Inside The Black Mist

all in the Collection Team.
Although this bullet-firing gun had limited power and was bulky, it could still break the prowlers' will cage as long as fired within a range.
It was the only way to stop these dark subcultures.

So, handing over the gun was tantamount to handing over their lives.

At this moment, the glow stick's light began to dim.
A foot stepped on it and completely extinguished the cold light at the corner.

Those twisted shadows began to walk toward them, and the pale light emitted by the prowler's will cage in the dim corridor shone like ghostly flames dancing in the graveyard.

“Quick! Let me hold them off so you guys can go!”

Qin Wu urged, “I need more firepower.
Damn it, do you think I'm going to trap you!?”

Tianyang bit his lip and agreed, “Alright.”

The young man handed over his rifle and a magazine.

Qin Wu took them and waved his hand, “You guys leave through the window and find another way out.
Tianyang, you go first!”

Tianyang nodded, turned around and sprinted to the window.

As soon as he took a step forward,

Boom!

The young man shook all over, blood spraying from his right thigh, splattering on the helmet like a blooming flower.

He stumbled and fell to the ground.

This sudden change stunned the other two members.

Qin Wu shouted, “What are you waiting for? Follow me! There are too many prowlers in the building.
Now that his suit is broken, the type B pheromone he releases will attract those dark bastards.
This is our only chance!”

So that's how it is!

The young man felt cold reaching in his hands and feet, to which the injury and betrayal both contributed significantly.

The anger burned in his chest, rushing through his veins, finally turning into a roar.

“Qin Wu, why?!”

In his helmet, Qin Wu sneered, 

“Why so many questions? I am a citizen of the fortress; my status is high.
Dogs like you who live in the lower levels should feel honored to die for me now that you have the chance!”

“You bastard!”

Tianyang wanted to fight Qin Wu.

But the rifle pointed at him decided something else.

At the same moment, calmness descended upon him.
Tianyang realized panic was meaningless, only calm could give him a chance at survival.

Qin Wu aimed the gun at the young man and sneered at the other two, “Are you staying? If you don't leave, you stay with him!”

Qin Wu then walked towards the window.

The two team members pondered, looking at each other, and finally chose to leave with the captain.

“Wait!”

Tianyang took out a dagger, turning its tip towards his aggressor's heart.

“If you're leaving, give me a first aid kit and two units of survival supplies!”

Qin Wu panicked, “How come you still have a knife?!”

The dagger was not part of the standard equipment.

Tianyang sneered.
This alloy dagger was given by his mother for self-defense at his enlistment.
She had spent all of her savings to buy the knife.

The young man carefully hid it and never dared to use the piece of metal.
Naturally, Qin Wu did not know of its existence.

“Qin Wu, need I remind you that the dead won't release the type B pheromone.
If you don't give me what I want, I will die anyway.
I might as well take matters into my own hands now!” Tianyang shouted; his eyes determined.

In the helmet, Qin Wu sweat profusely and his eyes grew full of hesitation.

Tianyang looked at the other two team members, 

“Perhaps you need to persuade Captain Qin Wu, otherwise, the next one to be abandoned might be one of you two.”

“After all, you are both low-level citizens who can be sacrificed at any time, right?”

Dongyan and the other team members swallowed, holding their rifles tightly, not daring to directly point the muzzle at Qin Wu, but putting their fingers on the trigger.

Qin Wu noticed this and cursed in his heart.
This new of a recruit was pressuring him. 

If he had known that Tianyang would be difficult to deal with, or he could have just chosen another target.

But now…

“I'll give him a first aid kit, and each of you take out one unit of survival supplies! Hurry up, there's no time left!” Qin Wu quickly took off the backpack behind him, which contained a first aid kit.
The other two exchanged glances and also took out their survival supplies, then nervously watched Tianyang.

The young man moved his dagger away slowly.

Qin Wu breathed in a relief, then crawled out of the window.

Soon, the three of them used the building's external pipeline to climb up to escape from the prowlers inside.

Watching them leave, Tianyang did not say anything harsh, only keeping this grudge in his heart.

He wanted to reach out to the first aid kit, but a strange sound in the corridor attracted his attention, which sounded like wheezing bellows, getting closer.
Tianyang even saw a foot, with only three toes covered in viscous pus, stepping heavily on the ground.

The prowler had arrived!