Danger! Deadly danger has struck again! Even worse than before!
The instinct for survival instantly overwhelmed all anger and despair. The madness and coldness in Pei Du's eyes were quickly replaced by a purer, beast-like ferocity. He suddenly grabbed Xu Shuangyao's arm, almost crushing her bones with such force, and growled hoarsely, "Go!"
There was no choice but to rush towards the side where the roaring was relatively sparse - a huge passage deep in the pumping station, half-closed by a heavy iron door! That was the only way out, and it led to nowhere!
The escape begins again! This time, in a more dynamic and hostile environment, burdened with the cold truth of identity collapse and the symbiotic curse of accelerated erosion!
The two stumbled through the pumping station, covered in fungal mats and piled high with the wreckage of abandoned machinery. Pei Du forcibly squeezed the thorny power of the Fusion Crown, dragging Xu Shuangyao along. His speed was much faster than that of an ordinary person, and his steps carried a sense of forced power. But with each step, the sucking pain deep in his spine and the burning and itching from the dark red lines spreading wildly across the wound on his right hand reminded him of the terrible price of this power. Xu Shuangyao was like a heavy burden, relying solely on Pei Du's drag and his will to survive. His lungs were like a worn-out bellows, and every breath was accompanied by burning pain and a thick cloud of spore dust.
"Something...on the right...is about to collapse!" Xu Shuangyao suddenly gave a rapid warning in the consciousness connection, and his voice carried the instinctive judgment of the dangerous structure brought by shared perception.
Without any hesitation, Pei Du suddenly changed direction and dragged Xu Shuangyao to the left behind a pile of rusty pipes!
“BOOM——!!!”
Just as they fell, a massive metal support on their right, severely corroded by mycelium and already unstable, collapsed with a loud bang! The heavy rusted iron, like the severed limb of a giant, slammed into the spot they had just passed, sending up a cloud of dust and fungal fragments!
"Ahead... be careful of your steps... there is a hole under the fungal mat!" Xu Shuangyao's voice sounded in Pei Du's mind again, with heavy breathing.
Pei Du suddenly stopped and looked down. Sure enough, beneath the seemingly smooth, dark green fungal carpet ahead, a subtle, unstable "crackling" sound emanated. He twisted his body forcefully, narrowly snaking past the edge of the hollow fungal carpet!
This instinctive "tactical coordination," leveraging an unstable symbiotic connection, saved their lives time and again during their desperate escape. But every warning brought by shared perception was accompanied by intense friction and pain at the level of consciousness! Pei Du's icy rage and desire for destruction, Xu Shuangyao's overwhelming guilt and fear, constantly collided and surged in the narrow passage, like two conflicting currents, repeatedly burning their nerves! Pei Du's explanation was filled with distrust and fury, and every contact made the abnormal lines on his hand seem to pulsate more violently; while Xu Shuangyao, bearing the impact of Pei Du's emotional storm and the pain of being dragged, was close to mental collapse.
“Aa ...
A deafening roar, filled with extreme pain and violence, suddenly came from the depths of the huge passage they had just rushed into! Immediately afterwards, there was the heavy, chaotic sound of footsteps, like the galloping of a giant beast!
A larger and more twisted figure broke through the debris piled up at the end of the passage and appeared in the bleak light!
It was still vaguely recognizable as the bald, scarred leader of the Fangs of the Wild! But his current form was even more terrifying than the fungus puppets he had encountered before! His body had expanded to nearly three meters in height, and his skin had completely turned dark green, like tough leather, covered with knotty, silver-gray mycelial veins as thick as tree roots! Half of his face was completely covered by the proliferating fungus tumors, and his only remaining eye had turned a turbid dark yellow, filled with pure madness and pain! His right arm had transformed into a huge mycelial tentacle covered with bone spurs and mucus, while his left arm had grown as huge as a battering ram, ending in several sharp metal claws! The tattered armor on his body was completely torn apart by the expanding muscles and mycelium, leaving only some metal fragments deeply embedded in the mutated flesh.
He was clearly in the process of further fungal transformation, his agony and fury reaching a peak! He spotted Pei Du and Xu Shuangyao, especially the two fused crowns of thorns atop their heads, gleaming with a faint crimson glow! An instinctive desire to devour the "carrier," born from the will of the fungus master, mixed with his own lingering greed for power, instantly ignited his remaining consciousness!
"The crown... is mine!!!" He roared in a distorted, hoarse voice like the creaking of metal, his single, deep-yellow eye gleaming with a terrifying, murderous gleam! A massive mycelial tentacle suddenly rose, ripping through the air with a sharp, piercing sound and a thick, fishy gust of wind. Like a giant, living steel whip, it swept towards Pei Du and Xu Shuangyao! Its vast reach and swift speed practically blocked any room for them to dodge!
There's no way to avoid it! The power disparity is huge!
A moment of life and death!
Pei Du's eyes burst with blood! Xu Shuangyao screamed in despair! The instinct for survival overwhelmed all barriers! Under the huge shadow of death, the unstable and painful symbiotic connection was forcibly pushed to the limit!
"Together!" Pei Du let out a beast-like roar on the spiritual level!
"Attack... the base of the tentacle... the energy node... left... lower left!" Xu Shuangyao used the last shred of his scientific sanity. In the chaotic storm of connected consciousness, he captured an extremely subtle energy turbulence point at the connection between the tentacle and the body caused by the instability of the mutation under the violent attack of the fungal leader! That was the theoretical weakness!
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