stonecrandall Chapter 90 Yuanhun Ghost Claw
Chapter 90 Yuanhun Ghost Claw
As night falls, the city, once bustling and lively, is now shrouded in a deathly silence.
Wang Xiao rode his motorcycle with the throttle turned to maximum power, heading towards the power maintenance center in Chenghua District according to the route provided by Wei Yan.
Finally, after spending some time, Wang Xiao arrived at the area near the power maintenance center relatively smoothly.
Although zombies occasionally tried to cause trouble along the way, Wang Xiao easily chopped off their heads and sent them to another world.
However, as Wang Xiao ventured deeper into the area, the strange atmosphere made him more vigilant.
You should know that whether it's an ordinary zombie or a mutated zombie, they will get extremely excited when they hear the sound of a motorcycle, and they will try every means to stage an accident.
But now he is so calm that not a single zombie is willing to come out to greet him.
This doesn't seem normal at all.
To find out what had happened in the area, Wang Xiao did not immediately go to the power maintenance center. Instead, he parked his motorcycle in front of a tall building and planned to go to the high platform to observe the situation near the power maintenance center before taking any further action.
Wang Xiao jumped out of the car and quickly checked his equipment.
After such a long period of adaptation, the Swift Shadow combat suit had already perfectly fit Wang Xiao's body, and the progress bar on his wristwatch had now reached 100%.
Wang Xiao looked down and saw that his watch displayed: "Deep adaptation complete. Combat suit is now fully synchronized with the wearer."
[Current synchronization rate 89%, already increased the wearer's Strength by 0.7 points, Constitution by 1.8 points, and Agility by 1.7 points.]
Looking at the notification on his watch, Wang Xiao didn't pay much attention and walked straight into the residential building.
As soon as he entered the building, Wang Xiao sensed something was wrong.
Although the entire stairwell on the first floor was covered with irregular bloodstains, there was no body in sight.
Even if zombies eat people, they can't possibly leave no trace of the person.
After all, zombies aren't dogs; they're not that obsessed with gnawing on bones. They crave fresh flesh and blood more than bones.
Moreover, once they've eaten their fill, a zombie's appetite will noticeably decrease for a period of time.
During this time, the zombies had long been attracted to other commotions and gone somewhere else.
Wang Xiao wondered to himself: Could it be a mutated creature?
If mutant cats have appeared, it's not surprising that mutant rats and the like have appeared as well.
Finally, at the corner of the stairs leading upstairs, Wang Xiao saw a zombie gnawing on something.
Wang Xiao shone his flashlight on it and saw a monster that, apart from its human-like physique, had almost no trace of humanity on its body.
The monster's skin was covered with a wet, sticky-looking membrane.
A row of extremely fine bristles grew on its four arms, a feature that is clearly only possible for insect-like creatures.
Not only that, the entire head has become an indescribable shape and seems to be undergoing further changes, with the mouth also evolving into a pair of large, toothed jaws.
At this moment, the monster was tearing apart the corpse on the ground in an extremely brutal manner.
"This thing looks pretty creepy... Could it be a new type of mutated zombie that has evolved from the zombies?"
Wang Xiao frowned as he stood at a distance, examining the monster's body.
During his observation, Wang Xiao noticed a crack on the monster's shoulder that had not yet fully healed, and some tiny black tentacles could be faintly seen wriggling inside the crack.
Wang Xiao was puzzled: What is that thing?
Just as Wang Xiao was trying to see what was in the crack, the monster also noticed the presence of the light source.
It abruptly stopped eating and looked at Wang Xiao, its pair of fly-like compound eyes reflecting a green light under the flashlight beam.
The next second, it let out a sharp screech, and pounced on Wang Xiao like a mantis hunting its prey on all fours!
Facing the monster's attack, Wang Xiao remained calm, his sword already drawn.
He didn't take action because he wanted to observe the new monster's various reactions while it was alive.
Now that it has been discovered, it's not unreasonable to examine the dead body.
The red lines of "dismemberment and bone removal" had long since spread all over the monster's body under Wang Xiao's long observation.
What puzzled Wang Xiao was that the red line used for dismembering and deboning generated two different paths.
It was as if the monster in front of me wasn't one, but rather two... as if it had been parasitized by something.
This greatly attracted Wang Xiao's attention.
While Wang Xiao was analyzing the situation, the monster had already pounced on him.
The pincer-like mandibles were open at an extremely exaggerated angle, biting down on Wang Xiao's neck.
Unfortunately, for Wang Xiao, its speed was far too slow.
Facing the monster's attack, Wang Xiao showed no intention of dodging. With a flick of his wrist, he precisely sliced into a red line in the blink of an eye.
As the blade sliced through, one of the monster's arms was severed.
Strangely, not much blood flowed from the cut; instead, a clump of thin black tentacles emerged, writhing wildly in the air as if they had their own consciousness.
Upon seeing this, Wang Xiao's eyes narrowed immediately: "Interesting."
After losing one arm, the monster did not stop moving at all. Instead, it swung its remaining three arms and grabbed at Wang Xiao at the same time.
Having never seen such a unique monster before, Wang Xiao also took it with the same seriousness he had shown when dealing with the Thorn Knight.
A flash of light, and the monster's body was split in two.
What he initially expected to be an extremely bloody scene turned into a shock as the monster's corpse scattered to the sides. What he saw was a large number of human organs being replaced by clumps of black tentacles.
On the monster's right shoulder, something resembling an insect was trying to crawl out.
Just as the insect was about to break free of the flesh and blood, Wang Xiao's horizontal blade fell straight down, pinning the black insect to death.
The black worm was pierced through the body by the horizontal knife. It hissed and struggled for a while before becoming completely still.
As Wang Xiao used his knife to pry the body off, the system notified him.
【Abyssal Soul and Ghostly Claw】
Race: Abyssal Insectoid
[Level: lv3]
[Note: "Information Extraction" is attempting to extract further information about the Abyssal Zerg 'Abyssal Soul Claw'.]
[Description: An extremely weak insect from the abyss, capable of asexual reproduction, fond of fresh flesh and blood, which came to this world through the rifts of the abyss.]
Its primary attack method is parasitism. Once successfully parasitized, the parasitized organism will be affected by the Abyss Soul Claw, resulting in a severe insectification reaction.
Furthermore, as long as the Abyssal Soul Claw is not completely killed during the parasitism process, the parasitized body will regenerate rapidly.
[Special Note: The insectification process can be significantly slowed down by consuming flesh and blood.]
When the insectification is complete, the Abyssal Soul Claw will complete its life evolution, gaining some of the host's abilities and thus completely taking over the host's body.
Looking at the information extracted by "Information Extraction," Wang Xiao's expression turned grave. He lowered his head and muttered to himself, "From the Abyss again...?"