paranoianovel Chapter 17 Adventure
Chapter 17 Adventure
The girl's tone was like a straightforward explanation.
She sensed danger in her sleep and instinctively twisted her body in time, thus avoiding a direct headshot. But the large-caliber bullet that passed through her collarbone still faithfully carried out its mission of killing the enemy, leaving the girl only a little time to say her last words.
She's going to die, that's an obvious fact.
What's the point of continuing the escape with a dead person, other than adding unnecessary burden?
Lily understands.
Xu Yang understood as well.
As long as I leave immediately and escape into that eerie anthill, the raiders will likely hesitate to attack me when they come after me. After all, the supplies are all in the camp, and continuing to hunt me down would be completely counterproductive.
Everyone believed their own life was the most important thing, including the looters.
But does that include Lily?
Xu Yang couldn't detect any emotion in that weak voice; they had only known each other for a day.
If everything that happened was a game, then Lily was like an NPC responsible for guiding new players, and clearly at this point, she had completed all her tasks.
Is that why she has no emotions?
Those chaotic thoughts kept spreading out.
There is something growing colder.
Xu Yang slowly stood up, but he did not pick up the girl again.
He said, "I'm leaving."
Lily's eyes were half-closed; she was a little sleepy. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a taller figure leave her.
He moved very quickly.
Actually, it doesn't need to be so fast. That malice is still some distance away from them. Should she remind him?
But she was too exhausted to speak.
But he seems to be—
Did you go the wrong way?
……
It didn't run in the wrong direction.
Xu Yang had no time to waste any longer.
He crouched low and slowly approached the camp using the slope, which temporarily obscured the sniper's view.
Even without Lily's perception, he knew that a chilling malice was locking onto him from afar, while his eyes were fixed only on the campfire ahead.
The metallic smell of blood lingered at the tip of my nose.
You might die!
Just thinking about this possibility brought to mind a bloody scene of a head being shot open and a torso pierced through. Perhaps he would die like the strong man before him, like a dog, in a forgotten corner.
Blood began to surge uncontrollably through his body, a dangerous aura mixed with the stimulating poison.
Humans are creatures that can harm themselves for pleasure.
In this situation—
He would only be happy if he greedily allowed them all to live.
Xu Yang suddenly leaped into the sniper scope's field of view.
Bang!
After the gunshot, something inside his body exploded, I don't know.
He threw himself to the ground, immediately clutching his backpack; adrenaline faithfully fulfilled its mission.
Ouch! It doesn't hurt!
Even the guide says that you can't kill yourself with one shot!
Seizing the moment when the bolt was pulled, Xu Yang picked up his backpack and charged down the slope, pushing the muscles in his legs to their limits.
however,
Bang!
The reload speed is obviously faster.
That instant revealed a hint of death.
Xu Yang was hit again.
Losing balance...
He was thrown down the slope by inertia, blood gushing from his mouth, but he still clutched his nearly half-person-high military backpack tightly to his chest.
He was shot once in the abdomen and once in the shoulder.
Bone fragments, bits of meat, cavity.
However, his body, which had undergone attribute enhancement, did not kill him immediately.
Blood was blocking his trachea, making it hard for him to breathe. He could hear Lily's breathing, which was even weaker than his own, next to him.
Xu Yang smiled.
He unzipped his backpack and clumsily rummaged through it. The bullet hole in his shoulder made his hands feel unresponsive, and the movement aggravated the wound in his abdomen, which started to hurt after the adrenaline subsided.
His stomach was pierced, and Xu Yang couldn't tell whether what was flowing out was blood or food.
It seems like I ate dinner for nothing.
He was thinking about it for no apparent reason, but he didn't have time to dwell on it.
He finally grasped what he wanted, and he rushed toward Lily, who was disheveled, using his earthy hands to pry open her mouth...
The warm liquid flowed into the girl's mouth.
"Cough cough, Wh...what?"
"Don't fucking spit it out."
"Just treat it like strawberry milk, stop talking and drink it!"
In Lily's view, Xu Yang was holding a dark object in his hand, and some kind of liquid was trickling out from the hole he had poked with his finger.
Heart of Thorns
[Burial in the soil allows for slow recovery; drinking the blood from the ventricle provides considerable healing effects; long-term consumption slightly increases sanity.]
[Note: You despicable thief, you've finally won her heart!]
As the "strawberry milk" slowly flowed into her stomach, Lily felt a warm current rising through her body.
That warmth gathered at the wound on my collarbone, and it began to itch slightly. It was healing at an incredible speed.
Lily gradually regained consciousness.
It's not strawberry milk.
Her pupils reflected the swaying figure; he didn't look as tall as before, and he was bleeding, badly injured.
The gunshot just now...
are you crazy?
He was now intertwined with a figure from his memory...
"That's fine."
Lily quickly reached out to steady the swaying shadow.
Xu Yang breathed a sigh of relief.
Immediately, he fell backward next to the girl.
Pain, cold, and exhaustion mingled together, and the clothes on his abdomen and shoulders were stained red with blood.
He tried to raise his hand, but he couldn't. A smaller hand pressed the Heart of Thorns to his lips.
Small streams of blood flowed down the corner of his mouth into his stomach from the rupture in his ventricle.
Sweet!
A surge of heat lingered at the wound, rapidly mending the flesh and bone fragments.
It's itchy.
Although it was pitch black all around, Xu Yang could even imagine that there must be some granulation tissue moving around in the wound.
So, "considerable treatment effect" means that it can be observed...
He was thinking haphazardly, and reached out to touch his stomach. Apart from the sticky blood, the wound had disappeared.
Oh, and abs too.
Meanwhile, Lily stared at him blankly, seemingly unable to come to her senses.
"What are you standing there for? Let's go."
Xu Yang buried the Heart of Thorns in the soil of his backpack, saving two people, but only consuming less than half of the blood in his heart.
Unexpectedly, the thorn-covered creature turned out to be the first benefactor in my life.
The two headed straight for the ant nest at the foot of the mountain.
……
Temporary camp.
After the sparks on the charcoal were evaporated by the blood, the light of modern technology dispelled the darkness.
Barto and his group finally arrived at the scene, using flashlights.
According to Qi Yuan, they would collect two backpacks full of supplies, as well as two corpses behind the slope.
Even if a sniper rifle doesn't hit an enemy's head, the cavity effect it creates after penetrating the body is still deadly...
Barto sat by the campfire.
He had a premonition that things might not be so simple.
"Boss, we found it!"
The blond-haired man ran to Batto's side as if he wanted to take credit, with the handicrafts scattered all over the ground behind him.
He was holding two glass containers filled with black liquid.
Blackwater, a harvest as expected.
These could be waste liquid, or they could be one in a million precious components. Huang Mao's eyes gleamed with longing and reluctance, and Barto seemed to see himself from many years ago.
It's so good to be young!
He just missed the opportunity; he quietly pocketed the Blackwater.
"Only two bottles?"
"Uh, that's all there is in the bag."
As soon as he finished speaking, a rustling sound came from all around.
Two figures walked over, and Barto glanced at their hands, frowning.
"Where are the things?"
"..."
"They ran away."