Chapter 53: Barren Planet Assessment 4
When Wen Yu was suddenly pulled into the air by the vines, his body froze instantly and his face turned as pale as paper.
The feeling of weightlessness from being suspended in the air and the sting of the vines tightening her skin made her tremble all over, and a scream escaped her throat.
But when his eyes swept over the vines that were intertwined with gold and scarlet, and he saw that they were clearly controlled by Lin Yao's mental power, that little bit of fear was suddenly replaced by overwhelming anger.
"It's you?! You piece of trash!" Wen Yu suddenly looked up, his eyes filled with resentment. "These broken vines are your spirit body. How dare you use this to tie me up?!"
She is a popular student at the Central Star White Pagoda Academy. She comes from a wealthy family and is extremely talented. She has been praised by her instructors and respected by her classmates since she entered school. She is the center of attention wherever she goes.
Not to mention being hung in the air by vines, few people even dared to say harsh words to her.
Now he is trapped here by Lin Yao, a useless person who should have been expelled from the White Tower long ago, and has to stay with these disgusting bugs. This is simply a great shame and humiliation!
"Do you know who I am?!" Wen Yu's voice was so sharp with anger that it almost pierced her eardrums.
She struggled and twisted her body, trying to tear the vines apart, but it only made the restraints tighter. The pain of the thorns on the vines piercing her skin made her even more angry: "Who do you think you are..."
Lin Yao frowned, thinking that the sound was really noisy.
He moved his fingertips lightly, and the vine wrapped around Wen Yu immediately split into a thin branch, which, like a flash of lightning, precisely wrapped around her mouth, covering her chattering mouth tightly.
Zhou Yan was about to say something when another vine did the same thing, blocking his words.
The cave suddenly became quiet, with only the "Mmm" sounds coming out of the two people's throats and the rustling sound of the crawling insects blocked by the ice-blue light screen.
Lin Yao withdrew his gaze with satisfaction, turned around and found a relatively clean stone in the cave to sit on.
He tugged at his blood-soaked protective suit, causing the wound to hurt and his face to turn even paler.
If the wound wasn't still useful, he would have used his healing powers long ago.
Lin Yao took out the remaining half of the nutrient solution from his equipment bag, tore open the package and poured two mouthfuls into his mouth. The cold liquid slid down his throat, slightly relieving his physical weakness.
After doing all this, he looked up at the two people who were still struggling in mid-air, with a hint of sarcasm on the corner of his mouth: "Now it's my turn."
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Lin Yao's gaze fell on Wen Yu's body, which was struggling with anger, and then he looked at Zhou Yan, who was relatively calm.
Lin Yao's fingertips gently stroked the empty tube of the nutrient solution, and his voice was filled with a hint of nonchalant coldness: "Actually, we met yesterday."
He paused, threw the air traffic controller into the garbage bag he was carrying, and with gentle but unquestionable strength, he talked about yesterday.
Yesterday, when the assessment list came out, Lin Yao saw his partner Zhou Yan and thought about it and knew that this was not a coincidence.
With the account of what happened to Liuyingdu three years ago in mind, his sudden appearance as Lin Yao's partner was not so much bad luck as it was someone deliberately planning another 'accident'.
So Lin Yao asked someone to check which dormitory Zhou Yan lived in.
The "trustee" he mentioned was naturally Ye Heng. Lin Yao certainly did not tell this information to the two people who were hanging.
Ye Heng on the other end of the computer took only ten minutes to reply to the message, attaching a precise floor plan of the sentry dormitory area.
Zhou Yan lived in a single cabin on the third floor of the east-side sentry accommodation area. A metal plate with the room number 313 engraved on it was hung at the door, making it very conspicuous.
Just at that time, Yu Ze outside the blackout curtain was planning to take a shower.
Lin Yao took advantage of this time, put on a hooded coat and went out.
The corridors of the sentry dormitory area were bustling with activity.
After their partners were assigned, many guides came here to meet their partners and get familiar with them in advance in preparation for the subsequent assessment.
