Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 675 - 22: Special Agent Smith

Chapter 675: Chapter 22: Special Agent Smith

"What do we do?" Jing Xiang panicked, looking towards Tang Zheng who had just flown back into the bus carriage.

"Bandage him up, such a small injury won’t kill him." Tang Zheng took out a first-aid kit and handed it to Jing Xiang. Then he looked around the carriage at the fragments of the black-suited special agent corpses, frowned, and ordered several female employees to clean up.

The female staff members didn’t dare to disagree, and led by Red Sister, they began cleaning the carriage immediately.

"Tang, leader, I... I don’t know how to bandage!" Jing Xiang hurried over to Yu Wei, but when she saw the broken leg exposed with bone shards and bloody flesh, she almost felt sick. However, she braced herself and reached out to grab it, only to be flustered about what to do next. She turned to Tang Zheng for help.

Feeling a little soft-hearted, Bai Guo walked a few steps forwards, intending to help, but was stopped by Tang Zheng.

"Don’t interfere, let her do it herself." Tang Zheng said coldly, shaking his head, "You will face even more brutal situations in the future, and what will you do if no one can help you then? So, you have to adapt, to desperately try harder."

"What’s the big deal? Even if you don’t handle it well, it’s not you who will die." Chen Hong muttered quietly while shrinking to the side of the driving seat. She felt this was the safest place.

Jing Xiang found no one willing to help, but gritted her teeth and persevered.

"Be gentle, you stupid woman, my leg!" Yu Wei’s incoherent wails begged his girlfriend for help. But after seeing that Gao Xin was ignoring him, he began cursing indiscriminately, "Heartless bitch, it’s all your fault, damn it."

Yu Wei spat in Jing Xiang’s face. Seeing her trembling but not daring to get angry, he seemed to savor a sense of sadistic pleasure, and spat at her again.

"Ha, if I die, you will lose a thousand points too. I heard that ordinary newbies absolutely can’t get that many points in the first round, so you are definitely going to die, die with me." Yu Wei screamed hysterically. Due to the loss of too much blood, his mind was in a daze and he started to babble nonsense.

The survivors ignored him. In this state, his chances of survival were not great.

"You deserved it, you provoked this misfortune all on your own. Can’t you just stay quiet? Do you have to make a fuss?" Chen Hong added insult to injury, ridiculing Yu Wei until he squirmed, trying to break free from his handcuffs.

"Ha, dare you bite me if you can!" Chen Hong did not mind deriving some pleasure from a dying man.

The newbies were silent, lifting up the corpses of the black-suited special agents in the carriage and throwing them out of the window. One of the female employees was distracted, worrying about the journey ahead. She didn’t notice that the arm she picked up twitched.

As soon as the female employee stood up, the arm suddenly jerked up and strangled her. Then, as though attracted by a magnet, the mechanical debris it belonged to flew towards it and reassembled into a black-suited special agent.

The special agent glared at Tang Zheng, twisted his neck back into place, and his right hand suddenly transformed. His entire forearm became a sharp straight knife, which he thrust into the female employee’s heart. The heart turned into mush as he stirred it around.

Against the clear blow of this special agent who was obviously at the level of a mini-boss, the initial protective clothing gift from Trojan was incredibly weak and fragile, no stronger than a piece of paper.

Coughing, the unfortunate woman opened her mouth, and large amounts of blood gushed out from her throat. Seeing the crimson blood surging out as the black-suited special agent withdrew his hand, soaking her lower body, the female employee convulsed as her vision began to blur.

The newbies screamed and retreated in a panic, afraid of being involved. The chaos also meant Qin Yan and her group couldn’t fire their guns, as their line of sight was filled with people.

With a thud, the special agent threw the woman’s corpse towards the end of the carriage, then turned his gaze to Yu Wei who was handcuffed nearby. With no hesitation, he thrust his knife again.

"Motherfucker!" Yu Wei’s rant abruptly stopped. A head with an expression of shock and reluctance flew straight up to the roof of the carriage, then bounced down like a soccer ball. The blood gushing out from the neck covered the roof and the floor of the carriage. The entire scene was dyed a deep red, and an annoying stench of blood began to spread.

Seeing her boyfriend’s death and his headless corpse fall to the ground, Gao Xin covered her mouth, her face full of horror, and let out a piercing scream.

"Meiqin, find a place to stop the bus." Tang Zheng roared as he stepped over the seats and the crowd to rush towards the black-suited special agent.

Jing Xiang was stunned with fear, watching the straight knife of the special agent slash down, her mind went blank and she couldn’t even scream. Just when she thought she was going to die, over a dozen thunderballs zapped out, cutting the special agent into pieces.

Tang Zheng grabbed Jing Xiang’s arm and pulled her behind him. The pieces of the dismembered body on the ground began to reassemble as if attracted by a magnet.

Tang Zheng opened fire, completely destroying each piece of the corpse, then quickly picked up two broken legs and threw them out of the window. But this creature still refused to die. Instead of reassembling, each piece of the corpse began expanding and changing like cell division, transforming again into a black-suited special agent.

"What the hell, how do we deal with this?" one of the panic-stricken newbie boys exclaimed, his eyeballs almost popping out as he looked at the bus carriage filling up with black-suited special agents.

