The Flower Of The High Mountain Turns Into A Cat And Is Picked Up By A Human Chapter 39

Chapter 39

The on-site investigation lasted for two hours, during which they found nothing.

This was within everyone’s expectations.

However, the results of the villagers’ infection level survey immediately put them on high alert.

“Every single person is infected, and the degree is severe. These villagers are only able to move now purely by instinct, and because the Eye Worm still wants them to cling to life for a while longer.”

“It’s the same situation as Feng Yuying. It seems the Eye Worm harbors an extraordinary hatred for the villagers who stood by and watched the yellow dog being abused.”

Bai Chendeng raised an eyebrow but remained silent. After hearing the intelligence, he prepared to thoroughly tour the village.

Seeing him leave alone, Yuan Zhiyi instructed his team members to continue following up on the situation, then trailed Bai Chendeng from a hundred meters away, constantly surveying something with a compass.

Along the way, cadres could be seen scattered throughout the village, taking records of the residents and burying array plates, talismans, and machinery in specific locations.

Bai Chendeng passed empty residences, overgrown fields, and winding paths, finally arriving at the river.

Though called a river, it was practically just a pond, but the villagers were accustomed to calling it that.

Bai Chendeng picked up a stone, exerted some force, and the stone shattered, which he then tossed aside.

He stared at the upstream section of the pond, the golden-red light of the sun reappearing in his eyes.

It was high noon, and Bai Chendeng could feel a continuous flow of solar essence pouring into his body, immediately converging in his eyes. The heat dispersed the mist, allowing him to clearly take in everything around him.

Tiny black specks, like fish eggs, were densely washed up on the riverbank.

At a quick glance, one might mistake them for spots or mutations on the stones.

Bai Chendeng followed the density of the black specks, gradually tracing them upstream.

As his figure walked up the riverbank, just about to disappear into the small patch of wild woods, a shout suddenly interrupted him.

“Mr. Bai!”

Yuan Zhiyi clenched his fists, afraid that Bai Chendeng would simply leave. He bit his teeth in fear, then forced himself to appear calm: “Wait for us, let’s go together.”

After spending some time together, Bai Chendeng had developed a slight trust in this young man from the Bureau. He withdrew from his spiritual vision, returning to normal.

“Alright.”

At this response, Yuan Zhiyi breathed a sigh of relief. Just moments ago, Bai Chendeng had suddenly gained a sense of ethereal detachment, as if he might vanish from the mortal world at any moment, never to be found again.

Before long, most of the cadres were reassigned and waiting for orders.

Yuan Zhiyi had consulted his superiors in advance, waiting for reinforcements to arrive. In the meantime, he had people fetch stools and food for everyone to rest.

“Mr. Bai, please sit.”

Bai Chendeng sat down and accepted a drink. He took a sip—it was sweet, not bad.

The Bureau’s investigation focus had always been inside the village, which was a normal way of thinking. Even Bai Chendeng only identified the blind spot of the water flow by relying on his greatly enhanced spiritual vision.

“Who is coming as reinforcement?”

“It’s someone you know.”

Bai Chendeng raised an eyebrow slightly: “Deng Luo?”

Yuan Zhiyi’s voice held a smile: “It is him.”

It was certainly not a coincidence.

On one hand, Deng Luo was indeed suitable; his own strength was considerable, and he was a seasoned captain. On the other hand, the Bureau did not want the dispatched personnel to clash with Bai Chendeng. They knew that some people internally were extremely hostile toward demon-kind, and accidentally offending Bai Chendeng would be undesirable.

Both were captains, but Deng Luo was treated as powerful backup, while Yuan Zhiyi served as the commander to stabilize the situation. They had different roles.

The helicopter landed outside the village. Deng Luo and his team disembarked and got into a vehicle, quickly arriving at the river.

Bai Chendeng and Deng Luo led the way, with Yuan Zhiyi bringing up the rear, plus ten cadres. The team was composed entirely of elite fighters. They walked upstream along the riverbank.

After passing through the wild woods, the path gradually became steeper. As they were about to ascend the mountain, Deng Luo offered a Light Body Talisman. Bai Chendeng did not take it, but simply extended his hand.

The hand was very tender, as cute and rounded as a cat’s paw. Deng Luo’s mind wandered, but his expression remained normal as he activated the talisman and pressed it onto Bai Chendeng’s arm.

With the talisman’s boost, after an hour of trekking, they arrived at the upstream area. The terrain here was complex, with mountains and water intertwined, and jagged rocks jutting out. Most importantly, there were many caves of varying sizes on the surrounding mountain walls, making it an ideal place to hide things.

No words were needed; everyone knew the destination was here.

Bai Chendeng activated his spiritual vision. The mountain body here blocked most of the sunlight, preventing him from drawing power. The effect of his spiritual vision was limited; he couldn’t directly see the pervasive black specks as before, only roughly discerning an anomaly in a certain direction.

He pointed: “That way.”

They arrived at a cave entrance. A stream flowed out from here, merging into the water below.

Everyone cautiously searched every inch, finally stopping beneath a smooth boulder inside the cave.

“Here, it’s bloodstains.”

Deng Luo asked the knowledgeable team member to examine it.

“It’s been here for a while… between one month and six weeks.”

No one could quite articulate their feelings. They had expected to catch a big fish, ideally the Eye Worm itself, but they hadn’t even seen a tentacle of the Eye Worm, only bloodstains.

“Here, cotton swab.”

They took a blood sample with a wet cotton swab and preserved it. Everyone prepared to continue searching the surroundings, but the team members left behind in the village sent a distress call.

