Chapter 42: Hell of eternal life
There was really nothing in this underground cavern.
There was no light, no water, no animals, no plants, just a breath of ancient air that had been sealed for an unknown amount of time, and it smelled like a hollow can that had been stuffed for tens of thousands of years before it was suddenly opened.
With a slight sniff, the blood bar drops a small inch.
Even, there is an abnormal state directly on the system interface: "poisoning".
"Ahem..."
Li Qing coughed violently a few times, and his face turned pale for a while.
He shook off the rotten cockroach corpse stained on his fist, and slowed down for two or three seconds before finally coming back to his senses:
"Sure enough..."
"You brainless guy is coming down!"
Looking at the huge piece of meat in front of him, which was almost half filled with hollows, Li Qing smiled.
Now is the most crucial time for him and the meat to win.
However, theoretically speaking, now is actually the last moment before his death, and putting it in literary works is a bento time for this character to recall his past life.
After all, as Giorno worried...
There was nothing in this underground hollow, and naturally there was nothing that could help him attract hatred.
Li Qing was the only one who could move, and as long as he tried to move or climb to the ground, that piece of meat would devour him mercilessly.
But if he didn't move, not to mention that he would end up trapped underground with the meat block, the poisonous air stored in the underground cavern for tens of thousands of years, I don't know what composition was, was enough to kill him in a few minutes.
So...
Li Qing still moved.
He walked unhurriedly, walked to the wall, climbed the rock, and crawled towards the tunnel that the flesh had just carved out with his body, connecting the ground and the underground, with an inclination of nearly 90 degrees.
Even, in order to take the shortest path and rush back to the ground as soon as possible, Li Qing still walked close to the bloated flesh.
At this moment, he was only a few centimeters away from the twisted and hideous body of the flesh.
But the piece of meat ignored him.
"Hahaha."
"It's just a brainless thing."
Li Qing chuckled and said to himself while slowly climbing up the almost vertical tunnel:
"I didn't come to lead you down this hole in the earth, but I didn't come to die with you."
"While there's nothing moving in this underground cavity that can help me attract hatred, that doesn't mean there aren't deeper underground..."
As if to confirm Li Qing's words...
The piece of meat completely ignored Li Qing, who had slipped away quietly from behind him, and instead threw himself on the ground with concentration.
It's digging into the ground, digging deeper, even deeper.
"This is Vesuvius, an active volcano that has recorded dozens of eruptions over 2,000 years."
"The last eruption was just a few decades ago."
"Beneath the land near such active volcanoes, there are often magma chambers that store large quantities of active lava and are very close to the surface."
"That's right..."
"Underneath this underground cavern, dozens of meters further down, there is an underground lake, an underground lava lake!"
"The massive amount of magma that gathers in the ground is like a wave in the ocean, surging back and forth in the lava lake—this is the bait that will attract your attention."
Li Qing carefully controlled his speed and slowly climbed towards the ground.
The piece of flesh took the exact opposite direction, digging deeper and deeper into the ground.
One meter... Five meters... Ten meters... Twenty meters... Thirty meters...
The meat nub finally found what it was looking for.
It smashed headlong through the roof of the underground magma chamber, opening the seal that held the Flame Demon in place.
The roof of the magma chamber was suddenly knocked out of such a large hole by the flesh, and the balance of air pressure was instantly broken.
Like an old-fashioned popcorn machine that has reached a critical point in its internal air pressure under heating, the red-hot lava that had been quietly flowing in the magma chamber instantly found a cathartic point of pressure and burst out of the gap at the top.
Bang!
The underground world, which had been silent for 10,000 years, suddenly remembered a dull explosion.
The viscous lava, which had a temperature of up to 1,000 degrees, instantly engulfed the flesh and continued to gush upwards along the passage opened by the flesh.
呲呲呲~
Below Li Qing, in the lava-covered tunnel, there was a faint sound similar to barbecue.
The vitality of the meat is indeed very strong.
Even, Li Qing didn't know until now-
He'd been running for his life before, and he hadn't attacked, so of course he didn't know:
There is no upper limit to the vitality of this monster, and it can never be completely killed.
But what Li Qing can know is:
The ability of this piece of meat is not "King Kong is not bad", but "super-fast regeneration".
This means that its body can be destroyed, but it will soon be able to regenerate.
Two or three bullets hit, and the piece of flesh would immediately repair its damaged body.
So... What if it was hit by thousands, tens of thousands, of "bullets" that were as fierce as a storm and would never stop?
The endless lava underneath is such a "never-ending storm".
At this moment, Li Qing was able to perceive:
The defenseless body of the flesh was rapidly charring and wilting under the scorching of the lava.
But with its terrifying life force, its body is proliferating fresh flesh and blood to the outside at an alarming rate.
The old flesh was burned to charcoal and washed away by the hot lava, while the new flesh continued to wither under the endless heat.
The damage caused by high temperature is huge, and the energy it can absorb is basically used for its own body repair.
In this way, the endless vitality of the piece of meat and the endless heat of the earth started a tug-of-war, a tug-of-war that seemed to never tell the winner.
"It's not dead?!"
Li Qing was slightly surprised.
According to his original idea, he actually wanted to use the huge amount of damage generated by lava to completely wipe out this monster.
But he didn't expect that the vitality of this piece of meat would be far, far beyond his imagination.
Anyway...
The piece of flesh was still trapped in the endless sea of lava.
Its body multiplies and chars in the lava, and the end result is that it sinks deeper and deeper into the endless magma.
And the meat "myself" is still very happy.
Unaware of the immense, never-ending damage to its body, it was drawn to the lava that was surging in the magma chamber.
There are waves of lava everywhere, and each "wave" is a wonderful prey that haunts the flesh.
In this way, the surging and tumbling underground magma attracts the flesh that acts entirely on instinct, causing it to actively swim deeper, hotter, and more lava-rich underground.
"This guy can live in lava..."
"What a complete monster!"
After seeing the true vitality strength of the meat block, Li Qing couldn't help but let out a sigh of palpitation:
Thinking about it, he almost self-defeating just now, playing himself to death with Mother Earth.
Luckily, luck is also part of strength.
And Li Qing's strength in this part doesn't seem to be bad:
"Thankfully... Thankfully, the lava did enough damage to use all the energy it absorbed to mend its wounds. ”
"Otherwise, I sent it into this underground magma room, and not only could I not kill it, but I also helped it find 'food'."
"That's it!"
"Since you can't die..."
Li Qing took one last look at the sea of lava under him where the 'water level' was rising higher and higher:
"Then enjoy the eternal hell!"