Chapter 210 - Background Music (1/2)

Chapter 210: Background Music

Badump! Badump!

Jiang Baimian’s heart raced from 50 bpm to 180. This made her chest tighten, her breathing difficult, her vision turn black, and her head spin.

Unlike Tan Jie—who could still muster his strength and broadcast the enemy’s abilities to everyone—Jiang Baimian felt like she could faint at any moment. It wouldn’t be long before she suffered heart failure.

She wasn’t too surprised by this. The ability’s effects at close to 100 meters were clearly different from those at a dozen meters.

She just didn’t expect that her body—which had undergone genetic modification—would show signs of collapse so quickly.

Jiang Baimian gritted her teeth, took out another grenade, pulled out the ring, and threw it at the murloc wearing the laurel wreath with her left hand.

She wanted to use an explosion to interrupt the other party!

At this moment, the area where she, Shang Jianyao, and the remaining merfolk were was mostly blocked by the technology building. The suppressive fire from the rear was no longer effective, and they could only rely on themselves.

Before the grenade could be thrown, the tall murloc wearing the wreath laurel had already begun moving.

His destination was the car covered in thick armor. He wasn’t fast, and it seemed like he had to divert his attention to maintain the effects of Heart Acceleration.

At this moment, one of the two remaining merfolk guards suddenly jumped out from behind their cover, threw him to the side of the armored vehicle, and covered him with their bodies.

Boom!

The grenade exploded where the tall murloc had been standing. A crimson wave of fire swept through a large area with shrapnel.

The murloc—who used his body as a shield—didn’t feel any pain as he died on the spot. He vaguely seemed to see the hometown that his great-grandfather’s generation often described: It was fertile land by the lakeshore, a city that was brightly lit. Although it wasn’t spacious, it was an abode that belonged to them…

Badump! Badump!

Jiang Baimian’s speeding heartbeat didn’t ease at all. She felt like she would faint at any moment or even go into shock.

The tall murloc wearing the wreath laurel pushed away the incomplete corpse and looked at Jiang Baimian with hatred.

At this moment, Shang Jianyao had already seized the opportunity to roll into the seven-meter radius of the armored vehicle.

He didn’t waste any time. He found cover, turned his back to the target, opened his mouth, and shouted, “If you have what it takes…”

Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Baimian couldn’t hold on any longer. She collapsed behind the abandoned flower bed and entered a half-conscious state. This was another place she had chosen as cover.

The main reason she took the risk and did so many things was to protect Shang Jianyao until he entered the range where he could use his abilities.

The next second, Shang Jianyao’s heartbeat also began to accelerate. It sounded like someone was drumming beside his ear.

He resisted the discomfort and continued shouting, “Suffocate us to death!”

Combined, it was: ‘If you have what it takes, suffocate us to death.’

This was not Provocation, but Corny Person. However, Shang Jianyao was using a mild method in an attempt to make the effects last longer. Furthermore, it wasn’t so easy to be discovered. If he forced the other party to do something irrational, the murloc would quickly come to a realization. Before that, he might not have a good opportunity to attack.

As for how to use Corny Person, it mainly depended on which method suited the situation.

To make the other party’s relatively mild corny behavior evolve in the direction he wanted, Shang Jianyao deliberately said this to induce him into doing so.

This was the experience he gleaned from his battle with the fake Father.

As his heart raced to the brink of losing control, Shang Jianyao’s voice became softer and softer as if it came from the horizon.

Suddenly, gunfire, booms, and rumbling sounds drilled into his ears.

His heartbeat had returned to normal at some point in time.

Shang Jianyao panted heavily, but he realized that the air around him seemed to be being sucked out by someone, becoming thinner and thinner.

His breathing became difficult.

At the same time, the Redstone town guards along the defensive line at Aiur Supermarket and Sixth Day Mall felt the world being flooded again, trapping them beneath with no way to surface.

Experienced, Long Yuehong no longer wasted his precious energy breathing heavily. He held his breath and fired a grenade.

However, muted fire appeared in many areas of the defense line. The interweaving firepower could no longer suppress the merfolk and mountain monsters not far away.

They pushed out artillery—the temporarily assembled mortars—picked up their rocket launchers and grenade launchers, and attacked Redstone Collection’s defense line.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Countless salvos sounded at the same time, sending Long Yuehong and the others scrambling to the ground, not daring to show their heads.

Seizing this opportunity, the mountain monsters with blue skin and sharp teeth carried submachine guns and assault rifles as they ran through the collapsed buildings like they were on flat ground.

When the salvos stopped, Long Yuehong looked up and mounted the grenade launcher on the windowsill.