Chapter 109: Alienization

Chapter 109: Chapter 109: Alienization"Shut your mouth!" Gu Yu barked angrily.

"Ha!" Lin Pei sneered, "Am I wrong? What’s the use of saving someone who’s bound to die? Better to free up your hands and kill a few more of those aliens."

"But I think you guys are quite lucky; inside the wall, there are mostly aliens with poor mobility..."

"Boom!" Suddenly, a loud bang came from the outer wall, startling Lin Pei into turning his head to look.

The darkness outside the door seemed the same as before, but he still walked towards Xu Huo and the others right away.

At this moment, the alien that was entangling Shen Yi began to climb up, one climbing over another!

Shen Yi was full of desperate valor. He looked up at Xu Huo, "Cut off my legs!"

The strings had already returned to Xu Huo’s hands. He signaled to Gu Yu, released his grip, and swiftly flew out of the drawbridge, distancing himself from the others before lowering his altitude slightly and raising the Crimson Sword.

But he didn’t cut off Shen Yi’s legs. Instead, he killed several aliens in succession!

Shen Yi was freed, and it was easy for Gu Yu and the others to pull him and his sister up.

The siblings hugged each other and wept bitterly. Xu Huo returned to the drawbridge and now stood before them, walking towards Lin Pei.

Lin Pei stood still, his eyes fixed on Xu Huo, but he controlled the Flying Arrows, aiming at Shen Yi, who was comforting Shen Xin at the back.

"Brother!" A chilling scream erupted from Shen Xin as a cold arrow shot through Shen Yi’s temple!

Everyone present was caught off guard, and Xu Huo was the first to slash forward with his sword, but Lin Pei, using Shen Yi’s bungee cord, leaped into the air to dodge the strike. At the same time, the Flying Arrow that claimed Shen Yi’s life returned to his hands and flew out again, this time targeting Xu Huo!

Xu Huo’s sword had only cut through one steel cable, and Lin Pei’s Flying Arrow was faster than the moving strings, so he returned to the drawbridge, deflected the incoming Flying Arrow with a backward motion, and dashed forward at high speed.

But just then, he suddenly felt a cold breeze brush by his side, and reflexively raised his sword, only to be forcibly knocked off the drawbridge!

He quickly grabbed onto the strings to hang in the air but saw a thin shadow flicker at the edge of the flashlight beam. Unlike the aliens below the bridge with weak jumping abilities, it disappeared next to the light source, and the iron nets on both sides began to resonate with heavy impacts and shaking sounds. It moved incredibly fast, changing positions nearly ten times in a few seconds, sometimes to their left or right, sometimes in front or behind.

A little farther away, Lin Pei and Gu Yu and the others were on guard, paying attention to the sounds of the shifting alien. It moved too quickly, not much different from that previous white alien. They had no chance to escape. But strangely, the alien did not attack them right away. After a moment, the sound of chewing came from the darkness.

"It’s eating its kind!" Ke Liang said in disbelief, "Can’t it distinguish its own species?"

"Who cares if it can distinguish or not, this is our chance!" Gu Yu pulled Shen Xin to flee, but at that moment, the skinny alien suddenly pounced on them!

"Boom!" Ke Liang dove with them to the side, the white alien punched a hole in the drawbridge and fell into the mass of aliens below!

Countless aliens swarmed it, biting and dragging it under.

"It won’t come out again, will it..." Gu Yu said, uncertain.

Xu Huo returned to the drawbridge, barring Lin Pei in the middle.

At this moment, he was approaching the town, with Lin Pei in the middle, and Gu Yu and a few others toward the direction of the outer wall.

Lin Pei glanced at Gu Yu and the others, then turned to look at Xu Huo and suddenly smiled, "You’ve been wounded by that alien!"

Gu Yu and the others looked up in shock, only to see a cut on Xu Huo’s lower jaw, surrounded by a network of tiny dark green veins, branching out like small trees.

Lin Pei burst out laughing, "I never expected the alien’s toxin to be so strong; such a small wound can infect someone. Looking at you now, it seems you didn’t even have time to cut away the flesh!"

Xu Huo’s expression was cold and grim. A few seconds after the skinny alien brushed past him, he realized his jaw was slashed. The pain was different from an ordinary wound, so he immediately drew his dagger and cut away the flesh by his jawbone, then poured a Self-Healing Potion and Antitoxin into his mouth, but it still did not slow the spread of the toxin.

The rapid healing of the wound indicated he was turning into an alien!

"Do you think that by obtaining Master Niese’s item and opening the gate, you can win the reward for this instance?" Lin Pei said with satisfaction, "Man’s planning is inferior to fate’s planning. What a pity, Xu Huo, you’re going to die here today!"

"Lin Pei, I’ll kill you!" Shen Xin suddenly got up and charged at him, but before she took two steps, the skinny alien unexpectedly broke free and crashed into the suspension bridge!

The bridge shook from the impact, and those standing on it immediately grabbed the nearby steel cables, but in that instant, Xu Huo had reached behind Lin Pei and swung his sword at the back of his neck!

Lin Pei was well-prepared; he controlled the Flying Arrow to defend against this attack and then threw out a grappling rope, latching onto the skinny alien that had just climbed onto the bridge, and violently yanked the alien toward himself before leaping off the bridge!

Of course, he didn’t jump directly below the bridge but held onto a plank and hung from the side edge while retracting his item!

The alien that was originally attacking Gu Yu and the others was dragged off course. It indiscriminately attacked any live creature it encountered, so the moment it shifted its gaze, it locked onto Xu Huo!

At this time, Xu Huo’s lower jaw twitched, and his body involuntarily shuddered. He felt the toxin eroding his brain and body while his blood boiled with an unprecedented surge of power and violent impulses flooding his entire being!

Confronted by the charging alien, he burst forward and collided with it!

After the head-on collision, Xu Huo and the alien both stumbled back, but before they could steady themselves, they charged at each other again!

Seeing that he had thrown away his sword, Gu Yu said anxiously, "Xu Huo! You mustn’t give up on yourself, get out of here first and we’ll talk. There must be an antidote in Jing City!"

At this time, Xu Huo heard countless sounds amplified in his ears, sounds he could and couldn’t hear before suddenly echoed against his eardrums, and his heart’s beating rapidly escalated. His eyes bloodshot, he turned around after another clash with the skinny alien and ran toward the inner wall’s gate!

The alien poison in him and the slow-acting poison Professor Han had on the preliminary train were different. If there was still a way to save him, it must be within Fenbei Town!

But as he turned, the skinny alien pounced on him from behind, and as they hit the ground, he quickly rolled and braced against the alien’s jaw, struggling with it on the ground!

Gu Yu wanted to go help, but Lin Pei, who had returned to the bridge, stopped her, "Don’t you see? He’s about to become an alien himself!"

In just a short few seconds, Xu Huo’s mouth had gaped open, his demeanor became frenzied, and he fought the alien with no technique whatsoever, the strength he exerted was astonishingly on par with the alien’s. They were now locked in brute combat!

As he reveled in Xu Huo’s pain and ugly struggle, Lin Pei said proudly, "Special times, special items, hidden only where Master Niese might find them; a unique shape, a unique placement, the only key to leave the town."

"This is a riddle I found on a slip of paper in the mayor’s office."