Chapter 399 – The Mysterious Silhouette, The Terrifying Killing Intent

Just moments ago, Ling Mo’s attention was entirely focused on Ye Lian. As he walked over to pat her on the shoulder, ready to compliment her on how the outfit accentuated her figure, a swishing sound suddenly filled the air.

“Uh…”

Holding half a strip of fabric, Ling Mo’s face turned awkward as he looked at Ye Lian’s now fully exposed delicate shoulder and a portion of her bosom.

Ye Lian’s bright eyes stared blankly at Ling Mo, then slowly shifted towards the strip of fabric in his hand.

If it had been any other time, Ling Mo would not have felt the slightest bit embarrassed.

But now, considering that Ye Lian had started to regain some of her memories…

After a brief silence, Ling Mo placed the piece of fabric back onto Ye Lian’s shoulder: “Forgot to trim my nails…”

Xia Na nodded and said, “Ling Mo was just so captivated by Ye Lian changing clothes that he couldn’t contain himself for a moment…”

“Hey, Black Na, haven’t you rested yet? Your shift ended a while ago, didn’t it?”

After some thought, Ling Mo suddenly clenched his fist and punched the nearby wall.

“You don’t have to hurt yourself to prove a point…”

Before Li Ya Lin could finish her sentence, her expression turned to one of surprise.

A noticeable dent appeared in the wall, but Ling Mo’s hand was only slightly red and swollen.

“It’s not just my strength that has increased; my mental power has improved as well,” he said.

With that, Ling Mo tried to release his mental tentacles once more.

Within his mental scan, the entire room was instantly enveloped by countless tentacles.

“Indeed, my mental energy has grown a bit. It’s not much, but even a small increase on top of what I already have could give me more options in battle.”

Once Ling Mo cut off the outward flow of his mental energy, the tentacles that filled the room dissipated.

“I felt like many hands were touching me just now…” Li Ya Lin commented, touching her cheek.

Xia Na, clutching her chest, glared at Ling Mo as if to say, “You attacked me from afar, didn’t you?”

After all this, Ling Mo crossed his arms and revealed a satisfied smile: “Good, the girl’s improvement has indeed brought me great benefits…”

Ye Lian kept staring at Ling Mo blankly until she finally turned and walked towards her backpack. “Got it, I’ll change into another one.”

However, as she walked past Ling Mo with her head down, he caught a glimpse of a silly smile on her face.

Huh… What’s going on here…

Speaking of which, just how much of her memory has this girl recovered?

Meanwhile, less than five hundred meters from where Ling Mo and his companions were, a figure sat atop the ruins of a building, perched on a crumbling concrete pillar.

This mysterious silhouette exuded an incredibly terrifying aura, so potent that even just sitting there, one could feel the fear it inspired.

A pair of blood-red eyes stared intently in the direction of Ling Mo and his group.

“A newly born advanced kin, and there’s a strange aura too. What could it be… No, no, how could kin be with humans…”

In an edgy soliloquy, the figure suddenly turned his head, looking towards the other end of the main road.

Beneath the messy hair, a glint of red shone like a beast under the night sky.

“Hehehe, another human has appeared in such a place. The last one hasn’t been caught yet, and now there’s new prey to play with. Interesting…”

He stood up and looked into the distance.

At the end of the highway, a line of silhouettes appeared on the horizon.

Compared to Ling Mo and his group’s ease, Liu Baodong and his people seemed a notch weaker.

In terms of physical strength, they seemed relatively abundant; even under the burden, they were merely sweating and not panting like dying dogs.

Especially Lucy, she carried a large amount of ammunition and even toted a machine gun, yet only a fine layer of sweat appeared on her forehead, breathing remarkably steady.

However, their pale faces made it clear that their journey had been anything but easy.

“Damn! I thought… I thought we were going to die there,” a team member said with a long sigh of relief upon seeing the buildings ahead.

Liu Baodong took a few slow steps and then threw his backpack down to sit on the ground: “Let’s… take a break. Why are there still so many zombies on this road! Those people before… it was intentional, I say!”

“Maybe they have a way to avoid the zombies. There’s no use complaining if their skills are better,” Lucy said coldly, then urged, “Hurry up, we haven’t officially entered the city area yet, your mission isn’t over.”

“Do you have to be so heartless? Each of us is carrying dozens of pounds, and we’ve just been through a tough battle. Let us rest for a while, at least here for the night, and we can set off again early tomorrow!” Liu Baodong roared.

Lucy’s expression remained unchanged: “You just want to see if you can find that group of people.”

His true intentions exposed, Liu Baodong’s face reddened slightly: “Tch…”

“Boring. But, we can also take this opportunity to look for my missing companion.”

Lucy had just finished her sentence when she abruptly turned her head towards the empty street.

For some reason, she suddenly felt a twinge of fear…

“Hey, stay sharp, I think we might be in trouble.”

Right after Lucy spoke, a piercing howl suddenly sounded.

The instant she heard the noise, she swiftly dodged to the side, but a male team member behind her had just stood up, looking puzzled towards the distance: “What the…”

He didn’t even finish his question when his head exploded, spattering blood mixed with strange fluids and flesh.

“Ah!”

The female team member next to him got splashed with blood all over her face and couldn’t help but scream.

Lucy, her back also splattered with blood, was the first to react, rolling behind an abandoned car for cover.

Seeing this, the others also took cover.

But minutes later, there was no further movement, just a headless corpse and bloodstains everywhere.

“Could it be those people… or the survivors here…” Liu Baodong squatted pale-faced behind the car, muttering to himself.

He was already deeply regretting taking on this mission.

The encounter with the zombies at the service station was one thing, but just arriving in the vicinity of City X, they had already experienced such a bizarre sneak attack…

And they lost a member without even knowing where the attacker was!

Lucy took a deep breath, quietly raised her head to glance in the distance, then took off her hat, stuck it out of the car roof and shook it. Seeing no movement, she then crawled toward the corpse.

“Hey, all this blood and whatnot, doesn’t it disgust you?”

Liu Baodong frowned as he watched Lucy quickly approach, unable to help but cover his mouth with his hand, his face twisted in disgust.

The other three members of the team hadn’t recovered from the shock yet, all staring dumbfounded at Lucy’s every move.

“Is it this…”

Lucy rummaged on the ground for a bit and used the tip of her knife to pick out a small piece of building debris.

Thumb-sized, it still had a small fragment of tile on it.

It was this thing that had been thrown from who knows how far away, and then, upon making contact with their teammate’s face, it had smashed his entire head to pieces with tremendous force.

“Terrifying strength, horrifying precision…” Lucy weighed the fragment in her hand and remarked.

“To think you actually found the weapon from that mess…”

Liu Baodong walked out with trepidation, covering his nose to glance at his companion’s corpse.

Although frightened, seeing how terribly his companion had died, his expression turned somewhat angry.

“If I find out who…”

“There’s no point in saying useless things. We have to pass through this area. Considering the enemy’s terrifying long-range strike capability, we’d better move immediately. It’s safer to walk where there is cover. Standing here, we’re just live targets.”

Lucy cut him off, saying, “The intentions of our opponents are unclear, but there’s no need to be scared. In close combat, we still have a chance of winning, probably…”

“Could it be those people from before?” Liu Baodong brought up Ling Mo and his party again.

“It doesn’t quite add up. If they wanted to rob us of our weapons and had this method of attack, they could have done it at the service station. But I also can’t rule out the possibility.”

Lucy hesitated, then gave a more balanced answer.