Chapter 49 Fungal Remains Frenzy 10 Underground Bar.
Nanmen Jue was unaware of what was happening outside. She spread her elbows and knees, twisting her body into an eerie angle, using the hardest part of her body to create a small space for herself, supporting the powerful strangulation. According to her judgment, the combined force of these vines could easily crush an elephant into pieces.
But that wasn't the scary part. In the confined space, she noticed that the substance began to ooze a sticky substance, which dripped onto her bare skin, causing a burning pain.
The situation is getting urgent; this thing is trying to digest her.
Her clothes have undergone the highest level of upgrade and can currently withstand the slime, but the Supreme God will never let the reincarnators gain an advantage. Even though she spent a lot of money, the clothes still have durability. As the defense is triggered more often, its effectiveness will become weaker and weaker until it fails.
We must find a way to break this deadlock!
During the intense strangulation, Nanmen Jue was completely unable to move her limbs. She could hear her bones making a sickening sound, and blood flowed from her burning wounds. Nanmen leaned down and pulled the bone knife out of her sleeve.
She took a deep breath, her neck forming a sharp arc, and the double-edged sword plunged deep into the vines, leaving a long gash!
The vine's sap gushed out in large quantities, splashing onto Nanmen Jue's face and neck, as if a bucket of boiling oil had been poured over her head. If Nanmen Jue hadn't enhanced her physical attributes, this would have melted her flesh and bones, annihilating her body and soul.
She held on, but the pain momentarily distracted her. The vines, injured by her, trembled wildly a few times, and she suddenly sank down.
This thing dragged her into the ground.
We can't let it drag us down!
Having survived countless life-or-death crises, she could discern whether she could defeat the current enemy in a single exchange. These vines were clearly not the full form of the monster; even a part of its limbs possessed such strength. Nanmen Jue knew she couldn't defeat it. Therefore, she absolutely could not follow it back to its lair, or she would surely be the one to die.
The vines paid no heed to their encased prey, slamming and dragging the fleshy cocoon around, further injuring Nanmen Jue's twisted limbs. Nanmen Jue groaned, her mind becoming clearer amidst the excruciating pain. She tilted her head, precisely finding the spot she had just cut, and viciously slashed down again, using her own bones to tear open the enemy's flesh.
The upgraded blade was incredibly sharp, capable of cutting through iron like mud. A cold glint flashed in the darkness, and a deeper, longer wound appeared on the vines binding her. With a violent tremor, the vines retracted as if flying. Such a huge creature could cause the earth to tremble with the slightest movement. The aftershock of its movement alone flung Nanmen Jue more than ten meters away.
When Nanmen Jue regained her mobility, she thought she had gone blind.
Everything was pitch black, and the smell of earth filled her nostrils. She tried to move her hand, but the intense pain made her movements sluggish.
Realizing she was bleeding, she took out a talisman, the same one she had given to Zhang Jinghe before. It was a blue item that was the best for healing and stopping bleeding, and she only had three of them. The side effect was vomiting blood.
It seems to be called something like "One Blood for One Blood". Nanmen Jue is somewhat out of it now, and while he's putting the talisman into his chest, he's grinning as if he's about to laugh.
Considering her current rank, she stands at the pinnacle of the Reincarnation Space with a noble and prestigious title. Who would guess that she's so poor she can't even afford a purple item?
This is not good. As long as the mechanism of items exists, no matter how serious the side effects are, they become part of one's strength the moment they are used. Even if she is strong in individual combat, the battle between reincarnators is not just about this.
Still weak. Nanmen Jue sighed inwardly.
After a short while, his strength returned to his limbs, and the burning pain on his face and neck eased considerably. Nanmen Jue reached out and touched them, then used two more green healing items. The side effect was a stomachache, which was far less severe than vomiting blood, and the effect was also far less.
However, its advantage is that it works very well for external injuries. She at least needs to restore her face to a presentable state, otherwise she might scare the little girl.
Nanmen Jue took out a lighter from her pocket and lit it up the dark underground. With bottomless depths on both sides, she was momentarily disoriented. After hesitating for a moment, she chose a direction and walked in.
