This feeling seemed familiar, and it was this familiar feeling that inadvertently awakened Xie Xuan's consciousness. She suddenly opened her eyes, and the eyes that were staring at her in the endless darkness in her mind quickly disappeared.

But there was also darkness in front of her, and it was a darkness that came towards her with a gust of wind.

Xie Xuan instinctively dodged backwards. After taking several steps, she finally saw the full picture of the pitch-black thing.

This is a monster that is three or four meters tall.

Xie Xuan had seen a slime monster crawling out of a statue in the realm of mutation before, but this monster was more abstract and difficult to describe.

It looked like a giant, but there was not a single intact part on its body. Its hands and feet were distorted as if they were made of plasticine by a three or four-year-old child at will. The place where the head should be was empty, with only a small lump about the size of a football.

The headless giant's body is dark purple, almost black. It looks clumsy, but its movements are extremely fast.

After failing to attack Xie Xuan, its hand immediately swept towards Song Zhixian and Chongming who were standing nearby.

Xie Xuan stepped forward immediately, but someone was faster than her and pulled the two people out of the monster's attack range one by one.

It turned out to be Xiao Yao. He got rid of this inexplicable mental infection faster than Xie Xuan.

Xie Xuan turned around and looked at the eight people around him, but after forming this strange formation, their bodies seemed to be drained away.

The already bony hands had now completely turned into a skinny corpse, and the cloak had become empty.

Xie Xuan subconsciously attacked the nearest cloaked man, but the monster immediately gave up on Xiao Yao and suddenly jumped up and rushed towards Xie Xuan.

Xie Xuan quickly rolled sideways to avoid it, and when she stood up, a black shadow quickly emerged from her shadow and turned into a giant almost as tall as the monster, blocking the monster's next attack.

The monster looked like an infected creature made entirely of life force, but what Xie Xuan didn't expect was that the shadow's feedback to her was still that it was just like the marble on the ground, something with almost no life force.

This seems impossible, but Shadow just can't gain any vitality from the monster, just like what happened in the infected town.

The two situations were so similar that Xie Xuan couldn't even think it was a coincidence.

Moreover, this characteristic seems to have been specially developed for people with special abilities like Xie Xuan.

But Xie Xuan’s ability has only been activated for a short time. Who would develop such an infectious agent specifically to target her ability?

But now is not the time to think about these things. The shadow giant was unable to stop the monster for long. Xie Xuan immediately grasped the dagger and quickly approached the monster's ankle to block it.

The dagger was very sharp and easily cut off the monster's ankle.

After its ankles were cut, the monster tilted forward unsteadily, but before it completely fell, Xie Xuan saw that its feet were like two pieces of plasticine that had been cut apart, with one piece stuck back together.

And it stuck without leaving any trace, so the monster quickly regained its footing.

It seems that the breakthrough lies in the eight people who form the formation.

Just as Xie Xuan turned around to look for another opportunity, she saw Chongming quickly and efficiently twist off the head of one of the eight people standing at the spot.

The mask was tightly fastened to the face, and even after it fell to the ground and rolled twice, it was still tightly stuck together. The headless body was like a scarecrow with its hat taken off, still standing upright in the same place.

The monster immediately turned its attention to Chongming. The moment the monster turned around, Xie Xuan threw the dagger out with force, cutting off the connected purple-red mycelium.

The mycelium was easily cut, but the monster continued to move around as usual.

Chongming dodged quickly, and in the process, he knocked the man whose head he had just twisted off away from his original position.

But the monster's attack still fell as usual, and Chongming dodged to the side at the last moment, leaving a shallow pit on the ground and splashing dust.

"Don't kill these people!" Xiao Yao didn't care about anything else and shouted immediately.

Song Zhixian and Xie Xuan returned to Xiao Yao's side. Now was not the time to worry about how Xiao Yao knew these things.

Xie Xuan asked: "How do you say that?"

"The key lies in the mask. All we need to do is destroy it." Xiao Yao said concisely, "I'll attract the monster's attention. Xie Xuan, you use the dagger to smash the mask."

Xie Xuan nodded, and Song Zhixian said, "I'll also go and attract attention. Chongming's ability is more suitable for destroying masks."

As Chongming approached, he heard Xiao Yao say, "It shouldn't be possible. These masks cannot be assimilated."

Although the others were a little curious about the secret that Xiao Yao was hiding, they still quickly started to act according to what Xiao Yao said.

The four people gathered together, and the monster jumped up again and hit them.

The monster's attack method is quite simple. Although it is impossible to cause actual fatal damage to it, it is still possible to delay it.

The monster and the other eight people in the Lost Paradise had no heartbeat. Song Zhixian's supernatural powers were completely ineffective, and now he could only use thermal weapons for support.

Xiao Yao's fire ability has little killing power on the monster, and Chongming can only use mycelium to restrain the monster's movements.

And they could clearly feel that the power of this monster was becoming stronger and stronger as time went by.

Xie Xuan was entrusted with an important task, but her progress was not so smooth.

The mask was oval in shape, without the bumps of a nose like a normal mask. It was like a round eggshell placed on their faces, with only two pitch-black holes where the eyes should be.

Xie Xuan tried hard not to look at the two dark gaps, but even though her eyes didn't see them, her mind saw the eyes as she got closer.

A pair of purple-black snake eyes stared at her in the darkness. They were huge and cold, blending into the endless darkness.

It was like the first and final gaze, like the gaze of God and also like the gaze of the devil. It was so heavy and yet so light.

At this moment, Xie Xuan fell into nothingness again.

Who is she? Where is she? What is she going to do?

The tip of the dagger had already landed on the mask, but her hand couldn't poke it any further.

Her body and consciousness became extremely confused. Xie Xuan knew that she had to destroy the mask, but she could not control her body.

The black shadow came out again, wrapping itself around Xie Xuan's arm and pushing it down.

"Sizzle—"

With a very slight sound, the mask cracked and quickly shattered into black ashes and disappeared into the air. The monster behind it also paused.