Chapter 100 The Fungal Swarm 61 "Run to the South Gate—"...
When that deafening roar rang out, Nanmen Jue was still unable to stand up again.
They chased each other from the church all the way to the vicinity of the hospital. As they got closer to the hospital, Nanmen Jue felt increasingly uneasy. She didn't try to hide, because Cheng Xiuye knew that it was the other people's base. Even if Zhang Zhi wasn't there, the others were still there. It was normal for Nanmen Jue to be nervous.
Cheng Xiuye had not truly believed that Nanmen Jue had taken Zhang Zhi away. His approach was also a test. Although there was a cloaked figure in the hospital that he was wary of, if the cloaked figure was still there, he would face a pincer attack from both the cloaked figure and Nanmen Jue.
However, he had something to rely on to dare to do this: those four mother trees.
All eyes were fixed on the four mother trees. Everyone knew that once they joined the battle, the outcome was predictable. It would probably take several powerful figures joining forces to deal with such a situation.
But Nanmenjue also had his own ideas.
Others believed that the four mother trees remained still because Cheng Xiuye had other plans, such as being wary of Ying Yao. However, Nanmen Jue felt that the reason the mother trees remained still might not be complicated; it was simply because Cheng Xiuye could not truly control them.
It was precisely because he couldn't control them that he hadn't truly activated them yet, because Cheng Xiuye himself couldn't face the attack of the four mother trees.
Nanmen Jue even probed this speculation.
When Cheng Xiuye couldn't catch her, she shouted at the top of her lungs, "Is this all the speed you can achieve with an 80-something pace? If you can't catch up, why don't you call for help? Your mother tree has already started moving, hasn't it? Call someone to help you!"
"To deal with you, I don't even need the Mother Tree!" Cheng Xiuye roared.
He felt extremely frustrated. His stats were clearly superior to Nanmen Jue's in every aspect, but this guy was as slippery as an eel, and he just couldn't catch him.
The two continued their chase, testing and mocking each other, until Nanmen Jue stopped on the street near the hospital. Cheng Xiuye, already terrified of being tricked by Nanmen Jue, immediately stopped as well.
The two confronted each other on the long street. Nanmen Jue covered his left eye with a strange smile on his face.
“Don’t you find that strange?” she asked.
Cheng Xiuye said coldly, "What's strange?"
“Four mother trees. At their rate, most of Ningde Town should have fallen by now.” Nanmen Jue gestured as he looked around. Apart from some remains of corpses, the place was clean, without a trace of mycelium.
Cheng Xiuye immediately realized the problem, her pupils contracted, and she stared at Nanmen Jue in disbelief.
Nanmen Jue's smile widened, but his tone remained completely innocent. "Tell me, what's going on here?"
"Nanmen Jue, what have you done?" Cheng Xiuye's muscles twitched. The four mother trees were his biggest trump card, and he couldn't accept that something had happened to them. "This is impossible. How could you control the four mother trees... Could it be that you really let Zhang Zhi go?"
The hints that Nanmen Jue had repeatedly given before had worked. With just a little guidance, Cheng Xiuye naturally followed this line of thought.
Nanmen Jue smiled without saying a word, but the calmer she was, the more confident and assured she appeared to Cheng Xiuye.
Cheng Xiuye's face instantly turned venomous. "Fine, fine, so this was your plan from the beginning... You didn't want to lure me away from Ningde Town, but rather away from the vicinity of the Mother Tree! As long as I'm not around, Zhang Zhi, a mere child, can handle all four Mother Trees, making her safer. What a cunning Nanmen Jue, completely manipulating me. It's that bastard Jin Jian, isn't it? He exchanged for more space slots, which allows him to store more things, including explosives."
Nanmen Jue was still smiling, and he exaggeratedly bowed as if taking a bow, so arrogant that it hurt Cheng Xiuye's eyes.
"You flatter me. Compared to your audacity in getting yourself into all that trouble, I am far inferior."
Nanmen Jue's gaze lingered meaningfully on Cheng Xiuye's monstrous body for two seconds, mocking his human identity that he could never return to.
The main god will not repair any changes caused by the use of items, and the higher the level of the item, the greater the cost of using it.
Even so, in order to deal with Nanmen Jue, Cheng Xiuye still used the orange prop without hesitation. Now, Nanmen Jue himself was standing in front of him and mocking him, which was more than just an insult to him.
Cheng Xiuye froze on the spot. In all his life, he had never felt such intense yet sluggish anger. He didn't even immediately react to the anger; embarrassment and humiliation surfaced before anything else, followed by the anger that made his muscles tremble.
Only at this moment did he realize that no matter how much he had prepared himself mentally, no matter how many times he had told himself that in this world, as long as he had power, nothing else mattered, and that it didn't matter if he couldn't return to the real world, that he could be king here and enjoy the awe and fear of others... none of that mattered.
He still cares about human appearance, human identity, human recognition, and belonging.
He had almost convinced himself of his own advice, but Nanmen Jue's casual remark, like the trembling tail feathers of an armored bow, easily shattered all his mental preparations, exposing his deepest humiliation, resentment, and fear.
