Wherever the poisonous mist passed, the walls became mottled and peeled, and the overturned metal tables and chairs even emitted a "sizzling" corrosive sound!
The scene instantly spiraled out of control! Despair, like a cold tide, engulfed everyone!
Watching this, Ling Chen remained indifferent. He had drawn this mutated beast here not only to obtain high-quality blood food, but also, importantly, to reduce his burden.
In this cold and cruel apocalypse, there were too many ordinary people, which would drag down the strong. He couldn't possibly lead a team to find food every day; that would waste too much of his time.
The poisonous mist spread incredibly fast, filling more than half the classroom in the blink of an eye. Many classmates convulsed and collapsed, foaming at the mouth, after just a single breath of the mist.
"But how should this end? What if the few awakened ability users don't have strong enough willpower and can't handle the shock of so many sudden deaths, and go crazy?"
Ling Chen, "unconscious" in the corner, calmly pondered how he could subtly save some people and kill the Four-Eyed Ghost Tiger.
But as he pondered, he suddenly realized something was wrong and sharply looked up at Chen Xue, who was huddled in another corner.
Ling Chen's expression was extremely strange at this moment.
"Why do I feel like the probability of awakening abilities is so high after I've been reborn?"
Yes! Being stimulated by external factors certainly has a chance of awakening abilities, but it also depends on the degree and probability! This is almost like randomly digging some dirt and accidentally finding a gold nugget.
Chen Xue huddled in the corner. The thick poisonous mist obscured her vision, but she could still hear Li Mingyu's frantic roars, Sun Qiang's metallic grinding sounds as he was strangled, and the classmates' agonizing screams!
Her tears rolled down like broken pearls, and her body trembled violently with fear! She saw it! Zhao Feng's charred, twitching corpse not far from her! It was him! He had secretly given her half a biscuit when he found some yesterday! Although his motives might not have been pure, it was ultimately an act of kindness.
A tearing pain and immense despair surged into her heart! Dead! So many people dead! All dead! Ling Chen too…
No! I don't want to die! I don't want everyone to die!
An indescribable, intense longing, accompanied by extreme sorrow, erupted violently in her chest like a volcano! This power was so wild that it instantly shattered all the shackles in her spiritual world!
Buzz…!
A faint, pure and soft silver light, like the warmest star, lit up without warning from her rapidly heaving chest!
This light quickly spread, covering her slender body! A cool, sacred aura, as if it could soothe all pain, silently permeated the air! She instinctively stretched out her trembling hand towards the direction of the most intense screams and fighting!
"Stop… don't fight… don't die… please…"
No sound was emitted, but an invisible, intangible spiritual prayer, carrying the purest compassion and call for life, mixed with that soft silver holy light, swept across the entire mist-shrouded classroom like ripples!
At the same time, a priest-like symbol appeared on her right shoulder.
"My great Holy Mother," Ling Chen muttered, quite speechless.
But this was good; it saved him the effort.
In the apocalypse, a Holy Mother is undoubtedly the most disliked type, but there is one exception—the 【Silver Priest】 of the healing ability.
Ability: 【Silver Priest】 Element type, Light element, Support type.
A miracle happened!
A boy, enveloped in poisonous mist, writhing in agony, his skin rapidly festering, suddenly stopped festering! Although the wounds were still horrifying, the intense burning pain quickly subsided! His mind also cleared a bit!
Sun Qiang, who was being strangled by the cat's tail, his head splitting, his left arm's metal armor almost deformed, felt the tearing pain in his mind instantly vanish! His spirit instantly cleared! Although the tail's constricting force was still terrifying, his body felt as if it had been injected with extra resilience!
Li Mingyu, who was suffering from both the giant cat's mental shock and the poisonous mist, almost suffocating, his groggy head suddenly cleared! His vision returned! He saw the giant cat's ferocious face!
Even more miraculously!
The four-eyed giant cat, which was madly strangling Sun Qiang and spewing poisonous mist, stiffened abruptly the moment it was swept by this soft but powerfully willed prayer for life!
In the pure, predatory, brutal light of the three vertical pupils on its eerie green forehead, there was an extremely brief, less than 0.1-second moment of confusion, as if cold water had been thrown on it! The bloodthirsty intent seemed to hit a soft yet resilient wall of sighing!
"Now!"
A voice, suppressing extreme pain yet as clear as a conductor's baton, suddenly rang out from the end of the classroom! It was Ling Chen!
The Silver Priest's awakened innate ability was not primarily a healing ability. Although it had some healing effects, its main function was to remove all debuffs. He still had to exert some effort, but it was much easier than before.
He had, at some point, leaned against the wall and stood up again! His left shoulder and back were still bleeding profusely, staining half his body! But his eyes were like a thousand-year-old cold pool, icy and piercing! His right hand pointed at the end of the iron pipe spear deeply embedded in the giant cat's abdomen!
