Chapter 159 – Good Material from the Sky

“We’re in trouble…” Yu Zai’s expression was hard to describe as either ugly or excited. The headlamp on his head swept over the darkness not far away, illuminating several rat Xenospecies charging rapidly toward them.

These rat Xenospecies were clearly different from ordinary rats in size. The smallest were as large as cats, while the bigger ones were comparable to medium-sized dogs.

But the trouble he mentioned referred to the creature following behind those rats…

By the light, Su Lifeng saw a frail figure behind the rats, large and small.

Its upper body was bare, its skin deathly pale, and long hair hung loose around it. If he had not seen it in such an eerie environment, it might even have given people a soft and beautiful impression. Now, however, only the word bizarre remained…

What made Su Lifeng feel even stranger was that the figure seemed to be crawling along the ground, yet it moved with incredible speed. Once it fully entered the range of the headlamp, Su Lifeng immediately felt his scalp go numb, and a chill shot straight up through him.

This was a Xenospecies whose upper body was still human-shaped, while the lower half seemed to be assembled from all kinds of creatures. From the abdomen down, her lower body had become like a spider’s. The scraping sound came from the spider legs moving across the ground. In addition, those spider legs secreted mucus, leaving eight wet tracks behind her, from which wisps of blue-green smoke rose.

Corrosive, and very likely poisonous…

In addition, when this Xenospecies raised her head, the face she revealed startled Su Lifeng as well.

It was no longer a human face. Half of it might have rotted away, and the remaining surface was covered in moving feelers. The moment her mouth opened, she released a scream that did not sound human.

An E-class Xenospecies!

“You never sent anyone in here before…” Su Lifeng asked.

“No. Wouldn’t sending people in have been a waste of manpower? If you’re afraid to die, then…” Firebug’s voice had already gone completely dry. The moment that E-class Xenospecies screamed, everyone’s heart instantly went cold by half.

They had completely underestimated the danger level of the tunnel!

Although everyone who had come here was prepared for the possibility of sacrifice, when the moment truly arrived, who could face it calmly?

In Firebug’s eyes, the others, himself included, were afraid, but at least they still maintained superficial composure. Who was like Su Lifeng…

“I’ll leave those rats to you,” Su Lifeng said to Yu Zai, not having listened to a word Firebug was saying.

Yu Zai was also swallowing hard in nervousness. After hearing Su Lifeng’s words, he first froze in confusion, then suddenly widened his eyes. “What do you mean? Don’t tell me you’re planning to… No way. With your strength-type…”

Before his words had even finished, he saw a flash of red light before his eyes. In the next instant, that streak of red had already reached the distance.

Whoosh!

The speed was astonishing!

Yu Zai had not even finished speaking!

“Captain, what did you just say he was?” Li Heng was dumbstruck as well. That figure’s speed was practically like flight. Such powerful short-range explosive force was no worse than a world sprint champion!

“Cover him!” Yu Zai finally reacted and roared.

They immediately began sniping with their backs to one another. These people were worthy of being special forces soldiers; every one of them was exceptionally accurate. When several rats finally broke through the fire net and reached them, the female soldier and Yu Zai immediately moved into close combat to block them.

But all of them still had to split off a thread of attention to watch Su Lifeng.

One person, one light and easy sentence, and then he had charged into the swarm of Xenospecies rats, rushing toward that E-class Xenospecies!

What they did not know, however, was that Su Lifeng was actually very excited right now…

He had finally seen such a distinct genetic combination!

It used the human body as a foundation while combining the traits of multiple creatures. And it was not a simple mutation, either. It had outright fused all those biological features together!

After the apocalypse arrived, and with Su Lifeng being especially cautious whenever he went out, the number of Xenospecies he encountered had actually decreased. But in this Xenospecies, he saw the current direction of Xenospecies evolution.

“Squeak, squeak!”

Some rats guarding in front of the E-class Xenospecies immediately sprang up. They were huge, their fur glossy, and their bodies carried a strong stench of rot and blood. Their speed was astonishing too. Even Yu Zai and the others would show tense expressions when they were closed in on. But Su Lifeng acted as if he did not see them. With a beat of his Bone Wings, he did not even slow down.

They still looked like rats. They had merely gotten a little bigger. What was there to look at?

“Ah!” The half-human E-class Xenospecies also sensed that this young Mutant was charging straight at her. Among this group of people, she had also noticed Su Lifeng at first glance.

If she could absorb him. If she could absorb him… But Su Lifeng gave her an extremely dangerous feeling, so she had not immediately pounced. Now that Su Lifeng had taken the initiative to charge at her, however, her instinctive impulse was instantly ignited.

Eat him!

The half-human Xenospecies reared up her upper body. All eight legs moved at once, and a cloudy white fluid sprayed from below. The moment this fluid met the air, it immediately condensed into strands of spider silk that wound toward Su Lifeng.

It was easy to imagine that if Su Lifeng were entangled, the Xenospecies rats he had forcibly pushed back with his Bone Wings would instantly pounce and tear him to pieces.

In the eyes of these rats, whether you were a Mutant or an ordinary human, you were all no different from a feast of flesh and blood.

Faced with the sticky spider silk sweeping toward him from every direction, Su Lifeng likewise did not slow down. His second pair of spear-like Bone Wings thrust forward, forming two spikes that blocked the way ahead.

Puff!

The instant Su Lifeng’s figure pierced through the spider silk, the half-human Xenospecies had already charged up. The feelers on her face seemed able to catch every path of Su Lifeng’s movement. A long tail stinger suddenly swept out from behind her, hidden among the many rats pouncing forward, and stabbed toward Su Lifeng.

In her view, Su Lifeng should be dead for certain this time.

Such a sinister and unexpected surprise attack was impossible for him to dodge. As for the spider silk, it was actually only a feint.

But at that moment, an unexpected scene appeared before her.

Su Lifeng’s eyes suddenly became blank…

She had seen that expression before, back when she had been hiding among humans. In the human world, this seemed to be called… spacing out?

At this life-or-death instant, he was actually spacing out?

“Looking for death…” The half-human Xenospecies released another excited shriek. By now, the structure of her vocal cords could no longer produce human language.

The tail stinger became even faster. Yet the dazed Su Lifeng showed a faint smile at this very moment.