Pay With Your Lives! All Die!

The crowd screamed and ran around while being chased by the mutant rats. Some of them were bitten to death, while others were still struggling even after half of their bodies had been bitten off.

Liu Yan was completely numb. He had only awakened his talent after his younger sister was dead. What was the use of having a strong talent now?

"Save me! Save... save me!"

Someone rushed toward Liu Yan.

Liu Yan remembered him. He was Zhao Dajun, one of Wang Gang's lackeys. When Liu Qingxue was being bullied just now, he was the one who had been the most ruthless!

Zhao Dajun was not hoping for Liu Yan to save him, he only hoped that the mutant rats would change targets and bite Liu Yan instead. He grabbed Liu Yan tightly and wanted to throw him into the group of rats.

However, he did not expect Liu Yan to be holding Liu Qingxue. With her weight added, he could not move them at all. He turned to look at Liu Qingxue.

"Hurry up and leave your sister behind. We can still escape!"

Liu Yan's eyes were cold. He had already given up all hope and wanted to tear this man apart with his own hands.

"Escape? Do you think you can still escape?"

"What?"

Without waiting for Zhao Dajun to react, Liu Yan picked up the piece of metal that had been bitten to the point that it was extremely sharp and stabbed it into Zhao Dajun's thigh!

"Pu!" Blood started spurting from Zhao Dajun's leg!

"Ah ah ah ah! You bastard!"

"Go to hell!" Liu Yan looked at him coldly.

The mutant rats became even crazier when they smelled the blood, and they pounced on Zhao Dajun. Zhao Dajun's body was riddled with holes as the mutant rats bit him, and more mutant rats came forward to do the same.

Zhao Dajun died. Liu Yan was waiting for death too because it was his turn next. However, the mutant rats didn't dare to get close to him and Liu Qingxue. It was probably because Liu Qingxue's body was still stained with a large amount of poison powder.

At this point, the place had been occupied by mutant rats, and there were only a few people left alive other than Wang Gang.

"It's that brat who provoked the mutant rats. What do we do now?"

"What else can we do? The Tower Federation Academy is the closest. Let's go there for now."

"How can we go to the Tower Federation Academy? Anyone who is accepted by them has to go to the Tower for trials, and how many have come out of the Tower alive now? I don't want to go in and die!"

"Well, what do you think we should do? Wait for death here?"

Liu Yan listened to their argument. He didn't want to live anymore, so he couldn't let these culprits go. He carried Liu Qingxue on his back and quickly ran towards them. Behind him was a group of mutant rats.

"Don't even think about going anywhere, you'll pay for my sister's death!"

"F*ck! Has this kid gone crazy?"

The mutant rats were very cooperative and rushed toward Wang Gang. Wang Gang had, after all, awakened his talent, so he could still resist the attacks with punches and kicks.

The lackeys around him were not so lucky. Seeing that he could not win, Wang Gang simply pulled his followers to block the attacks with the latter's body. He grabbed one of them with each hand, and in just a moment, they were drowned in the mutant rats!

Seeing that those people had been bitten to pieces, Liu Yan immediately went to catch Wang Gang! However, he was carrying Liu Qingxue's corpse on his back, and he was even less of a match for Wang Gang now.

"How can you be my opponent? Die here!"

"Even if I die, I'll drag you down with me!" Liu Yan saw Wang Gang's hand coming for his head. But at this moment, a gust of wind blew. The poison powder on Liu Qingxue's body landed on Wang Gang's face!

Wang Gang was immediately pounced on and bitten to death by the mutant rats!

He had great strength, but in the eyes of these mutant rats that had already become extremely strong, he was still nothing!

Liu Yan's eyes were cold.

The corpses on the ground couldn't exchange for Liu Qingxue's life.

The sanctuary returned to silence.

The mutant rats really wanted to eat Liu Yan, but in the end, they were ultimately afraid of the poisonous powder and retreated.

Only then did Liu Yan notice that a line of small words had been repeatedly circulating on the panel.

Liu Yan couldn't die even if he wanted to. That was strange, why was he fine when he touched the poisonous powder?

