Chapter 12 Five

"One, two, three... Hmm... exactly five." Feng Bujue counted as he walked to the center of the street, leaving the brightest area under the streetlight.

He stepped directly onto the hood of a car, standing on it, holding the pipe wrench tightly in one hand, his eyes darting everywhere, his ears listening to all directions. He took the risk of standing on this dimly lit high point, trying to lure the monster infants.

Wang Tanzhi took out his [Fruit Knife] and put on the armor he had obtained in the previous single-player survival mode – a black steel helmet, which looked quite incongruous. He and Long Aomin stood back-to-back, not too far from the streetlight, each guarding one direction.

As for Lonely and Silence, their response was similar to those men and women in horror movies who were about to receive their box lunch: the woman hugged the man's arm, and the man stood sideways in front of the woman, a truly suicidal stance.

The shadows of the monster infants moved through the shadows on the street, using the shadows of buildings and vehicles to hide themselves. These monsters were indeed fast, appearing in the light for no more than a second, their figures flashing by.

Feng Bujue was standing farther away from the streetlight, with more shadows around him, and as expected, he was the first to be attacked. A monster infant sprang up from the ground, jumping more than two meters high, pouncing from Feng Bujue's side and rear.

He had anticipated this, turning to meet it, and just in time to see the monster infant leaping in front of him. The skin of this monster was bronze-green, its body resembled that of an infant, its face was extremely ugly, a mouthful of uneven yellow teeth burst out, the forearms of its hands were replaced by two small sickles, and below the knees were a pair of animal legs, the ends of which were not feet but hooves.

Feng Bujue chose to stand on the roof of the car because he considered that these monsters were less than one meter tall, and attacking targets at high places would require them to jump. Now the monster infant had indeed jumped, and since it had jumped, it would be suspended in the air, and there would be a period of time when it could not dodge...

In terms of strength, Feng Bujue obviously had the upper hand, and he had prepared well for this "lure and kill" strategy. He aimed at the monster infant's head, and from top to bottom, his hand rose and the wrench fell. The sound of the wrench falling was disgusting...

Imagine a watermelon flying towards your face, and you smash it in mid-air with a heavy stick. But that watermelon is filled with putrid liquid, viscous pus, semi-solidified slurry, etc., all bursting open and splashing towards you due to inertia...

This was the situation Feng Bujue encountered. The "sewage" splashed on him even smelled real. To put it elegantly, Feng Bujue now exuded a dark and mysterious aura from head to toe. To put it bluntly... he smelled like a corpse.

Although this monster infant was killed by Feng Bujue with one blow, there were four others around. Their number might be based on the number of players, but they were not set to attack different players individually.

Except for Feng Bujue, everyone else was standing under the light. As anyone who has seen horror movies knows, monsters specialize in attacking those who are alone, so the other four ignored the others and all surrounded Feng Bujue, who was in a darker area.

In this situation, Feng Bujue was indeed a little nervous, but he still didn't feel "fear." His thinking remained calm, so he directly ruled out the plan to escape back to the streetlight. At this moment, he had a concept of the speed of these monster infants. He knew very well that as soon as he came down from the roof of the car, within five seconds, as long as two monster infants rushed over at the same time, one of his legs would be cut off by one of their sickles.

Standing on the same level, these short and fast monsters were definitely difficult to deal with. Feng Bujue estimated that with his current strength, one-on-one on the ground would be fine, but one-on-two would definitely result in injury.

The second monster infant pounced over ten seconds later. Feng Bujue didn't know when the other three would leap, but he had to deal with the one in front of him first. He repeated his trick, swinging the wrench and striking hard. This time, it wasn't as accurate as the first time, but the pipe wrench still hit the side of the monster infant's head. The fire attribute and heavy blow to the head effect provided a very good attack effect, successfully ending this second monster infant.

The third wave of attacks was launched before Feng Bujue had time to retract his arm. This time, two monster infants pounced together, leaping from Feng Bujue's left and right sides at the same time. If he turned to block, he could only block one at most, and it was difficult to say whether he could kill it with one blow again.

In the blink of an eye, a golden light flashed in the distance, and a burly figure entered the battle in an instant. Long Aomin rushed over as if he were on a skateboard, sliding sideways. His feet didn't move at all, indicating that this movement activated some kind of skill.

As expected of a level ten character, fighting is powerful. Long Aomin held the shield in front of him, and with this skill, he instantly approached a monster infant, directly knocking it away. Then, he spread his arms and waved them, relying on his arm span, he forcibly rubbed the edge of the shield against the waist of another monster infant, causing it to lose its balance in the air, and the route of its pounce was deflected.

Feng Bujue would not miss this opportunity. With these two seconds of pause, he had enough reaction time, and swung the pipe wrench to take down the injured monster infant in one fell swoop, and suddenly, foul-smelling slurry splashed everywhere again.

Seeing that he had dealt with this one, Long Aomin quickly ran towards the monster infant that he had just knocked away. He came to the front, bent his knees, raised his shield, and pressed down with one blow.

The monster infant had just landed after being knocked away by the previous skill. Before it could stand firm, it saw a huge man rushing towards it, and had to raise its hand sickles to meet him. Although it aroused some sparks on the shield surface, as a not-so-strong monster, it was obviously impossible for it to cut through this fine equipment that combined attack and defense with its power.

Long Aomin roared, and slammed down several times with his shield. After a few strange screams, this monster infant became like minced meat, obviously dead.

"Where's the last one? Let's cut it up together." Wang Tanzhi had just run to the side at this time. In fact, he and Long Aomin rushed over together, but Long Aomin used a skill to move, which took only half a second to arrive, while he ran over. In these few seconds, Long had already completed one kill and one assist.

"Don't be careless, I don't think things will be so simp..." Before Feng Bujue could finish speaking, the surroundings suddenly became pitch black. All the light sources in the city disappeared in this instant, including the moonlight in the sky.

The whole world seemed to be swallowed in one gulp, falling into complete darkness. Those breathing sounds, whispers, laughter... all became extremely clear at this moment, as if they were right next to everyone, in that darkness that was within reach but could not be seen clearly.

A few seconds later, like the plot CG at the beginning of the game, the hazy moonlight sprinkled down again, and the streetlights lit up again, and the surrounding brightness returned to the state before it became dark.

And that last monster infant lurking in the shadows had undergone a drastic change after the baptism of that eerie darkness.