Otherworldly Desert Dust

Wu Hen was not about to wait for an evacuation order; he grabbed Wang Rui and dashed away from the direction of the white Mold Body.

In terms of speed, Wu Hen certainly ran fast.

In no time, he had sprinted several miles away, and the Hao Clan soldiers had also activated their acceleration devices. They moved like a mobile unit on an alien planet, hopping forward, each leap covering more than ten meters, which was much faster than ordinary running.

After reaching a relatively safe place, Wu Hen looked back.

The evacuation of the Hao Clan soldiers was uneven—some were fast, while others were slow.

The slower ones had already been caught up by the horrifying white Mold Body.

"Brother Hen, what on earth is that..."

"Shh!" Wu Hen immediately shushed Wang Rui to silence.

His gaze was fixed on the soldiers in the rear as the white Mold Body spread over them, covering their armor at an alarming rate, from their feet to their heads...

The infected soldiers kept running as their gear became moldy. With their motions, the entirely mold-covered metal outer shell fell off to the ground and turned into white mold dust the moment it touched the earth!

This infection process continued; after the metal exterior turned moldy, something akin to a disease began to burrow into the soldiers' bodies.

As they kept running, their armor disappeared completely.

They were essentially stripped bare, exposing all their skin.

In fact, their skin was also becoming moldy, rapidly developing patches of white mold all over their bodies—limbs, torso, neck, head...

Eventually, one of the soldiers was entirely consumed by the white Mold Body, and his skin peeled away!

It was an entire piece of human skin that, after becoming moldy, turned ghastly pale and fell to the ground.

The soldier seemed to feel no pain and assumed it was just an insignificant layer of skin that he had lost; he kept fleeing forward, trying to escape this unknown moldy substance. But the people around him were terrified out of their wits because they saw a skinned man running among them in the group—a veritable blood demon!

After running for a while longer, that soldier finally became aware of something.

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His weapon seemed to have dissolved away at some point.

All his gear had fallen off.

His skin was gone, leaving nothing but a body drenched in blood, standing there, lost and helpless...

Undoubtedly, he had been robbed of his life.

But this deprivation had a delayed and anesthetic effect; the soldier himself did not notice it and had kept up with the main group for several minutes!

He collapsed softly, and without warning, his body tissue turned into a pool of dissolving blood, as if his entire being had melted away—utterly terrifying!

Wang Rui witnessed the entire death process of this soldier, his eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets.

In Otherworldly Dust, Wang Rui had seen all sorts of ways to die, but being skinned and then dissolving straight away was the most hair-raising of all, especially for his companions who had to watch a skinned blood man following right behind them. He was clearly no longer their familiar teammate but a bloody ghoul!

"What in the world is that thing? It's one thing for crystals to be infected, but even the heavy metal on soldiers' bodies? Biological weapons aren't this outrageous!" Wang Rui said, trembling.

Wu Hen furrowed his brows.

He didn't know what this substance really was.

Wu Hen had a premonition that if he were infected by this thing, he would probably end up like that soldier.

"I don't know. Just to be safe, we should get even further away; we don't know if the spread of this thing might change its pace," Wu Hen said.

"Okay, okay!"

Hearing that the speed of this substance might change, Wang Rui's complexion whitened further as he hurried to follow Wu Hen to an even more distant location.

In such times, the two of them naturally could not concern themselves with the Hao Clan soldiers. After all, everyone was unclear about what it was, and no one knew how to fight it.

"Hurry!! Faster!!"

Chang Huan was running and roaring at the same time.

His speed was clearly faster than the others; he would immediately fall back to assist any straggler soldiers by powerfully hurling them forward!

Some soldiers who were thrown ahead by him managed to survive by a hair.

But others were not so lucky, as they were eventually caught up by the white Mold Body; their fate was no different from that previous soldier's, utterly miserable.

Having witnessed such a manner of death, all the soldiers tapped into their survival instincts even more fervently, performing continuous leaps across the ground aided by their heavy armor, pushing their propulsion devices to the max...

"Commander, your hand!"

The Female Officer suddenly screamed.

Chang Huan glanced at his glove and noticed that the entire glove had turned into a frightening moldy white.

This glove material was so tough that even Heavenly Light had trouble tearing it apart, but he had just pulled on a soldier about to be moldered, and now his glove was covered in mold too!

"It's spreading!" the Female Officer exclaimed, pale with fear, pointing at Chang Huan's arm.

Chang Huan quickened his pace, realizing even if he shook off the white Mold Body behind him, anything on his body that came into contact with it would spread like a disease!

Chang Huan gritted his teeth and conjured up the laser knife in his other hand!

"Swoosh!!!"

The laser knife cut straight down at his elbow where the white Mold Body had just reached his forearm and had not yet penetrated his skin.

But now, Chang Huan could afford no hesitation; completely ignorant of this terrifying substance, he had to amputate his own forearm to save his life!