Chapter 54 – Where Did the Wings Go?

A Black Thread drilled out of Xie Yu’s body and entered Su Lifeng’s open palm. A scorching sensation immediately spread from his hand through his entire body.

“Hah…” Feeling his depleted stamina replenish in an instant, Su Lifeng let out a soft breath.

This battle with Xie Yu was his first real fight since digesting those Xenospecies from Third People’s Hospital.

The increase in his instantaneous explosive power, especially the improvements to his speed and Bone Wings, had given Su Lifeng what he needed to completely crush Xie Yu.

“But it’s still not enough…”

Su Lifeng knew where his weakness lay. His body was still too fragile. Xie Yu’s combat strength was nothing worth mentioning, but his Self-healing Ability, which allowed his severed tongue to regenerate in a short time, was something Su Lifeng did not possess. If he ever faced an opponent on par with him, then his low defense and weak Self-healing Ability would immediately become fatal flaws. That would be dangerous.

“Sigh, Exoskeleton…” Su Lifeng lifted his hand and glanced at it. The white bones that he had not even needed just now slowly emerged over his knuckles, then silently fell away again. Unfortunately, the only Wisdom Species he knew of right now was Ren Xiaoying, but Ren Xiaoying just so happened to be E-class. Even after his current increase in strength, Su Lifeng still did not believe he had any chance of defeating Ren Xiaoying.

After absorbing Xie Yu this time, his physical condition would improve a bit more, and his speed would become a little faster than it was now. That could be considered a gain.

“Xie Yu mentioned ‘we’ earlier. In other words, he still has accomplices.” Su Lifeng frowned, then crouched down and began searching Xie Yu’s corpse.

After witnessing Su Lifeng kill Xie Yu with lightning speed, Su Lian and Gouzi both fell into shocked silence.

Only now did Su Lian abruptly come back to herself. She looked at Su Lifeng’s back and the corpse on the ground, her expression complicated.

She stood there in a daze for quite some time, until Su Lifeng pulled a phone, wallet, and a series of other items from Xie Yu’s body, then turned around to face her.

“Um…” For a moment, Su Lifeng truly did not know how to begin.

But what he had not expected was that the moment he spoke, Su Lian suddenly threw herself at him and hugged him tightly.

“You scared me to death. I was so afraid, afraid you’d get hurt, afraid… wah…” Su Lian clung to him, her body trembling nonstop, her voice choked with sobs.

Su Lifeng froze, then could not help but reveal a faint smile. He gently patted Su Lian on the head. “All right, don’t cry. I’m perfectly fine, aren’t I?”

Yet even with his comfort, Su Lian still held him and cried for several more minutes. Taking the opportunity, Su Lifeng simply gave her a brief explanation by her ear about the Xenospecies, as well as the disaster he had encountered when he went on the Cruise Ship trip.

She would probably cry when she heard it sooner or later anyway, so she might as well cry it all out here…

Sure enough, just as Su Lian was about to convince herself to be strong, the moment she heard Su Lifeng say he had narrowly escaped death not long ago, she immediately let out another “Waaah…”

Self-reproach, shock, panic, all kinds of emotions tangled together. It took Su Lian quite a while to finally calm down.

But the moment she calmed down, her curiosity immediately surfaced.

“So people like Xie Yu, who absorb Xenospecies in reverse, are called Mutant? Like you, Brother?”

She fearfully glanced at Xie Yu’s corpse, gave herself a fright, then curiously reached toward the Bone Wings behind Su Lifeng. “So this is a mutated human body part? It looks really cool, like wings made of infrared light…”

However, just as she was about to touch them, the Bone Wings retracted with a whoosh, once again making Su Lian’s eyes widen in shock. “…!”

“Where did they go?!”

Even by the time Su Lifeng walked toward Gouzi, Su Lian was still pondering this question, her gaze following Su Lifeng the whole time.

Seeing Su Lifeng walking toward him, Gouzi immediately shuddered on instinct. But very quickly, he struggled to steady himself, then forced a smile at Su Lifeng. Unfortunately, his constantly chattering teeth betrayed how nervous and frightened he was. “B-Su-Ge, for this great kindness, I won’t waste words thanking you… I, I, Gouzi…”

At this point, Gouzi suddenly gritted his teeth and slapped himself with a sharp smack. Only then did he finally manage to suppress his stutter. “I, Gouzi, will continue working for Su-Ge from now on! I may not have much education, and people usually look down on me, but Gouzi is still someone who understands reason. You are… I don’t know what you are, but you wouldn’t just watch me die, and you care about the young miss too. In Gouzi’s eyes, what makes someone human? This does, right? If… if I’m wrong, Su-Ge, please forgive me.”

