Chapter 88 Demonic Consciousness (Repair) (Hey guys, there are some changes in the second half...
Based on the training during this period, Xu Xingxing has made some progress.
Her heart's reaction to this close-range attack had gone from beating in her throat to just jumping around in place. She was even able to suppress her fear and force herself to observe rationally.
This is a woman's face, or more like a head than a face. The body is missing, and blood is dripping from the broken neck.
A fleshy tube as thick as an intestine broke out from the skull and connected to the top. It was submerged in red mist and no one knew where it led to.
The pipe kept twisting, as if transmitting something upwards. Every time it transmitted something, the head would roll its eyes and howl in pain or enjoyment, which made people feel weird and frightened.
Fortunately, it has no offensive power.
Xu Xingxing planned to go around it.
Just as she took a step, the head suddenly opened his eyes wide and stared at her intently. His eyes were unusually empty and extremely distracted, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Change my clothes quickly!"
Xu Xingxing: ???
She really didn't expect this to happen. Her heart trembled and her reaction was a little slow.
"I'm talking to you! Change your clothes quickly!" The woman's voice became impatient when she didn't get a response.
"Okay, I'll change your clothes for you." Xu Xingxing replied.
"I want the red dress that my husband gave me." The woman's eyes were fixed on her.
"I'll get it right away."
"Hurry up!"
Xu Xingxing responded and hurriedly walked around the head and went inside.
After walking a few steps, she saw several more heads, some hanging high and some low, some babbling to themselves, some completely gray. The intestines in the sky were tangled and messy, and as she walked, she could finally see clearly where the intestines were connected.
Each intestine extended into a mouth above, which seemed to have consciousness, constantly sucking the head below the intestine. Countless similar mouths grew on the living limbs as thick as thighs, densely packed and countless.
The living flesh branches were displayed and mixed in the air, and finally twisted and intertwined into limbs as thick as a person, extending to the ground.
Like a big tree.
What the hell is this.
Xu Xingxing looked at these incredible scenes and felt his scalp tingling and he really wanted to vomit.
She didn't look any further and just walked around countless heads and living limbs. Suddenly, she heard a voice coming from a distance, and she quickly hid behind a limb.
A female voice asked, "How many people do you know over there?"
"Only one," the other woman replied.
"I have two here, let's look over there."
After saying this, the two voices walked towards Xu Xingxing's position.
"This one is pretty thick. Let me see if there's anything inside."
As the voice spoke, it walked to a tree trunk not far away, and Xu Xingxing also saw the man's appearance clearly at this time.
She was actually an ordinary woman.
I don't know what she did, but the middle of the limb slowly opened up, and then she pulled out a crystal the size of an apple. The crystal was quite transparent and beautiful, with a faint red glow. The woman smiled brightly when she saw it, and said to the other woman beside her, "Okay, pick one more and it will be enough."
As he spoke, he walked towards the trunk where Xu Xingxing was hiding.
They were really just two ordinary human girls. On their way here, they teased the human heads. The heads also chatted a few words, and they deliberately responded, followed by a few bursts of laughter.
While they were not paying attention, Xu Xingxing quickly hid behind the limbs a little further back.
"Who!" A woman suddenly looked over here.
The other woman laughed at her: "Who can come this way?"
"The prince just said yesterday that someone broke in and asked us to be careful." After saying that, the woman slowly moved towards Xu Xingxing's position.
Xu Xingxing listened carefully to the footsteps. When she calculated the distance and was about to attack, a head suddenly appeared beside her and spoke to the woman:
"Mother, I don't want to get married."
The woman was startled by the sudden sound, and the other woman burst into laughter: "See, you're overthinking it."
The woman rolled her eyes and replied to the head: "Okay, I won't let you marry."
The head smiled happily, just like a living person: "Thank you, mother."
Then she muttered bad luck and turned back to take out a crystal from the limb where Xu Xingxing had just hidden it.
"Five, that's enough, let's go." After saying this, the two of them left.
When the sound became almost inaudible, Xu Xingxing came out from behind the limbs.
Just as she was about to move forward, she suddenly felt her clothes being pulled. She turned her head and saw a hand emerging from the ground and firmly grasping the corner of her clothes.
She took out a dagger and prepared to chop, but a strand of hair had wrapped around her arm without her knowing. At the same time, the limbs she had just hidden suddenly opened countless eyes, crowded together, from top to bottom, and the inky black eyeballs all turned to her.
Xu Xingxing's san value plummeted to the bottom in an instant.
My hair stood on end, I broke out in a cold sweat, and even my legs felt weak.
Fuck your mother's world of immortal cultivation.
Every time she thought she was making progress, it would come up with something new to disgust her.
This is not a question of being afraid or not!
It's a question of how long it will take for her to be able to eat again!
The head that had just called out "A-niang" suddenly came over and grinned at Xu Xingxing, blood flowing from all seven orifices. "Beauty, please stay here with me."
Accompany your mom! I'm accompanying your mom, did you hear me?
But even when she was so furious, she did not lose her composure and curse out loud.
She had eliminated so many monsters during this year that she might be able to figure out some patterns.
For example, low-level monsters mostly eat carrion.
The higher the level of the monster, the more complex the food it eats.
For example, although there are heads everywhere here, Xu Xingxing knows that these heads are not food.
She could probably guess that those mouths and intestines were probably used to absorb human memories or desires, and the unconscious self-talk of the head should be the expression of the emotions and events of that time when the memory was recalled.
The crystals that the two maids just took out should be the food for the monster.
