428: Chapter 428 Wasteland Chapter 3

Jiang Ping was blocked outside the city.

Zhang An'an was so anxious she was about to cry.

"It's over, it's over, we're dead."

He collapsed onto his backside in front of the city gate.

Hua Xiaotao held Jiang Ping's hand tightly.

Xiaohu was silent, like a stone.

There were many others around pounding on the city gate and crying out, but that gate was forged from a solid piece of refined iron; let alone ordinary people like them, even a powerful Pollution Beast couldn't break through it.

A Monarch Moth appeared in front of the city gate. At this moment, cannons were mounted on the city walls, along with many powerful Mutants, but the two sides were in a standoff and, surprisingly, did not immediately attack.

The Monarch Moth hovered outside, its massive body slowly flapping its wings. Accompanied by a shrill screech, everyone felt dizzy and disoriented.

By the time they regained consciousness, the ground outside the city was covered with people who had passed out.

Jiang Ping felt as if his head was about to explode. Furthermore, one of his eyes felt as if it had been thrown into boiling magma, while the other felt as if it had been cast into an icy purgatory.

When his consciousness slightly recovered and he opened his eyes, he discovered he was in a cave, which made him instantly tense up.

He remembered very clearly that he should have been outside the gates of Luangang City, because a powerful Pollution Beast had been shut outside, and then that Pollution Beast had let out a shrill screech, causing everyone to pass out.

So he hadn't died?

But where was this? Jiang Ping struggled to get up, but suddenly felt something soft beneath him. He turned his throbbing head to look, and his body instantly stiffened.

"M-Monarch Moth."

Seemingly sensing that the little human had woken up, the Monarch Moth also turned its head to stare at Jiang Ping.

Jiang Ping felt as if his body had fallen into an ice cellar. Had he been snatched by this Pollution Beast to be kept as emergency rations?

Suddenly, he felt something being tossed beside him.

The Monarch Moth was holding a sapling that looked like it had been uprooted not long ago with its forelimbs, and it tossed it over.

Upon seeing what was on the sapling, Jiang Ping's eyes went wide.

Blood Demon Fruit. It was actually the Blood Demon Fruit! This thing could cause ordinary people to mutate. A single fruit was an extraordinary item sufficient to turn someone into a Mutant, awakening the Blood Demon Power, capable of both offense and defense. Luangang City possessed a squad called the Blood God Soldiers. All thirty-two members of the Blood God Soldiers had consumed the Blood Demon Fruit. Once, just seven of them had hunted down a Bone Demon Bear the size of a truck.

Jiang Ping swallowed several times. Now, an entire tree had appeared before him. What was the Monarch Moth's intention? Did it plan to let him eat it and then turn into a more delicious Mutant?

He looked up and found the Monarch Moth was still staring straight at him.

Forget it, whatever. Whether he stretched his neck out or pulled it back, the blade would fall either way. Eat!

The Blood Demon Fruits on this tree were more numerous than the entire Blood God Soldiers squad in Luangang City.

The fruit entered his mouth, carrying a bloody scent along with a hint of cloying sweetness. For Jiang Ping, who hadn't eaten anything good, it was already extremely delicious.

"I didn't expect the Blood Demon Fruit to taste like this. I thought it would taste terrible."

After all, the fruit looked frighteningly red and resembled a ghost's head.

One fruit entered his stomach, and his hunger was finally somewhat alleviated. But what he found strange was that he didn't seem to have awakened any Blood Demon Power.

Instead, two warm currents were continuously converging toward his eyes.

He looked up at the Monarch Moth again, but it still made no move, just looking at him. He could even clearly see his own reflection in the other's eyes.

The blue and red pupils were exceptionally distinct.

"My eyes…"

He felt nervous. Could something be wrong with his eyes?

Why hadn't the absorbed Blood Demon Fruit awakened any Blood Demon Power, but instead been absorbed by his eyes?

Jiang Ping didn't know, but his stomach was still very hungry, so he continued to eat.

One Blood Demon Fruit after another was shoved into his mouth; his stomach seemed to have turned into a bottomless pit.

The expected Blood Demon Power did not appear; all the energy was still being devoured by those two mutated eyes.

"What exactly is going on? What happened to my eyes?"

After eating the last fruit, Jiang Ping sat there stunned. Why was it like this? Fifty-six fruits—a full fifty-six fruits—and his body hadn't undergone any changes.

Let alone Blood Demon Power, not even his body had been strengthened in the slightest. As for his eyes, Jiang Ping gave a bitter smile; they still didn't seem to have anything special about them.

"Are you not going to eat me?"

Looking at the Monarch Moth that was still staring at him, he now also detected a hint of abnormality.

This Monarch Moth didn't seem to want to eat him.

Then what exactly was the reason for snatching him back?

The Monarch Moth's eyes gradually began to glow.

Boom! Jiang Ping felt as if his head were about to explode. A tyrannical mental force rushed into his mind, followed immediately by the appearance of a force of extreme heat and extreme cold.

Flames and cold mist suddenly rose in his eyes.

The flames and cold mist landed on the Monarch Moth's body.

The Monarch Moth's body was instantly covered in a demonic red fire, yet its body was also eerily frozen by frost.

Amidst this gradual burning and freezing, the Monarch Moth's massive body grew smaller and smaller, smaller and smaller.

Jiang Ping didn't know what would happen next. Extreme exhaustion spread through his entire body; he tilted to the side and collapsed.