Mental Illness Evolution Manual - Chapter 56

It was as if a ball of barbed cotton was stuck in Lu Mingqiu’s throat, making her feel swollen and painful, she couldn’t speak.

She reached out and gently touched the other party’s eye sockets, she asked softly, “Your… your eyes.”

The miserable-looking little sheep twitched its eyelids and slowly opened them, like a useless clam that was being pried open, revealing its insides that had long been pierced by an iron rod.

How to describe this scene, it didn’t look like a pair of eyeballs, it looked more like some crushed berries, burst purple grapes, melted flesh in a spider web, a frog’s crushed insides.

Red and yellow were mixed together, the crystals were shattered, only a lump of flesh remained in the eye socket, it was a testament to its tenacity.

Her breath stopped for a moment, then the other party quickly closed her eyes again, she relied on her other senses to judge her position, she took two steps forward and rubbed against her palm.

Actually, it was nothing, Yan Xianchuan didn’t think the injuries on her body were anything serious. She was still alive, she was still breathing, it wasn’t a serious injury.

She only had one emotion—annoyance, and it was the embarrassing kind of annoyance.

She was supposed to be killing everyone, she was supposed to complete the mission smoothly and beautifully, showing how reliable she was.

But she’d fallen into a trap, ultimately needing a rescue. Having been seen at her most vulnerable, wouldn’t her reputation be irreparably damaged?

Thinking about this, Yan Xianchuan even felt a little inappropriate relief. It was a good thing she couldn’t see now, if she could see the disappointed expression on the other party’s face, she would rather have died directly.

The message from her teammates in the communication rang twice before Lu Mingqiu took a deep breath, stood up, and asked softly, “Can you walk?”

Yan Xianchuan nodded and bleated.

Her legs were fine, they weren’t broken, of course, she could walk.

How could a person who suddenly lost their sight move freely, let alone keep up with her speed. But if she left her alone here, what would happen if she encountered any danger?

Yan Xianchuan looked small, but she was still dozens of pounds, it was obviously unrealistic for her to carry her all the way.

Lu Mingqiu’s brows furrowed tightly.

Suddenly, she saw a faded blue cloth buried under the rubble, she quickly ran over and pulled it out from under the glass, she shook off the glass shards and sand, she tore it into strips and tied it into a rope.

“Follow me, just keep going, okay?”

Lu Mingqiu squatted down, she carefully avoided the injury, she tied a circle around the other party’s neck with the blue cloth rope, she said softly, “Don’t be afraid.”

Actually, she could judge the person’s position by listening to the sound, but when Lu Mingqiu tied the rope, Yan Xianchuan still stood still obediently.

She had never felt so much like a sheep in her life.

The strap was tied loosely, but she could still feel the pull.

Yan Xianchuan shook her head, she was a sheep with an owner.

“Let’s go.” Lu Mingqiu gently shook the cloth rope, she walked slowly at first, when she saw that the other party could keep up, she started to jog, her starting speed wasn’t very fast.

She tried to choose places with fewer corpses, but she couldn’t avoid encountering two. Every time this happened, she couldn’t help but look back, she would also remind her, “On your left.”

Fortunately, Yan Xianchuan had never tripped. She used a very reckless posture, she lifted her legs high and stepped hard, she used so much force that she could even crush stones, let alone soft human bodies.

Otherwise, she would just kick them all away, one kick each.

She looked strong and lively, but Lu Mingqiu couldn’t bear to look at her for too long. The wet blood, like flowing flames, jumped from Yan Xianchuan’s body into her eyes, burning her insides.

Calm down.

Lu Mingqiu took a long breath, exhaled slowly, and adjusted her breathing, she forced herself to calm her chaotic mind. The battle wasn’t over yet, it wasn’t time to indulge in her emotions.

The still-functioning surveillance cameras captured the church group’s final whereabouts, there were no cameras on the path ahead, Black didn’t know where they were going either.

But they had been waiting for so long, they had killed all the attackers, but they hadn’t seen them for a long time. Judging from their evacuation speed, they should have appeared by now.

Now all the exits were empty, which could only mean that there were other exits to this base.

“We can’t let them go.” Lu Mingqiu said coldly, “Start the airship, use the radar to detect.”

Black received the order and immediately controlled the airship to take off. The handheld mini-life radar detector had a maximum range of eight hundred meters, if it encountered mountains, concrete, or other terrain, it would be reduced by a factor of two. The large one on the airship was different, it was military equipment, it could easily scan thousands of meters underground, even if you added the airship’s altitude, it could cover the entire Walnut Town in one go.

How fast could a person run on two legs, compared to an airship?

Almost as soon as the airship took off, Black received a signal feedback, “At ten o’clock in the northwest direction, I’ve marked it on the map.”

The airship’s deafening engine roared overhead, a ladder dropped from the sky, Lu Mingqiu hugged the clueless little sheep with one hand, she grabbed the ladder with the other hand, she was directly taken up into the sky.

The ladder was gradually retracted, Lu Mingqiu first lifted Yan Xianchuan up, when she was caught by Gold Ring and the others, who had already arrived, she climbed up herself, she entered the cabin, the first thing she did was to pick up a sniper rifle, she set it up at the cabin door.