From this, she was very sure that what the head said now had nothing to do with those lustful memories.
The monster was talking to her through the mouth of this head.
"I will protect you and won't let them find you. Will you stay here, beauty?" Another head stretched out and said.
Xu Xingxing tried her best not to look at those eyes full of dryness and replied, "You're too insincere. You want me to stay but you don't show up in person. Instead, you have to use someone else to talk to me."
The heads around them suddenly burst into tears. The sounds were high, low, rough, and thin, like the howling of ghosts and wolves. The myriad sounds merged into the ears, chilling one's body and soul. All they could hear was them wailing in unison: "It's all his fault, it's all his fault! I'm going to kill him!"
"...Who was killed?" Xu Xingxing asked in response.
"That... huh?" The head in front of her suddenly stopped crying, its eyes exaggeratedly moving around twice in its sockets and fixed on her. "Beauty, are you trying to trick me?"
Xu Xingxing quickly shook her head. "I saw you crying so pitifully, so I just felt concerned for you."
"Care about me? Do you care about me?" Those thousands of eyes seemed to lick her body from top to bottom. Another head spoke, "Beauty, can you take off your clothes?"
Before Xu Xingxing could answer, countless hands stretched out from the ground and pulled at her clothes.
"I'll take off your clothes, beauty. I'll take off your clothes, beauty." The heads around came closer, trying to push towards her.
Xu Xingxing felt a chill all over his body and didn't dare to delay any longer. He immediately seized the opportunity to cut off all his hair and arms, and teleported out from the crowded heads.
The heads around her all turned to look at her, and the limbs that had been silent all opened their eyes. The flesh forest that had been relatively quiet just now suddenly became noisy, with screams and cries everywhere, limbs dancing wildly, heads flying everywhere, and they attacked her with ferocious roars.
Just as Xu Xingxing was about to fight back, she found that they all suddenly stopped, looked behind her in horror, and cried out in unison.
She followed the line of sight and saw a black gas sweeping in like a huge wave, burning all the limbs and heads wherever it passed.
The black energy quickly came to her, surrounding her but not touching her.
After the black air around her dissipated, the red fog, head, and limbs were all burned away, leaving only a flat area.
Then she saw the man standing in the distance.
His red eyes went out the moment he saw her, and with a single hand he hooked her, she floated up and flew towards him.
She also looked at him, opened her arms and rushed towards him.
He caught her flying towards him and hugged her tightly: "I'm late."
Xu Xingxing also hugged him tightly and said in surprise: "I thought you didn't come in!"
"If Gu Nuo wasn't here, we could have entered the barrier unnoticed without using that method, and we wouldn't have been sent to different places like this."
"Different locations? Where have you been? What exactly is this place?" Xu Xingxing looked up at him, frowning slightly. "Doesn't the barrier separate the real world? This doesn't look like a real palace to me."
Hou Yuan looked down at her subtle expression, his heart tingling and soft. He replied, "Yes, but this barrier is not one cast by magic."
"What is that?"
"It's the carcass of a demon. People generally call it the Corpse Forest."
Hou Yuan did not fully understand the monsters under his command, but the fruits produced in the Corpse Forest were very popular among some great monsters. Some monsters even gave him a few to please him. Of course, he burned them to death along with the monsters.
"I've heard of this name. It's said that most of them grow in mass graves. They appear like ordinary trees during the day, but grow limbs at night and walk around, digging up graves and corpses. I've never heard of them looking so weird." Xu Xingxing felt sick at the thought of that pile of eyes. The intensive fear they aroused would probably torment her for several days.
"This isn't his true body, but rather his demonic consciousness. There are two things about him that are very popular with other monsters. One is his body shell, which, through special techniques, can be transformed into a highly effective barrier. The other is the flesh crystals produced by his demonic consciousness. Oh, and these flesh crystals are not only coveted by monsters, but also by many humans. As a result, corpse forests are now rare."
After saying this, Xu Yuan gently rubbed Xu Xingxing's furrowed brows with his fingers, then pressed down on her temples, adding a gentle tone to his words, "But did it scare you?"
Xu Xingxing closed her eyes slightly, enjoying his pressure, and said with a pout, "It's not that I'm scared, it's just too disgusting."
Suddenly she thought of something, opened her eyes and asked, "Will burning all of this not alert the demon?"
"Spiritual power might be alarmed, but demonic energy won't be, especially one that's much stronger than his." Hou Yuan smiled and raised an eyebrow. "So what even if he knew?"
Xu Xingxing hurriedly shook her head: "No, it's better not to let Gu Nuo know that you are a demon god."
Zhu Yuan's eyes darkened slightly, and he held her tightly. "Don't you want to be the devil's bride? What's the matter? You don't want to anymore?"
These are two different things...
She might think about it, but she doesn't want to be criticized to death.
But she couldn't say that, so she turned the tables and said, "What do you mean I don't want to? It's you who doesn't want to marry me."
As expected, Wei Yuan froze, frowning as he asked, "When did I ever say I didn't want to marry you?"
"Then why didn't you kiss me this morning?"
Xu Xingxing felt that she had some talent for making far-fetched arguments. She linked two unrelated things together and looked quite righteous.
The demon god, who usually has an IQ far ahead of others, would always be instantly brought down to the same level by Xu Xingxing at this time.
His eyes suddenly widened, and the tips of his ears began to turn red. He frowned slightly and wanted to refute, but she broke free from her embrace in advance:
"I knew it, you just dislike me."
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