Ye De wasn't good at fighting.
Everyone had something they were good at, but there were also things they weren't good at. His weakness was fighting. Come to think of it, he didn't even have a lot of actual combat experience.
However, there were some coincidences in this world. If it was a posthuman who fought instinctively, he or she might have followed his or her instincts and started the fight when the Mutant extended its arm at them. Facing a Mutant that even Lin Sanjiu had to avoid, the outcome was already set in stone once the fight started.
The word "battle" had never appeared in Ye De's mind. Perhaps it was because of this that he and Anna had survived the first few minutes of the battle.
As soon as An Ran finished his words, he did not dare to waste more than half a second. When he saw a shadow rushing towards him from the corner of his eyes, he turned around and pulled Anna behind him. He pushed her down from the crack in the ceiling. The little girl did not even have the time to scream. When she fell with a muffled thud, he hurriedly took a big step forward and used his body to block the crack.
Just as he steadied himself, An Ran's hand had already touched his chest, which was rising and falling rapidly.
"We're finally here," the muffled voice of the mutated human came from the opposite side of the city.
Ye De felt a strange sensation that made his scalp go numb. He wanted to vomit, but he didn't dare to move. Trembling, Ye De said in a low voice, "I, I know that you might have been affected by the mutation. Your mind is a little different from before. If you have any emotions, don't direct them at your sister. You … you talk to me. I will help you."
In the dark night, An Ran's face was just a small patch of white.
At that moment, that patch of white tilted slightly. It was unclear if she was temporarily comforted by Lin Sanjiu's words.
"Then, why did you lie?" An Ran asked, "Aren't you quite strong?"
"I … I didn't," Ye De said, "You saw my injury. I can't even stand. I was too anxious just now. "
A black arc split open on that small patch of white.
"As expected of my sister," the figure in the distance suddenly praised. He didn't retract his long arm. "You noticed it too, right? Ever since she fell, she hasn't made a single sound. Not even her footsteps could be heard. "
Ye De also realized this point.
To a mutated human, it didn't matter how far they were or whether there was a city wall in between them. If Anna were to fall, no matter if she were to cry or run, the sound she made would be a clear signal. She obviously understood that as long as her brother followed the sound and broke through the city wall, she would have no hope of escaping.
If she maintained the silence, even if she had to move slowly step by step, as long as An Ran could not hear her and did not know where she was, she would still be safe for the time being.
"Could he have fainted from the fall?" Ye De was still pretending to be confused.
He also knew that he might not be able to deceive An Ran, but he couldn't escape or defeat her. His plan of attack was also ruined. Other than pretending to be innocent, he really had no other way to survive.
He was indeed not a qualified posthuman. Generally speaking, no one would give up the chance to kill a mutated human just to save the life of an ordinary girl.
"I wanted to keep both of you here," An Ran's words were strained and stuck together, "One is an evolved human and the other is my sister … This feeling … Hmm, just thinking about it makes me … But, it seems like you are forcing me to give up one of you. I can't let that happen."
Could a mutated human still be a "human"?
Just as the question formed in his mind, Ye De felt his chest tighten. He was grabbed by a force and lifted up from the ground. The weightlessness almost caused his heart to slide out of his body. When he let out a scream, An Ran's arm had already wrapped around him and lifted him into the air. She swung him back and forth a few times as if he was a wet hair stuck in her hand.
An Ran could have thrown him away or pinned him to the wall, but she only swung him around in the air. She raised her voice and shouted at his sister, "Anna? Aren't you a good girl? Look, Ba Tou De is going to die soon. Don't you want to see him for the last time? "
If it weren't for the cup of coffee, Ye De would have died in the air.
He felt dizzy and numb. His heart seemed to have stopped. His internal organs were all tangled together and he could vomit blood if he opened his mouth. He didn't even dare to open his mouth, let alone ask Anna not to come out. The only thing he could do was to grab onto An Ran's arm with all his strength.
"Anna? Anna? "
An Ran seemed to have lost his patience and was unwilling to kill Ye De right away. He swung his long arm and threw Ye De behind him. Ye De felt the empty ground pouncing on his face. He could only curl up into a ball before he was smashed to the ground with a loud thud. His soul was almost smashed out of his body.
As he fell to the ground, he tried his best to open his eyes. The flesh-colored arm in his arms that looked like a long water pipe flew across the night sky and connected with the figure on the wall.
"Here's my chance!"
Ye De's hand was still gripping An Ran's forearm tightly. He flipped over and got up. Lin Sanjiu's coffee was indeed very effective. Even though he had just suffered a new wound, the excitement it brought him was still suppressed. He didn't give An Ran a chance to realize what he was doing. He used all his strength and sprinted towards the edge of the large dirt platform.
Even the mutated man didn't expect that Ye De wouldn't faint after he threw Ye De with all his might.
Before An Ran could react, his body, which was standing on the city wall, had already been dragged by Ye De. Before he could stand firm, he was immediately pulled down and tumbled onto the dirt platform.
Ye De turned around excitedly. He was so disappointed that his knees almost buckled.
An Ran was still too close to the wall.
If he threw the Ripple Ball at him now, Fan Jia City behind him, as well as Anna, who was definitely not far away, would be finished.
"Are you at your wits' end?" The mutated man let out a shrill laugh, "Do you think you can drag me down the mountain?"
Ye De's heart skipped a beat. Just as he let go of the mutated human's arm, An Ran's arm suddenly came to life and curled around him. An irresistible force lifted him into the air again. As for his feet, they didn't move at all.
"I really didn't expect you to be so stupid," An Ran laughed loudly, "I was about to let go of you, but you didn't let go of me … What are you trying to do?"
Ye De didn't know what he was trying to do. Everything was different from what he had planned. He rose higher and higher in the night sky. The edge of the dirt platform seemed to be shrinking. He looked down at the ground that was getting further and further away from him. Suddenly, he felt as if a bucket of snow water had been poured over his head. In a moment of clarity, he thought of an idea that was worth a try.
The possibility was in Anna's words.
"The eyeball is filled with small eyeballs." Didn't he see a similar scene before?
When the middle-aged woman mutated in the city, someone exploded her body and created an endless amount of small bodies. That was the prelude for the mutants to swarm in all directions.
Even though Ye De had seen that scene with his own eyes, he still considered using the Ripple ball on An Ran. Subconsciously, he thought that An Ran was different. Up until now, An Ran could only expand and extend a part of himself. He didn't seem to be like the middle-aged woman, who could grow more body parts from her severed body parts.
Besides, Lin Sanjiu's attack was proof. After An Ran was injured in the eye, she was temporarily forced to give up on her mutated form. That was why she didn't grow more eyes.
But, what if this was a misunderstanding?
What if An Ran was the same as the middle-aged woman and was able to produce more bodies from her damaged body? Both of them mutated in a similar way, just like the duoluozhongs in the same world. Naturally, their mutated forms were similar.
That would explain why Anna could see more eyeballs from the bloody hole in his eyeball. As for Lin Sanjiu's attack, it might be because the wound wasn't deep enough, or because An Ran had just mutated and hadn't matured yet. Ye De didn't know the exact reason, and he didn't have the time to think about it.
He struggled to take out a Ripple ball and threw it at the long arm in the air.
"I've been stuck on this chapter for too long. I've lost my sense of direction. I don't know what year it is, who I am, and what I'm doing. Anyway, I've finally finished writing it. We can end this chapter soon!"
(End of Chapter)
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