ICUGW Chapter 35
- Hanim
- Sep 15, 2025
- 9 min read
Chapter 35 The House Where People Are Chased (8)
Zhu Ning placed her palm against the wall, feeling the sound of a heart beat coming from deep within.
Boom
Boom
Boom—
When a building is made, it is usually constructed with steel bars as reinforcement, then cement poured into it. To make an analogy, the steel bars were like a person's skeleton. Thus, when Zhu Ning linked with the steel bars, she also connected with the entire house; every door, every wall, every tiny screw. She was feeling the skeleton of the building.
In Huang Ya Ruo's eyes, Zhu Ning's behavior of leaning against the wall as if she was praying was confusing.
Suddenly, the hand touching the wall curled slightly, then the whole house shook.
The steel bars twisted inch by inch and gradually broke away from the wall. It seemed as if Zhu Ning was peeling off its skin and pulling out the bones.
Huang Ya Ruo looked at Zhu Ning in disbelief.
'She was demolishing a house? With her bare hands?'
In just a moment, the interior of the house started to break down.
The lamp on the ceiling shook wildly, and with a bang!, the lamp she had carefully selected fell to the ground and shattered into pieces. The wallpaper peeled off like scraps of newspaper, and pieces of the wall came crashing down.
The TV was smashed to pieces, the sofa cracked, and the refrigerator fell. The other furniture had hit the snail people, causing them to let out incomprehensible noises that eerie sounds like screams.
Huang Ya Ruo watched the entire house collapse, stunned. The house she had bought with all her savings and lived in for fifteen years was dying. Just like that.
Boom!
The largest ceiling collapsed.
Huang Ya Ruo reacted quickly. She stopped staring at the scene and put on the dead witcher's helmet and the protective suit to protect herself. But then as the house began to crumble, she heard the house cry out.
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts."
“Mom, mom—”
"Shut up!" Huang Ya Ruo covered her ears tightly. She didn't want to listen anymore.
I'm not your mother!
Monster! You're a monster!
The house shook, and the loud banging noises, along with the house's sobbing, kept drilling into Huang Ya Ruo's ears. She squatted beside Zhu Ning, covering her ears and closing her eyes, ignoring everything else.
Zhu Ning was concentrating on demolishing the house. She could not hear the house crying nor the snail peoples' shouting. Only the sound of steel breaking could register in her mind.
The hive was easier to manipulate because it was fully covered in metal, but the house wasn't. With her absolute control, the steel continued to twist, turning into a piece of scrap metal.
She could feel something dripping down her nose, but she didn't have time to wipe it.
[Please do not overuse your mental value.]
'Damn it. If I don't overuse it, I'd be buried here in this stupid house.'
Between dying and having her mental value damaged, she would gladly choose the latter.
【Your mental value is decreasing.】
【Your mental value is decreasing.】
[Decreased by 30%]
[Decreased by 40%]
[Decreased by 50%]
Zhu Ning retracted her hand and stopped in time when it reached 50%.
She was gasping for breath with her nose bleeding, but she couldn't reach out to wipe it. The blood was pooling below her head. She just didn't know if it would leak out from her helmet.
In an instant, she lost her hearing and sight.
Her five senses were clearly enhanced by genetic drugs and were far superior to those of ordinary people, but now she had lost all of it.
Losing control of one's body is horrifying, but losing all five senses is even more horrifying.
Zhu Ning tried to steady herself against the wall, but as soon as she reached out, she realized that the wall had vanished from her grip. She couldn't reach out to anything else, her vision was clouded in darkness, and she couldn't even hear a sound.
Bang!
Someone supported her.
It was a very thin body, having been tortured for many years until she was just a bag of bones.
Zhu Ning's body was too heavy for her, but she still gritted her teeth and held up Zhu Ning, preventing her from falling.
"He...llo!" she heard a very faint voice, "What's....with....y...?"
Like a clogged waterway, the sound couldn't reach her ears. Faint mumbles from here and there, Zhu Ning felt like her ears were submerged in water. It was as if water was flowing from her left ear to her right ear, and then back to her left ear.
