Her sanity burned, and shadows enveloped her body, transforming her into a shadowy monster with hundreds of eyes and scales. The monster's muscles bulged, and as if a seasoned angler were pulling a hooked mutant crocodile from the deep pool ashore, it flung it towards itself.
The big crocodile was also confused. In the past, it always pulled its prey into the water, but this was the first time it was pulled ashore itself.
Enduring the headache and frenzy brought about by the rapid drop in san value, Shen Lanzhou stretched out his sharp claws and crushed the big crocodile's eyes on its head before it could react.
"roar!!!"
The pain drove the giant crocodile crazy. It opened its mouth wide, revealing its sharp teeth, and swung its big tail wildly.
Shen Lanzhou dodged the tail and used all his strength to hold down the giant crocodile's upper snout. He inserted his claws into the wound and stirred the head frantically.
Before long, the struggle of the prey beneath him gradually subsided.
Dead.
"ha……"
The shadow monster exhaled a puff of cold mist, stretched out its claws covered in gray, white and red, and its body slowly shrank back into its original girlish appearance.
Looking at the fist-sized, brilliantly glowing C-grade crystal core in his hand, Shen Lanzhou put it in his pocket with satisfaction.
I have to say, this transformation ability is quite convenient for dealing with large monsters.
If I were to fight in human form, I would probably just be like a mosquito, killing my prey bit by bit.
It’s not like now, where it’s just a matter of one claw.
But it can't last too long. When her san value drops to a certain level, she will lose control and go crazy.
This was the case with Mr. [Flame Demon] who burned down the entire survivor base in the origin story of [Amoeba].
We still need more prey, it's not time to rest yet.
Shen Lanzhou took out the map, checked the direction, and continued to move towards the depths of the dense forest.
It is very narrow at first, but then it becomes passable. After walking a few dozen steps, it suddenly becomes open.
After struggling through the cracks in the rocks, Shen Lanzhou arrived at a valley.
There is a small path in the valley, with miniature ancestral halls built of stones on both sides of the road. Crudely made statues of gods sit on the throne in the center of the miniature ancestral halls, and their blurred faces quietly watch the passers-by on the road.
There used to be a small mountain village here, but it is obvious that the end of the world has completely wiped out this small mountain village.
Shen Lanzhou walked cautiously on the weed-covered path, looking around vigilantly.
Her target was a chimeric monster with limbs as thick as pillars, a torso made of countless human limbs and torsos glued together, and a cry like a baby.
According to the information she purchased, this monster was formed by gluing and mutating all the villagers in this mountain village, and it is at least C-level.
But as we walked along, the village was quiet, and the unattended wooden and stone buildings seemed covered with a layer of dust.
The expected monster did not appear.
Did he leave to find food?
Shen Lanzhou stood in front of an ancestral temple built of green bricks and stones and sighed, thinking it was a wasted trip.
Boom——
The originally gloomy sky was filled with dull thunder, and soon, raindrops as big as beans poured down.
It's not blood rain, just ordinary rain.
But the timing of the descent was too coincidental.
Shen Lanzhou felt a chill on her back, and the dim ancestral hall behind her suddenly lit up with a dim light. She turned her head and saw in the light that the plaque of the ancestral hall was engraved with characters she had never seen before.
After nine years of compulsory education and three years of high school, Shen Lanzhou had never seen a font like this. It was neither the familiar simplified Chinese nor related to traditional Chinese, bronze inscriptions, small seal script, or official script. It seemed like a picture created out of thin air.
【Amu Temple】
In an instant, her scalp felt numb and her hairs stood on end.
This is not an ancestral temple at all, but a temple!
People who live in the mountains or by the sea always have some magical beliefs and cultures.
In the past, she wouldn't have cared at all.
However! After encountering all kinds of strange monsters and evil gods, she was really afraid of these indescribable things.
Coupled with the strange incident of a light source appearing out of nowhere in the temple, it was obvious that something was wrong!
Must leave here!
Without a second thought, Shen Lanzhou stepped into the heavy rain.
Not long after, she came back with a gloomy face.
I got lost, wandered around in circles, and ended up back where I started. It was similar to the city of Ye where the Shoggoths had once been entrenched, except that one was covered in pitch-black fog, while the other was filled with torrential rain that seemed to overturn the sky.
In the dark sky, the gate of the Amu Temple was ajar, and warm dim light shone through the crack, attracting those who were lost.
“…”
Shen Lanzhou walked to the eaves of the Amu Temple with a sour face, sat down on the bluestone steps, and stared blankly at the heavy rain outside.
I won’t go in, let’s see what you can do!
As she sat there, she began to feel sleepy. She shook her head and slapped herself hard to stay awake, but soon she fell into a deep, dreamless sleep under the inexplicable spell.
Squeak...
The temple door behind him was pushed open.
In a daze, Shen Lanzhou felt himself falling into a warm and soft embrace.
This was different from the lover's hug that Shi Meng had always received. This was a kind of warmth that she had never experienced before... a warmth that belonged only to a mother.
She seemed to have returned to her embryonic period, immersed in the gentle amniotic fluid, curled up in her mother's womb and sleeping peacefully.
In a daze, she let down all her guard.
One hand carefully straightened her short hair that was wet by the rain, then he gently held her in his arms and walked into the Amu Temple behind him.
Boom——
A flash of lightning illuminated the dark valley as bright as day in an instant.
A monster with cylindrical limbs and a body made up of countless human bodies of men, women, old and children cries like a baby and wanders through a ghostly village.
The monster looked towards the Amu Temple, with envy in its thousands of eyes, but it did not dare to cross the road. It could only continue to cry and walk aimlessly.
In the Temple of Amu, as if inside the body of some large creature, the walls and floors were replaced by pink polyps, which secreted a sticky liquid, rustling and gradually spreading to the ankles of the goat-headed mother who was hugging her child in the center.
The "mother" has a black goat head, with red eyes symmetrically distributed on both sides of her cheeks, and her square pupils exude tenderness and kindness.
The "mother" has a plump and straight figure, and has a body that is most suitable for biological reproduction and raising offspring.
"Mother" had a low and gentle voice, mixed with the unique vibrato of goats. She was humming a nursery rhyme passed down from generation to generation by the mountain people.
"Mother" is Eminem, and Eminem is "Mother".
The sticky, transparent liquid secreted by the pink polyps accumulated more and more, eventually completely submerging the sleeping girl and her "mother" with a sheep's head and a human body.
"Go to sleep... go to sleep... stop hesitating..."
"Sleep...sleep...forget all your worries..."
"Sleep while the song plays..."
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