Chapter 23: Taboo Weapon
Hearing those two extremely mad roars, He Jia’an and Bu Gaojun trembled in their hearts, but they could only grit their teeth and continue running toward the direction from which the sounds came, because the bloody vines behind them were still chasing at high speed.
In less than a moment, the two saw an unforgettable mad scene: several human corpses were cut into segments, pierced through roots like strands of hair, combined with vibrant Lycoris radiata to form a flesh and blood barricade. On the barricade, those painfully twisted human faces were cyan-black and tattered, flowers grew out from the broken skin on their faces, roots connected to human blood vessels and meridians, humans were the nutrients for these flowers. Though bloody and terrifying, it unexpectedly had an indescribable artistic aesthetic sense.
This terrifying shocking image deeply stimulated He Jia’an and Bu Gaojun’s brains; they once again experienced the eerie and powerful nature of that dimensional deity.
When the two mustered their courage and rushed through the flesh and blood flower wall in one go, those vines immediately stopped their pursuit, slowly retreating like a tide.
This did not mean safety! He Jia’an and Bu Gaojun deeply agreed. Not far from them was a room emitting bright red light outward, with the room door wide open—that was the room from which the previous sounds came, and also the room storing the female corpse.
They were like being in the eye of a hurricane, only temporarily safe. If they couldn’t grasp the direction of the wind next and move with it, the gale would easily tear them to pieces.
The situation progressed in a direction deviating from what they wanted. They wanted to search for survivors, but not a single survivor was found. They wanted to burn the building, but they didn’t even have an exit route. The only passage was the room behind the door in front of them.
“From now on, we can only rely on luck.” He Jia’an said meaningfully to Bu Gaojun. Bu Gaojun instantly understood and fell into silence, nodding only after a long while.
He Jia’an gave Bu Gaojun a look, and the two then simultaneously drew their pistols. Holding the cold firearms in their hands, Bu Gaojun felt a little comforted, but He Jia’an still frowned uneasily. With more experience, he knew that when facing an anomaly that could be called a deity, weapons were no longer tools for self-defense, protection, or dealing damage, but a placebo, equivalent to an amulet for psychological comfort.
Mustering courage to reach the door, the two peeked inside the house. The scene before them immediately caused their remaining reason to plummet rapidly.
The entire room was covered in flesh and blood. Things like pus liquid and bulging lumps continuously secreted and grew from the walls. Countless meat buds writhed everywhere in the room, pitch-black holes irregularly interspersed on the flesh and blood walls, and the main body of these flesh and blood walls was a huge meat tumor, a Lycoris radiata woven from flesh and blood. That withered female corpse in the red wedding dress was now embedded in the flesh-crossed wall.
Where was this a room? It was simply a creature’s stomach. They actually thought of actively entering that unknown creature’s digestion system?!
And this was not the craziest scene in the view, because in front of the flesh and blood Lycoris radiata, there was a pair of indistinct crouching black shadows. Their shape somewhat resembled humans, but they were absolutely not normal people, with unnaturally long limbs, swollen foreheads, bulging eyes, and terrifyingly large mouths. Of course, their most terrifying aspect was that they were faintly visible, just like departed souls in horror novels.
“Blessing…” He Jia’an swallowed his saliva. He vaguely discerned a clue from the outline of a female black shadow: that unidentified crawling creature dressed as a woman in a tattered white dress looked exactly like the Woman in White Yao Zhenzhen once described by Yu Lianyun.
“Yao Zhenzhen didn’t disperse with the blessing, and who is that male black shadow?” He Jia’an continuously questioned himself in his mind. His brain rummaged through his knowledge base but couldn’t find an answer. He only felt that the male black shadow had a similar form of existence to Yao Zhenzhen, meaning the male black shadow was actually the same kind of being as Yao Zhenzhen.
The two flickering black shadows were confronting the flesh and blood Lycoris radiata. The violent black shadows, like ferocious vengeful spirits, madly tore at the flesh and blood on the flesh and blood Lycoris radiata, which had extremely powerful self-healing ability and could recover in moments. It continuously controlled the surrounding meat buds to extend into tentacles, trying to grab and tear the black shadows, but the black shadows were not entities, so the attacks were completely ineffective.
The two monsters were entangled in combat, inseparable.
He Jia’an withdrew his uncontrollable gaze and forced himself to calm down. He was somewhat puzzled: why did the blessing appear today, skipping attacks on humans and directly attacking the harder-to-deal-with flesh and blood Lycoris radiata.
Could it be because of Yu Lianyun? He Jia’an thought to himself.
As the only person who triggered the “seven-day death” curse without dying, and also the only one who actively released the blessing to the whole world, Yu Lianyun’s existence must be quite special to the blessing.
Think about it: those colleagues who died last night due to the mysterious power behind the female corpse also carried the blessing, yet they died without any obstruction or help from the blessing. This was enough to show that Yu Lianyun indeed held an extraordinary status to the blessing.
Could it be that Yu Lianyun had become a human spokesperson-like existence for the blessing?
Now that Yu Lianyun was influenced by the female corpse’s power and in dire straits, the blessing fighting another power for its spokesperson didn’t seem unreasonable at all.
“Look, Captain He, the transport pod is still there!” While He Jia’an was thinking, Bu Gaojun discovered something pleasantly surprising. He pointed vigorously at a corner of the room that for some reason hadn’t been invaded by flesh and blood—there was a rectangular object like a coffin, which was actually the transport pod originally used to transport the female corpse. “We… can we get out from there?”
He Jia’an’s eyes lit up, and he nodded, but he warily glanced at the two sides engaged in fierce battle. “The only problem now is how we approach without being discovered by them. Don’t forget, they are all anomalies harboring malice toward humans.”
Bu Gaojun gritted his teeth and looked at He Jia’an. “You say what to do. Even if you want me to be bait, it’s fine.”
“Don’t be silly. Neither of us qualifies as bait. Look at their power, speed, and attack range—our fragile human bodies would die from a single hit.” He Jia’an chuckled, then patted Bu Gaojun’s shoulder. “But that doesn’t mean we have no other methods.”
He Jia’an took out a test tube-like object from his pocket, containing three-quarters of green oil-like liquid.
“Isn’t this green oil?!” Bu Gaojun’s face showed shock, as if he had seen something terrifying. He swallowed his saliva and said, “This is one of the taboo weapons recorded in our Mysterious Group’s Forbidden Book. It’s said to be a mysterious treasure excavated from the taboo treasury left by Fangshi National Advisor Liu Zhongyuan.”
Unknown what raw material was mixed into the green oil formula, it became extremely terrifying. Once ignited, it’s said it could even burn souls to ashes.
“This is the treasure I painstakingly got from the group leader. I didn’t expect there’d really come a time to use it.” He Jia’an sighed.
Catching up on last night’s. Hope the dumb leader doesn’t assign me any temporary missions today. Can’t take it…
