Chapter 202: Kill the Healer First

After being possessed by the parasitic anomaly, the adapter immediately began to howl in agony.

His voice traveled very far, and it was clearly audible even to Adam, who was lurking two to three kilometers away.

He must be in a lot of pain to be screaming that loud.

Upon hearing the man's screams, Adam's initial reaction was to leave, but he quickly changed his mind. Given that everyone on this team was capable of concealing themselves and they were so adept at ambushing others, they had to be carrying quite a large number of cards.

The bullets from that sniper rifle have very limited destructive power, making them largely ineffective against large targets, but they possess remarkable penetrative power, so they should be very effective against smaller targets with weak defenses, such as invocators and technomancers.

After some analysis, Adam realized that he may have underestimated this team's powers.

Perhaps their powers in direct combat were quite mediocre, but when it came to ambushing others, they were perhaps superior even to Goblin's team.

Thinking back, if that bullet had been fired at Nie Yiyi instead of King Arthur, there was a good chance that she would've been killed on the spot.

Everyone who dares to participate in the battle royale possesses some measure of power, but unfortunately for you, luck is also a part of power, and your luck is really not that great.

After making up his mind, Adam pressed himself tightly against the ground and began to quickly crawl toward the small wooden shack like an insect.

For the average person, it would've taken around 10 minutes of running to cover the distance of two to three kilometers, and even for those who were more athletically capable, it would've taken a run of seven to eight minutes.

However, for a level two anomaly like Nun, it didn't take anywhere near as long.

Even though he was crawling, his maximal speed still exceeded that of a cheetah, and it took him only less than two minutes to arrive near the airdrop site.

At this point, the enemy team was still trying to save their afflicted teammates.

The man who had been possessed by the anomaly was screaming and struggling with all his might, but his skin had turned black and green, and his muscles were also bulging in a grotesque manner, while spikes were emerging from his bones.

Adam knew that if one were to be possessed by a parasitic anomaly, as long as they weren't far more powerful than the anomaly, they generally wouldn't be able to escape the fate of becoming a puppet to the anomaly. That was what made parasitic anomalies so terrifying.

Their bodies were very frail, and they were easy to kill, but if they could successfully possess a host, they would often be able to take multiple lives, killing the host and those around them.

However, it wasn't completely impossible to save someone during the anomalification process.

Two of the afflicted adapter's teammates had already placed him in joint locks to restrict his movement, while the third one was uttering cybercode while spraying some type of strange concoction onto his body.

As soon as the concoction made contact with the man's body, blisters instantly began to appear on his skin, and the anomalification process seemed to have been interrupted for a few seconds.

However, the concoction's effects were very limited, and the man pulled out a strange silver bullet, which he placed onto his teammate's body. That bullet seemed to be also somewhat effective, and the anomalification process was slowed down even further.

"What do we do?"

"We'll do our best to save him, but if we can't, then we'll just have to kill him. It would be bad if we wait too long and he ends up fully converting."

After deciding on a course of action, the other two teammates were just about to pull out their guns when the sky suddenly turned dark.

In order to present a better viewing experience, there was a real-time day-night system in the battle royale world that matched the time in the real world.

The battle royale had commenced at around 2 PM, after the automaton battles in the morning and the subsequent celebrity performances. At the moment, it was close to 6 PM, and at this point, the light of the sun had already dimmed slightly, but visibility was still very high, and there was no way that night could've fallen so quickly.

Even if night had fallen, there was no way that it would be so dark that they couldn't even see their own outstretched hands.

"We've been ambushed!"

The three members of the team instantly realized what was happening, and they were just about to raise their guns when they felt someone bump into them, following which their possessed teammates suddenly received a sharp surge in strength.

"Someone's taken the exorcism bullet!" the man who had been administering treatment this entire time exclaimed, and immediately thereafter, he screamed in pain as he was attacked by an unseen enemy.

"Don't panic! Let's conceal oursel..."

Before he had a chance to activate his concealment ability, he felt as if his entire body had been bound tightly, as if he had been possessed by an anomaly as well.

The final member of the team was also crushed under an enormous weight, making it a difficult task just to draw breath.

The Lights Out ability wasn't one that could be maintained for very long, and after a brief moment of chaos, the sky abruptly brightened again.

The sunlight filtered through the darkness, and after regaining their vision, the trio discovered that they were surrounded by anomalies, as if they had fallen into a den of anomalies.

At this point, their possessed teammate had already completed his anomalification process, turning him into a hulking black mountain of muscle.

Aside from him, the sniper was bound by a distorted anomaly that was protruding out of his shadow, while the machine gunner was being crushed under an anomaly that resembled a massive pile of sludge.

The adapter who had been administering treatment to their anomalified teammate had the most anomalies around him, namely a two-headed dog with flames pouring out of its mouths, a nun-like anomaly with sharp and elongated claws, and a mummy that appeared to be in terrible physical condition.

The man looked down at the claws that had pierced into his abdomen, and he immediately realized who his assailant was. "You're Lean Mean Killing Machine!"

"That's right."

Adam pulled his claws out of the man's body, and as soon as he did so, Hellhound immediately chomped down onto the man's head and began to tearing at it like ?a ragdoll. At the same time, Mummy threw its arms around the man from behind before crushing him with all its might, quickly shattering all of the bones in his body.

Under the immense compressive pressure, blood began to pour out of the wound that had been inflicted onto the man's abdomen, and it didn't take long before his internal organs came gushing out as well.

You can never go wrong killing the healer first.

With one final strike, Adam slit the man's wrist to put an end to his life.

"Retreat!"

All of a sudden, a burst of geomagnetic light erupted from the machine gunner's body to send Sludge flying, following which he opened fire on the shadow of his sniper teammate to force back Distortion.

After being freed by his teammate, the sniper hurriedly threw out several special grenades, which exploded to produce a cloud of smoke and deafening high-pitched soundwaves, the combination of which confounded both one's sight and hearing.

Adam fought his way through the discomfort and rushed into the smoke, trying to capture the two fleeing enemies by relying on his telegnosis.

However, as soon as he rushed into the cloud of smoke, he was immediately struck from all sides by a barrage of oncoming bullets. The bullets possessed immense penetrative power, and Adam was instantly wounded.

As soon as he recovered some vision, he immediately instructed his anomalies to join him in his efforts to capture the enemy duo, but as soon as they got close, the pair of gun-wielders quickly adopted a different fighting style, using their guns as both firearms and close-range melee weapons, catching Adam completely off guard.

𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Finally, they were able to buy themselves enough time to activate their concealment abilities before immediately fleeing the scene.

Looks like there really are no slouches in the battle royale.

Adam had thought that he would be able to make easy work of the duo, but as it turned out, he had underestimated them.

The two of them had only been so intent on fleeing because they were aware of Adam's reputation. If they had chosen to stand their ground instead, there was a very good chance that Adam would've been no match for them unless he recruited Clown's help.