Chapter 93: Under the Blood Moon
“Ah? Are you serious?”
Xia Xi looked at Lin Ye in disbelief.
The supermarket trembled slightly, and Liu Rui was startled as well.
“You must have a reason for going there, right?”
Ding Wei asked.
“I believe there is some connection between here and Station No.4. If we can reach the city center, I might find a way to get there. This is the only plan that can keep us alive. We can’t hold out for the whole night. Delaying here is just waiting to die.”
Lin Ye looked up at the blood moon in the sky. He felt like it seemed a bit larger.
Maybe it was just closer.
Either way, it wasn’t good news for them.
“Then let’s go all out!” Xia Xi downed the remaining mental energy potion in one gulp and controlled the supermarket forward.
“I can see things clearly from afar. I’ll guide us!”
Ding Wei stood by the window, pointing out the route through it.
“Leave the moving and dodging to me.”
Liu Rui maintained the overall balance of the supermarket. Without her, Xia Xi would have already led them straight into a pile of monsters.
“I’ll handle the rest.”
Lin Ye took out another mental energy potion and tossed it to Xia Xi. Now was not the time to conserve resources.
With the cooperation of the four of them, the supermarket rapidly charged toward the city center. The previously monstrous residential building covered in huge mouths was left behind—they had the advantage of many legs.
The roads were filled with mutated creatures of all shapes and sizes: mutated skyscrapers with countless slender legs, centipede-like twisted and crawling mutated streets, mutated bridges floating in midair...
Countless grotesque small mutated creatures were dumped around the city like garbage, appearing everywhere on the ground and in the sky.
The area around the supermarket was no exception. Many small mutated creatures crawled onto the supermarket, and various flying mutated creatures floated outside the windows.
Xia Xi tried to control the supermarket’s tendrils to handle these mutated creatures, but she was not good at fine control.
“I’ll handle it.”
These tendrils were mutated by Lin Ye. As long as Xia Xi cooperated, he could control them.
While drawing runes, Lin Ye manipulated the tendrils and quickly eliminated most of the mutated creatures climbing onto the supermarket.
This was the difference in spiritual strength and skill. Lin Ye often used mental energy to sketch runes. Although his spiritual energy couldn’t compare to the madmen in the asylum, it was far stronger than other survivors.
Lin Ye mutated two long, sharp tendrils on both sides of the supermarket. They served as weapons to deal with other giant mutated structures.
“100 meters ahead, the path is blocked. Should we detour?”
Ding Wei suddenly said.
Blocking the way was a humanoid mutated building lying horizontally. It had mutated organs similar to humans, making its original form unrecognizable.
Unlike other mutated buildings, the humanoid one didn’t move but lay there like a dam.
Detouring meant a much longer route and encountering more mutated buildings.
“Can we jump over it?”
Lin Ye’s mental energy was running low. He was holding a mental energy potion, ready to replenish.
“I’ll try!”
Liu Rui drank a sip of the mental energy potion from Xia Xi’s hand. The two of them controlled the supermarket to rush toward the humanoid building, and when they were twenty meters apart, they made the supermarket jump.
The humanoid building suddenly revealed a grotesque smile, propping up its upper body and raising its hand to grab the supermarket.
The supermarket’s front was completely blocked by the humanoid building’s upper body, and they couldn’t change direction midair by leveraging anything.
“We’re done for!”
Xia Xi said despairingly.
“Not yet!”
Liu Rui gritted her teeth and controlled the supermarket. She could make the area they were in avoid the direct hit, but if the supermarket was destroyed, they wouldn’t survive long.
“Trying to play dirty with me? You’re damn well looking for death!”
Lin Ye pulled out a purple syringe from his glove and injected it into his neck, emptying the liquid inside into his body.
The strong psychotropic took effect instantly, and Lin Ye entered a time-slowed state again.
Everything around slowed down, from the humanoid building’s swinging palm to its twisted, upward-curving lips.
In that moment, Lin Ye truly felt like a god.
Mental energy was the manifestation of will, and everything around was under control.
Dense runes appeared inside and outside the supermarket. Under the influence of the runes, spiritual energy obediently flowed throughout the supermarket, powering it.
With Xia Xi’s talent ability cooperating, Lin Ye took control of the entire supermarket at lightning speed.
A huge mutated spiritual energy shield appeared on the palm’s side. The palm smashed through the energy shield, and under Lin Ye’s control, the supermarket spun to crash into the humanoid building’s chest.
With the combined effect of speed, power, and severing runes, the supermarket moved so fast that the humanoid building had no time to react.
The two sharp tendrils slashed across the humanoid building’s chest in succession, and the supermarket spun into the humanoid building’s body, smashing its most vital parts.
Lin Ye controlled the supermarket to rampage inside the humanoid creature, cutting a path from the inside of the “dam.”
After penetrating the humanoid creature, Lin Ye didn’t rush forward but jumped behind the dying humanoid building. Using the tendrils, he stabbed into its brain and took out a half-human-height red crystal, storing it in the supermarket’s loot space before handing control back to the others.
“You guys continue. I’ll rest for a bit.”
After storing the crystal, Lin Ye found a stable spot to sit and rest. That last burst had been tough on him.
Xia Xi was a bit dizzy from the spinning, but as a First-Level Spiritual Energy User, she quickly recovered.
Liu Rui was perfectly fine and even learned a lot from Lin Ye’s operation.
“As expected of Brother Lin. So fierce.”
Ding Wei felt like the laziest of the four, contributing nothing but route guidance.
With the tacit cooperation of the three, the supermarket continued forward, soon approaching the city center.
The city center was filled with powerful mutated buildings, and it was the closest place to the blood moon.
Now when they looked up, the blood moon covered almost the entire city overhead. Lin Ye’s feeling was right—the blood moon was indeed approaching the city and growing larger.
The supermarket charged into the heart of the city at high speed. Surrounded by numerous mutated buildings, Lin Ye used a special skill.
A green Safe Route appeared. Lin Ye controlled the supermarket to move along the safe route, but the route’s main focus was Lin Ye himself, not the supermarket. As a result, the supermarket gradually fell apart while passing through various attacks.
“Stay close to me if you don’t want to die!”
Lin Ye forcibly controlled the supermarket on the verge of collapse, too exhausted to care about the others.
The spiritual energy shield was nothing but paper in this environment. Without the Safe Route, they would have been wiped out long ago.
Finally, before the supermarket completely collapsed, Lin Ye found the Safe Route’s endpoint beneath a manhole cover in the city center.