Chapter 327

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

The situation is far from optimistic, and it's not just talk.

After Wei Mingyu and Wei Chengyan, father and son, left, the atmosphere in Hope City District quickly took a turn for the worse.

Although communications were cut and network signals were damaged, many unverified pieces of news were still spreading everywhere.

Staff like Shen Yao had already been given leave by the authorities; apart from the supermarket and mall, the only place they could go was to stay at home.

But what was there to stay at home for? Without news, it was like a headless fly.

After failing to get through on the satellite phone again, Wei's mother cursed furiously.

Wei's father helplessly comforted Wei's mother with words, telling her not to be nervous, and that if something really happened, the authorities would notify the family members first.

"Can't you speak properly? Are you doing this on purpose to anger me?" Wei's mother glared and scowled, wishing she could sew shut Wei's father's mouth that couldn't speak.

Wei's father:...

Wei's father turned his head to look out the window, feeling wronged and aggrieved, while Wei Minzhi shrank her neck, not daring to go near Wei's mother, who was very angry.

Shen Yao stood at the balcony entrance; this place had light on three sides, and the small space cut out was used for planting vegetables. Now the vegetables grew lush and green, but received no praise from their owner.

"System, have they started?" It was still a bright and sunny day; who would have thought the suburbs had already become a mess.

"Yeah, mutant beasts can run, fly, and jump; sooner or later they'll rush in."

The mutant beasts this time had a very special appearance, like products of several genes fused together.

The mutant beasts that attacked the city before each had their own strengths and weaknesses, but this time nothing could be found; the only thing that could be said was that they didn't like water.

It was just dislike, not fear; they could even swim in water.

The system was dumbfounded by this kind of evolution, even suspecting that they were the darlings of this planet, and that humans would most likely suffer at the hands of mutant beasts.

Sighing in various ways, what they said most was still worry about their mission.

Everything else was fake; only the mission was the purpose of their transmigration. Without this mission as an arrow shield, they couldn't be as carefree as they were now.

"Start preparing in advance," they were still in the city; if something really happened, no one in all of Hope City could escape.

Twitching the corner of her mouth, Shen Yao stopped chatting idly with the system. She turned around and closed the open balcony door, then ran to the bathroom herself to fetch several buckets of water.

Hearing the movement in the bathroom, Wei's mother and Wei Minzhi came over immediately upon hearing the news.

Seeing Shen Yao fetching water, although they didn't understand, they also lent a hand.

"The water at home might not be enough; we should fetch a few more buckets to be prepared. People have always been big consumers of water; clothing, food, housing, and transportation all depend on it."

Besides, the weather recently was neither cold nor hot; it wasn't necessary to bathe and clean every day, but they still needed to rinse off every now and then. Using all the few plastic buckets at home, the water they could fetch was not a meager amount.

Wei's mother simply took two collapsible water buckets from the storage room; they could hold more water, but usually weren't of much use.

"Take this one; it holds more," she placed it in the corner of the bathroom, so that whoever in the family needed it wouldn't have to move it back and forth.

Wei Minzhi clapped her palm, smiling as she hooked arms with Wei's mother, acting coquettish and clever.

The atmosphere at home became lively as they talked; by noon, after eating a meal full of color, fragrance, and flavor, the initial tension was long gone.

They didn't go out in the afternoon and each went back to their room to sleep, but this sleep was a bit short. Before Shen Yao woke up naturally, the system in her head jumped out to notify her that those mutant beasts had already rushed in.

Shen Yao:?...!!!

Getting up and running to the balcony to look out, Shen Yao used the telescope's function and saw several small black spots at the edge of the sky.

She immediately closed the balcony, gathered and put away the shelves beside her, woke up the family members who were still sleeping, and tried calling the authorities or Wei Mingyu herself.

As expected, she couldn't get through; the satellite phone showed busy just like before.

Shen Yao:...

With a click, Shen Yao threw the satellite phone in her hand onto the table and took out the weapons kept at home.

"Sister-in-law, what's wrong?" Wei Minzhi was still a bit dazed, looking silly, with two cowlicks sticking up on her head.

"Mutant beasts are coming; I'm not sure if they'll attack our side," but she also wasn't sure they were definitely safe.

Before she finished speaking, Wei Minzhi immediately realized the situation was somewhat urgent.

She hurriedly picked up an iron rod and held it in her hand, then shouted for Wei's father and Wei's mother.

Wei Chengning and Wei Chengen were in the rooms; for safety's sake, Shen Yao had already sent them to the storage room without windows.