From time to time in the corridor, voices of people finding their partners could be heard. Lin Yao was mixed in with these people, and with his hat covering his eyes, no one paid much attention to him.
He followed the route given by Ye Heng and found the third floor. As soon as he turned the stairs, he saw Zhou Yan walking out of his cabin door.
The other person was wearing a black combat uniform, holding a laptop in his hand, and walking hurriedly, as if he was going to meet someone.
"When we passed by, you glanced at me." Lin Yao raised his eyes and pierced Zhou Yan directly.
"You probably thought I was a guide looking for the sentinels, so you took a look. The moment you turned sideways to avoid me, I stuck something on you."
Zhou Yan's pupils suddenly contracted, a muffled "woohoo" sound came from his throat, and he suddenly began to struggle.
"Don't panic, that thing is just for positioning." Lin Yao explained slowly, and his fingertips vaguely stroked the air, as if demonstrating the action at that time.
That was Shasha's new ability. It swallowed the toxin in Ye Heng's body some time ago.
After Shasha digested the toxin, a black poisonous pattern appeared on the trunk.
In addition to toxins, it also has other functions. It should have inherited the abilities of the queen insect and has various Zerg abilities. The only drawback is that it can only be used mixed with poison.
What Lin Yao put on Zhou Yan yesterday was the Zerg's echolocation. Fortunately, he added a little Zerg's concealment, otherwise he would have been discovered. After all, the poison has a smell.
Lin Yao lowered his voice even more, with a hint of coldness in his voice as if he was revealing a secret.
It was impossible to tell these two people the details about Shasha's abilities, so Lin Yao only gave a general idea.
"So it started from the time we met to the time we separated, and you left the dormitory," Lin Yao said slowly, his fingertips tracing the non-existent trajectory in the air.
"You went to the equipment room of the Sentinel Training Hall and stayed there for seventeen minutes, probably checking the mental amplifier you'd use for the assessment.
Later, I went to a supply station and received two boxes of high-strength hemostatic gel, which was quite a foresighted decision.”
Lin Yao raised his gaze and turned to Wen Yu. His gaze was like a searchlight, making her feel cold all over.
"You met at 8:50 pm. It was dimly lit there, and next to an abandoned storage room, it was a good place to have a quiet conversation."
Lin Yao didn't want to go at first.
Echolocation can clearly transmit echoes, and he can hear Zhou Yan's footsteps and Wen Yu's low voice.
Lin Yao originally planned to go back after sending Yu Ze away and just be a listener.
Until Wen Yu's words "I brought something for you" floated into Lin Yao's ears.
"Curiosity is inevitable." Lin Yao's lips curled up slightly, with a hint of playfulness of a successful prank.
He remembered clearly that when he arrived, Zhou Yan had already received the thing.
Wen Yu handed Zhou Yan a black box, and the metal buckle made a crisp sound when it was opened.
Inside the box was a pair of dark grey combat gloves, made of what appeared to be high-density fiber, with silver protective plates embedded in the palms. They certainly looked like a good piece of equipment.
But what Lin Yao really remembered was the square button on the wrist of the glove.
When Wen Yu handed it over, his fingertips accidentally brushed against the button, and a blue light flashed there. It was so fast that it seemed like an illusion, but he captured it accurately.
When Zhou Yan opened the box and found that it contained gloves, he frowned and asked Wen Yu why she gave it to him.
Wen Yu said that didn’t you agree to give it to me before?
Zhou Yan checked it over and over three times, pinched the protective plate, and pulled the elastic at the wrist. Not finding any problems, he put it in the pocket of his combat uniform.
"Wen Yu smiled and patted your arm at that time," Lin Yao continued,
"'These gloves are excellent for protection. You're going to do something dangerous tomorrow, so wearing them will be a good idea.
You said "hmm" and turned to leave when she followed up with another instruction.
"Remember to wear it the whole time, don't take it off!"
Lin Yao said the last sentence in an especially serious tone, imitating Wen Yu's tone at that time.
