CHAPTER 328: CHAPTER 309: LIN DAIYU UPROOTS THE WEEPING WILLOW

The entrance of the cave was very narrow, only allowing one person to crawl in.

In such a situation, Yao Wei naturally wouldn’t go down lightly.

She quieted down and listened intently, but the sound underground was very faint and muffled. She seemed to hear breathing and heartbeat, yet couldn’t immediately discern their location.

The "rat" inside the cave must have known of her arrival, and guessed that she was a Neo-Human Type A, thus hiding in the cave, not daring to move at all.

If the rat was moving, it would be easy, Yao Wei could easily locate it by sound, but now she had to rely on Gou.

"Gou, shine a light."

Yao Wei said to Gou.

Gou’s eyes immediately shone into the cave, which stretched straight down more than two meters deep, then turned direction.

The rat inside the cave must have dug quite a distance horizontally again.

Yao Wei was a bit speechless but listened carefully again, the cave was still quiet, the "rat" didn’t seem frightened by the light Gou shone into the cave.

Yao Wei didn’t know what Lu Xi’an’s situation was like, feeling a bit anxious, she listened for a while then said to Gou: "Not shining like this, shine above."

As she spoke, she glanced at the tree.

Gou understood Yao Wei’s intent, so its eyes re-emitted light, shining on a patch of weeds north of the tree stump.

Yao Wei immediately understood, the rat inside the cave was hiding underground in the area Gou’s eyes illuminated.

That location was over twenty meters away from the cave entrance behind the stump.

This rat really was a rat, able to dig so well!

Yao Wei immediately set down Gou, grabbed the thick tree she had snapped with a few pebbles, slung it over her shoulder, stepped on the stump, and leaped high towards the area illuminated by Gou’s eyes.

The tree was in her arms, adjusting direction in the air, severed end facing down. As her body fell, the tree was fiercely thrust down.

"Boom!"

The ground trembled violently, collapsing as if caving in. There was a faint scream from the cave entrance, Yao Wei paid it no mind.

This woman even felt delighted, finally hitting the target.

But a "damn" sounded from the north, which immediately caught her attention.

"Lu Xi’an?!"

Yao Wei called out.

She naturally recognized the voice from the north as belonging to Lu Xi’an.

She turned her head and indeed saw Lu Xi’an.

This guy, who was supposed to be fighting hyenas on the northern road, had run here.

"How come you’re so fast?!"

Yao Wei asked, slightly surprised.

She saw Lu Xi’an completely at ease, seemingly unharmed, not even stained with blood, and felt relieved, naturally a bit curious.

Lu Xi’an, originally stopping not far away upon seeing Yao Wei’s astonishing move, immediately approached and said:

"Just while fighting, those hyenas suddenly couldn’t manage anymore, their eyes weren’t red, and they tried to flee. Judging from that, they must have been beyond Type C Neo-Human control.

"They couldn’t fight me at all all of a sudden, allowing me to easily kill them all.

"I checked by the car, saw you and Gou not there, then heard gunfire, and hurried over here."

So, the hyenas lost Type C Neo-Human control and were killed by Lu Xi’an before she fired her gun?

A flash of insight crossed Yao Wei’s mind, and she explained the previous situation to Lu Xi’an.

Lu Xi’an immediately understood, nodded, and said, "So, this Type C Neo-Human was likely using those insects as intermediaries to establish ultra-long-distance control over those hyenas?"

"Yes, probably."

Yao Wei nodded in agreement.

Unfortunately, those insects had already been burned to ashes by the drone’s lasers on her command, and the specific type of insects capable of such effects couldn’t be verified.

She and Lu Xi’an simultaneously looked underground, finally easily hearing movements from the tunnel beside the tree stump, which seemed to have intensified heartbeats and heavy breathing.

It seemed the rat lurking underground had been severely wounded by Yao Wei’s strike, unable to hold its breath.

Lu Xi’an glanced at the collapsed ground not far away, the tree skewed into the ground, cracking it like a spider web, and clicked his tongue quietly.

Speaking of which, Yao Wei’s recent strike, though brutally effective, was executed with a certain graceful decisiveness, surprisingly pleasing to the eye.

While he could achieve similar results, it would likely appear as brutally violent, unlike Yao Wei, whose "tyrannosaurus" nature was only internal, her external appearance still very appealing.

—Specifically, it’s the difference between Lu Zhishen uprooting a willow and Lin Daiyu uprooting a willow.

"Are you okay?"

Lu Xi’an asked. After receiving Yao Wei’s "I’m fine," he continued, "You keep watch here, I’ll get a shovel and dig this person out."

"Okay."

Yao Wei agreed, then suddenly remembered something, and added, "We need to hurry, the Neo-Human downstream in the Guanhai River is coming up, I’m not sure if they’ll head this way."

Lu Xi’an slightly furrowed his brow and said, "Then maybe we should just leave?"

"Okay."

