Silin dodged a few of the white mouse's attacks with his agility, and the trees around Silin were cut down like tofu.
The red dot on the white mouse's body was slowly shrinking, and it wouldn't be long before it completely healed. This was something no one had expected. After all, the bullet contained a toxin that could swiftly kill a biochemical soldier.
"What do we do?" Erty asked Gu Xin while searching for an opening to fire.
Gu Xin didn't know how to deal with this kind of biochemical beast either. Their muscles were very strong. When they were highly constricted, they could block external physical attacks. When a bullet hit them, it would be stuck before it could penetrate deep into their muscles. This kind of big white rat had amazing recovery ability. When the bullet exploded, the explosive force blasted a hole on its body, but it didn't take long for it to gradually recover. Gu Xin felt that they still hadn't found the right target.
The noise attracted the attention of some wild beasts that were out hunting for food. Not only did Silin and the others have to deal with the white mouse, but they also had to deal with the incoming wild beasts.
Bang!
Erty's bullet blew up the head of a beast that was rushing towards him. However, Erty didn't show much excitement. On the contrary, he was very worried. The same bomb could easily blow up a beast, but it wouldn't work on a white mouse. Setting aside the white mouse's dodging ability, the effect wouldn't be as obvious as it was on a wild beast.
Cillin circled around the area and found an opportunity to kick the white mouse from time to time, slowing it down and giving the other three an opening to shoot at it. It was only during this opening that the trio's shots would be much more accurate. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to hit the intended spot.
The white mouse's ear was blown up, but it wasn't slowed down at all. However, it was obvious that the white mouse was a lot more irritable than before. Silin and the others' attacks had aroused its killing intent. Its fur stood up like steel needles, and it looked like it was growing longer and longer.
Gu Xin and Hua Li had hit its claws, but it only wavered a little when they were hit. Then, it continued to chase after Silin as if nothing had happened.
Silin really couldn't understand why the white mouse was so fixated on him. It hadn't given up even after chasing him for half a day.
However, Silin noticed that the big white mouse's ears were pressed down tightly when it ran. Ever since Silin and the others opened fire, it had not pricked up its ears.
Bang!
It was unknown who shot the big white mouse's paw, but the big white mouse's pursuit slowed down slightly. Silin took this opportunity to fire three shots in a row. The bullet bypassed a branch and hit the white mouse's ear. With three consecutive explosions, the white mouse's left ear was blown off, and a strange reddish-brown blood stain almost covered the entire left side of the white mouse's face.
"Squeak —"
A sharp scream assaulted everyone's eardrums like an ultrasonic wave.
The murderous aura of this large white mouse grew even thicker, and the steel-needle-like fur on its body doubled in size. Thick scales began to appear on its limbs, all the way to its toes. If this continued, hitting its toes would be useless.
Just as the white mouse screamed and began to change, Silin fired three more times in succession. The three bullets drilled into the areas that had yet to be covered by the needle-like fur.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Reddish-brown blood splattered everywhere, and the white mouse's entire head was only left with a blurry skull and some flesh.
They didn't care if the white mouse was dead or not. After Cillin opened fire, the other three also opened fire at the same spot. All four of them fired at the white mouse's ears, and they didn't use poison bullets. Instead, they used explosives.
As the banging sounds faded away, the white rat's head was gone. Its body, which had expanded to twice its original size, was still standing there, but it was no longer moving.
Dead?
Gu Xin and the others cautiously approached the white mice. Just as the three of them approached, Silin suddenly shouted: "Be careful!!"
Since most of their attention was placed on the white mouse, and because the white mouse let out that cry, the surrounding Direbeasts hurriedly avoided it, the three of them paid less attention to their surroundings. After Silin spoke, Gu Xin and the other two became wary of their surroundings.
Hua Li didn't have Silin's reaction speed, but she still reflexively pulled her spear lower. She had just turned her head when a long white whip swept towards her. Unsurprisingly, Hua Li was sent flying. If she hadn't blocked the divine spear with her spear, she would've been paralyzed by now. The spear that blocked the attack had a dent in it.
Hua Li could easily smash rocks with this spear, but she didn't think that it would be dented by the attack. The white whip was the white mouse's tail. It wasn't the one they had shot in the head, but another one that had come from another part of the area.