At that time, Zhou Yan just thought it was concern, but when Lin Yao repeated it word for word, he realized the weirdness in the tone. How could you give someone a pair of gloves and then make sure they wear them the whole time?
Zhou Yan's pupils suddenly contracted, and he subconsciously wanted to take off the gloves. He had worn them throughout the assessment today.
But since he was tied up like a dumpling, this action was doomed to be in vain.
Wen Yu, who was hanging in the air, twisted violently. The vines made her chest feel stuffy, but her eyes were fixed on Lin Yao, as if she wanted to eat him alive.
Lin Yao didn't look at her again, but returned his gaze to Zhou Yan. He tapped his knees lightly with his fingertips, his voice filled with bone-chilling coldness:
"So, is the blue light on those gloves an indicator light for the defense system... or something else? Like, a locator that can be triggered remotely? Or... something even more interesting?"
"You forgot your mouths were covered." Lin Yao suddenly chuckled, with a deliberate tone of sudden realization, and lightly lifted his fingertips.
Among the two people hanging in the air, only the vine on Wen Yu's neck loosened half an inch, and the restraint on her mouth faded away.
She took a deep breath of the sweet, fishy air, and her throat felt a burning pain, but she screamed immediately:
"Those are just ordinary combat gloves! I gave them to him out of kindness, so stop bashing him!"
Zhou Yan's gaze was like a poisoned knife, piercing Wen Yu tightly. An angry "woooo" sound came from his throat, and his eyes were full of questions:
If it was just an ordinary gift, why was she so panicked just now? And why did she insist that he "wear it the whole time"?
Wen Yu felt uneasy when he looked at her, but she stiffened her neck and said:
"Why are you looking at me? Lin Yao is just trying to sow discord! He's hoping for an internal conflict between us so he can get out what he wants to know. Don't forget what you can and can't say."
When this was mentioned, Zhou Yan immediately became quiet.
Lin Yao leaned against the rock wall, watching the farce leisurely. He spoke slowly, his eyes passing over Zhou Yan's tense profile and landing on Wen Yu's flushed face: "It seems you intend to be stubborn to the end."
He paused, gently twisted the Night Stone on his chest with his fingertips, and untied the ice-blue necklace.
As soon as the necklace was removed from the collar, a strand of ice-blue vine reached out, carefully wrapped around the chain buckle, and suspended the stone emitting a soft blue light in mid-air.
"Since you won't tell me," Lin Yao raised his chin, and the vines, carrying the Jiye Stone, slowly approached Wen Yu, "then let it ask you."
There seemed to be tiny specks of light circulating in the ice-blue halo of the Silent Night Stone, as if storing some inexplicable energy.
The moment Zhou Yan saw the necklace, he began to struggle uncontrollably.
"Don't come over!" Wen Yu's face turned pale in an instant, and the arrogance just now disappeared.
Only pure fear remained, and she twisted her body violently, trying to avoid the blue light.
"Lin Yao! Take it away! I command you to take it away from me!"
The vines did not stop, still holding the Silent Night Stone steadily, approaching inch by inch.
Zhou Yan, who was hanging nearby, struggled more and more vigorously, and was completely unaware that the vines were squeezing his wrists and causing blood to ooze out.
Wen Yu screamed again at Zhou Yan to calm down, but Zhou Yan seemed to be in some chaos and just kept struggling.
The Night Stone was getting closer and closer to Wen Yu's face, thirty centimeters, twenty centimeters...
The blue light on the surface of the stone became increasingly dazzling, and one could even hear a subtle "sizzling" sound, as if it was resonating with some hidden energy.
Wen Yu looked at the icy blue that was getting closer and closer, felt the chill emanating from the stone that seemed to penetrate the soul, and then looked at Zhou Yan's uncontrollable body next to him, and finally collapsed completely.
"I'll tell you! I'll tell you!" She screamed and cried, tears mixed with cold sweat running down her cheeks.
"Make it stop! Please make it stop. I'll tell you everything you want to know! Please!"
