Chapter 140 - persistence (2/2)

”Actually, you don't have to …”

”No!” Monnie interrupted her and said firmly, ”I've been dragging Zero down. Now I can finally do something for him. This is my price! Besides, you still want to take revenge, don't you? So let me do the best I can! ”

Monnie raised her dagger and was about to stab down. But the black girl whispered, ”Let me do it, so you won't have to suffer too much.”

A moment later, Monnie's suppressed cry of pain sounded from the small wetland.

Just as the setting sun was about to sink into the horizon, the dense radiation cloud split open a zigzag hole, as if it had been slashed by the sharp swords of a god, causing blood-red sunlight to pour down.

The desperate red light made Zero's eyes hurt. When he moved his fingers, the usual instant signal seemed to have come from far away. After almost a second, it was finally received by the brain of zero.

For zeros, one second was a long time.

Slowly, like a rusty machine, he opened his eyes.

Zero could feel that the wound on his back had already healed. Furthermore, using [Rampage] when he was close to the end of his stamina depleted almost all of the energy in his cells. Before he fell into a coma, he could faintly feel that his genes were on the verge of collapsing. But now, his genes had stabilized, and there was an additional mysterious life force in his body.

It was this vitality that had stabilized the gene that was on the verge of collapse.

He pressed his hands to the ground and propped himself up from the sand.

Behind Zero was the exit of Death Canyon. Below him was a slope. Not far away, he saw the Ramathon River reddened by the setting sun.

From here, the straight line should be about two thousand meters away. However, if he were to calculate that he would be able to go downhill through a lush forest and reach the bottom along the riverbank, the distance would not be less than 100 kilometers.

”You're awake?”

Natasha's voice came, and Zero looked towards the source of the voice. The black girl came back with a small beast. She threw the animal to the ground and saw that it was a mutated rabbit. With a dagger she had taken from Zero, she had skillfully dismembered and skinned the large rabbit. However, there was a hint of fear in the way she occasionally looked at Zero.

The black girl couldn't forget how terrifying it was when Zero ate the piece of meat that had been cut off from Monnie's calves.

The unconscious Zero, upon touching the blood on the flesh, trembled slightly. Then Zero opened his eyes, but she could swear that they were not human eyes. Most of them seemed to be the eyes of a beast.

In fact, Zero ate the bloody piece of meat into his stomach in a nearly animal way. It wasn't until he had swallowed his throat without wasting a single bit of meat foam that Zero fell into a trance again, but she would never forget the terrible sight of his hair standing on end and every muscle and fiber in his body moving as if they were alive.

Thankfully, Monnie had fainted before this, or she would have been terrified.