread her hands. "Since I entered the Federal University, I've been top of every subject, doing everything perfectly. I, he, and I came from a marginal planet to get into the Federal University, not to become a prison warden in a remote place like this."
She stared at Zhang Yue and said sarcastically, "I wouldn't be so naive as to say I'd sacrifice my future for freedom."
Zhang Yue stood up shakily. When the warden asked the first question, she already understood that there was another hidden story behind the incident, and it was obvious who was behind it.
She stared at Major Jiang, her expression as gentle as ever, but her eyes were as cold as ice.
"I don't know." Major Jiang said, "I don't understand what you are saying at all."
Zhang Yue never used her abilities on Major Jiang. At most, she only tried to discern the truth from his words.
After taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes slightly and then opened them again, looking at Major Jiang with gentle eyes, "Who arranged for Yingxue to come to Planet A62?"
"My mom and your mom found out that Yingxue and I were in love. They found out that Yingxue came from a poor family. They said that Yingxue seduced me. I can't tell you about Yingxue and me, otherwise it will ruin the future marriage between our two families. If we get rid of her, it won't affect our relationship."
Zhang Yue spat out blood again. Even though she had guessed the truth, she still felt suffocated at this moment.
She turned her head to look at the warden, her chest heaving, and before she could say anything, she fainted.
Jiang He had already crushed a few pieces of Jun into a fine powder while they were gossiping. Just as he was about to mix it with water, Gray Rat whispered, "Using the robot's blood to mix it would also work well."
His voice was low and sounded sad.
Jiang He then got some blood from a robot's corpse and smeared it on his body with Jun Mo.
Gray Mouse warned her, "There are many deformed creatures on the middle and lower levels, and they are all very ferocious. Baba, you have to be careful. Hide first when you encounter one, and only go up when you can't avoid it."
Jiang He glanced at him and said, "Oh."
Gray Mouse was still very sad, and said in a sad voice: "Baba, please don't die so early. I want to wait for you to come back and eat another plate of such expensive meat."
Jiang He: "Okay."
The warden ignored the unconscious Zhang Yue. She followed Jiang He's example, digging blood from the robot and smearing it on her body with crushed Junmo.
Gray Mouse asked her puzzledly, "Warden, you, you want to go to the middle and lower levels too? There are many deformed beasts in there, it's very dangerous, you..."
"It's my territory." The warden said, "Since I'm here, I have to go and take a look."
Zhang Yue, who was lying unconscious on the ground, gradually lost her body and a girl with an afro slowly appeared in her place.
As soon as she appeared, she took a lollipop out of her pocket, put it in her mouth, and asked the warden, "What are you doing down there?"
The warden didn't reply.
It was only at this moment that Jiang He's eyes began to waver. She asked, "What is this? Splitting ability?"
"Yes," the warden sneered, "even the most perfect genetic modification will have the side effect of splitting, but they think this is the advantage of genetic modification."
"That's indeed an advantage." Zhang Yue, with his afro hair, said, "Just like me, when my other self is unconscious, I can continue fighting on her behalf."
The warden snorted coldly, as if he was disdainful to argue with her.
Zhang Yue, with an afro, came over, dug up some of the robot's blood, dipped it in the blood, and smeared it on himself.
Gray Mouse was confused: "No, why do you all want to go to the middle and lower levels? It's very dangerous."
Zhang Yue, with his afro hair, shrugged: "I'm not afraid of danger."
She smiled at the warden and said, "Zhang Yue is the one I split off from after you left. I'm not as weak as her. I have offensive abilities. If you want to go down to the mines, I'll protect you."
Warden: "You said you were going to kill me before."
"You also know that Zhang Yue is extremely stupid. I was deceived by those two bastards. Now that I know the truth, I will definitely not go down the wrong path."
The warden turned his head and ignored her.
She walked step by step from a remote and desolate planet into the Federal University. She was the pride of everyone on the desolate planet. She tried her best to do her best, hoping for a brilliant life and dreaming of having the opportunity to change the poverty and backwardness of her home planet. However, because of careless friendships, her future was completely ruined. It was difficult for her to face the two culprits with a normal attitude.
From the moment these two guys who ruined the rest of her life showed up at the training camp, she had made up her mind to fight back and show no mercy.
Jiang He reacted, "Tian Xiaoping, he can also split. The person next to him named Wu Mian, is he also a split from him?"
The warden looked at her with admiration and said, "You're quite smart. How did you get arrested?"
Jiang He: ...Oh, I want to know too.
"As the warden, you know best how I was captured."
