Chapter 114: Suspected Mutant

The special operations team members lost contact one by one; by the time Liu Mu crawled out from the dirt, the valley was illuminated as bright as day by the firelight.

"Damn it!"

Liu Mu pulled the shoulder-fired rocket launcher she had just acquired from her space, and without hesitation, fired at the helicopter leaving in the sky.

There were five aircraft; she blew up three of them, but the two leading ones still got away.

"The dead have come back to life?" Lv Ping pushed the corpse off his body; he had seen the explosion, and he had also seen Liu Mu's body shattered in that explosion.

It was impossible to have seen it wrong; let alone a special team member, even an ordinary person wouldn't have seen it wrong!

Liu Mu had clearly been blown up... the explosive was clearly right under her feet, but who was this living person now?

Or rather, could she still be considered a person?

"Hit it!" Liu Mu had thought there shouldn't be any living people near her, but she hadn't expected there to be one, and an acquaintance at that.

Lv Ping's mental fortitude was still solid; compared to the shock, he was more concerned about the others. "Boss," the ringing in his ears made him unable to control his volume, "where is the Captain? Where are the others?"

Bang—

The rocket launcher hit the ground. Liu Mu blankly put on a black Raincoat, stood in the raging fire, and stared in the direction the aircraft had gone. "The others... are everywhere. I'm going to chase the target; you tidy up everyone's corpses and wait for me to return!"

"Wait a moment, Boss," Lv Ping wanted to stop her, but Liu Mu threw an iron box at him. "This is?"

"The emergency medicine prepared by your Laboratory. There's no time for sentimentality now." In the rainy night and firelight, no light could be reflected in Liu Mu's dark, sunken eyes. "See if there is anyone else alive; I'm going to chase those two people, otherwise this business trip will be too much of a loss."

Losing money on a deal is a merchant's greatest taboo. Liu Mu is a merchant; even though she is still currently in the position of a Peddler, she cannot let such an uneconomical thing happen.

Lv Ping hugged the box. Just as Liu Mu said, there was no time for sentimentality; the special operations team could not truly be wiped out in this obscure little place.

The great fire would eventually be extinguished by the unceasing rain, but if the enemy wasn't chased now, they wouldn't be found.

A person, of course, could not outrun an aircraft, but a dog could, especially Niu Boyi, who had mutated into the Second Stage.

Liu Mu only needed to follow the trail left by Niu Boyi; leaving the Military Dog on the perimeter before the operation was also to surround and intercept those fleeing.

The distance was actually much closer than she had expected, but the problem was, the other party was in the sea.

"Isn't this my ship?"

Liu Mu stood on the cliff and complained to Niu Boyi beside her. "The dock is already down, why not dock? If it doesn't dock, wasn't the dock repaired in vain?"

A certain dog expressed speechlessness. "Master, the Base has been blown up; normal people shouldn't let the ship dock anymore, right?"

"But that is my ship, mine!" Liu Mu leaned against the dog and shamelessly complained, finishing five Energy Bars just like that.

She wasn't full, but her strength had recovered.

She had died once again, which meant she couldn't risk her life for the next half month.

She really hadn't expected those two unremarkable people to be so wasteful, blowing up a perfectly good Base just like that, even though she had already pilfered most of the good things inside.

That's right, while the operations team was fighting the enemy with all their might, she was pilfering, and incidentally buried a certain woman who should have died but couldn't die in the nearby mountains, leaving her head outside so she could sell it for a good price when she came back to dig her up.

Who would want it?

That would, of course, be Xing Tianyang.

"Alright, I'll jump over; you follow along the coast for a bit, and if you can't keep up, go back and help."

Liu Mu clapped her hands, put the Raincoat into her space, changed into a set of dark blue swimwear, looked down, and sighed. "I, a dignified New Human, what do I need a man-pleasing figure for? Look at me, muscular, well-proportioned, healthy and never sick..."

