Xie Yin got out of the car with the fruit knife that Jiang Shu had found after rummaging through the drawers. He looked down and admired the metal 'weapon,' which was as small as she was.
“Hmm, we need a suitable weapon. Let’s go look for one next time,” Jiang Shuyin said sullenly.
How come the female protagonist in other novels can get her hands on guns, Tang swords, Miao swords, and the stun baton she has is something she smuggled from the security guard's room? It's incomparable.
As they entered through the entrance, which was the same place He Bing and the others had used before, it was a bit like a maze. She noticed that she hesitated at several intersections, but Xie Yin walked as if he were taking a leisurely stroll after dinner.
This area consists of old town bungalows that haven't been demolished. The quiet stairwell was broken by someone. The beam of a flashlight moved across the mottled walls and the oxidized, charred stairwell. Jiang Shuyin could see it clearly from downstairs, but she didn't know which team it was.
She moved closer to Xie Yin and lowered her voice: "What kind of creature is this?"
Xie Yin frowned as he smelled the strong pheromones in the air and said, "They're so meddlesome."
Tentacle monster? Jiang Shu felt a tingling sensation in her neck and shrugged her shoulders in a trembling motion.
Xie Yin had already spotted someone who was hostile towards him: "Come on, I'll teach you how to deal with him."
The stairwells in the old residential buildings are narrow, and the tentacles take advantage of this. As the enemy climbs up step by step, they release all their tentacles to attack, filling the entire stairwell. The elite team members either fight, retreat, or... die.
Li Yao accidentally bumped into the railing, and He Bing's heart skipped a beat.
All ten people were startled and stood still for a full minute.
Li Yaocai breathed a sigh of relief: "He scared himself."
The next second, the railing trembled. Before He Bing could shout, countless thick tentacles squeezed down from above. The slippery and soft tentacles curled up He Bing, who was at the front, and he was quickly pulled back into the belly of the tentacle.
Li Yao roared, his eyes bloodshot, "Captain—"
His mind was instantly filled with anger. Li Yao had a speed ability, but the cramped space didn't give him any room to use it. He could only force his way into a house. The residents had moved away long ago on the day the meteorite landed.
Li Yao fled to the master bedroom and opened the window. The tentacles behind him were only one meter away!
"Run!"
Jiang Shuyin turned her head and saw Li Yao jump down from the fourth-floor window, leaping off the air conditioner unit like a parkour performer. The tentacles behind him were as thick as an adult's waist, yet he moved faster than an adult could run. Fortunately, Li Yao possessed speed-based abilities.
Turning around, Xie Yin was gone. On the high-rise building he was looking at, a dark figure stood tall, with countless tentacles erupting towards him.
Jiang Shuyin glanced at the people fighting on both sides, but she seemed completely unaffected.
Grip your weapon tightly, and prioritize the one closest to you; deal with the one Li Yao is facing first.
When Jiang Shuyin got closer, she noticed that Li Yao's face was covered in tears. He had been shot in the tentacles, and the wound had sunk inwards, but it quickly returned to its normal shape like a sponge.
She struck the tentacle hard, but it didn't cause any damage. If the tentacle monster didn't have pain receptors, she might only be able to give people massages.
"We still need to find the central hub."
Li Yao ran far away, his tentacles long and white, like an enlarged version of a roundworm. Jiang Shuyin was thinking about how to find him when she saw the tentacles retract and attack her.
Qingwu burst out of her hat, attached itself to the tentacles, and quickly dissolved the middle section of the tentacles. The remaining disconnected tentacles fell to the ground, only about half the size of the squid tentacles, while the section connected to the main body suddenly retracted.
Li Yao turned back, saw the piece of something on the ground, and stomped on it hard: "How did you do that?"
Before Jiang Shuyin could react, Qingwu twisted her hand, and Li Yao's gaze also fell on her: "Is this your superpower? It's amazing. Can you help rescue our captain? He's been captured by a monster."
"Okay, sure." Jiang Shuyin hid Qingwu to her side and glanced at the building: "Then take me to the rooftop."
Li Yao nodded, picked her up around the waist, and stepped onto the air conditioner unit.
When they reached the rooftop, Jiang Shu looked across and found that Xie Yin was gone again.
She calmed herself down and saw a rusty nail on the rooftop, which she picked up and held in her hand.
Squatting on the ground, Jiang Shuyin saw dancing black shadows on the floor. Looking up, she saw that the tentacles had already surrounded her and Li Yao. Without giving her any extra time, the first tentacle attacked, followed by the second.
One barb of stun baton could be knocked away, but another one kept appearing. Li Yao's gun was out of bullets, so he had no choice but to fight hand-to-hand and use a dagger to peel the skin off the tentacles.
"Let's find out where its true form is," Jiang Shuyin whispered to Qingwu.
The bracelet showed a change: 1/10 of 10 mutants were killed.
It was Xie Yin.
With a slight smile playing on her lips, Jiang Shuyin saw Qingwu return and lead the way to the kitchen on the sixth floor. The tentacle monster was in someone else's bathroom, and the sound of running water from the pipes didn't reach the ground.
Jiang Shu used her bracelet to call Li Yao: "Turn off the water valve for the whole building."
The other party replied that they received it.
There were knives in the kitchen, and Jiang Shuyin grabbed two and walked to the door, mentally preparing herself, but she was still shocked when she saw the tentacle monster's true form.
That...that was a slug-like mass of liquid, with three or four people wrapped inside. Their clothes had been melted by the tentacle monster's liquid, and their skin was beginning to ulcerate.
"Go to hell." Jiang Shuyin activated her full power, and countless tentacles, enough to make anyone with trypophobia tingle, squeezed out from the bathroom. Jiang Shuyin killed them one by one with a slash, and the tentacles that fell to the ground would turn into water and flow back into her body.
Suddenly, the water in the bathroom stopped.
Jiang Shuyin was overjoyed and was about to rush over when the tentacle monster suddenly retracted all its tentacles and spat out the undigested human body inside it. Jiang Shuyin glanced at the human body that should have been censored and quickly shifted her gaze to the monster that was about to cause trouble.
The hilt of the knife in his hand was almost stuck to his palm. The tentacle monster climbed out of the window, its tentacles clinging to the wall like vines, moving slowly through the air.
Jiang Shu looked out the window and realized she couldn't catch up.
He tossed a healing spell onto the pile of mosaics on the ground: "Qingwu, chase after them."
"Illusion." This skill wasn't released from her palm, but rather from a tornado-like black mist that swirled around the monster's body. The tentacle monster, enveloped in the mist, could no longer move, its tentacles flailing wildly within it. However, physical attacks could not dispel the mist.
Qingwu remained perched on the tentacle monster's main body, slowly dissolving its outer layer of skin and seeping into its core...
"Click, click"
Jiang Shu was speechless; this brat had eaten the crystal core again.
Without the control of the crystal core, the body is just an organic shell, which falls from the high school and kicks up a cloud of dust.
There was another noise behind her. Jiang Shuyin's gaze turned serious. She turned around and almost poked her own eyes out: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll go out right away."
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