The vine stopped ten centimeters away from her cheek. The blue light of the Night Stone was still bright, but it no longer moved forward.
Lin Yao raised his eyebrows, motioning her to continue, his fingertips unconsciously stroking the blood on his knee.
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Wen Yu's sobs were still hanging in her throat, with a kind of desperate madness:
"Really? The energy wave hidden in that glove is exactly the same as the one in your necklace. When the two meet, as the contact time increases, it will eventually detonate his mental power!
By then, he will turn into an irrational monster and kill anyone he sees. Throw him down! Let the bugs eat him! Otherwise, we will all die here!
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhou Yan, who was hanging in the air, suddenly stopped shaking and struggling.
His body was as stiff as an iron plate, his head drooped slightly, the collar of his protective suit was tightened by the vines, and the exposed neck line was stretched straight.
The only sounds in the cave were the rustling of insects crawling and Wen Yu's breathing. For a moment, it was eerily quiet.
"It's moving... He's starting to change..." Wen Yu's voice trembled, her pupils dilated with fear, staring at Zhou Yan intently, "The energy has been activated... I knew it..."
Lin Yao suddenly curled the corners of his lips and moved his fingertips slightly.
The vines wrapped around Zhou Yan's body swayed gently, causing his body to sway slightly. The amplitude was not large, but clear enough, like a pendant blown by the wind.
Wen Yu's voice suddenly stopped.
She watched Zhou Yan's body sway gently with the vines.
There was no burst of violent mental power, nor was there any roaring or struggling, and even the lowered head did not move. It was obvious that it was being pulled by an external force.
"Look," Lin Yao's voice echoed in the cave, with a hint of sarcasm, "It doesn't seem to be what you call 'the meeting of two energy waves'."
He directed the vines to gently shake Zhou Yan again, but the latter still showed no reaction, like a puppet with his soul taken away.
"I just made the vines shake a little, that's all."
Wen Yu opened her mouth, as if someone had grabbed her throat tightly. All the fear and madness froze on her face in an instant, leaving only an expression of disbelief and astonishment.
She looked at Zhou Yan's motionless figure, then at Lin Yao's calm eyes, and suddenly understood.
Zhou Yan was not detonated by the energy, he... completely lost consciousness.
In short, he failed to turn into a bloodthirsty monster as Wen Yu wished. He just hung there quietly, laughing at Wen Yu's loss of composure.
"No... Impossible..." Wen Yu muttered to herself, tears mixed with despair rolling down her cheeks, "That energy can clearly..."
"What can you do?" Lin Yao interrupted her, and the necklace supported by the vine moved forward again. The blue light scared Wen Yu so much that she trembled.
The necklace then returned to Lin Yao's hands, and he put it back on: "Pride can make people lose their composure, and fear can also make people speak."
"Have you ever thought about why he hasn't gone crazy yet even though I've been walking all the way with him wearing this necklace?"
Wen Yu opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
Wen Yu's teeth were chattering, and cold sweat was running down her temples, soaking the collar of her protective suit.
She lost all her sanity because of the horrifying scene she had seen.
Wen Yu had seen sentinels being swallowed by energy fluctuations before.
She had previously visited the Wave Lab and seen a Sentinel that was affected by this energy fluctuation.
His eyes were bloodshot, and even though the mental image exploded into pieces in his mind, the knife in his hand was still waving wildly.
Even though his limbs were tied up by energy beams, his teeth were still biting tightly onto the protective clothing of the people around him.
It was a madness that even the strongest tranquilizer could not suppress. The murderous desire in his pupils never dissipated. In the end, when his mental strength was completely exhausted, his fingers still maintained the posture of holding the knife.
That kind of madness is terrifying.
There are no companions or self in sight, only a vague "goal".
Like a programmed killing machine, not even death could stop him from swinging his knife.
Wen Yu knew that the necklace in Lin Yao's hand was injected with a wave, and the gloves she gave to Zhou Yan contained another wave.
