Chapter 7: The Trick That Stands in the Way

Undressing, transposition.

There was a cracking sound, and the Bรกb had left their place, only their tattered coats floating upward.

Under the impact of energy, the tricks and clothes exploded into pieces at the same time, pus, blood and rags mixed together, crackling and falling, and it seemed like a light rain fell around.

At the moment when the fluorite light passed, Babu had already seen the other party's appearance in time, it was still a sarcoma, but it was not the sarcoma before.

Unlike the previous sarcomas that were fixed to the surface of the building, these sarcomas are not only larger and fuller, but also have three or five tentacle-like limbs sticking out from the roots, just relatively thin.

Immediately, the sarcoma turned into something like a spider, crawling deftly along the walls and the ground, moving swiftly and frequently, spinning and jumping without any lag. When these monsters are just moving normally, the energy fluctuations are very small, it is difficult to detect the abnormality, and only when the final outbreak will the fangs be exposed, coupled with the limited vision in the dark, when the energy explosion is felt, the monsters are already close at hand, and it is difficult to have time to react, it is simply impossible to prevent it.

"Click, click, click", for a while, in the dark passage, the crawling sound of strange creatures was everywhere, just listening to the sound, it made people tremble and creepy.

"You ......" Monica's long whip was ready, ready to form a defensive circle to protect the two, she had already made plans before entering the passage, once Babu showed signs that she couldn't deal with it, she immediately helped to share, after all, she only wanted to test Babu's ability and not watch him die, but before Monica could ask, she found that Babu had already responded.

Vibrant, full of blood.

Suddenly, Babu didn't know what means he used, causing the circulation speed in his body to soar, and the breath of life almost came out of his body. For a moment, even Monica behind her could clearly perceive the breath of life emanating from Babu, and she felt that in this dark passage, Babu was like a lighthouse at this time, shining on a certain level.

The passage in the darkness seemed to stop for a moment, and then countless sounds of breaking the air sounded, and in all directions, countless unknown strange creatures shot towards the lighthouse-like breath of life like arrows, like moths to the flames.

However, at the moment when the monsters pounced, Babu was no longer there.

After leaving an extremely visible breath of life as an imprint, Babu's condition quickly returned to normal, and the person left the place as soon as possible. At this time, even if he and Monica only kept their normal state and did not cover up, under the comparison of the "lighthouse", they seemed to be invisible, and for a while, all the strange things rushed towards the remaining breath, and the impact sound was non-stop, making people's scalps tingle.

There was a sound of impact, and Babu and the few tricks encountered on the way to the wall on the left side came out, just mobilized by the bait, and there were very few sarcomas here, only a few flesh membranes, and they were still lying on the wall and squirming forward little by little.

Before the monsters could react to find another target, the Bรกb by the wall repeated his old trick, turning himself into a guiding light again, and then immediately left the spot and rushed diagonally forward. This time it was smoother than the first time, because of the angle problem, there was not even a trick encountered halfway, so smoothly arrived at the wall on the other side, as easy as a smooth road.

Can you still play like this?

This time, Monica was hungry for Babu's ideas, and she no longer had any doubts about Babu's innate sense of battle and endless flexibility.

Left flash, right flash, slow flash, fast flash.

Without Babu saying anything, Monica also understood, the two shrunk quite closely, one after the other, in the dark passage in a broken line, the monsters deceived by Babu always followed closely behind, instinctively chasing the residual breath of life, but never able to touch the two of them.

"Smack", the whip snake letter popped out, and another iron door at the end of the passage was drawn, and the flesh film lying on the door had been torn apart before the whip was wrapped, and the iron door was also slapped flat on the ground, splashing a large piece of dirty water.

Behind the door are several steps descending to the patio-like space, and on the other three sides are buildings at least a few stories high. Visibility was slightly better than the passage earlier, and in the gloomy environment, dilapidated furniture piled up all around, and the floor was littered with debris. As the iron door opened, a gust of wind blew, and the paper and rags flew with an indescribable desolation in the wind.

For some reason, there are no sarcomas and strange objects everywhere here, it is unusually calm, and the strange existence that was originally chasing behind did not continue to chase, but stopped at the edge of the dark passage, waving its tentacles from afar, as if to see the two off.

"That's not a good sign." After a little relief, Monica looked at the tricks that were gradually dissipating at the entrance, and glanced sideways at Babu again, "I didn't expect you to react so quickly and come up with such a way to trick the perception of tricks." โ€

Babu shrugged, this was just the application of the simplest tricks in the way of source energy, although the memory was gone, but these techniques were still left, and they were just applied by his makeover, but he didn't intend to explain, but asked casually: "These things have their own consciousness?" โ€

"Not really." Monica glanced at Babu suspiciously, as if wondering why he would ask such a question, but replied cooperatively, "It's just a strange thing formed by energy, and theoretically there is no consciousness, including self-awareness." โ€

"Then they ......"

