Chapter 169 – Who Said I Was Here to Reason with You?

“He shouldn’t be able to dodge this time, right?” The youth relaxed inwardly and thought.

After firing three arrows in a row, a hint of exhaustion appeared on his face. This was the first time he had needed three arrows to shoot one person dead. Generally speaking, Xenospecies reacted faster than Mutants, but even when facing Xenospecies, he only needed two arrows to finish off a target, especially with Weiliao’s cooperation.

That young man dressed rather cleanly looked completely stunned now. He did not even struggle.

“Did he just give up?” At the crossbow youth’s urging, Wang Chuan was inserting a steel strip into the gap of the car window, but he soon stopped, because once Su Lifeng died, they could take the keys directly from his body. Although searching a corpse still repelled him a little, it was only a matter of feeling slightly uncomfortable inside.

He glanced at Weiliao. Listening to her “directions,” he felt extremely gloomy. When he heard the televised speech and learned that the world truly had changed, his first reaction had naturally been a blank mind. Then a violent feeling had surged up in his heart. At the time, he had picked up a knife at random and prepared to knock open his neighbor’s door.

There was a little girl in the neighbor’s home. He remembered running into her by chance at the door. But now he did not want to think about anything. He only wanted to brutalize that little girl. The apocalypse was here anyway!

Unfortunately, he had gone one step too late. When he came out again, he ran into Weiliao’s group. At first, his purpose had been to find a chance to make a move on Weiliao, but for one thing, there was a fairly strong crossbow youth there. For another…

This girl had suddenly become even stronger than him!

That was simply enough to depress him to death…

At this moment, however, Weiliao was staring fixedly at Su Lifeng, and a deeply ominous premonition suddenly arose in her heart.

In her eyes, Su Lifeng’s body temperature abruptly soared quite a bit. For an ordinary person, that temperature would absolutely count as a high fever, but for a Mutant, it meant the whole body had become active.

“Careful…” Weiliao had just opened her mouth when she saw Su Lifeng suddenly tilt his head before the arrow reached him. The angle was extremely precise. It reduced the movement to the smallest possible range while narrowly avoiding the first arrow.

This scene happened in the blink of an eye. By the time the crossbow youth reacted, Su Lifeng had already raised his hand and slapped exactly onto the second arrow, which he could not completely dodge.

That slap was likewise so precise it made one’s tongue click in astonishment. It was difficult to imagine that in a split instant, someone could make such a calm, inhuman judgment. Of course, for Su Lifeng, the time he used was only one second. But within that second, his attention was highly focused. He stared at the arrows. In his eyes and in his heart, there were only the arrows.

After two arrows missed in succession, the Bone Wings behind Su Lifeng had already spread open, and his entire body shot like a cannonball to the crossbow youth in a flash. The crossbow youth had only just managed to lift his crossbow again when, in the next moment, pain tore through his shoulder, and his body was lifted into the air.

Before he could make any response, Su Lifeng had already driven the scalpel into his throat.

The crossbow youth stared at Su Lifeng with wide eyes. Blood instantly sprayed from his neck. In the next moment, Su Lifeng threw him onto the ground.

From Su Lifeng dodging the arrows to the youth being killed, everything happened far too fast. Only when the corpse was tossed to the ground did Wang Chuan abruptly react. His earlier absent-minded thoughts immediately filled with panic!

No way. That was… it? He had killed him?!

Weiliao stared blankly at Su Lifeng, then suddenly let out a scream.

“Anyone who runs, dies,” Su Lifeng said, only giving them that calm reminder.

As they watched the Bone Wings beating lightly behind him, the minds of the people there went almost completely blank.

But someone misjudged his own running ability. A young man standing farthest away let his eyes flicker, then decided to ignore Su Lifeng’s warning. He slowly shifted one step back, then suddenly turned and sprinted toward a nearby alley.

“Bang!”

The moment his body left the ground, it slammed hard into the wall. His face and head burst into a bloody pulp like an exploding watermelon. Su Lifeng turned around and proved his warning through action, letting the group further understand just how terrifying his speed was.

“I won’t say it a second time,” Su Lifeng said.

“I…” Wang Chuan swallowed, wanting to speak.

Weiliao forced herself to step forward and ask, “If we don’t run, will you let us go?”

Two companions had died in just a few seconds, and Weiliao’s eyes were already reddening.

Su Lifeng frowned. “Let you go?”

Let them go? Hadn’t they been the ones who tried to make a move first?

Looking at their expressions, Su Lifeng felt that they had selectively forgotten the fact that they had been the ones to provoke him. After seeing his overwhelming strength, these people had automatically placed themselves on the weak side.

“Seeing as you drive such a special car, you’re military, right? Or connected to the military?”

Weiliao pressed on. When Su Lifeng did not answer, she continued, “Forget it. The military has never really treated survivors as people anyway. I have a special ability. My eyes can work like infrared, and I can use the heat images I see to predict a target’s next move. We only wanted to find a car and leave for a Safe City. That’s all. So I can stay and work for you, as long as you let my friends go. They didn’t do anything just now, did they? And you’ve already killed two of us…”

Before the girl could finish, Su Lifeng cut her off impatiently. “I don’t need you.”

What did he care why they had wanted to steal his car and kill him? Did they expect him to understand?

Weiliao frowned, still wanting to say more, only to hear Su Lifeng continue, “Even if you hugged your head and sobbed right now, it wouldn’t do the slightest bit of good. I won’t pity you because of your tears. Understand? The only reason I haven’t killed you yet is because I think you still have some use. Don’t burn through what little patience I have left.” At this point, he sneered. “Those two bodies are still warm. What gave you the illusion that I might show mercy? Or do you think that because I’m alone, if you killed me only one person would die, so it would be terribly unfair for me to kill two of you?”

“You…” Weiliao bit her lip, unable to speak, but her expression made it clear that this really was what she thought.

Su Lifeng could not be bothered to reason with them. When the Xenospecies invaded the human world, part of humanity’s morality had already collapsed. By now, that collapse would only become worse. Hadn’t the people in the Quarantine Zone already become unable to act completely normal? They never thought about fairness when they killed, but when they were the ones being threatened, they wanted the other side to be reasonable. What a joke.

“Idiot.” As Su Lifeng passed Weiliao, he shook his head.