Yakong kept his tone steady, he was ready and ready for an attack. At this moment, the attacker had already set a trap at the end of the bloodstain, but even so, he had to go as a six-star candidate.

After about ten minutes of walking, the smell of blood in the air became heavier and heavier, and the structure on both sides of the sewer seemed to have changed imperceptibly, at first, he thought that the lines on the walls were just vines of unknown plants, but as he got closer, he realized that the dry material was not the branches and buds of plants, but more like some kind of biological tissue.

What appeared in his line of sight was a passage that didn't exist on the map. At least the holomap installed on his phone by the company didn't mark the passage that led to nowhere.

The blood leads down a staircase covered in biological tissue to the depths of darkness. The space below the staircase doesn't look like it was artificially created, but rather naturally created - the result of the long-term corrosion of this unknown substance.

The entrance to the passage is covered with bone spurs that look like teeth. All this gave Yakong an absurd idea that the corridor in front of him might be alive.

Before the operation, he carefully photographed the entrance and reported it to the company. Is there such a grotesque place in the underground sewers of the first district?

Yakong felt that the discovery was enough to attract the attention of the council, and almost at the same time that the text message was sent, the company conveyed new instructions to him.

Get in. Find out where this passage leads. They will report these findings to the Council, and it won't be long before the support team arrives.

Immediately after, Akon heard a woman's scream. The screams came from the depths of the passage, and the voice was full of helplessness and fear, and seemed to be mixed with great pain.

Almost without thinking, Akon used psionic energy to block the bone spurs that stood in the way of the doorway, and these seemingly sharp objects did not hinder his steps, and he walked down the stairs to the sticky lake, and in the absolute darkness of the space, the light of his mobile phone became his only recourse.

He didn't know how long he had been walking through the passage, and in the relatively open space at the end of the passage, he finally spotted the screaming woman in the faint light.

Due to excessive blood loss, the woman's face was pale, and she was still wearing the uniform of the maintenance team, but in her current state, she could not move a bit, and could only watch herself slowly fall into fainting again due to blood loss, until she died.

And what entangles her, binds her firmly, are objects like tree roots. This is...... Plant?

Arkon had never seen such a strange plant before, and as he hurried, countless speculations about the attackers crossed his mind.

A daring outlaw, a psychic maniac, or a cyber lunatic. But he never imagined that what was waiting for him at the end of the bloodstain was not a human at all, but some strange creature that he couldn't even name.

The only thing that is certain is that the woman's injuries are very serious, her arms and abdomen seem to have been scratched by sharp vents in the process of being dragged, and if she is not immediately sent to the prosthetic hospital for treatment, I am afraid that the murder will be more than lucky.

The scream just now seemed to have used up all her strength, and she could no longer make any sound, so she could only stare at Yakong with a pleading look.

Her body was slowly sinking under the squeezing of the shoots, and the strange plant seemed to be trying to absorb her as nutrients into its stomach in this way.

"You wait, I'll save you." However, this sentence seemed to anger the creatures in the sewers, and the black branches and buds, which had been slow to move like earthworms, found their target at the same time, and they jumped up from the ground like poisonous snakes staring at their prey, and at the same time tore towards Yakong.

Akora's gaze didn't linger on the dense roots for a second, he quickly ran towards the woman who was about to be swallowed, and all the roots that pounced on him bounced in the opposite direction at a faster speed the moment they were about to touch him, and the scattered roots pierced into the walls covered with unidentified biomass, leaving holes in them.

Perhaps out of pain, the beastly scream echoed through the sewers. The vines that bound the woman also relaxed a lot, and Akon made a crackling motion with a wave of his hands.

The vine between the two snapped, and the invisible blade sliced it into pieces, and the woman who had lost her support fell straight into his arms.

She seemed powerless to move, and Akon glanced at the holes that were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and immediately understood that this strange plant had the same powerful self-healing ability as mutated creatures, and that what he had to do now was not to stay here and fight unknown monsters, and that it would not be long before a team sent by the Council would arrive here.

In the face of several six-star candidates, or even real six-star rescuers, no matter how strong the self-healing ability is, it will not be of any use.

"Get out of the way, now I'm going to get her out of here." In a manner close to the princess's hug, Akon ran wildly with the seriously injured woman.

