Chapter 126: Death God Crystal

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The throat was cut open, and under venous pressure blood spurted, staining the ground red.

Mo Ling's face was bloodless, left hand covering her shoulder wound, she stumbled out of the five-person encirclement.

The reverse-grip dagger in her right hand trembled, then went limp.

The shoulder wound was deep enough to expose bone, the price of breaking out of the encirclement.

The boy whose throat the girl had cut turned numb, his steps mechanical as he tried to chase down the girl who had jumped off the road with his companions.

However, after only a few steps, under massive blood loss, the sturdy-built boy slowly collapsed.

The remaining students showed no reaction, ignoring their companion's death, still stiffly stepping forward behind Mo Ling.

If Lin An had seen the girl's precise, ruthless thrust just now, he would surely recognize it as a stabbing motion practiced at least ten thousand times.

"Idiot Lin An!"

Mo Ling painfully pressed her shoulder and crawled up from the muddy water beneath the road, rain soaking her clothes and bandages.

The face that had always been wrapped in bandages now revealed its original appearance.

On her childlike face, her eyes showed some annoyance and resentment.

The girl, who rarely showed emotional fluctuations, rarely displayed different emotions.

If Lin An hadn't had her block the truck, she would still be sleeping soundly beneath a pile of corpses.

The wind doesn't reach it, the rain doesn't fall there; besides the stench, there are zombies pinching feet.

"Damn Lin An!"

After shouting in anger, Mo Ling staggered upright, her steps unsteady as she ran toward the fields beyond the road.

She had sprained her ankle when jumping off the road.

Waves of piercing pain made her tremble all over.

Mo Ling thought that if it weren't for her strength being sapped by deathly energy, making her weaker than an ordinary person, she wouldn't have been hunted by students controlled by the red spider, and a surge of anger rose in her chest.

Before the apocalypse, she could have dealt with it easily!

The four pursuers behind her were extremely fast, catching up to her in the blink of an eye.

It's over.

Mo Ling gave a bitter laugh, never expecting she would die not to zombies but at the hands of ordinary people.

Without the zombies' "protection," her shoulder injured and unable to run, she had no room left to resist.

Just thinking that she might be parasitized by the red spider and become a bizarre marionette like that student...

... or be thrown into the corpse horde to have her entrails pulled out, dying without a whole body.

Her face couldn't help but show some grief and indignation.

"Damn Lin An! You deserve to become a monster!"

The footsteps behind her drew near; Mo Ling gave a grim smile, turned her head, and calmly accepted her death.

"Swish!"

The blade fell, and the girl's head flew up.

"What did you call me?"

Lin An embarrassingly retracted his slash, then kicked another girl's chest apart with a casual foot.

"Divine Stab!"

Psychic power erupted, a violent mental blast instantly turning the remaining two boys into bloody mud.

Fragments scattered across the sky, swept down by the wind like a shower of blood.

"And..."

"Why do you say I am..."

"... a monster?"

Yellow bus.

The buzz-cut boy and the dark-skinned boy were slammed by Lin An onto the truck, while Mo Ling tightly wrapped herself in a cotton blanket she had somehow found.

The truck interior was cramped; the remaining few students huddled on the rice sacks in the back, though their expressions were somewhat despondent, they felt unusually relieved after Lin An appeared.

"It was my oversight."

Lin An sat on the bus's middle seat, speaking slowly and gesturing for the driver to return to school.

The trainees stared blankly at him, a hint of sorrow in their eyes.

They also learned of the deaths of several people on another vehicle, with red spider parasitism making rescue impossible.

"Sir, you needn't blame yourself. We just didn't notice there was an extra person."

No one blamed Lin An; when they set out, everyone had already prepared themselves for death.

Outside, the world is nothing like the academy; death is everyday fare.

The vehicle shuddered, the engine roared.

"Lord Lin An, is there a way to deal with the worm eggs inside our bodies?"

The bus slowly turned around, its goal to return to the school.

"It can be solved; after returning to the academy, you will first stay outside."

Hearing this, several people felt relieved; upon learning they were parasitized, they were frightened to death.

No one could accept having spider eggs in their brain, which might at any moment devour their own mind.

A makeshift fire basin was fetched and placed, fixed inside the vehicle; its flames flickered, emitting waves of warmth.

After the apocalypse, electrical equipment gradually failed; in a daze, the swaying bus resembled an ancient carriage.

Although the supplies for this trip haven't yet reached the target amount, Lin An must make a return trip.

The base core will be completed soon, and the entire academy will officially become a Safe Zone under the system's support.

Moreover...

Lin An turned his head to look at the Shang Cheng in the wind and rain, a hint of worry flashing in his eyes.

We must find a large amount of gasoline and summon some fire-attribute Awakened Ones over.

Many spider eggs remain inside the building; if someone enters again and becomes parasitically mutated, the consequences are unimaginable.

Just like this time.

Although it's unknown how the Red Spider mixed into the student squad, if it truly achieves its goal of driving the car back to school.

It can be foreseen what the situation will be like when the entire academy is parasitized.

Nearly three thousand people's bodies will be used to hatch spiders, and Lin An will then face tens of millions of Red Spiders.

Can't kill them all!

Suppressing his thoughts, after this matter is resolved, supplies still need to be gathered.

Lin An turned his head to look at Gao Tian and lightly patted his shoulder.

Gao Tian has been silent since getting in the car, as if he has something on his mind.

"Did you find anything in there?"

Lin An isn't good at comforting people, and he also doesn't know where Gao Tian's low spirits come from.

Maybe it's because he feels foolish for being deceived, or maybe it's the deaths of his classmates.

Gao Tian raised his head, forced out a smile, and slowly handed Lin An a notebook.

"Brother Lin, this is the notebook I found at the restaurant cash register."

"You can take a look."

"It's related to spider eggs."

Lin An nodded slightly, looking at the black leather-wrapped notebook that was handed over.

The black exterior was stained with a lot of sewage, appearing nothing special.

Related to spider eggs?

The mission is already completed; maybe we should go back and take another look.

He stored the notebook in his ring and then took out the reward Props from the Savior mission.

90% completion, A-rank reward.

Who knows what it will be?

Lin An looked forward with some anticipation; the rewards given by the Savior mission are extremely generous, each one practically heaven-defying.

But this time the mission actually has a rating—does that mean future rewards will also be distributed based on completion percentage?

With 90% completion, it seems I missed some clues, causing the reward to fall short.

As for what was missed, Lin An can actually guess.

It's nothing more than who the supplier is and which company supplied it.

This information should have been obtained from Wang Teng, but Lin An's mental backlash directly killed him at the time, leaving no chance for interrogation.

There's no way; we can only strive for a 100% reward next time.

After all, nobody is perfect, and things can't go perfectly smoothly.

The reward taken out was a blood-red crystal, with black threads floating slowly inside it.

It feels heavy and substantial, with a chill that seems to pierce the bones.

"Ding, obtained A-rank Props (Special): Death God Crystal"