Chapter 101: You Can Call Me a

Any mercenary with a bit of experience can easily distinguish the sound of different firearms.

Among them, the sound of a Sniper Rifle is the most distinct, for no other reason than the fact that one careless moment means getting one's heart blown out.

The moment they discovered they were being ambushed, these desperadoes never thought about using their own lives to save others; regardless of what rank she was, they only had one life, and once dead, there was nothing left.

This attack had been prepared for a week, but these sisters were unpopular within the organization, and with personnel already stretched thin, it was impossible to have a doctor specifically assigned to accompany them.

What drove them to despair was that the antiviral serum, which had always been effective in the past, had no effect at all after injection.

Those who hadn't been injected scrambled for the medicine, while those who had watched the red bumps on their skin grow larger and larger, soon developing yellow-black pus, swelling as if they were about to burst at any moment.

In the midst of unbearable itching, a light scratch caused them to rupture, and as the pus flowed out, the itching turned into excruciating pain.

And the skin where the pus flowed felt as if it were being burned by sulfuric acid—cracking, corroding!

Many of them had once enjoyed the pleasure of skinning living people, but at this moment, feeling the pain of being skinned and having their tendons pulled themselves, they easily collapsed.

"Help!"

"HELP! MY GOD!"

All sorts of cries and curses filled the air.

In less than half an hour, those who could not endure the itching and festering simply shot themselves.

Liu Mu didn't even need to hide; after dealing with Black Mamba Miao Hentian, she simply stood in the open space cleared by the tents, quietly watching these people perish in pain and fear.

Of course, there were also ruthless ones who, upon discovering that only an arm had grown pustules, simply cut it off with a blade.

In the midst of the excruciating pain, before they could even feel relieved, new red bumps immediately grew wherever the blood splattered.

After watching for a while, Liu Mu silently took out the gun she had seized from Miao Hentian and loaded it with the magazine the latter hadn't had time to switch.

"Brothers, this is too cruel; let's send them off!"

The team, which had already killed several mercenaries, understood upon hearing this that this would be a one-sided slaughter.

Luo Sanlin gave a hand signal, and the soldiers entered the tents in groups of three, followed by constant gunfire.

A quarter of an hour later, Luo Sanlin issued a new order, "Inventory all supplies except water, and pay attention to protection!"

Liu Mu had also killed a few people, but she hadn't found any other leaders; seeing that Luo Sanlin had already arranged the follow-up matters, she turned around to go find Miao Hentian.

There were large bloodstains in the mud washed open by the rain, but the person was gone.

Liu Mu took out her walkie-talkie, "Gangzi, what's going on?"

Soon, a response came through, mixed with static, "The target sacrificed an arm to protect her head; her body must be wearing some kind of super bulletproof vest. Look around, she can't have gone far."

Li Gang was also annoyed; he never expected that there would be someone in this world who could be so ruthless to themselves.

Black Mamba Miao Hentian had used the arm on her injured shoulder side to protect her head, pulled herself up from the mud, taken two shots, and charged into the tent area.

But since Liu Mu and the team members didn't see anyone, it meant the other party had already run away.

As for exactly where she had run, it wasn't hard for Liu Mu to deduce based on the terrain she had observed during the day, "She must have climbed down the cliff at the back. You come down. I'll follow her; you guys keep a lookout, don't capsize in the gutter."

Logically, that woman should go to the other encampment to report, but who knew if she would just flee for her life instead?

Among the Sky Viper members Liu Mu had encountered, she hadn't discovered any firm convictions in them.

It was very puzzling why such an organization could be powerful enough to make several countries fear it.

One had to know that many religious sects with spiritual beliefs in the pre-disaster world couldn't achieve this, and many of those sects had operated for over a hundred years.

"Sky Viper?"

Liu Mu stepped on a black melon, and a thick, foul stench of rot immediately gushed out, causing her to curse "bad luck," having thought it was just a rock.