After the water flowed away, her ear canal was unobstructed again.
"Hello? Hello!" Huang Ya Ruo was speaking.
Zhu Ning blinked her eyes, her vision slowly returning. The outline of broken walls and ruins appeared before her eyes. The entire house has collapsed. Right now, they seemed to be standing in a pile of rubble.
Mucous covered Zhu Ning's feet. The dead snail people had turned into a pool of water, releasing countless contaminated spores around her. After recovering her eyesight, everything looked beautiful in her eyes.
The blood-red contaminated spores covered the entire space like fireflies in summer. Clearly, there were more contaminated spores than last time.
Ding!
[Congratulations on completing the random mission: "The Haunted House."
Mission Objective:
Find the missing Huang Ya Ruo: 100%
Stay in the house overnight until dawn: 100%
Successfully escape: 100%]
[Reward settlement in progress...]
[Congratulations on receiving the basic reward: Mental Purification.
Your mental value has been restored to 100.
Your luck value is increased to 20.]
[Congratulations on receiving a purification value reward of 3000. Current purification value accumulation: 3154]
[Congratulations on receiving the house reward: Three-dimensional Defensive Space]
[Three-dimensional Defensive Space]
[Class C contaminated item.
Can form a 2x2x2 three-dimensional defensive space.
You are the sole owner of this space, and all people and objects entering must obtain your permission. Valid for 30 minutes.
Please note that using this item will consume 20 health points.]
[Congratulations on upgrading your primary talent: Metal Manipulation.
You can manipulate metal objects within a distance of two meters.
Please note that excessive use of this talent will damage your brain.]
[Congratulations on receiving the random mission reward: Blank Card]
[Blank Card]
[Any item can be stored in the card, but it can only hold one item.]
[This quest line promotes the side quest: "Find the Truth Behind Your Death."]
[A key clue has been found.
Search progress: 30%]
[Primary talent: Danger Premonition has been triggered.
A 30-second warning has been sent.
Please be careful.]
'!!!'
Zhu Ning was listening to the reward, when suddenly this sentence came out of nowhere.
Zhu Ning pushed Huang Ya Ruo to the ground.
Bang!
A bullet came flying.
Fortunately, Huang Ya Ruo was wearing a witcher's protective suit that was bulletproof. She quickly ran behind the ruins.
Zhu Ning raised her head. She had just used metal manipulation and her brain has not yet recovered, but in this critical situation, this talent was the most useful.
The bullet stopped one meter in front of Zhu Ning.
"There's a suspected mutant ahead." With the hearing enhancement from the genetic drug, she heard someone talking. "Repeat, there's a suspected metal mutant ahead."
Zhu Ning's eyes were blurry and the inside of her helmet was covered in blood. Everything she did was an instinctive reaction.
There was indeed an ambush waiting for her outside the house. This house was really an experimental subject, and someone was monitoring it.
Zhu Ning knew too much, so they were waiting here to kill her.
After eliminating and blowing up the contaminated area, her next challenge was assassination.
Twenty minutes ago, four heavily armed assassins had been lying in wait in the corridor, staring intently at the green door like wolves hunting in the dark.
They just received the news that someone in a center's uniform entered Experiment No. 777. The higher ups suspected the person to be sent by Prometheus to eliminate the contaminated area.
Thus, came two orders.
If the person was swallowed by the green door just like the witcher who had entered before, then there would be no danger and the team could be withdrawn smoothly. However, in the case that the person eliminated the contaminated area, then the team is expected to dispose the person as soon as they come out.
After waiting for twenty minutes, a loud noise came from inside.
Crack
CRACK–
It took about three minutes before the house became quiet again.
Then with a creak, the dilapidated green door opened, revealing the broken walls behind it and countless contaminated spores flying around.
The worst-case scenario came into play. Subject 777 was eliminated.
It was also the first time that the assassination team saw the person behind the door: a woman wearing a cleaner's pure black suit with a helmet covering her head.
Huang Ya Ruo was beside her supporting her. She looked a little exhausted.
'Did she do all this by herself?'
There was no time to think. All their cameras were turned on and instructions from their superiors came through their ear piece.
