Chen Bugu quietly signaled everyone to "hold their ground."
At this moment, Old Liu had also quietly floated back to the group.
"What happened? Who did it?"
Old Liu was still aiming when he suddenly saw a cold light enter his vision, followed by his prey letting out a wail, its right eye already pierced.
"Not sure, let's observe first."
A moment later, a group of people burst out from the opposite bushes, quickly encircling the Goblin squad.
"Someone!"
"Help!"
Wang Bin and Yan Kuan almost simultaneously saw the people rushing out from the opposite side; a flicker of excitement and joy flashed in their eyes, and they were about to stand up.
Since the Great Disaster in Yu Tan Tunnel, they had seen Scarlet Hounds, Goblins, Cat Apes, and Vine Dreams, a series of monsters, but they had never seen living humans.
"Wait!"
Chen Bugu whispered sharply!
Yan Kuan and Wang Bin were startled almost simultaneously, slowly crouching back down with bent backs. They turned their heads to look at Chen Bugu, their eyes full of confusion.
Chen Bugu did not explain; he carefully observed this group of people.
There were about 20 of them. Judging by their converging speed, they had some combat experience, but their coordination was not decisive enough, clearly indicating they were not a long-term cohesive team.
Most likely, like them, they were also a team temporarily formed after the Great Disaster.
Leading the team were a muscular, tattooed tough guy and an elegant man wearing glasses and a white lab coat.
A red light flashed in the tattooed tough guy's eyes, followed by his arms rapidly swelling and quickly becoming covered in a layer of brownish-red fur.
Reinforcement type, and a transformation reinforcement at that!
His arms had completely transformed, at least reaching Black Iron Three Stars.
Chen Bugu silently made his judgment.
The tattooed tough guy roared and directly charged at the other uninjured Goblin Berserker.
Facing the giant club swung by the Goblin Berserker, he actually used his arms to firmly block it.
The Decipher of the eye gene lock seemed to have greatly increased Chen Bugu's vision. He vaguely noticed that the moment the Goblin's wooden club contacted the fleshy pad on the tattooed man's palm, some of the force attached to the giant club seemed to be dissipated.
Cushioning? But that fleshy pad seemed to be more resilient than it looked.
Even though the giant club was firmly blocked, the iron spike at its tip did not pierce the tattooed tough guy's palm.
The Goblin Berserker's eyes turned red, its Bloodlust skill activated, and it directly entered a berserk state.
A Goblin Berserker in a berserk state has its strength directly reach the peak of Black Iron Three Stars; even Chen Bugu would not willingly engage it in a head-on contest of strength.
But the tattooed tough guy seemed even more excited when he saw the Goblin Berserker go berserk.
"Come!"
He shouted, not retreating but advancing. His whole body was covered in a faint red light, and his already transformed arms swelled once more, his exaggerated muscles severely out of proportion with his body.
Even after going berserk, the Goblin still couldn't shake this crazy man in front of him.
At this point, it wasn't just the Goblin Berserker who was shocked; Chen Bugu and his group also found it incredible.
"It seems... we don't need to help. That big brother is very strong."
"No wonder you told us to wait."
Wang Bin controlled his volume, speaking softly to Chen Bugu.
Chen Bugu actually hadn't expected this tattooed tough guy to be this strong. He just thought that since this team had the confidence to attack the Goblin squad, they would probably be able to handle it.
There was no need for them to intervene.
Three years of experience in the apocalypse told Chen Bugu that sometimes, humans were not necessarily kinder than demonic beasts.
However, he hadn't expected that this tattooed man could even use berserk-type skills.
Transformation-type Awakeneds cannot comprehend any skills before Black Iron Four Star...
"Black Iron Four Star. In terms of strength, I'm not as good as him."
It was Bai Ting who answered Wang Bin on behalf of Chen Bugu. He had broken through to Black Iron Four Star in last night's battle, becoming the second Black Iron Four Star Awakened in the team after Chen Bugu.
In the battles of the past two days, Bai Ting's combat power was obvious to all, especially after breaking through to Black Iron Four Star, he could almost instantly kill ordinary Goblins with ease.
At this moment, his words gave everyone a new impression of this unfamiliar team.
In fact, Chen Bugu also hadn't expected that others would reach Black Iron Four Star so quickly.
He believed that although his current life started rough, the numerous near-death experiences brought immense opportunities and gains, and he shouldn't be caught up so quickly, unless...
In the short ten-odd seconds they were talking, new developments had occurred on the battlefield.
The tattooed tough guy was already exchanging blows with the Goblin Berserker, fist to flesh.
On the other side, the man in the white lab coat, suspected to be a doctor, had three Cold Steel Flying Daggers Floating beside him. The daggers spun rapidly, emitting a buzzing sound.
It was he who had pierced the Goblin Berserker's right eye with that earlier strike.
At this moment, the Goblin Berserker opposite him had already fallen to its knees.
Although that Goblin Berserker had entered a berserk state, the tendons in its legs had been completely severed, and blood was flowing freely.
Those three Cold Steel Flying Daggers, emitting a faint white light, were clearly not ordinary weapons. The cutting power brought by their high-speed rotation was probably no less than that of a chainsaw.
Chen Bugu saw a hint of blue light in the eyes of the man in the white lab coat, clearly an Awakened with a magic-type ability.
"Xiao Xiao, can you do that?"
Chen Bugu pointed at the Cold Steel Flying Daggers.
"I can make them fly, but I probably don't have that kind of speed and power."
Lin Xiaoxiao's face uncharacteristically showed a solemn expression.
The man in the white lab coat seemed to have an ability similar to hers, but her Mind currently couldn't achieve such flexible object manipulation from a distance.
The tattooed man and the man in the white lab coat each dealt with one Goblin Berserker.
The remaining dozen or so people basically formed groups of two or three to encircle and kill the ordinary Goblins.
The battle ended faster than expected.
The tattooed man's berserk state evidently lasted longer than the Goblin Berserker's.
The moment the Goblin Berserker exited its berserk state and became weak, its head was crushed by the tattooed man like a watermelon.
This made Chen Bugu and the others, who always preferred cautious and thorough combat, feel a chill.
And the man suspected to be a doctor ended his battle even earlier.
He seemed to have a thorough understanding of the Goblin Berserker's body structure.
Each of the three gleaming daggers precisely cut open the Goblin Berserker's arteries.
In less than a moment, the monster had already collapsed in a pool of blood, lifeless.
The others, however, were somewhat strange.
They broke the ordinary Goblins' limbs, rendering them completely incapable of fighting, but they did not deliver the final blow.
This peculiar action seemed to confirm Chen Bugu's earlier conjecture.
Just as everyone was still wondering what else this team planned to do, the man in the white lab coat, the bespectacled man suspected to be a doctor, looked in the direction where Chen Bugu and his group were hiding, smiled, and slowly spoke.
"Come out, everyone, the battle is over..."
