The elderly people successively turned their heads to look at Lu Bai and Yao Yi.
“Again, two more, young.” Tong Shujuan’s mother said expressionlessly.
“No, one, the other…”
The elderly woman with gray hair walked forward two steps, sizing up Yao Yi: “Kindred.”
Hearing this, Lu Bai raised his eyebrows.
Out of surprise, he momentarily forgot to manage his expression and unconsciously revealed a brilliant smile.
“There should still be a noodle shop open on East Street…”
Tong Shujuan didn’t understand the current situation and subconsciously responded.
She didn’t dare to approach her inexplicably strange parents, and she was equally wary of the two strange men who suddenly appeared.
“What do you mean by kindred?” Yao Yi vigilantly retreated two steps.
He couldn’t be blamed for overreacting; this déjà vu was too strong.
His girlfriend had been in a similar state before turning into a monster.
Seeing the elderly woman getting closer, he anxiously scolded: “You, stop right there!”
Hearing this, the elderly woman actually stopped, stiffly praising: “You, disguise, very good.”
After observing, Lu Bai could now basically conclude that these elderly people here had been parasitized by flesh balls.
He smiled silently, not retreating but advancing, proactively walking to the young woman’s side.
“Thanks for the directions.”
After expressing thanks, he turned to look at the elderly people in front of him and softly added: “However, you probably need help too.”
“Ah?” Tong Shujuan was a bit confused.
Not far away, Tong Shujuan’s father looked at Yao Yi and slowly twisted his neck: “Seems, off, I’ll come confirm.”
Rip~
Before the words finished, his head instantly unfolded, spreading out a flesh and bone network over a meter in diameter.
“Ah!”
“Holy shit?!”
Although it wasn’t the first time seeing this kind of monster, Yao Yi was still quite frightened and nearly collapsed to the ground on his butt.
As for an ordinary young woman like Tong Shujuan, she immediately let out a high-decibel scream.
Lu Bai had anticipated it early and preemptively covered his ears.
“You, not, kindred?”
The monster was somewhat puzzled and gradually raised a flesh strip, clearly planning to use an attack to coerce Yao Yi to reveal his form.
Yao Yi could no longer calmly listen to the monster speak; he hugged his head and scurried toward Lu Bai’s position.
“Why?! How did Dad turn into this? Mom, say something!” Tong Shujuan’s little face was pale white, completely unwilling to believe it was real.
Unfortunately, the elderly people ignored her entirely, all focused on scrutinizing Yao Yi’s every action.
Perhaps patience was exhausted, or maybe the scream was causing too much movement; in any case, the monster chose not to wait any longer.
Whoosh!
A flesh strip came ferociously toward Yao Yi’s back like a bone-clinging maggot.
In the monsters’ view, if Yao Yi was kindred, facing such an attack, he would definitely deform to counter it.
Seeing the flesh strip about to pierce Yao Yi’s back, he showed no resistance and kept hugging his head while fleeing.
Lu Bai sighed inwardly; a katana over two meters long appeared in his hand out of thin air.
Swish~
Snap!
Blade light flashed, and half a flesh strip fell to the ground.
The monster shook its body in pain; it hadn’t even seen how the Long Fang came out.
The remaining elderly people noticed something wrong and successively turned into flesh strips flying monsters, entering combat stance.
Yao Yi, with lingering fear, hid behind Lu Bai, his face mournful: “So many?! Why are these monsters everywhere?”
“Your parents are actually already dead; they’re just a few parasites occupying your parents’ bodies.”
Lu Bai held the blade single-handedly, slightly turning toward Tong Shujuan, and gave a concise explanation: “So I’ll take them out; hope you don’t mind.”
Tong Shujuan was just a young woman who hadn’t seen much of the world; by now, she couldn’t follow what was happening.
She just kept repeating “Dad” and “Mom” in a sobbing tone over and over, even unintentionally stepping forward a few steps in emotional loss of control.
“Hey, Brother Lu, you got this, right? If not, let’s run quick…” Yao Yi grew less confident as he spoke; if not for Lu Bai still standing in front, he would’ve wanted to bolt immediately.
Lu Bai casually dragged Tong Shujuan back, not replying but expressing his attitude through action.
He shot forward violently, the Long Fang in his hand reflecting a chilling gleam like autumn water.
Clang! Clang!
Two consecutive flesh strips tipped with bone blades were deflected by him, successfully closing the distance to the monster.
A heavy, powerful slash chopped off a small half of the “elderly woman”‘s flesh ball on the spot.
His attack actions were very fluid, clearly not using [Flash Time].
After all, his current physical fitness was still within the scope of ordinary humans; he couldn’t hard-counter attacks from this kind of parasitic organism.
Rather than risking [Flash Time] to attempt a quick kill, it was better to hold back a trump card for more space to dodge when evasion wasn’t possible in time.
Yao Yi knew his own limits and didn’t go up to cause trouble; he pulled Tong Shujuan back.
Tong Shujuan was like she was dumbfounded, mumbling things like “impossible” and “I don’t believe it,” but didn’t put up too much fierce resistance.
After running behind a pile of electrical waste and crouching down, Yao Yi finally had a chance to poke his head out to observe Lu Bai’s battle situation.
On the surface, Lu Bai’s current situation could be called perilous.
He was constantly moving; any pause underfoot would immediately get him pierced by a bone blade extending from who-knows-where.
“Brother Lu, careful!” Seeing a bone blade graze past Lu Bai’s neck, Yao Yi couldn’t help sweating for him.
It was like dancing on the tip of a blade.
Of course, it only looked perilous; in reality, Lu Bai had it under control, with the battle rhythm still in his grasp.
After all, up to now, there hadn’t been many situations requiring [Flash Time] to evade.
He had gradually familiarized himself with these parasite beasts’ attacks; the flying bone blades were fast, but far from untraceable.
The reason was simple.
No matter the tricky angle, the attacks always originated from the human bodies.
Staying calm, it was completely like the dodge-the-sandbag game from childhood.
“Probing ends here.”
[Flash Time], activate!
Lu Bai continuously swung the blade: a diagonal slash from top to bottom, followed by a horizontal sweep; the slender blade seemed to draw a sharp 45° angle in the air.
Snap~ Snap~
Several flesh strips broke and fell, their cut surfaces smooth as mirrors.
To Yao Yi watching from the side, these flesh strips seemed to actively crash into Lu Bai’s blade.
After spending some time gauging the average combat power of these flesh monsters, Lu Bai no longer held back and entered killing mode at full speed.
As the saying goes, an inch longer is an inch stronger.
Relying on the Long Fang’s blade over two meters long, Lu Bai could attack the parasitized human bodies without getting too close to the monsters.
Seeing brothers asking, I’ll reply uniformly: haven’t been notified of the go on sale time yet; I’ll say in advance before it goes on sale.
As for few updates, new book period is like this; I post two chapters a day, brothers reading have a lot to consider…