Chapter 440: The Fourth Monster Hiding as the Finale Is Actually the Protagonist?

Zhang Liyou, Cui Cui, and Luo Ji, hiding in the darkness, held their breath and focused their attention, their gazes locked dead on the unbelievable scene before them.

Their hearts pounded like drums, cold sweat seeped from their palms, and even their breathing seemed frozen in their throats.

"Feng Yuhuai's body... can't turn into a Red Thread! Is she really being eaten by that monster?!"

Cui Cui cried out in a lowered voice, her eye rims red, her finger trembling as she pointed forward.

Her other hand clutched Zhang Liyou's arm tightly, fingernails nearly digging into the skin, as if only this could confirm she wasn't dreaming.

It shouldn't be a dream, because Zhang Liyou's arm had been pinched until it bled.

"She really... can't make it?"

Zhang Liyou murmured softly, a hint of hesitation in her tone.

Her gaze stared dead at Feng Yuhuai, trying to find a single flaw.

Even though Feng Yuhuai had already had an arm gnawed off by the Beautiful Spider and her chest bitten to pieces, a thread of suspicion remained deep in Zhang Liyou's heart.

—No way around it, Feng Yuhuai is just too good at acting.

She has deceived too many, too many, too many people, and she also has a prior record of deceiving monsters.

Her cruelty, her disguise, her viciousness have long been branded deep into Zhang Liyou's marrow as deep wariness.

Unless she personally saw Feng Yuhuai's bone scum disappear completely, not a drop remaining in this world, Zhang Liyou dared not completely confirm her death.

"But this time she really doesn't look like she's acting..."

Zhang Liyou muttered to herself, a hard-to-name emotion surging in her heart,

"Could it be, this is the legendary karmic fate? The man-eating monster ultimately gets eaten by an even more terrifying monster?"

She bit her lip hard, even drawing blood, the revenge satisfaction and inexplicable emptiness intertwining in her heart.

And Luo Ji stood to the side, his excited face flushed red from holding it in.

Three thoughts flashed rapidly through his mind: "Feng Yuhuai is going to be eaten? 【Protection of the Curtain】 is mine! 【Avengers】 just established and already disbanding?!"

His fingers trembled slightly, wanting to secretly take out a mirror to glance at Zuo Bai.

After all, if Feng Yuhuai really was eaten, he would have to start searching for the next monster destiny.

And the monster that killed Feng Yuhuai... emotionally and logically, should receive top priority consideration!

Deng Jia Jia's fingers clasped the camera tight, knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

Her eyes pressed against the viewfinder, constantly adjusting the lens focus, trying to capture every detail.

In the foul-smelling air of the sewer, she could hear the sound of herself constantly swallowing saliva.

"Ren Xuan, you film Feng Yuhuai, focus on the silver patterns on her face."

Her voice was pressed very low, yet revealed a news worker's professional sensitivity,

"Those patterns might be the key, absolutely cannot miss them, must give a big close-up."

Ren Xuan didn't say more, quickly aimed the lens at Feng Yuhuai, adjusted focus, locking the frame on those faintly visible silver patterns on her face.

"Tang An, you aim at that ugly monster, take a few more close-ups of that section of weird silver bone."

Deng Jia Jia continued, gaze still fixed on her own lens,

"There should be nano worms on it, must film clearly, cannot miss any detail."

Tang An felt slightly displeased inside, brows furrowing slightly.

He didn't like being commanded, especially Deng Jia Jia's nearly ordering tone.

But right now really wasn't the time to argue, moreover, he also acknowledged Deng Jia Jia's arrangement — three people each filming a main monster, this way the editing material would be richest and clearest.

But his gaze couldn't help glancing toward Zuo Bai's direction.

Compared to these monsters, he wanted to film Zuo Bai more, more interested in digging out the story behind the scientist.

To tell the truth, Tang An had a little bit been won over by Zuo Bai.

"Under the might of science, there is no monster that cannot be killed!"

This line was too human, too positive energy! Simply made his blood boil!

Tang An couldn't help sighing in his heart, but quickly shook his head, pulling his attention back to reality.

He adjusted the lens, aiming from afar at the Beautiful Spider, focusing on that section of silver spine drilling out from the neck, focusing on the worms wriggling on the silver spine.

Deng Jia Jia silently pointed her own lens "in the face" at Zuo Bai.

The three had completely entered the journalist role, concentrating fully on secretly filming the scene before them, to the extent that no one noticed, from the pipe behind them, faint rustling sounds vaguely transmitted.

Suddenly, Deng Jia Jia cried out in alarm, nearly throwing the camera from her hands: "Th-there's still a monster?!!"

Ren Xuan and Tang An exclaimed in shock: "What?"

Deng Jia Jia said in a trembling voice: "Inside, besides those three monsters, there's a fourth, been there all along, just hiding in....."

Her voice grew lower and lower, as if even she couldn't believe this shocking discovery.

Ren Xuan and Tang An swallowed saliva in unison, brains a bit muddled.

What's called "still a fourth monster"?

Still "been there all along"?

Clearly only three monsters!

Could their three 50-billion-pixel cameras all be blind, or does that fourth monster have invisibility?

The two involuntarily turned their heads, looking into Deng Jia Jia's viewfinder.

When they finally saw clearly the content on the screen, their facial muscles instantly stiffened, a layer of goosebumps rapidly spread over their whole bodies, only feeling a gloomy chill rush from the soles of their feet straight to the crown of their heads.

"The... fourth monster, is... is hiding in Zuo Bai's shadow!"

Deng Jia Jia's terrified and stuttering voice transmitted brokenly into the two's ears.

Ren Xuan and Tang An's pupils constricted violently, gazes locking dead on Zuo Bai's shadow.

That shadow appeared exceptionally twisted in the sewage reflection, as if alive, slowly wriggling.

What made the two of them even more horrified was that the shadow vaguely condensed into a gentle smiling face, and that was absolutely not Zuo Bai's face.

"Th-this... what kind of monster is this?"

Ren Xuan and Tang An felt their scalps go numb, their fingers could barely hold the camera, a layer of cold sweat seeped out on their backs, as if countless icy insects were crawling.

The two of them subconsciously glanced at their own shadows soaking in the sewage beneath their feet first, fortunately they didn't see anyone else's smiling face.

Ptooey~

Even their own smiling face wouldn't do!

Whose proper shadow would smile on its own?

Without waiting for Deng Jia Jia to instruct, Ren Xuan and Tang An tacitly, together, focused their lenses pointing straight at the smiling face in the shadow.

To hell with more footage, clearer editing!

According to general story logic, and the professional sensitivity of media workers, they almost without hesitation reached a unified conclusion — the monster that finally manifested and appeared, was the finale's protagonist!

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(End of Chapter)