bioinnovel Chapter 61: Safe Point Destroyed, Mysterious Shadow Wolf Statue on the First Floor of the Pentagon
Chapter 61: Safe Point Destroyed, Mysterious Shadow Wolf Statue on the First Floor of the Pentagon
Upon hearing this, Glasses' eyebrows furrowed.
"The top scorer in this year's college entrance exam? One against three? Who was it again—?"
"Lin Yuan".
Lu Qing said.
Her gaze shifted from the purple lightning on Lin Yuan's shoulder to his face, her expression changing from doubt to understanding.
This year, Hangzhou achieved the top score in the college entrance examination, defeating nine opponents and three others, requiring at least seven rounds of bone tempering and reaching the ninth level of the first tier.
These labels have gone viral on local forums in Hangzhou, and are even being discussed in student groups at Zhejiang University for Supernatural Abilities.
She had seen the video.
The figure in the video completely overlapped with the boy carrying the purple lightning in front of me.
No wonder.
Lu Qing said.
She didn't ask any more questions.
A person who can easily take on three opponents and crush Han Feng, who possesses an A-grade weapon, can indeed kill more than twenty monsters without needing anyone's help.
Da Liu scratched the back of his head and gave a simple, honest smile.
"I knew it! The person who can get first place in Hangzhou is definitely not an ordinary person."
He slammed the half-person-high alloy shield into the ground with a dull thud.
Lin Yuan was already used to this kind of reaction.
From Donghai City to Hangzhou, from an F-level waste to the top scorer in the college entrance examination, he was too lazy to explain his newfound status.
"I need to get to the Hexagon area. Do you know the fastest way to get there?"
Lu Qing turned and pointed northwest.
"Walk two blocks east along this street, then turn right to enter the entrance to the underground shopping street."
The roads on the surface were mostly blocked, but the underground shopping street was still accessible, leading directly to the safe entrance to the Hexagon Building.
We just came from there. There weren't many monsters on the way; most of them were lured to the West District.
Thanks.
Lu Qing nodded and continued to remind Lin Yuan, "Be careful. Although there aren't many monsters, lone monsters occasionally wander into the underground shopping street."
She waved to the three people behind her and walked to the other side of the street first.
Da Liu picked up his shield and followed.
Glasses glanced one last time at the monster corpses scattered on the ground, shook his head, and jogged after them.
Before leaving, Xiao He waved to Lin Yuan and whispered, "Be careful."
The four figures quickly disappeared into the firelight at the street corner.
Lin Yuan turned and walked in the northwest direction.
The further east you go, the fewer monsters there are.
The flames and howls of the West District were gradually left behind, replaced by a repressive silence.
Occasionally, one or two first-tier gray jackals would emerge from the underground manhole cover, only to be easily stabbed and killed by him with a single shot.
The ability points gradually increased from 4150 to 4350, and then to 4550.
With each increase, he gets one step closer to Grade D.
"Four hundred and fifty are still short."
He pulled the Purple Lightning spear from the eye socket of a second-tier, quadruple-armored rock lizard, shook off the blood from the tip, and muttered to himself.
"Killing a few more Shadow Abyss Wolves will be enough. Speaking of which, we haven't seen a single Shadow Abyss Wolf since we started. Where did they all go?"
Why is it that when I want to kill them, I can't touch a single one, but when I don't want to kill them, they smash through the room next door?
……
The entrance to the underground shopping street was blocked by a half-collapsed GG sign.
He squeezed in sideways and walked forward along the dimly lit passage illuminated by the emergency lights.
The shops in the underground shopping street were all closed, with "Temporarily Closed" signs posted on the roller shutters, and several doors were dented from being hit.
The passageway was filled with a damp, musty smell and a faint stench of blood.
A few first-tier monsters darted out from the corner and were taken down by him with a few shots, and his ability points slowly rose to 4650.
As I stepped out of the underground shopping street, a bright and open space opened up before me.
The Hexagonal building stands at the end of the street.
He had sold his spoils here during the day, bought new clothes, and taken a hot bath.
Something has smashed a large hole in the building's exterior wall, and the fountain sculpture at the entrance is lying on the ground.
The water in the pool spilled all over the ground, mixed with dust and bloodstains, forming a muddy puddle.
The safe zone is right next to the Hexagon; crossing the Hexagon will give you the fastest way to get to the old airport.
