Chapter 229
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But before they could run over, the Anomaly Control Bureau collapsed with a thunderous roar, and a tall eerie figure staggered to its feet from the rubble of the building.
“A long-lost feeling,” it said.
It was the Anomaly Lord, who had already obtained the body of the former Anomaly Lord!
Lin You roared furiously into his earpiece, his face pale with anger, “What’s going on with the third line of defense? Why wasn’t the body of the Anomaly Lord destroyed at the last moment!”
“The third line of defense… has cultists… all deceased…”
The earpiece disconnected, Lin You ripped it off and forcefully threw it on the ground, revealing his wolf claws and charging forward. Fu Xuezhou was faster than him, instantly appearing in front of the Anomaly Lord, picking up the Tang blade and chopping off one of the Anomaly Lord’s arms.
The Anomaly Lord dodged awkwardly, not daring to face Fu Xuezhou’s attack head-on, and finally directly hid among the anomaly crowd.
Lou Yan calmly observed the rapid changes on the battlefield, with more blood in his eyes, dripping down from the corners of his eyes
Wiping the blood off his hand, Lou Yan continued to gaze at the Anomaly Lord.
The ability of “True Sight” ultimately had its limits. Faced with such a terrifyingly massive anomaly, Lou Yan couldn’t see whether the Anomaly Lord’s heart was inside its body or not.
However, except for the Anomaly Lord, Lou Yan’s eyes didn’t miss the location of the hearts of other anomalies.
Lou Yan straightforwardly said, “Leave the Anomaly Lord to Fu Xuezhou, we’ll go kill the other anomalies.”
He was preparing for the possibility that the heart of the Anomaly Lord wasn’t inside its body, so killing other anomalies was also important. Although Fu Xuezhou’s injuries hadn’t fully healed, his speed and strength were not at their peak, however, Lou Yan believed that he had the confidence to kill the Anomaly Lord.
But before taking action, Lou Yan quickly grabbed Li Sanxin and Lu Haoxiu, then turned to Duan Zege, “Has the anomaly in your body started to recover?”
Duan Zege shook his head, “I can still hold on.”
Lou Yan nodded, pointing out the locations of several anomaly hearts to him, instructing him to deal with them.
As soon as Duan Zege left, Lou Yan solemnly lifted Li Sanxin’s shirt, revealing Li Sanxin’s abdomen covered with veins. He turned to Lu Haoxiu, “Little Lu, try to extract the ghost baby from Sanxin’s belly.”
Lu Haoxiu was taken aback, remembering what Lou Yan had said to him before.
If the ghost baby in Li Sanxin’s belly revived, he better use “Extraction” to remove it, just like when he extracted the phone from the villager named Liu Kang’s belly in Liutree Village.
Lu Haoxiu pursed his lips and placed his hand on Li Sanxin’s belly. He closed his eyes to sense the position of the ghost baby, took a shallow breath, then opened his eyes firmly and said to Li Sanxin, “Sanxin, relax, trust me, I won’t let anything happen to you.”
Li Sanxin’s Adam’s apple rolled, his whole body stiffened, feeling strangely like Lu Haoxiu was an obstetrician delivering him, “I trust you, go ahead.”
“Relax, Sanxin.”
“… I’ll try my best.”
Lu Haoxiu sighed, then suddenly widened his eyes and looked behind Li Sanxin, “Sanxin, look, who’s that?”
Li Sanxin looked back in confusion.
Without hesitation, Lu Haoxiu immediately conjured a black hole in his palm. He inserted his hand into the black hole and, after a dozen seconds, pulled it out forcefully. A pale ghost baby clung tightly to Lu Haoxiu’s arm, biting his finger.
Lou Yan gave a thumbs-up to Lu Haoxiu, then pulled the ghost baby off him. He tore out the ghost baby’s heart and handed it to Li Sanxin, “Eat it.”
Li Sanxin: “??? What does that mean?”
“On this battlefield, having anomaly powers is safest for you,” Lou Yan raised an eyebrow. “You’re most familiar with the power of the ghost baby, so reuniting with it is most suitable for you.”
“No,” Li Sanxin puzzledly took the ghost baby’s heart, “Can this really work?!”
“Why not,” Lou Yan scoffed. “This is called secondary utilization. If it weren’t for these anomalies harming people, they would be infinitely recyclable new resources. Alright, don’t waste time, eat it quickly.”
“F*ck… you’re really a capitalist,” Li Sanxin said, holding the heart of the ghost baby.
He thought of how he had just separated from this thing, and now, after just a minute, he was going to merge with it again, which made him want to laugh bitterly. Li Sanxin sighed and, while taking big bites of the ghost baby’s heart, subconsciously reached out to touch his flat stomach, his eyes suddenly moistening.
Lu Haoxiu didn’t know what was happening either. He silently cried along, tears streaming down his face, biting his lips tightly to keep from making any sound.
