Chapter 49: Door Kill (No Error)

The wind in the valley grew restless.

Yu Sheng did not know what was happening, but he could clearly feel that the "atmosphere" filling the entire Otherworld was changing; this feeling was hard to describe in words, and if forced to say, it was...

He felt that the entire valley was gradually "coming alive."

The distant forest was awakening, the mountains were awakening, the earth was awakening, and even the sky overhead was transmitting a gaze that made one's scalp tingle—cold and filled with hungry desire.

He noticed that Hu Li beside him was trembling slightly; the fox-girl demon clutched the food in her hand tightly, yet fear surfaced on her face. She raised her head, looked at the dark night sky above, and slowly shuffled her steps toward Yu Sheng's back, constantly whispering something. When she got close, Yu Sheng finally heard the content she kept repeating:

"This is how Immortals die... This is how Immortals die..."

"What is the situation now?" Irene asked quickly. The small doll also grew tense, clutching the kitchen knife in her arms with her whole body rigid. "Do you know something?"

However, Hu Li did not answer her, as if she had fallen into a state of delirium again, knowing only to keep repeating that sentence just now.

And very soon, both Irene and Yu Sheng stopped caring about Hu Li's abnormal condition.

Yu Sheng felt that familiar aura appear nearby. In the corner of his Yu Guang, he saw a solid form rapidly coalesce from the shadows at the edge of the ruined temple. Deformed, swollen flesh layered and proliferated; bizarre limbs, as if cut from various creatures, grew layer upon layer from the flesh mass. Dozens of hungry eyes opened on the monster's surface, and sharp teeth and tearing maws constantly emerged between the eyes, emitting a murky low growl.

Entity-Hunger finally appeared near its prey.

"F*ck!" Irene immediately shouted, "This thing is so ugly!"

"Beware its sneak attack; this thing's limbs can all deform, and it can suddenly grow tentacles and tails from within its body," Yu Sheng immediately warned, then turned to Hu Li beside him and said, "You just need to protect yourself later; you have already been deeply eroded by this fellow and cannot fight it."

Hu Li's current state was very wrong. After the monster appeared, she still looked at the sky with terror, but after hearing Yu Sheng's words, she nodded blankly, grabbed the scattered food on the ground while backing away, yet dared not retreat too far, as if afraid something might happen to Yu Sheng.

"What is your plan for the fight next?" Irene whispered—the monster not far away was still prowling, seemingly waiting patiently for something, but this delay only made her feel increasingly uneasy. "Don't tell me you plan to rush up bare-handed and fight it with military boxing; you didn't even prepare a weapon when you came, while I at least have a kitchen knife in hand."

Yu Sheng of course knew he had not prepared a weapon when he came, because he had already tried: most of the structures on that monster's body were harder than stone. Even if he held an axe and could chop off a small portion of its relatively soft flesh, the effect produced would be barely better than nothing. So from the very beginning, he had no intention of bringing any "weapon"—for an ordinary person who had never received weapon combat training, let alone holding a kitchen knife, even if he truly brought a Dragon-Slaying Blade, he would most likely chop himself first.

He had prepared other "lethal" means.

"It's still the idea we discussed at home; you just need to control its movements, using those threads of yours," Yu Sheng said quickly. "Later, I will rush up and 'tear an opening' in it. Watch closely; if I accidentally fail, you immediately take Hu Li and run; do not worry about me. Hu Li has a way to survive under that monster, and you will not be actively pursued by Hunger..."

Irene paused: "Ah, then what?"

"After I come back to life, we regroup and try again; this thing will eventually die."

"Damn it, so it's still this simple and crude idea, right? We agreed to try not to use 'resurrection' as a basic attack!"

"I am just 'trying'," Yu Sheng said quickly on his end, but soon frowned, feeling something was wrong with the monster not far away. "Why hasn't it attacked yet..."

Irene had the same doubt: "I feel like it is deliberately stalling time, as if waiting for something—does this thing already have the concept of 'strategy'?"

"Then we must not let it wait," Yu Sheng immediately gritted his teeth. "Take the initiative!"

