In the blink of an eye, Ling Mo noticed the Monster wrapping its countless “hands” around his Arm…
After a moment of silence, Ling Mo exploded, “Damn it, damn it, damn it!”
He swung his Arm wildly, while his other hand grabbed the back of the Monster’s neck, trying to pull it off.
“It seems to be soft-bodied…” Li Yalin observed and analyzed from the side.
Xia Na, on the other hand, looked at Ling Mo in shock and then quietly reminded him, “At least it’s female…”
“Huh?” Ling Mo paused for a moment, but just a second later, his expression became even more conflicted.
“Why do I feel so underestimated? Do I look like such a desperate pervert? Just because it’s female, does that make it any more comfortable for me?”
But then, Ling Mo’s body suddenly froze…
“Ling Mo?” Li Yalin looked at him curiously, cautiously asking.
Ling Mo slowly moved his gaze downward, finally twitching his eyes as he looked at his thigh.
The Monster, dazed by Nana’s psychic attack, was now wrapping its legs around him and continuously moving upward…
“Get it off me! Damn, this is… harassment!”
“It hasn’t even touched you yet… Besides, it’s not really you.”
“I can still feel it!”
…
“Smack!”
With a swift flick of Xia Na’s Scythe, the Monster finally let go of Ling Mo’s Zombie Puppet and fell to the ground.
As soon as it hit the ground, it immediately clung tightly to the surface. Only its “hands” were still moving unconsciously, trying to grab something. These “hands” grew from its original limbs, looking like something that had mutated after the limbs had degenerated. Its chest, back, and even its thighs were covered with a layer of constantly contracting suckers. ℞âỖ𐌱ΕS
Overall, the Monster resembled a humanoid Centipede…
Ling Mo raised his Arm and was startled by what he saw.
While it was wrapped around him, he felt nothing but disgust… But now, he could see that the Monster’s “hands” had dug deep into his flesh, and upon closer inspection, he noticed a dense array of red dots. The areas covered by these red dots were noticeably more sunken than the rest.
“It was sucking my blood…” Ling Mo looked at the Monster in shock.
Xia Na used her Scythe to flip it over and said, “Don’t worry, once it’s dazed, it only sucks a little out of instinct. It’s not like Ling-Ge suddenly pounced on it.”
“Damn it! You threw it at me!” Ling Mo retorted angrily.
“Did I? It was just a reflex…”
“You were trying to scare me!”
“Hehe…”
“By the way, why didn’t they approach that hole?”
“Instinct. If you crawled on the ground all the time, you’d also avoid places where manhole covers were stolen…”
“That’s a terrible analogy…”
Li Yalin interrupted them, squatting down to examine the Monster. She suddenly reached out and touched one of its “hands.”
The finger-like appendage immediately started wriggling. As Li Yalin slowly lifted her finger, the “hand” extended quite a bit… The tip showed signs of movement, looking quite bizarre.
“There are holes here,” Li Yalin said.
Ling Mo squatted down to take a closer look and was shocked, “There really are!”
The sides and tips of the “hand” were covered with numerous tiny openings, resembling countless small mouthparts. The red dots on the Zombie Puppet’s Arm were naturally caused by these mouthparts.
“I dislocated its jaw beforehand, otherwise, it would instinctively bite when it encountered prey. One bite from it, and even bones would crack,” Xia Na explained.
Ling Mo, suppressing his disgust, touched the Monster’s jaw and felt it twitch… The precision of dislocating jaws among these Monsters was truly terrifying…
“But it has self-healing properties?” Ling Mo quickly realized another point.
“Yes, so we need to hurry,” Xia Na said, raising her Scythe slowly.
Ling Mo’s scalp tingled, “What are you doing…”
Xia Na looked up and gave him a bright smile, “Dissection.”
“…”
In fact, when Xia Na started, Ling Mo found the process less disgusting than he had imagined…
The Centipede Man barely bled; it mostly oozed mucus.
“You guys arrived earlier than I expected… I originally planned to find an exit and meet up with you, but… By the way, did you see a figure?” Xia Na asked while dissecting.
“Yeah…” Ling Mo nodded with a frown, “Did you also…”
“Yeah, we were all lured in. But I didn’t need to find anyone, so I discovered quite a bit,” Xia Na said proudly.
Li Yalin interrupted, “Suddenly feeling a bit resentful…”
“Don’t say that. You’ll be happy once you know. By the way, where’s Ye Lian?” Xia Na asked.
“Still outside,” Ling Mo replied.
Xia Na nodded thoughtfully, “That’s perfect. We’ll need her help soon.”
“What?”
Xia Na squinted and smiled, “To drag that annoying figure out and kill it!”
“You know what it is?” Ling Mo’s heart skipped a beat, and he asked.
Li Yalin looked confused, clearly not understanding their conversation.
“Of course…” Xia Na winked at Ling Mo mysteriously and suddenly exclaimed, “Look!”
Ling Mo held his breath and looked over, unable to help exclaiming, “You’re a pro at this!”
“Hehe, I dissected frogs in school…” Xia Na replied casually.
“No wonder you’re a top student… How did you go from frogs to human anatomy…” Ling Mo muttered, his eyes already examining the Monster’s insides.
It wasn’t moving anymore, but its body didn’t show any signs of death…
Even its organs lacked blood color, appearing semi-transparent and unreal.
Ling Mo didn’t feel like he was looking at a humanoid body but rather a grotesque silicone product…
“It’s not dead yet,” Xia Na said, “When faced with a fatal threat, it goes dormant. At this point, it’s indistinguishable from being dead. But if you let it go, it will soon wake up and heal its wounds. Moreover, its body will remember the attacker’s scent, so once it wakes up, it will track you down…”