Chapter 67: Monster? Strange Person!

Almost forcing himself to endure it, Zhu Gaoxu withdrew the step he had been about to take.

Just as Zhu Gaoxu was about to turn his head, he suddenly heard a malicious wind behind him, followed by a sound like a beast's roar entering his ears.

Turning his head abruptly, Zhu Gaoxu saw a terrifying old face already pressed right up against his own.

Suddenly, a trace of fear rose in Zhu Gaoxu's heart, as if he would be torn to shreds in the next second.

With just one glance, Zhu Gaoxu knew that the monster before him was not something he could resist.

And when that monster saw Zhu Gaoxu turn his head, it opened its foul-smelling maw and let out a roar at Zhu Gaoxu.

"Roar!"

Following this roar, Zhu Gaoxu first smelled a foul stench, and then felt his hair blown back by the sound.

Immediately after, the monster stretched out a large hand and thrust its long fingernails toward Zhu Gaoxu's cheek.

"Can't dodge! I'm dead!"

This was the only thing Zhu Gaoxu could think of.

"Damn the system for ruining me!"

Leaving these last words in his mind, Zhu Gaoxu closed his eyes, preparing to meet death.

Yet at this critical moment, the monster suddenly stopped.

It then withdrew its large hand and began to howl in pain, clutching its own head.

Feeling that something was wrong, Zhu Gaoxu opened his eyes again.

He saw that the monster had already fallen to the ground and was rolling around in agony.

During this, the monster let out strange cries from time to time, while also speaking a few garbled, unclear words.

"Roar!"

"Let me... out... time... roar!"

With human speech mixed with beast-like sounds, Zhu Gaoxu first calmed his panicked little heart, then used the moonlight to carefully examine the monster lying on the ground.

Strictly speaking, it was a monster, but upon closer inspection, one could vaguely make out a human shape.

It was just that with those long fingernails, messy hair, and tattered clothes, combined with the dim night, Zhu Gaoxu really hadn't realized it was a person at first.

Besides, what decent person would open and close their mouth with beast roars, unable to even speak normal words?

Watching the strange person who couldn't recover for a while, Zhu Gaoxu was debating in his heart whether to slip away now.

The strange person suddenly stopped and then lay motionless on the ground.

"Did it kick the bucket?"

Seeing this scene, Zhu Gaoxu once again put away the thought of running.

He first stepped forward cautiously, then gently kicked the other party with his foot.

Seeing no reaction, Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath, bolstered his courage, took another step forward, then squatted down and reached out a small hand to place it under the other's nose.

No breathing!

Feeling that there was no breath from the other party, Zhu Gaoxu's heart settled.

Just as he wanted to examine the surrounding environment in more detail, the strange person suddenly opened their eyes.

Before Zhu Gaoxu could react, the strange person suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhu Gaoxu's small hand.

Zhu Gaoxu only felt his hand being clamped by an iron vice, unable to move in the slightest, and as the other party exerted more force, a burning pain radiated from his arm.

Without the slightest hesitation, Zhu Gaoxu balled his other hand into a fist and struck the other party's head with all his might.

Unexpectedly, the punch landed on the other party's head.

But equally unexpectedly, the other party seemed completely unaffected.

And Zhu Gaoxu felt as if he had punched a steel plate, his hand vibrating with a dull ache instead.

Just when Zhu Gaoxu was at a loss for what to do, he suddenly felt his arm loosen; the strange person had actually let go on their own.

"Heh heh heh, little one, you're not very old, but your grip is quite strong."

Faced with the other party suddenly speaking human language, Zhu Gaoxu decided to retreat two steps first.

He didn't know why this strange person had suddenly let go, and he didn't want to know.

The only thing he wanted now was to slip away quickly.

This time, he was definitely going to run for real.

To hell with the mission.

This feeling of having one's life in someone else's hands was too terrible.

The key was that the other party also seemed to be a lunatic.

Keeping his main attention on the strange person, Zhu Gaoxu kept scanning his surroundings with his peripheral vision.

In the dilapidated palace, there was mostly scattered tile and withered leaves.

On the four walls were patches and spots of stains, looking like water leaks or perhaps splattered blood.

The inner room was pitch black due to the time of day, as if it were a bottomless pit that could swallow him at any moment.

A few broken clay pots were piled by the wall, all covered in thick dust.

The more he looked, the more Zhu Gaoxu's heart sank.

He took small steps backward.

Suddenly, a night wind blew through the long-broken window lattice, making a sound like a wail, as if it were a howling vengeful ghost.

At this very moment, the strange person suddenly stood up.

Zhu Gaoxu only felt his eyes blur, and the person was already in front of him.

"Holy crap!"

Before he could even finish cursing, the person grabbed Zhu Gaoxu and lifted him up like a puppy.

Even with Zhu Gaoxu's Overlord Strength, he was unable to break free.

Then, his vision blurred again, and that person actually carried Zhu Gaoxu into the room.

Watching the main gate get further and further away, Zhu Gaoxu truly regretted it.

I told you to be greedy, now you're done for.

Although he was already panicking inside, Zhu Gaoxu still managed to force a smile at the strange person that looked even worse than crying.

And seeing this, the strange person also smiled back at Zhu Gaoxu.

But that expression was at least ten times uglier than Zhu Gaoxu's.