"I'm not sure about that," the warden said. "The prisoner's file isn't that detailed."
Jiang He had already wiped himself clean and was about to stand up and leave when the warden said, "0112, don't be in such a hurry to leave. Take me with you. Maybe you can be of use."
She was negotiating terms with Jiang He, her tone extremely confident.
Jiang He glanced at her and said, "No."
The warden chuckled, "0112, I really can't bear to kill you."
"You talk as if you can kill me." Jiang He picked up the long knife removed from the robot, smeared it with blood, and then walked through the mine and came to the Red Flame Bone Pit.
Before food appeared, the corpse worms inside hid in the bones, and only these colorful bones were assembling and disassembling themselves for their own entertainment.
Jiang He glanced at the hole opposite the pit.
It was estimated to be ten meters. If her mechanical leg was still there, she would have a chance to jump over it with the help of the mechanical leg, but without the mechanical leg, she would be lucky if she could jump half of it.
After observing for a moment, she took a few steps back, took a running start, and jumped up.
The warden grabbed two hands of blood-soaked saliva and hurried to the entrance of the cave. While smearing it on his body, he stared at Jiang He who fell into the red flame bone pit.
The corpse worms in the bones really didn't attack Jiang He.
The warden noticed someone behind him and turned around to see that it was Major Jiang.
"You don't really love me at all." Major Jiang stared at the warden dimly. He had already realized that the warden had been deliberately trying to seduce him, not because he was obsessed with him. "If you really loved me, you wouldn't have destroyed me."
Zhang Yue's family was more powerful than Jiang's, and that was why Zhang's mother had only said "deal with it cleanly" back then. Jiang's mother was busy using her connections to send Yingxue away, and she also took Major Jiang to apologize and make assurances to Zhang's mother again and again. Only then did he have the qualifications to win Zhang Yue's heart.
"Didn't you ruin me first?" The warden sneered, "I'm only able to stay in this place thanks to you."
"What's wrong here? You're the warden, admired by everyone. You're above everyone else, and everyone obeys your orders. You love power the most, otherwise you wouldn't be so scheming to get close to me..."
The warden slapped Major Jiang in the face.
"You vicious woman!" Major Jiang grabbed her wrist with one hand and stacked his whole body on top of her. The next moment, both of them fell towards the red flame bone pit.
From the perspective of others, it was Major Jiang who, in a fit of rage, pushed the warden into the pit, but the warden grabbed his clothes and dragged him in with him.
But only Major Jiang himself was extremely clear about it. At the moment of falling, he was shocked and angry, "Madman, you madman."
The warden had not yet rubbed his entire body with Jun. If he fell into the red flame bone pit, he would be eaten by corpse worms.
However, compared to her, Major Jiang, who also only applied paint on half of his body, was not much better.
As soon as the two fell into the pit, countless bones rushed towards them, and the corpse worms in the bones crawled out from the small holes, densely packed like thin silk threads.
Jiang He was stepping on the red flame bones and was about to reach the other side when all the red flame bones rushed towards the warden and Major Jiang, causing her feet to be empty and she fell down.
She turned her head and saw that Gray Rat and Zhang Yue with an afro also jumped into the pit, and were buried in the red flame bone in an instant.
How could these people jump down and make such a big scene?!
All the red flame bones under Jiang He's feet ran away. She stood on the ground and looked up.
The red flame bones piled up more than two meters high at the bottom of the pit. There were more red flame bones than she had expected. As a result, when she stood at the bottom of the pit, she could not see the surface of the red flame bones, let alone the cave acupoints at the top.
She reached out and tried to push the red flame bones around her under her feet, but these things were just as the gray mouse said, they didn't like Jun, and they didn't like the blood of robots even more, so they subconsciously avoided her.
The gray rat's screams came from the pile of red flame bones.
Jiang He, who was trying to climb the wall, was stunned.
Waving the mechanical knife in his hand, he walked towards the gray rat.
Jiang He was currently at the outer edge of the red flame bones, in the middle. These red flame bones were combined into a messy beast shape, with corpse worms emerging from the bone holes on their bodies, seizing the opportunity to bite the dead.
Zhang Yue with the afro hair is also a level seven attacker. She is the highest level among those present, but can only exert half of her strength. The warden has dropped a level, but is still level five, and she has more combat experience than Zhang Yue. Major Jiang is not weak either, but unfortunately he is missing a hand, so his performance is not very stable.
Although the gray rat was weak, he was able to quickly control the situation. "Follow me, hold your breath, don't breathe. Go to the left. The corpse worms here are weak. Be careful to the warden's right..."
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