Chapter 7 (1/2)

Translator: Doggotranslation Editor: Doggotranslation

Chu Yunsheng cast ‘ talisman’ hurriedly onto the crossbow. He then used his spirit to sense ‘Yuan Qi’ in the fourth dimension.

Through it, a mysterious channel between him and the crossbow was created.

He pulled the string and loaded an arrow into the crossbow. He then took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down, but he failed.

However, he did not have much time left. So he quickly aimed the arrow at a running Red-sh.e.l.led insect nervously, through a hole that he had made on the window. He was a little familiar with crossbows since he had been practicing with it for a while now. But he wasn’t very experienced.

Despite that, Chu Yunsheng still failed at his first shot. Not only did he miss the target, but the arrow didn’t even activate its frost damage effect.

He was just too nervous. His arrow was simply ignored by his target. These Red-sh.e.l.led insects were way too fast compared to humans. Within moments, they had already reached the crowd and started grabbing people with their deadly claws.

Chu Yunsheng had a hard time reloading his crossbow with his shaking hands. When the crowd reached the building, he noticed that there were only eleven or twelve people left. Five people had probably been caught and killed by the Red-sh.e.l.led insects on the way to his building.

One of the people that was still alive, was the person who lived on the 10th floor. The person tried to open the security door with his trembling hands, but he failed every time.

While they were attempting to open the door, the Red-sh.e.l.led insects had already approached them. One of them used its sharp foot to pierce through a fat man. Then, as if it was playing with its prey, it held the man up and threw him in mid-air.

Chu Yunsheng wasn’t confident in hitting a moving target, but when the monsters stopped moving, and with a distance of fewer than 30 meters, he believed that he could now hit it.

Taking another deep breath, he aimed the arrow at the one that was playing with a dead body.

*Whoosh*

The arrow’s frost effect was instantly activated, it caused the temperature surrounding the arrow to quickly drop. The sound of an arrow piercing through air alerted the Red-sh.e.l.led insect. It quickly glanced at the window where the sound came from, but that was all it could do.

The arrow immediately arrived at its target and struck it with the power of the ice element. Not only the arrow slowed the monster but it also broke the insect’s protection, allowing the arrow to easily penetrate the sh.e.l.l and go straight into the monster’s body.

With the frost arrow’s effect, the Red-sh.e.l.led insect screeched in great pain.

As this happened, the other two, that were busy sucking human brains, suddenly stopped and looked at the dying one. They were confused.

But it was not finished yet. The frost arrow soon unleashed its full power. Even though the fire element inside the Red-sh.e.l.led insect’s body tried to fight back, it still could not withstand the frost arrow’s power. The Red-sh.e.l.led insect was frozen instantly and became an ice statue.

“Is it dead?” Chu Yunsheng had no idea how powerful the frost arrow was, since he never tested it before. Even though the Red-sh.e.l.led insect was frozen, he was still not sure if it was really dead.

So, he loaded his crossbow with his third arrow. Now, based on the experience he had gained from his previous two arrows, he wasn’t as nervous as before.

When the despair-filled group saw the turn of events, their desire to survive instantly replaced all the fears inside them. A middle-aged man took the key forcibly from the still trembling tenth-floor neighbor and then opened the gate calmly.

The group quickly pushed each other into the building. Some of them slumped themselves onto the stairs in the hallway while staring blankly at the frozen Red-sh.e.l.led insect and the few dismembered bodies.

In the dim light, they were looking at each other, not knowing what to do next. Eventually, the calm middle-aged man, or at least he looked like it, spoke.

“Let’s go upstairs. Quick, there are still two of them outside.”

“Yeah, you are right, someone living upstairs knows how to kill those monsters. As long as that person is here we are safe.”

“Did you notice which floor?”

“Who the h.e.l.l got time for that?!”

“No, I also didn’t notice.”

While talking to each other, they ran upstairs.

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