Chapter 200- To The Lake

After a couple of days of journey through flatlands, they were greeted with something that was different from both plains and forests, a garden. Yes, a garden, though it was quite a vast one as it spanned more than a few thousand square miles.

Since it was in the night, although the plants and trees in the garden were arranged quite orderly and meticulously, the atmosphere in the area was rather quite dreadful due to the quietness of the area and the cold breeze that occasionally swept their skin and caressed their faces, enveloping them in its coldness.

The area was really silent, very strangely so as not a single sound or noise even from a grasshopper or any insect could be heard despite the vastness of the garden and the rich green areas that insects should be able to thrive.

Liu Guanyi observed the garden with his sharp that pierced through the darkness of the night. He found out that the garden was filled with three kinds of trees, apple, maple, and olive. They were arranged into rows that changed alternately from one another.

Not minding the gloomy and eerily silent atmosphere, Liu Guanyi directed Little White to go through the middle of the garden.

Shrrsk!

Just as they walked for a few minutes, suddenly, he heard a rustling sound from the side. It was coming from the ground. A figure seemed to get up from the ground and turned in their direction, showing their face.

They had long, thick, and dirty gray hair that covered most of their face, only revealing their shining red eyes. They seemed to look like a female human from their body anatomy, there were a few things that made them look different, such as their dark elongated claws.

The figure slowly walked toward them before quickly increasing their pace until they finally ran at full speed as her mouth opened, showing rows of sharp, long, black teeth.

Seeing this, Liu Guanyi calmly extended his hand as shinsu began to cover his arm. Then, he pushed his hand to the running creature as if to welcome it.

When the creature lunged at them with their claws ready to tear them apart and she almost reached Liu Guanyi, a blue spear was suddenly materialized in front of her and pierced her body right through her chest, hanging her in the air as Liu Guayi casually held the spear.

The creature struggled as they moved their body frantically and swiped their claws in the air, trying to attack Liu Guanyi and not trying to release themselves from the spear. Even after a few seconds, the struggle didn't become weaker.

Liu Guanyi pulled the spear closer and grabbed their head, and easily squashed it into mush like a rotten watermelon as the blood spewed in every direction.

Suddenly, their claws struck again, making him move his head to the side, dodging it.

Looking at the creature, surprisingly, even after their head was crushed, they could still move and struggle like they were still completely in a normal condition!

"Hmm, what a weird thing. Is this related to the problem that the test administrator told us?" Xin said with wonder.

"Indeed, it can still move even after its head is destroyed. Something like this is extremely odd and even those who have lived for thousands of years would very likely think the same." Said Adori in agreement.

"Let's see if it could move after its entire torso is destroyed." Liu Guanyi said as he stabbed the spear to the ground as it suddenly turned bright, making the creature struggle more frantically as their whole torso was covered with shinsu and was erased immediately.

At this split-second moment, something seemed to move from its belly toward its leg. The movement was extremely fast and subtle that Adori and Xin didn't notice it and only Liu Guanyi had noticed it.

He threw his needle to the leg and pulled it off from the rest of the corpse. The two noticed his action as Liu Guanyi quickly explained. "There's something that's moving inside the leg."

Then, he enveloped it with his shinsu.

Under the pressure of his shinsu, the leg began to melt from the outer part to the inner part like burning plastic. Soon, almost everything had vanished except for a small chunk and before it was completely destroyed, something jumped out of it as the body became lifeless.

"Got you." And was easily caught by Liu Guanyi.

"What is it, Mr. Liu? Let me look at it." Said Xin quickly.

"Just calm down a bit and let Liu does his business. He will do that eventually anyway." Adori responded to the yellow-haired boy's impatience.

"No worries, Adori, being curious is important to keep us to continue growing." Said Liu Guanyi calmly. "Now, let's take a look at what kind of creature it really is."

Liu Guanyi opened his hand, showing a round and squishy slime-like creature that seemed to have a liquid form. If there was a creature that looked like it, it was the amoeba. It was about to jump away out of his hand but it suddenly stopped in place, unable to even move even the slightest bit.

"Whoa, what kind of thing is this, this is the first time I see something like this." Xin said with excitement.

Liu Guanyi turned to Adori and said. "Do you know this? You know pretty well that I don't know anything about these rather complicated and modern subjects. This thing should be related to something in biology, right?"

Adori let out a sigh. "Right, that's understandable. To be honest, even I don't know a lot about those modern subjects since they aren't really practical for me. But I at least know that this creature is quite similar to a bacteria but in a much bigger size."

"Bacteria?" Said Liu Guanyi in wonder as he played around with the creature in his hand.

"It's some kind of special super tiny organism. Explaining something more than that is quite complicated so let's just leave it that way. You can look it up for its complete description on the internet anyway."