When the two waves meet, they will completely detonate Zhou Yan's mental power three hours later, turning Zhou Yan into a monster like the sentry, dragging Lin Yao to die in the red zone.
This was a good thing those people had planned. Three years ago, Zhou Yan failed to complete the task, and those people planned to kill him.
But it was precisely because Lin Yao did not die at that time that Zhou Yan was able to live for three more years. Now, this time, when the test time comes, both of them will die.
As the supervisor of this mission, in order to ensure that everything goes smoothly, Wen Yu sent his partner away halfway and secretly followed Lin Yao and the others to supervise whether the plan can be carried out smoothly.
Just now in the cave, she hid behind the rock wall and saw everything clearly.
Zhou Yan was tricked by Lin Yao into revealing the matter of the potion, and she jumped out in a hurry to stop him.
Zhou Yan was not crazy at that time. She just thought that the time had not come yet. After all, he had only been in for less than an hour. She also sent Zhou Yan some mental comfort.
It wasn't to help him, it was because she was afraid that he would collapse prematurely and kill her too.
"Are you plotting against me?"
Wen Yu's voice was split, as if an invisible hand had grabbed her throat.
She looked at Lin Yao's eyes, which were calm and almost indifferent, and finally realized that from the moment she sent her partner away and followed him secretly, she might have fallen into the other party's trap.
She thought she was a hunter, watching her prey walk step by step into the trap, but she didn't expect that she was in a real trap.
Lin Yao nodded slowly, his fingertips moving slightly.
The vines that had just been loosened instantly returned, like a flexible snake, blocking her mouth again. This time, the vines tightened even more, making even the breathing in her nasal cavity stagnate.
"Ugh!" Wen Yu struggled violently, the fear in her eyes almost overflowing.
Lin Yao didn't look at her again, and turned his gaze to the ice-blue barrier.
The barrier was originally like a transparent cover, covering the three of them and keeping the swarm of insects out.
At this moment, as his mental power was mobilized, the barrier began to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the ice-blue color at the edge shrank inward like a receding tide.
The coverage area gradually shrank, leaving only a small circle that could just cover Lin Yao and Zhou Yan who was hanging in the air.
Wen Yu, on the other hand, was mercilessly sent out of the barrier by the vines.
She was suspended in mid-air, with dense swarms of Zerg larvae beneath her feet.
The moment the barrier disappeared, those white bodies seemed to be freed and surged upward madly, only a few inches away from the soles of her boots.
"Rustle—rustle—"
The teeth-grinding crawling sound came from all directions, like countless fine needles scratching the eardrums.
What’s even more terrifying is the sound of the swarm of insects crushing the eggshells, “crack, crack”, crisp and dense.
Mixed with the excited hissing of the larvae, it weaves a suffocating sound web.
Wen Yu's pupils shrank into needle points, and all the blood in his body seemed to have frozen.
She could clearly smell the fishy mucus on the larvae, see the fine sharp teeth in their mouthparts, and even feel the sticky wind brought by the swarm of insects.
Suddenly, a slightly larger larva jumped up and hit the sole of her boot hard!
"Hmm!" Wen Yu trembled all over and was so scared that she almost fainted.
The vines bound her from her thighs to her shoulders, hanging her there and preventing her from escaping.
She could only watch as these larvae surged madly, piling up their bodies layer by layer, forming waves higher than the previous one, approaching her.
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Inside the barrier, the ice-blue color blocked out the hissing of insects and the whimpering of Wen Yu, creating an eerie silence.
Lin Yao leaned against the rock wall, tapping his knees lightly with his fingertips, his eyes fixed on Zhou Yan who was hanging in the air, as if he was examining an old item to be processed.
"Kill, kill." He whispered.
The vine wrapped around Zhou Yan's waist suddenly split into a thin branch, and tiny sharp thorns condensed at the end of the branch, piercing Zhou Yan's neck without hesitation.
"Hmm!" Zhou Yan twitched violently, his eyelashes trembled violently, and his dilated pupils suddenly contracted.
