Chapter 607: Chapter 425 Absorbing Soul Flame_2
It was precisely because of this that, when the two of them ran in opposite directions, the Blockade Rope slid along the spine of the skeleton, directly reaching the junction of the ribs and spine.
If the skeleton possessed the intelligence and cognition of a normal person, it might well have removed the Blockage Rope from its body by itself.
Unfortunately, the two of them were running too fast, and although the skeletons had some intelligence at that moment, it was not very substantial, causing skeleton after skeleton to collide in succession.
As the two of them stepped over the first Blockade Rope, an unexpected event that neither Dong Tianyu nor the audience watching the drone’s live broadcast had anticipated suddenly appeared before everyone’s eyes.
Whether it was the two people holding the rope and running too fast, or the skeleton controlling the fog, which was not intercepted by the Blockade Rope, was unclear.
In any case, when the Blockade Rope dragged by the two of them cut through the fog, pulling out a group of skeletons in the process, the patch of fog was still slowly closing in on their position.
Zachary was watching from the air as the two men managed to extract so many skeletons from the fog in such an absurd manner.
Though they hadn’t caught all the skeletons in the fog at once, their clever maneuver had pulled out more than ninety percent of the skeletons originally obscured by it.
Upon seeing this scene, the captain of the Sharp Blade Team immediately arranged for two groups to carry the Blockade Rope and go to their aid.
Three teams, from different directions, worked in sync to bind together the skeletons that had been brought out of the fog.
Zachary, observing that the Blockade Ropes that touched the skeletons’ bones were starting to corrode, felt a heavy seriousness descend upon everyone’s expression.
"Captain, the quality of the Blockade Rope provided this time isn’t up to the mark, it hasn’t been used for long, and I see several cracks appearing at the joints already," one of them remarked.
Hearing the casual complaint from a team member, the captain was somewhat speechless with annoyance. Was the person who had just spoken an idiot? This was a live broadcast, everything they did and said could be heard clearly by those at the Command Headquarters and the Council of Officers.
By making that statement now, wasn’t it implying that there was a problem with the Officials’ procurement, suggesting the substitution of inferior goods for quality ones?
So, before the team member could continue speaking, the captain immediately rebuked, "Are you stupid? The corrosion on the Blockade Rope clearly indicates that the sudden appearance of the fog, or perhaps the skeletons themselves, is corrosive.
Isn’t it normal for the Blockade Rope to sustain damage during battle? Stop making trouble out of nothing, refrain from discussing matters unrelated to the fight."
The captain seemed to speak with righteous indignation, criticizing his team member for speaking recklessly, but the actual purpose of his words was to advise the team member to speak less truth in public.
However, since the higher-ups had already ordered to react as circumstances arose during the mission, the captain needed to uphold his team members. He had to be the first to reprimand the loose-tongued team member, just to save face for everyone.
Hearing the captain’s stern reprimand, everyone realized the captain was staring intently at the earpiece of the team member who had just spoken.
No, what the captain was gazing at was the earpiece on that team member’s ear, and after observing for a short while and finding no response from the other side, he internally breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed his team members, though they had uncommon talent in cultivation, were still sorely lacking in their understanding of human relations.
To distract everyone from the inadvertent question asked by the team member, he’d have to bring up something more sensational to capture their attention.
"Since we’ve been so fortunate to capture so many skeletons, let’s use these skeletons as experimental subjects right here and now.
"Communications, where are the three drones now?"
"Report to the team leader, the three drones have already reached the airspace above the planned location."
Upon hearing the report from the communications, the team leader immediately spoke, "Modify the original plan, arrange for one drone to watch the area where the white fog is, whether the fog moves, dissipates, or other abnormalities appear, report back in time.
Additionally, arrange two drones to patrol the surroundings, report back immediately if any abnormalities are discovered.
The remaining drone will be used to record the entire process of our test this time."
Hearing the team leader’s instructions, the communications soldier nodded and replied at once, "No problem, leave it to me."
After receiving the communications soldier’s response, the team leader, bold and confident, approached the group of skeletons trapped by the Blockade Rope.
Although a large number of skeletons were bound together, they immediately became restless upon sensing the presence of the living.
Observing the almost frenzied skeletons before him, the team leader’s face revealed a long-absent smile; then he removed the flesh-colored gloves from his hands.
Before the disaster, the original purpose of these gloves was to cover up physical defects of the disabled, but as time passed, some assassins would occasionally seek to purchase these gloves as well.
The reason was quite simple, assassins needed to infiltrate various targets’ rooms to carry out their crimes, and aside from the more seasoned criminals, most assassins would struggle to erase all traces after an assassination. Most often, if the assassins received satisfactory payment, they would arrange for a professional cleaner to take care of the aftermath.
Although the cleaners were professional, their prices were also quite steep; thus, once people knew that these gloves were for sale, many, after trying them out, would straightforwardly opt for the gloves. After all, although wearing these high-fidelity gloves would still inadvertently leave traces, the gloves allowed for the deliberate planting of misleading information.
The team leader’s purpose in wearing these gloves was, of course, different from that of those assassins; during a mission, he had suffered severe damage to his hand. Despite various treatments that restored about 90% of the hand’s functionality, its appearance had become hideously disfigured.
He didn’t mind much personally, but his child was terrified of the hand, and his wife feared their child would grow distant from him or be scared by the horrifying appearance of his hand. Therefore, she specially had someone purchase a pair of these expensive bionic gloves.
At first the team leader wasn’t quite accustomed to wearing them, but after finding that both acquaintances and strangers no longer looked at him and his hand with strange eyes, he also developed the habit of not using his hand without the gloves.
Therefore, most of the time, he would let team members do the work when possible and would only take off his gloves to act personally when, like now, there was a high possibility of casualties within the team.
After carefully folding the gloves and placing them in his chest pocket, Dong Tianyu noticed that the team leader’s right hand was pitted and charred, not resembling a human hand at all; at first glance, it looked like the claw of a demon.
The team leader’s hand landed directly on the outermost skeleton’s skull, and before the skeleton could resist, he twisted forcefully, breaking the skull off with his hand.
Then, taking the severed skull into his hands, he observed closely for a while, noting that even after separating the skull from the spine, the Soul Flame within didn’t extinguish right away.
For some reason, the usually very stern man now felt a curiosity about the Soul Flame in his heart, and his fingers involuntarily poked into the skeleton’s eye socket.
Just as he was coming back to his senses, that devilish fingertip had already penetrated the eye socket of the skeleton.
The moment his finger touched the Soul Flame inside the skull, it seemed as though the Soul Flame was absorbed, and his body instantly felt a sense of transparency. It was like suddenly shivering in a bath, then being comfortably wrapped by warm water again.
When he regained his senses and looked back at the skull in his hand, he saw that the Soul Flame had disappeared. Not only that, as he now looked at his hand, for some reason, he felt that his hand seemed to have become somewhat more attractive.
