Too hard to kill

In an instant, it seemed as if the air around had condensed, making it difficult to breathe.

Cold beads of sweat slid down Liu Xia's forehead. She had never seen such a strange thing before. Even the octopus monster she encountered in the "Laotao Restaurant" left before she could see the whole picture.

I didn’t expect Shen Wanren to be so crazy that he merged himself with the monster.

Liu Xia calmed himself down, calming his somewhat rapid breathing. He reminded himself not to be frightened by the monster in front of him. He spoke calmly, "I haven't seen City Lord Shen for many days. I didn't expect you to have changed so much."

Aside from the tentacles blocking the door and constantly killing the miners trying to leave, Shen Wanren didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack. Instead, he raised his tentacles to admire his new appearance: "Changes?"

Along with the sticky sound of tentacles sliding, the strange stench of Shen Wanren mixed with fishy smell came towards him like a wall.

"This is a perfect evolution! Tell me, is my new body perfect?" Shen Wanren's voice approached quickly along with the smell, "Speak! Hmm?!"

Liu Xia and Song Xuan didn't wait for the other party to get close. The triggers of the three pistols were pulled at the same time, and the explosive flame bombs flew towards Shen Wanren quickly, exploding into handfuls of sparks.

"If you have something to say, please say it. It's impolite of you to get so close to a lady without permission, City Lord Shen." Liu Xia's eyes were extremely cold. The fear in his eyes had faded. He kicked the ground with his feet and quickly retreated to a safe distance.

Shen Wanren was indeed a decent and elegant person before he merged with the monster. Now this elegance has been largely replaced by bestiality, and it is all thanks to the octopus's own intelligence and IQ that some of the bestiality is offset.

"The two little ghosts named He and Ding didn't follow you. Are they dead?"

Liu Xia said coldly: "Even though you have become inhuman and weird, how come you have forgotten basic etiquette?"

Seeing that Liu Xia not only ignored his words but started to mock him, Shen Wanren's tentacles began to swing wildly, and black mucus splashed out with the burst wound, but it healed quickly again.

"What a shame! Don't worry, I'll take you to your reunion right now. Everyone here today will become my nourishment!"

Each of his tentacles suddenly ejected a sticky black mist at the same time, with strange blue light spots flashing in the mist.

The miner, enveloped in the mist, accidentally inhaled it and immediately pinched his throat and knelt on the ground. Moving bumps began to appear under his skin, as if countless parasites were crawling under his skin.

"Hold your breath! There's something in the fog!" Song Xuan wanted to tear off the protective mask and give it to Liu Xia, but she held him down forcefully.

Liu Xia nimbly rolled sideways, took off the miner's mask, which was already dead, and put it on his head. He said with a firm gaze, "We all have to get out alive!"

"Alright!" Song Xuan's forehead veins bulged. He casually shot the miner's head, which was wailing in pain and rapidly shrunken, and said anxiously, "Let's retreat quickly!"

"You can't get away!" Shen Wanren let out a deafening scream, and his eight tentacles attacked at the same time. The tentacles smashed into the ground and emerged from the slime at the top of the tunnel like a pile driver, hammering the miners into the slime underground and turning them into a pool of mud.

The tentacles persevered in emerging from the mucus and blocking their way, determined to keep the two alive. However, Liu Xia tore them off repeatedly with his hands in front of him, and the tough tentacles were effortlessly torn into one-meter-square cracks.

He actually led the miners who were a little further away from the poisonous fog and fought their way out.

Almost half of the miners trapped in the tunnel were killed in this massacre. Some were eaten by insects after inhaling the poisonous mist, while others were sucked dry by tentacles and beaten into a pool of meat paste.

Zhao Dan, who did not have time to escape from the tunnel with Tan Meng, was now blocked at the exit. His face was completely covered by the black mist gushing out of the tentacles at the entrance, and he had inhaled a large amount of the black mist.

She coughed up a mouthful of black blood and felt as if her body was being madly eaten by countless small insects. She knelt on the ground in agony: "Damn it... How can I fight this!"

Zhao Dan saw from afar that Liu Xia, who had torn the tentacles into several pieces, was already running towards here.

She looked at her teammates who had shriveled up from inhaling the black mist, and knew she was doomed. She gritted her teeth and stood up, hanging the tactical belt around her waist. She ripped off the fuse on the explosive bomb and hugged the purple-black tentacles blocking the door. She didn't care that the blood was being quickly sucked out of her body by the suction cups. She turned around and shouted to Liu Xia who was running towards her, "Liu Xia, take the living people out with you!"

Liu Xia looked at Zhao Dan, who was rapidly shrinking, from afar, and a trace of pity involuntarily appeared in his eyes.

Recalling the first time they met, Zhao Dan helped her block the driver Lao Mao who was sick, and he did not hesitate to block the attacking Brother Peng for her.

"From now on, just follow me in this car. Sister Dan will protect you!"

"Do you think I was cruel just now?"

In just a few hours, the captain who had been nice to her before died.

The violent explosion blew Shen Wanren's tentacles that were blocking the exit into several pieces, and also blew open a way out.

In the spacious hall, the miners who had just managed to escape from the tunnel and those who had not yet entered the tunnel were on high alert, with their guns all pointed at the dark cave entrance.

Tan Meng crouched at the entrance of the hall, curled up in the depression of the rock wall of the tunnel. The cold sweat mixed with mucus on his forehead slid into his eyes, stinging his eyeballs.

He gripped the gun handle tightly, his knuckles turning white, but his arms were shaking uncontrollably. He had never seen such a monster before.

Shen Wanren can no longer be called a "human".

Tan Meng no longer had the attitude of leading the charge at the forefront. The mutated Shen Wanren almost scared him to death. He hadn't left yet because time simply didn't allow him to leave.

He had just organized the formation to deal with Shen Wanren, and before he could remember to run, the entrance to the cave was blown open.

A series of explosions were heard from the direction of the iron gate, and a dozen ragged miners rushed out from the thick smoke and flames.

“Bang, bang, bang!!!”

The first batch of neat gunshots echoed in the hall, turning the miners running in the front into a sieve.

"Stop!!!!" Tan Meng urgently stopped the second round of shooting. "They're one of us! The medical team, go get them!"

The rest of the miners who were lucky enough not to be hit in the vitals continued to crawl and walk while limping, shouting wildly, and could not wait for the medical team to come and rescue them.

Liu Xia and Song Xuan also rushed out of the tunnel shortly afterwards, picked up two half-dead miners, and ran towards the medical team: "Chen Wanren is behind us!"

"Tan Meng, you brought so many people to see me..." Shen Wanren's inhuman roar came from the depths of the cave. The voices of many people mixed together, forming an eerie sound. "I really have to thank you."

Black mucus mixed with blood formed streams on the ground and the top of the cave, and quickly flowed out of the corridor, even emitting strange hot steam.

"Flambreathing man!" Tan Meng ordered hurriedly, swallowing nervously. His suit had already fallen somewhere during the fight. Cold sweat soaked his shirt, which clung to his body and highlighted his good figure. "Everyone else, get ready!"

The scorching flames quickly sprayed towards the black slime. Some of the miners who had entered the tunnel could not help but wet their pants, while those who had not entered the tunnel pointed their guns at the strange black liquid, not knowing where to aim.

Liu Xia clenched his fists tightly as he watched the black mucus gathering more and more, and the blood oozing from his palms kept dripping down his hands.

A deep feeling of powerlessness came over me. This thing was simply too difficult to kill.