“Mo-monster!” Witnessing the mutation of that player, someone cried out in shock, their legs quivering like plucked strings of a pipa.
“What, what is happening…”
“Why did he suddenly turn into a monster!?”
“Is it because of the Black Rain?!”
“This is bad, run!” Someone shouted as they bolted for the door.
The players who stayed behind in the room reacted a beat too late.
“Greee-greee-greee~” The mutated monster suddenly looked up, revealing a terrifying face with three mouths and a dozen eyes, each socket sprouting slender, ash-black tentacles.
“Aaaahhh!” A female player beside it couldn’t help but scream in terror.
But her scream abruptly stopped.
Because more than a dozen spear-like, rock-hard tentacles shot out from the monster, skewering her delicate body.
The remaining players, without exception, turned and ran for their lives, faces twisted in horror.
The living had turned into monsters here, throwing everything into chaos.
Meanwhile, the other team took shelter under the eaves in a disciplined manner.
Even though everyone knew the Black Rain would seep in, no one dared to move recklessly.
“The Pollution Value really is rising, and it’s getting faster and faster!”
Dancing Elephant stared at his status screen, exclaiming in excitement.
The strange feeling in his body immediately made him think of the Pollution Value.
Only that number made him uneasy.
“It’s really rising!” Boyang was checking his Pollution Value too, his pale face turning ghastly.
He was already a victim of Pollution Value.
Back then, the pain had been unbearable, nearly costing him his life.
Jimite’s eye twitched, and he blurted out, “M-my Pollution Value broke seventy, and it’s still climbing!”
“Drink a recovery potion, now!” Dancing Elephant shouted at him.
“O-okay!” Jimite finally came to his senses, hurriedly taking out a Spirit Recovery Potion and downing it.
“Don’t just stand there, everyone, drink your potions!” Dancing Elephant reminded the others.
He then took out a potion and drank it himself.
At this moment, everyone felt a surge of relief.
If they hadn’t traded their materials with the White Knight for potions back then, their situation would be far worse now.
“Aaaahhh!”
Out in the Black Rain, another player mutated into a monster, its inky tentacles writhing and the eyeballs on its body spinning as it hunted for prey.
In no time, five players had transformed into monsters like that, roaming everywhere, hunting.
“Something’s coming!” Boyang spotted a monster sprinting towards them through the rain and shouted.
“So disgusting, what kind of monster is that!” Xingyue saw the many eyeballs and mouths on the creature’s face and nearly threw up.
“Maybe it’s a player turned monster…” Dancing Elephant’s expression changed slightly, as if recalling that bloody scene outside the forest.
“All units, prepare for battle!” Boyang drew his weapon and shouted.
Now wasn’t the time for talk; they had to clear the threat in front of them!
“Yes!” everyone replied in unison.
Now, the only people left in the city who could be called players were their group—and the three over there!
Sensing the chaos around her, Ye Lian bit her cherry lips, feeling helpless inside.
With her current abilities, protecting everyone from harm was next to impossible.
Unless—
(No, not yet. At least not for now.)
She still had a trump card, but it couldn’t be used lightly.
If it was revealed, she would have nowhere left to hide!
“Drink a Spirit Recovery Potion now,” Mulin landed beside Bai Xue and reminded her.
If Bai Xue weren’t the White Knight’s maid, Mulin wouldn’t have bothered.
“Y-yes!” Bai Xue obediently took out her potion and drank it.
The other woman had gone out of her way to say this; it obviously wasn’t just for nothing.
Besides, Bai Xue could also feel a familiar change in her body.
It wasn’t a good change.
Back in the Queen’s Chamber, she’d been contaminated by the self-destructing Ant Queen’s flesh and blood, causing her Pollution Value to skyrocket and almost mutating.
Now, even without checking her Pollution Value, Bai Xue knew that this Black Rain, along with the strange patterns on the ground, had a specific purpose.
Bang!
Just as Bai Xue finished drinking her Spirit Recovery Potion, a gunshot rang out in the room.
Ye Lian had launched an attack on the King of Terror.
That shot easily blasted off one of its tentacles.
The massive severed limb crashed down from midair, shaking the ground and causing the aura to show signs of shattering.
The King of Terror suppressed its agony, countless eyes staring toward the source of the attack.
But Ye Lian was nowhere to be seen!
The eyes spun wildly, and finally, the King of Terror spotted her!
There Ye Lian was—high up in the air, spinning 360 degrees, the purple eyes of her Silver Moon Divine Armor flashing with light.
In the next instant, her body seemed to be propelled by a hypersonic engine, plummeting toward the King of Terror at full speed.
Her snow-white foot rapidly turned crimson and blazingly hot, like a piece of red-hot cast iron!
Or like a meteorite crashing through the atmosphere!
At this moment, even the airflow around Ye Lian’s body turned faintly red.
Just how terrifying was the power behind this blow? Only those who experienced it firsthand would know!
Every eye on the King of Terror trembled—in fact, its entire body was shaking.
Even before the attack landed, it sensed mortal danger.
But it was too late to run.
All it could do was unleash an ear-splitting “Greee-greee-greee-greee!” screech.
“There it is, it’s the White Knight’s flying kick!”
Mulin looked up, eyes sparkling with excitement.
Seeing such an expression on an icy beauty, Bai Xue was stunned.
In that instant of distraction, Ye Lian struck like a bolt of lightning, landing a kick squarely on the defenseless King of Terror.
Boom!
First came a sonic boom, and then everyone saw a huge Meteorite Crater appear bizarrely in the King of Terror’s body.
It was unimaginable—just how terrifying was the power of that kick!
But it wasn’t over yet—a loud explosion rang out, and at the bottom of the crater, a hole several meters wide appeared, the edges glowing red as if on fire.
Finally, the King of Terror’s body convulsed violently, as a terrifying energy of destruction erupted in full.
Boom!!!
A Mushroom Cloud instantly rose from the ground, and the powerful shockwave blasted away all the tentacles, severed limbs, and debris from the ground.
All of Mocheng trembled violently, as if caught in the epicenter of an earthquake, shaking without end!
At the very moment Ye Lian’s foot landed on the King of Terror’s body, Mulin grabbed Bai Xue and bolted.
It was as if she had long known the power of that blow.
A thousand meters outside Mocheng, countless Nightmare Creatures rushing to kill all came to a sudden halt.
They had been drawn here by some unknown force.
They thought they’d get some benefit.
Who could have known that before they even reached Mocheng, they’d be so terrified by that soaring Mushroom Cloud and the shaking earth that they stopped in their tracks?
All the remaining players and monsters in the Outer City District also ceased fighting at once—the players were deeply shaken, and the monsters only wanted to escape.
Such a terrifying existence—they couldn’t afford to provoke it!
The shaking came and went quickly.
The dust settled, revealing the King of Terror’s body with a gigantic, gaping hole, its whole form blasted to tatters—yet still writhing.
It was still alive!!!
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