Survival Guide in the Age of Cataclysm

Chapter 20 Self-Sacrifice

Bang!

The gun barrel emitted a cold, sharp crack.

Barto's pupils contracted, and blood gushed from between his outstretched palms. He looked incredulously in the direction of the gunshot.

"Qi Yuan..."

However, a bloated, blood-red figure stood up.

Qi Yuan was kneeling at its feet, his hands covering his neck, and streams of blood were gushing from his throat.

"Heh...heh heh..."

His pupils were dilated; he was dead.

The bloated figure raised his hand slightly, the gun barrel pointing at Barto again, his previously shattered head now regenerating more flesh and blood.

At the same time, Blood Image stood still like a statue, his eyes overflowing with cold mockery.

Barto's eyes widened in fury. After the wound in his chest healed, he spat out a bullet. Without any hesitation, he turned and fled into the passage on the right.

The puppet of flesh and blood, along with the Blood Shadow itself, had no chance of winning; the dull pain still lingered in the chest where the bullet had struck.

Dizzy, staggering, on the verge of collapse...

The surrounding passageways seemed to be getting narrower and narrower, no, he was becoming more and more cumbersome, and the fleshy carpet on the ground was spreading towards his body.

The yellowish-green mucus on the body surface is being consumed rapidly.

Barto felt the energy in his body's storage module being rapidly depleted, and a wave of regret washed over him. He could have stayed; he could have…

In his shaky vision, the flames engulfed him.

He was hallucinating, as if the breath from the abyss was right next to his ear, and with the restraint of the fleshy blanket, he suddenly tripped over something.

He fell to the ground with a thud.

Barto looked at the thing at his feet, the remains of an ant-beast, and instinctively looked ahead.

A wider darkness descended, and the sound of breathing came from the depths. He could see nothing but the approaching footsteps.

Bizarre flesh and blood lay on his arm.

The treatment of his chest injury had already consumed most of his biochemical energy, and even though he tried to conserve it during the run, the mucus was still being consumed by his flesh and blood. Now, the energy left in his body...

Perhaps it's only enough for one battle.

We can't run anymore, or we'll only be dead!

It's consuming itself!

Barto realized that he was in dire straits and suddenly tore open the writhing flesh on his arm, revealing his depleted biochemical energy.

The truth is, this place became the final battlefield, the last chance.

He looked behind him.

A crimson figure emerged from the darkness, alone. Barto breathed a slight sigh of relief, and the slime on his body began to secrete again, causing the flesh beneath his feet to shrivel.

The next moment, Blood Shadow launched the first attack.

Without using flesh and blood to parasitize Batau, the parasitic control methods are useless under the protection of the other's mucus.

The answer is: head-on confrontation!

Blood Shadow vanished from his spot in a flash, his red muscles twisting in his arms, propelling him with terrifying force as he slammed towards his enemy.

With a thud, the man was knocked back several meters, his hands trembling slightly.

A fierce glint flashed in Barto's eyes.

You can't escape it, you can't defend against it!

The blood-red shadow closed in again, its arm drawing out a gust of bloody wind, its enormous fist about to smash into Barto.

The next moment, however, he took the initiative to throw a punch at the monster.

A large amount of viscous fluid oozed from his fist, and the muscles between Blood Shadow's arms twisted instantly, his arms, which were about to swing, suddenly protected his chest.

First there was a loud bang, then the flesh and bones emitted a terrifying sizzling sound.

The muscles from the rest of the red body flowed like water towards the corroded arm.

Its body was being consumed at a rate visible to the naked eye.

A strange light flashed across Barto's face.

The experience of being pierced through the abdomen played in his mind. The monster had not suffered fatal damage; instead, it had dealt him a brutal blow. Its flesh and blood seemed capable of filling any wound.

But now she's clutching her chest so tightly? Unless...

Barto gritted his teeth and squeezed out the last bit of strength from his arms.

The biochemical energy originally reserved for "regeneration" has now completely flowed into the "liquid weapon".

The viscous fluid on his fist surged and nearly burned through Blood Shadow's arm.

Reaching the chest!

The pectoral muscles were like melted mud, and the sternum was like rotting cardboard.

Within the gaps in the skeleton, a scarlet fleshy mass in the chest cavity was throbbing helplessly.

The fist is about to crush upwards!

Just as hope reached its peak, the ecstasy that burst forth in Barto's eyes suddenly froze.

What is that?

The red and white monster was thin, and a pair of wings suddenly spread out from its back.

Barto didn't have time to react.

The bony white of the wingtip edge flashed by.

Click.

His arm fell to the ground at the root, and his body also collapsed to the ground.

