The foreman listened to the girl's arrogant and exaggerated words, realizing there was no reasoning with a lunatic. He decided to throw caution to the wind, pulling out the phone from behind his back and typing frantically.
Xu Mo kept his word and didn't stop him. He merely watched with a wicked smirk.
“Hurry it up. Time's ticking~”
As the foreman typed, his eyes suddenly widened. He stared fixedly at the phone screen as if he had received a message that shook him to his core.
Then, with bloodshot eyes, he looked up and growled at “Bai Feifei” through gritted teeth.
“You bitch, don't push me too far!”
“Don't think I'm helpless against you! If you back me into a corner, do you really think I have no way to kill you right now?!”
Hearing this, Xu Mo seemed to grow interested. He clapped his hands and said:
“You actually have that kind of capability? Great! That's exactly what I wanted!”
“Quick, quick, quick! Whatever tricks you have, use them now.”
“Is it some kind of forbidden Containment Object? Or can you summon a few aberrations? If you've got a trick, show it; if not, go bite a lighter.”
As he spoke, Xu Mo made an extremely exaggerated expression, making Bai Feifei's originally elegant and handsome features look like those of a total deviant.
He was truly enjoying himself, rediscovering the feeling of playing a game. In a game, one should do as they please; he had never carried any moral baggage.
Watching her own body make such an expression, Bai Feifei couldn't help but feel a wave of revulsion. It was truly difficult to accept her current image.
Weren't we supposed to be punishing evil and promoting good...?
Why does this Evil God look like he's about to show his true, monstrous colors...?
Xu Mo weighed the longsword in his hand, pressing forward step by step.
Killing things that weren't aberrations gave no experience, so it was actually quite boring. He was causing trouble here just to see if the opposition had any tricks to surprise him.
If they didn't, he wouldn't bother wasting more breath. He would just finish these two off and head deep into the coal mine. He remembered that the underground mine here housed quite a few EXP fodder.
“You—don't come any closer! My brother is right; it'll be too late for regrets in a moment!”
The other foreman shouted with false bravado, clutching his injured arm. In reality, he was completely clueless.
What tricks?! Why didn't he know about any?!
What had his companion said to the higher-ups?
But in this life-or-death moment, he could only bluster along with his companion.
Just as he planned to turn his head and use his peripheral vision to see what his companion was up to, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest!
Puchi!
A specialized tube with a spiked tip had been thrust through his back, piercing his heart and emerging from his chest.
A strange purple light flowed within the tube, flickering with an unstable, violent aura.
At the same time, the bronze-grade Cognition Filter hanging at Bai Feifei's waist began to vibrate frantically!
It had sensed... aberration energy!
The backstabbed foreman's eyes were filled with disbelief. He turned to stare at the other foreman, but all he saw was madness in the man's eyes.
“Screw you! Just die for me!” The attacker shoved the impaled foreman toward Bai Feifei and quickly retreated.
The man pierced by the tube had already begun to swell violently. Purple light radiated from the cracks in his skin, making him look like a ticking bomb.
“Oh?” Xu Mo's eyebrows shot up, a hint of surprise in his eyes. “You really did have a trick?”
“Is this that aberration potion you've been working on? To have something like this, it seems you're more than just a lowly foreman.”
The last foreman retreated rapidly, cursing as he ran:
“You bet! Let me tell you, I am—”
“I don't care who you are!” Xu Mo gave a feral grin, holding his sword horizontally in front of him and cutting the man off.
“It seems I came to the right place. I'm an Old-Timer, after all!”
Boom!
As the words left his lips, the swollen purple figure exploded like a bomb. Shards of purple flesh and bone streaked through the air like shrapnel.
The longsword in Xu Mo's hand moved like lightning, weaving an airtight web in front of him that blocked all the flying purple fragments.
However, the surrounding miners who hadn't dispersed were not so lucky.
The mutated purple flesh crawled onto their bodies, instantly corroding their skin and burrowing into their flesh as if it possessed a life of its own.
“AAAAAAAH!”
“What is this?! My right hand hurts so much, I can't control it!”
“Aberrations! These things are aberrations! Heavens, where did they come from?!”
For a moment, screams rang out, but soon, they couldn't even manage to scream. The first batch of infected people's bodies began to twist, and they lost consciousness.
Several cracks instantly appeared on the Cognition Filter at Bai Feifei's waist. On the game's status panel, her Sanity was shown to be dropping rapidly.
Bai Feifei's shocked voice echoed in Xu Mo's mind.
“What... what is happening?!”
“Ah, this is basically why we're here,” Xu Mo replied. “This is something they researched—a way to mass-produce aberrations.”
“What?!” Whether it was because of the dropping Sanity or not, Bai Feifei's voice was filled with the despair of a collapsing worldview. “They... they're actively creating aberrations?”
“Turning people into aberrant monsters...?”
“Heh, there's a lot you don't know about this world,” Xu Mo sneered.
“Don't worry about it. I don't have time to give you a proper lesson in swordplay, so watch and learn while I kill.”
With a flourish of his sword, Xu Mo casually ran through a mutated miner rushing at him, absorbing the experience points.
When they were human, killing them gave no experience, but once they became aberrations, they were fair game.
Back when Xu Mo played the game, he had once done something truly monstrous to level up—infecting an entire city's population and then slaughtering them all.
However, farming low-level aberrations was a drop in the bucket for late-game leveling, so he had stopped doing that long ago.
By now, the first batch of infected people had completely lost consciousness. Their skin sloughed off, and they began attacking everything around them like blood corpses.
The unmutated people nearby began to transform as soon as they were attacked. Much like a zombie infection, the air was filled with agonizing wails.
“Save me! Someone save me! My leg is burning!”
“It's over... my hand won't listen to me! My right hand is scratching my face! I can't stop it! Am I possessed?!”
“This is... divine punishment...”
The miners crowded together, wailing. The monsters that had already turned were incredibly fast. Once targeted, the emaciated miners had no hope of escape.
In an instant, the chaotic scene turned into a living hell, and Bai Feifei's slight frame was right in the center of the aberration swarm!
The last foreman, who had run out of the circle and away from the crowd, slumped to the ground with bloodshot eyes. He glared at the distant Bai Feifei with a distorted, frenzied expression.
“Fuck you! If a gun can't kill you, let's see if these aberrations can swarm you to death!”
“Hahahaha! Fuck! Go! All of you, go and kill her!”
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