After finishing off all of this, Lin Xia joyfully continued to tail Bai Xiaofei.
Taking advantage of the moment when the two Corpse Brothers were entangled, Bai Xiaofei ran into the building. At this moment, he was empty-handed, and his situation was even worse than when he had been tangling with the female Corpse Brother in the apartment. The interior of the building was covered with strange vines, and Bai Xiaofei guessed this must have something to do with the Corpse Brother Virus. He cautiously felt his way through the dark corridor, opening several doors in succession, but all of them were completely empty. Bai Xiaofei comforted himself, thinking perhaps the residents had all evacuated to the military's relief point.
However, right at that moment, something long, soft, and moist brushed against his face. In a panic, Bai Xiaofei grabbed it, only to discover it was a vine. Just as he thought there was nothing to be afraid of, he suddenly realized that it was actually a long tongue. Looking up, he saw numerous heads hanging upside down from the ceiling, their tongues drooping exaggeratedly as they coiled toward him.
At the far end of the corridor, a woman-like person appeared and saved Bai Xiaofei. But when he looked closer, he realized it was a stubby, perverted, and weird uncle. That uncle was holding his pinky finger up in a dainty gesture, pinching his voice as he said:
"Hey yo, what's this? Were you scared by my appearance? Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm certainly not a pervert, and definitely not a homosexual either. As for me, I'm a shoujo manga artist, you see. In order to deeply experience and comprehend the inner world of young girls, I dressed myself up in this outfit. Hehe, I want to make both my body and mind completely merge with those cute manga girl characters I draw. Don't be scared now, come, sit by sister's side."
The corners of Bai Xiaofei's eyes twitched violently at this coy voice and bewitching appearance. Big Uncle, you are honestly even more disgusting than those heads swinging their long tongues outside. He had long heard that nine out of ten manga artists were perverts, and the remaining one was a paranoid; sure enough, the reputation was well-deserved.
Bai Xiaofei asked about the situation in the building, and the uncle informed him that the residents had all been eaten by the Vine Corpse Brother. The Vine Corpse Brother was terrifying, and those long-tongued heads were also transformed from residents swallowed by it. The Vine Corpse Brother's true form loved the shade and loathed the light, fearing strong illumination, but Bai Xiaofei felt that relying solely on lamps to save his life was simply unreliable. After chatting, that uncle finally confessed and got Bai Xiaofei to help—catching bugs.
Just as Lin Xia finished dealing with the obstacles in the hallway and sneaked over, she heard the uncle's painful, miserable shriek, "Ah—". Thinking of something, Lin Xia suddenly felt a chill in her crotch (Wait, do skeletons even have a crotch?).
"That bug-extinguishing kick that leaves no descendants must feel wonderful. Let's pour one out for the perverted uncle, haha."
As the voices drifted from the room, Lin Xia felt it was a bit muffled and lacked visuals. So she used a bone finger to poke a hole in the wall, observing with the soul fire in her right eye socket. (Now that is truly seeing things as clear as fire!)
With this look, she witnessed the entire process of Coco devouring the bug Corpse Brother and transforming into a multi-eyed spider penguin. The two people in the room immediately fled into another room and blocked the door. But Coco smashed the wall straight open, and then threw Coco's wife—a cloth doll—out from inside the wall, prompting Coco to eagerly pounce over it.
Just as the two of them relaxed, that perverted uncle wanted to grab his Apple 4 phone, and the moment he picked it up, he stepped onto the path to the netherworld. Bai Xiaofei had no choice but to flee, leaping down from the window by using a mattress.
Lin Xia also wanted to leave, but she hadn't expected that Coco and the uncle would finish fusing so quickly, rendering their senses a bit sharper as they looked toward her side. Lin Xia had no desire to fight him; she remembered that this Uncle Coco Corpse Brother would later make its way to Bai Xiaofei's home, and shatter Bai Xiaofei's blue cooling potion. That was what forced Bai Xiaofei to go to Heshuntang, leading to his meeting with Xiaohui and Little Vajra.
Therefore, Lin Xia immediately bolted, then spread her bone wings and flew toward Bai Xiaofei's home—well, she flew to the vicinity of his house. Although Lin Xia had killed the Centipede Corpse Brother, the world's self-correction force was very strong. A second medium-sized Centipede Corpse Brother appeared, barely reaching the level of a Level 3 Corpse Brother.
After witnessing the out-of-sequence combat squad leader inject himself with the enhancer, and—under the cover of his teammates—persist for ten minutes before bursting forth with superhuman strength to perish together with the medium-sized Centipede Corpse Brother, this scene heavily stimulated his inner desire to grow stronger, and of course, Lin Xia's as well.
