Chapter 960 - 289: Normal (2)

The black crystal presented a different appearance from usual, interwoven with the constantly beating red heart, emitting a passionate, black radiance.

Huangmao tremblingly took out a short knife from his waist, attempting to cut a notch on the surface of the heart. Perhaps due to being in an illusion, he tried several times without success and instead injured his right hand.

Finally, he succeeded in making an inconspicuous cut on the heart, from which bright red blood shining with exotic light seeped, dripping into the funnel-shaped top of the glass bottle.

At this moment, there was movement in the ruins, as if someone was approaching, but Huangmao, focused intently on the glass bottle, was completely unaware.

It was a zombie dressed in tattered clothes, seemingly ordinary, with a hardly noticeable blue glint in its eyes, walking straight up to Huangmao and delivered a heavy slap to his face.

Smack~

Feeling the heavy blow, Huangmao was stunned, finally sensing what seemed like someone in front of him, apparently a zombie. Before he could react, the zombie delivered another heavy slap, completely dazing him, wavering between reality and illusion.

The heart and glass bottle fell to the ground.

The zombie stupidly looked at Huangmao, then at the heart and glass bottle on the ground, and bent down to pick them up before turning and running off like a thief who had just stolen something, extremely guilty.

Su Changxing didn’t expect things to go so smoothly, effortlessly snatching the glass bottle and heart from Huangmao’s hands; the heart was probably the most important.

Just after crawling out of the ruins, from another zombie’s perspective, he noticed someone carrying a scythe approaching the ruins, seemingly looking for Huangmao’s location.

Su Chang placed the heart and glass bottle under the rubble and controlled the zombie to act half-dead, as a way to partially conceal the heart’s beating.

Unless they are Perception Class Extraordinary, ordinarily perception isn’t so precise; it’s only a rough range.

The scythe-wielding Extraordinary arrived here, and indeed didn’t notice the heart nearby, instead focusing on the confused Huangmao hidden in the ruins.

"You’re indeed here."

He laughed heartily, joining the ruins, "Haha!"

Seeing the situation, Su Changxing immediately scrambled up, picked up the heart from the rubble, and ran out with the glass bottle.

These Extraordinaries are exceptionally powerful, at least Tier Seven level, completely beyond what he can handle. Luckily, he had good fortune, catching a break, but could only stealthily take the heart from that area.

Fortunately, there weren’t many Extraordinaries around, and none focused on a single zombie. Su Changxing deftly avoided all the Extraordinaries’ sight, using other zombies on the street as cover, and ran out.

His main body also rushed towards that direction, mainly fearing interception by other Extraordinary Creatures; a normal zombie with such an item is too dangerous.

Indeed, before he reached it, an Extraordinary Creature resembling a lizard with a long tongue noticed the ordinary zombie holding the heart, attracted by the heart’s breath, so delightful it couldn’t help but stick out its tongue.

The zombie Su Changxing controlled was unsurprisingly tackled by the lizard to the ground, just as the spoils were about to be seized, but the lizard licked the bright red blood oozing from the heart, then closed its eyes and collapsed, not dead, in some numb, half-dead state.

"They’re all killed by overindulgence after all."

Su Changxing exhaled, got up from the ground, although one arm was broken, he still grabbed the heart and glass bottle, and continued to run forward.

Simultaneously, those Extraordinaries sensed something unusual, the items seemed to vanish into thin air.

"Where are the items!"

The scythe-wielding Extraordinary grabbed Huangmao’s shoulder, delivered a heavy kick to his abdomen, and interrogated him.

The heart wasn’t on Huangmao’s body, so he didn’t kill Huangmao.

Despite being kicked, Huangmao seemed unable to feel pain, showing a confused expression, stupidly said, "Taken by a zombie."

"..."

A brief silence.

The scythe-wielding Extraordinary felt Huangmao was playing tricks, kicked again: "Where are the items, where did you hide them."

Huangmao was kicked again, feeling speechless, saying in frustration, "Even after I told you, it was taken by a zombie, taken by a zombie, what else do you want me to say!"

"..."

Another brief silence.

Holding the scythe, the Extraordinary blinked, unsure why Huangmao was so assertive, his tone softened, confirming: "Is what you said true?"

"Of course it’s true, of course it’s true, why would I deceive you!" Huangmao shouted full of energy, looking entirely maniacal.

The scythe-wielding Extraordinary, upon seeing him, understood: "Turns out you were polluted, this Divine Creature seems very powerful, lucky you managed to capture its blood."