Chapter 216: I Have Remembered Your Appearance

Cheng Jiunan, having been pulled to Tan Xiaotong's side by Yingzhou, was trembling so hard at this scene that his lips were quivering.

"Lao... Lao... Lao Wu, how... how did he... become like this?"

After seeing Yingzhou subdue Lao Wu, Tan Xiaotong also scanned the surroundings, terrified that there might be other Alien Races present.

"He has been parasitized by the Zerg. The Lao Wu you knew is already dead; it is the Zerg that is currently controlling his body," Yingzhou said slowly to Cheng Jiunan after seeing Lao Wu stop struggling.

"Lao Wu... Lao Wu is already dead!"

Cheng Jiunan stared at the scene before him in disbelief. As a worker in the Outer City Production Zone, he only knew that there were terrifying Alien Races outside constantly threatening their living environment, but he never imagined that an Alien Race was this close to him!

Just then, Lao Wu's body began to tremble incessantly, and then, a sharp voice spilled from Lao Wu's mouth; it was hard to imagine how this was achieved.

"It's you? To think that you actually didn't die?"

Lao Wu's eyes, turned red from excessive congestion, were staring fixedly at Yingzhou's face.

Upon hearing this, Yingzhou asked back with some surprise.

"You know me?"

"It doesn't matter. You were lucky to survive, but it's useless. Your Human Alliance's Ninth Defense Zone will ultimately belong to our great Mother God! And you, when the time comes, I will turn your body into a weapon; it will surely be very strong!"

A strange smile appeared at the corner of Lao Wu's mouth. After saying this, his body began to shake violently. Sensing an abnormality in Lao Wu's body, Yingzhou directly decapitated him with a Chainsword, which finally stopped the corpse from moving.

Yet the head rolling on the ground still opened its mouth to say to Yingzhou, "I will not forget your appearance. You ruined my plans back then; I will definitely make you pay double!"

Yingzhou said with a calm expression, "You couldn't kill me back then, so is it possible now?"

Without waiting for Lao Wu to answer, Yingzhou raised his right foot and used the simplest method to make him shut up.

This scene terrified Cheng Jiunan; his legs were shaking, and he collapsed directly onto the ground.

He looked at the dead Lao Wu, then glanced at the nearly 2.8-meter-tall Yingzhou, a surge of fear rising in his heart, before his eyes rolled back and he fainted on the ground.

The sound of Cheng Jiunan falling to the ground brought Yingzhou back to his senses. He said to Tan Xiaotong, "Hurry and wake him up; I'm going to check the place where I just sensed the anomaly."

Having said that, he ran toward the place where he had just sensed something wrong.

"Alright!"

Tan Xiaotong nodded, crouched down, and pinched Cheng Jiunan's philtrum. Soon, Cheng Jiunan opened his eyes suddenly and coughed violently, as if a drowning person had regained oxygen.

"Cough, cough... cough... huff... huff..."

After catching his breath for a while, Cheng Jiunan slowly recovered.

His face had lost all color, likely due to the shock he had just received. His pupils contracted as he said to Tan Xiaotong, "You... your companion is truly terrifyingly strong! It's simply not something a Human could do!"

Tan Xiaotong was momentarily speechless. She let go of the arm she was using to support Cheng Jiunan, her tone turning somewhat cold.

"Cheng Jiunan, is it? Don't forget, if Yingzhou hadn't saved you just now, you would have already been killed by that Lao Wu. Are you delirious now? It is normal for those who have an Awakened Back Spirit to have some strange abilities. You are just an ordinary person; stop looking at things with your narrow perspective!"

After saying this, Tan Xiaotong was also stunned. Once upon a time, wasn't she just like Cheng Jiunan? Fate is truly fickle; she had been so ignorant back then!

After giving instructions, Yingzhou hurried to the place where he had sensed something wrong. He opened the cargo box storing supplies, and only then did he sense the disgusting Spiritual Power Fluctuation inside. Upon seeing the strange pattern, Yingzhou felt it looked familiar.

"Why does it look so familiar? Have I seen it somewhere? Hmm... right! It's the strange pattern I destroyed at the Spirit Ability User Academy! Oh my, why did I only just remember now!"

Yingzhou slapped his forehead and said with some annoyance.

"So, whether it was that previous time or this time, it was the same Zerg causing trouble. Let's destroy this pattern first."

Yingzhou walked up to the strange pattern, feeling it slowly absorbing the surrounding Spiritual Power. After passing through the area of the pattern, the power turned into a Spiritual Power that corroded the spirit, which could attach itself to surrounding objects.

"Now there is one more problem: how do they hide this aura?"

Yingzhou began to search inside the cargo box and soon found an improperly packaged food item. Inside a box with a Spirit Pattern was food containing the spirit-corroding power. It would disappear within a short time of coming into contact with clean Spiritual Power, and the spirit-corroding power would only manifest about half an hour after leaving the Spirit Pattern item.

"This Zerg really put a lot of effort into researching this. How could frontline soldiers leave food open for half an hour without eating it? They always eat in the shortest time possible, so they definitely wouldn't notice. However, I certainly can't destroy the pattern violently this time. I wonder if this will work."

Yingzhou began to gather Spiritual Power in his right hand. Soon, a short Hammer appeared in his hand, radiating a bright red color, and a sense of power was transmitted to Yingzhou.

Yingzhou struck the strange pattern with force. As the Hammer fell, the bright red Spiritual Power on the Hammer entered the strange pattern, destroying it with the force of a landslide. It did not cause much of a tremor, only a gust of air blew out of the cargo box.

"At least I found the method the Alien Race used to tamper with things this time; it's not without gains, though I didn't find where the Zerg is hiding."

Yingzhou looked at the vanished pattern, muttered a few words to himself, and then walked out of the cargo box, seeing Cheng Jiunan and Tan Xiaotong walking toward him.

"Yingzhou, is this the place where the Alien Race was emitting Spiritual Power Fluctuations?"

Tan Xiaotong walked up to Yingzhou and peered into the cargo box, but she didn't see anything strange.

"Strange, there was clearly an Alien Race's Spiritual Power Fluctuation here, why is it so clean inside?"

Seeing that Tan Xiaotong had overcome her fear, Yingzhou took out the food containing the spirit-corroding power, showed it to her for a moment, and said slowly, "You don't need to be involved in what happens next. The Alien Race probably won't try to silence you anymore; they already have targets that are more important to silence."

"This! If frontline soldiers receive this kind of supply, it will be a huge problem. I don't know if any soldiers have been corroded yet," Tan Xiaotong said with some worry.