Chapter 520: Meeting Senju Kayo Again

"Brother, where are we going now?" Xiaona, following closely behind Lingyun at high speed, asked with some curiosity.

"Right now, of course, we are going to witness a Stage Five!" Lingyun said.

"What about Hiruko Kagetane and the others?" Xiaona asked.

"If we happen to run into them, then we'll just take them down while we're at it!" Lingyun said.

"Hiss—" As Lingyun and the other ventured deeper into the Gastrea Control Zone, all kinds of Gastrea appeared one after another before them.

"Clang—" A dazzling light lit up beside Xiaona, and the Gastrea lunging at the two were instantly severed by an invisible cold glint.

"Xiaona, your invisible strikes are becoming more and more proficient!" Lingyun said to Xiaona with a smile.

"Without Brother, I would never have been able to learn this technique, would I?" Xiaona's expression remained as usual, but anyone could hear the excitement in her tone.

"Fighting side by side with Brother for the first time, this feeling is truly amazing!" This was what Xiaona thought in her heart.

"This guy is a Stage Three? It seems that powerful Gastrea are also being driven by some kind of force to gather in this place!" Lingyun waved one hand, and countless Wind Blades swept out from his hand, cutting the huge Gastrea in front of him to shreds.

"Brother, a very powerful monster has appeared ahead!" Xiaona's pupils had turned red, staring fixedly at a monster in front.

"Stage Four?" Looking at the distorted monster appearing ahead, Lingyun whispered.

"Slash!" For the first time, Xiaona reached out and grasped the Long sword at her waist, then swept out an incomparably sharp strike.

"Crack, crack!" The powerful Sword Qi swept out, slicing that Gastrea and the withered trees beside it into two halves.

"Heh heh—" A strange, hoarse roar came from the mouth of the Gastrea that had been sliced in two.

One could see the Gastrea's body, now in two pieces, constantly wriggling, and then it began to proliferate crazily. In just a few breaths' time, two identical Gastrea appeared before Lingyun and the other.

"This Gastrea not only has extremely high regenerative ability, but it also seems to possess the legacy factors of an earthworm." Xiaona looked at the two Gastrea in front of her and spoke. "This ability is very rare, and also very troublesome!"

"There is no such thing as troublesome or not!" Platinum-gold light began to overflow from Lingyun's palm, which then transformed into a huge palm print that slammed heavily onto the body of one Gastrea.

"Zzz—" A huge crater instantly appeared where the palm print struck the Gastrea, and the power of the Purification Light constantly eroded the Gastrea's body.

In just a few breaths' time, this Gastrea completely vanished under the erosion of the Purification Light.

At the same time, the other Gastrea was also completely hacked to pieces by Xiaona, losing its vitality.

"No matter how many times I see it, Brother's weapon is always so magical, actually having a way to make the Gastrea's regenerative ability completely ineffective." Putting the Long sword back into its sheath, Xiaona muttered to herself.

After killing this Gastrea, Lingyun and the other moved forward a distance further and saw a dilapidated house. Gunshots and the roars of Gastrea were constantly coming from inside the house.

"There are people inside?" Lingyun and the other exchanged a glance.

"Only one, and it's a Cursed Child. Strange, where did her Promoter go?" Lingyun frowned slightly.

"Brother, the little sister inside seems unable to hold on!" Xiaona looked at a girl who had been forced to the window by the Gastrea, her pupils involuntarily shrinking.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—" Three streaks of light suddenly darted out from Lingyun's side, instantly piercing through all three Gastrea surrounding the girl.

"Let's go take a look!" Lingyun said to Xiaona.

"Eh, it's you, the little girl who was beside that muscular man Brother knocked out back then?" When Xiaona saw the girl in the building, she couldn't help but let out a soft exclamation.

"Are you, Mr. Lingyun?" Seeing Lingyun appear before her, the little girl let out a sigh of relief and lunged toward the ground.

With a flash of an afterimage, Lingyun appeared beside the little girl and caught her just as her face was about to have an intimate encounter with the ground.

"My name is Senju Kayo, I'm very happy to see you again, Mr. Lingyun, whom the Cursed Children call Brother-sama." Senju Kayo lay in Lingyun's arms and said in a muffled voice.

"You're hurt?" Looking at the wounds on Senju Kayo's body, Lingyun's brows immediately furrowed.

Most importantly, he felt that the Gastrea Virus inside Senju Kayo was very active, and the erosion rate was constantly rising.

"Earlier during the battle, I was accidentally injected with venom by a Gastrea; I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on much longer," Senju Kayo said extremely weakly.

"Here, drink this." Lingyun handed a small bottle to Senju Kayo.

"This is?" Looking at the liquid shimmering with golden light in the small bottle, Senju Kayo was somewhat puzzled.

"Don't ask so much, just drink this thing first!" Lingyun placed the medicine bottle into Senju Kayo's hand.

Under Lingyun's gaze, Senju Kayo hesitated slightly, but ultimately drank the potion in the bottle. This potion did not have the bitter taste she had imagined; instead, it carried a faint sweetness, just like honey.

After drinking the potion, Senju Kayo couldn't help but widen her eyes. She discovered that the Gastrea Virus inside her body seemed to have encountered some kind of natural enemy and instantly went dormant. At the same time, the wounds on her body were actually healing rapidly.

"This kind of potion must be very precious, right?" Gripping the bottle tightly with her right hand, Senju Kayo asked cautiously.

"Not at all, this kind of thing is standard equipment for every child in Lingyun Town." Lingyun smiled and patted Senju Kayo's head.

"Senju Kayo, where is your Promoter?" Xiaona asked with some confusion.

"Earlier, we fell into a trap in the forest and I got separated from Mr. Ikuma Shougen," Senju Kayo said.

"Did he not come back to look for you, or try to contact you?" There was already some dissatisfaction in Xiaona's tone.

"Earlier, Mr. Ikuma Shougen said he had discovered the traces of Hiruko Kagetane and his daughter, so he went to track them. The last contact was thirty minutes ago. After that, my communicator was destroyed by a Gastrea, and I lost contact with Mr. Ikuma Shougen," Senju Kayo said.

"He went to deal with Hiruko Kagetane and his daughter all by himself?" Xiaona suddenly cried out. "With that ability of his that was knocked out by Brother with one palm, he actually wants to deal with Hiruko Kagetane, who is ranked in the triple digits and is also from the 787th Mechanized Special Unit? Is he crazy? Doesn't he know the gap between a four-digit Civil Security Officer and a three-digit one?"

Hearing Xiaona say this, Senju Kayo's expression couldn't help but change.

"In any case, Xia Shi, you had better prepare yourself mentally. If that big guy is discovered by Hiruko Kagetane, I'm afraid..." Xiaona ultimately did not finish her sentence.

"Mr. Lingyun, can you take me to find Mr. Ikuma Shougen?" Senju Kayo suddenly grabbed Lingyun's sleeve and said with some pleading.

Looking at Senju Kayo's pleading expression, Lingyun's heart softened, and he reached out to pick her up: "Fine, we'll set off now! Xiaona, let's go!"

"No need, I can walk myself!" Senju Kayo struggled, wanting to get down from Lingyun.

"Are you sure that someone who isn't good at fighting can keep up with our pace?" Lingyun chuckled, then suddenly darted out while carrying Senju Kayo. "By the way, where was Ikuma Shougen when you last made contact?"

"Tsk, Brother, you really are a good person!"

Xiaona chuckled, exerted force with her toes, and instantly stomped a small pit into the ground beneath her feet. At the same time, her figure also turned into an afterimage, chasing in Lingyun's direction.