novelraw Chapter 664: Jing Shu is Seriously Injured
Chapter 664: Jing Shu is Seriously Injured
This must be something good, right?
Before Jing Shu could ponder it further, the insect—oh, it should be said, an insect resembling a tadpole magnified countless times—appeared. Strictly speaking, Jing Shu thought it looked like a miniaturized version of the rotten mermaid.
It extended its tendrils... what seemed like a tiny tail suddenly grew several meters long in that instant, reaching into Boss Lu’s body in the blink of an eye.
It began to absorb his blood with satisfaction.
Jing Shu immediately threw a fishing net. Anyway, the first thing is to control this insect and see if it can be tamed. With the Magic Cube Space, I’m very confident.
The net precisely covered the giant insect. The seemingly dull-witted creature didn’t react at all, much like a rotten mermaid, which ignores everything else while eating.
Get in here! Jing Shu intended to put the insect into her Magic Cube Space first and then tame it, but to her utter surprise, she failed.
Jing Shu couldn’t help but frown. The rotten mermaids from the Mudstone Flow Sea couldn’t be pulled into her Magic Cube Space from a distance. However, the short time she had spent experimenting outside just now proved that by making physical contact with the rotten mermaids via an object, she could still bring them into her Magic Cube Space.
Now, two rotten mermaids are sleeping soundly in the Magic Cube Space. Da Ji wasn’t affected by my Magic Cube Space a moment ago; it must be because of this insect’s presence.
So, based on what’s been said, this insect is a product of a Dimension Space. Does that mean my Magic Cube Space, aside from not admitting humans, also can’t take in living products from a Dimension Space?
"CHIRP CHIRP! CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP!"
In the few seconds Jing Shu was contemplating, Boss Lu was drained dry. The insect in the net struggled, emitting a sound so piercingly shrill it nearly ruptured Jing Shu’s eardrums. Blood instantly flowed from them, and her ears began to ring.
However, that wasn’t the worst of it. The rotten mermaids, which had been silently surging beneath the building, seemed to receive some kind of signal. They began to crawl up from all sides. The meter-high walls and traps couldn’t stop their advance as the terrifying rotten mermaids climbed up, one after another.
Then, they charged into the building.
Jing Shu’s insects and snakes nervously transmitted information from underground. Some unlucky snakes were trampled to death, while others, upon discovery, were immediately eaten.
The transmitted information indicated that all the rotten mermaids around the building had been roused!
They swarmed in teeming, innumerable masses!
Jing Shu clutched her ears, which were filled with a roaring sound. The earlier piercing cry had made her dizzy, but she felt much better immediately after swallowing a drop of Spiritual Spring.
This is leading to a total wipeout; this insect can’t be kept alive, Jing Shu gritted her teeth. I have to deal with it first because it can control the rotten mermaids!
What can’t be obtained must be destroyed.
The sturdy fishing net instantly petrified and shattered, falling to the ground. The chirping insect twisted its body, its tail lashing towards Jing Shu like a whip.
Jing Shu quickly reviewed several plans in her mind. According to Da Ji, he had seriously wounded the insect with just a chisel when it was only fist-sized. That was merely two months ago, and today it had grown this large.
I don’t know how long its tail can stretch.
The rotten mermaids’ weakness is their fear of fire and electricity, so I’ll start with an electric shock!
Just as the tail whipped towards her, Jing Shu threw another dense, electrified wire mesh at it. This electric net was something she had used in her villa during the first year of the apocalypse for defense against people. After security improved, Jing Shu had retrieved part of it.
The electric current CRACKLED, and the net smashed the insect directly onto the ground.
Strangely, while such a strong electrical current would immobilize rotten mermaids, this insect seemed unaffected. The tail, despite being smashed back, not only drilled out from the wire mesh and continued towards Jing Shu, but the section of the mesh on its body also turned into milky-white stone at a visible rate before shattering.
Jing Shu cut off the electricity, her heart aching at the loss. Two nets, gone just like that.
Ruthlessly, Jing Shu materialized a huge rock and smashed it down on the insect, flattening it. However, it was still alive and recovered within a few seconds.
The blood-sucking tail could drain a person in seconds. Jing Shu instinctively pulled out her pig-slaughtering knife and chopped at the appendage, which was as thick as a pig’s tail.
Her strike was fast, accurate, and ruthless.
With a crisp SNAP, the white tail broke off at Jing Shu’s feet.
Jing Shu exhaled, only to see the severed tail tremble and rapidly regenerate. It then continued towards her as if nothing had happened.
Jing Shu looked at the knife in her hand; its edge had petrified slightly. SNAP! She chopped down again. The tail broke off, then grew back...
Jing Shu was speechless. What the hell? When will this end?
The army of rotten mermaids had already broken through the main gate, breached the first line of defense, and was pouring in. Such a vast number of them... Never mind the people currently here; even the military’s concentrated firepower probably couldn’t stop them. Perhaps only a bomb capable of total annihilation would work.
They were like locusts, leaving devastation in their wake, consuming everything.
Jing Shu panicked. The worst-case scenario has arrived. I must quickly deal with this insect that can heal itself incessantly.
The function of White Energy is Healing and petrification. Is there a way to use White Energy against it? But would that be like delivering food to its mouth?
Irritated, Jing Shu kept chopping at the regrowing tail while moving closer to the insect. Should I just hack it to pieces? Chop it into hundreds of bits; surely it can’t survive that?
Set it on fire? Or just throw a bomb in here and blast it to smithereens?
Jing Shu decided to try fire first. With an aching heart, she poured barrels of oil onto the insect and ignited it. The area around the insect began to petrify. While the fire blazed, a huge, round stone quickly formed, completely enveloping the creature.
It was unclear whether the oil itself had petrified or if this was due to the insect’s own ability, but gradually, the fire died down.
Its tail stretched out again, heading towards Jing Shu like a straw searching for something to drink.
It’s not afraid of fire, unlike the rotten mermaids who recoil at the sight of flames. It shows no reaction. It’s not afraid of electricity either. So, what is it afraid of?
Screams began to erupt throughout the building. The number of rotten mermaids was many times greater than before. The nooks and crannies of the first-floor lobby were quickly overrun, and they were spreading upwards, floor by floor.
Jing Shu’s palms were sweating. What should I do?
The knife in her hand completely petrified and broke with a SNAP. Jing Shu took out another pig-slaughtering knife from her Magic Cube Space; she still had quite a few.
Suddenly, looking at the severed tails scattered on the ground, Jing Shu impulsively swept them into her Magic Cube Space.