Yu An reminded him, "It's too damp here, and the mushrooms are sticky, so you can't burn them."
Xie Chiyuan tried it, and sure enough, it couldn't be burned.
But if it can't be burned, there are backup plans.
Xie Chiyuan turned and went back to the village. This time, his target was the zombies.
Yu An watched helplessly as Xie Chiyuan blew heads off zombies, one after another.
As he looked at it, a hint of panic appeared in his eyes.
"Big, big head."
Yu An called out to Da Tou, who seemed like a completely different person, his voice stammering, "You can fight here, I... I heard someone shouting for help."
Xie Chiyuan heard it too.
It was Tang Xin's voice. Tang Xin wasn't calling for help, but rather calling for Xie Die.
Xie Chiyuan quickened his pace, dealt with the zombies in the village, and rushed towards the source of the sound.
Yu An had gone there ahead of time.
Xie Chiyuan wanted to slaughter all the zombies, disrupt the mutant's game, and force it to reveal itself.
But he didn't expect that the aberration was forced out of him.
However, the variant lacking Da De bypassed him and went to vent its anger on the team he led.
Tang Xin can handle zombies, but not mutants—
He is not as good as Xie Chiyuan.
He is a support character, here to assist Xie Chiyuan.
Yu An, who was the first to arrive, immediately spotted the giant umbrella mushroom that had expanded several times its original size.
These mushrooms are so big, one pot isn't enough to stew them all.
The umbrella-shaped mushroom spreads out its dense mycelium, which penetrates the human body and quickly absorbs it.
Yu An ran over and led these people toward him.
"Come here right now and hide!"
Yu An struggled to hold onto the person, dodging the attacks of the mycelium.
soon.
Yu An noticed a strange phenomenon: these mycelia did not attack him!
Could it be because... he's a zombie?
Yu An's expression tightened, and the next second, he opened his arms and, like a mother hen protecting her chicks, shielded the person behind him.
With Yu An holding him back slightly, Xie Chiyuan quickly arrived.
As soon as Tang Xin saw him arrive, he immediately pulled Yu An away.
"Never mind, we'll just sit back and win."
Tang Xin pulled Yu An to the back and sat down with a thud.
He was exhausted, but he still insisted on counting the number of people. After the count was completed, the men, panting, skillfully treated their wounds.
Yu An also tried his best to lend a hand.
Tang Xin looked up at him, puzzled: "What do you do?"
Yu An handed him the bandage: "I've come to find Zaizai."
"What do you mean, 'little brat'? You've brought your shameful act of abandonment to this place?"
In such a poor and remote place, it would be difficult to find a lost child.
Yu An lowered her head and continued tearing off the bandages.
As he tore at the cloth, he puffed out his cheeks and said without discouragement, "It's okay, I can look for it with Zai Zai's dad!"
"Who's the baby's dad? How could you two be so careless—"
"Xie Chiyuan."
Yu An, being nagged, threw out a name.
Then, the expressions of all the surviving team members froze instantly.
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Author's Note:
Xie: My innocence is gone :)
Anzai: I'm too scared to wake up now QAQ!
Chapter 12
Tang Xin was the first to react. He gave a dry laugh and said, "My hearing hasn't been working very well lately, hahaha, I just heard Father Xie's name."
Yu An frowned and corrected, "It's not Father Xie, it's Xie Chiyuan."
Xie Chiyuan is his son's father, not someone else's father!
Tang Xin: "..."
Tang Xin closed his eyes and had already thought about what would happen to him after his death.
Hearing such secrets about Xie Chiyuan, they feared they wouldn't survive the night. The other team members shared his reaction, a mixture of horror and despair.
Yu An, oblivious to their emotions, continued talking to them: "Are you close to Xie Chiyuan? Is he good to you?"
Tang Xin, against his conscience, said with difficulty, "It's alright."
They were sitting on the ground chatting. On the other side, Xie Chiyuan had already gained the upper hand in his battle with the mutant. The giant green mushroom was completely enraged and frantically wove a mycelium-like web, trying to devour Xie Chiyuan.
Crimson patterns appeared on Xie Chiyuan's palm. He slapped the umbrella mushroom, and the mushroom instantly turned red.
Yu An suddenly sniffed.
"It smells so good."
It smells like barbecue!
He turned around and saw Xie Chiyuan suddenly raise his hand not far away, pulling a bone blade from his back. The bone blade, sharp and menacing, seemed to come alive the moment it pierced the mushroom.
Yu An was stunned.
He had never seen a man so cold and almost demonic. The grotesque, agonizing screams only made the man's actions even more ruthless.
"This village... deserved to die! What right did you have to kill me?! What right did you have to kill me!"
After the mushroom body was cut into several pieces, the mutant angrily questioned Xie Chiyuan: "I was trapped here by them, living a hellish life, and you just watched me die! Now I want them dead, what right do you have to kill me!"
Xie Chiyuan coldly stared at the mutant.
He was incredibly clever; he had already guessed that morning that the mutant had eaten a girl. The girl was probably still conscious, so she orchestrated the murder game, causing the villagers to die one by one.
The girl's identity is easy to guess.
Living in a pigsty, wearing dirty, old clothes, and the last words of the woman who was fed to the zombies last night...
She was abducted here.
And the entire village is the murderer.
The mutated green umbrella mushroom was still raging, but Xie Chiyuan was not fooled: "Do the people here deserve to die, and do the passersby who accidentally came here also deserve to die?"
A mutant is a mutant; even if it develops human consciousness, it cannot change its bloodthirsty and cruel nature.
Xie Chiyuan slashed down with the bone blade, this time slicing off the large umbrella canopy.
The umbrella-shaped mushroom, unable to withstand the attack, fled in anger.
Xie Chiyuan didn't give it a chance to escape; he blocked its path.
Looking at Xie Chiyuan, who was clearly in the lead, Yu An suddenly asked, "If this mushroom hadn't done anything wrong, would it still have been killed?"
"Of course I will."
Tang Xin dared not be perfunctory with Yu An. He patiently replied to Yu An, "The mutants are like zombies. Their existence only poses a threat to us humans."
Yu Anxin felt a tightness in her chest.
He didn't like the answer.
Big Head's fighting was cool, but he was starting to feel increasingly uncomfortable.
Time passed little by little.
Just as Xie Chiyuan was about to smash the core of this mutant, the mycelium extending from the mutant suddenly flung down towards the ground below the tree.
The next second.
Yu An, who was watching the battle, was swept away. He was swept away so fast that even Tang Xin, who was next to him, couldn't stop him.
The mushroom's main body was completely destroyed, and the mycelium that had swept away Yu An would not survive for long. This action was unexpected by everyone.
"I'll go after them."
Xie Chiyuan left those words behind and chased after the direction in which the mycelium had disappeared.
The village is located in a remote area, surrounded by low mountains and ravines.
Yu An was bound by the mycelium and rushed forward. If there hadn't been so little mycelium, he would have felt like he was turning into a silkworm cocoon, a very tight one at that.
"Slow down, slow down a bit."
Yu An was dizzy from the jolting, and he said slowly, "I'm dizzy."
If he runs that fast again, he'll throw up.
As if it had heard him, the mycelium actually slowed down a bit. Taking advantage of its familiarity with the terrain, the mycelium quickly left Xie Chiyuan, who was hot on its heels, far behind.
I don't know how long I ran.