The words had barely left his lips when he moved forward to meet the monster. At almost the same time, Irene, sitting on his shoulder, flipped nimbly and jumped down from him, simultaneously extending her right hand toward the monster. The moment she landed, the doll's eyes turned pitch black, and countless fine, dark threads emitting a strange, chilling aura spread out from her hands, spreading wildly throughout the entire space like a rapidly growing and expanding spider web!

All the "spider webs" avoided Yu Sheng's trajectory. He accelerated again within the ever-expanding net of threads; his enhanced body almost left a afterimage in the air as he lunged fiercely at that grotesque and terrifying flesh beast!

The monster finally moved. Facing the "prey's" active attack, it seemed somewhat startled, but still launched a counterattack swiftly. A grotesque sharp claw rose high from the beast's back and smashed down hard onto the inevitable path where Yu Sheng was lunging.

In that instant, Yu Sheng suddenly felt that strange... "prediction" again.

He felt which part of the monster's muscles was contracting, felt its attack desire and the true focus of its gaze at this moment. He seemed to see in advance a tentacle extending from behind the claw, blocking all possible retreat paths for his next second...

Whether it was an illusion or not, he felt that this time his "prediction" was even more accurate than before. Even... he began to realize that it was not so-called "spiritual intuition" at all. Because he now possessed true spiritual intuition and had experienced what that feeling was like, he discovered that what he "saw" and "felt" when predicting the monster's actions was completely different from so-called spiritual intuition.

When he detected the monster's actions in advance, it was almost like a first-person perspective.

All thoughts flashed in an instant. Yu Sheng crossed the last few meters in the blink of an eye, and the flesh beast's sharp claw smashed down accordingly.

Yu Sheng did not dodge at all. In the corner of his Yu Guang, he saw the threads spreading from behind him had closed in the air. In the next instant, countless black lines wrapped around the monster's limbs and, like some bone-piercing phantom, crisscrossed and penetrated its claws, tentacles, and giant mouth...

Cold, numb, sluggish, as if even thoughts were instantly pierced through with a thousand holes, and even the soul was wrapped layer by layer by a chilling spider web...

Overwhelming negative sensations surged up. For an instant, Yu Sheng seemed to see some kind of illusion—he saw himself deeply trapped in a spider web, with countless spider threads wrapping around him, even piercing through his limbs. At the edge of the web, a shadow with blood-red eyes was peering from the darkness, slowly crawling toward him in a strange and grotesque posture...

"Yu Sheng! Don't zone out! I can't hold it much longer!"

The sudden shout from beside his ear woke Yu Sheng instantly. He looked up and saw that the flesh beast was already frozen in a strange posture at the center of layers of black threads, while the ends of the threads were taut, as if they would be forcibly snapped by the monster in the next second.

There was no time to think carefully about what the "illusion" he just experienced was. Yu Sheng had already lunged toward a certain position beside the monster. Within this precious time Irene had bought, he grabbed the black threads in mid-air with one hand, while the other reached into the air, fully concentrating his spirit, and then slowly pulled—

A door appeared, a door surface floating in mid-air shimmering with flowing light and shadow like a phantom.

Boom!

Opening a door in mid-air consumes more energy and time than opening a solid door. Yu Sheng must concentrate his spirit to complete this process in a relatively stable environment. Looking at the monster's gradually trembling limbs and the black spider webs that had already begun to slowly crack, even just a few seconds felt as long as a lifetime to Yu Sheng.

—Although his "lifetime" recently was not very long either.

The next second, accompanied by the sound of the door opening, that fictional door finally opened completely.

It was even larger than the doors opened before, large enough to throw the entire monster inside.

Intense firelight erupted from the door, even illuminating a large area around the gate.

On the other side of the door was a lake of magma constantly churning.

That was the "surprise" Yu Sheng had discovered during countless door-opening experiments before.

He did not know what place that was; he only knew there was endless lava and erupting flames there, like a landscape in hell.

Entity-Hunger was very powerful, but its threat came more from mental pollution and its own "Hunger" power, which was almost like some kind of rule. As for its "carrier" after materialization—compared to the rule, it was actually not very tough.

It can be roasted.

If it cannot be roasted, then use greater firepower.

"Throw it in!"

Yu Sheng shouted loudly to Irene.

"Got it!"

(End of Chapter)