Following the Current or Going Against the Current

"Hunter Wen, we have lost his trail ahead," a one eyed man in black respectfully reported to Wen Yiku, who was riding on a white wild cat.

At this moment, Wen Yi's face was covered in dust and dust. Her originally beautiful long hair was now only short and shoulder length, and her forehead was somewhat uneven in length. There was also a not short scratch on her cheek, which looked quite disheveled. But seeing her face full of anger and her eyes scrutinizing around, as if she wanted to see through the dense grass around her.

"It's been half a month now, and Tom's experience in hiding is getting better and better. Can't you not give him time to grow? Find his clues again, give me a heavy hand, as long as there's still one breath left, Du Tiankun can save his life."

The one eyed man's face turned pale as he said, "But as a literary hunter, the target's experience in stealth is rapidly increasing, and his experience in using special abilities to fight is also becoming more and more proficient. If we don't want the assassin to trap him, we..."

When it comes to recalling the bitterness of this article, one can't help but feel angry. If it weren't for the boss's belief that the mutation of the surname An was too strange and insisting that she bring the living person back to study, she would have taken him apart long ago. It was precisely because they couldn't do their best that Tom was trapped and escaped time and time again.

Tom escaped from the breeding ground and fled all the way, replaced by Jingba dogs, mice, wild cats, and even captured flying birds as mounts. Even though Wen Yiku brought his men and summoned nearby examiners and examiners to intercept him along the way, he still managed to flee in a panic to this day.

Unlike the people she led who dared not exert all their might, Tom on the opposite side used a desperate strategy. Every time he hunted, he treated it as his last desperate struggle, determined to pull people to support him. But once the loophole was exposed in the encirclement, he decisively ran away without any hesitation.

The policy of escaping as soon as possible and desperately if not, has caused unbearable suffering for Wen Yiku and others. Not to mention those examiners or caregivers, even as a hunter in the religious order, Wen Yi suffered several times from Tom's hardships.

He burned off most of his hair with a torch, causing Wen Yi, who cherished her long hair, to endure the pain and cut it short. He didn't look beautiful, but his delicate little face was also scratched with a metal blade, which was very unbearable for women.

Nevertheless, Tom even managed to help several survivors solve the attacks of mutated creatures along the way, and then staged another scene of fighting and escaping under the attack of Wen Yiku.

For over half a month now, it has made Wen Yiku and others feel very frustrated. In the battle the day before yesterday, a security guard pulled out his trump card and almost cut off his head, leaving only a deep visible bone wound on his shoulder.

But even so, it took less than 24 hours to catch up, and then Tom disappeared without a trace. You should know that Wen Yiku is known as a hunter, but he has a strong hunting ability. In this thriving city where creatures thrive, he can come and go freely, searching for people is like searching for something.

"After the third level mutation, he needs to sleep for at least a week to let his body adapt to the new situation. He hasn't had time to sleep for the past half month and has been trying to stay up and run for his life. Now it should be the limit," Wen Yi muttered. As soon as she mentioned this, she couldn't help but feel angry.

Whether it is humans or organisms, once the body begins to mutate, the mind will become disoriented and it is necessary to quickly find a safe place to fall asleep, allowing the body to automatically complete the final stage of mutation. But Tom clearly completed the third level mutation long ago, but he didn't know that the crystal nucleus in his body needed crystal energy. Previously, he accidentally swallowed the blood of the mutated Jingba dog, which accidentally unleashed the power of the third level mutation.

This indicates that the crystal nucleus in his body has always been in a low energy storage state. When he counterattacks, he forcefully activates the only bit of crystal energy inside the nucleus, which will cause great damage to both the body and the nucleus. This kind of damage needs to be repaired through sleep, but he was running for his life at the time, and this escape did not give him a chance to fall asleep. However, Wen Yi couldn't imagine that he could still hold on for 16 days and 19 hours, sleeping only four or five hours a day, and so he persisted.

This practice of forcibly overdrawing one's life can cause significant damage to the body afterwards. Even if it is a third level mutation breakthrough, the body's self repair function will suffer irreparable damage.

