Chapter 605: with translation of chapter title

Bai Mu Yun's footsteps retreated half a step silently, the lenses of her sunglasses covering the fleeting Ying Guang Lu glint in her eyes.

【Corpse Bat (Juvenile) Lv. 5】

The Aberrant Species before them was slowly rising in level, but it had only reached around level five; even such a low-level Aberrant Species was a major threat to the people of this world.

Normally, Bai Mu Yun could easily handle it, but now she was in a public setting, not to mention that an old acquaintance was present.

Bai Mu Yun gripped the handrail, putting on the act of an ordinary frightened traveler.

As long as he doesn't use his abilities and maintains his disguise, hardly anyone could notice anything amiss; Bai Mu Yun has always been confident in his talent for disguise.

"Don't move."

Lei Zhao's voice sounded, low and calm, he had already walked back against the crowd, his heterochromatic eyes locked firmly on the girl undergoing Mutation.

His other hand palm-down, faint purple electricity flickering at his fingertips, a soft crackling sound arose in the air.

The passengers in the airport terminal had not yet noticed the abnormality at the safety passage; the ticket inspector kept a professional smile, mechanically scanning ticket after ticket.

As the saying goes, when you find a cockroach in your home, it means there may already be a nest of them.

The woman dispatched by the officials was only slightly slower than Lei Zhao; she almost hugged the wall to circle to the other side, approaching the safety passage entrance from the side, a flash of cold light glinting in her hand.

She held a steel pen, its cap already unscrewed, revealing a nib that glowed with a faint blue light.

The girl undergoing Mutation tilted her head, her neck emitting a crisp crack; her scattered gray-white eyeballs trembled a few times in their sockets, and she gradually stepped from the safety passage into the light.

Her arms split open from the middle of the forearms, bony hook-claws protruding from the tips of her fingers, the tips of the hook-claws coated with a faint Ying Guang Lu sheen.

"Is that person doing cosplay? Can they get past security like that?"

"Or maybe they came to pick someone up? A cosplay slit-mouthed woman?"

"A slit-mouthed woman doesn't look like that; it's more like a zombie."

Several passengers transferring from other flights were walking this way, but upon seeing the woman's appearance they did not choose to turn and run.

Sometimes excessive social tolerance isn't a good thing; for instance, now those passengers merely thought she was doing cosplay, choosing not to understand but to respect, and continued on.

After getting closer, someone finally smelled the increasingly strong scent of blood in the air, sensed something wrong, and grabbed the person beside them.

The woman outright ignored Bai Mu Yun standing right before her, charging straight at the family of three who had sensed something amiss but had not yet stepped forward.

The lights above the airport terminal flickered in unison; a bolt of purple lightning descended from the sky, the point of impact immediately emitting a sizzling sound; the Aberrant Species let out a shrill cry, its whole body jerking backward, the hook-claws on its arms instinctively flailing wildly in the air.

The sound of the skull shattering was drowned out by the thunder of the lightning; the bony hook-claws flailed a few times in the air before going limp and dropping.

The air reeked of burnt flesh mixed with blood, making people's stomachs churn.

The family of three stood frozen in place.

The mother clutched the child tightly behind her, the father's outstretched arm still frozen midair, maintaining an instinctive protective stance.

"Is that... an ability?" the father spoke first, his voice trembling with the relief of having survived, "Just now that was an ability, right? Are there those players—"

He hadn't finished speaking when a sharp alarm cut him off.

The airport's emergency alarm was triggered; the white overhead lights instantly switched to red, the passengers who had been queuing to board stopped chatting and blankly lifted their heads to look at the flashing red lights around them.

"An Aberrant Species has appeared inside the airport! Please evacuate immediately, all passengers! Repeat, please evacuate immediately, all passengers!"

People were just about to act when a scream came from the direction of the boarding gate.

There, a woman in a ground crew uniform was lying atop a passenger who had collapsed on the ground.

Her hands had completely mutated into hook-claws, now deeply embedded in that passenger's chest cavity, blood spraying onto her face, staining her whole body a blood-red silhouette.

And what was most chilling was that she was gnawing on the flesh.

Each time she lowered her head to tear off a piece of flesh, she would lift her head and sweep her eyes—now beginning to turn gray—around; upon seeing the screaming crowd, she stopped chewing.

Her movements were faster than the Aberrant Species just before; she got down on all fours, arched her spine, and lunged straight at the crowd.

Meanwhile, the passenger on the ground whose chest had been torn open, after a moment of stillness, began to have his fingers twitch.

The lifeless body seemed to be manipulated from within by some unseen force, like a puppet on strings, mechanically propping up its upper half.

"Huh——"

It squeezed out a breathy sound from its throat, then twisted its head at an angle no living person could achieve, gazing toward the crowd fleeing in all directions.

Yang Yixie steadied himself by holding his mother's arm, moving quickly with the flow of people; his mother Zhiruo's face was somewhat pale, but she still struggled to stay calm, one hand gripping tightly his sleeve, the other held in front to avoid being bumped by the crowd.

"Xiao Xie, we'll be fine," she said, her voice trembling slightly, but she was doing her best to soothe her son.

"Yeah, of course."

Yang Yixie gave a seemingly earnest reply, a golden flash flickering in his eyes; out of his mother's sight, his right hand, using his coat pocket as cover, produced four tubular objects and casually tossed them onto the ground.

The four tubular objects landed silently, rolled a few times on the ground, then extended several metal limbs from within, quickly scattering in different directions.

At the same time, all the surveillance cameras in the airport terminal simultaneously malfunctioned.

The on-duty security personnel pounded the monitor hard, but it showed no sign of returning to normal.

"Damn, even the monitors aren't working!"

They had undergone some emergency training, knowing that certain thermal weapons would fail against those monsters, but the training never mentioned that the monitors would be affected too!

Lei Zhao had just casually dealt with one Aberrant Species; the crowd below was simply too thick, other Aberrant Species were too far away, and it took considerable effort for him to keep his Aberrant Arts focused so they harmed only the Aberrant Species.

He lifted his head and saw Bai Mu Yun still standing by the railing, one hand pressed on the rail, the other tucked in his pocket, a posture that seemed out of place among the panicked, fleeing passengers.

After disposing of another Aberrant Species, he looked up again—Bai Mu Yun was nowhere to be seen.

He just felt that something was off……

Lei Zhao steadied himself; the immediate priority was to go and eliminate all those Aberrant Species.

He immediately rushed toward the location of another Aberrant Species, the Lightning Chains in his hand already primed to strike.