Chapter 876: Binding the Birth System to Become a Winner in Life Chapter 877 Global Evolution (37)

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

The support squad had been integrated in advance, and all its members were ability users.

Ability users could use their abilities, and self-preservation wasn't too much of a concern; rather, some disagreements had arisen during their planning arrangements. The support squad wanted to deal with the monsters while also handling the mutated ginkgo trees and vines, because behind them was an official mission, and Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng and others had gone missing after failing to complete it. They couldn't just ignore it.

Wei Ran:...

When did they still care about missions? Wasn't the top priority to find the people? Although they said the probability of survival was low, what if there was a miracle? These were all things that could possibly happen.

In the end, both sides took a step back. The support squad mainly dealt with the monsters and the mutated ginkgo trees and vines, while Wei Ran arranged manpower to search for Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng and others.

Cheng Nan raised her hand and tugged at Wei Ran's sleeve, telling her absolutely not to be angry. It was all for the official mission, and what the support squad said wasn't wrong. If the dangers here weren't cleared, trouble would arise when the shelter relocated in the future—that would be the root of disaster planted now.

Shen Chengyi didn't care about their petty squabbles; what she cared about most were those human-faced monsters.

Mainly because these monsters were strange, and once they attacked, the mutated ginkgo trees and vines would react along with them.

The support squad wanted to solve these troubles right now, but Shen Chengyi felt it was better not to hold too much hope. Neither side was a soft persimmon that could be easily handled.

Leaving some injured members to rest in place, including the few people previously rescued from the pit, Wei Ran carefully arranged matters inside the building before going with Cheng Nan to organize the tools needed for departure.

The backpacks contained emergency equipment and rescue supplies, plus compressed biscuits for filling the stomach and clean water.

Shen Chengyi didn't bring as much as Wei Ran, but Shen Chengyi herself had a space, and the things inside were enough for her to deal with various problems. Once a problem really appeared, Shen Chengyi could only save herself first.

But if it really came to that, even if Shen Chengyi survived, she'd have no small trouble, and even Shen Yao and the others living in the shelter would have to wander with her ahead of time.

"Ready? Then let's set off!"

A large group of people mightily headed toward the location of the mutated ginkgo tree. Half the trucks were driven away, and the rest were left for the injured members to deal with possible dangers.

Leaning against the corner of the truck compartment with eyes closed to rest, Shen Chengyi was originally not much of a talker. She was organizing today's intelligence information.

First, she definitely had to consider her own safety. Second, she had to prioritize dealing with those human-faced monsters. These creatures, which completely defied evolutionary logic, the longer they existed, the more they would impact their order.

Shen Chengyi still held her long blade in hand. The firearm allocated to her was not to be placed at her waist. The protective suit wrapped around her body was actually not comfortable, but at this time, moving outside, without these measures it would be even harder to take a single step.

Wei Ran and Cheng Nan were still communicating about the search for people. The squad asking for help couldn't be counted on, and their own squad had just finished being busy for a while. Those who could recover continued on missions, and those who truly couldn't get up stayed in the building to rest.

They didn't have enough people on hand. After carefully calculating and sorting through, the two finally shrugged and sighed in unison. It wasn't that they didn't want to save old teammates; they could only say they would do their best.

With the experience from the morning, this time arriving at the location of the mutated ginkgo tree saved a lot of time.

Shen Chengyi jumped down from the truck, with Wei Ran and Cheng Nan following beside her.

Originally Wei Ran and Cheng Nan each had their own team members arranged, but because of the support squad, the people Wei Ran and Cheng Nan brought were directly integrated. The original Deputy Captain Liu stayed at the building to manage, and now here Wei Ran and Cheng Nan were responsible for arrangements.

Shen Chengyi stepped back into the position of Deputy Captain, with only the human-faced monsters in her mind.

Of course, she hadn't forgotten Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng and others who were still missing. If there was an opportunity, she would definitely look for them and strive to bring them back.

After organizing her backpack, checking her tools, and confirming there were no problems, Shen Chengyi first told Wei Ran about her leaving the team.

This time the support squad was responsible for the main attack, while others helped with auxiliary support. Shen Chengyi's ability was special, and combined with her outstanding performance last time, she needed to take on the position of bait or the one who initiates the team fight, prioritizing drawing out those hidden human-faced monsters.

Wei Ran pursed her lips. "Be careful."

