Chapter 22

Tang Xiao quietly met those orange-yellow vertical pupils. He had so much he wanted to say, but in the end, he only smiled faintly. “I won the bet.”

He might die, but this time, as long as 428 displayed its evolved abilities while being pursued by the armed forces, the Third Eye would notice it—unless they were idiots.

So, in the end, he had won that bet.

The moment the young man closed his eyes, 428 felt as if something inside it had gone hollow.

As if something of utmost importance were about to leave it.

Yet it had never possessed that thing in the first place.

[428 Affection: 50]

The armed forces and more masked men finally arrived. When they got there, all they saw was 428’s tall, strange figure and the infected people bound in the hall. Instinctively, they aimed their guns at 428.

“Open fire!”

The hyphae on 428’s body instantly spread out, forming a circle that tightly shielded Tang Xiao. The bullets struck the seemingly fragile fungus with a metallic clang, while the eerie blood-red hyphae blocked every danger behind them, forcibly creating a safe zone...