“Now, run!”
With Ling Mo’s low shout, Xu Shuhan’s feet suddenly pulled free from the silt, propelling her forward like a cannonball. Meanwhile, Ling Mo felt a blur before him, and in the next second, he was deep within the passage. He still held the flashlight in his hand, but at the other end of the beam, there was only a tiny speck left.
“She’s fast…” In that moment, Ling Mo had instinctively held his breath. However, to his surprise, this time Xu Shuhan wasn’t pulling him along. Instead, at the moment she started, she used her back to push against his body… thus greatly reducing the physical pressure on him.
“Wow!”
The Monster seemed stunned for a moment but quickly recovered.
It suddenly stopped shaking and then leaped upward with force, directly lunging towards Ling Mo and Xu Shuhan while still mid-air. Although the Monster’s way of moving was a bit strange, the speed it achieved from launching itself from a standstill was indeed astonishing… Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been able to catch up with them so effortlessly before.
Hearing the whoosh of the Monster moving forward, Xu Shuhan’s nerves instantly tensed. Meanwhile, Ling Mo behind her was utterly focused, even sporting a slightly odd smile, “Come on, the faster, the better…”
Out of the corner of her eye, Xu Shuhan glanced at Ling Mo… Had he thought of something during the standoff just now? But this Monster couldn’t be fought directly, nor approached, and they couldn’t shake it off… No matter how it looked, they couldn’t deal with this creature quickly. Yet the longer they dragged on, the worse their situation became… And he had also mentioned that something was chasing them from behind…
What could they possibly do?!
“We just took advantage of its distraction to gain some distance. With my stamina, I can keep running at full speed for several minutes… Should we keep running, or should I listen to Ling Mo and just speed up for a second?”
Having barely seized an advantage, once given up…
While she thought so, Xu Shuhan’s pace gradually slowed down.
As she landed, the silt splashed up, and before she could think, she heard a scream from behind.
A very abrupt and exceedingly mournful scream!
“Wow!”
Unlike the previous disdained and excited cries, this one no longer sounded like an infant’s wailing but more like a duck suddenly choked by the neck. Hoarse and shrill, it was filled with intense pain!
“What happened?”
Xu Shuhan’s pupils shrank, and she quickly turned her head, looking over Ling Mo’s shoulder, she saw a scene that greatly shocked her…
As the Monster charged, it was as if it had suddenly hit an invisible Barbed Wire… under its own high-speed impact, what was originally a harmless wire instantly turned into the deadliest weapon… The Monster’s eyeballs, completely bulged out in excitement, hit the “Barbed Wire” first, the intense pain making it lose control and fall to the ground, yet another “Barbed Wire” impaled its body… when it jumped up towards the top of the passage, it was as if the ceiling was lined with barbed wire like a porcupine…
The more it suffered, the more violently it thrashed. However, the force it burst forth with ironically became the weapon attacking itself… When Xu Shuhan turned around, what she saw was the Monster struggling desperately under the flashlight, bursting into sprays of blood…
“Huff… huff…”
Ling Mo, having landed on his feet, was gasping heavily, his eyes tightly fixed on the Monster, his face pale yet tinged with excitement. However, what he “saw” was very different from what Xu Shuhan saw. ȒαΝ𝙤BƐṤ
Between him and the Monster, there were dense, blood-red Tentacles… These Tentacles crisscrossed, effectively blocking the Monster’s path. The narrow, straight passage became the perfect place for Ling Mo to set everything up, and the Monster’s own impact force provided the strongest weapon… Throughout the chase, Ling Mo had been silently preparing, one Tentacle, a dozen… none of these were enough. Relying solely on the energy of the Tentacles themselves was not enough to fatally injure the Monster.
And it wasn’t just this Monster, it was merely a decoy, the ones it lured here were the real trouble… So, this trap was set up, the most effective and easiest to trigger! Their original biggest advantage was speed, but when that advantage was equalized, a different approach had to be considered…
“No, speed is still an advantage! This trick doesn’t work so well with other Monsters, but for this extremely fast one, it’s exactly the most effective! At first glance, the narrow passage seems disadvantageous for us, but under these circumstances, it’s more than suitable…”
Most importantly, these Tentacles were not dead, but alive… When the Monster was trapped, the Tentacles slowly moved closer. One end was held in Ling Mo’s hand, while the other end looked like countless venomous snakes, gradually consuming the Monster…
“Wow!” The Monster continued to scream incessantly, yet such a short distance had become like a Meat Grinder. Unable to escape nor fight back, the more it struggled, the more damage it sustained. Blood continuously burst from all over its body, while Ling Mo’s panting sounded like a powerful death knell, drawing it madly closer. However, during this process, its body was gradually torn apart…
“I really thought I had no way to deal with you… It’s said that sometimes the decoy chasing the prey might actually become the bait…” Ling Mo thought to himself.
Xu Shuhan was dumbfounded; she had never imagined that at such a critical moment, Ling Mo could still think of such a method… to turn a disadvantage into an advantage and consider everything around them… Not to mention, just the method of killing made her feel terrified…
The Monster obviously had an extremely strong ability to survive, but at that moment, it was tormented by an invisible force. Even as she rushed past, she had not felt these psychic fluctuations…
“Does that mean he launched his ability right after I started?” Xu Shuhan couldn’t help but glance at Ling Mo, his paleness probably because of this… Even though the psychic fluctuations were not strong, to successfully achieve this required immense concentration… Just a fraction of a second slower… no, even a tenth of a second slower, and the situation would have been completely different. Conversely, if they were a bit faster, the result would have been the same.
Only by precisely capturing that moment and calmly deploying the Superpower could this effect be achieved…
Even without understanding Ling Mo’s Superpower, as a Zombie, Xu Shuhan knew very well that in that instant, if the Monster had even a slight chance to react, it could have dodged in time…
“Why can he be so calm? No, not calm… he’s actually excited…” Xu Shuhan kept her eyes on Ling Mo, who was supporting himself on his knees, still focusing on the Monster… Even though the Monster was screaming incessantly, he showed no sign of relaxation…
After a good ten seconds, the Monster’s cries finally ceased. By then, under the flashlight’s beam, the silt and walls were splattered with blood… The Monster’s corpse lay face-up in the silt, its limbs still twitching slightly.
“The psychic fluctuations are gone, it must be completely dead.”
As Ling Mo moved, he suddenly felt his arm being grabbed, he turned his head in confusion and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Xu Shuhan’s expression fell, and she said tearfully, “It… it was much stronger than me…”
“Uh… and then?” Ling Mo said.
“Suddenly, I feel a bit scared…”
“Can’t you show a little dignity as a Zombie?”
“I also feel terrible being afraid of humans! Ah…”
“Hey…”