"Woof woof woof, flat-chested is flat-chested, why make excuses... Woof! Master, the doggy was wrong..."

Liu Mu didn't know when this dog started learning to act cute, just as she didn't care that she was not flat...

The person was a good person, and the dog was a good dog.

At this moment, the person was lying on Niu Boyi's back, and Niu Boyi was running at full speed in the wind and rain.

When the ship rounded the protruding cape, the dog made an emergency stop at the edge of the cliff, and Liu Mu used the momentum to jump out.

Dawn had just arrived, the Black Rain was misty, and thick fog rose on the sea; one could see the ship's bridge with its chimney, appearing like a small building floating in the mist.

A figure broke through the fog and rain, landing splashily into the seawater by the ship's side.

Liu Mu dove into the water like a swimming fish until the momentum was canceled out, flipped in the water, and swam toward the behemoth that was sailing.

In the ship's restaurant, the luxurious decor had not been affected by the Burning in the slightest; the patterns were gorgeous, and the color scheme was exquisite.

The chef personally placed the last dessert on the only table with a guest and smiled at the fair-skinned boy wearing black-rimmed glasses. "Sir, your blueberry ice cream; eat slowly, otherwise you'll have indigestion again."

"Thank you, Jack; it's so good that you're alive." The boy raised his delicate face; under his thick black bangs, a pair of eyes as round and precise as the frames revealed a harmless smile. "Could you please come to my office later?"

If one looked closely, one could see that the chef Jack's firm jawline covered a circular wound on his neck, with faint stitching marks still on it. "Alright."

The dining cart slowly retreated. Joseph looked at that tall but very stiff back and worried. "Xiao Hong, we should go back as soon as possible. It is too risky to keep these 'works' of yours on the ship. Night Owl has already gone to rendezvous with the support ship; we cannot have any accidents now."

"Is that perverted, disgusting old man really dead?" The black-haired boy looked no more than eleven or twelve years old, but his youthful appearance hid a pair of eyes as deep and waveless as an ancient well. Even though his features looked simple and cute, everyone who had come into contact with him knew that this child was not simple, and could even be said to be very crazy.

Except for a few specific people, no one in the organization dared to treat him like a child.

"Dead," Joseph said indifferently. "It was miserable; his bones and other parts were completely separated. Based on my son's many years of experience in cutting people, he was skinned of his bones while still alive. How about that, you're happy now, right?"

Upon hearing this, the boy did not show any excess emotion, only stopped eating his ice cream, and asked quite seriously, "Who did it?"

"According to our comprehensive intelligence analysis, it was a Vegetarian named Liu Mu. By the way, her nickname is 'Thief One Blade of Grass'."

Joseph was quite proud. "The nickname was given by my son, Night Owl; it has a source, it seems to be from that flower or grass TV show."

"Liu Mu," the boy put down his spoon and wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin. "I've remembered it."

Seeing that he did not object to accelerating the voyage, Joseph got up and went to the bridge to issue orders.

"Are vegetarians also used to cutting meat?" The boy propped his head up and thought for a while, then got up and left the restaurant.

Inside a Laboratory composed of countless transparent glass boxes, the boy flipped through computer pages containing all the information the organization had on this person named Liu Mu.

But, even with all the information, it was only half a page long.

Gender: female; accompanied by a childish large dog; age unknown; true identity unknown; there wasn't even a single photo.

"It's a Mutation, right? It would be great if I could catch her." The boy spun his office chair; behind him, outside the transparent glass wall, were one by one imprisoned... Mutants.

Although the appearances of these Mutants were not as crazy as those at the Haicheng Urban Base before, they all possessed characteristics clearly distinct from ordinary people.

Of course, their greater characteristics were the massive windows on the front and the tubes stuck all over their bodies.

Incomplete data was not a common occurrence for the Sky Viper, but the youth did not get angry because of this; he liked the unknown.

The most important point was the final sentence of the data's speculation: suspected Mutation.