Gu Jin's gaze sharpened, and he swiftly severed several oncoming tentacles with his sword before ducking down to dodge, seeking survival in the gaps between them.

At the same time, he kept twitching his legs, trying to pull himself out of the "slime's" body.

However, this soft, sticky, swamp-like body only sank deeper the more it struggled.

Gu Jin quickly noticed this situation as well. Before the second wave of tentacles reached out, he stopped moving around and began wielding his knife, hacking away at the rotting flesh around his body.

Since he couldn't pull himself out, he decided to dig himself out of the pile of rotting flesh!

The others tried to help, but were blocked by the monster's tentacles.

However, with the brief distraction of a few people, most of the "slime's" attention was drawn to that.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Gu Jin frantically slashed at the surrounding rotting flesh, and finally escaped from its body in the next moment.

After he was able to move his legs again, he quickly pulled himself to a safe position with a few jumps.

Gu Jin glanced down at the filth covering his lower body, frowned, and his expression became completely serious.

This soft monster is indeed quite troublesome!

On the other side, the others finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Gu Jin escape danger.

Jiang Li approached Gu Jin and asked.

"Are you okay?"

Gu Jin waved his hand and said.

"It's nothing, it just smells a bit bad."

Jiang Li was truly relieved to see that Gu Jin was alright. After confirming that Gu Jin was safe, Jiang Li narrowed his eyes and carefully assessed the situation based on his observations.

When she stabbed down, she saw that the "slime's" eyes hadn't actually been blinded. Instead, they closed prematurely as the dagger approached and... disappeared into the writhing pile of rotting flesh.

It's as if the stab wasn't into the "slime's" brain, but into some insignificant part of its body.

"Hmm... its brain doesn't seem to be in the location we thought it was."

Jiang Li addressed the crowd.

And that was indeed the case; the combatants quickly discovered the strange change in the "slime."

Its red eyes, which had just disappeared from its "head" position, reappeared in the next moment!

To everyone's astonishment, the eyes shifted and opened at the very center of the body.

What can we do? This soft monster seems unkillable; no matter how we attack it, we can't inflict any fatal damage.

Just then, as everyone was wondering what was going on, Jiang Li seemed to recall a video he had once seen by chance.

She quickly shouted loudly.

"I seem to remember that mollusks don't have brains!"

"What!?"

Everyone was shocked.

A deep red light stared at the six people in front of it, and more tentacles, writhing and slowly appearing!

The next moment, the "slime's" tentacle attack arrived again. Gu Jin swung his sword while asking a question.

"It really doesn't have a brain? Then how can we kill it?!"

"It's true. I remember these mollusks don't have brains or hearts. As for how to kill them? Hmm..."

Jiang Li fell into deep thought, trying hard to recall his past memories, but because of the long time that had passed, he was unable to remember all the contents of the documents, so he could only offer a reminder.

"I don't know how they kill them, but a mollusc's body is generally composed of three parts: head, feet, and viscera."

These words made Gu Jin's eyes light up.

Regardless of what the other two parts were, just hearing the words "internal organs" made him feel that they were very important. So he said...

"If we can destroy this monster's internal organs, we can definitely kill it!"

"But the problem is, where is the entrails?"

Shi Yuan said while dodging.

Everyone was completely clueless, and it felt like no one could muster the strength to fight today.

Of course, we can't blame them for this, since in the past they had encountered zombies, zombified beasts, and mutated animals.

These vertebrates all have brains and share some similarities with humans.

Conversely, the zombie-like soft monster was something that everyone present was encountering for the first time.

The body structure of this oversized "slime" is completely beyond the scope of past experience. Anyone who touches it will be completely bewildered.

Since he didn't know where the "slime's" internal organs were, Jiang Li could only guess.

She instinctively knew at a glance that the other person's internal organs were hidden in the very center of their body.

But the monster is so big, more than ten meters long horizontally, how can we destroy it?

Suddenly, Jiang Li had an idea. She took out an iron rod that was more than 10 meters long from her spatial storage. She had found it in an abandoned house before. It was the kind of steel bar used for building houses. She thought it would be useful, so she put it in.

"Its internal organs should be in the center. Let's try using this to penetrate its body; it might be useful."

"good."

The group nodded and glanced at the iron bar in Jiang Li's hand, deciding to give it a try.

So Fu Xiaxia and Jiang Li distracted the "slime," and since Gu Jin and the other three were stronger, it was best to let them poke the iron rod in.

Gu Jin and the other three seized the opportunity and together thrust the iron rods in their hands into the center of the monster. They originally thought that since the knife could cut through so easily, it would be easy to stab the iron rods in as well.

It was indeed easy at first, but after the iron rod pierced about a meter into the monster's body, no matter how hard Gu Jin and the others tried, they could not move forward an inch.

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