Chapter 389

The life that shouldn't have been born!

Pupils shrinking like needle tips, spine stiff as a stone pillar—that describes Cheng Shi's current state.

He looked at Tulading's corpse, and it took him a long time to gradually gather his shattered consciousness and stick it back together, his brain recovering some calmness and clarity.

It's no wonder he performed like this, because he had never thought that the way a person died could be so terrifying and bizarre.

Tulading was also drained, drained like Zhang Jizu into a state where withered skin tightly wrapped around a skeleton, but she was different from Squinty-eyes because she was still pregnant; there was a child about to be born in her belly, and today happened to be the day she was about to give birth.

This meant that Tulading's belly would reach the peak of swelling today.

Judging from the scene in front of Cheng Shi, this was indeed the case.

But this was the most bizarre part, because she had long been drained of flesh and vitality by an unknown force; logically speaking, her belly should have been no exception.

But now, on that withered and thin corpse, the belly, swollen like a ball, was still full of flesh and blood, showing no signs of vitality collapse.

Not only that, at this very moment, this huge pregnant belly was not in the shape of a round ball at all, but rather, on that skin stretched thin as paper, one after another, weird human faces and handprints were imprinted.

The outlines of these eyes, noses, mouths, ears, and hands were like marks pressed from the inside out on a thin layer of plasticine, embedded on Tulading's belly just like that, pulling the belly, which should have been spherical, into a weird shape, freezing it into a bizarre and terrifying flesh sculpture.

An ordinary person would feel, upon one glance, that it was as if something wanted to struggle out of this "flesh cage," but when it struggled halfway, it ran out of strength, forever freezing together with the flesh cage.

Cheng Shi looked at this scene in front of him, bit his teeth tightly, and didn't dare to move.

He was a little panicked.

Probably no one would not panic after seeing this scene.

This was too scary and too sanity-draining. He recalled that even when he was delivering Hu Xuan's baby, he hadn't been this scared.

This withered corpse and the full belly formed a strong contrast, making people feel a kind of unreal fear, a grotesque feeling of "reason being stripped from existence, and weirdness being concretized from nothingness."

After a long time, Cheng Shi exhaled heavily. He had completely recovered, and he seemed to have guessed the reason for the deaths of Tulading and Zhang Jizu.

The child.

Without a doubt, their deaths were inseparable from the thing in Tulading's belly.

It was this child that drained all their vitality!

Of course, with the situation developing to this extent, it certainly couldn't be an ordinary child anymore...

I don't know if Tulading's extremely pious faith acted as a catalyst, or if 【Corruption】, who sits on one of the sixteen divine thrones, truly gazed upon this place. In short, the child in Tulading's belly underwent a mutation on the day it was about to be born, no longer the "Holy Infant" the players jokingly wanted to create, but truly became a...

Life viewed by 【Birth】 as "should not have been born."

Cheng Shi didn't know what kind of relationship it had with 【Corruption】, nor did he know if it had really become the so-called 【Holy Infant】. He only knew that the Holy Infant's descent had failed, because Tulading's mortal body seemed unable to provide the energy it needed to be born.

No, not just Tulading, even a chosen one of 【Death】 was drained!

Squinty-eyes, without knowing it, provided some energy for the descent of this Holy Infant, but this energy was still not enough to let it descend!

A black hole that could drain even a chosen one who claimed he wouldn't die—what kind of thing could this be!?

So Cheng Shi panicked. He wasn't sure if he could deliver this child that looked like a failed descent.

He wanted to win, but the premise was to be alive when winning. But looking at the current situation, even if he luckily saved the child's life, no one could say what kind of accident would happen the moment it was born.

But if he gave up now, the suffering of this trial would have been in vain. Not only that, he even lost Old Zhang in the end.

Of course, whether Zhang Jizu was really dead remained to be seen, but the problem was, even if he wasn't dead, a fetus that could drain a chosen one wasn't easy to deal with.

Its birth might very well drain Squinty-eyes again, and what it drained might not just be Squinty-eyes, but also himself...

I don't want to become a dried human...

Cheng Shi frowned and prepared to think of a long-term plan, but just then he was stunned.

Wait!

The authority of "Vitality"!

Could 【Prosperity】's "Vitality" authority withstand the absorption of this fetus?

If it could...

Cheng Shi's eyes lit up, and his gambling nature came up again.

He had already lost Old Zhang; he couldn't just lose without gaining, right?

If he didn't gamble, wouldn't this trial be a huge loss?

Cheng Shi frowned tightly and hesitated for a long time. After weighing the gains and losses countless times in his heart, he finally twisted the words "gains and losses" into "gains and gains."

"A person can't just lose without gaining. When it's time to gamble, one must gamble, but before that, one must leave a backup plan."

As he spoke, Cheng Shi got up and retreated, used a scalpel to dismantle the cell door, cleared an activity space, and then scattered the dice in his hand all over the floor.

Then he took out the Puppet's Grasp he had picked up from Gao Ya and put it on his left hand. In this way, even if there was danger, at least this A-level glove could delay the other party's movements.

Finally, he took out a magic lamp from his portable space and hung it high on the ceiling, striving for every corner to be illuminated by light, so that he could come into contact with his own shadow at the first opportunity.

After doing all this, Cheng Shi took a deep breath, his right hand tightly gripping the Lele'er ring, and he felt his way to Tulading's side step by step.

His hand gently stroked the uneven and terrifying belly, feeling the movement inside, but after touching it only twice, Cheng Shi's brows tightened.

He didn't feel any life fluctuation in this belly.

Did the vitality dissipate?

That shouldn't be; the skin felt so delicate and warm, and he could faintly see fresh red flowing in the raised blood vessels. The flesh was fuller than even an ordinary person's belly; how could he not feel its existence?

Could it be that the descent failed and it died?

Or is it... not a living thing?

Cheng Shi's heart skipped a beat. Looking at the weird-shaped belly in front of him, he summoned some courage again, stretched out a finger, gently poked a corner of the belly, and then slowly used force to press the skin in.

He prepared to use this clumsy method to confirm what was wrong with the child in the belly.

But just when he had pressed in an inch, he suddenly felt a powerful finger in Tulading's belly pushing against his fingertip through the thin belly skin!

Just this one touch, a chilling cold air erupted from Cheng Shi's fingertip, shooting straight to his crown along the nerves of his arm, making his face change drastically as he suddenly withdrew his hand. His whole person immediately disappeared and appeared...

Beside Gou Feng.

"I'll go to your grandpa!!!"

The Chieftain looked at this "good brother" with a pale, sickly face, and froze in place, completely bewildered.

He shouldn't... be back specifically to curse me, right?