Right now, Hua Li's hand was numb from holding the spear, and she couldn't lift it at all. Her back had been scratched by the white mouse's tail, but Hua Li should be thankful that she wasn't dead or dismembered like the biological soldier.
Erty's situation was slightly worse than Hua Li's. Although his reflexes were stronger than Hua Li's, he stumbled just as he was about to dodge. Unable to dodge in time, he could only watch as the claw came crashing down.
"Squeak — —" The white mouse screamed again.
Erty crashed to the ground with a bloody gash extending from his chest to his abdomen. If the wound was just a little deeper, his stomach would've been split open.
The white mouse on the other hand had lost a large piece of flesh from its back, and a reddish-brown strip had suddenly appeared on its originally white body. This was the white mouse that had let out an angry scream just now.
Not far away from the white mouse, Huimao's mouth was still sticky with reddish-brown blood. He licked his lips and looked at the white mouse in front of him. Unfortunately, its flesh was harder than he had imagined, and he had only managed to tear off a small piece of flesh.
While the white mouse paused because of Huimao, Silin and Gu Xin fired at the white mouse in rapid succession. One of them aimed at the white mouse's eyes, and the other at its slightly open ears.
A couple of pops later, the white mouse's head exploded just like the first one. This time, however, they had wounded two people.
"The mouse's claws are poisoned. They need first aid!" Gu Xin said after inspecting Erty and Hua Li's wounds.
He looked around and saw that Gu Xin was carrying Erty, and Silin was carrying Hua Li. Then, they hurriedly ran towards Neo.
Snowflakes were still falling from the sky, and Silin kept looking at the front as he ran.
Gradually, Silin's attention was drawn to the snowflakes. Most of them were accumulated snowflakes, but there were also individual snowflakes among them. In Silin's vision, the snowflakes seemed to fall at a speed that was hundreds or thousands of times slower. The perfect hexagonal shape was so familiar...
Neo had learned of the situation through the surveillance system while he was hiding inside the safe zone. That was why he had prepared medicine in advance.
Silin and Gu Xin brought the two people who had been scratched by the white mouse back to the safe zone and placed them in a medical room. Erty was still relatively clear-headed. He could feel the burning pain of his wounds, but Hua Li's consciousness was already fading.
Although Erty's wound was a lot bigger than Hua Li's, it was obvious that Erty's resistance was better than Hua Li's due to his constitution. Erty's wound was brownish-red, and there was inflammation around it. In comparison, the wound on Hua Li's back was a lot scarier. The wound wasn't big at the beginning, but it festered very quickly. The reddish-brown color had spread to almost half of her back.
Since Silin and the others were all men, they called Ah Shou over. At first, Silin and the others thought that Ah Shou would cry a little and burp a couple more times. But to their surprise, Ah Shou's hands were steady and practiced even though his eyes were red.
Cillin asked Neo in private for the reason, and Neo answered in a matter-of-fact manner, "Since I've decided to come to this place, it's only natural that I know basic defensive techniques and how to treat wounds. If I don't even know this, then I might as well kill myself."
His words sounded reasonable, but they were surprising when they were applied to Ah Shou. However, he was only surprised for a short while. Silin still had important matters to attend to.
The reason why Huimao didn't make a move in the beginning was because Silin had asked it to collect information on the white mice. The information obtained would allow Silin to better understand this biochemical beast.
Although these white mice were very tough, Silin was relieved that they were not like the Bio-soldiers that did not have a fixed weakness. In other words, once the white mouse's head was blown off, it would be dead, and its body would not continue to move.
After calculating the white mouse's defense, Silin realized that all the bullets he had were not enough to penetrate the white mouse. Excluding the accuracy of the shots, it would take three bombs to completely blow up a white mouse's head.
The poison bullets did not have much of an effect. It would be better if the explosives were faster and more powerful. Unfortunately, the materials he had were limited. He didn't have an endless supply of bullets, but he didn't know how many white mice there were.
Cillin wasn't stupid enough to fight the white mice with his bare hands. He could deal with them with a longsword, but that was only limited to one-on-one battles. Cillin wasn't stupid enough to fight them with his bare hands when faced with a large number of white mice. He still had to think of a way to get the bullets out, or modify his gun once more.
