318: Chapter 318 Another Superhuman

Lin Fan withdrew his peripheral vision from Yang Ningcong and looked back at Chen Jian.

That beast was still squatting on the hillside, its turbid eyeballs staring intently upward.

It was rare for a beast to have such great patience, which also proved one thing: he really wanted that pipe.

The more he wanted it, the more room there was for negotiation.

"I can give you the item."

Inside the Karst Cave, Yang Ningcong was curled up on the ground holding his stomach where Zhou Kai had kicked him. Hearing these words, his entire body sprang up as if electrocuted.

"I told you so! Brother Fan is still the one with a clear head!"

He climbed up from the ground and limped toward the platform, his mouth ten times faster than his legs.

"Brother Fan is brilliant! These women are just short-sighted..."

"And you, Zhou Kai, it's fine that your hair is short, but your insight is even more..."

"Shut up."

Lin Fan didn't look back, his two words chillingly cold.

The second half of Yang Ningcong's sentence choked in his throat, and he even pulled back the foot he had just stepped out.

He shrank back half a step, sheepishly leaning back against the stone wall.

Zhou Kai clenched his fists and glared at him; this guy really didn't learn his lesson after taking a beating.

Lin Fan refocused his attention on Chen Jian.

"But as for what you said, that that group of beasts won't come to attack us again, I don't believe it. Don't you know your own worth?"

Lin Fan's tone shifted. "If we're going to trade, bring out something practical."

Chen Jian's head tilted slightly, and no joy or anger could be seen on his face, which had lost the ability to make human expressions.

"What... do you... want." The words were squeezed out from his hoarse vocal cords, intermittent.

"You just need to answer a few questions for me."

"Wh... What?"

"First, how did you yourself turn into this ghost-like appearance."

"Second, what on earth is hidden in the depths of the woods."

"Third..." Lin Fan paused for a beat, "Are the people who went out to sea with us locked up somewhere."

Three questions, each heavier than the last.

Chen Jian lowered his head, was silent for a few seconds, and then he raised his head.

"Thr... Three questions... in exchange... in exchange for one thing."

Chen Jian's throat let out a low, breathy sound, unsure whether it was a laugh or a gasp.

"Lin... Lin Fan... aren't you... being... too... greedy."

Lin Fan didn't respond, patiently waiting for him to finish.

"One question." Chen Jian stretched out a deformed, furry finger. "I... I will only answer one."

"Which one... do you want to know the most."

Xu Zhixia stood in the shadows at the entrance of the Karst Cave, her brow tightening slightly upon hearing these words.

One question.

If he chose the first, Chen Jian's mutation cause could deduce the manufacturing method of those monsters on the island, but it would have no direct help to the current situation.

If he chose the third, the hostages' location, they could try to rescue them, but with their current combat power, rushing in would be tantamount to courting death.

He shouldn't be that foolish.

"Island Center." Lin Fan spoke up. "Tell me, inside that fog, what on earth is there."

Chen Jian's body swayed slightly, and the silence lasted for several seconds.

The sea breeze blew up from the bottom of the slope, blowing the hair on Chen Jian's body to flatten in one direction.

"Island Center..."

His vocal cords vibrated, "Is... our home."

Lin Fan's pupils shrank slightly.

Their home.

The nest of all mutated creatures? Or was there a complete community inside? Something resembling a social structure?

"Be specific." Lin Fan pressed further. "How many monsters are inside? What is the structure? Who is in command?"

Chen Jian shook his head.

"Your... your question... has already been answered."

His furry arm stretched forward slightly, fingers spread open.

"Where is the item?"

Lin Fan stood above without moving.

Their home, saying it was no different from not saying it.

What kind of answer was this? Who the hell didn't know that was a monster den?

What I asked for was specific intelligence inside, and you just brushed me off with a sentence like your home?

Xu Zhixia shook her head in the back.

She thought of the same thing as Lin Fan; this answer was tantamount to nonsense.

Either Chen Jian was deliberately being evasive, or he himself didn't have higher information access permissions.

Whichever it was, it wasn't worth trading that pipe for.

"Not enough."

Lin Fan's reply was crisp and neat.

"You didn't tell me the answer I wanted, there's no way I'm giving you the item."

Chen Jian's hand froze in mid-air.

Those turbid eyeballs rolled around, staring at Lin Fan's face.

The air stagnated for two or three seconds.

Then Chen Jian pulled back his hand and slowly straightened his body.

"Lin Fan."

This time, his pronunciation was unusually clear. "You forced this."

The moment these four words landed, the hairs on the back of Lin Fan's neck stood up.

Not because of Chen Jian's threat.

It was because on his retina, scarlet font appeared again without warning.

[Warning: Other Superpower holders are detected approaching at high speed.]

[Direction: Forest direction, estimated contact time...]

The numbers were still jumping, and Lin Fan's peripheral vision had already caught an abnormality.

At the edge of the beach, in the direction of the woods, the branches and leaves were shaking violently.

It wasn't the wind; something was speeding through the woods.

That speed was much faster than Chen Jian's. It wasn't a beast coming; the system prompt was very clear.