Zhou Yan coughed, and the fishy-sweet taste of rust rose from his throat. He moved, but found that he was tied up.
Only then did he realize that he and Wen Yu were hung up by Lin Yao.
Before Zhou Yan could regain his consciousness.
"Awake?" Lin Yao's voice sounded in the silence, as calmly as if he was talking about today's weather.
Zhou Yan raised his eyes and focused his gaze on Lin Yao.
The other person was leaning against the rock wall, his eyes bright with astonishing brightness.
He suddenly remembered that Wen Yu had plotted against him. Just as he was about to look at Wen Yu next to him, he found that Wen Yu was being cared for by the larvae.
Before Zhou Yan could say anything, another barrier rose up, completely separating him from Lin Yao.
Outside the barrier, Wen Yu, who was suspended above the swarm of insects, suddenly had his pupils shrink and a panicked "woohoo" sound came from his throat.
She saw Lin Yao's movements clearly, and the next second, Lin Yao took out a necklace from the storage ring.
That was not the one he used to interrogate her just now, but another Silent Night Stone.
"This is..." Lin Yao pinched the stone on the necklace. "The one that actually added to the fluctuations."
The Silent Night Stone felt slightly hot in his palm. That was evidence that the unknown substance fixed in the outer circle was disintegrating after the two waves met. Shasha, who smelled the energy, began to get excited.
The vines swayed happily, causing the two people hanging on them to rise and fall.
Zhou Yan didn't know what that thing was, but his intuition told him that the fluctuation was like a sleeping beast, full of danger.
"What do you want to do?" Zhou Yan's voice tightened.
Lin Yao raised his eyes, his gaze piercing through the barrier and piercing Zhou Yan: "Zhou Yan, new grudges and old accounts should be settled together today."
The fine flashes in the azure stone grew brighter, and the first wave of fluctuations spread out like a tide, passing through the barrier and hitting Zhou Yan outside the barrier.
The energy within the stone on the glove also resonated at the same frequency, and Zhou Yan's face turned pale in an instant.
He could feel the mental power in his body starting to become restless under the stimulation of these fluctuations, and the pain made sweat break out on his forehead.
Wen Yu outside the barrier went completely crazy. She looked at the real necklace and the determination in Lin Yao's eyes, and finally understood.
Lin Yao wants the truth and human lives.
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Zhou Yan's pupils surged in dark red waves, half of them were as red as burning charcoal, and the other half were still filled with clear ash.
He stared at Lin Yao intently, and a low growl like a trapped beast came from his throat. The spiritual form of the bald eagle twisted and swelled behind him, and blood-red lines oozed out of its fur.
That was a mutation catalyzed by the fluctuations. It was eager to tear apart the "enemy" in front of it, but was also being held tightly by a trace of remaining sanity, like a mad horse with a tight rein.
"Huh..." He wanted to speak, but could only squeeze out a broken breath.
The spiritual blade unconsciously condensed at his fingertips flickered, and Zhou Yan trembled uncontrollably, as if even he himself was resisting this bloodthirsty instinct.
Lin Yao looked at the struggle in his eyes, and a cold arc appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Just now, from Wen Yu's words, he not only heard the secret of the person behind the scenes, but also captured the key information.
When the outer reinforcement layer of this wave begins to disintegrate, if you use strong mental power to accurately impact it, the wave can overflow at three times the speed.
Lin Yao's mental power pierced into the core of the wave as accurately as a sharp arrow.
Zhou Yan suddenly let out a painful roar, and the wave instantly penetrated his mental barrier. The bald eagle let out a shrill scream, completely breaking free from the constraints of reason and struggling frantically on the vines.
After seeing the effect he wanted, Lin Yao threw the necklace in his hand to Shasha, who had been impatient for a long time.
"It's time for you to reunite." Seeing Shasha holding the necklace and sucking it, Lin Yao pulled it hard with his fingertips.
Wen Yu, who was hanging outside the barrier, felt a tightening around his waist, and was roughly dragged into the barrier by the vines.
