Stronger with More Jobs

Chapter 586 - 268: Symphony of Flesh and Blood (Part 3)

"Damn it! What on earth is this monster?! Tier Three! It’s definitely Tier Three!!"

"Team up! Who the hell suggested teaming up just now?! Old Zhao and Old Sun didn’t even make a sound before they were swallowed! Team up my ass!!"

Panic spread like a plague.

The faces of a few people at the end of the team were ashen, and with each heavy step on the slippery, fleshy ground, they felt the suffocating, greedy ferocity almost press against their backs.

Someone couldn’t help but turn back, and just one glance sent their soul flying, letting out a piercing scream.

Dozens of meters behind them.

The Taotie Blood Shadow, towering over ten meters, pursued with an arrogant and unreasonable stance.

The massive body should have been confined by the narrow passage, yet the writhing dark red fleshy walls on both sides behaved like living creatures, retracting and stretching to widen the passage as the creature approached.

And as its giant claws covered in illusory scales stepped over.

The fleshy walls, like memory-imbued rubber, rebounded and squeezed back, restoring the original passage and even making it narrower.

This bizarre scene sent shivers down everyone’s spines.

Everything in this damn place was aiding the monster!

"Great Aunt! Little Ancestor! Please, don’t stop! I’m begging you! Run quickly! It’s breaking through!!"

In the middle of the team, a burly man with a bearded chin nearly cried out as he looked at the red flame figure in front, which suddenly slowed down.

Jiang Wei’s small figure floated in the center of the passage.

The illusory red lotus flames around her body flickered gently.

She ignored the wails behind her, her eyes blazing with a scarlet sun coldly swept over a section of dark red fleshy wall that seemed no different from the rest.

This is it!

She suddenly extended her hands.

The small hands, covered in flowing red flames, like burning branding irons, pierced into the resilient fleshy wall effortlessly and silently!

Sizzle—!

The stinging smell of scorched flesh instantly filled the air.

"Come out... for me!"

A clear and chilly low shout.

Jiang Wei’s arms suddenly parted!

Riiiip—!!!

The tough fleshy wall tore open like fragile fabric, creating a charred gap!

A pair of cautious hands gripping the Profound Qilin Double Blades thrust out from the gap, followed by Wei Banmeng’s bloodstained, stunned face.

She seemed to be wrestling with something inside the gap.

The instant she was forcibly dragged out, her blade instinctively swung towards Jiang Wei!

Buzz!

The Red Lotus Flame flickered gently.

The blade halted half an inch from Jiang Wei’s forehead, stopped by an invisible scorching force field.

Upon seeing the scene clearly, particularly Jiang Wei’s eyes burning with inhuman light, Wei Banmeng’s pupils contracted, and she blurted out, "Jiang Wei?! How did you..."

"Follow!"

Jiang Wei gave her no time for questions, flicking her small hand to release her, then the red flames burst forth once again, dashing deeper into the passage, leaving behind a burning afterimage.

Wei Banmeng suppressed the turmoil in her heart.

Quickly understanding the situation at a glance.

Without even wiping the bloodstains off her face, her sharp gaze swept over the huge blood shadow in pursuit and the path Jiang Wei left.

Unhesitatingly joining the fleeing flow.

"Is she that little girl’s companion?"

"How did she do that just now? Tear that damn wall bare-handed?"

"Stop talking! Run! The monster is catching up again!"

Seeing Wei Banmeng appear caused a brief commotion among the crowd, but the instinct to survive crushed all curiosity.

Jiang Wei repeated the process.

Soon, at the bend of another passage, she stopped again, thrusting her red-flamed hands into the fleshy wall, burning out a hole.

This time, she rescued Chu Kuanglan and Lu Jiuyuan, who were back-to-back vigilant, covered in sticky blood and shattered flesh.

"Where is God Fang?!"

Chu Kuanglan climbed out of the hole, equally shocked by Jiang Wei’s otherworldly form, but immediately shouted anxiously.

Jiang Wei did not reply, merely pointing at the terrifying blood shadow drawing closer behind.

Chu Kuanglan and Lu Jiuyuan’s faces changed dramatically, instantly grasping the situation, and they quickly joined the team.

After running forward a bit more.

The passage suddenly widened, no longer a single lane but branching into several paths.

At a place resembling a small intersection, they bumped into another group.

It was Shikong’s Team and Liu Hanyan’s Team!

Shikong, under a skewed wig, his robe stained with dark red slime, held a Buddha Staff with dimmed golden light, evidence of a tough battle.

Liu Hanyan and Liu Qingyan, sisters, were equally unstable in breath, Liu Hanyan’s sword-gripping hand slightly trembling, and Liu Qingyan’s face pale, clinging tightly to her sister’s sleeve.

"Captain Shikong! Hanyan!"

Chu Kuanglan saw them and immediately shouted, "Have you seen God Fang? And the others?!"

Equally shocked by Jiang Wei’s form, Shikong and Liu Hanyan had no time to dwell on it, both shaking their heads quickly, faces equally anxious and grave: "No! We got separated too! Just regrouped not long ago!"

The three groups finally converged, bringing not safety, but deeper anxiety.

Fang Qingyu, still missing!

At this moment.

At the rear of the team, a Grandmaster who had been anxiously watching the Taotie Blood Shadow behind suddenly exclaimed with disbelief:

"Holy crap! The monster... the monster’s gone!!!"

....

Glazed Light City, core area of the City Lord’s Mansion.

A secret room with walls cast from high-strength alloy.

The heavy metal door shut tight, sealing off all sounds from outside.

The room’s lighting was stark white, the air cold as a morgue.