Logically, there should be lights, city defense guards on duty, and citizens queuing to register to enter the shelter.
But now, there are no lights, no sentries, and no sound.
The air was thick with the stench of blood, mixed with the smell of burnt rubber and the sulfurous odor of explosives.
As Lin Yuan got closer to the safe point, his smile gradually faded.
A huge gap was torn in the sandbag fortifications at the safe point.
The barbed wire fence lay askew on the ground, with a few pieces of cloth hanging on it.
The makeshift tents were uprooted, their twisted frames standing awkwardly amidst the ruins.
The ground was riddled with potholes, and scorch marks from the supernatural explosion and claw marks from monsters were interspersed across the asphalt.
The most jarring sight was the corpses.
There were people wearing city defense uniforms, people wearing combat uniforms from the Superpowered Individuals Association, people wearing red volunteer vests, and several citizens in civilian clothes.
They collapsed behind sandbags, next to tents, and under the registration desk.
Some were still holding weapons, some were still in a forward-leaning position, but without exception, they were all dead.
Lin Yuan stepped over the fallen barbed wire fence, his steps much slower than usual.
He stopped in front of each corpse and squatted down to look at their faces.
It's not Bai Li.
It's not Xiaxia.
It's not Jiang Ran.
It's not Chen Mo.
It's not Song Zhiyi.
He checked each one carefully, loosening his clenched fingers one by one.
When the last body was turned over, his breathing finally eased a little.
None of them are there.
Bai Li isn't here, and Xia Xia isn't here either...
He straightened up, stood with his eyes closed for a moment, then opened them and scanned the ruins of the entire safe point.
They were completely destroyed, but not killed at the same time.
The location of the bodies and the direction in which they fell indicate that they had experienced at least one wave of attacks, and their defensive formation was broken down one by one.
Near the sandbag fortifications, a man on the verge of death stirred.
Lin Yuan arrived beside him almost simultaneously.
He was a young soldier in his early twenties, wearing a city defense uniform, his face covered in blood and ash so thick that his features were unrecognizable.
A charred patch on his chest—not a burn, but a penetrating wound from some kind of shadow energy, left by the claws of a Shadow Abyss Wolf.
Lin Yuan squatted down and supported his shoulder, pressing his right hand on the wound on his back to try to stop the bleeding.
But the moment his palm touched her, he knew it was too late.
The wound stopped bleeding because there was almost no blood left to bleed.
His chest heaved less with each rise and fall than before, and his pupils were dilating.
"Blood... Blood Eye Cult..."
The soldier struggled to turn his eyes, aiming them at Lin Yuan's direction.
His lips moved, his voice broken and intermittent, each word spoken as if he were draining his life force.
"The Blood Eye Cult and the Shadow Abyss Wolf Clan... are in cahoots. They've launched a surprise attack... here. Run... the Shadow Abyss Wolves... are heading towards the Hexagon..."
He slowly raised his blood-stained fingers, pointing in the direction of the Hexagon.
The Hexagon.
The finger started to slide down halfway up, and Lin Yuan grabbed it.
The soldier made a final, muffled sound in his throat, as if he still had something to say.
Then his hand completely lost its strength in Lin Yuan's palm.
The eyes were still open, but the pupils were no longer moving.
Lin Yuan remained silent for a few seconds.
He reached out and gently closed the soldier's eyes.
Thanks.
He placed the soldier's body behind the sandbags and stood up.
Blood Eye Cult, Shadow Abyss Wolf Clan.
It's the Blood Eye Cult again.
From Donghai City to Hangzhou, from that second-tier, fifth-level cultist to the breaking of the Demon Cave seal, from the surprise attack on the safe point to the soldier's last warning before his death.
These four words are like a dark red thread, stringing together all the chaos and carnage.
But why would Shadow Wolf go to the Hexagon?
Although the fastest route for the survivors to get to the old airport is to cross the first-floor lobby of the Hexagon.
"Isn't that to chase after the survivors who went to the old airport?"
Suddenly, Lin Yuan seemed to have thought of something.
Just a few hours ago, when I came to the Hexagon to sell monster materials, I saw something in the lobby on the first floor of the Hexagon.
A colossal statue, and the statue depicts the Shadow Abyss Wolf!
Lin Yuan suddenly had a bold guess: "Could it be that these Shadow Abyss Wolves came for this statue?!"
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