Chapter 262: Trapped (Settings Error Fixed)

But Luotasi was still very dissatisfied with Lin Yifan's answer, yet he had no choice but to temporarily step down using this platform.

"Scoundrel! Luotasi, you bastard, we clearly agreed to bury all these Survivors here, and you dare to go back on your word?" As Luotasi opened his mouth, Moris was so angry he was on the verge of madness.

"Moris, stop playing dumb here!" Luotasi naturally wasn't afraid of Moris, and with a disdainful cold laugh said:

"You lot, neither human nor ghost, are you even worthy of talking about trust with me? What's wrong with me going back on my word? Survivors and you K-type lifeforms are naturally opposites, so anything I do to you is not excessive!"

"You!" Moris, even angrier, glared ferociously at Luotasi and Lin Yifan; the lines on his face suddenly oozed blood, his whole body began to unnaturally swell, and he let out a wild roar:

"If that's the case... then let us all be destroyed! Everyone, stay here as my burial offering!"

"Boom!"

The lake surface suddenly exploded.

The massive black shadow that had been lurking underwater finally revealed itself.

It was a gigantic tentacle covered with human faces, each face emitting a mournful wail.

Lin Yifan saw those faces and his complexion instantly turned terribly sour!

Because every one of those faces was a Human face.

He didn't know many people, but vaguely recalled that some of the owners of those faces had once fought side by side with him when they destroyed the first altar.

He never expected they would die here!

At that moment, the tentacle began a frantic sweep; in less than a heartbeat, three Night Elves were instantly smashed into mush.

"Damn, it's a K-type Fusion Beast!" Luotasi's complexion instantly turned sour, and he shouted loudly at the people behind him:

"Everyone spread out! Quickly, spread out! Then fight freely and shoot, hurry and eliminate this damn thing; it absorbs the flesh and blood essence of corpses and keeps growing. If we don't destroy it quickly, we'll all be drained to death!"

A rain of arrows poured down, splashing sparks on the monster's surface; they might cause some damage, but the damage was extremely weak.

Seeing the two sides tangled together, Lin Yifan immediately led the group and slipped toward the shore.

But just as they were about to reach the shore, Lin Yifan suddenly heard Hong Shaoqiang's scream.

Instinctively turning back, he saw Hong Shaoqiang's leg being bitten by one of the faces on the tentacle!

Lin Yifan naturally couldn't abandon Hong Shaoqiang, and without hesitation he swam back.

"Hold on!" As soon as he reached Hong Shaoqiang, he immediately drew the Great Axe that he had stored in a pocket dimension and precisely slashed at the face's forehead.

His bronze Great Axe was nothing special, but the holy light enchantment on it was a bane to these dark-type and Cthulhu-type monsters.

The moment his blade struck the monster's head, everything let out a painful howl, and the mouth that had bitten Hong Shaoqiang released its grip.

Even though Hong Shaoqiang was in near-asphyxiating pain, he showed no slack at the brink of death and seized the chance to plunge into the water, trying to reach the shore quickly.

However at that moment, the shore—previously free of tentacles—suddenly cracked open, and more small tentacles burst from the ground, attacking the crowd like mad beasts.

Moreover, these small tentacles, like the giant one, were completely unfazed by water.

This caused panic among the group; many were wounded, but none wanted to die, so they quickly launched a counterattack.

In the end, there were no casualties; they barely managed to hold it off.

By this point, Moris had swollen into a three‑meter‑tall flesh‑tumor monster, his voice sounding as if hundreds of people were speaking at once:

"No one can leave here! All of you are the nourishment I prepare for the great Red Moon; you cannot escape, not a single one!"

As his words fell, countless tentacles also erupted from his body, drawing his own power and crazily attacking the Night Elves and Humans.

However, because Lin Yifan and his group had already reached the shore and were relatively farther away, while the Night Spirit Crystal was nearer to Kris, they became the primary targets.

Even so, Lin Yifan and the others still found it extremely difficult to hold them back!

But at that moment, Luotasi somehow appeared beside him, grabbed his arm and said:

"Lin Yifan, we have to go. If you don't want all Humans to die here and become nourishment for the Red Moon's descent, you must immediately find a way to complete this 【Resource Contest】 mission, lead them back to the Initial Domain; otherwise, even if I let you go now, you'll all meet a dead end."

"What on earth is going on?" Lin Yifan furrowed his brows and asked, puzzled.

Luotasi's expression grew solemn as he looked at the now‑monster Moris and said in a deep voice:

"You weren't wrong earlier; those of the Red Moon Cult can no longer be considered Humans, because their bodies have long been altered by bizarre K‑type energy. Though they still appear flesh, they are actually carriers of K‑type energy."

"Moris is completely insane now; he is using his own energy to make a Sacrifice, forcibly ushering the Red Moon's descent. Once the Red Moon arrives, none of us stand a chance of surviving."

"Now his Sacrifice has succeeded, so even if we defeat these tentacles and kill Moris, it will be to no avail, because the Red Moon will descend within a day; by then, all our forests will be polluted by K‑type energy, turning into walking corpses of Maggot Human Bone."

Lin Yifan's complexion changed instantly; he turned to look at Moris and finally noticed something odd.

Because Moris, though still wielding the tentacles to wildly assault the crowd, was actually just moving them because they were extremely hard, and the people's fear concealed any abnormality.

But upon close inspection one can see that the tentacles' attacks on people were merely simple slaps and swings, lacking the previous writhing, living‑like entanglement.

Moris himself had even closed his eyes, his aura growing weaker, clearly having sacrificed all his energy; his own life was nearing its end.

One has to admit, this lunatic is truly insane!

To achieve his goal, he would even discard his own life; whether it's his faith or something else, it's unclear.

But whatever the reason, it mattered not to Lin Yifan, because when he looked up, the Red Moon hanging in the sky was already as large as a disc!

And the twisted shadow on the Red Moon now revealed its full outline.

It was a snake!

A massive giant snake!