The remaining adults all held weapons and stayed in the living room, waiting for the mutant beasts that kept flying toward them.

They hadn't thought about hiding, but they weren't children without the strength to truss a chicken, and mutant beast attacks had happened before. They knew the best way to deal with these mutant beasts was not to hide, but to kill them all.

Children hid because adults protected them; if this group of adults hid, it would truly be like meat buns beating a dog—gone and never returning.

"Everyone, perk up; mutant beasts have wings and are hard to deal with," especially since they also had needle-like mouthparts that could easily pierce human skin and leave scars.

Shen Yao remembered the authorities had once popularized the method to kill these mutant beasts: chopping off their heads was the fastest and most reliable route.

Of course, the reason mutant beasts were called mutant beasts was because their bodies had undergone mutation and were no longer comparable to ordinary animals.

Chopping off their heads sounded simple and easy, but actually doing it was not easy; those without strength or insufficient power couldn't do it.

Moreover, they had to guard against the mutant beasts' counterattacks and attacks during the fight; generally, several people working together to handle one mutant beast was more reliable.

The mutant beasts flying in this time weren't too many, and the population density in the city was greater than imagined; it wasn't certain if it would be their turn.

Four people each took a side and stood firm; Shen Yao still held the telescope in her hand to observe.

Half an hour passed, and the black spots at the edge of the sky grew larger and larger.

Good news: these mutant beasts hadn't appeared at their home.

Bad news: two mutant beasts had landed in the residential compound, and there was one right below their building.

"On the tenth floor," screams and the sound of breaking windows continued nonstop. Shen Yao lowered her head and quickly glanced, then carried a bucket of water from the bathroom and placed it to one side, preparing.

Water had been brought up and some still lay scattered on the ground, turning the originally dry floor wet and slick.

Shen Yao didn't mind, instead taking out a few towels and handing them to the three people around her.

"Water can make these mutant beasts wary, but it doesn't play a decisive role." To survive, they still had to act and kill.

Shen Yao rubbed against her own body while watching the situation on the tenth floor.

The outlook was not optimistic; the mutant beast was a full three meters long, its four limbs long and thin, and the mouthparts on its maw were about half a meter in size.

Bitten by such a thing, their slender arms and legs simply couldn't withstand it.

Fortunately, the clothes they wore were fairly thick, guaranteeing bodily flexibility without needing to add anything else; otherwise Shen Yao felt this bit of time would be completely insufficient.

With the incident on the tenth floor, the whole building began to grow unstable, and that mutant beast indeed flew upward from the tenth floor.

They currently lived on the eighteenth floor; given the mutant beast's skill and capability, barring any accident, it would only need ten-odd minutes to come up.

Shen Yao glanced at Wei Minzhi, having her hide behind her; opposite them, Wei Father shielded Wei Mother, the family of four standing at the living room window side, the drawn curtains just blocking most of the light and the tragic scene outside.

"It's here, everyone prepare!"

Shen Yao shouted abruptly, and along with the sound of the window shattering, the mutant beast flying in directly assaulted their eyes and ears.

Subconsciously waving the horizontal blade in her hand, Shen Yao chopped onto the mutant beast's torso in one go; the blade rang *bang bang* but did not injure the mutant beast, only leaving white marks — it didn't even break its defense.

Shen Yao:... As expected, high attack high defense; ordinary tools have absolutely no effect whatsoever.

While Shen Yao acted, Wei Minzhi hiding behind her had already lifted the water bucket and splashed it at the mutant beast.

Of course, she definitely couldn't lift it, so her splashing effect wasn't very good; the water stains on the ground were even more than the water splashed out.

Wei Mother and Wei Father also moved, the two mutually helping watch and guard, striking at the mutant beast's neck; alas, still no defense break — the mutant beast's body was sturdy enough, swaying as if nothing had happened.

Shen Yao had the others fall back, herself backhand-grabbing the axe to the side and chopping down.

Gauging her own strength, seizing the timing, this time she directly injured the mutant beast's relatively fragile neck; the stimulated, frenzied mutant beast made the living room even more chaotic.

A frenzied mutant beast doesn't care whether there are people; perhaps people are even better — they and humans are completely not on the same menu.

Shen Yao dodged left and right, occasionally finding a gap to continue chopping at the mutant beast's already injured neck with the axe.

The mutant beast grew even more furious; Shen Yao looked extremely bedraggled.

Wei Father and Wei Mother couldn't help; Wei Minzhi could only hold water and splash splash splash everywhere — as for whether it had any use, it looked better than nothing.

