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A faint golden halo appeared on his skin, spreading from his arms to his shoulders, and from his shoulders to his chest, as if something within him had been awakened.

Su Mu suddenly opened his eyes and stood up.

His golden bloodline was stirring.

The feeling wasn't fear, nor was it alertness; it was hunger... a hunger that seeped from the very bones, a hunger that couldn't be suppressed.

His body was telling him that there was something in that direction that he had to go and eat.

Su Mu took a deep breath, suppressing the impulse. Not suppressing the desire, but suppressing the instinct to rush forward immediately. He needed to figure out what it was.

.......

And this moment.

Lin Yuwei leaned against an abandoned corner of the wall outside the power plant, covered in blood.

His clothes were covered in blood, a line running from his shoulder to his palm, the skin and flesh turned inside out, revealing the white bones beneath.

Blood gushed from the wound, trickling down her arm and dripping onto the ground, forming a small puddle.

Her other hand gripped the silenced pistol tightly, muzzle down, finger on the trigger, but she no longer had the strength to lift it. Her face was deathly pale, her lips purple, her eyes unfocused, her pupils trembling slightly in their sockets as if trying to focus, but unable to. Yet she remained conscious, not because she wanted to, but because she dared not faint.

Lin Yuwei cursed herself countless times in her heart.

She thought her body could handle that quarter of the egg liquid.

Although her physique wasn't as monstrous as Su Mu's, it was still considered above average among survivors. With her profession and equipment, she felt she could at least digest a small portion of it.

She was wrong.

The energy in that egg liquid was too domineering. The moment it went down her throat, she knew something was wrong... It wasn't the gentle, slowly flowing warmth she felt when drinking the medicinal wine before, but something scalding hot, like magma, burning her all the way from her throat to her stomach, and then exploding inside her body.

Energy surged through her veins and seeped out of her pores; she couldn't suppress it at all.

A faint, visible halo appeared on her skin, not the warm, golden glow of Su Mu, but a more chaotic, hazy, murky light, as if something was about to burst forth from her body.

She was originally safe while in stealth mode.

That environmental assimilation cloak was her trump card for survival. With it, she evaded the hunters' pursuit and stole the egg right under Su Mu's and the brown bear's noses. She thought she could do the same this time... find a safe place, digest the egg, and then come back as if nothing had happened.

However, while the cloak could conceal her figure and aura, it could not conceal the aura emanating from someone of this level.

The unabsorbable energy emanating from the egg liquid, like a lighthouse in the night, attracted monsters from within a radius of several kilometers. The place where she took the potion wasn't too far from the military camp, but that distance felt incredibly long amidst the horde of monsters.

She barely managed to escape here using three pieces of life-saving equipment...

She escaped to the edge of the military camp, but that was just jumping from one fire pit into another.

Because the aura emanating from her was too unique. To monsters, she was prey; to ordinary people, she was a treasure.

People around her had already noticed her.

Not just one or two, but a whole group.

Guild members, solo players, and lone wolves resting behind the defensive line gathered in twos and threes, their eyes fixed on her like a pack of hyenas surrounding a wounded prey.

Some people whispered among themselves, some pointed and whispered, and some had already begun moving in her direction.

"That woman possesses a powerful treasure." A guild leader stroked his chin, his eyes fixed on the faint halo around Lin Yuwei. "Look at the light emanating from her; it's definitely not something ordinary."

"She fought her way out of a horde of monsters. So many monsters chasing her alone, there's definitely something fishy going on," another person chimed in, their tone carrying an air of certainty, "I knew it all along." "Look at those monsters, they're still surging in this direction. Even the monsters want what she has."

"She can't hold on much longer. Once she collapses, the things will be unclaimed."

More and more people gathered around. Some stood at a distance watching, some took a few steps forward, and some had already squeezed to Lin Yuwei's side. They weren't there to help; they were there to wait... to wait for her to collapse, to wait for her to breathe her last, to wait for her belongings to become unclaimed boxes, and then to snatch them.

The density of the monster attacks increased dramatically due to Lin Yuwei's appearance.

The gunfire at the front was more than twice as intense as before, the machine gun barrage was almost continuous, and the explosions of grenades were constant. All the soldiers were at the forefront. No one knew what was happening; they only knew that the monsters had suddenly gone mad, as if attracted by something, and were frantically surging towards the area.

"Get out of the way."

A guild leader squeezed in front of Lin Yuwei, looking down at her.

He was followed by seven or eight men, each carrying a weapon, their eyes fixed on Lin Yuwei. His tone wasn't harsh, but the implication that "I'm not discussing this with you" was clear.

"Hand over your belongings, and we'll protect you."

Lin Yuwei gritted her teeth and remained silent.

Her finger twitched slightly on the trigger, but she didn't raise the gun.

It's not that she can't beat these people; if she were in good condition, she wouldn't even consider them a threat.

But her current condition... she's covered in injuries, her energy is running rampant inside her, and she can barely stand... she even has to conserve the strength to pull the trigger.

"Don't be ungrateful," another person spoke up, his tone even more aggressive. "In your current state, the item is a waste on you. Hand it over, and we might save your life. If you don't..." He didn't finish his sentence, but his meaning was clear.

Several more guild leaders approached. Some offered bribes, some threatened, some offered kind words, and some made sarcastic remarks. They said different things, but their meaning was the same... hand over the goods.

Zhang Peng stood outside the crowd, leading his little pony, looking at Lin Yuwei.

He recognized her... the woman from the secret realm, the one with Su Mu. His first reaction was to turn around and leave.

He didn't want to have anything to do with Su Mu anymore. That person was too dangerous. The two battles at the zoo had made him realize that he couldn't afford to mess with that person.

But his foal suddenly became restless, straining against the reins, sniffing in Lin Yuwei's direction, and neighing urgently as if it had discovered something. Zhang Peng was taken aback.