Encountering Mutant Human Beings Coincidentally

"How is Chen Yu going?"

When dealing with the Xing army, Xing Feng had also asked Chen Yu to open a space corridor to Section D quietly. They had to both stabilize Section C and get Section D controlled. By doing so, even if the six families insisted on fighting against them, they would have enough and even more extensive power to fight back. Not to mention Xing Feng had the Leng army with him, and the military in the capital was under his command as well.

"He's almost done. Xingchen, you are good to go."

Yu Wenqing raised his head among the computers after he got in contact with his partner. He and Chu Haoling were asked to search for information. Since Chu Haoling was out there searching, Yu Wenqing decided to stay and sort out the useful ones.

"All right. Xingchen, take a team with you and go through the corridor quietly. I'll cover you from the outside."

Their arrival was still a secret for the outsiders. Once those in charge of the capital knew that Xing Feng was back, they would focus their attention on him, and that would leave some space for Ye Xingchen and other members to carry out their plans.

"I'm on my way."

Ye Xingchen nodded, "Let's go."

Yun Che had sent the four squads for them and emphasized that they shouldn't be included in the Leng army. They were here only to assure the member's safeties.

"Now it's my turn."

Seeing them off, Xing Feng pushed the chair backwards and got up, sneering. If the six families believed that they would win, they would be dreaming. Xing Feng hadn't started yet. He just hoped that they wouldn't be timid to beg for mercy.

Somewhere in the Northeast Base.

"What the hell? Your father almost got us killed!"

Yun Che rubbed his head, still feeling drowsy. They only made it to avoid Gao Wei's men and Xuan Tian because of a scroll Xuan Po had given them. The latter claimed that they should crumb it when necessary. But the moment they did it, they spun around for a while, and Yun Che didn't regain his senses until now.

Yun Che patted his head, trying to sober himself up. At the same time, he looked around blankly, wondering where they were.

"Told you my old man was unreliable. But you believed in him. Now what? I'm about to vomit the energy sticks I had eaten this morning."

Heiyu had already jumped off Yun Che's shoulder and lay on the ground weakly.

"Oh, go away if you want to vomit. No wonder it's smelly here."

Feeling much better, Yun Che rolled his eyes at Heiyu and then observed this place. They were likely in a small village. But the smell of blood was so strong and disgusting. Following the most pungent scent, Yun Che grasped Heiyu from the ground, "How long are you planning to stay here? We should go now."

The next second, they disappeared at the end of the road.

"Damn, I knew this would happen!"

A few minutes later, they left the village. At the foot of the mountain behind the village, countless fragments of broken limbs were piled up densely, both humans and giant mutant beasts. Their fleshy faces still had a lingering fear. Some only had half bodies, some had human heads but beasts bodies or beasts heads with human bodies. As for the rest, they were either heads or limbs. All of them were abandoned here, and those beneath the bodies had begun to rot. The pungent smell had attracted many bugs.

"Tsk-tsk! That's even gorier than the wars between beasts."

Heiyu sighed on his shoulder. Humans always said that beasts were too ferocious, but they didn't realize that humans could be much worse than beasts no matter where they were. They considered themselves highly intelligent and believed that there was nothing they could do. So, they simply did everything they could do.

"Human hearts is the worst."

It had been a long time since such words occurred to Yun Che last time. Ever since doomsday, it was never the zombies or mutant beasts but humans who would do anything to fulfil their desires and ambitions.

"Yeah, scary."

Heiyu nodded in agreement. He had long learned that lesson. Otherwise, his master wouldn't have died.

"That's strange. How come such a strong smell of blood didn't even attract zombies? I've checked the air panel and found no zombies near here, not even mutant beasts. All I can see are several low-level mutant beasts in the forest ahead."

As Yun Che said so, he took out the air panel again. Since so many fragments of bodies were here, the research institute should be near. The air panel would detect any creature within a radius of thousands of meters. But Yun Che found nothing except low-level mutant beasts and himself on it.

"Not strange at all. Xuan Tian is the owner of the earth, remember? Even if his body is sealed, it wouldn't be hard for him to isolate the scent of some certain area."

"Sounds reasonable. Let me settle the directions first. Oh, damn! They are here!"

Before Yun Che finished, he saw dozens of spots on the air panel, representing mutant beasts and human beings. And they moved fast enough to reach Yun Che almost immediately. But it might be improper to describe them as humans because they just looked like the bodies behind them, half-humans and half-beasts. Some had heads and tails of giant lizards but with human bodies, while some only wore human heads but with bodies of tigers, giant spiders, or normal spiders. The rest was the like, combinations of both humans and beasts, which was twisted and ugly. Yun Che didn't even know if he should take them as humans because they were not pure humans, obviously.

They were fast. As soon as Yun Che sensed their existence, they had appeared within their sights. Yun Che had even thought they were sent here by Gao Wei to track him down.