"Sister-in-law, another mutant beast has flown over from the other side." Originally two were working separately; now the one before them was injured and acting up, their family couldn't handle it.

"Go to the window side and scoop water to splash out first." Her stamina was already flagging, so the mutant beast before them had to be dealt with first.

Her strikes instantly became more fierce; Shen Yao held nothing back, and conveniently had the system cheat as well.

That mutant beast's needle-tip-sized brain capacity — how could it contend with Shen Yao? In the end it met its demise, head and body separated, lying dead on the ground.

*Huff*

Shen Yao exhaled, turning her head to look at that mutant beast outside continuously approaching.

Good news: after coming over, this mutant beast somehow ran off again, no longer continuing to attack them.

Bad news: they had to promptly clean up this mutant beast's body, otherwise it would easily attract other mutant beasts over.

Shen Yao waved her hand to have the others help, herself holding the axe and chopping chop chop at the already dead mutant beast in various ways.

The force in her hands was great; to the mutant beast cut into pieces by her, she was a living King of Hell who slaughtered beasts like hemp.

Wei Mother washed the floor with water, incidentally cleaning up all the bloodstains. "We can't leave them in the house; shall we throw them out?"

Shen Yao shook her head. "Send them to the downstairs property management; they'll hand them over to the Official channels."

Although satellite phones currently can't be used, every residential compound has a special channel.

This time they killed a mutant beast; sending it up will definitely bring no small benefit.

Wei Father helped, and with Wei Mother they tidied up; seeing the compound's situation stabilize, they hurriedly carried it down.

Shen Yao went to the bathroom and washed her body, rinsing clean that whole body of smell.

After all, the mutant beast's body odor was somewhat foul, and the mutant beast grew ugly — simply a double torture of smell and sight; that Shen Yao could endure without vomiting was due to her proper self-care.

By the time she came out fresh and clean, Wei Father and Wei Mother returned empty-handed.

At the same time, they brought news that wasn't good: the entire compound suffered damage as high as thirty percent.

The mutant beasts in their building could die thanks to Shen Yao plus system cheating; mutant beasts on other floors truly came and went as if in an uninhabited realm, killing in and out with absolutely no threat, just like going out for a buffet trip — now full and satisfied, they left.

But the mutant beasts left; the desolation left behind could not be ignored.

Crying and cursing voices appeared in the compound, intermittent, making one empathize.

"Sigh, after this ordeal, quite a few have become solitary widows and widowers."

Mutant beasts aren't Bodhisattvas; how could they not eat meat? Fragrant human flesh is the top choice on their menu.

This mutant beast attack — only two entered their compound and it was this tragic; what about other compounds? Perhaps even more tragic than this.

Shen Yao sighed helplessly; she seemed unable to help much, because what she could do wasn't much — protecting her own family from harm was already her utmost; going further to consider other things would be a bit asking too much of a person.

Fortunately, not considering those, Shen Yao comforted Wei Father and Wei Mother a couple of sentences, cleaned up the messy living room, and each returned to their rooms to rest.

This sleep — when Shen Yao opened her eyes again, the sky was already dark; looking at the myriad household lights outside the window, she stood up and rarely shook her head.

Mm, slept too much; it really feels a bit uncomfortable.

Not knowing what she was thinking, Shen Yao got off the bed, put on her shoes, and came to the living room.

The living room already had people; the broken window had also been reinstalled with new glass.

Wei Mother was in the kitchen cooking; seeing Shen Yao come out, she hurriedly asked how her body was.

Just having experienced such a major event, those with poor health would fall sick.

Shen Yao's body was robust; she wouldn't be frightened by this trivial matter. Smiling, she shook her head, reached out to help, and together with Wei Mother brought the dishes onto the table.

A family gathered together to eat; no words, all silence.

This was no wonder; the crying in the compound hadn't ended — perhaps this kind of heavy atmosphere would persist for several days; to move past it, unless the suburbs side could stabilize.

There were no entertainment activities in the evening either; or rather, because of this mutant beast incident, the entire Hope City interior was very oppressive, as if holding something back.

Shen Yao, resigned, finished her meal, walked off the food a while, then accompanied Wei Chengning and Wei Chengen in play for a bit, until before long they each returned to their rooms to continue sleeping.

The System was still watching the lively scene in the suburbs; currently the two sides were fighting in a deadlock, and it was unknown who would win out in the end.

In the System's view, humans still had the assurance, because humans held large-scale destructive weapons; those mutant beasts were capable, yes, but relying solely on themselves to fight alone, how could they compare to humans? Crowd-control weapons are not something single-person weapons can compare to.