But it was this stench that made her realize the fleeing woman hadn't taken this path.

Down the cliff, there were these disgusting melons in the rocks and crevices, but before she stepped on this one, there had been no obvious odor.

"I was tricked; this woman is terrifying."

As Liu Mu said that others were terrifying, she immediately stuck to the rock face like a gecko and climbed back up.

The night was dark, and she soon lost the trail.

After another while, a muffled groan suddenly came from below the rock face. A crevice about thirty centimeters wide had been covered by Mutated Vine, and at this moment, a black shadow squeezed out from it.

Pushing against the wriggling tentacles on the vines, Miao Hentian tore through these disgusting things and crawled out. With a swing of her blade, she cut off her arm, which had been beaten into minced meat, at the root amidst a cry of pain, and the vines immediately swarmed toward the dropped flesh and blood, allowing her to escape.

Having experienced countless life-and-death situations, she was also experienced in fleeing; when she came down, she had anticipated that Liu Mu would follow. She had no choice but to submerge herself in this mildly toxic Mutated Plant.

Once free, she quickly identified the direction and ran toward the depths of the rock forest.

Black melons of the Mutated Vine were constantly being crushed underfoot, and the disgusting smell still made her almost vomit in the rain.

While running, she tore open her plastic coat and wrapped her severed arm tightly, her expression numb, as if she couldn't feel the pain.

Watching the figure stumble away, the person hanging on the rock face let out a soft laugh; as the same variety of vine swayed in the wind, Liu Mu slowly raised her gun.

Bang—

"Did you never think that someone as powerful as me might also be a good shot?"

Liu Mu, carrying the spare semi-automatic sniper rifle Li Gang had stored with her, looked down from above at the woman who had collapsed among the rocks. One of the woman's lower legs was a bloody mess, and the gushing fresh blood made her complexion, already suffering from excessive blood loss, look nearly like a corpse's.

"You, you, what exactly are you, monster?"

Miao Hentian was still clutching her previous dagger, gritting her teeth to keep from passing out, but she was unwilling; the apocalypse had only just begun, and she didn't want to die like this.

"I am human," Liu Mu suddenly bit her index finger, stuck it into her mouth, and then hissed, "Suck gently, it can neutralize the poison... Of course, according to your understanding, you can also call me a 'New Human', or an evolved human."

"Evolution?" The doubt in Miao Hentian's eyes quickly turned into shock, "You, you are, you are a mutant?!"

Liu Mu pulled her hand back, watching the black spots on the skin cut by the vines rapidly dissipate, and smiled, "Correct answer!"

With a clean hand-blade strike, she knocked the person unconscious. She had wanted to grab Miao Hentian by her other leg and leave, but seeing her look as if she were about to breathe her last at any moment, Liu Mu decided she should cherish the villain she had finally managed to catch.

Tying her up with vines and just carrying her along was quite convenient.

After throwing the person to Luo Sanlin, Liu Mu was about to leave when she was called back.

"With such heavy injuries, this person won't be saved, will she?"

Liu Mu moved her fingers, thinking she needed to keep a live captive to interrogate for information on the Sky Viper Snake, so she gave Luo Sanlin a box of injections.

"Inject this into her. Once you have finished clearing the supplies, head back to the town first; I am going to check out the other encampment."

"Wait a moment, I will take half the men to provide support," Luo Sanlin naturally could not let Liu Mu go to that encampment of over two hundred people alone, so he immediately handed Miao Hentian over to a teammate and began selecting men.

Liu Mu had originally wanted to refuse, but thinking that Tan Ziyan did not have many people with him either, she agreed.

She said, "I'll head out first," and then left.

Luo Sanlin had finished selecting the men and was just about to leave when a teammate brought over a square box.

Looking closely, there were several buttons on this box, each corresponding to different indicator lights, and the green one among them was currently flashing.

With a "Click-click-click" sound, it spat out a piece of paper from the square exit at the bottom.

"This is Morse code, it means..."