Fortunately, she was lucky and soon saw some light. This path did not lead her to the monster's lair, but instead allowed her to see the light of day again.
She crawled out of the ground and realized that this was not the crack she had fallen into. She frowned, looked into the distance through the crack, and decided to sit down and rest.
Because of the contractor, the crow was able to find her; now all she has to do is wait for Him to come to her.
As long as nothing bad happens to Zhang Zhi...
As he was thinking this, a dark shadow flew over from the sky. Nanmen Jue looked up sharply and his heart skipped a beat when he saw it clearly.
The crow couldn't possibly have missed her last words; it wouldn't have left Zhang Zhi and flown over on its own!
Despite having bad thoughts in her mind, Nanmen Jue didn't move. She sat there, coldly watching the crow land in front of her.
Upon seeing Nanmen Jue's sharp gaze, the crow wanted to smile bitterly. Knowing it was in the wrong, it lowered its head and said in a low voice, "Someone has taken Zhang Zhi away."
Nanmen Jue had already anticipated this outcome, so his expression remained unchanged. He coldly asked, "Who is it?"
His tone was as if he were calling out the names of the King of Hell.
Even though the crow knew she couldn't kill him, it couldn't help but shrink back. "The person you shot earlier didn't die. While you were being taken away, he came and kidnapped Zhang Zhi."
He raised his eyes and, seeing that Nanmen Jue still had no expression, asked softly, "Where is that thing?"
"You still have the nerve to ask?" Nanmen Jue said.
"I really didn't expect it to be hidden underground." The crow's face was expressionless, but its tone revealed embarrassment. "It was my oversight, I'm sorry."
He certainly wouldn't want Nanmen Jue to get hurt, much less deliberately set a trap for her, so Nanmen Jue didn't intend to blame Him.
She peeled off the dry skin from her fingers, revealing new skin that had been created by the prop. It was even more delicate and fair than before, reflecting a nearly transparent pink hue in the sunlight.
"What level of item is that?" she asked.
“Just dealing with those few vines of yours, each one is around B to A level in strength. If you can cut one off, you might get several hundred points.” The crow’s eyes also fell on the peeling scars on her body.
Nanmen Jue uttered two words with certainty: "Mother Tree".
There is only one possibility.
Parasites below Grade A pose little threat to her; only the mysterious mother tree could injure her to this extent.
“This is against the rules. If this city had a mother tree, it would have been occupied long ago,” the crow said. “They fight each other for territory, just like warlords dividing up the land. This place should have been covered in mycelium.”
After tearing off his fingers, Nanmenjue then began tearing off the skin from his face and neck. "What if it's a mother tree with special characteristics, such as not being able to see light, or it had problems during development and isn't as healthy and robust as other mother trees?"
The crow pondered for a moment, "It's not impossible, but we don't have enough information right now."
Nanmen Jue expressionlessly tore off the skin covering most of his face.
The crow looked at her and repeated, "It's so good that you came out alive."
"Now that I've healed my wounds, it's time to get down to business," Nanmen Jue said in a low voice. "Do you think I was too friendly, making these people not take my bad reputation seriously?"
The crow's eyes widened. "You mean, the ambush was orchestrated by some reincarnated being? Who? Wei Chongru?"
“He doesn’t have the guts.” Nanmen Jue sneered, his eyes like cold stars. “It’s not necessarily the work of the Reincarnators. If it were, they wouldn’t have sent just a few small fry to attack me. I’m just thinking that to reduce some trouble, maybe we should change our approach.”
After some thought, the crow found it difficult to reconcile Nanmen Jue's behavior with the word "kindness," and could only remain silent.
Nanmen Jue didn't need His response. She slowly wiped away the blood that came out from the side effects of the prop, checked that the clothes were still usable, and rolled up the cuffs to reveal her slender forearms.
Let's go.
A crow landed on her shoulder. "Should we go straight to the underground bar?"
“Let’s find someone first,” Nanmen Jue said. “I put a ‘hunting dog’s nose’ on Wei Chongru.”