The plant did not respond. It didn't even seem to have intelligence, and after suffering a loss, it didn't choose to observe, but once again manipulated the serpent-like roots to attack Yakong in the same way, so unsurprisingly, the roots were once again bounced back and pierced into the wall that had not yet had time to fully heal.

The screaming intensified, and even the ground seemed to shake violently. Akon had to pick up his pace, as the bone spurs that grew in the passage were joined together, and it seemed that the road in the future tense was about to be completely closed.

He felt like he was in a race against time. He wasn't a prosthetic savior, unable to run for his life with a man in his arms like a Terminator, and his instincts for battle made him realize that if the path in front of him was completely closed, he would be in a rather disadvantageous situation.

"Hold on." He didn't have time to care about whether the woman still had the strength to communicate, and said in a hurried tone,

"Put your hand around my waist." The woman did so. Almost at the same time, an invisible force pressed against Akon's back, catapulting him as a whole.

He looked solemn and did his best to maintain his balance during the flight. It's an untapped way to use the ability, and in his rather limited experiments, the way each landing has been a bit awkward.

The light at the entrance is getting closer and closer, and the exit is just around the corner! The actual combat seemed to stimulate his potential, and at the moment of rushing out of the entrance, he actually twisted his body in mid-air, completing a difficult action that only a prosthetic implanter or a physical modifier can complete, and for a few seconds, he dragged the woman with one arm, and his free left hand swiped into the void, completing the action of pressing down.

The invisible barrier forever kept the roots and the screams of the monsters at bay on the other side. As soon as he landed, dense bone spurs sealed the entrance to the passage, and the unknown creatures faded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If they were any further late, they would have found themselves in a situation of being attacked under the dense passages and the roots of the pursuing trees.

Did it...... And it did! Escorting hostages from traps at the last moment is what a superhero should be!

Akon had some unreal feelings, because he thought that with his bad luck to death, he was destined to fall to the ground like a dog gnawing mud, and maybe even have to pour a mouthful of sewage from the sewer.

It seems that there are times when a soothsayer's divination goes wrong. He remembered the scenes from those movies, lowered his head, and his voice softened,

"Beautiful young lady, are you alright?" The woman who was held in his arms in the way of a princess was also looking up at him at the moment, her hands wrapped around Akon's waist, making him feel a tingling feeling.

Sticky blood was running down her wrists, and the front half of her right hand was completely embedded in Akon's body, leaving a shocking wound on his skin.

The woman's expression was very strange. Half of her face was terrified, and tears flowed down her eyes; The other half of the face was smiling hideously.

"yes, I'm sorry, my body is out of control."

"You're careless, Akoron." As soon as the woman spoke, two voices came out at the same time. And at this moment, Yakong finally understood a detail that he had overlooked.

The brief encounter had proved that the plants were not sapient, and that it could not have thought of a plan to lure the investigator to its side through bloodstains.

From the beginning, it was the woman herself who planned the attack. Objective...... The goal is to approach yourself as a victim and bypass the barrier used for defense!

This attack was directed at him from the beginning! The other party has long known the secret of his abilities! Immediately afterwards, an even more terrifying thought came to him - why was the other party so sure that the person who came to investigate this matter must be himself?

Time did not stand still as Akon thought, and he saw the woman's hand embedded in his abdomen move out of his body, and blood gushed out like a.

The crispy numbness also turned into a sharp pain in an instant. The face that seemed to belong to two people was still staring at him, and half of it was crying bitterly and apologizing to him.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't know what's going on!"

"You're possessed." Akon's voice was unexpectedly calm, and he slowly placed the woman on the ground,

"There are dominant psionics in this world who can manipulate your body against your will." As he spoke, he covered his bleeding abdomen and slowly sat down on the ground.

"I ...... Will it die? ”

"No, it won't." Akong said,

"Hold on a little longer, and support will be there soon."

"I—I don't want to die." And at this moment, another voice burst out again, her voice with a sense of banter and mockery, like the sound of an explosion,

“boom！” The sound seemed to trigger a mechanism. The woman didn't attack Arkon again, but her eyes widened as he watched, crumbling and twisting into a ball.

The next moment, an explosion caused by pure psionic energy drowned out everything he saw.