This was a plan they had discussed from the beginning. Shen Chengyi wasn't purely giving without return; everything she did could earn official rewards. As the saying goes, it was resource exchange.

Shen Chengyi had no objection. Wei Ran wanted to say something but couldn't open her mouth. She watched Shen Chengyi leave quickly. Cheng Nan walked up to Wei Ran and raised her hand to pat her. "Rest assured. She is the strongest in the team." If it really came to the worst, the other party's possibility of survival was greater than theirs.

Wei Ran was annoyed. "That's easy to say, but Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng and them also accidentally fell into a trap, right? Their two abilities combined are greater than two. She and Cheng Nan joining forces can barely handle them."

"Don't think too much. Go check your equipment again. It's time to act."

The longer time dragged on, the more disadvantageous it was for them. After night fell, the temperature would drop sharply. Although they were all wearing protective suits, this thing was easily torn. How did the injured members left in the building come to be? The vast majority were because their clothes were insufficient to support them in outdoor activities, so they could only shrink back to the temporary camp.

Wei Ran glanced at the sniper rifle Cheng Nan held in her arms, then turned to check the equipment of other team members.

Firearms were all prepared. This was one of the ability users' retreat routes. After all, when abilities were used up, if it was truly dangerous, they would rely on firearms to attack.

With the support squad taking the lead, Wei Ran and Cheng Nan led the others to follow, maintaining a certain distance from each other and cooperating with the other side in using ability attacks.

The human-faced monsters had long since disappeared, and the large pit originally dug had been filled flat.

The mutated ginkgo tree was awakened by the support squad. After all, it was standing quietly in place and was inexplicably attacked. Even a plant couldn't stand that.

The mutated ginkgo tree counterattacked. Not only did it counterattack, but also the vines bound together with the mutated ginkgo tree. Their abilities weren't considered offensive, but they happened to be able to cooperate with each other.

The support squads had long received relevant intelligence from Wei Ran. The fragrance of the vines had no effect, and the camouflage of the mutated ginkgo tree was seen through by them.

For a moment, the mutated ginkgo tree and vines fell into a passive state of being attacked. The support squad gained the upper hand, as if they could soon deal with them.

Whoosh!

The sound of breaking air exploded in the ears of the support squad. They subconsciously retreated and lowered their heads. Sure enough, the flat ground began to sink. The human-faced monsters that had lost their tracks revealed their appearances that would make one lose sanity points just by looking.

Support Squad:...

Even though they had made psychological preparations, when these things emerged from the ground, they still found their preparations were a bit lacking.

Tsk

The fire and metal element ability users stepped forward. First, they manifested a sea of fire to burn these human-faced monsters. Then the metal element turned into a long sword, stirring all the burned human-faced monsters into a mess.

The mutated ginkgo tree and vines also reacted. Their crazily swinging branches attacked these human-faced monsters, even ignoring the support squad. It was as if some hatred attraction intelligence existed, and the human-faced monsters had the highest hatred value.

Seizing the opportunity, the support squad immediately counterattacked. They weren't attacking the mutated ginkgo tree; they hadn't gone so far as to burn the bridge after crossing. Their target was still those human-faced monsters that made one lose sanity points with just a glance.

The fire attack was effective, and the metal element ability was useful. Other ability users stood by throwing skills as auxiliary support. The situation on the scene became clear.

Just when they thought it would continue like this, an accident happened again.

Those human-faced monsters, after being burned by fire, slowly gathered together, melted, and combined, turning into even stranger four-not-likes.

What was this thing?

A creepy feeling was like invisible thin threads tightly wrapped around the support squad members. The commander standing at the front ordered everyone to retreat. The fire and metal element ability users who were originally attacking found their abilities had no effect on the four-not-like. The other party could ignore these abilities and counterattack.

The madness of the mutated ginkgo tree and vines escalated further. Even these two somewhat strange plants attacked the melted-and-combined four-not-like without regard for anything, not even glancing at the support squad.

Shen Chengyi, who had left earlier, returned; a bolt of lightning ability struck the Four-Nots, but this ghostly thing was remarkably sturdy — it merely shuddered and did not fall.

Hm?

"Damn, this is absurd?!" Wei Ran panicked; can they beat these things! Are Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng and the others still salvageable?

Cheng Nan gripped the sniper rifle in her arms, muzzle trained on the Four-Nots ahead; for a long while she only aimed without firing, clearly she was also weighing the pros and cons.

