Chapter 106: Instant Death Magic Arrow

The four-story office building next to the mall.

"Hurry!"

"Get the cart ready, hurry and follow me to the mall!"

Wang Teng kicked his still-sleeping companion and urged anxiously.

After Lin An's group got off the vehicle, he spotted Gao Tian, briefly observed, then quickly went downstairs.

As a relatively special summoning-type Awakened One, his awakened talent is a C-rank 【Self-Exploding Cicada】.

"Talent skill 【Self-Exploding Cicada】: Slightly increases will, after consuming mental power creates a spirit cicada with a maximum duration of 400 hours; after placing the spirit cicada, this summoned creature can automatically track the target and launch a suicidal self-explosion attack."

He wasn't stupid; Wang Teng experimented with his ability whenever he had nothing to do after the apocalypse broke out. After all, he clearly knew that an Awakened One's skill is the foundation of his survival.

After repeated trials, he found that his mental power could produce at most three Self-Exploding Cicadas per day.

After testing, he happily discovered that the Self-Exploding Cicada could be buried like a landmine at a fixed location, not needing to actively seek targets.

Although the Self-Exploding Cicada's damage is not high, each explosion's effect equals that of a hand grenade.

But in his ingenious idea, the originally target-seeking Self-Exploding Cicada became a warning landmine.

"Brother Wang, what's the situation? That monster's out again?!"

A youth with messy hair, wearing a blue work vest, rubbed his sleepy eyes anxiously and asked Wang Teng.

"Damn your mother! Another idiot came looking for death! Let's hurry in and grab some food!"

The blue-vest youth heard that and was pleased, then subconsciously asked:

"Brother Wang, did those people go in? Is there still a big spider inside?!"

"Cut the crap, I don't know if there's a spider in there!!"

"My Self-Exploding Cicada just exploded! I don't know why that monster left its nest!"

"It's definitely because that bunch made too much noise!"

"Round everyone up, follow me in!"

Wang Teng ignored the dazed vest-wearing guy, turned and sprinted to the first floor pushing a shopping cart.

Although he also wondered why this group hadn't entered the mall yet provoked the spider's frenzy, it was still a good thing.

Without the spider threat, with his strength as an Awakened One he could still hold out in the mall for a while.

Because he went downstairs too fast, after seeing Gao Tian act he gave up observing, so he didn't see Mo Ling activate her ability.

"Brother, everything's ready! Which floor are we heading to this time?!"

"Third floor! Enter through the elevator shaft!"

"Move gently, don't startle the pervert on the top floor!"

Excited, Wang Teng skillfully pushed the handcart and ran toward the mall.

He would just think of Gao Tian's arrow, a flicker of apprehension crossing his eyes.

Damn it, even a casual arrow's power is about the same as my skill, but luckily it looks like there's nothing special about it.

"Thump thump thump."

The eight people upstairs fled downstairs in a panic; the last girl to come down glanced fearfully at the dagger at Wang Teng's waist.

"What are you looking at?!"

Wang Teng snorted coldly, too many useless mouths to feed.

If his talent weren't defensive, needing people to help him with chores normally, he would have already thrown a few of these people out to feed the zombies.

Good-for-nothings who eat but don't work!

Likewise dressed in work clothes, a girl with a somewhat youthful face trembled at the sound.

That dagger is used to bleed them.

"Watch the 5 o'clock direction, a mutant has charged out."

Lin An calmly reminded everyone, Gao Tian took a deep breath and nodded firmly, his compound bow always kept in a ready-to-fire stance.

"Received, Lord Lin An!"

"We're not afraid!"

"With Lord Lin An here, these monsters are just delivering equipment!"

The twelve sports institute students at the base weren't worried, merely curiously gazing at the continuous sounds coming from the mall's first floor.

Lin An's performance that night left a fresh impression on everyone; upon learning it was only a first-rank mutant, they naturally had nothing to fear.

Among the twelve, two fit female sports students furtively glanced at Lin An's side profile, feeling some anticipation.

I don't know if I'll get to see Lord Lin An make a move again later...

Unlike males' reverence for the strong, females' perception of Lin An is more admiration.

"Here it comes."

Lin An spoke to remind Gao Tian, a massive amount of information was uploaded simultaneously.

"Boom!"

Suddenly a black shadow shot out from the mall entrance, the vehicle blocking the door was flung high into the air with a bang.

shh--Sha Sha-

As the vehicle crashed heavily to the ground, a giant spider with four pairs of compound eyes, its limbs spliced from human legs, appeared!

"Damn, what a disgusting monster!"

When human limbs appeared on the worm's body, everyone instinctively felt a creepy disgust.

Three meters tall, like a truck, the spider scuttled swiftly toward Mo Ling, its joint ends stark white bone spurs; each movement easily pierced the concrete floor, leaving a fingertip-deep pit.

"Judgment Eye!"

"Beep, detected a first-rank mutant: Marrow-sucking Spider!"

"Mutant traits: high speed, dark vision, web-spinning, brain-eating, armor-piercing claws."

Lin An activated Judgment Eye, marked the weakness, then passed it to Gao Tian.

Impatient, the instant he obtained the weakness, Gao Tian suddenly straightened his body, drew the bow and gathered power.

"Hunt locked!"

Dark-purple spiritual energy again covered his eyes, with no consumption of mental power as before.

This time, Gao Tian held his breath and focused, the bowstring in his hand almost pulled to the limit.

The dark-purple pattern spread from his palm to the bow like a charge.

One breath!

Two breaths!

The pattern gradually filled, a terrifying power slowly rose.

"How is it, any effect!?"

Lin An asked in a low voice toward Gao Tian, who was still continuously gathering power, his eyes full of anticipation.

No response.

Not far away, the spider was attracted by Mo Ling's aura, quickly crawling past the obstacle in front of Lin An.

Nine breaths!

Gao Tian's eyes suddenly flashed a spark of essence, the dark-purple pattern instantly condensed into a point on the arrowhead.

Unlike his previous lack of confidence, this arrow seemed infused with all his belief and energy, accompanied by a furious shout.

The arrow shot out like purple light!

"Straight-Death Magic Arrow!!"

"Boom!"

The arrow surpassing the speed of sound flashed past, the ground along its path was cracked open by the flying arrow!

Wave after wave of sonic boom brought strong wind pressure shooting toward the rear of the marrow-sucking spider!