Chapter 358: Danger

"If they were to step out of the Shadow Dimension and sneak around in this space, we would naturally be able to see them," Li Yuning explained, her brows gathered with lingering worry as she asked in confusion, "Don't you feel like something is missing?"

Prompted by Li Yuning, Wang Han did indeed feel like something was lacking, and he then raised his brows in astonishment, "That's right, they kept saying they wanted to resurrect the sleeping Bloody Empress, but where is the Bloody Empress? What they summoned wasn't that Avatar of the Bloody Empress belonging to the Chaos Demon, but rather that giant centipede Chaos Messenger that looked uncontrollable at first glance."

Immediately after, Wang Han looked at Li Yuning, "Since you were able to recognize at a glance that the Chaos Messenger was an Avatar of the Chaos Demon, you must have some understanding of the Chaos Messenger, right?"

"The Chaos Messenger, just as its name suggests, is a monster that brings chaos and Calamity; wherever it appears, it inevitably brings devastation caused by it." Li Yuning said while recalling, "Legend has it that the appearance of a Chaos Messenger is a sign that a powerful Alien God is about to descend; it will randomly summon a powerful Alien God or a powerful Avatar of some Alien God."

"In other words, that group of people intended to resurrect the Bloody Empress through a process of advanced summoning, and the Chaos Messenger has the possibility of summoning the Bloody Empress?" Wang Han understood, then asked curiously, "Can the Chaos Messenger's summoning of an Alien God be targeted?"

"I don't know." Li Yuning shook her head, "The books didn't say."

Wang Han frowned, "Didn't you use something to ignite the Chaos Messenger earlier? And then the Chaos Messenger changed its appearance, no longer looking like that giant centipede, but rather a creature I don't know how to describe, but generally speaking, it looked like a floating jellyfish. Have you ever seen this phenomenon mentioned in the books you've read?"

Li Yuning shook her head again; she also did not know why the Chaos Messenger, which should have been burned to death, suddenly hatched another Avatar form she had never seen before from within its own charred Vessel.

But what was certain was that the thing was extremely dangerous and definitely much more powerful than the Chaos Messenger.

Regarding this, Wang Han offered his own view, speculating: "Could it be that the Chaos Messenger randomly transforms into another Alien God after it dies?"

"That is a possibility." Li Yuning had also had this conjecture, but there was no way to verify the result; after all, there were no other Chaos Messengers, and there was no chance to kill a Chaos Messenger again like that time.

Being able to burn the Chaos Messenger to death must have been a coincidence.

Just as the two were speculating and reasoning based on the scene, Li Yuning keenly felt a chill on the back of her neck and an inexplicable palpitation; she suddenly realized danger was approaching and, almost without any hesitation, grabbed Wang Han's wrist and ran, while Wang Han blankly let himself be pulled, and was quite compliant.

The moment their feet left the spot where they had been standing, they caught a glimpse of several circles of ink-green thorn vines suddenly appearing in the position they had just occupied; they had quietly grown out from the corpses on the choir stage, attempting to bind the two's ankles just now.

After losing their catchable prey, the source of those thorn vines—the unknown things inside the corpses' abdomens—seemed quite annoyed; the corpses on the choir stage actually began to move stiffly, and with a loud *Puchi* sound, a hole burst open in the backs of those corpses, from which grew huge and thick spiral tree branches and vines that fell to the ground, emitting a huge sound; the ground made creaking noises, as if insects capable of easily gnawing and destroying rock, cement, and steel bars were fighting for food underground, and finally, the corpses were lifted high one by one.

Subsequently, the ruptures in the corpses' abdomens were stretched even further; the corpses lost the fragility that dead bodies should have and instead became like rubber models, becoming wrinkled and expanded due to excessive stretching; the layers of wrinkles made it almost impossible to tell that those corpses were in the shape of humans, instead looking like a strange face, the elongated wound being the mouth of that strange face, and the twisted, wriggling thorn vines that extended from the rupture like underwater coral polyps were the strange tongues inside the mouth.

The mutation of the corpses made Wang Han's heart jump, "What kind of terrifying thing is this again?"

Watching with their own eyes as those beautiful female corpses with such tragic deaths all turned into huge monsters rising from the ground, Wang Han and Li Yuning both knew that this was not something they could handle, and they immediately fled the church.

Inside the church, the mutation of the corpses on the choir stage continued; their volume was still increasing rapidly, and their bodies were still intertwining and combining, with the density increasing.

Feeling the entire Gubao shaking and trembling, the two did not know what other things beyond human comprehension would happen next, and the thing they encountered at the corner next made them further abandon their ability to think.

They saw that the blood-red monster that had disappeared for a long time—which they had guessed was attacking other humans somewhere in the Gubao—had appeared again; it seemed to have followed the movement from just now and chased after them, and at a glance, it saw the two prey it had been chasing, immediately rushing over excitedly.

Boom— boom— boom!

The rapidly growing corpse monsters seemed to have gathered into a huge tree; those wrinkled-skinned corpses were just hung on the tree in a shriveled state, and the big tree even broke through the dome of the Gubao, growing wantonly in this strange and gloomy different space, accompanied by a miserable and hoarse loud roar, like the wailing and angry roars of that group of women who had died tragically.

Wang Han and Li Yuning were chased to the roof of the Gubao and had to stand on the sloped roof, and then the two squeezed together in front of the Gubao's bell tower, watching with their own eyes as the fluid-like blood-red monster squeezed out from a square opening that could only fit one person, as if it were blood spat out by the Gubao.

The blood-red monster floated in the air, looking down at the two from high above; although its appearance did not have eyes that fit the human conceptual impression, it seemed as if it were truly watching.

Behind it was that super-large tree formed by the aggregation of the female corpses from several choirs; before the blood-red monster made any sound, the thorn vines released from the super-large tree were just obediently swaying in place, with no intention of actively attacking, seemingly obeying the blood-red monster's every word.

Here, Wang Han saw the Blood Moon once again, only the difference was that this time he also saw that amidst the thunder and lightning in the sky, the shadows of huge rose flowers were hidden between the clouds and the sky, and he could faintly see the upper body of a person located in the unknown center of the huge rose flowers; they circled the sky several times, trapping him and Li Yuning on this desperate rooftop.

"I suppose this is the time of last resort, right?" Wang Han smiled miserably and took off the Shackles clipped to his waist; he gripped the broken part of the hooks on the chain and pressed his palm firmly onto it; he should have felt pain, but he didn't want to scream at all, didn't feel there was anything unbearable, and let the blood flow from the wound.

Li Yuning also gripped the Fire Token in her hand, bit her finger, and drew a straight bloodstain across the body of the Fire Token.

Suddenly, the Shackles and the Fire Token in their respective hands both emitted blue and red light.