Chapter 253

Luo Qi's neck throbbed with intense pain; the sensation of suffocation instantly pushed him to the peak of anxiety, leaving his mind a blank slate. It all happened in a split second, but fortunately, Du Zhengyi reacted at almost the exact same moment; a portion of Luo Qi's spirit could still sense the Magic Energy suddenly erupting from Du Zhengyi.

The Magic Energy came with swift force, yet it unfolded with extraordinary stability. What Luo Qi could not see was a pair of dazzling, bright handcuffs snapping onto the steel wrists that were about to strangle him to death, and the high-heat energy cleanly sliced off the Alien's two hands. A shrill whistle, like that of a cicada, erupted from the room behind him; Luo Qi was nearly deafened, and Du Zhengyi's Yajian Zhili pried the remaining two severed hands from Luo Qi's neck from across the air.

Air rushed into Luo Qi's nearly withered lungs, and he whipped his head around, only catching a glimpse of Du Zhengyi leaping into the window. He struggled to stand up and threw a ball of flame into the room as well; the firelight illuminated the abandoned old house. He saw just in time the blade in Du Zhengyi's hand cleanly sever the Alien's antennae. Luo Qi knew that was the weakness of the Alien Seal Beast, enough to lower the monster's ability to perceive the outside world, but he also remembered that the parameters clearly pointed out the monster's cellular characteristics—the speed of cellular classification and regeneration was astonishing, which meant that...

Luo Qi worriedly kept his eyes on the monster's antennae, his peripheral vision catching that the roof of the old house was smashed, with a hole in the corner of the ceiling; the Alien Seal Beast had likely fallen into the room through that hole. So there was only this one here, and the other Seal Beasts had likely been blown out of the courtyard by this whirlwind. Thinking that the others would soon come swarming back, Luo Qi clutched his own neck, guessing that Du Zhengyi likely wanted to seize this once-in-a-lifetime one-on-one opportunity to conduct a test on this lone monster. After all, reading parameters and performing experimental tests were two completely different concepts.

Luo Qi understood that this was actually equivalent to how humans treated electronic products; although the manufacturers provided the parameters, looking at the parameters alone could only give a rough range, which was why so many electronic product review programs had emerged, all for the sake of obtaining the most authentic results. What Du Zhengyi was doing now was conducting a test experiment on a Psychic Beast.

The Alien shrieked sharply, the sound nearly deafening Luo Qi. Luo Qi forced himself not to cover his ears; he might need his hands later for something more important than covering his ears. However, Luo Qi's attention was drawn to a vibrating membrane on the Alien's chest. He had been a bit puzzled for a while; he remembered that the throat of a Psychic Beast was not suited for vocalization, and such a loud volume did not seem like it was called out from a throat. Luo Qi thought of cicadas; the cicadas in August were loud enough to wake the dead, and that massive sound was produced by the vibration of a membrane.

Luo Qi could not help but speak aloud, "He isn't trying to mate, is he? Male cicadas call like that too, with the goal of calling to female cicadas."

Du Zhengyi ignored his words, "Look at its hands."

Luo Qi's gaze fell upon the Alien's severed limbs, where the green fluid flowing from within had dried up at some unknown point. Luo Qi had a strange feeling, as if the air were water, and ripples were washing over. Du Zhengyi took a deep breath, and the blade in his hand swung toward the Alien's neck, slicing cleanly into a seam beneath the broken stumps of the antennae, and the Alien's head rolled away.

Luo Qi let out a sigh of relief, staring at the Alien Seal Beast's arm; a wet, new limb was growing out, smaller than the original hand, like a thorn, yet equally sturdy.

"Luo Qi!" Du Zhengyi shouted abruptly.

Without a second thought, Luo Qi dodged to the side.

That body, which had clearly already died, suddenly exerted force and lunged at Luo Qi, who was the closest to it.