The hound's nose, a green tracking device, has a range of 100 kilometers, but a side effect is an itchy nose.
After saying that, Nanmen Jue sneezed.
The crow asked, puzzled, "Do you have a cold?"
Don't do anything stupid.
...
Wei Chongru was resting comfortably in the back seat of the car when suddenly the car screeched to a halt and braked sharply. He was jolted awake from the nightmare of Nanmen Jue choking him. Before he could even sigh with relief that it was just a nightmare, he heard the driver scream.
"Brother, it's...it's that person!"
"That person? What 'that person'?"
"That incredibly handsome assassin!"
The subconscious question was just the brain's unwillingness to admit the truth. Wei Chongru immediately leaned forward and saw the person standing not far in front of the car through the car window.
The person who had just appeared in his nightmare was waving to him with a smile. In just one night, her skin seemed even whiter, and she looked like a piece of shimmering jade in the light.
So beautiful, yet it startled Wei Chongru into gasping for breath.
The driver looked dejected. "Brother, what do we do?"
"Make it cold!"
Wei Chongru smacked his head while cursing, took a deep breath, rubbed his face to adjust his expression, carefully opened the door and got out of the car, his face already showing a fawning smile.
"Brother Nanmen, Brother Nanmen, what's wrong?"
His eyes darted around, and when he saw that Zhang Zhi wasn't with Nanmen Jue, and Deng Erhuai and his men weren't nearby either, his heart skipped a beat, and he felt that the newcomers were up to no good.
Nanmen Jue said, "I need you to show me the way."
Wei Chongru asked, puzzled, "Where are you going?"
Nanmen Jue glanced at him with a half-smile, and he suddenly realized, "You're going to the underground bar?"
His voice rose slightly as he considered a possibility; his expression and tone changed simultaneously, "Could it be that someone..."
“Wei Chongru, my impression of your bar is now very, very bad.” Nanmen Jue interrupted him, a smile on his lips, but his eyes said something else entirely. “You’d better pray that Zhang Zhi is alright.”
Wei Chongru fell silent.
Nanmen Jue had already walked to the car door and brazenly sat in the back seat. Given her previous display of skill at the service area, no one dared to kick her out, and they let her sit in arrogantly.
Wei Chongru rubbed his face vigorously again, muttering under his breath, "What kind of mess is this... I hope I don't find out which bastard stole that child!"
He felt bitter inside, but on the surface, he ran back to his car, took out an unopened bottle of mineral water, and said obsequiously, "Brother Nanmen, would you like some water?"
Nanmen Jue accepted it.
Bringing things into and out of the Reincarnation World requires expensive points. Nanmen Jue doesn't lack these points, but she doesn't have storage bags or anything like that, so bringing them would be a burden. Most Reincarnators don't choose to bring food and water into the Reincarnation World, since they've all improved their physique to some extent. Even if they're unlucky, they can find food after a few days.
Upgrading to the level of Nanmenjue, one can go without food or water for a week or two without much problem.
Unfortunately, even though the gods upgraded humanity, they could not free humans from the burdens of their mortal bodies; they could only enhance the potential of the human body.
Seeing that she actually accepted the answer, Wei Chongru showed a slightly flattered expression.
Nanmen Jue took a sip of water and suddenly asked, "How many people have you arrested in the past few days?"
The "these few days" she was referring to naturally started counting from the time Wei Chongru entered this world. He gave an awkward laugh, "The performance is not good, I haven't found a single one yet."
Nanmen Jue remained silent, and Wei Chongru naturally had no idea that in Nanmen Jue's mind, he had simply removed him from the list of those "who must be killed immediately."
"Brother Jue, we'll be there soon." Wei Chongru felt he could get closer to Nanmen Jue, so he took the initiative to say, "Our bar is just ahead."
Nanmen Jue was surprised, "Right here in this city?"
Wei Chongru was puzzled as to why she reacted so strongly. "Yes, yes, I hadn't even had a chance to leave the city when I ran into you all."
Nanmen Jue gripped the bottle in her hand and exchanged a subtle glance with the crow sitting next to her.
