Chapter 45: Blood Maiden

Yu Shihao's face instantly turned ashen, like a bolt from the blue.

He could feel his scalp tighten, as if his head might explode like a water balloon in the next second, spraying brains everywhere.

What to do!? Under the threat of death, he quickly searched his mind for a reason that would make Lin An spare him temporarily.

"Youwei! Yes! Youwei was taken up by Director Wang's people!"

"And, and the bandaged girl you brought back—I'm the only one who knows where she is!"

Youwei? The bandaged girl?

Lin An stopped the motion of crushing his skull.

Although he had already regained consciousness, he could only hear some sounds in the darkness.

In an instant, he understood the meaning of Yu Shihao's words.

Combined with the fact that Wang Jianguo's men wouldn't even let a comatose woman go, it was natural to guess that taking Youwei upstairs was their doing.

Wang Jianguo, you've got a lot of nerve!

"Which floor is Youwei on?"

Although Lin An didn't have strong feelings for Youwei, she was Zhang Tie's sister; since he acknowledged Zhang Tie, Youwei naturally counted as one of his own.

Just thinking of Wang Jianguo's fat, disgusting appearance, a surge of anger flared in his chest.

Damn bastard!

The wind howled as Lin An grabbed him with one hand, his eyes full of killing intent.

"Eighth floor!"

Yu Shihao broke out in a cold sweat, his heart suddenly relaxing with a great sigh of relief.

The matter of Youwei could buy Lin An a temporary reprieve from killing him, and the key to his survival lay in the whereabouts of the bandaged girl.

In his view, although he didn't know who the bandaged girl was, she was certainly someone they had risked their lives to bring back.

This person must be important in Lin An's mind!

"Don't kill me! I'll tell you!"

However, in the next second, Lin An instantly crushed his hands into pulp.

Thinking he could threaten him with those two pieces of information? How naive.

Lin An acted without hesitation; for now, not killing him was merely to verify the information.

He had plenty of ways to pry the information from Yu Shihao's mouth.

Moreover, what the hell is this bandaged girl?

Vaguely, he only remembered that Zhang Tie had brought back a person completely wrapped in bandages.

Forget it; for now, I won't worry about those details.

"Hum!"

"Judgment Eye!"

Lin An's figure shot out, rushing straight out the door. Before leaving, he deliberately activated Judgment Eye to check Zhang Tie's condition.

Nothing serious.

If it weren't for the tattooed man, whose greed led him to touch the glove at the final charging stage, providing him with external mental strength,

Zhang Tie would only wake up faster than him.

Barring any accidents, Zhang Tie would be able to wake up in a few minutes.

"Power Burst!"

Lin An let out a low shout and decisively activated his innate ability.

A long-missing pale gold spiritual energy filled his entire body.

After waking, his mental energy was abundant; the five days of continuous coma had restored his condition to its peak.

Without the glove continuously draining power, his body also returned to perfection.

"Boom!"

Lin An dragged the crippled Yu Shihao, whose both hands were ruined, with his left hand, and violently kicked open the fire door on the eighth-floor corridor with his right foot.

The heavy iron door kicked away flew out like a cannonball, falling and smashing the wall at the end of the corridor.

808—when he arrived, Lin An had already learned from Yu Shihao's mouth the room where Wang Jianguo was.

After confirming the direction, he stepped out like a black phantom.

The door to room 808 was ajar, revealing a faint candlelight inside.

No sound? Or is there no one?

Lin An frowned slightly.

The moment he reached the door of room 808, he felt a strange chill, and the Yu Shihao he was holding in his hand trembled all over from that chill.

It was somewhat eerie; he didn't sense any trace of a living person.

Instead, the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.

"Creak."

The door was pushed open, and Lin An walked slowly into the room, his right hand maintaining a combat stance as he gripped the spine from a licker.

Inside, two short, fat legs stood in place, and on the bed lay the unconscious Youwei.

The upper body of the leg's owner had vanished from the torso, the cut clean as if something had instantly severed it.

"Ah!"

A startled cry, and Yu Shihao recognized those as Wang Jianguo's legs.

Terror-stricken, he could hardly imagine what had happened.

"Drip-drop."

The sound of water droplets falling.

A drop of water suddenly fell on his face, and the water droplet slid down his forehead.

He, frightened by the gruesome sight before him, suddenly felt his heart jolt.

Before he could react, Lin An instantly threw him out, his eyes wary as he assumed a combat stance.

The water droplets came from above!

On the ceiling, a woman was crawling with her back to the ground.