Yuan Zhiyi answered the phone, his face grim, but he still spoke in a calm tone: “Zhuo Yang and the others are surrounded by the villagers.”

The situation was urgent. They spoke while rushing down the mountain.

Yuan Zhiyi explained breathlessly: “The villagers have surrounded the team members left to provide support. Some of the arrays set up in the village have taken effect, but the situation changed too quickly. More arrays haven’t even been activated yet.”

Deng Luo fiercely snapped a branch blocking their path and tossed it aside, cursing: “If anything happens to them, I’m going to finish that worm!”

Bai Chendeng was running at the front. Hearing this, he turned his head, glanced at them, and dropped a single sentence: “I’m going ahead.”

Immediately, he transformed into a white shadow, disappearing in a few flashes.

“Hey, Mr. Bai—”

Yuan Zhiyi subconsciously called out, but then suddenly realized Bai Chendeng’s intention. His lips moved, squeezing out a single word: “Cool.”

Watching the white cat disappear from sight, they estimated he would arrive quickly. Even without knowing the situation of their comrades down the mountain, they felt much more at ease.

“Fast as the wind, awesome.”

“That glance back is still flashing in my mind. I feel like I’ll dream about him.”

“Ahhh, speed up! We can’t fall behind!”

Down the mountain, golden-red light intertwined as handfuls of talismans were scattered into the air to resist the attackers.

The remaining cadres were mediocre in terms of combat strength, with no special abilities, but they were incredibly skilled at throwing talismans.

“Brother Zhang, we’re almost out of talismans, what do we do?”

Being older and more experienced, Zhang Xiang was inevitably forced to become the backbone in this moment.

Zhang Xiang squinted, turned his head, and shouted: “Zhuo Yang, did you notify Captain Yuan?”

Zhuo Yang shouted back even louder: “They’ll be here soon! Hold on!”

In this manner, whenever the cadres felt panic facing the infected, the two would exchange this dialogue. After repeating it three times, even the dullest team member knew this was just a calming tactic, but there were no cowards in the Bureau. Although everyone felt uneasy and afraid, no one retreated.

“Brother, brother! I really can’t hold on! This is the last one I have!”

Zhang Xiang grabbed his collar and yanked him back, cursing: “If you don’t have talismans, smash them with your compass!”

As he spoke, cadres who had run out of supplies were already grabbing their compasses with both hands and swinging them at the heads of the infected whenever they found an opening.

The effect was minimal, but it boosted morale significantly.

However, this half-helpless, half-joking action clearly couldn’t last long. As the golden-red light gradually weakened, the cadres were forced to pick up whatever weapons they could and engage in close combat.

A scream suddenly rang out. A young, thin man was bitten on the arm by an infected. If he hadn’t blocked in time, he would likely have been bitten directly on the neck.

“Damn it! Jiaping!”

Fang Jiaping’s eyes were bloodshot: “I don’t want to die!”

Shouting words of survival, he slammed his head hard into the infected, fighting desperately.

Zhang Xiang couldn’t reach him in time and could only watch helplessly as Fang Jiaping’s arm was ripped off, and his neck was seized.

No!

Don’t!

He can’t die!

“Fang Jiaping—!”

With a bang, a white shadow, swift as lightning, grabbed the drooling head, flipping the infected’s entire body over and slamming it heavily onto the ground.

Before Zhang Xiang could clearly see the full picture, he was struck full-on by Fang Jiaping.

Catching the young man who had been thrown at him, Zhang Xiang hadn’t yet recovered when he saw the familiar figure, like a god descending, appearing behind the infected every time, throwing these living dead shells onto the ground, piling them up in one spot.

In less than half a minute, a mound of infected flesh and blood was stacked up in the open space. At first glance, it looked like an ancient Jingguan (a tower of enemy corpses), both terrifying and shocking.

Looking up from the mound of flesh and blood, two feet were planted on the very top. The clear and cool-looking young man changed from standing to squatting, muttering something. Immediately, under the clear sky, the surrounding temperature instantly soared. The sunlight seemed to concentrate on this spot, carrying a magnificent power that almost completely purified the evil energy on the infected, leaving no trace of it.

In just one short minute, the situation was reversed. For everyone present, being pulled back from the brink of death was no less than truly dying once.

“We’re, we’re saved!”

“Mr. Bai, Mr. Bai!”

A tearful voice said: “I truly thought I was going to die…”

Zhang Xiang offered a comfort: “You didn’t die. Everyone is alive and well.”

Bai Chendeng exerted some force with his feet. The vitality of the mound of flesh and blood diminished, and the frequency of movement decreased, but overall it still looked bloody and distorted.

The young cadres could no longer see any terrifying images in their eyes. Their minds were filled with the young man’s serene eyes and jade-like face.

This figure overshadowed everything, imprinted onto their hearts through their retinas.

Bai Chendeng’s breathing became slightly heavier. He struggled to suppress his gasps and commanded: “Bring the array plates you left in the village.”

Zhang Xiang still had some presence of mind. After snapping back, he immediately shouted to a few colleagues who still had energy: “Tian Feng, Liu Yun, Geng Xiju, the three of you go fetch them! The third house in!”

Soon, the three ran back, panting heavily, clutching the array plates. After a brief rest, the cadres worked together to activate the array, suppressing the infected.

One set wasn’t enough, so another layer of array was nested on top, presided over and completed by the array genius, Zhuo Yang.

Only after all this was done was the crisis finally averted.

The cadres collapsed onto the ground from exhaustion, no longer caring about their appearance.

Many eyes were fixed on Bai Chendeng. They watched him circle the infected once, then look toward the village entrance.

Bai Chendeng narrowed his eyes. There, there seemed to be the aura of a demon.