Seeing how much Yunyang hated insects, Cang Zhuonian, inside the mecha, raised his hand without hesitation. The energy rifle struck the insect’s hard shell.
The energy rifle wasn’t powerful enough to penetrate the defenses of an eighth-level insect, but it was enough to draw its attention toward the humanoid mecha.
When the insect turned around, Yunyang let out a sigh of relief, but still did her best to look away.
If she kept watching, she was afraid she would vomit up everything she had eaten that morning.
Outside the tower, after watching his companion emerge from the beastman’s body, the co-pilot was also pierced through the back by spider legs.
Cang Zhuonian operated the mecha and carefully placed the co-pilot’s corpse to one side before focusing on dealing with the two insects.
Both insects were eighth-level.
With his advantage in rank, Cang Zhuonian could trap them inside his ability barrier, but he couldn’t eliminate both insects right away—the mecha’s power was only equivalent to that of an S-rank ability user.
Fortunately, Jenkins hadn’t come merely to watch the show.
He gestured to the other supervisors, and the twenty of them grabbed their weapons and charged out in formation.
Yunyang also sent the SS-rank ability users Fu Shiyi, Pei Wenye, and Chen Yueli to help.
Although Fuyuan’s ability rank was high enough, his mutated sonic waves were somewhat special. If he used them as an offensive method, he would suffer a thousand points of damage to inflict only a thousand and eight hundred on his enemy. Yunyang didn’t dare let him join the fight.
Luckily, both insects were only eighth-level. The three beastmen husbands were more than enough to handle them.
Yunyang really didn’t want to look at the insects, so she didn’t glance outside again for the entire battle.
Cang Zhuonian coordinated with those who had come to help. He was responsible for defending against the insects’ attacks with his ability, while the others focused on dealing damage.
The greatest characteristic of the insect race was their ability to take a beating and their powerful defenses.
But they were only eighth-level insects, after all. Before long, both of them had been eliminated.
Fu Shiyi, the other two, and the twenty supervisors carefully inspected their clothes first, confirming that none of them had been splashed with blood before returning to Yunyang’s side.
The twenty supervisors also returned to the Purification Tower.
Cang Zhuonian operated the mecha and properly arranged the two pilots’ bodies. The subsequent condolence arrangements would have to wait until the military arrived.
The military didn’t keep those present waiting for long.
After receiving Jenkins’s message, the deputy officer stationed at the First Army’s base immediately dispatched a squad.
However, the two locations were simply too far apart. Even traveling at full speed, the First Army’s squad didn’t make it in time for the battle. They even witnessed the Purification Tower’s people finish off the two insects.
The group of young soldiers, who had been brimming with excitement, instantly deflated.
Being stationed at the base was nowhere near as interesting as being on a frontier planet. They had finally encountered insects infiltrating Central Star, only to find that the Purification Tower had dealt with them before they even arrived.
They couldn’t even make it in time for the hot food.
The First Army squad sighed, but still seriously helped take care of the two pilots’ remains.
Cang Zhuonian also emerged from the mecha and put away his combat unit.
Only, a flicker of scarlet occasionally passed through his golden eyes.
Jenkins had been prepared to praise the young cub properly, but the moment he opened his mouth, he saw that something was clearly wrong with Cang Zhuonian’s expression.
He quickly understood what was happening and was about to speak when Cang Zhuonian interrupted him urgently.
“Deputy Jenkins, the restraint straps. Quickly.”
Cang Zhuonian took a deep breath and desperately tried to calm himself, but his reason was still being eroded bit by bit by the contamination.
He could only force those words out with all his strength.
Jenkins didn’t waste any time. He immediately took the restraint straps from his spatial button and tied Cang Zhuonian up.
Almost the instant he was restrained, Cang Zhuonian uncontrollably transformed back into his beast form.
The enormous Qilin came into everyone’s view, its dazzling golden eyes replaced by scarlet.
Jenkins had no choice but to call over several supervisors to restrain the Qilin once again.
Yunyang soon noticed the disturbance.
Meeting those scarlet eyes, she furrowed her brows. “Mr. Jenkins, his contamination level…”
Hadn’t they said he had already been injected with an inhibitor?
“It must have worsened again because he just used his ability.” Jenkins sighed, then turned to the other supervisors. “Take Lady Yunyang to the rest room first.”
The Qilin’s body was already enormous, and he was now in an uncontrollable state. Even though he had been restrained, there was no guarantee he wouldn’t affect the people nearby.
Jenkins didn’t dare let Yunyang remain there.
Yunyang also knew that her presence would make it difficult for everyone to act, so she quickly followed the supervisors away.
After sitting in the rest room for less than two minutes, she contacted Jenkins to ask about Cang Zhuonian’s condition.
At the starport, Fu Shiyi had immediately noticed that the two pilots had been parasitized by insects, though he couldn’t determine the insects’ level.
At the time, she had remembered that the Qilin she purified yesterday was an SSS-rank ability user. So she had pretended that nothing was wrong and tricked the two of them into coming to the Purification Tower.
Before setting out, she had specifically asked about the situation, and she had only felt reassured after Jenkins told her there was no problem.
But she had underestimated how quickly the contamination level of an SSS-rank ability user could rise.
A battle lasting less than ten minutes had caused the Qilin’s contamination level to shoot up again, directly sending him into a berserk state.
The trouble had begun because of her, so Yunyang was very concerned about the Qilin’s condition.
It took Jenkins a while to reply.
[Jenkins: He’s already been locked in the containment room, but his condition isn’t good. Lady Yunyang, could you possibly…?]
He didn’t send the rest of the message, but Yunyang could guess what he meant.
Yesterday, she and Lulu had worked together and exhausted their mental power, barely managing to lower the Qilin’s contamination level to 90.
Today, she was alone. Would she be able to do it?
Yunyang pressed her lips together and first asked You Lu about her situation in the group chat.
[You Lu: Sister Zhiwei isn’t in any serious danger. It’s her beastmen husbands who were badly injured. One after another, they passed out as soon as they arrived at the treatment center. I’ve sent Wen Xu and the others to help.]
It looked like Lulu wouldn’t be able to return anytime soon.
Yunyang took a deep breath and then asked Fu Shiyi, “A-Shi, did you see his contamination level just now?”
“99.” Fu Shiyi calmly dropped a bombshell. “It’s still rising.”
That little bit of hesitation Yunyang had vanished instantly.
The Purification Tower had been built far away from the beastmen’s residential areas, and it was a long distance from everywhere.
By the time Lulu finished dealing with things and made her way over from the treatment center, at least an hour would have passed. The Qilin might not be able to hold on that long.
In any case, all her own beastmen husbands were here. If one attempt wasn’t enough, she could wait for her mental power to recover and purify the Qilin a second time.
Yunyang quickly stood up.
[Jenkins: Mr. Jenkins, is he still in yesterday’s containment room?]
After receiving confirmation, she took her eight beastmen husbands and headed toward the seventy-eighth floor.
Inside the containment room, Jenkins and the supervisors were struggling to calm the Qilin down.
The Qilin’s entire body was bound with restraint straps made from the Federation’s toughest material. He lay on the floor like a small mountain.
Yunyang saw this scene the moment she entered.
She had no time for pleasantries with Jenkins and decisively released her mental power.
Today, she was alone. She didn’t dare invade Cang Zhuonian’s mental landscape again, so she could only purify him from a distance.
But even after she expended half of her mental power, Cang Zhuonian’s contamination level had only dropped slightly—and that was with her using her ability to bless herself.