Her head was covered in long hair that obscured her face, her whole body deathly pale like a corpse left for a long time.

"Beep, detected a First Level Mutant 【Blood Woman】!"

"A corpse that, before death, gathered resentment and vengeful aura fused with a zombie."

"Danger level: Low."

The message from the Judgment Eye sounded instantly.

Lin An blinked slightly, wondering what the Blood Woman was.

"Is that the true name of the Bloody Witch?"

But it doesn't matter anymore.

The chat channel that appeared half a year later isn't omniscient; it's normal for information to be missing.

Since we've found it, just kill it!

Lin An narrowed his eyes, legs bent.

Forward slash!

He was as fast as lightning, instantly locking onto the Blood Woman crawling upside-down on the ceiling.

The bone spur tore through the air, piercing the space before him with a sharp whistling sound.

"Hiss!"

"Boom!"

Given Lin An's current speed and strength, a First Level Mutant Blood Woman had no room to dodge at all.

The bone spur instantly pierced through its skull covered in black hair, and with undiminished force slammed into the ceiling, destroying its internal structure.

The ceiling shook, dust mixed with broken wall fragments falling; the power of that strike was comparable to an explosion.

The anticipated kill notification did not come.

The bone spur piercing its skull seemed to have no effect on it.

"Creak."

The spine inverted, Lin An's pupils suddenly contracted.

The woman hanging upside-down on the ceiling suddenly turned her face, staring straight at Lin An.

Her deathly pale face bore a resentful gaze; the face gnawed by zombies showed no trace of its original appearance.

"Ah!"

The Blood Woman's skull instantly split, a piercing shriek loud enough to pierce eardrums rang out, shattering the room's glass.

"Hiss!"

Before Lin An could react, the Blood Woman, pierced through the skull, frenziedly lunged at him.

Downward slash!

Lin An's gaze solemn, he swiftly pulled the bone spur from its skull, pulling out a string of blood beads.

He reversed his grip on the bone spur and directly slashed downward along the monster's approaching path.

No time to ponder why the monster, despite being pierced through the skull, hadn't died; the Blood Woman's attack was already upon him.

"Boom!"

Lin An only felt a sweetness in his mouth, his chest cavity indented halfway under the monster's impact, yet the bone spur in his hand never stopped, instantly severing the connection of the monster's skull.

"Thud."

The skull fell to the ground, yet the headless body moved just as swiftly, unaffected.

A large amount of blood suddenly spurted from the wound; the icy blood instantly lowered the room's temperature to below zero.

Frost instantly spread throughout the room, like an ice cellar.

"Ice attribute!"

Lin An's heart chilled, his figure explosively recoiling backward, daring not to let the blood touch him.

He is typically 'high attack, low defense'; before gaining attribute resistance, any attribute attack from a Mutant should be avoided as much as possible.

But why was the attack ineffective!?

Lin An felt doubtful.

The Blood Woman's strength at most counts as First Level; in terms of lethality, it's inferior to the Licker.

Its fame in the past life was also great because this monster always targeted ordinary Awakened Ones and regular players.

Given his current strength, he should be able to easily slay it.

As the chill spread, Lin An only felt his movements become much slower.

"Judgment Eye!"

Pale blue mist rose, the stars revolved.

Lin An once again activated enhanced vision, looking toward the Blood Woman.

"First Level Mutant: 【Blood Woman】"

Scrolling to the bottom of all status information, Lin An quickly found a line of explanation.

"Current status: Blood Resentment (ignores physical attacks, disappears after vengeance ends)"

Revenge?

Lin An harbored doubts, with no time to think.

On the other side, the blood‑woman whose head had been cut off quickly picked up her own head, then fumbled to put it back on.

Try again!

While the power burst had not yet ended, Lin An drew a deep breath and suddenly exerted force from his waist, twisting.

Downward Slash!

A mechanical smile suddenly appeared on the woman's face, as if she had seen something.

Ignoring Lin An's blow that could have split its body, she simply opened her hands and rushed quickly toward Yu Shihao hiding in the corner.

"No!!"

Yu Shihao frantically kicked backward with his legs, trying to escape.

However, behind him was a wall, leaving no way to retreat.

Fear, collapse.

Although that face had been deformed from being gnawed, he could never forget those eyes that appeared in his nightmares.

Those were Wang Fang's eyes.

Lin An stared in shock; the blood‑woman before him clung tightly to Yu Shihao as if embracing her lover.

The two were pressed tightly together, the woman holding him so tightly it seemed she wanted to knead him into her own body.