"Powerful offering. Let's catch the guy and kill the little bastard."

The leader was a mutant human being. He was now squinted at Yun Che and Heiyu but didn't seem to have recognized them. On second thought, Yun Che pressed Heiyu when the latter was about to give these masters a lesson.

[Don't move. I don't think they have recognized me. But if you speak, I expose.]

Yun Che believed these beasts were here to capture human beings and mutant beasts. To reinforce his power, Gao Wei would never tell his men that Yun Che was a powerful opponent. Also, Gai Wei might be very confident of the location of the research institute. After all, even zombies with a strong sense of smell couldn't find this place, not to mention human beings. Therefore, it was very likely that the upper class of the institute didn't even know the existence of Yun Che.

Yun Che might be famous in China but not as renowned as Xing Feng and the rest members. That was the reason why people introduced him as Xing Feng's husband or Mrs. Xing. Besides, the staff in the institute were almost isolated from the world in case they might leak the data. Therefore, they might have known Xing Feng and Ye Xingchen because the two were already famous before doomsday, but they might have no idea of who Yun Che was.

[You intend to go with them?]

Heiyu calmed down after Yun Che said so silently. He was aware of what Yun Che was about to do next.

[Yeah, but before that, I have to prove to them that I'm valued.]

As Yun Che said so, he had Heiyu on his shoulder and threw a fireball toward the net a spider had spit on him. In case the mutant creatures might recognize him through his skills, Yun Che didn't use his superfunction, neither the Sky Blade. He was lucky that none of those was possessors. So even if he fought with his power, they didn't know but considered that his superfunction.

That was awkward. Yun Che had to restrain himself not to use his superfunction or his weapon and even had to control his true qi just in case it might be too strong to kill all of them. But if he behaved as if he was weak, nobody would consider him a valuable offering.

[That's contemptible! I can't think of anyone better than you on this.]

Now that Heiyu had seen through Yun Che, he lay on his shoulder leisurely, watching him fight against the spider beasts while judging meanly. These mutant human beings were just toys for his master.

[Oh, come on, this is what we call strategy. Now that we got them to lead the way, I'll be stupid if I don't use them.]

Yun Che dodged the attack of the spider horns and controlled his fireball to avoid the attack from other spider horns. Sometimes, he had to pretend he got hit. Even so, he still got time to refute Heiyu, which meant he was cool with that.

[And that's precisely why I praise you. Those poor things have no idea that you can easily kill them all within a second if you want.]

Heiyu chatted leisurely since he had nothing to do here.

[Humph, thanks for your compliment! They are about to attack me jointly. Now leave me alone, or I'll skin you alive if I got hurt.]

Yun Che resisted his urge to roll his eyes at these masters and pretended to stagger. When he fell, he threw a fireball at the spider's rugged body, which forced it to step meters backwards. Before it stabilized, Yun Che patted on the ground, rolled in the air for a while, and then set his feet on the ground again. He then asked, panting, "What are your monsters? Why hit me?"

In case they might tell his accent, Yun Che asked like a native man in the Northeast Base and acted as if he didn't realize what had happened until now.

"All of you, catch him!"

The leader had a human's head, a monkey, no, an orangutan's body. Seeing that the spider beast didn't defeat Yun Che, he waved his sharp hands and led his men to attack, "Try not to use your superfunctions. It's a rare offering. The doctors will love him."

"Bang!"

The orangutan man jumped up as he said so and hit his fist toward Yun Che from above. Yun Che might get his mind smashed if he didn't hide. As he dodged, the man didn't have enough time to take his hand back and hit the ground directly. Immediately afterwards, a giant hole appeared.

"Jie Jie!"

Other mutant human beings screamed and rushed forward. As they were commanded, none of them had used their superfunctions but fought with their born advantages. Yun Che figured out that they were mostly level-7, but they were all as powerful as those of level-8. The wolf kings were not as powerful as they were when they were at the same level, for the record.

"Bang!"

Although they were asked not to use superfunction, Yun Che was free to use his. But he had to last the fight. Otherwise, it would be too suspicious if he lost too soon. The battle between fire superfunction and the human body didn't seem fierce. Yun Che acted as a high-level superfunction possessor who was really panicked under the circumstance, throwing a fireball here and condensing a firewall there. His slender body shifted fast among the mutant human beings who kept attacking him. And he got hit several times.

"Bang!"

"Ahhh!"

In the end, when Yun Che was busy dealing with other mutant human beings, the orangutan man hit his neck with his hand. Yun Che grunted and then fell, but the orangutan man got him in the middle.

"The little mutant beast is gone!"

The mutant human beings didn't notice that Heiyu was missing until now.

"That's not a big deal. Let's go back first."

They took it for granted that Heiyu had run away. The orangutan man had Yun Che on his shoulder and jumped away from where he stood. The rest followed him and disappeared immediately. Soon, the foot of the mountain was as quiet as it was before.