Silin called Neo over to discuss his ideas. Neo's face scrunched up like a steamed bun again. "Based on the materials we have now, the power of the explosion can be increased, but the bullets will be bigger and slower. Based on the data you provided, the white mice have a 67.73% chance of evading. If that's the case, we might as well use the original explosives."
Silin thinks for a moment before asking, "Don't you have other materials to make more powerful explosives?"
"I don't have any other materials that you can use to make more explosives. After all, his research doesn't require them. However, there is a place where he might have other materials." Neo walked into his lab and keyed in a password. A cupboard device opened up, and Neo keyed in a string of characters. Then, he pressed a metal block on his bracelet that looked similar to Ah Shou's. As the metal block flashed, the characters on the device quickly changed.
Five minutes later, Neo frowned and said, "This is ridiculous!"
"What is it?"
"That guy actually compromised with the invaders!" Neo was very disdainful.
It would appear that the place Neo mentioned was occupied by the same people as Silin's group. The only difference was that the occupation was a little more intense.
"We can't get the materials?"
"We can't. That guy is being watched."
"How far away is the place you mentioned?" Silin pulled out a map and had Neo point it out.
Neo took a look and pointed at a certain place. "This is it."
Silin estimated that it would take him at least half a day to get there.
While Silin and Neo were discussing the materials for the explosives, Gu Xin came over and called for him.
"Silin, come here for a moment. I have something to tell you."
Erty and Hua Li should be thankful that Neo had a lot of antidotes. Erty was starting to recover after the treatment, and Hua Li wasn't as resilient as Erty, but she had woken up as well.
"They look like they're recovering pretty well," Silin said after inspecting their injuries.
Erty was leaning against the back of his chair with a dark look on his face.
"I'm very understanding. I know that people who were scratched by rats have emotions." Neo was expressing his concern and forgiving Erty and Hua Li's sullen faces, but he didn't realize that his words sounded like mockery to everyone else.
Erty narrowed his eyes and suppressed the anger he felt because of Neo's words. He said slowly, "I was tricked."
"Hmm?" Neo motioned for him to speak more clearly, but he was looking at Erty with obvious suspicion.
Erty didn't have the time to argue with Neo right now. The calmer his voice was, the more angry he was. "I could've avoided that claw attack, but someone shot at my leg."
Erty rolled up his pant leg. There weren't any visible marks on his leg, but upon closer inspection, there was a tiny needle mark. Neo used a testing device to confirm that Erty's leg had indeed been shot with a plant anesthetic. Neo had researched this plant anesthetic before, but he didn't think it was useful in the end, so he didn't delve too deeply into it. The plant was from that forest, and it was relatively common compared to the Tri-Colored Beans.
Silin did notice that someone was nearby at the time, but he didn't look for Erty and Hua Li because of their injuries. The person had followed them for a while, but Silin had asked Huimao to lure some wild beasts to stop the person. Gu Xin didn't know about this.
"Ah, I got it!" Neo suddenly shouted. The chain in his hand flashed, and when he pressed it, a still image of three people appeared on the screen.
"Eh? That's the person who was following us! "Huimao pointed a claw at a person with four eyes.
"Hei Dou sent this to me when they weren't paying attention. If you're going to find the materials, you'll have to come into contact with these people," Neo said.
"Hei Dou's place was taken too?" Ah Shou asked sympathetically. It looked like she wasn't the only unlucky one.
"Hei Dou has the materials you need to improve your ammunition. You'll need to hurry if you want to get them. Hei Dou said that they're planning to do the same, but judging from their intelligence, I think there's a 21.93% chance that they've wasted the materials. If you go now, you'll be able to get between 17.75% to 56.33% of the materials," Neo said.
Erty rolled his eyes at him. "Why do you have to be accurate to two decimal places every time?"
"There's no need to explain to someone with your level of intelligence." Neo turned around and continued to talk to Silin. Other than the chemicals Silin was looking for, there were also a few things that Hei Dou had kept away from him for a long time.
"That's why you should take them back while you're at it." Neo passed a temporary list to Silin.
Silin glanced at it briefly before replying, "I'll bring them to you when I have the time."
"I'm sure you have the time!"
