Chapter 1203: The Squirming Overlord of the Bitter Flesh Forest

The Squirming Overlord of the Bitter Flesh Forest

"Your Majesty..."

"Get lost."

On the desolate street, Ying Fu's brow was tightly furrowed. His gaze continuously swept the surroundings, as if searching for something.

Behind him, Fu Kun was chasing after him, sweating profusely. Such a dignified 1.9-meter-tall giant was actually visibly panicking like a quail at this moment.

"Your Majesty, it's my incompetence... You, please give me another chance! I will definitely bring their father and daughter back to you completely intact!"

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!!"

Seeing that Ying Fu had no intention of waiting for him at all, Fu Kun grew increasingly terrified.

Ying Fu had just risked his life to save him in the nuclear explosion. They were originally planning to retreat completely, but because of his oversight in work, he had caused Ying Fu to have to personally return to this chaotic vortex to search for the whereabouts of that father and daughter... The more Fu Kun thought about it, the angrier he got, wishing he could slap himself twice on the spot.

Of course, Ying Fu was no ordinary person. As an emperor of the human realm, the genes in his body wouldn't easily be affected by the external environment. Coupled with the rapid healing abilities gained from his subjects, the nuclear radiation wasn't a major threat to him.

Fu Kun constantly pleaded with Ying Fu to give him another chance. Just then, a sudden surge of nausea welled up in his heart. He staggered to a halt, bent over, and began to dry heave.

The nuclear explosion had just ended, and the air was filled with various harmful substances. Although Ying Fu could resist them, Fu Kun was ultimately a mortal of flesh and blood. Lingering here for too long still caused his body to react.

Walking at the forefront, Ying Fu stopped and said coldly:

"Trash, you can't help with anything here... Get out of Wushan! When I need you, I will naturally summon you."

Fu Kun's face turned a bit pale, but he still slowly puffed up his chest, his expression more sincere than ever before. "Your Majesty... Although I am not as brave and martial as Your Majesty, nor as far-sighted as Your Majesty, Chancellor Han and the others are currently not by your side. There must be someone to take care of you... At critical moments, I can still be of some use."

Ying Fu fell silent.

He looked at Fu Kun's incredibly resolute eyes and ultimately didn't tell him to get lost again. Instead, he slowly turned around and continued walking deep into the ruins.

"You... look out for yourself."

Seeing this, Fu Kun didn't hesitate to continue following him.

Relying on his memory, Ying Fu traversed the ground full of building wreckage and finally stopped in front of a ruined street.

It was a dilapidated storefront facing the street. The store name on the facade and the windows everywhere had disappeared. The tables and chairs that were originally placed outside were nowhere to be found, leaving only load-bearing columns and a small amount of wall barely supporting it... Just the night before, Ying Fu had sat here, clumsily eating crayfish and drinking beer while chatting with the girl.

Ying Fu took a lap inside the shop and didn't see any traces left behind after a human death. At least Jiangjiang didn't die here... That meant in all likelihood, she had already hidden in a nearby shelter.

"Could they survive the nuclear strike?" Ying Fu asked suddenly.

Fu Kun paused. Knowing that Ying Fu didn't understand the structure of shelters and the principles of nuclear strikes, he immediately explained it once. Although not as detailed as Lu Xun's knowledge, it was more or less accurate.

"So, even if they survived the explosion, staying here for too long will still kill them?"

"If they didn't hide in a Grade A shelter... yes."

"Where are the shelters?"

"This... we might have to search. I'm not sure which one they are in."

Facts proved that Ying Fu indeed needed a modern person to assist him. Although Fu Kun's phone couldn't connect to the internet, relying on the shopping malls and residential areas he occasionally saw during his activities over the past two days, he analyzed the locations of several nearby shelters. Coupled with the occasional guide signs on the road, it shouldn't be a major problem.

Just as Fu Kun was leading the way and searching rapidly, Ying Fu suddenly frowned and reached out to press down on Fu Kun's shoulder ahead of him...

"What's wrong, Your Majesty?" Fu Kun turned his head in confusion.

Black-rimmed glasses rested on Ying Fu's nose bridge. His gaze flowed behind the lenses, as sharp as a sword aura piercing through everything.

"...Things have become troublesome."

In the air above the street in the distance, clusters of tiny rifts seemed to come alive, gradually squirming and piecing together. At first, they were only the size of a fist, but later, as they continuously converged, they expanded little by little to the size of a human body... And there were about dozens of such gaps in the ruins of Wushan.

Gray aura permeated from within these gaps, acting like some sort of domain, dyeing the small areas around the gaps into black, white, and gray. The entire Wushan was like a malfunctioning machine, where color and black-and-white coexisted.

At the same time, bizarre roots resembling fingers and flesh leaves pulsating like lungs extended outward from within these gaps...

How could Fu Kun have ever seen this kind of lineup? He widened his eyes and subconsciously took a half step back.

"Your... Your Majesty, what are these monsters??"

Ying Fu's eyes narrowed slightly.

...

"The Squirming Overlord of the Bitter Flesh Forest, the Flower-Pinching Buddha hunting the light."

Chen Ling looked at those frantically surging flesh roots, and knowledge regarding all Calamity territories that he had learned in the Integration Faction instantly rushed back to his mind... If he remembered correctly, what connected behind these gaps now was the territory of one of the World-Ending Calamities, the Calamity of Corruption.

Why did it have to be a Calamity territory he had never come into contact with before...

What did Teacher Ye say the characteristics of this type of Calamity were again?

Chen Ling struggled to remember, but he had learned too much knowledge recently, making him unable to recall for a moment. The next instant, a thick, tentacle-like root whipped out from the gap behind him, whistling as it lashed toward the back of Chen Ling's head!

Chen Ling's reaction was incredibly fast. The blade aura of the Bone-Stripping Knife slashed out almost the exact moment the root touched him, and a segment of the root hit the ground.

Chen Ling looked down, only to see that the segment of root was like a deformed wrist grown from flesh and blood. It was constantly bouncing on the ground, making a pattering sound, looking very much like a gray fleshy fish.

"How disgusting."

Chen Ling muttered, and then swiftly darted off into the distance. Densely packed roots chased after him from two gaps nearby. As these roots continuously lengthened, hundreds of tiny branches began to spread out in all directions!

These gaps scattered across Wushan were like gradually expanding neurons, and the branches, leaves, and roots extending from behind the gaps were like the nerve endings continuously extending into the surroundings. When two neurons established a connection, they began to expand outward at an even faster speed... These branches, leaves, and roots connected with each other, and very quickly became as dense as a spiderweb, covering the sky and the earth.

In the face of these madly growing plants, even if Chen Ling utilized his Calamity Transformation power, he appeared thin and weak. A cloud of red successively tore through several root blockades, but what awaited him was an even more airtight siege!