Chapter 379: 225, Exotic Beasts pour out of their nest! Everyone is like a bird in a cage!

"You can divvy up this Giant Mutant Rat. I won't take a share,"

"Ah? This is the prey you killed, you are going to just give it all to us?"

"It's true that I killed it, but it's not my prey."

After saying this, Lin Zichen turned and walked over to Shen Qinghan to see how He Yu's injuries were.

The injuries have basically stabilized.

It's just that arm, severed clean through, likely gone for good, and he'll have to live with being one-armed from now on.

As for becoming a Mechanically Modified Human... the risks are too high.

The genetic structure inside a Genetic Integrator's body is incredibly complex, with strong rejection properties, so the risks involved in mechanical modification are too great and generally not worth the loss.

"Zi Chen, I really envy your strength. If I were as powerful as you, I wouldn't be afraid even if an Ordinary Level Giant Mutant Rat bit me while I stood still."

He Yu looked at Lin Zichen standing before him and said with a self-deprecating, bitter smile.

Back when he had just started high school, he would often show off in front of Lin Zichen, constantly thinking about how to subtly flaunt his own awesomeness in an unassuming way.

Unexpectedly, in just four years, the gap between them had become vast as heaven and earth.

One was the top student of Shanhai University.

The other had just reached the Ordinary Fifth Order in Biological Level.

Truly lamentable.

Lin Zichen knew He Yu was being self-deprecating and did not play along, merely expressing his concern calmly, "Rest up and heal. After this is over, the four of us in the group will get together for a meal."

Soon, He Yu, whose wounds had been treated in an emergency, was taken away by the field medic.

Lin Zichen did not linger long. He quickly left with Shen Qinghan to clear out more Giant Mutant Rats.

As the two ventured deeper in the direction of the Scarlet Giant Tree, the scenes they came across became increasingly bloodier.

They saw many bodies lying on the ground.

Deep inside, it was hard to accept.

"Lin Zi, so many people have died..."

Shen Qinghan said softly, feeling very upset.

Lin Zichen also felt bitter inside, but he maintained a calm exterior and replied, "This is an unavoidable occurrence. You'll get used to it."

No sooner had he spoken than a familiar figure approached.

It was the former student council president—Zhou Xuehong.

At that moment, he was covered in scars, some already healing, others still bleeding profusely.

He had clearly just finished a fierce battle not long ago.

"Lin Zichen, looking around at the corpses littering the ground, do you understand now why I insisted on fostering a Survival of the Fittest environment at our school?"

Zhou Xuehong, gasping for breath, looked at Lin Zichen earnestly and said.

Without waiting for Lin Zichen's response, he continued, "It's because catastrophes are cruel, and the environment is extremely harsh."

"If you don't cultivate a strong will during these four years at university, then heading to the battlefield after graduation is almost like heading to the execution ground, practically a certain death."

Zhou Xuehong went on, "In today's rodent disaster, many people didn't need to die."

"It's because their mental fortitude was too weak. At the sight of the swarming rat horde, their legs went soft and they couldn't perform to their true ability, leading to their deaths."

"And this is just a rodent disaster on Earth—a trivial rodent disaster."

"If this were in the Origin Land, the scale of the beast tide we'd face would only be a hundred times, a thousand times, even ten thousand times more brutal than now."

"And you, who have never been to the Origin Land to withstand a beast tide, don't understand anything. You only know how to be young and arrogant, showing off in front of your peers to satisfy your own insignificant vanity."

Zhou Xuehong knew that his strength could not match Lin Zichen's.

However, he would still stand by the principles he cherished.

He wanted to use the current situation to leave Lin Zichen with no room for rebuttal, to prove that his actions were correct.