The church couldn’t have built a tunnel all the way to Lipe’a, they would have to come out eventually. The moment they came out, they would be like gophers popping out of a box in a game, they would be hit in the head by a hammer-like bullet.

The airship followed suit and picked up Calamus’s team, finally, they picked up White and headed towards the location marked by the radar.

The underground cavity was clearly detected, the airship directly took them to the exit and waited.

After White came up, he went to the weapons rack, he picked up a single-soldier rocket launcher, he walked to Lu Mingqiu’s side and said word by word, “Use this.”

“Don’t cause trouble.” Black immediately spoke up to stop him, “We need to capture the church people alive for interrogation.”

White listened to his words, he snorted coldly, his demeanor and tone were like a rebellious teenager, but his hands obediently put it down.

Lu Mingqiu listened to his words, she squinted her eyes nervously. To be honest, she hadn’t thought of that, she had taken the sniper rifle because it was the closest one.

She exhaled, put down the gun, and handed it to Butterfly, who was also good at sniping, she said, “Keep an eye on them, try not to kill them first, just surround them.”

After saying that, she stood up, she took the little sheep standing beside her again, she went to the other end of the airship, she took a medical kit from the storage shelf and said softly, “I’ll treat your wounds first.”

Yan Xianchuan shook her ears, “Baa.”

When she had just escaped from the trapped spider web, she had almost a hundred large and small wounds on her body. Some were long, smooth cuts, some were jagged bloodstains, as if they had been hooked by a saw chain, the flesh around the edges of the wounds was curled up, like the petals of a shrinking rose. There were also burns, frostbite… the most serious were the blood holes, the size of a little finger, they were oozing black blood.

As for her eyes, Yan Xianchuan didn’t see clearly. She only saw a red object pierce through the white web, stirring it. A suffocating pain forced her to struggle violently, interrupting the other party’s attempt to pierce her brain directly.

Those spider webs definitely didn’t only have paralyzing venom. They must have slowly corroded her skin, otherwise, she wouldn’t have been so easily injured.

But when Lu Mingqiu looked at the wounds on her body, she noticed that the shallow cuts were already starting to heal. The deepest blood holes were no longer bleeding.

She unscrewed the lid of the iodine and dipped a cotton swab in it, she disinfected each wound. The more she applied it, the more shocked she became.

“Your eyes…” Lu Mingqiu said softly, “You can use a prosthetic eye for now. It will take at least two weeks to grow a new eye using your DNA.”

“The functions of a prosthetic eye are no different from a real eye, they’re even more diverse, it won’t be a burden on your daily life.”

She said in a hoarse voice, “Don’t worry, you can have the surgery when we get back.”

I wasn’t worried in the first place… Yan Xianchuan was very puzzled. It was just that her eyes were blind, it wasn’t a big deal.

Since she couldn’t speak human language now, she couldn’t explain her confusion. Seeing that the other party didn’t seem to dislike her, it was more important to seize the opportunity to enjoy the last moments of intimacy.

Yan Xianchuan didn’t do anything else, she just nudged against Lu Mingqiu’s chest.

She didn’t need to do anything else, she didn’t need to speak, she just needed to stand there, and that was enough to draw Lu Mingqiu’s attention.

“They’re coming out.” Black’s voice came through the loudspeaker.

As soon as he uttered a syllable, the gunshot covered the rest of the words.

Butterfly’s shooting accuracy was on par with Lu Mingqiu’s, and she even had her own irreplaceable advantage, she was best at aerial sniping.

Butterfly had the ability to fly, she would often be in the air, holding a special sniper rifle, she would attack from above, making the enemy unprepared.

With just one shot, the white-coated lab assistant who had just emerged from the soil was stunned in place. He looked up, an airship was looming over him, it was blocking out the sun, it completely eliminated any possibility of escape.

The lab assistant couldn’t help but feel despair.

The others crawled out of the ground one after another, they were all the same, they could only stand aside. They were mostly lab assistants, they had no combat ability. Those who could fight had already been ordered by the Poison Master to hold back the enemy, they had all died at Bai Ge’s hands.

This silent boy, who had become taciturn, had silently killed countless people. The people who died at his hands couldn’t even be seen, only a pile of dust remained.

The Insect Master was the last one to come up. As soon as he saw the behemoth above, his eyes flickered, he immediately made up his mind.

He raised his hands in surrender and shouted loudly, “I surrender! I’m willing to betray the church and join the Resistance!”

As soon as he said this, all the lab assistants present glared at him. The white-robed doctor’s face was filled with shock and anger, he said in disbelief, “You dare to betray the church! Betray the Mother Goddess! You madman! Traitor!”

The Insect Master sneered, “So what if I betray them? Do I have to go to my death? Only you fools still believe in this so-called Mother Goddess, this so-called Holy Healing Church. If you want to die, go ahead and die, don’t drag me down.”

“You! You’re even blaspheming the Mother Goddess!” The doctor’s face twitched with anger, but his high upbringing prevented him from saying any curse words, he could only repeat the words “traitor” and “sinner” over and over again.

He took a few deep breaths, he glared at the Insect Master with extreme hatred, “The Archbishop has long suspected your disloyalty, Insect Master, you’re going to die!”

The Insect Master rolled his eyes disdainfully, “Old geezer, I’m sure I’ll live longer than you.”

He turned his head and shouted towards the airship, “I have their experimental data, I’m truly surrendering!”