The instant Lu Bai’s figure disappeared, the two parasitic organisms standing in the direction of the warehouse gate were nearly simultaneously cut in half at the waist.
The blood remaining on the blade, under the influence of inertia from high-speed swinging, naturally formed droplets that rolled down along the edge.
No one present could see Lu Bai’s actions clearly, only the flash of the blade, followed by a large splash of blood.
“Stop him!” The mayor reacted extremely quickly, roaring.
Emerging from the [Flash Time] state, Lu Bai didn’t stop his footsteps, heading straight back toward the warehouse gate.
The number of parasitic organisms gathered in this warehouse was too exaggerated; he wouldn’t be foolish enough to fight desperately against so many.
Even a hundred pigs would take a good while to kill, let alone parasitic organisms, which were far more dangerous than pigs.
To be factual, relying on the advantage of [Flash Time], without considering stamina issues, grinding them down slowly might not be impossible to take them all out.
But the problem was that this approach had too low fault tolerance, and eliminating these parasitic organisms held no great meaning for him anyway, as it wouldn’t add points.
He quietly stowed Long Fang in his hand, and Lu Bai rushed out of the warehouse, running wild all the way.
A large number of parasitic organisms pushed against each other, squeezing out from the gap in the roller shutter door.
“Don’t let this human escape!”
A girl wearing a JK uniform watched as Lu Bai got farther away; the top of her head opened like a caterpillar cocoon, spreading out two pairs of fleshy wings.
With the fleshy wings flapping, her figure soared up like a kite.
Seeing this, many parasitic organisms seemed inspired, one after another sprouting fleshy wings and taking flight.
Lu Bai dashed across the cement ground like the wind, his feet barely touching the ground.
When a person is running at full speed, looking back would cause the speed to drop, so to maintain speed, Lu Bai kept his head down and ran wildly without turning.
But even without looking back, hearing the sounds getting closer and closer, he knew those monsters had caught up.
He could feel a burning suffocation in his chest growing stronger and stronger—that was his lungs protesting from being squeezed under high load.
This won’t do.
He didn’t hesitate much, stomping heavily and sliding several meters on the cement ground, forcibly halting his forward momentum.
In just a few breaths of stopping, a gust of evil wind assaulted toward the back of his head.
Lu Bai abruptly turned around, raising his right arm at the same time and gripping Long Fang once more.
He didn’t even give himself time to see what it was, directly delivering a vertical slash that bisected the monster pouncing toward him from the middle.
That parasitic organism in the JK uniform was torn apart like a rag; it had no time to react and died on the spot.
Puff~ Bang~ Bang~
Over a dozen parasitic organisms with grotesquely shaped fleshy wings fell one after another; given Lu Bai’s exaggerated performance, they didn’t dare pounce directly.
“Do you all really want to die?”
The previous wild run had made Lu Bai’s breathing somewhat intermittent.
One parasitic organism reverted to human form and said vigilantly, “By human standards, you’re indeed very strong, but we only need to play a hindering role.”
This was true.
Through the figures of these dozen or so monsters, he could see more monsters gradually rushing over behind them.
Lu Bai adjusted his breathing rhythm: “Does your faction only know how to bully with numbers?”
That monster gave a look, signaling its companions to surround Lu Bai.
“Leveraging our side’s advantages is the right action. If you try to constrain us with talk of fairness or morality, it would only make me want to laugh.”
It was happy to stall for teammates while Lu Bai engaged in trash talk.
Suddenly, he seemed to faintly hear some sound by his ear.
As the sound grew louder, he could clearly distinguish it as a series of police sirens coming from afar.
A smile appeared on Lu Bai’s face: “Don’t misunderstand, what I mean is, I like ganging up too.”
Parasitic organisms could kill humans only under the premise that neither side relied on weapons.
After all, they were still carbon-based lifeforms; no carbon-based lifeform could withstand thermal weapons—if it could, it only meant the weapons weren’t hot enough.
They weren’t mindless things like zombies; seeing the situation turn unfavorable, the parasitic organisms present didn’t even bother with tough words and turned to run.
Lu Bai didn’t stop them, mainly because he was just one person and couldn’t keep all these parasitic organisms there.
He turned back toward the direction of the sirens.
“Pretty fast, huh.”
……
First People’s Hospital of Jiangyu City.
Inpatient Department, Room 6019.
“Don’t you need to go watch the crime scene? Haven’t you become team leader already?”
Yao Yi watched Lu Bai sitting on a stool munching an apple and asked somewhat puzzled.
Lu Bai took another bite of the apple; it was crisp with juice splashing out.
After leisurely swallowing, he casually explained, “Anyway, the murderer wouldn’t stick around the crime scene waiting for me.”
“That’s true.”
Yao Yi nodded and then said, “I heard you took down another monster nest?”
“Wasn’t me; by the time I got there, it was too late. You can think of it as internal strife among the monsters.”
Lu Bai said it lightly.
But Yao Yi always felt there was some deeper meaning in Lu Bai’s words.
He didn’t know how to respond; to avoid awkwardness, he simply picked up the remote control and turned on the television.
The LCD television in the hospital room wasn’t large, and the screen was playing the mayor giving a speech.
“…Election to continue serving as Mayor of Jiangyu City, I express my heartfelt thanks to all the representatives and the people of the entire city…”
The voice sounded somewhat familiar; Lu Bai turned his head to glance over, and his originally casual gaze instantly froze.
It?!
He’d just seen it not long ago, so he naturally wouldn’t forget what that leader parasitic organism looked like.
So a parasitic organism had already climbed to such a high position.
No wonder it was so insistent on keeping him there—it didn’t want its identity exposed.
“Old Yao, if I said this mayor is a parasitic organism and I’ve seen it, what consequences do you think there would be?”
“Huh?”
Yao Yi thought he’d misheard in his daze: “Brother Lu, you’re joking with me, right?”
Lu Bai didn’t laugh.
Yao Yi’s entire face gradually stiffened: “No way? With that kind of identity, there should be very strict…”
He grew less confident the more he spoke, finally summing up with one sentence: “So what do we do?”
Lu Bai shook his head.
This situation was a bit absurd.
He could certainly report that the mayor was parasitized by a monster, but how much effect that would have was uncertain.
Moreover, just him knowing its identity meant it wouldn’t let him go.
With the mayor’s position, his information was probably already on the mayor’s desk by now.
What would it do?