"Where are you going? I'll go with you. I'm not injured right now anyway, "Gu Xin said. Silin probably wouldn't be able to get the materials by himself.
"It's fine. Wheeze and I will be fine. You stay here in case someone tries to take this place," Silin turned him down.
Gu Xin was about to say something when he heard that Huimao and Silin were going together. Erty and Hua Li couldn't see it because of the angle, but he saw it with his own eyes. If it wasn't for Huimao dragging the white mouse back with his teeth, Erty would've been torn to pieces by the white mouse's claws a long time ago.
"Wait!" Hua Li said, "Why don't you let Mercury take you there?"
"Mercury?" Silin was puzzled.
"Aiya, it's that stupid eagle!" Neo explained. "You can save a lot of time if you let that stupid eagle take you there."
"That's perfect." Silin was pretty curious about the silver eagle. That being said, Mercury was a really strange name.
Hua Li explained Mercury's situation and some techniques to Silin. Then, she walked to the tree with Ah Shou's help and put a finger to her mouth.
A whistle sounded, and a silver-white figure appeared in front of them not long after.
Hua Li gave Mercury a few instructions so that it could familiarize itself with Silin and Silin's whistle.
Mercury couldn't speak, but it understood what they meant. After crying out twice to indicate that it understood, it lowered its body and allowed Silin to jump onto its back.
Before Silin could move his feet, Huimao jumped onto Mercury's back and walked a circle on its back.
At first, Mercury wasn't used to it. It shook its head and flapped its wings, and gradually calmed down.
After Silin jumped onto the eagle's back, Hua Li rubbed Mercury's lowered head and told it to be careful.
Mercury let out a cry before flapping its wings and flying off.
Hua Li and Ah Shou watched Mercury fly away before returning to the tree.
It was his first time riding a giant eagle, so Huimao was very excited. The fierce wind and flying snowflakes didn't dampen Huimao's enthusiasm at all. Out of habit, Huimao started rubbing against Mercury's feathers.
Mercury's feathers stood on end, and it lost its balance and swayed in a circle. It almost threw Silin off. In the end, Silin had to knock Huimao a little to calm it down. Mercury finally calmed down again.
Huimao's tail was still wagging restlessly even though Silin was holding him down. One look and Silin knew what Huimao was thinking.
Flicking Huimao's ear, Silin said, "What are you thinking now?"
Huimao scolded back and grinned, "Silin, do you think I'll grow a pair of wings in the future? No, maybe I'll grow multiple pairs of wings!"
"Maybe, but you don't have wings right now, and you need Mercury's help. Don't bully it." Silin pinched Huimao's ear and said.
"Got it!" Huimao flicked his ear. Although that was what he said, he couldn't get rid of the pair of wings in his heart.
If he had wings, he could fly, and if he could fly, he could catch birds...
It had to be said that a glutton's thoughts always went in the direction of "eating".
Mercury clearly knew Hei Dou's location very well without Silin's guidance. It led Silin straight to their destination.
The snow had grown heavier, and everything was white from top to bottom. At the beginning, there were still predators hunting for food, but there were very few of them now. Cillin even saw two white mice. The white mice's snowy background made them very difficult to spot, but Cillin could easily distinguish them from the snowy white background.
The two white mice were still some distance away from Neo's safety zone, so he didn't have to worry about them for now.
Ten days had passed. Twenty days left.
Twenty days...
At first, Silin thought that Black Viper's people were trying to select a group of seedlings from this survival test and recruit them into Black Viper to replace some of the older members.
But now, Silin thought that he had learned even more than that.
Not only were there people who were brought here to be tested like him, there were also people who were born and raised in Black Viper. These people were ordinary, but they were also extraordinary. They might not be as strong as Silin, Gu Xin, and Erty, but they all had their own strengths and specialties. It was hard to understand their way of thinking sometimes, but he had to admit that they were all talented people.
Why on earth did they put these people together with the people who were brought here to be tested?
Both Guan Feng and Gu Changan had told him not to treat Black Viper with the same attitude. What did the real Black Viper look like?
It was like the snow in the sky, and it was hard to tell.
After flying for a period of time, Cillin gradually approached the destination.
Mercury looked to the side and signaled to Silin that their destination was there. Then, it made a turn and landed at a more secluded place.
