Chapter 30: Mutation

As Yingzhou went down the stairwell, the Krieg soldiers ordered to search the second and third floors were also there at the stairs to meet him.

There were no survivors in the second-floor dormitory, but one injured student was rescued from the third-floor dormitory.

Yingzhou frowned, a trace of doubt and worry welling up in his heart. He realized that this attack might be even more serious than he had imagined.

"Bring that survivor over for me to see," Yingzhou ordered.

Before long, a soldier brought the delirious survivor over. Yingzhou carefully observed the survivor and found that he had multiple wounds on his body, his eyes were hollow and vacant, and he kept muttering strange words in his mouth.

Yingzhou thought to himself: This survivor actually managed to survive on the third floor; I must pay close attention to him to prevent him from becoming a Zerg like Helao Da.

However, time was tight, and he could not delay any longer.

Thus, he decisively decided to lead these survivors to the first floor as quickly as possible to evacuate from here.

Yingzhou led the survivors quickly through the corridor and arrived at the lobby on the first floor.

At this moment, the situation in the first-floor lobby had already changed. The speed at which those flesh chunks were hatching Zerg had become slow, and the Krieg soldiers easily cleared these Zerg away.

When Yingzhou walked out of the dormitory building with the group of survivors, Ma Fengtian showed some appreciation on his face and nodded in satisfaction.

"Principal, these are all the survivors from the dormitory building," Yingzhou walked up to Ma Fengtian and said.

Ma Fengtian glanced at the survivors and discovered that one survivor was separated by Yingzhou's Krieg soldiers and was not with the other survivors, so he asked with great curiosity.

"Yingzhou, what is going on with that surviving student?"

Yingzhou turned back and pointed at the separated student, "He is a survivor I encountered on the third floor. At that time, the humanoid Zerg had already reached the fourth floor. Since he was able to survive on the third floor, I have reason to suspect that he might have been parasitized by the Zerg like Helao Da."

Ma Fengtian nodded, walked slowly to the front of the student, and summoned his own Back Spirit; his Back Spirit appeared behind Ma Fengtian, holding a judgment hammer in its hand.

A white light flashed in Ma Fengtian's aged eyes, and he stared intently at the student. Under Ma Fengtian's gaze, the student's originally trembling body stopped shaking, and the whole person fell into a dazed state.

Ma Fengtian's eyes became deep and bright, as if he could see through all illusions and lies. He closed his eyes slightly, concentrated his spirit, and began to perceive the student's mental state.

A moment later, Ma Fengtian opened his eyes again. He looked at the student with a serious expression on his face.

He knew that Yingzhou's worry was justified. The student's mental state was indeed abnormal; his thinking was chaotic, his emotional fluctuations were intense, and furthermore, there was a foreign object wriggling in his stomach.

"Yingzhou, you are right," Ma Fengtian nodded, "This student's mental state is indeed not normal; he has been parasitized by the Zerg."

Hearing Ma Fengtian's words, Yingzhou could not help but feel a sense of relief in his heart. It was fortunate that he had separated this student from the other students just now. If this student had been parasitized by the Zerg and suddenly gone berserk, he would certainly have caused some harm.

"Principal, then how should this student be handled?" Yingzhou asked.

Ma Fengtian pondered for a moment, then said: "The fact that the Zerg were able to invade the Lingnengzhe Xuexiao this time and evade the school's detection means this type of Zerg should be a new species we have never seen before. Detain this student first, dig the Zerg eggs out of his body, and observe them."

Yingzhou nodded in agreement. He knew that Ma Fengtian's decision was correct.

This time, the Zerg had shown more covert infiltration methods in the Xitai District and the Psionic Academy than ever before, and the school had lost nearly 50 psionic students this time.

Such a situation would inevitably cause the school to attach great importance to it. He himself had also gained quite a lot this time; he would check it carefully after returning to the dormitory in a while.

Just at this moment, the body of the student who had fallen into a dazed state began to tremble, and dark green blood mixed with chunks of flesh were spat out from the student's mouth, with no sign of stopping.

Ma Fengtian sensed that something was wrong and immediately pulled Yingzhou away from the student.

"Everyone! Stay away from that student!" Ma Fengtian's aged voice made the students not far from here react. They began to move away from that area, and Yingzhou also had the Krieg soldiers assemble to his side.

Seeing this, Long Yang hurriedly wanted to step forward to stop the student, but was stopped by Ma Fengtian reaching out, who shouted: "Stop!"

Long Yang was stunned for a moment, then stopped his footsteps, turned his head to look at Ma Fengtian, his eyes full of doubt and confusion.

"Principal, what do you mean by this? Are we just going to watch him continue to mutate like this?" Long Yang could not help but ask.

Ma Fengtian slowly shook his head, staring at the student in front with a grave gaze, and said softly: "No, I just feel that things are a bit suspicious. Look, the blood and flesh he is spitting out are gradually condensing together, as if some power is guiding them. Moreover, the surrounding Spiritual Power is also constantly being absorbed into it, seeming to resonate with his body. If we rashly attack now, I fear it will only accelerate the speed of his transformation."

Long Yang followed Ma Fengtian's line of sight and indeed discovered that those spat-out blood and flesh were, just as he said, slowly converging into a mass. He could not help but frown and said somewhat unwillingly: "But, are we just going to be helpless and let him mutate here?"

Yingzhou suddenly spoke up at this moment: "Perhaps we can let my soldiers try. The weapons in their hands have no Spiritual Power Fluctuation, so they will not alert him, and they are powerful; perhaps they can inflict heavy damage on him."

After hearing this, Ma Fengtian nodded slightly in agreement: "Hmm, this is a good idea. It wouldn't hurt to let them try. If they can successfully stop his transformation, that is naturally for the best; even if they fail, it can at least buy us some time to respond."

Yingzhou felt that the student's Spiritual Power aura was becoming more and more massive, and he knew he could not delay any longer. Thus, he summoned his remaining 124 Krieg soldiers.

124 Krieg soldiers appeared beside Yingzhou, and they exuded a powerful, murderous aura that made people feel a sense of oppression.

"Fire!" The moment the Krieg soldiers came out, Yingzhou pointed at the mutating student and said.

The Krieg soldiers did not hesitate in the slightest; they quickly raised the firearms in their hands, the muzzles flashing with dazzling lasers, and the dense firepower instantly enveloped the student.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Countless laser bullets shot toward the student like raindrops, forming a dense barrage.

But the student did not sit and wait for death; his body suddenly split into countless chunks of flesh, and a portion of those chunks quickly combined together to form a thick wall of flesh.

Although the laser bullets could pierce through this wall of flesh, their power had been greatly weakened and could not cause substantial damage to the student.