Chapter 168: Born Of Fate (1/2)
Chapter 168: Born Of Fate
Beside Bai Yi were Momo, Vala, Nancy, Alodia, and Chinchilla; basically, the few members of his team who didn’t have high combat power. Bai Yi had initially planned to leave the city in two days for the place they had prepared to pass through the Hypersomnia Stage, but who would have thought that something like this would suddenly happen? Of course, Betsy, Bellamy, and the other people in the recovery center left with Bai Yi’s group—staying in the city now was basically just seeking death.
“Where are Woolf and the others?” Bai Yi asked.
“To the south, close to the outskirts of the original town of Rolleston,” Vala immediately said.
Bai Yi nodded and immediately said, “En, let’s move!” There were more than a hundred people from the recovery center with them. Some of them had been guards to begin with, so they immediately wanted to form a circle around Bai Yi’s group in order to protect them. However, Bai Yi just waved his hand and pointed at the medical personnel.
“Protect them, we’ll be fine,” Bai Yi said.
This group of guards was quite hesitant when they heard Bai Yi’s words; after all, Bai Yi’s status was too high to ignore. Additionally, people in his group like Momo and Alodia really didn’t seem like they had much combat ability. However, what these people didn’t know was that this notion of ‘not much combat ability’ was only relative within Bai Yi's team. The goal of the team in coming to New Christchurch had been to increase their individual strength anyway, and the combat power of all of them had significantly increased over this period of time.
“Keep up!” Bai Yi said, without caring about the bunch of hesitating guards. He immediately ran ahead.
The fastest group of flying evolved lifeforms at the front consisted of two strangely shaped monsters with wingspans of more than three meters. They dived down from the sky instantaneously, and their target was Bai Yi, who was leading the group. In that instant, Bai Yi drew Red Kiss from its sheath. Momo, who wasn’t even 1.3 meters in height, drew her short sword as well behind him.
Bai Yi and Momo crossed past each other from the right and left, and after that there was only the sound of their swords being sheathed before the two unknown flying creatures heavily slammed into the ground. Fresh blood instantly spurted out from the necks of these two monsters. The outcome was completely different from what might've been imagined, and the group of guards who had initially thought that they were too late to save Bai Yi’s group were shocked dumb.
It wasn’t strange that Bai Yi was so strong, but the surprising thing was that little Momo was so strong as well! Momo was only eight years old, and this was something that almost everyone knew. What eight-year-old little girl would be this strong and unwavering?
“Keep up!” Bai Yi shouted backwards again, and lead the way, charging ahead with Momo.
Along the way, various types of evolved lifeforms continuously attacked them from the land and sky. They also met a few other evolved humans, but at this point in time it was already difficult to tell the difference. At the start, Bai Yi’s group was still quite safe, and the other evolved humans they encountered slowly joined their group after recognizing him. However, once the number of people grew too large, Bai Yi wasn’t able to take care of everyone, and the speed of the entire group also slowed greatly.
Slaughter, fresh blood, excitement, madness... various elements formed the theme around them now.
Slowly, the evolved humans and lifeforms were influenced by this savage and brutal fighting and fell into the berserk state. Within this kind of situation, they couldn’t afford to care about it too much either. Without his notice, Bai Yi’s entire body was slowly dyed red, and at this time all he could do was act as the tip of the spear to force open a pathway in this meatgrinder of a battlefield. As for those companions who fell into the berserk state and lost control, at this time Bai Yi could only wish them all the best.
Pitiful cries came continuously from the group. There were monsters being killed constantly, but similarly, there were evolved humans who died under their fangs and claws. Unknowingly, an unimaginable savagery and fury grew in Bai Yi’s heart.
This wasn’t the kind of fury one felt from falling into the berserk state; the source of Bai Yi’s fury was the endless blood being spilled. The long, arduous efforts of all the evolved humans crumbled into nothingness before this tide of monsters that came out of nowhere! Even if they managed to survive this, there probably wouldn’t be many evolved humans left in total.
Damn it!
After killing another monster in front of him, Bai Yi finally couldn’t take it anymore and roared furiously from his heart. His eyes abruptly opened—Reverse Flower Eyes: Intimidation!
This wasn’t mere hypnosis, but Bai Yi’s greatest degree of intimidation. Instantly, all the frenzied evolved lifeforms and humans went silent on the spot. It was as if, in that moment, no matter whether evolved lifeforms or humans, they all saw something extremely terrifying at the same time, and subconsciously retreated away. The initially frenzied and chaotic battlefield turned quiet and stifling in that split second.
At this time, Bai Yi stood on top of the corpse of a huge evolved lifeform, Red Kiss stabbing into its head. His body was slightly bent, as if all his weight was leant on Red Kiss in his hands. Bai Yi looked down on everyone from atop the gigantic corpse, giving all of them a sense of unimaginable pressure.
Everyone who regained their focus stared at Bai Yi, subconsciously swallowing their saliva.
The patterns on Bai Yi’s eyes gradually dimmed, and he pulled Red Kiss out from the head of the monster he was standing on. “Stop zoning out, move!”
After that, Bai Yi jumped down and continued leading everyone in running away from this place. In that moment, the 40–50 people still surrounding Bai Yi immediately reacted and hurriedly followed after him. At this time, why would they think too much? For the more powerful Bai Yi was, the better it was for them.
Even if it was Bai Yi’s intimidation, he couldn’t use it continuously either. Although the surrounding evolved lifeforms were intimidated and retreated for the time being, they were very quickly influenced by the environment and gathered toward the survivors again.
Using the Reverse Flower Eyes' intimidation effect to the greatest degree for six times continuously, Bai Yi’s eyes started to become bloodshot again. This was a state where blood started to fill his eyes, and at this time Bai Yi began panting mildly as well. As for the group following him, there were only slightly more than 20 people left. Those who were weaker had all basically been left behind in the city. Even if there were people protecting them, who could do that so thoroughly at a time like this? That was why the only person that one could rely on at the very last moment of facing danger was oneself.
After seeing that Bai Yi was going to use his Reverse Flower Eyes yet again, Nancy immediately went to support him, as he was becoming unsteady on his feet.