No time to think! No time to hesitate!
Pei Du unleashed all his willpower! He no longer resisted the excruciating power emanating from the crown, instead actively and frantically squeezing it out! A far more violent and scorching torrent of energy, carrying a soul-tearing pain, instantly surged from the point where his spine had been pierced into his limbs and bones! The dark red, mutated lines on his right hand were like a lit fuse, erupting with a dazzling bloody light that instantly spread across his wrist and eroded his forearm! The blood vessels beneath his skin glowed crimson, as if flowing with magma!
At the same time, Xu Shuangyao let out a scream of agony! She forced herself to focus, channeling her consciousness through the crown of thorns like the most sophisticated probe, piercing the raging energy within Pei Du! This wasn't control, but guidance! It was resonance! She used her remaining mental energy as a catalyst to ignite and detonate the violent, forcibly extracted power of the Fungus Master within Pei Du! This was her final, forcible exercise of the crown's authority as a "creator," a theoretical "coordinated attack"!
"Ughh ...!" They both screamed agonizingly at the same time! Their bodies convulsed violently from the unbearable energy overload and mental shock! Above their heads, the Fusion Crown erupted with an unprecedented, dazzling crimson light, like a tiny sun!
Pei Du's right hand, enveloped in a dark crimson glow and brimming with strange patterns, suddenly lifted up under Xu Shuangyao's guidance, as if controlled by an invisible giant hand! It was no longer a clenched fist, but rather a knife-like fingertip! The fingertips swirled with concentrated, dark crimson energy, like liquid flame!
The target is the base of the fungal leader's tentacles, the tiny energy turbulence node locked by Xu Shuangyao!
The knife came out! Silently! Only a condensed, space-tearing dark red blood light!
“Puff—Sizzle!!!”
There was no earth-shattering roar, only a teeth-grinding tearing sound like a hot knife cutting into butter!
The condensed dark red blood light, like a red-hot knife cutting through solidified grease, flashed past the base of the extremely thick mycelial tentacles of the fungal leader with incredible precision!
Time seemed to freeze for a moment.
Then——
"ROAR, AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" The fungal leader let out a horrifying, agonizing howl! His massive, sweeping tentacle was severed at the root by the bloody light! No blood splattered from the broken ends; only dark red energy, boiling and burning like lava, frantically corroded and carbonized the broken mycelial tissue! The violent attack collapsed in an instant!
Coordinated attack! Terrifying power!
But the backlash is equally terrifying!
"Puff!" Pei Du suddenly spat out a large mouthful of blood! Mixed in with the blood were a few tiny strands of dark red mycelium, writhing like living creatures! The skin below his right forearm had completely turned dark red, covered with dense, strange, circuit board-like lines. The muscles and bones beneath his skin trembled with inhuman pain and burning, as if he would completely transform into something inhuman at any moment! He felt his life force like a bursting dam, being frantically drained by the crown on his head!
"Ah!" Xu Shuangyao felt as if she had been struck by an invisible giant hammer. Her vision went completely black, and she collapsed, blood oozing from all seven orifices! The mental backlash brought on by the forceful force almost instantly destroyed her consciousness! The light of the Crown of Thorns flickered violently, as if it would go out at any moment!
Up ahead, the severely wounded fungus leader's single remaining eye blazed with an even more frantic and resentful glint! The pain of his severed arm utterly enraged him! He abandoned the eroded and burning arm, his massive body radiating even more ferocious momentum. His remaining metal clawed arm, like a collapsing mountain, slammed down upon the two men, who had practically lost their ability to resist! Meanwhile, from the back of the passage, the roars of more fungus puppets were already approaching!
A real desperate situation!
Pei Du stared at the massive claw that was falling, obscuring the sky and the sun, his eyes a bloodshot and filled with madness. He tried to raise his now-transformed, monstrous arm in a final stand, but his body felt hollowed out, and even moving a finger was incredibly difficult. Xu Shuangyao collapsed at his feet, breathing weakly, his life or death uncertain.
At the moment of death—
“Boom——!!!”
An even louder roar, as if the entire earth was roaring, suddenly came from the direction they were desperately rushing towards - the entrance of the passage with a half-closed heavy iron door!
It's not an explosion! It's growth! It's tearing apart!
The heavy, rusty metal door at the entrance of the passage, along with the thick concrete walls around it, were torn apart and opened easily by several huge vines that were unimaginably thick and suddenly broke out from the ground, just like tearing a layer of thin paper!
The vines were a strange, dark purple, covered in a scaly cuticle that shone with a cold metallic luster, its edges sharp as knives! Countless gigantic, terrifying flower buds grew on the vines, opening and closing like eyes and dripping with corrosive mucus! Even more terrifying, behind the ripped holes in the vines, countless thicker, more ferocious, animated plant roots frantically danced and entwined, forming a terrifying barrier composed entirely of living plants, constantly wriggling and thickening! And behind that barrier, even more diverse fungus puppets could be vaguely seen, drawn in!
Exit! The exit they were desperately looking for was right before their eyes!
However, this exit was completely blocked by the giant, hostile activated plants caused by the awakening of the Fungus Master (it is unknown whether they were driven by the will of the plant network or contaminated by the Fungus Master's power), as well as more Fungus puppets attracted by the smell of blood!
There is a violent fungal leader and deadly giant claws ahead!
Behind them is a terrifying activated plant barrier and an army of fungus puppets!
There is no way to heaven and no door to earth!
An absolute dead end!
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