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Bai Jingan fired three shots in a row, killing three monsters that were rushing towards Xia Tian and Wei Xi respectively. A tall mutant creature took the opportunity to charge at him, but he couldn’t spare his right hand. So, he grabbed the fruit knife on the table with his left hand and slashed it at the monster.
This attack almost severed its entire head. It was hard to imagine that it had been done with a fruit knife.
Another white specter that was lurking in the shadows bounded towards him, and Bai Jingan held its head down with one hand while simultaneously raising his other hand backwards to shoot another white monster in the face.
Blood and flesh splattered across the wall. With a flick of his wrist, the ‘Marshmallow’ instantly turned into a dagger and with a heavy slash, the head of the pale monster that was in his hand rolled onto the floor.
The room was in chaos in the blink of an eye.
The cabinet that was blocking the door slanted sideways. The crowbar blocking the door had already bent and fallen to one side.
Xia Tian felt his blood run cold as he watched several monsters, all over two meters tall and with ghastly white bodies, crawl into the house from the ceiling. Each of them was skinny but extremely powerful. Their scales were completely degenerated, and their pale heads were covered with ten or so round eyes the size of fingertips. The whole situation resembled a scene from a horror film.
They were obviously not light-resistant. Their limbs twisted and twitched when exposed to light, but their goal was clear: to head straight for the ceiling chandelier and crush it.
Bai Jingan turned to look at Xia Tian, and the two exchanged glances.
In the next instant, Bai Jingan dashed to the wooden cabinet and shot the monster that was rushing inside in its head.
He killed the monster in that single shot and kicked its body away. He grabbed the door panel with his left hand and tried to close the door, but it was jammed—jammed from the monster corpses beneath the door.
Bai Jingan jumped down from the cabinet and kicked the corpses away.
The monsters had human-like features but were as white as chalk. Some of them were covered with wet ringworm and parasites from the water. The work of the genetic department was not complete so they were never complete aquatic animals. But no one cared about this anyway. As long as they looked scary and full of agony, it was enough.
Xia Tian shot at the monsters on the ceiling one by one to help Bai Jingan close the door.
All at once, the ceiling was spattered with blood and soot, and a large smear of skin and flesh was clinging to it. It looked like an incomprehensible abstract painting. From among the pile of corpses, a monster with half of its body missing lunged at Xia Tian. The distance was too close to use a gun, so Xia Tian kicked it in the belly. It did not retreat, and Xia Tian smashed it on the head with the butt of his gun.
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Xia Tian shot it in the head, and flesh and blood splashed again under the powerful impact. A large chunk of blood fell onto the fluorescent lamp, and the brightly-lit room instantly dimmed and took on a dark, strange red color, as if it were a nightmarish cave.
At the same time, the sound of a series of intense gunshots came from outside.
Xia Tian was so familiar with guns that he could tell by the sound that it was the Screamer’s new submachine gun model. Then he heard the sound of a bomb going off further away.
He got goosebumps. Maybe his subconscious judged something, but it was just like pure intuition. A chilling sense of impending doom.
He turned his head and looked. The white monsters outside the window had crawled closer at some point. They were located at the borderline of the light, showing their fangs, with their limbs building up to pounce. They were an ensemble of nightmares.
He suddenly realized that this was a large-scale attack, and these creatures had their own tactics.
Although the organizers had highly modified these creatures, they still had intelligence, and possibly even their own language, although you would never understand what their highly distorted and bloodthirsty brain was thinking.
He didn’t know what crazy, horrible destruction and remodeling it would take to turn perfectly normal people into such a crazy, deformed and… commercial monster. Now, this species had sent the more evolved ones into the house to attack the chandelier and dim the lights using their own flesh and blood.
And when the lights dimmed, it was time for the many hungry ghosts outside lying at the edge of the lights to go on a slaughter spree.
Bai Jingan kicked away the layers of bodies stacked in the doorway, and a childlike white spectre rushed towards him from the ceiling.
He saw only a flash of shadow before the thing exploded in the air with a “bang”.
Xia Tian had fired the gun, the 199th Doomsday Destroyer energy gun commemorative model that had a big caliber. He liked this type of weapon, it was simply childish.
Blood splashed on Bai Jingan’s face, but he didn’t bother wiping it away. He simply fired three more shots in quick succession to dispose of a few of the monsters that had squeezed in.
At the same time, Xia Tian put his foot against the cabinet from behind, pushed forward, and closed the door.
A heavy impact fell on the door from outside the next second. Bai Jingan stood against the wooden cabinet. The crowbar had been twisted to one side, and Xia Tian temporarily took a mop from the kitchen to jam it.
The sound of banging on the door was heard again and again. It was frantic and violent, with no sign of stopping.
Eric was responsible for blocking the back door of the kitchen.
Wei Xi was under heavy protection. He was standing against the wall with three hover screens lit up in front of him. He was intently focused on recording the monster’s movements and running a digital mode program full of modeling and data. Nobody knew what he was doing.