After Bai Xiaofei left with the titanium-alloy saber left behind by the combat personnel, Lin Xia refined the medium-sized Centipede Corpse Brother, feeling she was just a tiny bit away from the Human Stage Peak.
Sure enough, as soon as Bai Xiaofei returned home, he began purchasing the inferior American enhancer—KW74. At this moment, Lin Xia also had a bold idea.
"I remember there was more than one enhancer on the plane... and moreover, a Corpse Brother secretly boarded the plane later."
And so, Lin Xia put her idea into action.
On the rooftop, just as Bai Xiaofei and the two individuals were making their trade, Lin Xia quietly spread her bone wings and stealthily flew near the helicopter's tail rotor. The transaction complete, Bai Xiaofei was overjoyed and excitedly hugged the enhancer back to his room. At that very moment, however, a Corpse Brother had quietly climbed onto the aircraft.
Once the helicopter flew a certain distance, seeing that Corpse Brother make its move, Lin Xia followed closely and struck as well. Killing the Corpse Brother instantly and finishing the refinement in moments, Lin Xia put away the remaining five boxes of enhancers, escaped from the falling helicopter, and spread her bone wings to fly out.
Arriving back on the rooftop, Lin Xia curiously examined the enhancers.
"Why must it be injected into the heart? It seems I don't have a heart either. Shall I try using [First Transformation: Bone Generating Flesh]? Never mind, the Bone Spirit Source is much safer and the absorption efficiency is better. My First Transformation is only just recently begun, and it doesn't necessarily mean it can generate a heart."
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With that thought, Lin Xia began refining the enhancer. With this single tube down, her cultivation realm broke straight through to the Human Stage Peak. Seeing this, Lin Xia felt a surge of joy in her heart and immediately refined four more tubes, which also barely pushed her through to the Earth Stage Early Stage.
As for those cold blue potions, thinking of how she needed to absorb the yin spiritual energy from the earth's atmosphere, refine it into yin qi, and practice the Heaven Burying technique, Lin Xia came up with an even better idea. The yin attribute contained within this blue potion was very high; it was absolute top-grade material for practicing the *Bone Heaven Burying Art*. It seemed she would still need to search for some yin-attributed, cold materials in the future...
However, now was not the time for cultivation. Estimating the time, Uncle Coco Corpse Brother should be breaking in soon.
Lin Xia spread her bone wings and flew to the side of Bai Xiaofei's window. At a single glance, she saw the mutated penguin Coco and the manga uncle Corpse Brother. Coco was massive, its legs turned into eight tentacles, with two more tentacles at its rear. The lower half of the manga uncle's body had vanished, merging completely with Coco into a terrifying appearance.
The manga uncle Corpse Brother lunged toward Bai Xiaofei. In order to test the combat capabilities granted to him by the military-special stimulant, Bai Xiaofei decided to meet the enemy head-on. With a single kick, he sent the manga uncle Corpse Brother flying with astonishing force, though the opponent was uninjured. Following that, the manga uncle Corpse Brother attacked with its flesh tentacles, which Bai Xiaofei easily dodged thanks to his nimble agility.
However, after a minute of entanglement, Bai Xiaofei grew annoyed, as the opponent seemed to have no other tricks besides its flesh tentacles. Bai Xiaofei proactively met the flesh tentacles, only to have his neck and wrists ensnared. He couldn't snap the flesh tentacles, and breathing became difficult.
Fortunately, his titanium-alloy saber was right beside him. Groping with difficulty toward the weapon, the moment he gripped the hilt, Bai Xiaofei felt he could manage again. He decided to kill the manga uncle Corpse Brother. But the manga uncle Corpse Brother's tentacles also wrapped around the blade.
During the struggle for the titanium-alloy saber, the syringe containing the blue antidote was accidentally shattered, and Bai Xiaofei angrily cleaved the Corpse Brother before him in two.
Bai Xiaofei plunged into despair, but quickly realized that the enhancer he had injected contained strong thermal properties. Therefore, the antidote must certainly be a cold-natured medicine. With that, he resolutely headed in the direction of the nearest traditional Chinese medicine shop, determined to hack his way through, slashing down any Corpse Brother that dared to block his path, no matter what it was.
Lin Xia, acting as an onlooker, witnessed all of this, her heart experiencing a tumult of shifting emotions. Although all of this was within her expectations, the feeling of experiencing it in reality was still rather different.