Xie Xuan's heart sank, but Zhou Yuanyuan beside her cried out, "She, she...!"
Xie Xuan came back to his senses and saw that the sculpture slowly opened its mouth, but there was no mycelium and fungus as they thought, but empty gums and a tongue broken in the middle!
"Ah, ah..." This empty mouth was making a hoarse and painful sound, and drooling uncontrollably. The scene looked absurd and terrifying.
Zhou Yuanyuan couldn't help but rub her arms through her protective suit. "What the hell is going on? Aren't the minds of these parasites so twisted?"
Ling Wenqing frowned, "Don't disturb it, let's keep moving forward."
But it was too late. As soon as Ling Wenqing finished speaking, countless cracks suddenly appeared on the surface of the pure white sculpture, accompanied by the sound of "crackling", as if something was about to break free from it.
"Run!" Ling Wenqing had no mood to continue watching the fun, he immediately turned around and started running upwards.
But he had barely taken two steps when the thing inside the sculpture completely broke free.
This is a shapeless slime-like monster. After breaking free from the constraints of the sculpture, it quickly expanded like a balloon.
It squirmed forward like a huge mass of flesh with its bones pulled out. The skin wrapped around it was stretched to be covered with light-colored scars. There were no eyes or nose on its head, only a mouth that was pulled into a strange laughing shape by an invisible force.
“Ah, ah—”
The monster continued to make painful sounds that were completely different from its expression, but after possessing this huge body, its voice was amplified exponentially, like a sharp bayonet desperately stabbing the eardrums of Xie Xuan and the others.
Xie Xuan's whole head was buzzing with pain.
[Spirit value decreased by 5]
Xie Xuan immediately bit the tip of her tongue hard, trying her best to ignore the white light that was constantly shaking in front of her. When the monster pounced on them, she suddenly pulled up Zhou Yuanyuan who was staggering behind her.
"Turn on the anti-noise mode of the helmet!" Ling Wenqing shouted as he turned around and fired to cover Xie Xuan and Zhou Yuanyuan.
Xie Xuan and Zhou Yuanyuan did as they were told immediately, and the noise from the outside world suddenly became much quieter, as if they were wearing excellent noise-canceling headphones, with the only sound in their ears being their own breathing.
Xie Xuan and Zhou Yuanyuan caught up with Ling Wenqing in a few steps, but this time Ling Wenqing fell behind and was left at the back.
Ling Wenqing fired several shots, but with little effect, the monster's pace barely stopped.
Behind him, Xie Xuan and Zhou Yuanyuan were running up as fast as they could.
"Throwing the grenade into its mouth might help." Xie Xuan panted heavily, "We can't outrun it!"
Zhou Yuanyuan immediately said, "We'll cover you!"
The three of them stopped and turned around at the same time. The monster was always following them at a distance of two steps, just like a cat that had cornered a mouse and was teasing its prey.
After the monster saw Xie Xuan and the others stop, it let out another sharp howl, and two long tentacles like arms stretched out from its fleshy body.
Zhou Yuanyuan and Ling Wenqing fired at the same time. Xie Xuan gripped the dagger tightly and flew out from between the two of them. The tentacles immediately changed their offensive and swept towards Xie Xuan.
Xie Xuan quickly adjusted his posture and raised the dagger to fight back. The sharp dagger easily cut off the tentacle. The huge tentacle fell on the steps, but it began to wriggle as if it was still alive.
Countless flesh buds emerged from the broken end of the tentacle, and a complete tentacle grew out almost in the blink of an eye.
"Xie Xuan, go forward!" Ling Wenqing also changed his dagger and moved closer to Xie Xuan's back. When the newly grown tentacles swung down again, Ling Wenqing immediately raised the dagger to fight.
Xie Xuan didn't look back and rushed straight towards the monster that looked like a mountain of flesh.
Ling Wenqing's dagger was not as sharp as Xie Xuan's. After the blade sank two centimeters into the flesh, it could no longer cut. The flesh felt the pain, roared, and threw Ling Wenqing out.
The steps were extremely slippery, and Ling Wenqing flew backwards several meters. Zhou Yuanyuan had no time to react before she saw Ling Wenqing fall down the steps.
"Captain!" Zhou Yuanyuan's heart almost stopped.
Fortunately, Ling Wenqing managed to insert the dagger into the steps at the last moment to stabilize himself.
Xie Xuan glanced at this scene and immediately said, "Go save the captain, don't worry about me!"
Zhou Yuanyuan gritted her teeth and continued to use the flamethrower to attract the monster's attention while moving closer to Ling Wenqing.
Among the three people's channels, only Ling Wenqing, who was hanging under the stairs, remained silent.
He thought he had seen a miracle.
Under the pure white steps, there was actually a lush, slender mushroom growing upside down. They were pure black in color, but there was a blood-red round spot on the top, and a black vertical pupil-like pattern in the middle.
The moment Ling Wenqing fell, all eyes looked at Ling Wenqing at the same time.
They didn't do anything else but watch.
Countless pairs of blood-red devil eyes stared at Ling Wenqing quietly. This scene, which could cause a person to have claustrophobia, suddenly brought a strange calmness to Ling Wenqing's heart.
He was being watched. He was being watched by the gods.
Ling Wenqing's grip on the dagger slowly loosened. He should let go and return to the embrace of the gods.
But just before he let go, Zhou Yuanyuan finally grabbed Ling Wenqing's hand.
"I've got the captain, I'm pulling him up now!"
Xie Xuan stared closely at the strange mouth so close to her, "I'm almost done too."
In less than half a minute, Xie Xuan and Zhou Yuanyuan seemed to have experienced a fierce battle.
The monster seemed to have gone crazy under the attacks of Xie Xuan and Zhou Yuanyuan, waving its tentacles indiscriminately and constantly making sharp and piercing screams. In the end, even the noise-proofing function of the helmet could not completely block the monster's mental attacks.
Xie Xuan struggled to use the dagger to stabilize himself from falling, and quickly pulled down the ring and stuffed the grenade into the black mouth.
The saliva flowing from the monster's mouth covered Xie Xuan's palms.
When Xie Xuan pulled out the dagger and prepared to move away from the center of the explosion, she seemed to hear a few vague syllables in the shrill and painful scream.
“Save me…”
Xie Xuan was in a daze for a moment, then quickly came to his senses and leaped forward.
Almost as soon as she left, a huge muffled sound came from behind her. The monster was blown to pieces by the explosion, and the charred flesh flew everywhere, like a flesh rain.
Xie Xuan knelt on the ground, breathing heavily.
In front of her, Zhou Yuanyuan had just pulled Ling Wenqing up with great difficulty.
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