Chapter 227: Mutation (25)
They were both outstanding figures naturally evolved under Tianfa.
Xiao Ji and Bai Yinnian were strong, but the other side wasn’t to be trifled with either. Moreover, on Qi Xu’s side, there were a full eight people.
The most important thing was that Mu Fan and the other Shenyi members were still in Qi Xu’s hands.
Logically speaking, Qi Xu occupied the favorable timing, geographical advantage, and human harmony. No matter how you looked at it, this order from Xiao Ji was very rash.
But Bai Yinnian was never the type of personality to easily submit. With a single word from Xiao Ji, he directly unleashed a killing move, striking first to gain the upper hand.
Densely packed feather spines carrying flames directly skewered the woman closest to Bai Yinnian into a fiery hedgehog.
The war had already begun. One of Qi Xu’s subordinates instantly transformed into a ferocious blood snake, its festering skin dripping with gurgling corrosive liquid.
That blood snake certainly knew how to pick the softest target. Opening its large maw, it bit towards Xiao Cui.
Xiao Ji was quick of eye and deft of hand. He touched the blood snake’s tail, and the next second, the blood snake exploded into pieces under the gaze of Xiao Cui’s blood-red pupils.
In the blink of an eye and a wave of the hand, the opposing side had lost three people.
And Bai Yinnian was clearly already getting excited. On his massive golden wings, the temperature was also skyrocketing along with it.
If they continued to sit and watch, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Qi Xu cursed his bad luck under his breath. He fiercely slapped the edge of the pit, and the large door on one side of the deep pit slowly opened. A massive batch of walking corpse-like puppets charged out, sprinting towards those several pupae on the ground.
Xiao Ji narrowed his phoenix eyes slightly.
These were not low-level pollutants.
These things had not undergone any mutations on the surface; they only possessed feeding instincts, looking more like zombies.
If nothing unexpected had occurred, this was the reason Qi Xu built his lair in this research institute.
He was researching drugs himself, not even hesitating to capture surviving living humans to conduct experiments.
Bai Yinnian also blew up when he saw this scene. Sharp feather spines pierced into the chests of Qi Xu’s two companions who had already lost their breath.
In a mere instant, his wings grew wildly.
Mu Fan was conscious.
It was just that this pupa was special. For the people enveloped within it, all their power seemed to be bound.
They could hear and see, but they couldn’t move.
He watched helplessly as those zombie-like things ran towards them, ferocious and twisted. A wave of despair washed over his heart.
And just as those things were about to reach him, he saw a massive golden wing stand before him with a clang. Like a copper wall and an iron bastion, it tightly blocked the path of those things.
An enraged Bai Yinnian was an existence that made everyone’s hair stand on end just from looking at him.
But when Qi Xu faced such a Bai Yinnian, he suddenly revealed a bizarre smile.
From the corner of his eye, Xiao Ji caught sight of Qi Xu’s face, and his heart chilled. Just as he wanted to call out to warn Bai Yinnian, the clear, surging sound of churning tides came from the depths of the cave.
Qi Xu stared at Xiao Ji. “Refusing a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit. Did you really think I had no preparations whatsoever?”
He placed one hand on the rock wall behind him. That originally solid rock wall became illusory and fragile. The tidal waters that had long accumulated behind the rock wall rapidly surged in through every crack.
One of Qi Xu’s subordinates quickly transformed into a puddle of fluid substance, enveloping the other few people—except for Qi Xu—within it.
And Qi Xu himself—his face also began to turn ferocious. Then, unexpectedly, two gills grew out from his jaw.
The tide mixed with mud quickly smashed through the rock wall and surged out.
This was the escape route Qi Xu had laid out.
This cave had no exit.
And his ability was that he could manipulate these hard rock walls, melting them into any shape he needed, allowing him to survive both on land and in water.
In this underground area one hundred and fifty meters deep, a place entirely surrounded by groundwater, he had forged such a seemingly flawless cave. It created the illusion for Xiao Ji and Bai Yinnian that they were still in the research institute, making them lower their guard.
Once negotiations broke down, he would destroy this cave and trap Bai Yinnian and Xiao Ji here forever.
Xiao Ji began to think.
And Bai Yinnian, propping up his last bit of consciousness, wrapped the pupae in the pit within one of his wings. With the other wing, he swiftly shielded Xiao Ji and Xiao Cui.
He couldn’t fly in this kind of environment. The flames on his wings had all been extinguished, becoming incomparably heavy.
Under the massive impact of the water current, no one could speak anymore. Bai Yinnian couldn’t help but fall into despair.
He began to regret bringing Xiao Ji here, regretting dragging Xiao Ji into this from the very beginning.
However, before this emotion of regret had time to continue spreading, he sensed the surrounding temperature begin to drop, and the water currents also began to solidify.
Xiao Ji hugged Bai Yinnian, pressing down on his head and burying his face in his own neck. The water around them began to separate from Bai Yinnian, forming a round, smooth, hollow ice sphere that enveloped everyone under Bai Yinnian’s wings inside the ice sphere.
Outside of this, Qi Xu and the others also sensed the anomaly and quickly fled.
Unfortunately, their speed was too slow.
A thick water current began to flow in reverse, spiraling and condensing into an ice dragon. It swept straight towards Qi Xu and the others, freezing them. In just a few breaths of time, it had frozen Qi Xu and the others within the ice dragon.
Xiao Cui’s pupils shifted. That thick ice dragon then silently shattered into foam amidst the tide, obliterating in the depths of this underground space.
……..
Bai Yinnian felt he had an incredibly long dream.
The frames flashed by one by one, incomparably messy, unable to be pieced together.
Several different faces had appeared in the dream, but Bai Yinnian didn’t know why, he just felt that those different faces all seemed to be the same person.
The man was walking on a small path the previous second, the walls along the road covered with star jasmine. He himself seemed to be sitting in a car, forcing the man to get in. The next second, that man collapsed in a torrential rainstorm with a dagger stuck in his back, surrounded by chaotic footsteps and the sound of an ambulance.
The next second after that, the man was wearing a phoenix crown and a sunset cape, standing in the deserted wind and snow, with countless falcons soaring in the sky.
The scene shifted, and the man had turned into a child, holding a small bird in his hands. Standing in front of him, he softly called him: “Brother Xiaonian.”
Bai Yinnian tried to make himself wake up, but he continued to sink deeper.
An opera stage with flesh and blood flying everywhere, a sturdy embrace holding him tight, a gentle and refined man wearing a long gown and glasses, holding a worn-out wallet in his hand and thanking him.
Over and over, real yet illusory scenes interleaved and overlapped in Bai Yinnian’s dreamscape.
And in the end, all those different faces seemed to turn into an unfamiliar man, looking at him amidst the ruins, bending down, and holding him in the palm of his hand.
Bai Yinnian couldn’t fathom how massive that man’s physique had to be to be able to cup him in the palm of his hand.
He was trapped for a long time, until he perceived someone touching his face, softly calling him by his ear:
“Yinnian.”
Bai Yinnian finally jolted awake. His whole body felt as if it had collapsed, covered in a cold sweat, panting heavily as he opened his eyes.
The familiar ceiling entered his vision. Bai Yinnian rested for a long time before turning his head to look at Xiao Ji sitting by the bed.
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