Nanmen Jue kept a close eye on Cheng Xiuye, taking in all the changes in his expression. His massive body trembled, making him look almost pitiful.
"How pathetic." Nanmen Jue thought to himself, and said it, his smile becoming even more mocking. "Shouldn't you have thought of this situation when you used the item? You wanted to be a thief and a robber, but you also wanted the police not to arrest you. Where do you get so many good things? Now you've got what you wanted. You stole my level and became a gold-named player. Why aren't you happy? You should be ecstatic."
Nanmen Jue added fuel to the fire, every word hitting Cheng Xiuye's most sensitive spot. Cheng Xiuye's facial muscles trembled, his eyes turned red, and he was almost bursting with rage. With his four arms, he looked like an angry Vajra.
Nanmen Jue was calculating the time in her mind, wondering why it hadn't exploded yet. Had something gone wrong with Jin Jian? But she had successfully angered Cheng Xiuye and felt that the level of hatred should be high enough, so she turned around and tried to run away. Just then, a series of explosions rang out.
The earth trembled violently, and cracks spread. Nanmen Jue and Cheng Xiuye both fell to the ground.
Cheng Xiuye initially seemed a bit confused, not knowing that another explosion had occurred. There shouldn't be that much firepower left in Ningde Town. Then he quickly realized that this was probably related to Nanmen Jue in front of him, and his face immediately contorted.
He soon found out what Nanmen Jue had done.
The isolated island swayed as if it were about to completely capsize into the sea, yet the land itself, despite the shaking, showed no sign of turning over. Only the ground in the distance collapsed, high-rise buildings crumbled, and the spreading mycelium disappeared without a trace.
The mother tree is terrestrial, and it cannot survive in water, which is its only weakness.
Cheng Xiuye finally learned of Nanmen Jue's plan, but it was too late.
His anger, pent-up and bottled up, erupted into a roar that everyone in the hospital could hear:
"Nanmen Jue!"
"I heard you! Unrequited love is not reciprocated!"
Nanmen Jue laughed wildly, then turned and ran!
With layers of hatred building up, Nanmen Jue finally seduced Cheng Xiuye completely. Like an enraged lion, Cheng Xiuye completely ignored the people in the hospital and charged headlong after Nanmen Jue, not dodging at all along the way. He used his physical strength to knock over cars and roadblocks blocking his way, and even smashed through a wall.
When Nanmen Jue turned around, she couldn't help but gasp. Due to her biological instincts and the warning of danger, the hairs on the back of her neck stood up. She wanted to speed up, but her body went limp and she rolled off the wall.
It seemed she had lost too much blood. She calmly assessed the situation in her mind.
When she fell, she hit the wounds on her thigh and waist. The bleeding, which she had stopped with the props, started flowing again, turning her into a bloody mess in an instant. But these were just superficial injuries, nothing compared to the seriousness of her eye problem.
Cheng Xiuye's eye was deeply pierced. The injury wasn't just a problem with her eyeball; it had already damaged her brain. If she were still an ordinary person, she would already be in severe shock due to cerebral hemorrhage and brain damage. Although she is not in shock now, she can feel the slow bleeding in her brain.
The hemostatic tools she used before were almost entirely used to control the bleeding in her brain.
Now that almost all the props have been used up, and Cheng Xiuye is still relentlessly pursuing her, can she really survive?
Nanmen Jue couldn't answer the question. She just gritted her teeth and ran forward with all her might, just like Qin Yehan kept urging her to give up in the Gray Tower, but she insisted on persisting until the last moment before the Gray Tower exploded!
She's not dead yet, so she'll keep going forward until she collapses on the road ahead.
Nanmen Jue covered her eyes and ran all the way to the isolated beach, but the person who should have been waiting for her there did not appear.
Nanmen Jue's heart sank.
According to the previous plan, after Jin Jian lured away the sea snake and detonated the explosives on the mother tree, he should have quickly returned to sail and wait for Nanmenjue, but now Jin Jian has not appeared.
The heavy footsteps behind me grew closer and closer, like vengeful ghosts from hell.
Perhaps seeing that Nanmen Jue had nowhere to escape, Cheng Xiuye slowed down. He approached slowly, his voice gloomy.
"Run! Why aren't you running anymore?"
Nanmen Jue sighed softly, pulled up the trouser leg of his pants, and drew a dagger.
This was also something she exchanged from the main god. It didn't have as many functions as the bone knife, but it was still harder and sharper than an ordinary dagger.
She turned around on the beach, dagger in hand. Her blazer was filthy and tattered, and the strong winds of the sea lifted the hem of her clothes and the ends of her hair, revealing her intact eye. In the molten lava-like light and shadow, even the strands of her hair seemed to glow.
"It seems this battle is unavoidable." She smiled seductively, but her eyes were cold and intimidating. She raised her dagger and held it horizontally in front of her, assuming a fighting stance.
Just as the fighting spirit was about to ignite, a figure suddenly emerged from the shadows. Neither of the two, who were focused on their opponent, noticed this weak aura.
The man, with only one arm, lunged at Cheng Xiuye without hesitation, shouting as he turned:
"Run at the south gate!"
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