He squatted and searched Wang Gang's body.

Wang Gang's chest was riddled with countless holes, from which blood was flowing out. He had died a terrible death.

Liu Yan was determined that he had to become stronger to survive in this world.

Suddenly, a green light enveloped Wang Gang's corpse, and a few lines of words appeared on the panel in front of Liu Yan.

[Divine Extraction of the corpse has been successful. Strength +0.1! Obtained grade D skill, Strength Enhancement.]

[Strength Enhancement]

[Grade: D]

[Effect: In berserk mode, strength will be increased by three times, and vitality will be reduced by 50%.]

What? He could actually extract abilities from corpses!

Liu Yan was shocked.

He looked at his own body. There were indeed some subtle changes in his body. His strength had increased.

He realized that there was a sentence on the panel that he hadn't noticed.

[You will not be harmed in any way during the 24-hour protection period.]

At the same time, in his mind, he could also choose to check his stats on the translucent panel.

[Liu Yan]

[HP: 120/120]

[MP: 100/100]

[Strength (offense): 12.1]

[Physique (defense): 11]

[Agility (speed): 11]

[Vitality (mana): 13]

[Adaptability (magic resistance): 12]

[Luck (probability): 43]

[Talent: Divine Extraction]

It seemed that his strength had indeed increased by 0.1.

Liu Yan did not hesitate and placed his hand on Liu Qingxue's body. He didn't know what he was looking forward to, but he just wanted to try.

However, the next moment. Divine Extraction had no effect.

[Skill extraction failed. You can not extract a skill from a living person.]

[Extraction of scaled-winged poisonous powder failed. Talent level insufficient.]

The two simple notifications shocked Liu Yan once again!

A, a living person? His sister was not dead!

"Qingxue, Qingxue, wake up," Liu Yan shook her body with all his might.

But Liu Qingxue was like a ragged doll, not reacting at all. Her face was pale with pain.

Even though Liu Yan was mentally strong enough, he almost cried.

There must be a way to save her.

Where did they say they were going? The Tower Federation Academy?

Liu Yan carried Liu Qingxue on his back again and walked to the periphery of the sanctuary.

Not far from ahead was a Tower that reached the clouds.

A year ago, he had heard that many Towers had suddenly appeared all over the world.

The Towers were pitch-black and were rumored to be tens of thousands of meters tall, with their tops beyond the atmosphere of the Blue Planet.

After entering, it was a whole new world.

Only people with special abilities could enter the Towers.

There were plenty of resources in there, but every treasure was guarded by powerful and terrifying monsters, so it was very difficult to obtain. Only by defeating those monsters could one obtain all sorts of resources.

But more importantly, one could become stronger through the Tower trials! Only by becoming stronger could they survive this apocalypse.

One day, humans might even be able to snatch this world back from the hands of the mutant beasts.

Liu Yan had nowhere else to go now, so he could only try his luck at the Tower Federation Academy. Perhaps he could even find a way to cure Liu Qingxue.

Along the way, Liu Qingxue's poisonous powder scared off many beasts, allowing Liu Yan to reach his destination very quickly.

...

At Tower Federation Academy, the entrance was crowded by a mass, most of whom were refugees.

A burly man in black standing at the door blocked them heartlessly.

"This is an academy, not a sanctuary. It only recruits those with talents. Those who have not tested their talent can come in for free to take the test."

The refugees were whispering to each other.

"I heard that if you follow a talented person into the Tower Academy, you'll be protected. Is that true?"

"It must be true. That's what the people back in the sanctuary said."

"Those who come to the Tower to seek shelter are all orphans and poor people. Why would the well-off ones come here? if it weren't for the people in the sanctuary being too much, would we have taken the risk to come here with Brother Cheng?"

"This place is so close to the Tower, will it be more dangerous?"

"Don't say anymore, let's hurry up and let Brother Cheng go test his talent."

The man in black had been listening to their conversation, but he did not interrupt. He only sneered.

He had seen many people like them.

The man in black simply took out a purple smart wristband.

"Put on the wristband and the grades of your talents will be displayed. Come on then."