Firearms most likely have no effect on this monster, but if abilities lose their function, firearms cannot serve an attack role either — then what can they do?

Wei Ran and Cheng Nan did not know; the support squad evidently was not very clear either.

"Standing there doing what? Use the tools in your hands, restrict their movement."

Shen Chengyi's voice exploded in everyone's ears; ignoring the dumbfounded crowd, Shen Chengyi went about her own business — although the lightning ability could only scratch an itch, it would restrict the Four-Nots' actions; then, taking advantage of the opening, have the wood-type ability users release rattan strips to bind them.

The Four-Nots were bound and brought down; they had great strength but could not break free of the rattan strips on their bodies, because the rattan strips were things catalyzed by wood-type abilities.

"Think of a way to deal with them," Shen Chengyi pointed at the restrained Four-Nots, thinking to herself these things are not easy to handle; if they don't research a method, next time they encounter them it will still be troublesome.

Really think only here has them, other places don't? Shen Chengyi suspected the entire world is undergoing inconceivable and logic-defying changes; it's just that the face monsters here were discovered by them first, giving them the initiative.

The people who reacted gathered in twos and threes; the tools in their hands were not discarded; they looked at each other — you look at me, I look at you — and in the end it was still Wei Ran and Cheng Nan who stepped forward, experimentally each hacking a blade at a Four-Not.

Sure enough, just as imagined, the Four-Nots' entire bodies were hard like steel; ordinary knives, spears, swords, and halberds could not leave any marks at all.

Wei Ran and Cheng Nan: ……

What to do? Ability users are at their wits' end; the tools they use also have no effect.

Right

They still have firearms!

Wei Ran patted Cheng Nan, signaling this person to quickly stop treasuring her own sniper rifle; if not now, when?!

Cheng Nan: ……

In the end she still used her treasured bullets on the Four-Nots; at first she chose to attack the head, but this monster had little reaction; then she used bullets to attack the limbs, until the bullets passed through the Four-Nots' seemingly robust but actually fragile jointed limbs — they discovered this monster's weak point.

"At the joints where limbs connect!" Easy breakthrough, lowering the Four-Nots' aggressiveness.

Cheng Nan and Wei Ran immediately told the others around them the results they had experimented out.

One after another, support squad members tried; the result showed they really could resolve these headache-inducing monsters.

Huh?

So the solution was here!

Everyone became spirited; after all, no one wants to feed monsters, especially not under these circumstances — just thinking of the scene of having their faces taken away was unacceptable.

Shen Chengyi moved elusively, severing the Four-Nots' jointed limbs; simultaneously, she also discovered the Four-Nots' secret.

"Split along the joints, there's something inside!"

The voice exploded directly in everyone's ears; an absurd and terrifying thought involuntarily rose in Wei Ran's mind — could it be that Wang Hai and Gao Xuefeng and the others they had searched for so long are hidden inside the Four-Nots' bodies?

This is too perverted, too illogical!

The shock was not feigned; it's that the big guys all hadn't anticipated this point either — perhaps because digging out the truck earlier went too smoothly, they assumed Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng and the others must be waiting for them at some location.

They thought Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng and the others might die, but never imagined their deaths could be this stimulating — what kind of monster is this!

Wei Ran and Cheng Nan split open the Four-Nots' bodies along the joint break points, and smoothly found undigested severed limb remains inside.

As the squad's captain, she naturally recognized the team members' unified uniforms; these are protective suits specially prepared by the laboratory for the survival rate of field missions by the Official side; aside from those who go on missions, they rarely appear outside.

Cheng Nan patted Wei Ran's shoulder, silently pointing at the Four-Not she had split open.

The Four-Not's body had become a tool used to contain various items; and what Cheng Nan pointed at was shockingly a skull — although somewhat mutilated, it could still be matched to a person through the exposed skin.

"Wang Fei"

That very person who had gone on missions with her, who liked to take advantage but still had his own bottom line and principles.

One after another, human fragments were discovered; even though Wei Ran had braced herself, she was still wounded by the scene before her eyes — aside from the few dug out, all the rest had lost their lives.

The support squad fell into a rare silence; the estimates they voiced and the cruel reality they encountered still shocked them.

Only Shen Chengyi at the side continued single-mindedly severing the Four-Nots' jointed limbs, then tossing them one by one onto the original spot, tireless like a killing machine.