42: Summoner's Response

White Feather's gaze was drawn to the Summoner next to her at this moment.

The Summoner had been very quiet since it arrived at the Monster Countermeasures Squad.

Just now, it actually reacted.

This reaction is...

"A reaction to a monster's appearance?"

This Summoner can detect monster reactions, so why didn't it react before?

White Feather instantly understood based on the information in her mind.

The previous Light Armor only appeared on time when powerful, high-level humanoid monsters emerged.

It usually didn't appear for low-level monsters or low-level disasters that the Monster Countermeasures Center could handle.

The previous Summoner's monster intelligence should also have been obtained through this Summoner.

So... the reaction from this Summoner means...

High-level monsters are active!

The location is...

"Leave there immediately, then disperse the surrounding civilians, and wait for support!"

White Feather paused, then understood and confirmed the information, speaking again to give instructions.

She paused for less than a second.

Even Jia Gu Yiyan's "bitch" remark was temporarily noted by her, not immediately addressed.

"Understood."

Jia Gu Yiyan, having received the instruction, quickly began to return the way he came without asking for any reasons.

However, just as Jia Gu Yiyan had taken a few steps, Chen Xuan's movements suddenly stopped.

Under Chen Xuan's feet, the dark green moss seemed to come alive, growing up his boots.

It firmly glued his body to the spot.

"Thump, thump, thump."

A moving sound came from the dark depths of the sewer.

It sounded like claws hitting the ground.

Jia Gu Yiyan quickly created distance, raised his gun, and fired rapidly.

Bang, bang, bang!

After a rapid burst of gunfire, a humanoid monster revealed its form under the light beam.

It had dark green skin, a brown, cockroach-like carapace, and steel-needle-like bristles on its arms, flanks, and hind legs.

Two slightly trembling antennae extended from the top of its head.

A pair of sharp claws were covered in a layer of dark green viscous fluid, and its fly-like eyes made it impossible to tell what it was staring at.

The bullets Jia Gu Yiyan had just fired only left white marks, emitting white smoke, on the monster's carapace and skin.

"Run immediately!"

White Feather's voice came from her ear.

She sounded somewhat out of breath and flustered.

At this moment, White Feather quickly opened the Summoner's glass cover, took out the Summoner, held it in her palm, and put it into her bag.

Then, she quickly took the elevator to the ground, rode a motorcycle, and burst out of the Monster Countermeasures Center through a secret door.

If according to the test results she had set up that morning, Jia Gu Yiyan possessed the aptitude to become a Summoner.

White Feather knew she shouldn't be so anxious.

The Summoner did not belong to her; even she did not have the authority to take the Summoner and leave the Monster Countermeasures Center.

Her actions were undoubtedly a violation.

If Jia Gu Yiyan did not have the aptitude to summon and could not use the Summoner.

Her taking the Summoner would just cause it to fall into the monster's hands.

Then she would have made a huge mistake.

However, she absolutely could not stand by and watch Jia Gu Yiyan die under the monster's claws.

She joined the Monster Countermeasures Division because of Jia Gu Yiyan.

She and Jia Gu Yiyan had known each other for a long time; they were childhood sweethearts.

From elementary school to junior high, she was always alone; she thought her peers were too immature and disdained playing with them.

In reality, she knew the true reason in her heart.

She was introverted and reclusive, simply not daring to make friends.

Thinking her peers were immature was just an excuse she made for herself.

Until one day, she met Jia Gu Yiyan.

He cornered the bad students from his class and the next class in the restroom and beat them up.

At that time, Jia Gu Yiyan seemed to have suffered some injuries too, but those bad students were all bleeding from their heads.

The final result was that Jia Gu Yiyan received a disciplinary action and was suspended for a year.

All those Hoodlums transferred schools.

As for the reason for their transfer, it seemed that during Jia Gu Yiyan's suspension, he would wait outside the school and beat them every time he saw them.

Then they had no choice but to drop out.

White Feather later learned that the reason Jia Gu Yiyan beat those bad students was because those guys were planning to bully her.

It was a very nasty kind of bullying, and they even prepared some very nasty drugs for it.

The reason for the bullying was probably because she had no friends, was reclusive, and looked easy to pick on.

That was many years ago, but Jia Gu Yiyan had never told her about it.

Even after they became friends, he never mentioned it.

Of course, her own personality was very awkward, and it was impossible for her to bring up the matter herself.

"Team Member White Feather, please bring the Summoner back immediately!"

"You have already violated..."

Listening to the words in her earpiece, White Feather expressionlessly turned off the public channel of her earpiece, only keeping the private channel.

Then, she twisted the throttle to the maximum, bent down, and pressed herself against the motorcycle, weaving through traffic at full speed.

Her white clothes flapped in the wind, and strands of hair extended from the gaps in her helmet, fluttering behind her.

"Damn it, what kind of mutated cockroach man is this? It's disgusting enough."

Jia Gu Yiyan looked at the motionless monster.

Even though the hairs on his back stood up, he did not act rashly.

"Yiyan, hurry and go, don't worry about me."

"I can't move now, at least I can help you stall for a bit."

Chen Xuan looked at Yiyan, raised his gun at the monster, and spoke seriously.

"It's precisely because you can't move that the monster won't attack you."

"So, I'll distract the monster, and you just wait for rescue here."

After Jia Gu Yiyan finished speaking, he rushed to the side and fired at the monster again.

"Wait, Yiyan! Yiyan!"

Chen Xuan hurriedly tried to stop him, but Jia Gu Yiyan had already fired first and shouted.

"You stinky cockroach man, are you laying eggs standing there?!"

"Now is not a good time to lay eggs; they're going to be stomped flat by me later!"

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Jia Gu Yiyan said this while firing to attract attention.

And the cockroach man indeed turned its head towards Jia Gu Yiyan's position.

However, with those fly eyes, Jia Gu Yiyan couldn't be sure if its gaze was actually on him.

Probably so.

"Whoosh!"

A sound of extreme wind arose as the cockroach man rushed towards Jia Gu Yiyan's position at extreme speed.

Its speed was so fast that it closed the distance between them in the blink of an eye.

Bang, bang, bang!

The fired bullets landed on the cockroach man, bouncing off one after another, having no obstructive effect whatsoever.

"Sometimes enduring necessary humiliation is for a better tomorrow."

Jia Gu Yiyan seemed to have made up his mind, dropping his rifle and sprinting at full speed.

But even so, the distance between the cockroach man and him continued to close.

Seeing that it was about to catch up, Jia Gu Yiyan suddenly turned and leaped into the sewage river.

His entire body submerged into the sewage, diving beneath the surface.

Because the sewage was very murky, by jumping in like that, even the cockroach man on the bank could not determine Jia Gu Yiyan's position.

Jia Gu Yiyan submerged underwater, holding his breath while carefully swimming.

'Let's just keep this stalemate going; I can stay underwater for 8 minutes without coming up for air!'