Yao Wei agreed, nodding.

But just then, Gou’s eyes suddenly illuminated the southern road.

The robotic dog was currently not connected to the Resonant Gene Scanner, so its scanning range wasn’t very far.

Its eyes glowed, and both Lu Xi’an and Yao Wei immediately heard the commotion—

It should be the engine noise of a car, moaning violently due to its age and disrepair, making it seem like a tough journey.

There was only one person in the car, a man with an unkempt beard and long, messy hair, somewhat resembling Luo Ping.

He must have seen Lu Xi’an and Yao Wei from afar and stopped the car.

No one knew if he was under the control of a Type C Neo-Human or was naturally afflicted with red eye disease, but his eyes were fiercely red, and his face contorted in a ferocious, menacing grimace, as if looking at Lu Xi’an and Yao Wei through the car window like they had murdered his entire family.

He got out of the car carrying something that he shouldered, aiming it at Lu Xi’an and Yao Wei.

Lu Xi’an was startled to see it was a shoulder-fired rocket launcher!

My goodness, he was about to fire at Yao Wei and me without a second thought!

Seeing the man about to stabilize the rocket launcher and reaching for the trigger, Lu Xi’an and Yao Wei both reacted almost simultaneously, each throwing out a Hidden Weapon.

However, Yao Wei threw a cobblestone, while Lu Xi’an threw a shard of glass.

The glass shard flew towards the man’s wrist, slicing through his wrist’s artery in an instant before his finger could press the trigger, then embedding itself in his shoulder.

Yao Wei’s cobblestone, on the other hand, flew straight at the man’s forehead, knocking his head back, tilting far beyond ninety degrees, looking as though he couldn’t survive.

"Thud—"

The man was knocked off by the cobblestone, flying a great distance before falling to the ground, dead beyond recovery, with the rocket launcher dropping beside him.

Lu Xi’an and Yao Wei exchanged glances and frowned, developing a suspicion.

"B-type?"

The two asked in unison.

Without formidable direct combat power, invisibility, or biological control capabilities, yet wielding modern weapons, this person could only be a B-type Neo-Human.

He was the first B-type Neo-Human they’d encountered after Luo Ping, and his style even bore similarities to Luo Ping.

Why do B-types love it this way?

Lu Xi’an pondered as he and Yao Wei swiftly moved forward.

Yao Wei picked up the rocket launcher while Lu Xi’an approached the man, noticing his eyes closed tightly, breathing evenly, and the injury on his wrist healed.

He must have hidden something in his mouth, pretending to be dead after revival.

Lu Xi’an thought, immediately stepping on the man’s head and saying, "Stop playing dead. If I crush your head, you probably won’t live, right?"

The man indeed opened his eyes, glaring at Lu Xi’an with a fierce sideways glance.

Lu Xi’an asked, "A Type C Neo-Human just attacked us with a hyena, good at burrowing. Are you with him?"

The man suddenly froze, showing a confused expression, the ferocity in his eyes diminishing noticeably.

Not allies?

Lu Xi’an understood.

The two factions collided...

One from Healing Village downstream the Guanhai River, the other coming from Jiangnan City.

Adding himself and Yao Wei, it made three factions...

"Do you want to question him?"

Yao Wei walked over carrying the rocket launcher and asked.

Lu Xi’an replied, "Yes, I have some questions for him."

Yao Wei asked, "Then why not dismember his arms and legs first? He’s a B-type."

Lu Xi’an: "..."

This woman, truly a living hell demon!

The man’s face whitened, quickly saying, "I mean no harm to you, I’m looking for others."

"Who?"

Lu Xi’an asked.

The man responded, "The ones who massacred the people of Sickness Village."

Lu Xi’an instinctively glanced back, suddenly realizing the breathing in the cave weakened significantly.

"The person in the cave is dying. Get him up and ask him a few questions first."

Lu Xi’an said, picking up the B-type Neo-Human and forcibly dislocating his arms and legs.

"Hiss—"

The man gasped sharply, knowing whatever he said was of no use and fell silent.

Moreover, whatever he might want to say next wouldn’t be possible, as Lu Xi’an, to prevent him from having anything hidden in his mouth to swallow, simply dislocated his jaw as well.

The man, drenched in cold sweat, suddenly felt that being in these two people’s hands was worse than being captured by his enemies.

"I’ll get a shovel."

Handling the man, Lu Xi’an stopped paying attention to him, quickly telling Yao Wei before picking up Gou and heading north.

The unmanned aerial vehicle followed slowly as Lu Xi’an grabbed it too and sprinted briskly.

Meanwhile, Yao Wei didn’t stay idle, dragging the man to a tree stump, then went to retrieve the sniper rifle from the previous firing position. After checking it and ensuring everything was okay, she set her mind at ease.

With a sniper rifle in one hand and a rocket launcher in the other, she walked back to the B-type Neo-Human, feeling quite content wielding two impressive modern weapons.