Superpower holder.

It was a person.

A person who could use a Superpower.

Lin Fan's hand groped toward the dagger at his waist, his line of sight quickly switching between Chen Jian and the northwest woods.

The next second, a figure leaped out from among the treetops, then passed the beach, easily leaped from the starting position of the slope, the tips of their toes tapping on a rock in the middle section of the slope, and the whole person stood firmly.

A man, looking to be in his early thirties, with a short buzzcut, a lean physique, and wearing a suit.

He stood there without moving, the sea breeze on the slope blowing the corner of his clothes up, revealing a black short blade tucked at his waist.

But what really made Lin Fan's heart skip a beat was not that blade.

It was this person's speed from the treetops to landing just now.

That wasn't jumping; why did it feel like teleportation.

From the dense forest to the middle section of the slope, a straight-line distance of nearly a hundred meters, this person only used a few seconds.

Lin Fan after Triple Enhancement couldn't do it, and the gap wasn't just a tiny bit.

Chen Jian was still squatting at the lower-middle position of the slope, his deformed face turning toward the newcomer. A trace of fear flashed in his turbid eyeballs, and his entire spliced body shrank half an inch toward the stone wall.

Even Chen Jian was afraid?

The pipe was in Xu Zhixia's hands. If this person's speed was more than three times his own, he simply wouldn't be able to stop him.

Once this thing rushed into the cave, Xu Zhixia would probably get hurt.

"Zhixia!" Lin Fan turned his head. "Give the item to Zhou Kai! Quick!"

Xu Zhixia reacted extremely quickly without asking why. Lin Fan's tone was an impatience she had never heard before.

Lin Fan's arrangement definitely had its reasons, and what she didn't know was that Lin Fan didn't have any particular arrangement, simply not wanting her to get hurt.

She handed the item to Zhou Kai.

Zhou Kai caught it.

His fingers touched the wall of the pipe, and the whole person froze for half a beat.

Given to him?

Where the fuck was he supposed to hide this? In his crotch?

In the middle section of the slope, that Suit Man moved.

He didn't rush upward, but tilted his head slightly, looking at Lin Fan.

Then he smiled, but Lin Fan was dumbfounded. They had never met before; what did it mean for him to smile at him?

Despising him? Looking down on him?

The muscles on Lin Fan's back instantly tightened.

He couldn't wait.

If he waited for the other to strike first, he wouldn't even have the chance to react.

Strike first to gain the advantage! Strike later and you're bound to suffer.

Lin Fan exerted force with his feet, his entire body lunging fiercely toward the Suit Man in the middle section of the slope!

With the body of Triple Enhancement, his speed had already surpassed human limits.

In the retinas of Yang Ningcong and Zhou Kai, Lin Fan's figure was almost stretched into a blur.

Yang Ningcong hurriedly came to the cave entrance to check.

The dagger at Lin Fan's waist was smoothly drawn out, a cold flash cutting straight at the man's throat.

This strike was fast, accurate, and ruthless!

However, that Suit Man didn't even change his posture.

Just the split second before the tip of the dagger was about to touch his skin, his body swayed slightly.

There was no large-scale dodging, and not even any extra movements could be seen.

It was just that sway.

Lin Fan's dagger, carrying a fierce sound of wind, stabbed into empty air.

A huge momentum made him rush forward two steps before stabilizing his stance.

Where was the person?

Lin Fan suddenly turned around.

At the entrance of the Karst Cave, Yang Ningcong's mouth was open wide enough to stuff an egg.

What had he just seen?

Teleportation?

Lin Fan was clearly about to stab him, yet that guy in a suit disappeared on the spot just like the special effects on TV!

All the hairs on his body stood on end.

A cold wind blew from the front of the platform, and Yang Ningcong's pupils shrank drastically.

That Suit Man, unknown when, was already standing in the position Lin Fan had just occupied, looking down at Lin Fan.

Lin Fan's heart sank.

At that exact instant, what others saw was disappearance, but in his enhanced dynamic vision, he caught a trace of a trajectory.

That wasn't teleportation.

The moment his dagger thrust out, this man shifted flatly to the rear-left at a speed invisible to the naked eye, then circled an arc and jumped directly to the edge of the platform.

Movement... to the ultimate extreme of speed.

His own triple speed was as slow as a joke in front of him.

The man didn't look at Lin Fan again; he prepared to enter the cave to get the item, and Lin Fan ran up.

That man didn't use his ability, just walked a few steps.

Seeing him, Lin Fan ran toward him again, executing a backhanded horizontal slash. The cold gleam of the dagger once again tore through the air, slashing toward the man's neck.

This time, the man's figure blurred again.

It was that feeling again!

Lin Fan's attack missed again.

But this time, the man did not appear behind him.

Instead, Zhou Kai suddenly felt that the wind in front of him was gone.

And when he blinked again, that man had already appeared in front of him.

The man didn't speak, only reaching out his hand. The meaning couldn't be more obvious: give him the item.

Zhou Kai also spread out his hands, and the meaning couldn't be more obvious: she didn't have it.