The vines untied in mid-air, and Wen Yu fell heavily to the ground.
Before she could get up, she looked up and met Zhou Yan's red eyes. There was no hesitation in them, only pure murderous intent to tear everything apart.
"Zhou Yan! It's me! Wen Yu!" She screamed and retreated, trying to crawl towards Lin Yao using her hands and feet, but was blocked by a barrier.
"Look carefully! Kill him! Kill Lin Yao!"
But Zhou Yan's sanity had already been eaten away by the waves, leaving only fragments.
In his chaotic consciousness, all living things are "targets", and Wen Yu, who is closest to him, naturally becomes the first prey to be targeted.
"No--!"
Wen Yu's screams abruptly stopped. Zhou Yan's spiritual blade accurately pierced her shoulder, causing her whole body to convulse in pain, yet she had no strength to struggle.
A hint of surprise flashed across Zhou Yan's eyes, as if he recognized her, but the murderous instinct brought by the fluctuation instantly overwhelmed that clarity.
He raised his hand, and the mental blade condensed again, this time, pointing directly at her throat.
Lin Yao stood at the edge of the barrier, watching everything indifferently.
There was no mercy, no hesitation, only a calmness where everything had settled.
This was exactly the result he wanted, to use Zhou Yan's hand to put an end to this conspiracy and repay the debt owed to him.
Wen Yu's pupils suddenly dilated before death came, and the last thing that came into view was Lin Yao's eyes without any ripples.
With a muffled sound, Wen Yu's body went limp.
Zhou Yan was breathing heavily, and a trace of confusion flashed across his red eyes, as if he didn't understand what he had just done.
But this confusion was soon covered by a more violent murderous intent. He turned his head abruptly and looked at Lin Yao in the barrier again, and the mental blade lit up for the third time.
Lin Yao was not afraid at all. He raised his hand and removed the outermost circle of ice-blue barrier.
"Buzz—"
The moment the barrier disappeared, the swarm of insects outside the cave seemed to be injected with a manic drug and rushed in with a "whoosh".
Those white larvae lost their hindrance and followed the smell of blood and fluctuating breath, rushing madly towards Zhou Yan, the only person in the field who still exuded the breath of a "living thing".
"Crunch, crunch—" was the sound of Wen Yu's body being gnawed.
The gnawing sound instantly drowned out Zhou Yan's roar.
He swung his mental blade to kill the insect swarm, but it was like he was stuck in an endless quagmire. The more he killed, the denser the larvae that swarmed up.
His mental power exploded in the swarm of insects, tearing the larvae into pieces, but it also accelerated the collapse of his mental body.
The bald eagle gradually became transparent under the gnawing of the insect swarm. Zhou Yan's body began to twitch uncontrollably, and the red in his eyes faded little by little, revealing a dead gray.
Lin Yao stood inside the innermost barrier, watching the finale quietly.
The swarm of insects crawled all over Zhou Yan's body. His roars turned into weak whimpers. The pain brought back some of his sanity. His instinct for survival made him cry out for help in the direction of Lin Yao: "Help... Help... Me..."
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Shasha rushed out of the barrier, killed the bugs on Zhou Yan's body, rescued him into the barrier, and brought back a few pieces of Wen Yu's fragments.
Lin Yao watched Shasha eating frantically outside and whispered in Zhou Yan's ear:
"Can't an A-rank sentinel even handle the larvae? And you have so many left for me?"
"If you kill Wen Yu, the Wen family will never let you go, but don't worry, I will make sure you live."
"You said before that you were a C-rank Sentinel. I think C-rank is pretty good. You will always be C-rank from now on."
"The dead are all gone, but the living dead are not."
Looking at Zhou Yan's finally clear and terrified eyes, Lin Yao asked Shasha to inject poison, destroying his mental power to C level, and then turning him into a conscious vegetative state.
He will not wake up and cannot speak, but he can feel everything in the outside world, including pain.
After all, the Wen family would accept Zhou Yan for Wen Yu.
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