Scientific Travel

Chapter 279

The day Chi Lin finally figured out what the culprit was, Mei Shengke arrived.

Is this the protagonist's halo?

Deng Yin thought to himself.

Just as his life was hanging by a thread, Gou Dan discovered him. Mei Shengke had been waiting here for two days and was about to leave when he bumped into him on his way back.

Now, just as Chi Lin had figured things out and Deng Yin had barely heard the beginning of the news, Mei Shengke arrived again.

With such good luck, you could probably make a lot of money gambling, right?

Mei Shengke lost her usual composure, taking two steps in three, almost as soon as she saw the person downstairs, she rushed upstairs.

Chi Lin was giving Deng Yin some firsthand information in her room when he saw Mei Shengke looking so anxious. He frowned and asked, "What happened?"

Mei Shengke was a very calm person, and Chi Lin, who had lived in the military camp for so long, had never seen her so anxious before.

Mei Shengke first gave Deng Yin a standard military salute before he began to speak: "Four days ago, a mutated beast came to the gate of the military camp. It could breathe fire, was incredibly strong, and could speak human language. It said it wanted to occupy the military camp and build its own territory."

"Of course I couldn't agree to that. After I refused, it breathed out flames and burned the city gate to the ground in one go."

"That's no ordinary fire. It can easily turn iron into a pool of molten iron, and once it's burning, water can't extinguish it."

"Moreover, this mutated beast is exceptionally intelligent. There are hundreds of traps in the military camp, but it was never hit once. It couldn't get close, and all attacks from a distance were destroyed by its flames."

"I had no other choice but to pretend to agree to its request first, and then poison its food in an attempt to kill it."

"But it was no use. Just in case, I put drugs in the food and water. Neither sleeping pills nor poisons that would rot your guts had any effect on it."

"The drug didn't work, so I tried to attack it while it was asleep. But its skin was tougher than iron. I stabbed it and it was unharmed. Instead, my knife cut a nick."

"The mutated beast had an enormous appetite and ate humans. We lost hundreds of brothers and sisters trying to kill it, but not only did it not cause any damage, we didn't even leave behind any corpses..."

As Mei Shengke spoke, his fists were clenched so tightly that blood trickled down between his fingers.

Deng Yin pried her hands apart and soaked them in a basin of water containing the space.

The blood stained the water in the basin, and Mei Shengke's wounds were healing at a visible speed.

She must have injured her right arm; Deng Yin noticed it when she saluted.

"Don't worry, I will help you," Deng Yin said, "but the condition is that you have to let Liu Ding treat your illness first."

"It's too late!" Mei Shengke's eyes were bloodshot; it was clear she hadn't slept for days. "Before I arrived, that mutated beast had already eaten 134 people. If I had arrived any later, I don't know how many more would have been eaten!"

On the very first day that mutated beast arrived, Mei Shengke tried to ask Deng Yin for help, but none of the people he sent returned.

If things are like this inside the military camp, they're probably not much better outside.

Wei Wujiang was seriously injured in the battle and can only lie in the secret passage to heal. In the end, the task of going out to seek help can only fall on Mei Shengke.

“I’ll take care of saving lives, you don’t need to worry, but you must stay here for treatment.” Deng Yin’s tone was full of unyielding authority.

Mei Shengke may have internal injuries, but he certainly has a lot of external injuries.

Her clothes were black, paired with black armor. Even though it was an outfit that made it difficult to see bloodstains, Deng Yin could still see a dark red color on them.

That's the color of dried blood.