Lou Yan was startled. “Seriously, Li Sanxin, you’re crying over eating the heart of an anomaly? Lu Haoxiu, why are you crying too?”
Lu Haoxiu choked out, “I remembered Little… Little Yu.”
If he had done this back then, would Little Yu have to absorb the anomaly power from Li Sanxin’s body? Would Little Yu have to die?
Before he could say the word “Little Yu”, Li Sanxin covered Lu Haoxiu’s mouth, his eyes red as he forced a smile at Lou Yan, “It’s okay, let’s deal with the anomalies first.”
Lou Yan looked at them both, as if realizing something. His face changed several times, his breathing suddenly becoming heavy. He clenched his fists tightly, then turned around with a stern face and rushed towards the group of anomalies.
Li Sanxin knew that Lou Yan had guessed what they hadn’t finished saying.
Little Yu…
Li Sanxin patted Lu Haoxiu on the shoulder, his voice hoarse, “As long as we can win, Little Yu won’t have died in vain.”
Lu Haoxiu couldn’t say a word, feeling like there was something stuck in his throat, making it hard to breathe. He could only nod vigorously, again and again.
…
Lou Yan went crazy slaughtering the anomalies, replenishing his mental energy frantically with recovery syringes when it was running low. The corpses of anomalies piled up like human corpses, yet Lou Yan popping dozens of anomaly hearts wasn’t enough to quell his anger—because none of these hearts belonged to the Anomaly Lord!
He glanced towards the direction of the Anomaly Lord, feeling nauseated.
The Anomaly Lord had actually fused with hundreds of surrounding anomalies into one entity. Its originally massive form had forcibly grown dozens of times larger, with countless tentacles, heads, eyes, and various bizarre anomaly features covering its body. If Wen Jiu’s appearance could score 90 points, then the Anomaly Lord’s current appearance was -99999 points.
Just one glance could make someone’s mind collapse. Fu Xuezhou stood in front of the Anomaly Lord, pitifully like a blade of grass in front of a python.
Lou Yan sympathized with Fu Xuezhou having to face this ugly thing head-on, while feeling his own mental value plummeting. He bit his tongue hard to shift his gaze away, immediately notifying the others not to attempt to look at the Anomaly Lord.
However, the voice of the Anomaly Lord speaking couldn’t be stopped from penetrating everyone’s ears.
“Fu Xuezhou,” the voice was chaotic and obscure, thick with mystery, as if coming from a distant time and space, “Your friend is also inside my body, can you bear to make a move on him?”
The mental impact of the Anomaly Lord’s voice directly drove ordinary people insane. Talented individuals and semi-anomalies desperately injected themselves with mental recovery needles to stay awake.
Some ruthless individuals had already decisively pierced their eardrums, burying themselves in corners to avoid the mental impact.
Lou Yan was also affected, but he could withstand it.
But what did the Anomaly Lord mean?
Frowning, Lou Yan made mental preparations and looked again at the Anomaly Lord. He saw a small opening in the chest of the Anomaly Lord, and a head emerged from it, unmistakably Cui Ansheng’s face.
Cui Ansheng’s face was pale, covered in bloody mucus. He looked at Fu Xuezhou in pain and weakness, his voice weak, reduced to mere breaths, “Ah Zhou, please… save… save Xiao Bao…”
Fu Xuezhou’s expression was indifferent, his eyes suddenly turning crimson.
Tears streamed down Cui Ansheng’s cheeks as he painfully said, “Kill me… Ah Zhou… kill me…”
The flesh of the Anomaly Lord squirmed as it engulfed Cui Ansheng again, malevolently stating, “If you kill me, your friend will die too. Will you still act?”
Fu Xuezhou’s response was a charging figure. Fu Xuezhou’s Tang blade plunged into the place where Cui Ansheng was swallowed, calmly saying, “I’ll kill him first.”
Fu Xuezhou forcefully pulled out the Tang blade, pulling half of Cui Ansheng’s body out of the Anomaly Lord’s body, with the Tang blade inserted into Cui Ansheng’s chest.
Cui Ansheng made a “hehe” sound from his throat, gasping for a few breaths of fresh air, the mucus on his body dripping down. Cui Ansheng looked at the sky, feeling the freedom of the wind. His pupils took on the color of life, then gradually turned grayish, “Thank you… Ah Zhou… take care of Xiao Bao for me…”
“Xiao Bao…”
Cui Ansheng seemed to see Xiao Bao at the end of his life, calling his younger brother’s name reluctantly, reaching out his fingers to the air, then slowly lowering his head.
Fu Xuezhou quietly watched Cui Ansheng for two seconds, then suddenly lifted his eyelids, his crimson eyes firmly locked on the Anomaly Lord.
His silver hair danced in the windless air as he swung it wildly in the air. Fu Xuezhou’s aura rose inch by inch, his Tang blade held horizontally in front of him, the cold light reflecting on his handsome brows and eyes. Fu Xuezhou suddenly revealed a smile.
“Next, I’ll kill you.”
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