Lappland, a woman who looked very fierce.
In Li Lin's impression, Lappland had always seemed very emotional. Laughing and shouting loudly when happy, tucking her tail and whimpering when unhappy, or howling and dragging people off to sing and eat. Overall, she was a woman who wore her heart on her sleeve without any concealment.
She made no secret of her special feelings towards Texas, nor did she hide that her reason for building relationships with others at Penguin Logistics was because of Texas. Although due to some accidental reasons, they seemed to have become much more familiar recently, overall, Lappland, no matter how you looked at her, was an extremely emotional woman. So emotional that it made people suspect if she had contracted Oripathy. Though she hadn't contracted it so far.
But in contrast, her sword was the complete opposite extreme of the personality she displayed.
Her sword was cold, silent, and full of mechanical beauty.
"Get lost! Don't block my path!!!"
"Beasts look fierce, but actually have far more openings than normal people."
With a crisp 'clang', Lappland's longsword once again crossed paths with the Oripathy patient's light, successfully slicing it in half.
Watching Lappland effortlessly parry with her longsword, easily swatting aside the glowing infected person, Li Lin blinked with some surprise. This fighting style looked somewhat familiar, and Li Lin felt he could probably utilize it to some extent himself.
This fight was less a fight and more Lappland unilaterally teasing this crazed Oripathy patient. This Oripathy madman, clenching fists and howling, constantly tried to break through Lappland's sword perimeter, but was swatted back with a few sword strikes. Even, as if to deliberately mock, she didn't even use the blade edge to cut his body, merely using the spine of the sword to slap the Oripathy patient's cheek.
Croissant watched this scene, shook her head feeling somewhat uncomfortable, and asked Lappland:
"Need help?"
"No need, go buy some cheap barbecue back, let's have barbecue tonight."
"Ok~"
Croissant gave a gesture to the effortlessly handling Lappland, and jumped down under the furious glare of the Oripathy patient.
"You dare ignore me—"
The already dizzy Oripathy patient staggered, looked at Lappland, and roared angrily:
"You dare humiliate me! I have already merged with Originium, I will tear your flesh apart with the power of Originium! Then I can escape Lungmen, give hope to my kinsmen, I—"
"Your ability has already been deciphered by me, so-so, just about this level."
Let's end it like this.
Her movements becoming increasingly unrestrained, Lappland casually slashed towards two directions in the air, and a strange wave even sealed the Oripathy patient's light ability. In the instant his facial expression showed surprise, the bright silver light flashed again. Bloody lines instantly appeared on the tendons of his limbs. The Oripathy patient, having lost mobility, fell straight to the ground, seemingly having lost any ability to resist.
Looking at the dull blood flowing from his limbs, and even some crystals flowing out with the blood, Lappland frowned. Even blood could condense into such crystal stones; this proved this infected person was indeed not far from death. Forced by death, making such a crazy move was understandable.
"Why… why won't you even give us a final chance… even this last hope must be taken away…"
However, just as Lappland was about to turn and leave, the Oripathy patient lying in the pool of blood trembled. His originally tightly clenched fist loosened due to the severed tendons, revealing the contents inside to Lappland.
It was a piece of manuscript paper with burn marks, already crumpled and deformed. On it, extremely distorted characters, like someone just learning to write, or like some kind of special art, recorded some fragmented words. Most were blackened out and smeared marks, but the remaining damaged characters wrote strange phrases like 'Doomsday Protection Project Outline Fourth Edition'. Even just looking at those bizarre characters made Lappland feel somewhat dizzy.
"…?"
That is…
I feel like I've seen this manuscript somewhere before? What is this thing, so important?
Looking at the damaged page in the crazed Oripathy patient's hand, Lappland raised an eyebrow, feeling that in her memory, something similar seemed to have appeared in the safe of a mafia gang she had wiped out. And just as she was lost in some memories, she didn't notice the Oripathy patient's gradually dilating pupils.
And in this delay of less than a second, Lappland saw an unusual light begin to emerge from within the body of this Oripathy patient before her, who seemed already disabled. Looking at the almost mutated light, her mind quickly recalled a certain ability Oripathy patients could use after death, or rather, just before death. This was also why they absolutely had to be quarantined.
'This is bad! Originium explosion!'
"Then you come with me, to hell…!"
Looking at Lappland, who hastily wanted to retreat but was tripped up by his own light, a ferocious smile appeared on the Oripathy patient's face.
But Lappland watched with wide eyes as the expression on the patient's face changed from smugness to astonishment, then to irrepressible anger. In the instant before the explosion, a steel pole often seen on rooftops for drying clothes instantly shattered the restraint on Lappland's foot. Amidst her surprised expression, the moment the restraining light burst apart, a weak but firm force grabbed the girl's back collar, leaping down from the building level.
In the next second, a deafening roar came from the rooftop. The spraying Originium storm caused the people on the surrounding viewing platforms to let out screams, but this pollution was blown towards the sky and surroundings by the wind between the buildings, completely unrelated to the two who had already fallen and successfully avoided the Originium pollution with the help of the inter-building wind.
"Be careful, you. I saved your life, thank me properly."
The man behind the girl said dissatisfiedly.
"Prophet, you—"
Your body can't handle this height!
Before Lappland could turn her head to say anything, the excessively low height caused them to fall straight into the garbage bins between the buildings, making a dull thud.
The impact of jumping down several floors plus Lappland's own weight, the man underneath Lappland instantly lost consciousness amidst countless black garbage bags, completely failing to see Lappland jump up instantly with her fur bristling (炸毛 - zhàmáo), trying to pull him up, but not knowing where he was injured and daring not to act rashly, becoming panicked and helpless.
"Lappland… what are you doing…"
Hearing the voice coming from behind, Lappland was so scared her tail instantly stiffened, looking somewhat terrified behind her.
Texas and Exusiai were carrying two bags of food, looking into this garbage-filled alley. When they saw the unconscious Prophet amidst the garbage heap, both women looked at Lappland with unfamiliar expressions she had never seen before. But at this point, there was no time to worry about such problems. Lappland scooped up the unconscious Prophet in one go and shouted at the two whose expressions were becoming increasingly strange:
"You two, quickly call an ambulance! Prophet might be dying!"
"—Huh?!"