"Kill her."
"Kill her now."
When a person has just finished eliminating a contaminated area, they will be in a trance for a moment. This was the moment when the person is most relaxed. It was also the best time to kill.
Bang!
The team shot without any hesitation.
The order from above was to kill on the spot without leaving any survivors, so they didn't intend to leave any room for mercy; their bullets were all aimed at the opponent's eyebrows.
But the bullet did not hit the person's body. It stopped, hovering one meter in front of her.
An invisible barrier rose in front of the woman. Within a one-meter range, bullets were like toys in her palm.
A person with an ability?
Wasn't she wearing a cleaner's uniform? How could she be a mutant?
The assassination team leader immediately realized that something was wrong and had miscalculated. If he had known that the target of the mission was a person with an ability, he would have sent a person with ability over to kill her.
"The target of the mission is suspected to be a mutant with metal-type ability." He communicated with his companions.
"Change the air bomb."
It usually only takes three minutes to hunt a person, even if the person was with special abilities. If the target was not eliminated within three minutes, it means that the mission was likely to fail. Now it has been more than a minute.
Zhu Ning instinctively pushed Huang Ya Ruo away. With her brain not working well, she was trying hard to think about the current situation.
The contaminated area was not completely eliminated. After the house crumbled, it turned into a strange hole. The space was filled with blood-red contaminated spores, and the people lying in ambush were just outside the space.
The contaminated spores were still floating around.
This was a densely populated residential area. Once the contaminated spores start looking for new hosts, the entire community will become a contaminated area, and every person living here has a high chance of becoming a contaminant.
Zhu Ning was thankful that her mind was still clear.
She had to deal with the enemy first, so she sorted out the important events in an instant.
The people who came were very professional and were equipped with a sniper who was in the opposite building. Just now, a bullet coming from the rooftop of the building opposite had hit Zhu Ning right in the middle of her eyebrows.
Zhu Ning used to be a sniper, so she can quickly find the enemy's approximate location.
She knew that to eliminate a team, one must first eliminate their eyes–the sniper.
Zhu Ning's metal manipulation range was only two meters, and she couldn't use this ability to kill the opponent, so she clicked on the system panel.
[Do you want to use the item: Pig man's Guillotine?]
Zhu Ning: "Use."
The sniper held his breath and hid on the rooftop of the opposite building. He had just received from his team that Zhu Ning could control metal. They immediately concluded that Zhu Ning was a metal-related mutant.
He put away the traditional bullets and replaced them with air bullets. The man was a well-trained sniper. It only took him 30 seconds to make the judgment and reload, but these 30 seconds gave Zhu Ning an opportunity.
He had just changed his weapon and had not yet raised his gun when he suddenly felt a flash before his eyes. The sniper's pupils suddenly contracted, and a guillotine appeared out of thin air, getting closer and closer.
Zhu Ning can control metal, this was his first reaction.
The sniper took the opportunity to dodge, running at a very fast speed, but no matter where he went, the guillotine followed him like a snake. This was definitely not a traditional metal-based ability.
'What kind of sick ability would have tracking functions?!'
With a snap, the guillotine chopped down, cutting him in half.
[The Pig man's Guillotine has been used.
Entering cooldown: 24 hours.]
After eliminating one sniper, there were still four enemies. At the moment Zhu Ning used the pig man's guillotine, another killer had already changed guns.
Bang!
The air bullet was ejected. It was all air without any metal, so Zhu Ning could not control it.
[Do you want to use item: Rotten Fish Head Speed-up Function?
It will consume 3 health points.]
Zhu Ning: "Use."
The second killer was hiding in the shadow of the stairwell. He was the one who had fired the shot.
When the bullet was only one meter away from Zhu Ning, Zhu Ning moved. She suddenly turned into a shadow and was behind the second killer in the blink of an eye.
Bang!
This time it was Zhu Ning's turn to shoot.
The translator has something to say:
Translator: President Zhu! President Zhu! What can you say about your experience of collapsing a house contaminant and then encountering an assassination team immediately after?
Zhu Ning: I want to quit.
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