The blood-red shadow appeared even taller in their line of sight.

In an instant, the offensive and defensive positions shifted.

Barto's arms were severed, and he writhed backward in despair, like a maggot, as the energy storage module had run out of power.

The blood flowing from his shoulder fell to the ground and was slowly absorbed.

The Blood Shadow Monster watched this scene silently.

He crawled and wriggled until he had no strength left and his vision gradually blurred.

Is this the end?

He felt as if he were leaning against a warm wall, with a hot, fishy-smelling breeze blowing on his face.

It's so hot.

The blood-red shadow, resembling either a bat or an angel, approached and pointed a finger at his forehead...

Am I going to die?

Barto seemed to see the fire from twenty-seven years ago; everything in his field of vision was burning—his parents, his sister, and Rosa were all burning.

He rushed in, but he couldn't bring them out; all he had were the pitiful bio-engineered components.

I've lost everything.

Just like now, once again, I've lost everything.

"I... went home."

He murmured.

The flames in my eyes drew closer...

Bang! ! !

The fireball struck the bloated mass of flesh that Barto was leaning against.

After the initial explosion came a series of explosions, and roaring flesh and blood engulfed Barto and Blood Shadow.

Rumble... Rumble...

The entire cave was trembling! The carpet of flesh was blasted into huge holes.

Meanwhile, Xu Yang and Lily were crouching behind a small hill of ant-beast corpses, their heads huddled together. The hill had almost collapsed halfway from the impact, swaying and shaking...

"Are they dead?"

After the tremors stopped, Xu Yang poked his head out and stared intently at the epicenter of the explosion, further behind—

A pile of almost rotten flesh and bone fragments gradually pieced together into a human shape as the crimson flesh on the surface writhed.

"No……"

[Flesh and Blood Angel - Infant (Severely Injured)]

[A skinless, humanoid monster, born from a human body, possesses highly vital flesh and blood. Its core has been severely damaged, and its body is healing.]

[Note: We will connect them together]

"run."

Before Lily could answer, Xu Yang, carrying a bag on his back and holding the treated armored shield in both hands, started to walk.

"Katubasa!"

He shouted at the flesh-and-blood angel not far away.

The latter's body stiffened, and its head, devoid of skin, turned.

In their line of sight, the shield-bearer compressed himself into the shape of a cannonball.

Selflessness

[By concentrating all the strength of the body into one, and generating power from the legs, the one destined to die launches a final, devastating attack on the enemy.]

[Note: Please accept this; it is my last bit of strength.]

Everything seemed to be compressed together, the internal organs were roaring, strange forces were breaking muscles, and the body and life were used as fuel together.

Meteorite.

boom!

Flesh and blood burst open on the surface of the carapace in an instant, and half of the torso was smashed against the wall.

The price is—

Xu Yang lay in a pool of blood, almost half of his bones shattered, as he struggled to look at the monster lying in front of him.

The surging continued in the darkness.

He chewed the tubing from the water bag in his backpack.

The pale red liquid flowed slowly, its heat surging, but time was of the essence.

Ahead, a broken figure swayed out of the darkness, though it was not human-shaped.

But it is still alive.

The remaining fleshy blanket around it slowly gathered towards it.

Xu Yang tried to stand up, but his leg bone was broken; it broke completely the moment he rushed out.

Almost there!

He could only watch helplessly as the mutilated monster drew closer and closer, until a deformed arm reached out to him.

Xu Yang closed his eyes. The wound was still healing, but unfortunately, there was a time difference—

"monster!"

A cold sound echoed through the cave.

Then, a chunk of meat struck the angel precisely, almost as a warning.

The monster slowly turned its head, its cold gaze fixed on the girl not far away.

Lily felt the ground beneath her feet begin to wriggle, but she only looked at the figure lying on the ground in the distance.

The next moment, Xu Yang suddenly opened his eyes.

enough!

While Lily distracted the flesh-and-blood angel, he finally stood up, his barely healed leg still throbbing with intense heat.

And in the next instant, he unleashed his full power!

He sacrificed himself, unleashing the shock of suicide for the second time!

Its body pushed against the hard shell, the blood-red remains blocking its way, like a harbinger of death.

The muscles in his legs burst open, and the internal organs continued to shatter.

Xu Yang bit down on the soft tube, and blood from Thornheart dripped from the corner of his mouth.

That moment revealed a hint of death...

But not at this moment, and not with this person!

Bang!

The meteor of flesh and blood crashed into the cave wall...

The surroundings fell completely silent, as silent as death. Then, a series of hurried footsteps sounded, and the girl almost saw a mutilated corpse.

"Xu Yang! Xu Yang..."