Even before the floating bus could steady itself just above the ground, the Conquerors had already jumped out of its windows. Wang Jianxing and the teenager mimicked them, but owing to their lack of physical fitness and skills, they ended up falling. If not for their protective clothing, they would have been injured.

"Get off, get off!" As Pang Meiqin halted the bus in a square, she called out repeatedly, impatiently flinging open the bus door and rushing out.

The black-suited special agents that had split off numbered around twenty. They swiftly dispersed in all directions to hunt down the survivors.

The newbies were not running aimlessly. Instead, they headed towards Tang Zheng, hoping to find shelter.

"Don’t come to me, follow Qin Yan instead. Xinlan, Manli, take care of Tang Lu!" Tang Zheng yelled exasperatedly. The newbies completely misunderstood the situation. He had to hold off these special agents, and he couldn’t spare any time to guide them. Following Qin Yan was the right choice.

Qin Yan didn’t join the battle, but continued running towards the Dome Garden as a pioneer leading the way. Lu Fan summoned his Spider Mount, picked up Tang Lu, and ran towards the mother-daughter duo.

The young girl, who was holding her mother’s hand, tripped and fell to the ground, crying loudly. Her mother quickly stopped and tried to pick her up, but the special agents were already close. The straight knife transformed from his right hand was swooping down towards her head.

Lu Fan fired, obliterating the special agent’s skull. He then released his ability, manipulating the sand around him to form a three-meter-high tsunami-like wave, intending to shove the black-suited special agents back. However, only half of them were affected, while the rest jumped over the sandstorm and continued their pursuit. Luckily, they didn’t have any firearms, or else the newbies would have lost half of their numbers.

Intentionally lagging, Tang Zheng ran and fought, engaging the special agents proactively. He launched two crescent-shaped Moon Blades that, under the dazzling street lights, gave off a sliver of silver light and cut two special agents in half. He then fired his Thunderball, pulverizing them.

However, two seconds later, these dismembered corpses would regroup and regenerate, resuming their hunt.

Tang Zheng unleashed the Mechanical Lion Roar Cannon to fire a beam of light, finally vaporizing one special agent entirely.

"So tough, just like a virus!" Lu Fan observed that as long as one or two special agents were killed, they would start to split. In less than a minute of escaping, the number of special agents chasing them had soared to over sixty. Their black suits and dark sunglasses made them cool as ice.

For a while, Tang Zheng couldn’t find a way to kill them and could only run. The only thing he could do was to fend off the special agents whenever they were on the verge of catching a newbie.

"It’s a good thing they don’t have long-range attacks, or we’d all be done for." Chen Hong spread her wings and flew in the sky, relatively relaxed.

"What exactly is wrong? Why can these robots split indefinitely?" Tang Zheng frowned. It felt uncoordinated that these special agents were vastly superior to the average mechanical soldiers. "Right, Qin Yan, when you were at the Building Surveillance Room fighting against the mechanical police, did any civilians run out?"

"No!" Qin Yan was also deep in thought, wondering how the black-suited special agents managed to teleport precisely onto their bus.

"If we keep running like this, we’re going to drop dead eventually. Boss, come up with a plan quickly?" The teenager, panting heavily and clutching his rifle as he ran, was tired as a beaten dog. He had wasted a lot of energy jumping up and down today and hadn’t eaten. He was barely holding up.

The other newbies also hoped that Tang Zheng would do something.

"Keep running. In five minutes, kill them." Tang Zheng encouraged those female office workers who were too exhausted to continue, barely able to lift their feet. In truth, he hadn’t devised a plan yet. Despite continuously observing these special agents, he was at a loss.

Seeing a glimmer of hope, the newbies all motivated themselves. They knew that if they could hold on for five more minutes, they would achieve victory.

"Let’s try killing them in groups, they are bound to reveal some weaknesses." Tang Zheng heard the sound of water in the square. He turned his head and found a large fountain and pool about tens of meters away. It was joyously blossoming under the night sky, providing a touch of moisture in the dry summer.

Tang Zheng raised his right arm and fired the Mechanical Lion Roar Cannon, directly carving out a trench that the pond water flowed into. Then, the fountain sculpture was blown to pieces, causing the restrained large water columns to gush out.

"Xinlan, freeze all of them!" Tang Zheng then summoned the Beetle Chariot, climbed inside as quickly as possible, sat in the driver’s seat, and activated the fire control system, preparing to launch a carpet bombing with missiles.

Li Xinlan waved her right hand, and just like being pulled, the clear water instantly froze into white ice cubes. Sounding like a tinkle, it dispersed rapidly. In just a few seconds, all the black-suited special agents were engulfed and frozen like amber.

"Shatter!" Li Xinlan’s control was quite good. The enormous ice block shattered into palm-sized pieces with a light sound, sparkling like gem diamonds in the night, having the special agents’ bodies fragmented as well.

Tang Zheng noticed the special agent at the very end. There were three clones protecting him, and he wasn’t charging forward like the others. Instead, he was directing them. Clearly, he was the original body. Without any hesitation, Tang Zheng fired a rocket at him, launching an attack.

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