Those who had already turned into aberrations completely lost their consciousness, so it was naturally impossible for them to follow the foreman's orders and attack Bai Feifei together.
But even driven by instinct alone, Bai Feifei, surrounded in the center, looked like she was in a perilous situation.
It was no wonder the foreman was confident; those who underwent aberration not only gained strength and became fearless of death, but more importantly, aberrations were incredibly difficult to kill.
For ordinary humans, a single strike to the throat or heart was usually fatal, but that wasn't the case for aberrations.
Most of the time, it was hard to tell where an aberration's weakness even was. Even if its head was cut off, it wouldn't necessarily lose its combat capability.
For instance, within view was an aberrant miner whose head had split into four petals and retracted into his chest cavity, looking like a blooming rafflesia.
So even when Xu Mo played the game, it took some effort to farm low-level mobs to level up in the early stages. Often, he had to hack the aberrations into tiny pieces.
But this time was different.
The effect of the “Killing Machine” medal, an achievement he had unintentionally unlocked earlier, was exceptionally prominent now.
During combat, Xu Mo could clearly perceive which parts of the aberrations were their true weaknesses.
With just a few effortless sword strokes, he could watch the aberrations fall and be absorbed as experience points.
On the character panel, the character had already begun to level up.
【Level up successful. Current character level: 12 → 13】
【Level up successful. Current character level: 13 → 15...】
Xu Mo was very satisfied with the effect of “Killing Machine.” While harvesting experience, he even had the time to remark to Bai Feifei in his mind:
“You've picked a good time. This level-up is much more convenient than usual. From an early-game development perspective, this is the easiest run ever.”
But at this moment, Bai Feifei couldn't share his sentiment. She didn't feel like she had picked any “good time.”
Her soul was trapped within her own body, her pupils trembling as she looked around at the blood-splattered living hell.
One by one, miners were caught and devoured by the aberrant monsters, their helpless screams gradually fading as they transformed into new aberrations.
Their bodies, twisted by mutation, would sometimes rush toward her, only to be casually cut down by the Evil God within her.
Human life was as cheap as grass here. It seemed the lives of the Outer City miners never carried any weight. The bully foremen didn't think so, the Evil God didn't think so, and even they themselves didn't seem to think so.
Why was it like this?
What was she doing right now?
Her Sanity was constantly dropping. In her daze, she once again saw the mother she had met in the restaurant, the one who had been bullied because of her child.
At this moment, she was clutching her child, stumbling as she tried to run outside, but soon, an aberrant miner targeted her.
Its deformed limbs allowed it to move on all fours, and it leaped in front of her in an instant. Its bloody head twisted a full hundred and eighty degrees, and it opened its mouth to bite down!
To protect her child, the mother instinctively raised her arm to block, and was bitten directly on the shoulder.
It was over!
Thick despair flashed through her eyes in an instant. She knew she was about to turn into one of those things too.
She was finished, but what about her child...?
“Save them...” Almost unconsciously, Bai Feifei spoke in a murmuring daze.
“What did you say?” Xu Mo didn't quite hear. What did his female character just say?
On the other side, the bitten mother's eyes were bloodshot, and her right arm was in excruciating pain. Suddenly, she looked up at Bai Feifei, her gaze as if she had caught the last straw of hope.
Her other hand, which was holding the child, erupted with startling strength. With a forceful swing, she threw the child toward Bai Feifei.
“My lady! Please, save my child!”
Xu Mo suddenly felt a burning sensation in his chest. His control over the character suddenly lagged, as if some force was about to make him disconnect.
Wait, what? What's going on!
At the same time, Bai Feifei's voice rang out in his mind:
“I beg you! Save them!”
Xu Mo saw a little girl flying toward him through the air. He instinctively raised his hand to catch her, neutralized the momentum, and placed her steadily on the ground.
“Wait a minute, don't get excited yet...” Xu Mo was asking Bai Feifei in his mind when his body suddenly shuddered halfway through his sentence.
Crap!
His control time was up! How could it happen exactly at this moment?
Dammit, did he waste too much time earlier? He felt like the timing was off.
But there was nothing he could do. Since it had come to this, he could only warn Bai Feifei first:
“Retreat quickly! You're not well-equipped to handle being swarmed like this at the start. You can come back to kill these things later.”
Bai Feifei's actual combat experience was near zero, and her Sanity was currently plummeting.
If Sanity hit zero, she would become a lunatic. If she really messed up and got killed, he would have to use a save file again, which was honestly unnecessary.
But in the next second, something Xu Mo didn't expect happened.
Bai Feifei didn't heed his words. Instead, she lunged forward with a sudden stride. With lightning-fast movements, she cut off the entire right arm of the mother who had been bitten!
The longsword flicked back, accurately piercing the weakness of a nearby aberration, killing it instantly!
Then, Bai Feifei's body blurred as she charged and darted through the swarm of aberrations with extreme speed.
If Xu Mo's previous movements were effortless and casual, then Bai Feifei now was like a blood-colored bolt of lightning, her longsword dancing as she harvested the aberrations one by one.
Bai Feifei's eyes were blood-red. She said nothing, her expression cold and stern. As she killed, she saved several miners who were about to be devoured by aberrations.
At the same time, for some reason, her Sanity actually stabilized and stopped dropping!
Xu Mo: ?
What was happening?
He didn't quite understand. How did Bai Feifei's state suddenly become so good? Her level of physical coordination was not even inferior to his own.
She had even learned the swordplay!
What?
As an Old-Timer of this game, even Xu Mo was a bit baffled now. He instinctively thought back to the last sentence in Bai Feifei's character description.
【...There may be some hidden talents.】
Was this her hidden talent? What even was this!
He had played so many times back then, but he had never felt this before!
In the distance, the last foreman's distorted expression gradually froze. He suddenly felt that something was wrong.
He saw Bai Feifei suddenly go into a frenzy, killing the aberrant miners with extreme speed and preventing the further spread of the mutation.
That woman was already a lunatic, and now she was even more so. It looked like she was actually going to kill every single aberration!
As the last aberration fell, Bai Feifei abruptly looked up. Across a distance of nearly a hundred meters, her blood-red eyes locked onto the last foreman.
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