Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 96: Chapter 96 Concern

Finally, it’s dawn!

White light filtered through the dense fog, casting bright patches in the valley where the fog was pushed back.

Qin Yu and Deng Xiao were the first to wake up and saw a pile of bones beside Yang Xiao. They glanced around; the over-500-pound mutant dog from last night was gone. To be precise, only the dog’s head and skeleton were left on the ground.

The two stared at Yang Xiao in bewilderment.

Yang Xiao swallowed.

”What? Never seen a handsome guy before?”

The two burst into laughter.

”It’s not about never seeing a handsome guy, but never seeing one who can eat so much.”

Deng Xiao even ran over to Yang Xiao and pulled him up to stand.

”What are you doing?”

”Turn around, let me see.”

Yang Xiao: ”...”

”Eating like that and not gaining a bit of weight, where does all that meat go?”

”Tch!”

Yang Xiao reached out and knocked on Deng Xiao’s forehead.

Chen Fei also woke up and laughed:

”It’s natural to be surprised the first time you see the boss eating. I’m used to it. Just a heads up, if any of you fall for the boss and marry him, be careful; he might eat you out of house and home.”

Yang Xiao gave Chen Fei a sidelong glance, and Qin Yu and Chen Xiao giggled.

Chen Fei saw Long Yongjun still asleep on the tree trunk and loudly shouted in his ear:

”Help, a monster is coming!”

Long Yongjun was in the middle of a sweet dream and jolted awake, instinctively reaching for his sword and shouting:

”Where? Where? Where’s the monster?”

”Haha...”

Qin Yu, Deng Xiao, and Chen Fei burst into laughter.

Long Yongjun looked around, saw Yang Xiao and the others, and quickly realized Chen Fei had tricked him. He scratched his head and pretended to be very wronged:

”Sister Chen Fei, how can you bully an honest guy like me?”

”Alright, enough fooling around. There’s still some roast meat on the campfire, hurry up and eat. Let’s aim to get back to the camp by noon. We’ve been away all night; people at the camp must be worried.”

Chen Fei chuckled, saying with a meaningful tone:

”I don’t know about the others, but Sister Huang Wen will definitely be worried about you, hehe!”

Faced with such insinuations, Yang Xiao could only look innocent, glaring at Chen Fei. He stood up to walk around, examining the spot where Kong Tianqing and the others fought the mutant dog last night.

Qin Yu and Deng Xiao exchanged a glance and, with intrigue, sidled up to Chen Fei.

”Tell us, is Huang Wen really involved with the boss?”

...

Yang Xiao examined the bodies of Xiao Hei and the others. Each died terribly, but what pleased him was that they were all wearing hard armor, +4 defense, much better than the cloth armor everyone was currently wearing.

There were also the weapons everyone left behind. Xiao Hei’s iron chain was actually +3 agility. He wondered if Feifei could use it.

The rest of the swords, knives, and guns were all +3 strength.

Kong Tianqing’s men were mainly close-combat fighters.

Yang Xiao took off the hard armor from their bodies and put them together. Some pieces were damaged, and Yang Xiao remembered Gu Bo saying that damaged equipment could be repaired using crystal coins, which was much cheaper than buying a new, complete set of armor.

What delighted Yang Xiao even more was finding over a thousand genetic fragments on the six bodies, including more than twenty complete primordial gene discs.

The early bird gets the worm!

Yang Xiao stuffed the more than twenty complete gene discs into his pocket, grabbed 500 genetic fragments, wrapped the remaining 500 or so in a piece of clothing, and brought them to Qin Yu and the others.

”Take these genetic fragments back and improve your genetic attributes well. Also, the defense on this hard armor is pretty good. Change into them after eating, and these weapons, Long Yongjun can switch to a long sword now. Bring the rest back and let’s head back right after eating. No need to hunt more mutated creatures.”

With such unexpected loot, they naturally wanted to go back and rest.

Everyone picked a piece of hard armor to wear, and seeing their defense attribute in the genetic data system rise by 4 points made them very happy.

Long Yongjun was the happiest, tying the weapons on with the iron chain and carrying them on his shoulder.

Heading back was simple; Qin Yu and Deng Xiao cleared the path ahead, with Yang Xiao and the others following along the foggy path. If they encountered mutant creatures, Chen Fei’s ice ball and Yang Xiao’s feathered arrows easily dealt with them.

Over an hour later, Qin Yu and Deng Xiao finally found a paved road leading down the mountain, and following it would lead them straight to Kongming Academy’s campus.

Half an hour later, they finally reached the pond, and the path down the mountain was now clear.

To their surprise, the dense fog originally shrouding the surrounding forest had transformed into enormous corridors, as if deliberately flown through the fog.

In many places, the fog had been pushed back in connected patches, creating extremely open visibility.

Yang Xiao and the others looked at each other,

”What’s going on here?”

...

Huang Wen hadn’t slept a wink all night.

Learning that Yang Xiao and a few people hadn’t returned by dusk yesterday, she was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. She personally led all the flyers, divided into ten teams, flying around kilometers of the campus to search.

Yet, in the dark and dense fog, they couldn’t find anything.

Feifei, Dai Yun, Chen Lu, and other girls led people on a nighttime venture into Biyun Mountain, exploring several places, only to return empty-handed.

A group of girls surrounded Huang Wen, jumping anxiously. Some cried, fearing something had happened to Yang Xiao.

Zhao Gang blamed himself; every time he spoke, he’d slap his thigh, which was already swollen.

”I’m so stupid, how could I have let Yang Xiao take four people up the mountain like that? The mutated monsters on the mountain are getting much stronger, sigh, I’m so stupid...”

Xiao Zhe comforted Huang Wen,

”Yang Xiao is so brave, nothing will happen to him. Qin Yu and Deng Xiao both can fly; even if something happens to Yang Xiao...”

”Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey... Our boss won’t have any accidents. Even if you did, or your whole family did, our boss definitely won’t! Our boss will be alright!”

Feifei glared at Xiao Zhe with red eyes.

Xiao Zhe froze, slapped himself, spat, and said:

”Darn my crow mouth, I deserved that... I meant that as long as Qin Yu and Deng Xiao can fly, they’ll return to inform us no matter what. Maybe they’re just delayed by something?”

Someone shouted from the back, ”That’s not certain. The mutant birds are also formidable now. Last time by the pond, a giant eagle was seen lifting a 500-pound tilapia. If Yang Xiao and the others encounter a giant eagle, they might...”

Before the person could finish, Feifei and a few other girls lunged to silence him, and the boy hurriedly bolted from the tent, muttering internally,

”Damn, was I wrong? Doesn’t seem like it?”

At the break of dawn, as soon as it was light, Huang Wen organized a search party for Yang Xiao.

”Even if we have to search every mountain around, we must find Yang Xiao.”

Xiao Zhe said excitedly on the side:

”That’s right, everyone must try hard to find him, alive...”

Huang Wen, Feifei, and others gave Xiao Zhe a collective glare, and Xiao Zhe hurriedly swallowed the last words, ”...or dead.”

Xiao Zhe, Zhao Gang, and Huang Wen organized over a thousand people from the entire school to search the surrounding mountains after breakfast. Everyone was extremely worried upon hearing Yang Xiao hadn’t returned all night, as the wild was now ruled by mutated creatures, especially at night when it’s extremely dangerous.