Chapter 370: Easily solved
Wearing tattered butler attire, the Flesh Membrane creature burst out from underground. Layers upon layers of flesh membrane piled up on its body, wriggling with each breath.
"What exactly did you revive..."
Lin Ye drew his knife and slashed at the Flesh Membrane Butler's head. The Flesh Membrane Butler sidestepped to avoid the broken blade, taking a step to close the distance right in front of Lin Ye.
A wall of compressed spiritual energy blocked the path of the Flesh Membrane Butler. The Flesh Membrane Butler circumvented the wall, approaching Lin Ye from one side.
Lin Ye predicted its movement, thrusting his short knife towards the Flesh Membrane Butler's chest in advance.
This time, the Flesh Membrane Butler didn't dodge. Instead, it allowed the short knife to plunge into its chest, all for the sake of closing in on Lin Ye faster.
Lin Ye didn't understand what it was trying to do, but of course he wouldn't just let it get close. Not allowing the enemy to achieve its objective was the most basic combat principle.
By propelling himself forward with a burst of spiritual energy, Lin Ye rapidly distanced himself from the Flesh Membrane Butler. Simultaneously, several compressed spiritual energy blades pierced through the Flesh Membrane Butler's body, dismembering it into over a dozen chunks of minced flesh.
Those minced chunks didn't stop. They too used the method of propelling spiritual energy to chase after Lin Ye, gradually reassembling in mid-air.
Lin Ye wanted to ignite the blood within the minced flesh, only to discover that the liquid inside no longer fell under the category of blood. The minced flesh Flesh Membrane Butler chased relentlessly behind Lin Ye, not allowing him to create distance.
The flesh membranes on those chunks of meat automatically tore open, revealing the cavities within. Some incomplete organs were gestating inside these cavities. After the flesh membranes tore, those organs crawled within the cavities like worms, then leaped out, pouncing towards Lin Ye.
Lin Ye tried to block those organs with walls of compressed spiritual energy, but the organs were exceptionally agile, quickly bypassing the spiritual energy walls and continuing their pounce towards Lin Ye.
At that moment, the surrounding flesh membranes also began to 'bloom'. Various organs crawled out from the cavities, but they didn't pounce towards Lin Ye and the others. Instead, they began gathering at the same location.
Lin Ye used compressed spiritual energy blades to pierce through the organs that had been chasing him, but this not only failed to stop them, it actually increased the number of organs behind him.
More organs pounced towards Lin Ye from all directions. Lin Ye drew the broken knife from his waist, activated a speed rune, and swiftly slashed the broken knife across every approaching organ.
Those organs sliced open by the broken knife lost their vitality, unable to get up again.
While retreating and slashing, Lin Ye quickly cleared away all the organs chasing him.
Kumar: Boss, let's run! This thing looks seriously bad news.
Lucas: Yeah, I'm getting out of here first.
Anna: Just looking at it makes me lose the will to resist. Isn't the difficulty of this Station Mission way too high?
Those organs pieced together into a bizarre humanoid creature. That humanoid creature stood not far away, watching them.
Lin Ye: Don't worry, I have a trump card.
Kumar: Seriously?
Lucas: Now I understand why the difficulty is so high.
Anna: Is this the mission difficulty for a big shot?
Lin Ye: It has nothing to do with me. You guys are just unlucky.
Just as the humanoid creature was about to attack them, it was dismantled back into scattered organs by Little Silver, who appeared behind it. By now, Little Silver had transformed into an adult woman, looking dignified and elegant.
It would have been even better if she hadn't grabbed those organs and stuffed them into her mouth.
Kumar: ...That's it? It's over?
Lucas: Probably...
Anna: Finally over. How do we complete those two additional tasks?
Lin Ye: It was those parasites that killed the manor owner. The inheritance should be in that room underground, which is now buried.
Anna: What a shame. The third additional task probably can't be completed.
Lin Ye: Hard to say. Since the lady of the manor had time to use the coffin to resurrect the old butler, she might not necessarily have died underground.
Lucas: So what do we do now? Go down and look for her?
Lin Ye: No. We'll wait at the manor until tomorrow morning. If she doesn't come out, then forget it.
Lin Ye definitely didn't want to get close to the Parasitic Gate. Even a few random worms crawling out from there would be a huge problem.
Anna: Boss, aren't you going to take off that armor? It looks pretty heavy.
Lin Ye: I don't actually know how to take it off...
Kumar: So cool. I want to get a full-body suit of armor like that too.
Lucas: Dream on.
Soon, time passed until the next morning. An emerald green portal appeared in the center of the ruins. The group walked towards the portal, ready to end this Station Mission.
The ground shook. Standing behind Lin Ye, Anna suddenly thrust her right hand towards his back with all her strength. This was Anna's talent ability. At this distance, even a high-level spiritual energy user couldn't withstand this strike.
Lucas transformed into a muscular burly man and lunged to grab Lin Ye's waist. A large amount of soil wrapped around Lin Ye's legs, preventing him from moving.
The Masked Man, who had been hugging worms while cowering in the corner, pulled out a hand cannon, aimed at Lin Ye's head, and pulled the trigger.
Cecilia emerged from underground, blocking the path in front of the portal.
Lin Ye had been on guard. When Anna asked him to remove the armor earlier, he already felt something was off.
These people had been near the Parasitic Gate the whole time. There was no guarantee they hadn't been controlled by it.
A rotating layer of compressed spiritual energy shield deflected the trajectory of Anna's attack, causing her to collide with Lucas.
Kumar simply couldn't restrain Lin Ye, and the Masked Man's hand cannon shot missed.
"Is this your trick?"
Lin Ye knocked his three teammates to the ground and looked towards the manor owner standing not far away.
"No, that was just an attempt. This is my trick."
The three teammates got up from the ground, pointing their weapons at their own vital points.
"They're just my teammates. You don't think you can threaten me with them, do you?"
Lin Ye would try his best to help his teammates, but that was it. He would never sacrifice himself for them.
"I'm not that naive. It was just an attempt."
As soon as Cecilia finished speaking, a massive number of black-and-white long worms emerged from underground. Within seconds, the entire manor turned into a field of black-and-white grass.
Those worms, generally over a meter long, were stuck in the ground like plants, trembling in the wind.
Just as Lin Ye was about to take action, he saw Little Silver—now transformed into a mature woman—appear behind Cecilia, opening her mouth and biting off half of its body.
The surrounding long worms were also sucked into her mouth. Soon, the entire manor was cleared of worms.
'This is what they mean by promising future potential...'
Lin Ye experienced the joy of nurturing cards in a card game.
If Cecilia had come earlier, perhaps it would have had a chance to fight Lin Ye to the death.
With Little Silver's help, Lin Ye awakened his parasitized companions. They had been controlled by the parasites right after escaping underground, precisely when the old butler was attacking Lin Ye.
The manor owner's inheritance was on Cecilia's person. Lin Ye successfully completed this additional task.
Kumar: I'm really, really sorry. My consciousness was clear, but I couldn't control my own body. It was like another consciousness had been born.