The mother tree is located underground in this city. If there are still living people in this city, how could it let it go?
There's a problem. I don't know if it's a problem with the bar or the mother tree, but there's definitely something wrong.
Nanmen Jue kept quiet, and Wei Chongru naturally didn't dare to ask further. After they got out of the carriage, Nanmen Jue grabbed Wei Chongru by the back of his collar, stopping him from walking directly through the gate.
"Brother Nanmen?" His heart nearly stopped!
"Where are you keeping all the people you've arrested? Take me there directly," Nanmen Jue said.
"Oh, okay." Wei Chongru agreed cautiously, focusing all his senses on the hand gripping the back of his neck, afraid that it would shift to his throat.
Nanmen Jue didn't notice his trembling. She glanced at the unremarkable entrance of the bar with frosty eyes and restrained the urge to rush in.
Finding Zhang Zhi is the most important thing right now.
That child has such special abilities, and being born in this place full of malice, the fear he bears is a thousand times greater than that of an ordinary person.
Wei Chongru led Nanmen Jue along the road, and an entrance to the underground subway station appeared ahead, marked "Chang'an Street Exit B".
Chang'an Avenue.
Nanmen Jue lowered his eyes and followed Wei Chongru down the stairs.
Perhaps because the people from their bar had to use this route, it had been specially cleared. There weren't as many corpses outside, only bloodstains on the ground that couldn't be cleaned up, indicating what had happened here.
Upon reaching the underground, they were surprised to find that there was still electricity, though the voltage was unstable, just like in a service area. The light flickered and was somewhat dim, and a cold and silent atmosphere enveloped them. The only sound in the entire underground was the echo of their footsteps.
"This way," Wei Chongru whispered, jumping off the railway tracks.
After walking along the railway tracks for a while, and passing through a stone archway, a simple outpost came into view.
There was a comfortable recliner and a small barbecue grill with a few slices of meat sizzling on it. The aroma of the meat filled the air, and two burly men glanced over and picked up the guns beside them.
Who is it?
"It's me." Wei Chongru cleared his throat, trying not to reveal his cowardice at being by Nanmen Jue's side.
"It's Brother Wei." The two burly men recognized him, put down their guns and laughed. Their eyes lit up when they glanced at Nanmen Jue behind them.
"Who is this? A newcomer?"
"Ah, this is my new helper." Wei Chongru was afraid that the two men's audacious gazes would anger the powerful figure behind them. It didn't matter if they lost their lives, but he didn't want them to be implicated. So he forced himself to say, "I'll go in and take a look. By the way, have any new goods arrived today?"
“There are a few,” said a burly man, his eyes still glued to Nanmen Jue.
"Okay, you can continue eating."
Wei Chongru hurriedly went inside, and Nanmen Jue didn't even turn his head, his voice soft, "Pretty skilled, Brother Wei?"
This shout sent chills down Wei Chongru's spine. He shuddered and gave a wry smile, "The identity that the God gave me still gives me some standing in the bar."
They arrived at a hidden door. Wei Chongru reached out and pushed it open. Suddenly, everything went dark, and air filled with the smell of blood and excrement rushed in. Wei Chongru covered his mouth and nose.
He subconsciously turned around and glanced at Nanmen Jue. Seeing that she remained calm, he couldn't help but feel a surge of admiration.
He now knows that Nanmen Jue is incredibly strong, and might at least be an orange-ranked player. The reincarnators who have survived to this point are all exceptional individuals, one in ten thousand. They may be evil, but on the path of survival, they are definitely the best.
I don't know how I endured those struggles time and time again.
Once Nanmen Jue found the place, she ignored Wei Chongru's situation and strode in like a wolf entering a flock of sheep, causing a rustling sound of alarm around her.
Her eyesight improved, and she could barely see in this darkness. She could see clearly that what was piled up here were cages covered with covers, most of which contained living people who were afraid because they thought that a perpetrator had entered.
Nanmen Jue squinted. "Turn on the lights."
