Apocalypse: My Apartment Has Traits - Chapter 178 - 152: Encounter at the Center (Part 2)

Chapter 178: Chapter 152: Encounter at the Center (Part 2)

“…Our team’s captain, Ye Xin’an.”

This name was like a piece of ice, crashing into Su Lin’s heart, reminding him of Ye Xin’an’s final complaint-like joke and his vanished, somewhat roguish face.

If it hadn’t been for Su Lin’s desperate command to the bee swarm for rescue, the casualties would have likely doubled.

Even so, out of the thirty powerful Giant Beast-Hunting Bees, only twelve battered soldiers remained, their shells damaged, wings tattered, struggling even to maintain flight.

The heavy losses weren’t limited to Wuyin Village.

Although the leaders of each village survived by sheer luck, many of their elite subordinates were lost, including two skilled fighters from the Tendon Lock Realm. Despite having a First-Transformed Martial Artist and thirty Tier One Mechanism Giant Bees, such sacrifice could only be described as “terrifying.”

“This time…” Su Qi slowly closed his eyes, his voice deep as if squeezed from the depths of his chest, “was too brutal.”

His tightly clenched fist had turned white at the knuckles.

Su Can fiercely slammed the massive Giant Sword onto the ground, with a loud “bang” as debris flew!

This older man, rejuvenated and recently displaying thunderous might, now had only the fury of a storm and suffocated frustration on his face:

“Damn! What exactly are that black mud and Black Fog Giant?! Why did they suddenly appear as the Lord?!”

His roars echoed in the desolate wilderness, filled with a sense of helplessness.

Everyone fell into silence, fear and bewilderment brought by the unknown engulfing them like icy waves.

Su Lin’s gaze turned to the clearing where the Black Fog Giant had vanished, now left with only wisps of black smoke about to dissipate.

He gravely posed an even more chilling question:

“Now there’s a more crucial issue: will the black mud and giant appear again in the future? Will there be similar but weaker entities, transformed into ordinary ’Shadow Beasts’, showing up during the Night of Survival?” He deliberately raised his voice so the nearby leaders could hear.

Xu Zhong and other village leaders’ faces instantly turned paper white. Just imagining such a scenario was enough to terrify them to their core—an invisible enemy! Monsters impervious to regular weapons! This was utter despair after the apocalyptic rules had broken!

For a moment, the primal urge to survive eclipsed everything. Their pleading eyes all turned to Su Can—all eyes on their only lifeline.

Su Lin no longer paid attention to their discussion, silently turning away from this suffocating area. The crowd of survivors was shrouded in a near-numb silence, with only occasional sobs and brief, suppressed conversations proving the existence of life.

He passed through the crowd, carefully examined the ground where the giant’s corpse had vanished, and after confirming there was no residue, he walked towards the cold black mud fossil. These rocks were deeper than the common black rocks of the wilderness, dense in texture, seemingly absorbing all light, appearing as solidified ink in the grey mist. He didn’t dare touch directly, cautiously picked up a slightly larger ordinary rock, and gently tapped the surface of the black mud fossil.

“Clink.” A crisp collision, no anomaly.

He plucked a strand of his hair, gingerly touched the fossil’s surface with its tip—no reaction still.

Then, picking up a blood-stained broken saber from the ground, he tentatively poked the black rock with its blade—the tip smoothly pierced in, feeling like it had entered hard soil. Su Lin was delighted, immediately increased force and swung his arm!

Buzz—!

A soft but exceptionally bright white light suddenly burst from the point where the Slaughter Saber contacted the black rock! The light spread swiftly like liquid mercury, covering the vast black mud fossil area!

Blinding light pierced through the thick mist, illuminating the surrounding space as bright as daylight for tens of meters! A massive beam shot to the sky, clearly visible even to those at the Hunting Group position!

“What, what is that?!” “Oh my god! Light! There’s light!” Panic-stricken shouts came from afar.

Simultaneously, Su Lin felt the ground abruptly gave way beneath him! He reacted swiftly, stabilizing his form with abdominal power, and in the next moment, his foot was back on solid rock.

Within a few breaths, the white light receded as rapidly as the tide.

In front of Su Lin, where there was once a flat black rock surface, appeared four square, translucent red Treasure Meat pieces! They were carved like the finest red jade, exuding a fragrance so strong it made souls tremble, with strands of red light swirling on their surfaces.

“Four pieces?!” Su Lin’s heart raced, an immense joy surged within him. He immediately leaned down, exerting his arms to swiftly pile up the four weighty, jade-like Treasure Meat pieces. The peculiar meaty fragrance almost made him salivate.

“Lin’er!” “Su Lin!” The anxious calls of grandpa and uncle already echoed from the other side of the mist.

Su Lin dared not delay, clutching the pile of Treasure Meat almost higher than his upper body, he swiftly ran towards the source of the voices.

The crowd had not yet seen the figure in the mist, already their senses were seized by an overwhelming, extraordinary meaty fragrance that penetrated all. Saliva uncontrollably surged, the body instinctively signaled hunger.

When they finally saw Su Lin emerge from the thick mist, with four colossal pieces of Treasure Meat glowing like jewels stacked in his arms, everyone’s eyes nearly bulged out, jaws practically dropping to the ground.

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