"I know the route. Find a place to hide and I'll call you when the time comes." Silin jumped off Eagle's back and said to Mercury.
Mercury nodded and shot a glance at Huimao who was staring at its wings with great interest. Then, it ran away like it was running away from something.
Silin poked Huimao and said, "Come on, let's get to work!"
Hei Dou was located around the mouth of a volcano.
Qin Lie didn't know if the volcano was dormant or active, but it hadn't erupted in the past hundred years. There were a lot of plants growing around it.
Evergreen plants made up a large portion of the planet. Even though it was covered in snow, one could still see bits of green from the side.
Huimao began scanning the terrain and the structure of the safe zone below.
He quickly came to a conclusion and found the entrance.
Of course, Silin and Huimao weren't going to enter through the main entrance. Instead, they were going to enter through a small vent.
The three people who occupied this place definitely didn't know much about this place. After all, their time here was limited.
Silin and Huimao came to a secluded vent. It was blocked by a few layers of mesh windows. Huimao cut off the wires connecting the windows to the inside of the safe zone. Silin took out his tools and quickly removed the window. A man and a cat entered through the narrow vent.
After passing through the narrow space at first, Silin finally arrived at a room in the safe zone. Before Silin came in, he already knew what this place was based on the structure that Huimao had scanned.
It was a spare room where the instruments were stored. Hei Dou was locked in the laboratory next to it.
Silin and Huimao split up.
At that moment, Hei Dou, who had dark skin and a chubby face, was squatting in the laboratory. Not far away from her was a fierce-looking man who was playing with a small knife.
Not far away, two people were discussing something.
The man suddenly put away the knife and sat down next to Hei Dou. He looked at the cowering Hei Dou and said with a smile, "Your reinforcements should be here soon, right?"
Hei Dou trembled. Hei Dou wasn't the only one who was surprised. Silin was also surprised. This man knew that Hei Dou had contacted Neo?
When the fierce-looking man smiled, Hei Dou didn't relax at all. Instead, she felt even more scared. There was a type of person who looked more chilling when they were smiling than when they weren't smiling.
Sensing Hei Dou's fear, the man raised a hand and rubbed Hei Dou's head. "Don't be afraid, little girl. I'll keep it a secret for you."
Silin: "..."
Hei Dou is a girl?
No, that's not the point. The point is that there's something wrong with this man. These three aren't from the same group?
Silin decided to observe for a while longer. They hadn't started using the materials Silin was looking for yet. Moreover, Celine also wanted to see what this burly man was planning.
"Let's make a deal," the man lowered his voice and said to Hei Dou. The other two couldn't hear him at all.
Hei Dou raised her head and looked at the man with puzzlement in her eyes. At first, the other two were prepared to kill her, but this person persuaded the other two to let her live for the time being.
The man smiled helplessly. Although his smile looked disgusting, Hei Dou relaxed quite a bit.
"If your classmate comes to save you, I can help you kill those two. But I hope you can do me a favor."
Hei Dou thought for a moment and looked at the man. If he could explain, she would agree.
The man let out a sigh of relief. He continued, "It's like this. I need a place to rest. After we take care of those two, you and your classmate can just give me a place to rest. I'll freeze to death if I go out."
It sounded simple enough. Hei Dou nodded without any pressure.
The man grinned widely, revealing his pearly white teeth. Hei Dou couldn't help but shiver.
The other two didn't know what the burly man said, but Celine, who was hiding in the dark, heard it clearly. Silin told Huimao that if the man really did what he said, then he would let it go. But if he didn't take care of the other two, then Silin didn't mind Huimao killing him.
Inside the other room, the four-eyed man who had trailed Cillin's group and ambushed Erty was talking to his companion. The topic of conversation was none other than Cillin's group.
Celine looked at the two people who were talking to each other, and his hand moved.
Bang! Bang!
One of them fell to the ground.
Although the man had sensed it and retreated the moment Cillin opened fire, and his reaction time was pretty good, the man didn't expect that the bullet would still penetrate his temple.
Although the interval between Silin's two shots was short, it still gave the other man enough time to dodge.
Just as the four-eyed man jumped, a knife stabbed him and nailed him to the wall.
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