Leon stepped on the still unsolidified liquid, collecting the corpses on the ground while walking in the direction the Entity had initially intended to go.
Faintly, he could hear some muffled gunshots, indicating that people and Entities were already exchanging fire there.
"I wonder which group it is…"
There are many groups in the Backrooms, but M.E.G. is the most powerful among them and also the most friendly to Wanderers.
No more Entities appeared around him.
After all, Entities are not like the monsters in Minecraft, where You can spawn as many as You want; they are more like a special kind of creature that can be transformed from humans or self-reproduce.
He broke open the obsidian that had enclosed Qin Lan and put it into his backpack, then comforted her, seeing her still shaken: "Alright, there's no problem for now."
"Don't worry, this kind of thing rarely happens on Level 1; You might only encounter it once in your entire life."
Qin Lan's face was a bit pale. Hearing Leon's words, she smiled wryly and said, "I'd rather never see it in my life."
"Haha, life is often unsatisfactory. Remember, maintaining a good mindset in the Backrooms will allow You to live longer."
Leon took a bucket of milk from his backpack and handed it to Qin Lan, saying, "You should drink this. I don't know if You've been affected by the monster, but this thing can solve many problems."
The Grief Corpse cycle was useless to him, but he didn't know if the Qin Lan in front of him would be affected. It was a life, after all, and for him, it was just a small effort.
Qin Lan looked at the white liquid in the iron bucket by the light. She hesitated for a moment but still reached out and took it. Although it's true that one should be wary of others, if the other party really wanted to do something to her or kill her, they wouldn't need to go through so much trouble.
While she was drinking the milk, she noticed that although it was a large bucket of milk, it all disappeared after she only took three sips.
Immediately after, she felt a strange sense of mental lightness that she couldn't describe at all.
"Thank You!"
"Just give me the bucket."
Leon returned to the driver's seat and stepped on the accelerator, driving in the direction where the gunshots had previously sounded. As they got closer, the gunshots gradually became clearer.
Amidst the dense gunshots, there were also various shouts.
At this point, some sporadic Entities began to appear again. They automatically tried to approach after seeing the headlights, but the Iron Bro on both sides of the sightseeing car didn't give them a chance to get close.
The huge cleaver beheaded all the wandering Entities.
Leon looked at the headless corpses scattered on the ground, wondering in his heart, 'Could it be that the weapon type affects Iron Bro's attack method?'
In the tinkers' construct mod.
The cleaver's characteristic is beheading. The beheading attribute allows the user to have a chance to obtain monster heads when attacking monsters.
Now, Iron Bro seems to really like beheading when using the cleaver. If it were a rapier…
Leon's mind conjured an image of Iron Bro holding an 'embroidery needle' and repeatedly poking Entities, and he couldn't help but laugh aloud.
Qin Lan, beside him, was a bit puzzled.
Why was Leon suddenly laughing? She lowered her head and checked herself to make sure there was nothing wrong before shifting her focus to Leon.
'A strange man with unpredictable moods…'
As the vehicle turned a corner, the sounds became clearly audible.
"Get out, let's go and see."
As soon as the two got out of the car, just as Leon was about to put the sightseeing car into his backpack, the extinguished incandescent light above them suddenly emitted a harsh electrical crackle.
The next moment, the previously extinguished incandescent light released a bright glow.
Leon looked up at the incandescent light, ignored it, put the sightseeing car into his backpack, and walked towards the direction from which the gunshots came.
After turning another corner, Leon saw a pile of corpses lying quietly on the ground, and the distant gunshots had stopped.
Leon smacked his lips and murmured to himself, "It seems I blocked half of the Entities just now?"
He opened the door and sent Iron Bro back to the Main World to avoid unnecessary conflicts.
"Stop!!"
At the end of this partitioned warehouse, two soldiers, armed with automatic rifles and wearing standard uniforms, were aiming their guns at him and Qin Lan.
Their clothes were also printed with the same M.E.G. logo and text as in the documents.
Knowing he had come to the right place, Leon cooperatively raised his hands and said, "I have identification!!"
"She is a Wanderer I discovered by accident. We are not Skin Stealers."
Hearing that he could communicate normally, the two soldiers also breathed a slight sigh of relief, but their guns did not move away from the two of them. After all, an Entity attack had just occurred, and their nerves were still on edge.
"Come slowly… don't move."
"Okay, no problem."
Leon walked towards them with his hands raised. Seeing this, Qin Lan also imitated Leon and walked towards them.
At this moment, one of the soldiers looked at Leon and said, "Take out your identification…"
The other party wasn't worried that Leon would pull out any dangerous weapons; if he did pull out a weapon, it would only further prove that he wasn't an Entity.
Leon took out the identification he had registered at the Merchant's Home Outpost from his backpack and threw it to the two soldiers.
The two of them didn't move. Instead, a European-American woman in her thirties, wearing a white lab coat, walked out from the base behind them. She was clearly a civilian staff member.
She picked up Leon's identification and swiped it on a device. Obviously, some information appeared on it. She quickly scanned it, looked up at him, and asked:
"Name, age, gender…"
"Leon, 22, male helicopter."
Hearing Leon's answer, the woman smiled and said, "The information is correct. You two follow me."
With that, she turned and walked into the base. Leon and Qin Lan, escorted by the two soldiers, arrived at a base.
Perhaps like the B.N.T.G. Non-Aligned Trade Group, they had already been scanned by instruments upon entering the base, so the two soldiers did not continue to follow them but instead went out with some others to clear the corpses outside.
Just as Leon was observing the surroundings and the crowd, the woman walking in front suddenly stopped.
Leon, caught off guard, directly bumped into her, knocking her to the ground.
"Are You alright?"
"I'm fine…"
The woman immediately got up from the ground. For some reason, her eyes became a bit evasive.
"Please wait here for a moment. I have something to deal with. You two wait for me here…"
With that, the M.E.G. woman turned and left, leaving a bewildered Leon standing there.
'What's going on? Is the service at the M.E.G. main base this bad? It's not even as good as the B.N.T.G. outpost.'
Just as he was wondering, a fully armed squad walked towards him.
Leading them was a middle-aged man in his forties, dressed in a black suit. His thin face showed no expression, and his narrow eyes looked very sharp.
The other party stopped about five meters away from him.
"Mr. Leon, I have seen your video on Level 2. To be honest, your performance has exceeded the scope of human beings."
"With a special axe, You were able to chase more than a dozen 'Hounds' for their lives… and easily killed several Hounds during the pursuit."
"Now, on behalf of M.E.G., I want to ask You, what exactly are You?"
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