Chapter 1041: Escape

Wen Ya! Contact Yun Tian immediately!

Inside the returning spirit energy fighter, a blood corpse has gone berserk!

In the Soviet War Zone, the moment Lin An realized the blood corpse had lost contact, he quickly used the team comms to reach Wen Ya at the base.

Beside him, Mo Ling tightly gripped Lin An's arm, her eyes full of self-reproach.

Two out-of-control blood corpses hid in the fighter's belly; if an accident occurred, she could imagine how much loss it would bring to the base.

The blood-flesh puppet that Wang Kun turned into is fine—at most equivalent to a slightly stronger Second Level Mutant.

The real trouble is the Heartless Puppet that Li Lei turned into! Once that puppet breaks free, or if no one on scene can stop it, relying solely on eating corpses to evolve, it will reach Third Rank in a short time! If any further mutation occurs, it will undoubtedly become a Corpse King.

Noticing Mo Ling's guilty feeling, Lin An quickly recalled everything and spoke calmly:

There shouldn't be a big problem.

The fighter's return to Long An has been over a day.

If the two puppets inside had gone out of control and caused damage, the base should have contacted me long ago.

Barring accidents, those two puppets, after losing control, would still be lying in there.

That's how I judged it.

But Lin An also knew the reason the puppets caused no damage was very likely because the fighter hadn't been opened yet.

Without seeing human puppets, instinctively they would remain still like corpses.

But once opened and released, the two out-of-control puppets would immediately kill anyone they saw!

Without blaming Mo Ling, Lin An constantly contacted Wen Ya, demanding the base prepare defenses, and at the same time immediately sent Gao Tian to summon AnXia to handle this.

The accident had nothing to do with Mo Ling.

Mo Ling had been unconscious all along; she didn't even know she had been brought to the Soviet War Zone.

All I can say is the problem lies with myself.

So many things happened in just a few days that after experiencing the Dream Meme, Lin An overlooked that Mo Ling had once placed the puppets inside before boarding.

There was no way; the puppets had hardly ever been deployed for battle from Yun Tian to him, so everyone subconsciously forgot about this!

Lin An... I'm sorry... I shouldn't have brought the puppets here.

Her voice thick with self-reproach, Mo Ling watched Lin An continuously issuing orders, thinking, and for a moment felt she had caused a huge trouble.

Turning back with a forced smile, Lin An slightly shook his head, indicating to Mo Ling that it wasn't a big deal.

It's fine.

Even if the Heartless Puppet breaks free, the base can handle it with its current strength.

The only trouble is that it knows how to flee, directly escaping the Safe Zone.

Whether the problem is serious or not, it's indeed not serious if it isn't.

If this had happened before, Lin An would definitely treat a puppet suspected of being able to grow to Third Rank going berserk as a major threat, with immense pressure.

But now, even if the worst outcome occurs, Lin An believes he can resolve it very well.

The only pity is that, after the puppet breaks free, there's a high probability it will cause harm to nearby people.

After waiting patiently,

One hour.

An urgent message from Long An also came through Wen Ya.

Lin An, just one hour and four minutes ago, the repair base sent word that the puppets had indeed broken free!

When the two puppets broke free, they killed four nearby maintenance workers and three members of the Awakened Ones guard squad that rushed over.

Yun Tian is seriously wounded!

Afterward, AnXia and the Red Clothed personally intervened, causing no major losses.

Just...

On the other end of the message, Wen Ya looked worried and paused a moment.

Although the one that Wang Kun turned into was recaptured and handed over to the Spirit Energy Tower for supervision, that Heartless Puppet simply ran away.

I don't know why, but from the moment it broke free it chose to flee! After I and An Jing Tian inquired about the situation, we suspect the Heartless Puppet has regained some intelligence! It seems to know it needs to escape first.

His face darkened, Lin An, hearing Wen Ya's news, instinctively recalled the scene where Li Lei transformed into the Heartless Puppet.

Regained... part of its intelligence?

After quickly asking about the Heartless Puppet's escape direction, Lin An didn't say much more, merely reissuing an order:

"It's escaped, so it's escaped. Next, let An Jing Tian lead the team, with the Red Clothed cooperating."

"First, find a way to locate the Heartless Puppet."

"If that guy really has regained some intelligence, he'll likely return to Linjiang; you must definitely stay on guard!"

After giving detailed instructions, Lin An lightly exhaled, his eyes flickering, not knowing what he was thinking.

Linjiang suburbs, wilderness.

Weeds overgrown, the cracked road surface occasionally revealing one or two rotting corpses reduced to white bone.

On the uninhabited outskirts, a blood-red zombie ran wildly like a human.

On the flesh-colored skull bare of skin, the withered mouth opened and closed.

"Fan... Bing"

"Ling... An"

Low growls echoed.

In the eyes of the running blood corpse, a flash of instinctive hatred passed.

Running in the sunset, it resembled a vengeful traveler heading toward the distant city.

"Eat..."

"Eat it!!"