Wei Chongru really didn't know where the lights were, as he hadn't been here much before. However, he dared not disobey Nanmen Jue's orders, so he groped his way to the wall to find the lights, and quickly found the switch.
A bright incandescent light suddenly illuminated this filthy corner. Nanmen Jue walked to a cage and yanked off the cloth covering it.
A thin, trembling girl huddled inside, her fearful eyes looking over like a puppy waiting for its fate in a slaughterhouse.
"No, don't kill me, please..."
Nanmen Jue pursed his lips and walked to the next one.
Wei Chongru cleverly stepped forward to help.
One by one, the covers were lifted, revealing bewildered and terrified people inside. There were men, women, and children, but almost no elderly people. It was easy to guess why the bar was arresting them.
It's either a business of flesh and blood or the buying and selling of organs. Nanmen Jue had encountered such places before in the virtual training ground, but those were fake. The pairs of eyes before him were living, breathing souls.
Nanmen Jue's face grew colder and colder, and she was already holding her breath. She suddenly lifted another piece of cloth, revealing a boy with wide, round eyes. The two stared at each other in disbelief.
Nanmen Jue's gaze fell on the top of his head, where the words "Mo Gui" were written in blue.
The Reincarnators have no guild.
Mo Gui didn't show the fear that others did; he was just very surprised. Before his expression could fully develop, he saw the red name with a drop of blood above Nanmen Jue's head and blurted out, "Damn it!"
This incongruous voice immediately caught Wei Chongru's attention. He walked over and saw the somewhat arrogant boy sitting in the cage, and was speechless for a moment.
Mo Gui's eyes were very beautiful, round almond-shaped eyes with a slightly watery look, dark pupils and clean whites, and a rather clever gaze as he chattered back and forth between Nanmen Jue and Mo Gui.
Of the three, the first to speak was the boy who was at the mercy of others.
"Are you here to save me, or to kill me?"
Nanmen Jue's cold, brows twitched slightly. "Aren't you afraid?"
"Yes, I am scared, but does being scared mean I won't die? With your combined strength, you two could turn me into dumpling filling with a flick of your fingers," Mo Gui said.
Wei Chongru: "..." Why are you so talkative?
Nanmen Jue smirked, "What if I were to kill you right now?"
"So ceremonial, giving a heads-up before killing?" Mo Gui said. "Then how about giving me a chance to leave a few last words?"
Nanmen Jue said, "Tell me about it."
Mo Gui shifted in the cage. He was well-developed and had a tall frame, but his thin body, which still had a youthful feel, struggled to kneel up, revealing a feigned contemplative expression.
"I can't remember right now," he said. "Or you could carry out the ritual until I remember, and then kill me?"
Wei Chongru's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. Was this guy incredibly audacious, or was he simply unafraid of death, daring to open a red name, especially since it was Nanmen Jue's joke!
Nanmen Jue's unusually gloomy mood upon entering was affected by the boy's words. He lowered his head and chuckled. Mo Gui rolled over to the cage.
"Nanmen, Jue, is it Brother Jue? Your smile is so beautiful. To die at your hands would make my life worthwhile."
He turned and glanced at Wei Chongru again, "If I die at Jue Ge's hands, you won't have to lift a finger. I'm getting annoyed watching you."
Wei Chongru: "?"
Nanmen Jue didn't speak. She put Mo Gui aside for a moment, then turned around and continued to lift the covers. There weren't many covers left, and she lifted them all in one go, her eyes becoming calm.
Zhang Zhi is not among them.
She swept her cold gaze over Wei Chongru, who was also somewhat stunned, and said in a fright, "Could it be that they haven't returned yet?"
"Are you looking for someone?" Mo Gui understood what they meant and pointed to several cages next to him. "Three people came today. I heard them very clearly."
Wei Chongru said, "Then now..."
Nanmen Jue walked over, the white bone knife sliding to her fingertips, and without a word, she cut through Mo Gui's cage lock in front of Mo Gui's wide eyes.
"Ah!" Wei Chongru cried out in surprise, raising his head in fear.
A surveillance camera was on it, and the alarm went off the next second.
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