jdhmnovel Chapter 24 Bombardment
Chapter 24 Bombardment
The so-called Crimson Catastrophe is a top-level aberration that has evolved to the level of Crimson Crystal. When Mu Yin died, there were ten Crimson Catastrophes that were alive and known to people. Each of them had the ability to destroy the world. Any one of them could destroy an entire country.
The most powerful one back then was born on the other side of the continent. It swept across the entire country with a plague, annihilating all living beings on the vast land. In the end, it was only resolved by another country using nuclear weapons.
Although the levels of mutants are divided into five tiers, the power of these five tiers does not increase equally, but is vastly different.
Before evolving to the Yellow Crystal level, mutants have no thoughts of their own and simply follow their instincts to hunt fresh flesh and blood. Mutant creatures also possess a unique aura of decay.
Therefore, the so-called fresh flesh and blood does not include their own kind. In most cases, they will ignore their companions, except when they are fighting for food.
When they consume enough, they begin to advance towards the Yellow Crystal stage. At this point, in order to obtain more abundant power, a certain mechanism within their bodies changes, enabling them to sense the "life force" of their own kind. This prompts them to prey on their own kind, prioritizing mutated life forms that also possess crystal cores.
Her experience fighting mutants for over a decade, coupled with the later research findings on mutants by scientists, gave her a thorough understanding of the state of these monsters.
When Miao Yin came out of the control room and found that the traces and number of the mutants left on the eleventh floor did not match, her first thought was that there must be a mutant here that was about to evolve a yellow crystal core.
She then secretly sneaked into the amusement park and witnessed the three-headed man dismembering his own kind, which confirmed her suspicions.
This guy is indeed about to reach the Yellow Crystal level.
At that time, she thought it was just an ordinary mutant and didn't connect it to the Ten Scarlet Calamities.
After all, mutants are all grotesquely ugly in countless ways, and having multiple arms and legs is quite common. The current appearance of the three-headed man is still very different from the infamous Laughing Slave he will become a few years later.
Only now that it has completed its evolution has Miao Yin begun to see some clues.
I never expected to be so lucky, to actually meet the future famous Xiao Nu here.
If she had known this guy was the Crimson Calamity, she would have left long ago instead of waiting here.
There are very few mutants who can evolve to the level of red crystal core; there are only ten in the entire world.
Although she lacks the ability to kill the Crimson Catastrophe, and people ten years later only managed to kill one with nuclear weapons, she can still put up a fight if she can upgrade Blood Guanyin to the level she is five years later, along with the arsenal and the Pink Crystal level aberration.
Moreover, unless attracted by external forces, the mutant will not easily run away. For a long time, it will stay obediently under her watchful eye, monitored by her, waiting for her to kill it.
You have to understand, one pink crystal core is worth a hundred yellow crystal cores. Now that she has killed Ren Xiaonu, it's not just a huge loss.
But there's no other way now; we have to eliminate it without leaving any room for error.
Such exceptionally gifted mutants are capable of hunting down their prey.
There was once a superpowered individual from a maritime nation who provoked the Pink Crystal Anomaly, which was about to become a scarlet calamity. He was relentlessly pursued by it and had to sacrifice two survival bases to escape.
When the ocean was frozen by heavy snow, he did not hesitate to cross the entire ocean to escape here, but less than two days after landing, he was eaten by the pinkish-red mutants who came after him.
He probably never imagined when he died that it was an entire ocean! Just for his own life! He had to cross the ocean!
After consuming him, the mutated creature evolved into the Flame Demon Butterfly, one of the Ten Crimson Calamities, making life even harder for the locals who already struggled to survive in the extreme cold, causing immense suffering.
Thinking of this, Miao Yin immediately abandoned her idea of testing Yan Shuzhou's abilities.
Swords have no eyes, so Little Pak-Chek should just stay on the sidelines.
Miao Yin waved to Ren Xiaonu, then pointed to the right.
"Huh?" Ren Xiaonu stared wide-eyed at hundreds of people, seemingly puzzled.
This little cartilage is strange. Not only does it smell nice, but it also doesn't run away or scream when it sees you. It's different from the ones it has gnawed on before.
The two, one human and one strange creature, began a bizarre exchange.
Seeing that it didn't understand, Miao Yin pointed to the floor to her right.
Ren Xiaonu vaguely understood her meaning. The three heads looked at each other, and the six hands lay on the ground as they tentatively took a few steps in that direction.
“Yes, that’s right,” Miao Yin encouraged her in a friendly manner.
Once everyone had taken their places, Miao Yin nodded and clapped.
"You did a great job."
The human-smiling slave was even more puzzled. Its newly developed intelligence only allowed it to roughly understand human intentions, but it couldn't understand spoken words.
"You...you can communicate with it?" Yan Shuzhou stammered.
"I wouldn't call it that, just trying it out." Miao Yin tossed her hair and smiled slightly, clearly pleased that Ren Xiaonu had obeyed her out of ignorance.
"By the way, I'm the same as you."
What's the same?
Yan Shuzhou's many questions came to an abrupt halt when he saw her conjure a pair of gloves out of thin air.
His pupils contracted, his face filled with shock: "This is..."
Miao Yin slowly put on her gloves, then took out a recoilless rifle, slung it over her shoulder, and aimed the muzzle at Xiao Nu, who was already eager to attack her.
"boom!!!"
The shell hit Ren Xiaonu accurately, and the powerful impact blasted him out of the building.
Amidst a shower of shards of glass, the shell exploded with a deafening roar. A burst of intense flames shot into the sky, illuminating the heavens. Waves of heat ripped through the surrounding buildings, followed by a thick cloud of dust that settled, and silence returned to the world.
Miao Yin put the cannon and gloves back at the Eighty-Eight Temples, walked to the broken glass window, and looked down at it.
In the hazy, dusty haze, you could vaguely see a dark, indistinct thing lying on the wall of the building across the street.
It's too far away and the view is poor, so I can't see clearly. I have to go down.
"Sister, what was that just now..." Yan Shuzhou felt weak in the knees, clearly still not recovered from the scene.
Miao Yin wasn't in a hurry to leave. The explosion and fall she had just experienced would have been enough to hurt even a human slave like her. She wouldn't be able to get up for at least half a day. Going down now would make her vulnerable to being attacked by other mutants. So she replied, "It's my ability. Like you, I'm also an ability user."
“Superpowers…” Yan Shuzhou looked at his palm, seemingly about to cry but not quite. “So, I’m not the only one. I’m not a monster.”
Miao Yin was amused by him, her expression gentle and compassionate: "Of course not. After the apocalypse, a large number of people gained superpowers. You are just one of them, nothing special."
As she spoke, she took out a climbing rope and skillfully tied it to the support column.
"Sister, you..."
"I'm leaving," Miao Yin said.
"Go? Where to?" He asked, bewildered.
"Going home, of course."
"Home……"
Yes, she has a family, of course she has to go back.
What about him?
Yan Shuzhou looked blankly at the scene outside.
Despite the deafening explosion, there wasn't a single living person to be seen on the street. Only a few monsters similar to those on the eleventh floor were seen wandering around, indicating that the outside, like the inside of the mall, had long since fallen, and there was no way any police or military would come to the rescue.
Yan Shuzhou stood stiffly on the high place, realizing for the first time so bluntly that the end of humanity had truly arrived.
He has been trapped on this eleventh floor for eight days now.
The smell of gunpowder in his nostrils finally woke Yan Shuzhou. He saw the elevator that he couldn't go down, the blocked escape route, and the mottled bloodstains under his feet.
He couldn't get out, and he had nowhere else to go.