??5: Chapter 5: Counter-Kill (Please Favorite and Vote)
5: Chapter 5: Counter-Kill (Please Favorite and Vote)
The blazing brilliance flashed briefly before slowly fading away.
The entire ritual resembled a skateboard coasting to a stop, having lost its montum, gradually coming to a halt.
“Jason?
Anlin?”
Job realized sothing was amiss; the ritual had been interrupted.
He picked up his gun and vigilantly scanned the area in front of him.
Just now, he thought he had heard the sound of the tal wires of the confinent device snapping—what terrifying willpower that must have taken!
The pain from the confinent device escalated geotrically with greater movents.
Job had once experienced this sensation.
The pain inflicted by the device had several levels, and he had passed out from level four.
To snap the confinent device outright would an enduring the highest level of pain: level thirteen.
This was almost impossible, unless the confinent device was broken!
As the dim light disappeared, Job could barely make out that his six team mbers were still standing in front, seemingly unhard.
However, upon seeing this scene, he did not hesitate and imdiately rushed towards Selena.
Had he been discovered?
Unfortunately, the disguise wasn’t good enough.
If these were living people, they would be holding guns on guard and shouting to each other to confirm survival, not just standing there dumbly.
He Ao sighed inwardly.
Right now, his body was a bit stiff and trembling.
The tal wire that had pierced his body was indeed sowhat painful, but still within his threshold of endurance.
anwhile, Job had already grabbed Selena’s hand, about to unlock her electronic shackles.
He was well aware that at this mont, only Selena could save him, even if it ant going back to prison.
But as soon as he touched the electronic shackles, his entire body froze in place.
Selena looked at the man in front of her who had just been swaggering, as a huge and slimy tentacle directly pierced through his body.
This horrifying flesh weapon entered from between the gaps of his ribs at the back, accurately piercing Job’s heart and erging from his chest.
Bright red blood splattered out, staining Selena’s fair skin and golden hair.
The tentacle then lifted slightly, hanging Job’s body in the air like cured at.
Job’s brain was still conscious, his mouth opening and closing as he tried to say sothing, but only the blood that had entered his windpipe from his chest cavity continued to gush from his mouth.
By then, the brilliance had dissipated completely, and Selena stepped back twice, turning her head to look where the six team mbers had been standing.
They were not ‘alive’; they were rely ‘standing’.
Their bodies had been impaled by sharp tentacles, which propped them up like pillars to make them appear like ‘living people’.
As Selena looked at them, the small tentacles at the tips took control of the cadavers’ skulls, turning their heads toward her and forcibly opening their eyelids to ‘stare’ straight at Selena.
Even with all her knowledge and experience, this scene directly assaulted her sanity, causing a brief lapse in her thoughts.
And in that mont of distraction, two tentacles surged forward, wrapping around her body.
By the ti she ca to her senses, she was wrapped up tightly and suspended in midair.
In that instant, so of the ‘action works’ she had seen before uncontrollably replayed in her mind.
Although most of her body had been transford into a chanized body, for the sake of comfort, the companies that made these bodies would install micro receptors on the surface of the skin, allowing the user to have sensory experiences just like those of flesh, or even more sensitive.
Tentacles began to retract from the corpses of her dead teammates and from Job, coiling back under He Ao’s body.
From Selena’s perspective, He Ao’s form now looked as massive as a mountain, with countless tentacles forming a foundation that propped up the mountain, and on top of the mountain, a long neck extended with a skull-like head hanging from it.
Thump—thump—thump—
That was the sound of the dead teammates’ bodies hitting the ground.
Selena looked at He Ao with a mixture of fear and curiosity, and tried asking, “Is your sanity still intact?”
Most Evil God Priests are devoid of reason.
After they seek power from the Evil God, they are subjected to the Evil God’s ‘gaze.’ Under this gaze, both their minds and bodies gradually beco twisted and insane.
Although they possess great power, they wield it recklessly, like a child flailing a hamr.
Thus, although Evil God Priests are strong, they are also easy to deal with.
Just use a prop to shatter their last vestiges of reason, driving them completely into madness, and they beco easy targets, ready to be killed or imprisoned.
This was the thod Selena had used to deal with the Priest of the God of Knowledge nad Yezola.
However, in the recent fight, ‘Yezola’ had displayed clear intelligence.
This made Selena suspect that ‘Yezola’ had been pretending the whole ti, that in actuality ‘Yezola’ was a high-level Priest who could maintain his sanity under the gaze of the Evil God.
That’s why she attempted to communicate with ‘Yezola.’
The fact that he hadn’t killed her must an he had so purpose.
Perhaps she could use that…
As Selena was pondering this, He Ao tightened the tentacles that bound her a bit more and lifted her higher off the ground.
This was a warning not to entertain any clever ideas.
anwhile, He Ao began to look through the books on the ground.
There was only one book there, a sacrifice prepared by Job and the others, filled with a sense of antiquity; it was unclear where they had found this book.
He Ao glanced through it briefly.
By instinct with this body, he recognized the text of this world.
The book was just a simple primary school mathematics textbook, with no substantial content.
Selena, suspended in the air, seed to sense his disappointnt and cautiously said, “If you need books, there were many in the room we just explored.
Those must have been your collection, right?”
While she spoke, she started to reboot her chanized body’s operating system.
She had restarted it several tis already but couldn’t clear the virus; the entire operating system was almost entirely paralyzed.
All she could do now was attempt to reinstall the operating system, erase all data, and restore it to its original state.
But reinstalling the system ant she would lose all combat ability for an hour, and after the reinstatent, most of the combat modules that had been loaded would be lost.
However, no situation could be worse than the current one.
What she needed to do now was to stabilize this Evil God Priest and buy herself more ti.
He Ao looked up at her as she spoke, but said nothing, still suspending her.
He started to move towards the passage they had just erged from, pulling out the tal stakes that had been planted around him as he walked.
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