BC Chapter 143

“Have you been hurt by those things?” The white-clothed woman’s question had no preamble, no subtle probing, it was very direct. The two of them stood together, their gaze towards Yao Jinglin and Lin Xiang devoid of any emotion, only appearing indifferent and formulaic.

This made Yao Jinglin inappropriately think of the mass-produced artificial humans or mutated alien creatures disguised as humans from foreign movies she had watched before—in short, the two people in front of her were definitely not ordinary people without any background or identity. But Yao Jinglin couldn’t guess their exact identities for the time being, so she had to remain silent and respond to all changes with constancy.

“Who are you?” Taking advantage of Yao Jinglin’s silence as she sized up the two people opposite them, Lin Xiang glanced at Yao Jinglin’s expression, guessed Yao Jinglin’s thoughts, and then stepped forward and asked directly.

“Is what I said difficult to understand?” The woman coldly turned her head to ask the man beside her, obviously not intending to answer Lin Xiang’s question. At this time, the man beside her clearly understood another meaning in the woman’s question. He didn’t answer the woman’s words, his expression didn’t change much, he just raised the long knife in his hand, his figure swayed, and he instantly rushed towards Lin Xiang who was standing directly in front.

The man’s speed was even faster than those two mutated zombies just now. The explosive power of his body in an instant was astonishing. Yao Jinglin’s thoughts hadn’t even detached from her speculation when the man had already swung his knife close to Lin Xiang.

Fortunately, Lin Xiang and her had always been very wary of the man and woman in front of them. Even though the two of them had already resolved the variable of A Yan, and the opposite man and woman had also solved the two zombies with abnormal speed and combat power, the two of them still maintained a vigilant state, holding the daggers in their hands and waiting in full battle array.

So, the first moment the man rushed over, Lin Xiang had already pulled her feet apart and adopted some posture, and was ready to strike at any time.

However, being prepared was one thing, and the difference in the destructive power of the weapons between the two sides was another.

So when the long knife in the man’s hand swung down, Lin Xiang subconsciously raised her hand and wanted to use the dagger in her hand to block it, a situation occurred that was very different from the result she expected—her single-arm strength was no match for the man at all, and the other party was using the force of the downward motion, while she was using the reverse force of the upward push, which made her even more disadvantaged. Therefore, she barely blocked this blow, but did not completely stop the opponent’s attack, and the man’s blade still fell on her shoulder.

Even though she had quickly supplemented her other hand to the back of the dagger’s blade as soon as the weapons came into contact. Still failed to completely block that forceful attack. At the same time as the blade fell, it was also when Lin Xiang suddenly realized that something bad was about to happen. In that split-second gap, she hurriedly tilted her head, so as to avoid the fate of having her head chopped off with one knife.

The white-clothed man, succeeding in one blow, quickly withdrew his knife, directly pulling Lin Xiang to groan in pain. Yao Jinglin immediately recovered and rushed forward, grabbed the back of Lin Xiang’s clothes, and threw her behind her. Then, she half-turned and kicked out a long leg, just hitting the long knife in the opponent’s hand, forcing the opponent to retreat two steps and temporarily stopping the momentum of the opponent’s second attack.

Worried about Lin Xiang’s injuries, Yao Jinglin did not use this blow to continue to fight with the opponent, but instead retracted her body and pulled the injured Lin Xiang back, keeping a distance from the opponent.

“Lin Xiang! How are you?” Yao Jinglin vigilantly stared at the white-clothed man who was very close to the two of them, while quickly looking back at Lin Xiang.

Lin Xiang, who had been cut, was already pale, covering her shoulder where the skin and flesh had been cut open with one hand, but she still couldn’t stop the blood from squeezing out between her fingers. She was still gritting her teeth and holding on, saying: “I’m fine, Captain, don’t worry about me.”

“Oh? You are the Captain?” The woman’s gaze turned to Yao Jinglin, sizing up Yao Jinglin, then she closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose, and said to herself: “Looks like it’s not the person I’m looking for. Lingyuan, deal with them all…” While speaking, the woman turned around to leave, carrying her black long staff.

From the performance of the two people in the previous exchange of blows, and then to the attire of the two women in front of her, You Lan had already guessed their identities. After confirming that the two were not the virus-resistant mutants they were looking for, she had no patience to continue to spend time with the two. Since the other party was not a mutant, then Lingyuan alone could handle it. She could go to the stronghold she had observed before to see if she could meet one or two hidden mutants.

It seemed that they had indeed arrived a little late. Not only did they fail to meet with the people temporarily hired by the headquarters in the previous batch to retrieve important information, but they also missed the great opportunity to recover the mutants as soon as possible. If the rescue team from the government had already made contact with a certain number of survivors, then whether their mission could be successfully completed would also become unknown.

Thinking of this, You Lan, who was used to being expressionless, frowned slightly and was about to leave.

“call out——” The sound of air being torn apart suddenly appeared. As You Lan instinctively and quickly retracted her left foot that she was about to step out, a silver-gray arrow pierced the ground that You Lan was about to step on with a ding sound. The arrowhead diagonally went halfway into the ground, swayed under the action of gravity, and then fell down.

“…” You Lan, who didn’t like to speak, didn’t ask who it was, just looked at the arrow, then looked at her feet, and then looked around coldly.