"Detonate!"
"Light! Zhou Yunguang! Steel rod!" Ling Chen's voice, suppressing pain, came from the corner! His eyes were sharp as knives, fixed on the end of the steel rod in Li Mingyu's hand that was firmly pressed against the giant cat's tail!
"Infuse! Detonate it!"
"Detonator?"
Zhou Yunguang understood instantly! Without hesitation! He adjusted his flashlight to its maximum setting! The dazzling white light no longer scattered, but was madly compressed and condensed by his powerful willpower! It transformed into a holy light spear only about a foot long, yet so condensed it seemed like liquid platinum, its edges radiating light so intense it made one unable to open their eyes!
"With light as the guide—Purification!"
Zhou Yunguang roared hoarsely! Pouring all his mental energy into it! The light spear flew from his hand! It didn't shoot at the giant cat, but like a precision-guided missile, it instantly plunged into the end of the solid steel rod in Li Mingyu's hand that was firmly pressed against the cat's tail!
Buzz—!!!
The steel rod was like a red-hot branding iron! It instantly turned from dull black to dazzling white! Countless tiny white light patterns spread and moved wildly over the rod's surface like living things! A terrifying energy that purified all filth and destroyed all evil was compressed, boiling, and on the verge of exploding within the rod!
"Now! Li Mingyu! Smash it in!" Ling Chen's voice was like the final battle drum!
Li Mingyu felt the terrifying high temperature and destructive energy coming from the steel rod in his hand!
He roared wildly! The Buli (Brute Force) ability erupted to its limit again! His arm muscles bulged to the tearing point! His blood vessels looked ready to burst! He no longer resisted, but using the immense force from the giant cat's tail, his body spun violently like a top! He combined all his strength, the centrifugal force of the spin, and the holy light energy compressed to the extreme within the steel rod into one! It became a dazzling white lightning bolt that tore through space! He slammed it fiercely into the relatively vulnerable junction of the giant cat's chest and abdomen, which was slightly rising and falling as it spewed poisonous mist!
"Explode, you bastard!!!"
Boom—!!!!
An indescribable roar! Like a small sun exploding within the giant cat's chest!
Time seemed to stand still at this moment.
"Meow…" A short, strange, and incredibly soft whimper squeezed out of the giant cat's throat. Like the wail of a kitten whose tail has been stepped on.
Its massive body suddenly stiffened! The wildly spewing poisonous mist stopped abruptly as if its throat had been choked! The crimson and eerie green lights in its four eyes instantly extinguished, replaced by a blank, dead gray! Its huge body, like a skin stripped of its skeleton, suddenly slumped down! The tail wrapped around Sun Qiang also loosely slipped off!
Thump!
The giant cat's massive body crashed to the ground, shaking the entire classroom!
Dead?!
A brief, deathly silence! Everyone was stunned by this sudden reversal! Only the thick poisonous mist still slowly rolled, but its deadly lethality was greatly reduced under Chen Xue's silver light.
Plop! Li Mingyu also exhausted his last bit of strength, slumping to the ground, panting heavily, staring blankly at the giant cat's corpse in a pool of blood.
Sun Qiang's metallic arm propped him on the ground, the sound of metal friction particularly clear in the dead silence. Zhou Yunguang's light sword suddenly extinguished, and his hand holding the flashlight trembled violently, his face ashen.
The silver light on Chen Xue's chest slowly dissipated. She slid weakly to the ground, tears silently flowing, but a certain inexplicable light appeared in her eyes.
Pitter-patter… pitter-patter…
Ling Chen moved his feet with difficulty, dragging his injured body, stumbling step by step, leaving a long trail of blood behind him, slowly walking towards the massive cat corpse. His face was deathly pale, without a trace of color, but his steps were incredibly firm.
Under everyone's gaze, he squatted down. His right hand, covered in crimson blood, reached out and plunged without hesitation deep into the hideous wound in the giant cat's abdomen, torn open by the iron pipe spear!
After a grinding sound that grated on one's teeth, Ling Chen slowly pulled out his bloody arm.
In his palm, he held a fist-sized crystal core, radiating a deep dark gold, with what looked like flames burning and leaping within! The moment the crystal core left the corpse, the fierce pressure belonging to the giant cat slowly permeated the air, yet it also contained unimaginable boundless vitality and energy! The dark golden light reflected on his blood-stained hand, but he revealed a faint smile.
What a perfect hunt.
Six-pattern level mutated beast Heterocrystal , pure ice-blue level!
The pale light of dawn struggled to penetrate the clouds and broken window frames, piercing through the still lingering poisonous mist.
Unbeknownst to them, they had fought all night.