Wasteland Border Inspector-Chapter 99 - 72: Acquaintances, Pest Control, Information Surge!

Chapter 99: Chapter 72: Acquaintances, Pest Control, Information Surge!

Standing on either side were two young men who were in charge of the delivery.

"Is it them?"

Cheng Ye suddenly felt a bit lost.

Scenes flashed through his mind.

Two young men carrying an anti-theft door, sweating profusely. He took two 5-value Happiness Coins from his pocket and handed them over. The two immediately grinned widely, endlessly expressing their gratitude, appearing as straightforward and honest as neighbors from the same street.

But at this moment on the drone footage, their faces looked incredibly ferocious and insane.

Wait.

Are they still human?

That sinister and grim expression seemed to have completely lost humanity, leaving only the most primitive greed and plunder, along with a hint of hunting instinct treating others as prey.

"Brother, are you scared? To be honest, I have the key to this door of yours."

The boss paused, his tone suddenly growing firm. "Don’t push us; we just want to survive. You’ve got such a good security door living in this apartment block. Look at this workmanship, you must have spent a lot on it."

"Such a safe place could clearly protect many people inside, what’s wrong with letting us in?"

"Yeah, brother, we carried the door for you, remember?"

"We’re good people, you know that, we’re good people, we’ll protect you."

The two young men sang in harmony.

Good people?

Cheng Ye put down the Defense Communication. Suddenly, an inexplicable rage rose from his heart.

What are pests?

These are the "pests" Master Tian mentioned!

These are the "pests" Elder Qu talked about, those who make no progress and only know how to snatch food from others’ mouths!

"Get out!"

A suppressed, low growl came from inside the anti-theft door.

"Get out?"

Finally getting a response, the boss sneered, "Brother, turns out you’re not dead, I thought no one was inside, scared me to death. I lied; I don’t have the key to this door!"

"If there really was no one inside, the three of us really couldn’t get in."

"Look... no, listen, I’ve got three homemade smoke bombs here. If you don’t open the door, you better open the window quickly, lest you get smoked to death..."

Bang!!

Before he finished speaking, in the boss’s stunned gaze, the anti-theft door was suddenly pushed open from within.

"What is that?"

He instinctively wanted to pull the trigger, but suddenly a strangely shaped gun appeared in his vision, with a muzzle seemingly several times larger than the defense pistol in his hand?

This is...

Boom!

Not the sound of a gunshot.

It was the entire wall trembling.

What would be the result of a 12.7mm deer bullet exploding at less than three meters?

A deafening roar sounded, and in the stunned gaze of the two young men, their boss’s head was gone?

Turned into pieces of flesh, shattered into fragments, scattered onto the walls of the apartment block.

The remaining half of the body leaned against the wall corner, with red foam gushing out from where the skull disappeared, forming a crooked pool of blood on the cement floor.

"Looking for death!"

A massive figure burst out from the door.

Twice the size of a normal human, clad in a black silver protective helmet.

They had just raised their guns, but the black shadow moved with an agility totally unlike its size, merely using one hand to lightning-fast clutch their necks, lifting them overhead like carrying chicks.

"Ah!"

The young men struggled wildly, their fists randomly thumping against the shadowy figure’s arms, only to touch something cold and hard, like metal.

In the instant their eyes met, the madness in their eyes instantly faded, leaving only sheer terror.

"What... kind of monster are you?"

The words fell.

An unimaginable, irresistible force surged.

Their heads uncontrollably slammed together with force.

Before pain spread, they were smashed against the corridor’s glass by the "monster", hearing the faint sound of two words:

Pests!

Pests?

Crash... thud!!!

Shattered glass wrapped around bodies falling from the fifth floor, screams shredded into pieces by the rain.

Several shadows sprinting towards the electronics factory residential area abruptly halted, staring towards the broken glass window.

In the void, a broad, dark silhouette appeared.

It wasn’t an infected body, but it was even more oppressive than any infected body they’d seen!

"What the hell is that?"

"Could it be a Fusion Body?"

The figures froze, licking their lips with difficulty, then scattered like birds and beasts.

With half an hour until the infection tide erupted, they just wanted to find a safe place to survive, no one wanted to run into something scarier than an infected body and get killed.

Bang.

The anti-theft door slammed shut hard.

Cheng Ye stepped inside, kneeling on one knee, his chest heaving violently, gasping for air.

It felt like all the unease, all the emotions, were locked outside the door, allowing him to suddenly regain a sense of security.

As long as he didn’t look outside, didn’t recall, those broken and bloody scenes just hadn’t happened.

"Did I... kill someone?"

He stared at his hands, traces of warmth seemingly lingered from the two young men’s necks.

But in the next second, another voice exploded in his mind:

"No, I’m exterminating pests!"

There was not a bit of mercy or fear in the surging emotions, only burning anger raging in his chest. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

At this moment, he suddenly realized what killing intent truly was.

It’s a primal instinct arising from within, erupting from the marrow, uncontrollable by reason, only released through slaughter.

Thud thud thud.

The door was knocked again.

Cheng Ye instinctively turned, gripping the Thunder 1 beside him tightly.

The piercing killing intent seemed to penetrate the door slit, causing the middle-aged man standing by the door to shiver.

"Frie... friend, I’m your neighbor next door..."

Oh, it was the middle-aged man who delivers water.

Cheng Ye was slightly stunned, but the man continued, "I have no ill intentions. These three deserved to die, but we need to... uh, clean up before the tide of infection arrives, or these pieces of flesh will attract the Stand-In Starfish infected bodies."

Finally, he hastily added, "I’ll take care of the dirty work, we are used to it, we can endure hardship."

"You, you better not come out, or else I’ll shoot."

After the words fell, over ten seconds passed without a sound from inside, the middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief, waving to those behind him.

Soon, the sound of footsteps was heard.

Compared to cleaning up the "battlefield", having a neighbor who was a killing god was clearly good news.

In less than half a minute, the sound of splashing water and mopping joined into a melody.

The "half" remaining boss and three others were difficult to deal with, so they promptly imitated and tossed them out through the glass hole, heavily crashing onto the open area of the residential complex, drawing curses from ground-floor residents.

"Friend?"

"The dead one seems to be an infected body, um, I left the infected source it burst out at your door, see if you want to take it."

Without waiting for Cheng Ye to reply, the three of them quickly dashed away, the sound of doors closing following promptly.

Infected source?

So the boss was already infected?

Controlling the drone footage transmission, the corridor was swept clean, only the walls were smeared with difficult-to-clean bloodstains for a short time.

Zooming in slightly, Cheng Ye’s gaze paused.

At the door lay a small red Starfish, about the size of a fingertip, like a glass bead.

Is this what the Stand-In Starfish infected source looks like?

Cheng Ye hesitated for a moment, grabbing the containment box by the door, opening a crack, and gently using tongs to pick up the Starfish, to prevent secondary infection.

However, the moment the tongs touched the Starfish, a panel suddenly popped out.

[Detected dispersing biological consciousness, usable to supplement information capacity, absorb?]

[This absorption can increase information capacity: 0.37]

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