Chapter 265: Entity That Should Not Appear
Yu Sheng raised his head, and in the depths of the thick fog, he saw the monster crawling down... or rather "flowing" down, along the glass curtain wall of the shopping mall.
It looked like a large ball of "ink" with a shape. It covered the building, and its surface was constantly fluctuating like an unstable liquid surface. At the same time, limbs like hands and feet kept differentiating from the edge of the "liquid", but each limb was just waving meaninglessly in the air, and disappeared in the blink of an eye, shrinking back into the pool of ink. From time to time, it opened a structure that looked like a mouthpart, with sharp teeth and tongue appearing in its mouth. The mouthparts occasionally uttered vague and low mutterings, but more often, it just swallowed the surrounding thick fog in big mouthfuls.
This liquid-like substance slowly crawled down along the outer wall of the mall, which was a terrifying sight.
Little Red Riding Hood finally saw what the thing looked like and exclaimed, "'Ink Mark'?!"
Yu Sheng turned around instantly: "What the hell? Do you know this monster?"
"A dangerous entity, Mohen, is hostile to living things and relies on split bodies to launch attacks," Little Red Riding Hood quickly spoke out the information she knew, but the astonishment and confusion on her face became more and more intense, "But... this is not right! Mohen should be an entity that is generated in the foreign 'lakeside town'. This place, this place can't be that 'lakeside town' no matter how you look at it?!"
Yu Sheng listened with a confused look on his face, but now was obviously not the time to continue asking questions - the large mass of "ink" flowing along the outer wall of the shopping mall had obviously discovered the "uninvited guests" in the square. In the blink of an eye, its edge began to shake violently and expand and shrink, and then countless slender "branches" extended in all directions from its undulating outline.
This scene was like countless invisible pens dipped in thick ink, suddenly drawing wild lines on the paper. The slender branches extending from the monster's body were instantly printed on the glass curtain wall, forming all kinds of strange "traces", and then... those "traces" fell to the ground like rain, and suddenly rushed towards Yu Sheng and his party in the thick fog.
Yu Sheng suddenly understood how the monster got its name.
What he was facing now was the attack of Mo Hen who had "come alive" from the two-dimensional plane - countless black split bodies with strange shapes, with sharp edges and unpredictable movements, swarming in like a frenzied herd of beasts.
The phantom wolf pack emerged from Little Red Riding Hood's side in the blink of an eye. After losing the shackles of the "fairy tale curse", Little Red Riding Hood seemed to be able to use her own strength more freely. Shadow wolves, far more in number than the wolf packs she usually controlled, appeared in the thick fog in large numbers, howling, running, and fearlessly rushing towards the swarming split bodies.
Then, black silk threads suddenly spread out. Irene raised her hands, and the spreading and crawling silk threads weaved into a huge spider web, heading towards the places where the split monsters were most densely populated. Although those monsters looked like "traces" without entities, they stiffened one by one the moment they came into contact with the spider silk, trembling in the air, and then were torn to pieces by the wolves one by one, turning into droplets scattered in the fog.
Hu Li, without saying a word, fired a round of fox-radish missiles at the monster's body on the outer wall of the mall.
The Nine-Tailed Fox, who had been fed and ate a lot in the Secret Service, was very confident. With her arsenal expanding unprecedentedly, she launched a second round without waiting for the smoke to clear.
The explosion of the Fox-Carrot missile was deafening, and the powerful impact force even shattered the surrounding thick fog for a short time. Yu Sheng saw that piece of "ink" was swallowed up by the hot fox fire and gunpowder, and it seemed to make a short and chaotic roar - then, the shopping mall building that was facing the missile bombardment made a series of harsh collapse and fracture sounds.
Amidst an unbearable noise, the entire building began to slowly collapse, and dark blue fox fire ran all along the entire staircase, burning all the structures along the way.
Irene was busy weaving a web. When she heard the noise, she turned around and exclaimed, "Fuck! Stupid fox, you blew the building down... It's falling this way!"
Yu Sheng reacted faster: "Run first!"
Before he finished speaking, he saw a flash of silver light next to him - Hu Li turned directly into a huge nine-tailed fox. She used her tail to roll up Yu Sheng and Irene and put them on her back, then ran away from the range of the collapsed building.
As he ran, the fox demon shouted, "I'm sorry, benefactor! I failed both fire control and directional blasting!"
Yu Sheng and Irene sat on the back of the giant fox. Yu Sheng grabbed the silver fur around him to prevent himself from falling and looked back at the collapse of the building. After hearing what the other party said, Yu Sheng's eyes almost popped out: "Why did you learn this in elementary school?!"
