Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot-Chapter 1196 - 491 Catching the Culprit

Chapter 1196: Chapter 491: Catching the Culprit

Chapter 1196 -491: Catching the Culprit

“Wang Tao? Am I dead or dreaming…”

Groggy, Cheng Yiyi thought she saw Wang Tao appear before her.

At this moment, Cheng Yiyi was clad in her powered armor, which was completely drained of energy. Rough iron chains tightly bound her, rendering her immobile.

Red light flickered in Wang Tao’s eyes as two high-temperature rays burst forth, quickly melting the thick chains.

Then Wang Tao found the powered armor wouldn’t open.

But this wasn’t an issue for him. He continued using the high-temperature ray to easily cut open the armor, revealing the Cheng Yiyi inside.

Cheng Yiyi was down to just over fifty HP and could die at any moment.

Wang Tao held her in his arms and carefully checked her body. Once he assured herself nothing was missing, he finally relaxed.

Although Lan Yulian’s healing ability was strong, it could only restore HP and heal wounds. It couldn’t create something out of nothing. If someone’s arm was severed, the healing ability could reattach it. However, if the arm was gone, then the healing ability couldn’t regrow it.

So as long as there were no missing parts, even with just over fifty HP, there wasn’t much of a problem.

“What are you doing…”

Cheng Yiyi watched as Wang Tao felt around on her body and even lifted her clothes to check thoroughly. Her pale face suddenly turned a bit red. But this real sensation… it didn’t seem like a dream?

“Checking for internal injuries, but it seems there’s nothing serious. Don’t be afraid, you won’t die.”

Wang Tao took out a medical kit and began treating and bandaging Cheng Yiyi.

“I… really got rescued?”

Lying in Wang Tao’s arms, Cheng Yiyi slowly came to realize she wasn’t dead, nor dreaming. The person before her was really Wang Tao. She was saved!

The medical kit quickly added a thousand HP to Cheng Yiyi. Although it was still far from the maximum of a hundred thousand HP, it was enough to get Cheng Yiyi past the critical condition.

“What exactly happened? How did you end up here, and who tied you up?”

Seeing that Cheng Yiyi’s spirit had improved considerably, Wang Tao finally asked.

Upon mentioning the incident, Cheng Yiyi bit her lip, her face looking very ugly.

“It was Lin Kaiyang! He ambushed me!”

“Him?”

Wang Tao was somewhat taken aback. Lightning had mentioned someone held animosity towards Wang Tao, but that person wasn’t Lin Kaiyang. Wang Tao hadn’t noticed anything off about him. Although Lin Kaiyang’s words couldn’t be proven to be true or false, they didn’t seem false. But to Wang Tao’s surprise, even he had been deceived…

“Yes, him! I never suspected he would hide his true nature… He attacked me and Pei Hai while we were battling a Level 5 Lord, killed Pei Hai, and locked me up here…”

Cheng Yiyi explained grimly to Wang Tao.

It turned out that most of what Lin Kaiyang had told Wang Tao earlier was true. From when Pei Hai had brought them there, to encountering the Level 5 Lord, and then the failed fight followed by the retreat, Cheng Yiyi and Pei Hai covering their retreat… all of these incidents were true. But the subsequent fate of Pei Hai and Cheng Yiyi, as told by him, was fabricated.

He said Pei Hai and the powered armor had been torn apart by the mutated banyan, and Cheng Yiyi was pulled out of the armor and eaten by the mutant tree.

But the reality was that the powered armors of Cheng Yiyi and Pei Hai had been tampered with, significantly reducing their combat effectiveness. They couldn’t even ditch the armors because they couldn’t get out; the powered armors had become burdens.

Thankfully, the tree monster couldn’t move, and with Cheng Yiyi’s strength being strong enough, she and Pei Hai supported each other and managed to escape.

But Lin Kaiyang and two other powered armors were waiting not far away and ambushed her and Pei Hai.

Pei Hai was killed on the spot by Lin Kaiyang while trying to protect Cheng Yiyi. Cheng Yiyi attempted to flee but failed and was captured by Lin Kaiyang.

Cheng Yiyi thought she was as good as dead, but Lin Kaiyang didn’t kill her. Instead, he told her that he had control over the powered armor, and he could kill Cheng Yiyi at any time.

Lin Kaiyang forced Cheng Yiyi to cede the position of Army Commander of the Sixth Legion to himself and to recognize Lin Kaiyang as her master, becoming his slave.

Cheng Yiyi would rather die than agree to such terms, and Lin Kaiyang didn’t dare stay there any longer since he couldn’t defeat the Level 5 Lord himself.

So he left Cheng Yiyi there, in powered armor with no energy supply, no capability to move, and no way to get out, which became her prison.

And to be safe, Lin Kaiyang had also bound the powered armor with iron chains. He told Cheng Yiyi that after he took control of the Sixth Legion, he would “properly take care” of Cheng Yiyi and make her publicly acknowledge him as her master.

After that, Cheng Yiyi passed out, and the next time she woke up groggily, she had been rescued by Wang Tao.

“I must kill him with my own hands! Cough cough—”

Cheng Yiyi grew angrier as she spoke, but since her wounds hadn’t healed completely, anger overwhelmed her and she collapsed weakly into Wang Tao’s arms.

“Alright, don’t get so worked up that you harm yourself. I’ll take you with me to catch him.”

Wang Tao patted Cheng Yiyi’s back and then carried her out of the banyan tree cave with one arm.

“Uh… I think I can walk…”

Cheng Yiyi felt a bit uncomfortable, for with the disparity in their sizes, she felt like a child being held by Wang Tao.

Wang Tao didn’t respond to her. With her current condition, she would only slow him down.

It didn’t take long for Wang Tao to return to the banyan tree cave where Lin Kaiyang and the others were hiding.

However, to Wang Tao’s surprise, Lin Kaiyang was gone.