Chapter 39 - Mass Hunting (3)

Standing in the middle of the three dead bodies, Lily called for her worm, which was nearby, and ordered it to do the same for them as she did for the old lady before.

She now had more food added to her list to eat later, but she didn't plan to stop yet; four was not enough.

With the bodies being taken care of, she returned to crawling along the ceiling of the tunnels in search of prey, her scouts already alerting her of two mutants that were a distance away from her, but they were the closes ones to her.

She quickly made her way over to them, taking much longer than she did to reach the ones before, nearly 15 minutes of running at her top speed on all four to reach the location.

Only stopping when she noticed two people within the distance, a female and what she could only assume was a male.

She assumed it because he didn't look very human.

Observing from the shadows, she was able to finally understand just how abnormal some of the Morlock mutants looked and why they had to hide in the tunnels to avoid people.

The female of the pair looked normal; she had blond hair and blue eyes, something you would expect from any regular girl in a coffee shop, the male on the other hand.

He had skin that was covered in boils that looked like they were ready to burst at a moment's notice, his hands only had four fingers, but as if making up for that, he had a third extra hand that came out of his chest.

He didn't have any hair; he was completely bald, and his head was covered in what looked like burn scars from chemical spills.

The oddest part was when Lily got closer to observe them from above; she was able to notice the man had four eyes, two were glowing red, and the other two looked relatively normal.

His mouth looked freakish; he had chelicerae, like that of a spider, except it was made out of flesh like a regular mouth would be.

He was odd to look at, to say the least, and that was coming from Lily, someone that literally ate people.

After observing the two for a few moments, Lily realized that they didn't seem to have anything to do with each other and that they were just talking in the middle of the tunnels after meeting up by chance.

This was interesting information because Lily knew that the Morlocks had different factions within them; she just didn't know which factions currently existed.

So this was confirmation that the different groups rarely interacted with each other outside of chance encounters and the leaders.

She watched them talk for a bit before deciding to jump down on the male while he wasn't paying attention to her.

She decided to go for him because his mutation clearly had something to do with his physical body, and she didn't want to take the risk that he might be able to counter her if she instead focused on the girl.

However, it seemed like she had guessed wrong this time because while killing the man was straightforward and confused the girl for a second, she quickly reacted.

A blast of energy came crashing into Lily.

She didn't have time to avoid the impact from the blast because of how close the girl was, but she was able to lessen the damage she took by blocking it with her arms.

Surprisingly it wasn't very powerful. It couldn't break any of her bones or even injure her, but it was strong enough to push her back and away from the girl.

Although it didn't push her very far, merely a few feet away.

"Who are you?!"

Yelled the girl with an angry yet panicked voice, her hands held out before, ready to defend against anything Lily would try to do.

"I'm just passing through; he looked like a threat, so I acted without thinking."

Lily replied to the girl as she backed up slightly, showing that she wasn't trying to be hostile.

Naturally, that didn't work. The girl was still on guard against her and simply spat back with her own words.

"So you attack before speaking? And now you try to play innocent."

Well, it was a fun conversation, but Lily really didn't need to have it.

The only reason she didn't do anything yet was because she was wary of the blast the girl did; she wasn't sure if she could make it stronger, which made her wary of acting.

But the girl's focus and guard towards her did lower her attention to the area around her, specifically below her.

"I'm not very innocent. I'm sorry."

Lily said as the worm burst out from below the girl and bit her leg off, causing the girl to fall to the ground in pain, screams bursting out of her as if they were trying to get free.

Acting quickly, Lily dashed forward and sliced the girl's head off, killing her in the process, but the girl had been quite loud in the tunnels with her piercing scream.

Thankful it only had one person nearby, and they were quite a distance away.

'That was far too messy; I didn't expect her to be able to do something like that. I really do wish I had a way to tell what abilities they had.'

She said to herself as she looked down at the mess around her.

With a soft sigh, she ordered her worm to deal with them, herself quickly jumping back to the ceiling to move from this area in case the yelling drew attention.