“No. You’re absolutely right.” Su Lifeng was silent for a moment, then smiled faintly. He could tell there was an element of flattery in Gouzi’s words. Gouzi was still afraid of what he was. But at the very least, his gratitude and his promise were real. Su Lifeng was also certain that Gouzi would never betray him-whether out of reverence, or simply because he wanted to keep living.

Someone like that was indeed useful to him. Take the matter with Xie Yu, for instance. If it hadn’t been for Gouzi and those shady friends of his, Su Lifeng, a student who spent all day doing research, might not have been able to dig up this information in such a short time.

“All right, don’t just stand there. Help me clean up the scene,” Su Lifeng said.

As for how to deal with Xie Yu’s body, Su Lifeng really did hesitate for a while.

Not for any other reason…

“I need to cut off a section of his tongue. It looks like pretty good research material. The problem is, it’s hard to find a proper container on the spot, so we’d better take the whole body for now.”

Gouzi nearly fell apart on the spot. So that was what you were agonizing over?

Su Lian, on the other hand, looked completely used to it. She even lowered her voice and said to Gouzi, “When he was in elementary school, their school organized a field trip. The bus ran over a snake, and all the girls in class screamed their heads off. He was the one who shouted for the driver to stop, then got off to examine the snake’s body.”

“Oh… but this is… this is a monster…”

His protest was clearly useless. In the end, Gouzi forcibly suppressed the urge to scream and helped put Xie Yu into the trunk.

There was a spare tire in the car. Gouzi had once driven in underground street races, and he was also quite handy with car repairs. Before long, he had the tire changed.

Looking at where the tire had been punctured, Gouzi finally understood just how powerful Xie Yu’s tongue had been. His awe of Su Lifeng deepened even further.

“Are we just leaving the motorcycle there?” After getting into the car, Gouzi couldn’t help glancing back and asking.

“Yeah, just leave it. That motorcycle is too big. We can’t deal with it. If we try, someone might see us,” Su Lifeng said.

Su Lian froze for a second, then asked, “But if someone sees it… if the police find out, won’t that…”

“That’s why we have to move fast,” Su Lifeng said.

He was still far from being able to disregard the power of the state. And his identity as a Mutant absolutely could not be exposed.

Judging by the current situation, the threat the Xenospecies posed to humanity was constantly escalating. Once his identity was revealed, Su Lifeng might not end up being sliced apart for research, but whatever awaited him definitely would not be pleasant.

“Brother, do you think the government knows there are monsters?” Su Lian murmured.

Su Lifeng said, “What do you think?”

Su Lian had always been a very smart girl. After thinking it over for a moment, she leaned back against the seat. “Xie Yu already dared to go into a busy downtown area to kill people. The situation must be very serious by now. It’s just that the news is being suppressed, so ordinary people still don’t know anything. But how much longer can they keep it under wraps?”

Su Lifeng was silent for two seconds, then said in a low voice, “Who knows? Honestly, for ordinary people, every extra second they get to remain ignorant is probably a good thing…”

Although Xie Yu was dead, Su Lifeng had no intention of simply letting this matter end here.

He took out Xie Yu’s wallet and began searching through it, then turned on his phone and took a look.

Fortunately, Xie Yu hadn’t set a password. Even if he had, Su Lian was sitting right beside him…

“Hm? There’s a text message.” Su Lifeng opened the message, and his brows immediately drew together.

“Jinli Warehouse tonight. Remember to bring all the samples, especially that sample you said had excellent conditions, the one called Su Lian. Also, be more careful in how you do things. The matter at your home hasn’t completely blown over yet, and now you’ve killed two more fitness coaches who rejected you. If this goes on, we’ll be watched! Pay attention!”

When he saw the message, Su Lifeng nearly crushed the phone in his hand. Xie Yu wasn’t the only one who deserved to die-so did his accomplices!

There was another point that Su Lifeng cared about deeply. How had Xie Yu become a Mutant? And why had he wanted to take so many people to the Xenospecies Spatial Gate? What exactly were he and his accomplices plotting?

Just then, Xie Yu’s phone suddenly rang!