Chapter 164 – This Is My Field

In the blink of an eye, several Mutants were either dead or wounded, all collapsed at Su Lifeng’s feet.

Only Su Lifeng remained standing there. The Exoskeleton on his left hand turned into a cloud of ash, while the Bone Wings dripping blood behind him fanned lightly.

The Mutant soldier in front of him slowly crumpled, revealing the officer hiding behind him, whose face was full of disbelief, and the guard beside him.

Tap…

As Su Lifeng took a step forward, the guard suddenly shoved the officer in front of him toward Su Lifeng, then turned and charged into the carriage ahead.

In his mind, Su Lifeng’s target was that officer. Surely he would not care about a small figure like him!

But after he had desperately run some distance away, he heard Su Lifeng’s voice, which sounded like a death warrant.

“Stop. Don’t move.”

The guard’s footsteps halted at once. After an intense struggle in his heart, he slowly raised both hands. “Buddy, I only…”

“You’re my actual mission this time, aren’t you?” Su Lifeng cut him off the moment he opened his mouth. The guard’s heart jumped. A look of defeat then appeared on his face, and he resigned himself to turning around.

“Drop the gun,” Su Lifeng said after glancing at him. He was not afraid that the man would take the chance to fire. Although he seemed casual, his gaze had never left the man’s every move. Still, before the other side disarmed, he did not want to rashly approach such a high-ranking officer. Who knew whether he might still be hiding some high-tech trick on his body…

The button bomb he had obtained before had given Su Lifeng a preliminary understanding of modern high-tech military power, and that was this: never underestimate it at any time.

Clack! Clack!

The “guard”, or rather, the true commanding officer of this trip, had just thrown the two handguns he carried to Su Lifeng’s feet when he heard Su Lifeng continue coldly, “Keep your hands where I can see them. Stand over there.”

Then he looked toward the man who had served as the officer’s stand-in. The man was slumped by the wall in terror, seemingly still not recovered from the fear of having just been thrown out.

Only when he realized Su Lifeng was looking at him did he jerk violently and cry out despite himself, “I didn’t mean to! He made me say all those things. This… this was a mission. I couldn’t refuse…”

“Please, I’m a Shencheng local. My parents are both dead, but my newly married wife is still in Shencheng. I only did this so she could come in and reunite with me. Please!” the false “officer” begged again and again.

Su Lifeng had originally intended to finish him off at once. But seeing him crying with snot and tears all over his face, then looking at the real officer beside him, who was frowning and looked like he wished he could rush over and beat the man up, Su Lifeng changed his mind. “Go. Whether you can leave the tunnel alive will depend on you.”

“Huh? Really? Thank you! Thank you!” The man froze, then thanked him desperately. He struggled to his feet and ran toward the door.

But just as he reached it, Firebug suddenly blocked his way. The joy of surviving a disaster had not yet faded from the man’s face when he saw a black gun muzzle press against his forehead.

Bang!

Hearing the gunshot, the female soldier looked toward the door in astonishment. She had heard the man’s pleas, so Firebug must have heard them too. But after Su Lifeng agreed to let him go, Firebug had actually killed him…

“You had no right to let him go.” Firebug’s face looked even paler now. The area around his eyes was dark blue, and the hand holding the gun was trembling. A strange odor was already coming from his body, like rot.

“You…” The female soldier had only just opened her mouth when she abruptly turned her head toward Su Lifeng. “What are you doing?”

This was the first time Su Lifeng had heard the female soldier’s voice. Unlike her icy appearance, her voice was unexpectedly soft.

But Su Lifeng’s attention was not on her right now. He walked straight toward Firebug.

“What do you want?” Firebug also seemed not to have expected Su Lifeng to approach him without a word. He immediately raised the gun muzzle a little higher as a threat. But when he realized Su Lifeng had no intention of slowing down, his finger began to tremble as well.

A rigid sensation slowly spread from his fingertips into his arm. Firebug stared fixedly at Su Lifeng, who was getting closer and closer, and beads of cold sweat instantly broke out across his forehead. “I’m warning you…”

“Don’t start a fight.” The female soldier rushed up. She could not possibly attack Su Lifeng to stop him, so she could only stand in front of Firebug. “He was wrong, but you really shouldn’t have let someone go on your own either.”

With the female soldier blocking him, Firebug immediately felt the pressure that had nearly suffocated him loosen all at once. But at that moment, he felt the wound on his arm twitch violently, and a pain beyond description instantly spread through his entire body.

“Ah!”

As Firebug suddenly let out a scream, Su Lifeng had already reached the female soldier and said, “Move.”

The female soldier’s pupils contracted. It had probably been a long time since anyone had spoken to her like that. But as Firebug abruptly screamed, in the next second she heard a strange, teeth-aching sound behind her.

Before she could react, Su Lifeng had already grabbed her arm and pulled her aside. A Black Thread brushed past her ear and slammed into the Bone Wing Su Lifeng had instantly raised in front of himself.

“A Xenospecies? Why would there be a Xenospecies here?” For a moment, the female soldier could not react.

“Ah!” Firebug’s screams continued, and so did that eerie cracking sound.

After Su Lifeng shoved her aside, the female soldier quickly turned her head. Her pupils immediately shrank.

So this was what Su Lifeng had meant when he told her to “keep an eye on him”?!

The Black Thread blocked by Su Lifeng was only one strand that had burrowed out of Firebug’s wound.

As more and more Black Threads constantly drilled out, Firebug’s arm had already swollen. It was covered in bloody, pulpy bulges. Every time one protruded, a Black Thread tore through the skin and emerged.

The gun Firebug had been holding had already fallen to the floor. He screamed continuously, his eyes filled with both agony and a violent, savage aura.

“What right… do you have… you… ah!!!”

Seeing this, even the female soldier’s always calm expression filled with horror. “What’s happening to him?”

“It doesn’t seem to be absorption. Looks like Xenospecies really have undergone a huge change…” Su Lifeng said. Then he glanced at the female soldier. “Go bring that officer over.”

“Then… what about you?” The female soldier looked at Firebug again and asked, forcing herself to stay calm.

Su Lifeng flicked both hands, revealing two scalpels. “This is my field.”