"They don't chase in, it's really likely that there is a more powerful trick inside, but it's not because they're afraid." Monica explained, "One of the characteristics of the illusion is that if you are far enough, you will repel the same pole, and if you are too close, you will swallow and absorb, and the larger the individual, the stronger the devouring power. โ€

"No wonder they don't go inside anymore." Babu looked around, pretending to inadvertently point to the building inside, and asked, "But ...... What exactly are these? House? โ€

"Well, there are a lot of similar houses on the edge, I don't know what kind of material, but they can be built so high without collapsing. No one knows where these houses came about. Monica was obviously used to it, and after a few casual answers, she asked, "How are you recovering?" Relieved? โ€

"Almost." Babu moved his limbs, feeling that the energy in his body was slowly recovering, and exhaled, "The consumption is a bit large. โ€

"Although the method along the way is effective, it is a bit too extravagant, and it is not easy to hold on to it until now. After all, you are still just a novice in source energy, and a lot of things still need to be accumulated and mastered slowly, this time. Monica thought for a moment and began to untie her belt, "This belt can slightly speed up the wearer's absorption of free source energy, you ...... first"

"Stop, I'm not so bad that I don't need it first, you're more useful than me." Babu made a pause gesture, "And I'm afraid you'll charge me rent again, I don't even have anything to eat, where will I get the money to pay the rent." โ€

"You...... I know you're embarrassed, but you can't talk well, right? Monica shook her fist, but didn't hold on.

"Hey, hey." Babu snickered and walked down the stairs into the patio first, and Monica followed in silence, and for a moment the atmosphere became a little strange.

"Actually, it's not all embarrassing, what I said is true, and it's not to the point of embarrassment." Babu pointed to the various miscellaneous items scattered around, "Otherwise, if you look through these things, you might find a usable thing or two to put on." โ€

"It's just ordinary garbage, at most bring back a little bit of basic materials such as metal for daily use, and edge equipment is not that simple." The atmosphere quickly returned to normal, and Monica shook her whip and rolled up a few pieces of broken furniture, "Edge equipment can only be formed by long-term attachment to phantom energy or phantom artifacts, not only the item must be strong enough, but also the level of trickery energy attached to it must be high enough. โ€

"Like that thing?"

"Well, like that thing."

The two of them had stopped in their footsteps, for in the direction they were heading, there was a popping and wriggling sound, and something crawled out of the dim space inside the building.

It's hard to describe what it is, the bottom is an object the size of an adult pig, with dozens of arthropod-like flesh buds sticking out from the lower part, allowing it to advance and retreat freely, and the upper part also stretches out more than a dozen tentacles, with a keratinized sharp skin at the top of the tentacles, constantly writhing and waving in the air, covering a radius of five or six meters around. As the tentacles danced, the sound of whizzing through the air was endless, and the occasional touch of the tentacles against the wall, even if it was just a slight rubbing, would leave deep marks on the wall.

Different from those strange things outside, the strange things that crawled towards them not only increased in size hundreds of times, but also no longer stood motionless and only reacted to the approaching breath of life, this one had begun to take the initiative to seek the enemy, and it could be clearly seen that it waved its tentacles and crawled straight in the direction of the two of them.

It's not a good thing at first glance, the two looked at each other, Monica nodded, and followed the two to open the breath of life shielding one after another.

The control source can block the external divergence of the breath of life, which is somewhat similar to holding your breath, but it is far more complicated than holding your breath. And there is a limit to the hidden vitality, and it can't be supported at all after a long time, Babu estimates that with his own level, five minutes is already the limit, and if he wants to force it, he will probably have to say goodbye to this world.

As soon as the breath was cut off, the monster immediately reacted, and it no longer crawled in a straight line, but as if it had lost its target, it seemed to be spinning in place, and even the space covered by the tentacles was reduced a lot.

Babu stared at the trajectory and posture of the monster for more than ten seconds, and then the hand holding the dagger tightened, and then leaned down and walked forward silently. Smack, as soon as he took half a step, his other hand was grabbed, not a wrist, but a palm, and as soon as he turned around, he saw Monica shaking her head at herself with a serious expression.

The two of them slowly retreated to the patio behind them, trying to stay away from the special tricks, and tentatively let go of the vitality shield, seeing that the monsters did not chase after them, the shielding was temporarily canceled, but they still tried to suppress the divergence of the breath of life to the minimum, and even the sound was lowered a lot.

"Must go in?"

"Well, my sensing target is inside this building, and it's down there, in the basement." One stared at the dark entrance, the other around the patio, and without looking back, Babu replied, "Have you been here before, and are there any other entrances?" โ€

"I haven't been in, and the environment on the edge changes every once in a while, and it's almost impossible to encounter the same environment." Monica's answer made Babu have some questions, but he didn't ask, and let Monica continue, "This is a new environment, when I came the day before yesterday, I found that a node was born here, but at that time, it was prepared according to the scavenging, so I didn't go deeper, in fact, it was useless to go deeper, and it was difficult for me to find the exact place." โ€

"If the environment changes, won't the nodes disappear with it?" Bรกb asked.

"That's impossible, the node grows on this side of the world, of course, it also moves with the world, no matter how the environment at the edge changes, the absolute position of the node remains the same, at most it is only fine-tuned."

"Then there is no way, if you want to enter the basement, this is the only known entrance, you can only enter from here." Babu shrugged, "Why, this thing standing in the way is so troublesome?" โ€

"It's hard to say, let's go in and take a look with bated breath, I hope my guess is wrong." After hesitating for a moment, she suddenly turned her head and said in a very casual tone, "If you really can't stand it, don't hold it hard, if you can't do it, you can rush out together, we can't do it, and we are sure to rush out if you want to." Safety comes first, it's a big deal to go back to the present world and think of a way slowly, and I'm not in a hurry for this day or two. โ€

"What you said before you came just now was not so leisurely, I understand this concern, thank you. However, I know you're embarrassed, but you don't have to look away to say this kind of thing. โ€

As soon as the words came out, Babu didn't wait for Monica to react, immediately turned around and left, leaving Monica behind him, and rushed back to the entrance steps of the target building in a few steps.

"Tsk, you dare to retaliate against you......" There was a low muttering voice behind him.