The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 729: Berserking Monster Swarm

Chapter 729: Berserking Monster Swarm

Gao Yang opened his eyes to the limit without blinking. There was nothing but calmness in his gaze.

Like a machine, his brain calculated at high speed and looked for the best solution. Above him was a thick purple mist of frost and poison, rolling like waves of dark clouds and shrouding the entire area, leaving no way to escape.

A second later, Gao Yang opened his hands and activated Gamer.

Instantly, countless white sacred strands shot out of his ten fingers, flying toward the ruins nearby and found the body parts of Nainai and Zhang Wei, quickly restoring them and creating two light cacoons.

Two seconds before the danger hit, Gao Yang had taken a series of actions.

He shouted, “Danger”, pushed Endurance to the limit with Willful Power, took out the Black Gold hairpins in his pocket, and ran toward the two people nearest to him, Nainai and Zhang Wei, to shove the hairpins into their clothes.

After less than thirty seconds, Gao Yang brought Nainai and Zhang Wei back. They lay unconscious amid the ruins.

Time Reset took a lot of energy.

Gao Yang pushed his six senses to the limit and soon found a seriously damaged medicine box. He teleported over and opened the box to find most of the syringes broken. Only three shots of Medicine C and one specialized adrenaline shot remained intact.

Gao Yang conjured a double and had the double teleport to the only other survivor, Herb Snail, injecting the body that had lost one-third of its parts with Medicine C—whether he could survive would be up to fate.

The real Gao Yang injected himself with the adrenaline shot, forcefully awakening his exhausted energy.

A system warning sounded then.

[Luck acquisition rate increases to 10000 times.]

Gao Yang spat out a mouthful of blood, hit by Heartstealer. Two seconds later, he went translucent before vanishing.

He had swapped his main body and his double.

At the same time, a powerful soundwave hit him. Gao Yang picked up the dying Herb Snail from the ground and teleported away.

Above him, Zero Hatred and the combined being of Flower Turtle, Six Rime, and Xiao Xin hovered. Xiao Xin continued to release freezing poisonous gas, while Yan Liang, Core East, and Nagging Mister made a slow landing upon what remained of the Starcatching Pavilion.

Something caught their eyes then. Standing amid the poisonous mist was a summoner. Like a werewolf, it opened its large maw filled with red fangs and howled.

Gray Bear cursed under his breath. Fuck, just what we don’t want.

Bam, bam, bam—

Clang, clang, clang—

Three seconds later, all the wanderers residing in the buildings lining the road went berserk, transforming into monsters of different forms and levels of power. They jumped through the windows.

Some of them were old, their transformation incomplete due to their frailness and maintaining parts of their human features, and weakened by the poisonous mist, they fell to their deaths from the tall buildings, meeting a laughable and pitiful end.

The majority were young, strong monsters though, and they quickly rose to their feet after landing, swarming toward Lithe Snake and Gray Bear like bloodthirsty zombies in a frenzy, without the mental capacity to feel fear.

Gray Bear pointed forward, indicating for Lithe Snake to stay behind him.

He growled, charging into the swarm of monsters like the head of a train.

As he hurtled through the dense swarm, monster after monster got thrown into the sky before falling. It looked as if a scissor had cut through the middle of a piece of black cloth.

Using Gray Bear’s back as a springboard, Lithe Snake calculated the distance and leaped onto the eaves of a building, running on the walls. Then with a swift jump, he descended upon the summoner.

Swoosh.

A fierce slash. Then Lithe Snake landed behind the summoner. Two seconds later, the summoner’s head fell to the ground. Its blood splattered like a shower.

Covered in blood, Lithe Snake drew the two shortswords from his waist and went on a killing spree through the berserking monsters like a bloodthirsty spinning top.

They fought as they advanced, already losing count of the number of monsters they had killed. Yet more monsters continued to rush to the street.

They both knew that they must shake the berserking monsters. Otherwise, they would exhaust themselves before they even reached the Starcatching Pavilion.

Lithe Snake soon came up with an idea. He shouted, “Bombs! Bus!”

Gray Bear’s eyes lit up. He caught on immediately as a long-time comrade of Lithe Snake’s.