Su Changxing controlled the zombie’s perspective, keenly noticing a tentacle sweep a corpse away, causing a palm-sized glass bottle to roll off, containing a six-sided diamond-shaped black crystal.
That thing looked very familiar.
Wasn’t that the same thing in his backpack? He’s been curious about what it was all along, and unexpectedly sees the same thing on these people.
Divine Creatures...
Black Crystal...
Su Changxing quickly made the corresponding association, estimating that the red heart might be the usage condition for the black crystal. In any case, there must be some connection between the two, otherwise, they wouldn’t coincide in the same place.
Their goal wasn’t to kill the Tentacle Monster, but merely to obtain the red heart.
They were like desperate gamblers on the edge of life and death, gambling with their lives. Although they were not as strong as the Tentacle Monster, they arduously cut off a tentacle and seized that crimson beating heart.
This was undoubtedly snatching food from a tiger’s mouth, and they succeeded!
"In this perspective, humans are pretty terrifying creatures too." Su Changxing smiled ambiguously, then switched the zombie’s controlled perspective to continue observing while picking up a piece of jerky and chewing it.
The Tentacle Monster was obviously enraged, having a tentacle chopped off and its heart stolen. How could it possibly give up easily? Upon seeing those people flee, it immediately pursued, with the ground shaking as tentacles tracked them down step by step.
"That brute is still relentlessly chasing us. We need to split up and escape to distract it."
The team leader wearing sunglasses glanced back and gave the order to scatter and flee. Over ten people split into three groups, running in different directions.
The beautiful woman in the leather jacket ran alone to the left with the heart.
The Tentacle Monster’s target was clear too. Whoever held the beating red heart, it followed, all the way chasing the woman in the black leather jacket.
After chasing for a while, just as it was about to catch up, a flash of blue light appeared, and it found the person in front disappeared. It paused, momentarily confused, then realized it was being toyed with. The tentacles waved in the air, venting its anger, and then it turned around to chase again.
The leather jacket woman emerged on the other side, tossed the beating red heart to Huangmao, and said, "You run first, I’ll distract it."
The young man Huangmao smoothly caught the heart, and without a word, started running forward. Despite their seemingly incompatible appearances, they coordinated well, having been partners since long ago.
But with a leg broken, his speed was not as fast or nimble as before, and as blood continuously leaked, he felt himself growing weaker. When the body weakens, fear arises, and with fear comes a fragile spirit.
Dark things engulfed him, sticky, continuously squirming on his face as the heart beat.
At this point, his consciousness was still clear, knowing that there was nothing actually on his face, probably influenced by the heart.
He was contaminated, polluted by that heart.
He knew he was contaminated but couldn’t do much more than run, with the Tentacle Monster still in relentless pursuit.
Meanwhile.
The leather jacket woman manipulated a large number of stones floating up from the debris, hurling them at the Tentacle Monster, not causing much damage, merely trying to draw its attention.
She succeeded too, with the Tentacle Monster focusing its attention on her, pouncing frenziedly with claws extended.
Seeing this, she turned and ran in another direction, but her speed was far slower than the tentacles, with the distance between them closing in.
Just as she was about to be caught, the black leather jacket woman gritted her teeth, pulled out a blood-red shoelace from her pocket, the end still dripping with blood. The source of the blood was unknown, and keeping it in the pocket for a long time would fill it with blood, requiring occasional cleaning.
She decisively ripped apart the red shoelace with both hands, immediately feeling intense pain in her left foot as a tendon snapped, but her speed abruptly increased, at least thirty percent faster than before, breaking away more and more quickly as another tendon snapped, and her skin tore, oozing blood.
Using this method, she managed to leave the Tentacle Monster behind, and when she stopped, her legs were almost crippled, and she knelt on the ground.
"What a mess, but luckily I got away. I hate rash plans."
She crawled into a house, muttering to herself, took out a bottle of black potion from her waist pouch and gulped it down, immediately feeling something was wrong, turned her head and saw a figure standing by the window.
"Indeed it’s a mess, Black Rose, didn’t expect you would have such a day."
A man with a smile, strange tattoos all over his face, climbed in from outside the window.
...
Shortly after the Law Enforcement Team left, Xu Jie appeared before Yi Xiaodong again, looking odd as she spoke, "The Law Enforcement Team came."
Yi Xiaodong turned his head to her, appearing exceptionally cautious, "Why did they come back? Did they discover something new?"