The light in the room was very dim because the light source on the ceiling was splattered with large splashes of blood, making the scenery outside clearer and clearer. The white specters had moved closer and in darker places, several monsters were already attached to the window glass, gnawing on it with human-like teeth.
This glass had been reinforced, but judging from the damage it had taken over the past two days, it wouldn’t last long.
There are far too many, Xia Tian thought. This won’t do.
After some thought, he called out to Bai Jingan, “Lil’ Bai, keep an eye out.”
Then he pulled open the window and fired a shot outside, knocking out a monster that had suddenly cropped up. He grabbed the edge of the window with one hand and neatly climbed onto the roof.
Bai Jingan just turned his head and was met with this scene. He almost wanted to curse.
He fired several shots at the creature coming towards the window. In the dim light, countless white specters could be seen gathering towards the window, but Bai Jingan had no intention of closing the window at all. He shouted, “Eric, give me the ‘Piercer’ pellet bomb.”
Eric cursed under his breath before throwing the thing over. Bai Jingan reached out and caught it, opened the safety valve with his teeth, and threw it out of the window, forming a precise fan-shaped area.
He waited expressionlessly until a monster had closed in enough for him to see his own shadow in its hungry pupils, and then fired a shot in that direction. The fan-shaped pellet bombs burst open, burning with crimson flames. Bai Jingan retreated a little, half-hid his face behind the window. He looked out at the burning and screaming white specters outside the window, raised his hand, and fired to purge them.
After jumping onto the roof, Xia Tian took out four white specters lying on top in quick succession, and turned his head to look into the distance.
The buildings in the garden were simple and uncomplicated in design. Except for the central banquet hall, there was no building which was higher than two stories. The light looked faint under the heavy shadows of trees and eaves. Under this kind of dim light, everything in the world was colorless.
A swarm of monsters squatted on all sides in a dense crowd, like dirty plastic bags. This kind of garbage was rarely seen in the Upper City. But when the bright colors faded away and the sky was dark and cloudy, the Upper City was the same as the Lower City. A boundless, bloody garbage dump.
This was the lair of monsters, not of humans.
There were flashes of gunfire and explosions everywhere, as well as yells and screams. When standing this high up, Xia Tian could see at a glance that the monsters were actually moving in an orderly fashion; they only focused on certain areas.
In the distance, the main banquet hall was brightly illuminated, and the light radiated like a core into the dim surrounding garden. It was as bright as a crown but it belonged to a cruel and ferocious monarch, and not a single monster dared to step towards it.
Now Xia Tian knew that bad luck didn’t just happen at a Killing Show; everything happened for a reason.
This was a large-scale attack, and it should have been planned for some time. He didn’t know if another mission had been passed down from the higher-ups to increase the ratings, making it necessary for more people to be killed and more blood to be spilled.
The scene below him looked like it came out of hell, pitch black and splattered with blood. There would undoubtedly be a large number of deaths tonight.
At that moment, Xia Tian heard a roar of fierce gunfire not far away from him.
Xia Tian turned his head to see that it was the courtyard next door to them. It had been lost to the monsters. The house was dark, except for the occasional faint flicker of gunfire. The area surrounding it was not that bright either, but that part was as dark as if it was a black hole.
The team had shrunk to three members. A monster was biting a man’s calf and dragging him into the bushes.
The man fired at it, but he ran out of bullets. He hurriedly dropped his gun and went for another one on his belt. But at that moment, a two feet tall white specter rushed forward at full pelt from the darkness and bit his wrist.
In the end, players always died this way. The monsters were well organized and numerous. You couldn’t defeat an attack of this magnitude, no matter how many guns you had or how good your skills were.
Xia Tian raised his hand and precisely hit the monster’s head with a single shot, followed by a shot at the white specter that was biting his neighbor’s calf.
The neighbor finally withdrew his hand, shot and killed several other monsters that were trying to take advantage of the situation before returning to the middle of the team. His two companions were so busy fending for themselves that they didn’t even notice that he had gone missing for a round.
A moment later, the team over there short-circuited an energy gun, causing a large fire to burn on the bushes and temporarily scare the monsters away. However, the vegetation in the third sub-arena was well-hydrated and wouldn’t burn for long.
The guy who had almost been dragged into the darkness just now turned his head and looked in Xia Tian’s direction. The situation was tense, but he still watched intently for a long time.
Xia Tian yelled to the group of people: “Hey!”
The other two also turned to look at him. Xia Tian cried, “Do you want to join a group?”
The group, though they were veterans, seemed frozen at the sight of him. In Xia Tian’s imagination, it would have taken a bit of communication and a couple of shouted plans—though he didn’t have any—to reach an agreement.
The actual result was that the group did not even discuss anything, nor did they ask him what his plans were. One of them popped the head of a monster trying to get closer to them and said loudly, “Okay.”
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