The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 355: Skirmish

Gray Bear got a good look at the attacker as soon as he uttered the last syllable.

It was a slaughterer in the form of a two-meter tall lizardman, jumping onto the head of their car from high above.

It was so sudden that everyone in the car was stunned for a second.

“Duck!”

The one who shouted was, surprisingly, Old Seven.

Neither Gray Bear and Lithe Snake had their seatbelts on, allowing them to quickly duck down instinctively before their brains registered the instruction.

With bare hands, Old Seven snapped his fingers at the slaughterer outside the car, shooting two invisible air bullets instantly, breaking the window and hitting the slaughterer in the chest and the shoulder.

The slaughterer growled in pain, flying off the hood and slamming onto the road.

Despite his chubby physique, Old Seven was quick to react. His Talent was Finger Strength, serial number 90, Buff-type.

His fingers could not only shoot powerful air bullets, but also conjured great penetrative and destructive power with coins, cards, or other small items.

The moment the slaughterer was thrown off by the air bullets, Lithe Snake and Gray Bear kicked the doors open and jumped out of the car.

“Get ready!”

Gao Yang opened the door on his side and teleported to the top of the car the moment he was out.

The others quickly got out of the car as well.

Green Tea’s unit was also quick to move. All ten awakeners had gotten out of their car and made a protective circle, covering each other.

Standing on the car, Gao Yang scanned around. The road was lined with five-story residential buildings, and the place was unnaturally quiet.

However, Gao Yang had already sensed the killing intent and heard the warning sounded by the system.

Bam, bam, bam!

Two seconds later, the windows of the residential buildings shattered as countless dark figures jumped out toward them.

Midair, Gao Yang caught sight of them under the crimson moonlight. They were all powerful young slaughterers.

“Let’s go!”

Gao Yang shouted and jumped to face a slaughterer descending upon him.

It stabbed at him with its sharp bladed arms, but ended up missing as Gao Yang teleported behind it.

Both feet stepping on the slaughterer’s back, Gao Yang brought it down with two hands on the back of the monster’s head. Thud! The slaughterer hit the ground with Gao Yang pinning it down, keeping it from moving.

“Fire!”

Flames shot out of Gao Yang’s hands, spreading from the slaughterer’s head to the rest of its body.

It screamed in pain amid the blazing flames. Meanwhile, other slaughterers had jumped off from the floors above and got into a bloody fight with the awakeners.

Three slaughterers rushed at Gao Yang. Sensing the killing intent, Gao Yang pushed his Fire to the max rather than move away. And boom! Powerful pillar of flames and overwhelming heat currents kept the three slaughterers at bay.

Growl!

On all fours, a giant gray bear charged fiercely while tearing off what little fabric remained, lunging at the closest slaughterer.

The slaughterer towered over regular humans at more than two meters tall; facing a strongly-built giant bear at similar height, though, the monster seemed frail in comparison.

Gray Bear caught the slaughterer’s bladed arm with one hand while grabbing its head with the other hand, clenching his fist to crush it.

Without giving him the chance, though, the slaughterer whipped Gray Bear in the side with its flexible tail, covered with razor-sharp scales. The scales ended up drawing blood despite Gray Bear’s thick skin and fur.

“Agh...bastard!”

Gray Bear grimaced, his hold on the slaughterer’s head and bladed arm going slack. He opted to grab the long tail wrapping around his waist with both hands instead, twisting it like he was making pastry twists.

It was the slaughterer’s turn to cry out in pain.

Gray Bear twisted the tail in his grasp with mad abandon, turning the slaughterer into a pendulum hanging off its twisted tail, intimidating the slaughterers approaching him.

“Hahaha, ahahahaha!” Gray Bear was having fun again.

Hearing his booming guffaw while burning the slaughterer under his feet, Gao Yang smiled wryly.

Gray Bear had always been good at raising morale if nothing else.

Gao Yang hadn’t counted, but he estimated roughly that the slaughterers ambushing them totalled at least forty!

A couple slaughterers weren’t going to pose much of a problem, but over forty young, hale, and bloodthirsty slaughterers were nothing to sneeze at.

The others were each engaged in a fierce fight too.

Swish, swish, swish.

Lithe Snake cast three throwing knives, two hitting the slaughterer he was fighting in the hard scale covering its face, while one hit its fragile eye.

The slaughterer stopped attacking, reflexively reaching up to pull out the throwing knife in its right eye.

Without letting the chance slip, Nine Frost ducked into the slaughterer’s space and made three quick punches at its heart.

Weak Point activated!

After a delay of half a second, the air condensed, and the slaughterer’s torso arched before it flew away.

However, three quick jabs weren’t enough to destroy its heart.

Having just defeated a slaughterer, Green Tea happened to be going Nine Frost’s way, and he made a swing at the back of the slaughterer flying towards him.

One-inch Punch activated!

Bam!

The slaughterer was sent flying for another few meters, rolling on the ground after falling.

It quickly scrambled to its feet while grimacing, attempting to get back into the fight, but two seconds later, its chest blew open, splattering blood everywhere, and it collapsed to the ground with a twitch, dead.

Pew, pew, pew!

Old Seven continued to shoot air bullets to prevent slaughterers from approaching him, but his attacks weren’t strong enough to kill them.

Meanwhile, Can and Ronnie were firing nonstop at the slaughterers surrounding them to keep the monsters at bay, holding their guns with both hands.

Then Three Strings knelt before a dead slaughterer, placing both hands on its body and muttering.

Ten seconds later, the slaughterer stood back up, its eyes glinting a possessed red as it growled furiously, charging at its fellow monsters with even greater speed and biting at them like a mad dog.

Three String’s Talent was Corpse Herder, serial number 84, Summon-type.

He could reanimate any body for three minutes, sending it into a frenzy against his enemies until the time was up or the body lost its ability to move. However, the body couldn’t use its power from before its death.

“Support! I need some support!” After a minute of fun, Gray Bear was losing his ability to enjoy the fight again.

Facing seven slaughterers, even a tank like him was struggling to keep up.

A slaughterer seized the chance to tackle him to the ground from the side.

Two slaughterers followed, stabbing at Gray Bear’s neck with their bladed arms.

The other slaughterers, on the other hand, moved away rather than staying to fight him, targeting other awakeners instead.

Plop, plop.

Two blue water balloons flew his way and exploded on the chest of the two slaughterers keeping Gray Bear down.

The unexpected attacks left the slaughterers flabbergasted. After a stunned moment, they realized that those couldn’t have been normal water balloons. Outside of the water left on them, however, nothing happened.

Caught by surprise, Gray Bear had a look of disbelief and despair on his face. Seriously? What braindead awakener would use water balloons as weapons?

My pelt ain’t gonna stop the slaughterers’ blades any longer, no matter how thick it is!

Gray Bear’s heart sank, seeing his doom in his head.

Although he was unlikely to be decapitated outright, his carotid arteries were going to be cut for sure.

If his companions managed to reach him and administer Medicine C in a minute, perhaps they would still get to save a bear’s life.