"My dad signed me up for this interest class!" the fox girl said loudly, "Because he thinks girls need to learn how to control their own firepower. Only when they can control it can they be ladies!"
Yu Sheng was shocked, and he felt a sense of admiration for the fox father - God damn, she is a lady who controls firepower... Why does she have such strong firepower? Don't ask first, right? ! At this moment, he saw a black shadow passing by from the corner of his eye. Little Red Riding Hood rode a shadow wolf and rushed out of the thick fog around. While barely keeping up with the nine-tailed fox, she shouted at this side: "Don't make such a big deal! What if the 'nephew' is hiding nearby and he doesn't follow him?!"
Hu Li turned his head and glanced at Little Red Riding Hood: "I used my spiritual sense to scan, there are no other living people around - the teacher said in class that ladies will not use missiles to blow up their own people."
Little Red Riding Hood was stunned, but she still did not forget to urge Shadow Wolf again to keep up with Hu Li's speed, while complaining loudly: "Slow down! I can't catch up!"
"She's already slow enough. At least she didn't even use a boost." Yu Sheng was amused when he saw this. "How about I show you what a supersonic fox looks like?"
But after all, Hu Li gradually slowed down. She had already run out of the collapsed area anyway. After running forward for a few dozen meters, she stopped completely and looked back in the direction of the shopping mall building.
The visibility was very poor due to the thick fog. One could only vaguely see the remaining fox fire burning in the rising smoke and the collapsed and chaotic ruins. Yu Sheng guessed that the entire building should have collapsed completely, and most of the separatist "Mohen" who had launched the attack before were buried in the ruins of the collapsed building, or ignited and burned by the fox fire flowing everywhere.
As for the real body of "Mohen", it should not be able to withstand such a sudden saturation bombardment - after all, it does not seem to be a tough monster like the enhanced version of "Hunger" with all the necessary numbers and mechanisms.
It seems like I can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
However, he only had less than two seconds to relax.
A strange, low murmur came from the thick fog. When Yu Sheng looked up, he saw countless shadows slowly walking out of the fog.
It was not ink marks, but something new - a group of people-like people, but without human facial features and limb structures of normal proportions. They were human figures made up entirely of trembling and disordered colorful geometric lines. Some were tall, some were fat, and some were thin. They walked out of the fog in groups, one by one, like a group of blindly wandering zombies, slowly approaching this side from the other side of the street.
"...Are all 'entities' so abstract? Aren't there a few with good looks?!" Yu Sheng got goosebumps when he saw this, and then turned to look at Little Red Riding Hood, "What the hell is this? Do you recognize it? Can you just hit it?"
At this time, Little Red Riding Hood was staring at the "crowd" that came out of the thick fog. Her expression was extremely strange, but it was obvious that she really knew.
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"Cluster entities, 'Carnival Crowds', each time they appear, their number is between one thousand and ten thousand. They will pass through the carnival site along a specific route, and will randomly approach or even attack living people, but sometimes they will leave peacefully. The danger level fluctuates between level two and three," she said quickly and quietly, "Be careful, don't touch them directly with your skin. Once you touch them, you will be gradually stained by their 'lines'. Once the number of contacts exceeds three times, you will become one of them... Don't act rashly, they don't seem to have the desire to attack for the time being..."
Upon hearing this, Irene and Hu Li immediately put away their urge to attack, and followed Little Red Riding Hood to the side of the road cautiously, while nervously observing the crowds of people outlined by the shaking colored lines. Yu Sheng noticed a word Little Red Riding Hood had just mentioned: "Did you say 'carnival'?"
"...Yes, carnival," Little Red Riding Hood said in a particularly solemn tone, "These things shouldn't be here. Logically, they are entities that would only be generated in the foreign 'Nameless Carnival', but now they appear in this thick fog... The 'Ink Mark' just now is also the same. What on earth is this place..."
She stopped abruptly in the middle of her speech.
Because the "line crowd" that was slowly walking across the street suddenly stopped.
Countless shadowy figures in colorful lines stopped in the thick fog.
After a few seconds of scalp-numbing silence, one of the colored line figures slowly turned its head towards this side - it was very short, like a child walking beside an adult, and its attention was attracted by something interesting on the roadside.
As the line man turned his head, Yu Sheng clearly heard the "bang bang" sound of several confetti cannons going off in the carnival crowd.
Colorful colored papers appeared out of nowhere in the thick fog, and as they fluttered down, all the linear human figures began to slowly turn their heads towards this side.
They came over, as if wanting to invite the uninvited guests to join in the carnival dance. The shaking colored threads had no facial features, but in their chaotic head structures, terrifying and distorted smiles seemed to emerge.
Irene speaks clearly and clearly——
“What the hell!!”
(End of this chapter)
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