His willpower is really terrifying.

This is probably one of the reasons why Wen Yiku's boss, after learning about the situation, insisted on catching Tom and taking him back to study. In the human experimental records of the southeast region of the monastery, there is no second person who can reach this limit except for militarism. It is said that only the Twelve Divine Sons can achieve such a level, but the Twelve Divine Sons are scattered around the world, and there are only four Divine Sons in this continent.

Warmth is the boss's biggest trump card, and the boss cannot have any divine ideas. Tom, as an experimental subject, has benefited greatly from both anatomical research and devouring his crystal nucleus for the boss.

At this time, Wen Yiku's team consisted of over forty people. In addition to the members of the religious order she had gathered along the way, there were also four ordinary people, who were foreign mercenaries hired by Shen Liansheng. This journey of hunting was extremely difficult for awakened individuals such as Wen Yiku. These four ordinary people, even though they did not mutate, were able to keep up with the team's pace and provided effective help in the battle of besieging Tom. Wen Yiku believed it was necessary to incorporate them all into the training club as soon as possible.

However, the four foreign mercenaries led by Angus decisively rejected her recruitment. These foreigners seemed to have no bottom line, but they were unexpectedly loyal to Shen Liansheng, which really gave Wen Yiku a headache.

Although Shen Liansheng is also an ordinary person, he really wants to awaken. But she still remains wary of Wen Yiku and the religious order behind her. Faced with the temptation of Wen Yiku, he always uses the phrase "there is no free lunch in the world, eating more will only lead to paying more" to evade.

Wen Yiku felt that the shrewd businessman really knew how to control his greed, which surprised her quite a bit.

"Hunter Wen, then I'll arrange reconnaissance personnel... There are two mice on the opposite side that have reached level three mutations... Look..."

Wen Yi sighed bitterly, and their combat effectiveness was the highest among her, a second level hunter. It's hard to say whether one can kill a third level mutated creature without her overwhelming power.

After undergoing a three-level mutation, the intelligence of the creature has significantly improved. After the body has mutated into more threatening characteristics, it has learned to summarize and fully utilize its advantages to hunt or fight. Objectively speaking, level three mutated organisms can already be considered as elementary school level intelligence, and their bodies are more threatening than adults.

Even though it is so difficult to deal with, they still have to go hunting. After all, there are four crystals in the body of a third level mutated organism, among which there will be at least two super powerful crystals. If there are super strong energy crystals for energy storage, then their consumption on this trip can be greatly replenished.

They are true awakened individuals who have undergone physical modifications, implanted and cultivated crystal nuclei in their bodies. Indeed, they do not want to cheat on crystals, but they still need to regularly absorb the crystal energy from the crystals to supplement the crystal nuclei in their bodies. Chasing Tom for half a month, their consumption is huge, and they need to make good supplies no matter what.

The battle against third level mutated creatures was earth shattering compared to before, and Wen Yiku had to invest his energy in the battle, which weakened his perception of the movements of surrounding creatures.

It was during this weakened perception that Tom quietly reached out to her senses with a robust black clad man, and then a large sparrow standing on the treetop landed in front of them.

At the signal of the man in black, Tom climbed onto its back. Then the man in black also jumped up, and the large sparrow immediately spread its wings and flew high, leaving the area.

Tom was exhausted from running for half a month, and his physical support was almost reaching its limit. Although he escaped from the encirclement net again in the last battle, he could clearly feel that Wen Yiku's thoughts had been enveloping him. This time, no matter how much he hid and concealed his dwelling, he could not escape. Although not directly locked, she was able to clearly perceive the approximate range of his position. Even though I couldn't lock him in the first place, I always stuck firmly behind him and couldn't shake him off no matter how hard I tried.

Now that his body has reached its limit, repeating the play of cat and mouse is just a dead end for him. Instead of doing so, it's better to take advantage of the physical and mental strength and take a chance, without seeking to kill, even if it's killing Wen Yiku and interfering with her locking.

