Chapter 14: Skill Card Acquired

Chu Xihen looked at Lou Su with a puzzled expression, “I didn’t call you. How did we end up here?”

“I mean… never mind.” Lou Su decided to drop the subject.

At this moment, Zhuang Shi shamelessly moved closer to Lou Su, “You must be the ability user who saved us last night, Mr. Lou, right? Hello, my name is Zhuang Shi.”

Among these people, Lou Su was the only ability user. Zhuang Shi had no ulterior motives; he simply wanted to curry favor with an ability user.

Before Lou Su could respond to Zhuang Shi, Zhou Quan chimed in from the side, “Stop sucking up. Mr. Lou is Chu Xihen’s boyfriend. Have you forgotten how you treated him before?”

Xiao Xi also felt that Zhuang Shi’s behavior was embarrassing and pulled him back.

But Zhuang Shi didn’t give up, “How did I treat him? When you were almost bitten to death by those mutated creatures, it was Xiao Xi and I who found a car and went back to pick you up. He can’t run fast, and he can’t fight. All the way from the airport to here, he would have died long ago without us!”

He said this to remind both Chu Xihen and Lou Su of the favor that he and Xiao Xi had done for them, hoping they wouldn’t abandon them in case of an emergency in the future.

“Thank you,” Lou Su said. Although he hadn’t personally witnessed the dangers they had faced while escaping from the airport, he could roughly imagine it.

He knew that Chu Xihen’s physical fitness was poor. To be able to make it all the way here, his teammates must have helped him.

He himself said that they had saved him, so Lou Su would remember their kindness.

The group chatted for a while, and they no longer heard the sound of beetles crawling.

Zhou Quan stretched his neck and glanced ahead. The original forest had been completely corroded by the beetles, resulting in a much wider field of vision.

“Those weird bugs seem to have gone far away. Should we leave now?” Zhou Quan asked Lou Su.

Lou Su had clearly become the backbone of their small team.

Not only because he was an ability user, but his tall figure and powerful aura were also very intimidating. Unlike Zhuang Shi, who was strong on the outside but weak on the inside, Lou Su gave people a sense of security that he was strong.

“Wait a little longer.” Lou Su also looked ahead, his intuition telling him that the danger hadn’t passed yet.

Since he said to wait, the group sat still.

About ten minutes later, a crack suddenly opened on the open space ahead, and new beetles emerged from the ground.

Probably because they were newly emerged and didn’t know the terrain, some of the beetles crawled towards their direction.

Zhou Quan and Su Yan quickly pulled Gao Lin up, panicking, “They’re coming over! What do we do?”

Lou Su took out his gun, “Kill!”

There was no room for them to retreat, and they couldn’t let the beetles get close.

The others followed suit and took out their guns.

Gunshots rang out, but except for Chu Xihen, who didn’t fire, the others couldn’t hit anything.

Although the beetles were large, they were agile. Since they hadn’t trained, shooting like this was simply a waste of bullets.

Seeing that Lou Su was shooting accurately, Chu Xihen gave him his gun so he could shoot the bugs with both hands.

“Stop shooting and save the bullets for Lou Su!” Chu Xihen felt a pain in his eyes seeing them use their guns like that.

Zhou Quan and the others listened obediently and immediately stopped.

Only Zhuang Shi insisted on showing off in front of Lou Su. As a result, he had used up some of the bullets in his gun when fighting the green-furred wolves last night, and now he had fired many shots, quickly running out of bullets.

With no bullets left, he hadn’t managed to kill a single mutated creature.

Zhuang Shi: “…”

He angrily threw his gun away, which happened to hit a beetle.

The beetle seemed to be provoked and charged towards him.

“Ahhh! The mutated creature is coming! Mr. Lou, save me!” Zhuang Shi screamed and hid behind Xiao Xi.

Xiao Xi rolled her eyes helplessly.

“Bang!” A gunshot rang out, and Lou Su killed the beetle charging towards Zhuang Shi.

Zhou Quan said, “Make it clear, Chu Xihen has already repaid what he owed you. Don’t pester Mr. Lou anymore.”

Zhuang Shi was furious, “It’s none of your business. Mr. Lou didn’t say anything.”

Then they heard Lou Su say, “We’re even.”

Zhuang Shi’s face turned red as he looked towards Lou Su, but he was focused on killing the mutated creatures and had no time to glance at Zhuang Shi.

But no matter how dangerous it was, Lou Su always protected Chu Xihen in the safest spot, which made Zhuang Shi extremely jealous.

He felt that any one of them was more useful than Chu Xihen, but Lou Su insisted on protecting such a useless pretty boy!

Lou Su used up all the bullets in the pistols. Although there was already a pile of beetle corpses in front of him, more beetles were constantly emerging from the ground. He didn’t have time to return the pistols to the others and simply threw them on the ground.

“Pick them all up and keep them. You can still use them if you find bullets later,” he said. Chu Xihen was the first to bend down and pick up a gun.

This made Zhuang Shi’s face even uglier.

Why didn’t he say earlier that they could find more bullets?

“Mr. Lou, we’re out of bullets. What should we do next… Wow, so cool!” Zhou Quan was worried, but before he could finish speaking, he saw that Lou Su could still kill everything without a pistol!

The beetles in the front row that had been grazed by his bullets were instantly killed with a wave of his hand.

“Is this an ability?” Su Yan’s eyes started to sparkle as she saw Lou Su’s movements. “No, is this the special skill that Mr. Hao mentioned?”

Lou Su didn’t have time to answer Su Yan’s words and said to them, “Pick up stones and smash those bugs.”

They were ordinary people, not to mention their aim wasn’t good enough, even if they hit them, they wouldn’t be able to kill them. But since Lou Su said so, they could only do as he said.

“I don’t need you to smash the bugs to death, just inflict a slight scratch,” Lou Su said to them.

This was Lou Su’s skill, Instant Kill.

As long as the mutated creature had any damage, he could activate his skill and instantly kill it.

He had killed both the mutated bull last night and the beetles in the front row just now using his Instant Kill skill.

The group worked together and killed dozens more beetles. Finally, no new bugs crawled out of the crack.

As Lou Su killed the last beetle, a card the size of a playing card, flashing with blue light, appeared in mid-air.

“That’s… is that a skill card?” Zhuang Shi said excitedly.

No one had ever seen one before, so no one could be sure.

“It’s so dazzling, it should be, right?” Zhou Quan said with some emotion, “We’ve killed hundreds of mutated creatures, right? And only one card dropped. The drop rate is ridiculously low!”

“It really is a skill card! I have a skill card!” Zhuang Shi said, rushing forward to grab the skill card.

Chu Xihen didn’t have time to stop him, but Lou Su subconsciously shouted, “Danger! Come back!”

Before Lou Su’s words could finish, a beetle flew from the sky and pierced Zhuang Shi’s head with its sharp foreleg.

The beetle’s leg pierced from the back of his head to his forehead, with half of it sticking out.

“Zhuang Shi!” Xiao Xi screamed, then covered her mouth with both hands, staring in disbelief, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.

Lou Su, whose face was pale from overuse of his ability, raised his hand again and killed the beetle that was still stuck in Zhuang Shi’s head.

Zhou Quan and the others were stunned. No one said anything.

Zhuang Shi was hateful, but they never thought of him dying.

It was just that he was too greedy and ignorant, easily throwing away his life.