Just as he decided to give up hiding and engage in a head-on battle with Wen Yiku, a robust black clad man quietly appeared behind him. The other party just gave him a gentle pat, and he clearly felt that the breath emanating from his body was firmly locked in, without any leakage. The next second, Wen Yiku's mind, which had been tightly bound to him, lost its target. He successfully escaped Wen Yiku's pursuit.

"If you want to survive, come with me." The sturdy black clothed man walked with Tom for a while and soon met a strong mutant mouse.

Unlike the mice he had encountered before, Tom, who was in the dark, could see complex emotions in the eyes of the mice, as if they were just a person. This indicates that this mouse has a higher degree of mutation than before, and its thinking is very close to that of humans. In addition, its body can clearly see bulging muscles, which can be seen from its appearance alone. Its defense and explosive power are not much stronger than that of an adult dog.

This is a terrifying monster, but fortunately it did not detect Tom and the man in black 1000 centimeters away. Instead, it smelled the Wen Yiku and others who had been relentlessly tracking it behind them.

The method of locking Qi by the man in black can certainly help Tom hide, but it is still not easy to escape. And this third level mutant mouse, which was blocked halfway, became a good helper to divert the attention of Wen Yiku and others. So, while Wen Yiku led his team to fight against the level three mutated mice, the black clothed man and Tom successfully escaped from Wen Yiku's perception range and boarded the mutated sparrow's "flight". Finally, they could leave.

Sixteen days ago, Tom sneaked into the No.3 breeding farm to save Ni Peiyun's daughter, but unexpectedly fell into the trap set by Wen Yiku. As a result, Ni Peiyun was forced by Wen Yiku to push his daughter into a big pit and feed it to mice, and he himself was almost treated as a late night snack by a Jingba dog.

Fortunately, Wen Yiku threw a metal plate and smashed the head of the Jingba dog. The mutated blood of the Jingba dog fell down and accidentally fell into the mouth of the roaring Tom.

The flesh and blood of creatures that do not sleep, digest, and purify human flesh after eating humans cannot be eaten by humans, otherwise they may become zombies.

It is precisely for this reason that Tom has always avoided eating the flesh and blood of unsafe organisms. But I didn't know that I needed this kind of flesh and blood to truly activate the crystal nucleus in my body.

So when Tom accidentally drank the mutated blood of the Jingba dog, he only felt a fire rising from his belly button, and then his whole body also caught fire. Of course, this is not real fire, but rather the fiery red light that emanates from the weapon after activating the Shield Sword Trembling and absorbing the shattered light.

At that time, he was extremely irritable and had boundless strength. Not only did he successfully suppress Wen Yiku, but he also successfully communicated with the Jingba dog and let it escape from the No. 3 breeding farm carrying him.

Just when he wanted to run back to the shelter, the heavy firepower of the defense forces greeted him. The accuracy and lethality of these heavy firepower make even Jingba dogs hesitant to approach, so he can only choose to escape. Running on this side, Wen Yiku led a team to pursue and relentlessly pursued for over half a month, and the pursuing team continued to grow.

Feeling his heart beating slower and slower, Tom's eyelids were incredibly heavy. He knew that after temporarily escaping from danger, his exhausted body could no longer bear it. But when faced with the man in black, he was full of doubts: "Are you the person who killed the Jingba dog with three punches at the old clinic? Aren't the Zetian Sect led by the Darwin Order? Why did you help me escape?"

The man in black tore off the clothes covering his entire body, revealing his robust and bare upper body. The tall and burly body, paired with the fierce face unique to northerners, instantly released a strong sense of oppression, pressing the tired Tom to the brink of suffocation.

"The matter is not over yet." The robust man grabbed Tom and lifted him beyond the sparrow's back, letting him hang in mid air. "Whether to follow the current or go against it depends on your future choice."

Before Tom could react, the man released his hand and immediately fell into the night sky.

Watching Tom being engulfed by the pitch black earth, the man shifted his gaze and landed in the bright firelight not far away, then revealed an inexplicable smile.