Chapter 33: Fight to the Death (It's not easy to dismantle, the two chapters are one, one update today)
"Poof", before the shadow hand descended, the four of them had jumped away from the place lightly, the shadow hand slapped on the ground, and then turned into a cloud of mist and shrank back.
In the depths of the cavern, there seemed to be a whispering voice. The sound is not big or small, just on the boundary between what can be heard and what cannot be heard, it is always continuous, and the content cannot be heard clearly, but the cold sound is heard in the ears, like someone blowing a cold air with frost in the ears, every syllable is weird and grotesque, making people almost crazy when they listen to it.
The shadow hand was like an invitation, and after it was retracted, there was no movement, and in the depths of the dark cavern, accompanied by the grotesque whispers of those maggots attached to the bones, there was only a faint blood-colored mist, which filled the mouth of the cave, like a veil of mystery for the cave.
As soon as I approached the entrance of the cave, I could feel a palpitation, no purpose, no reason, just simple fear, just the deep fear that instinctively bursts out from the depths of the soul when human beings face the deepest darkness and the strangest unknown.
"Here...... What is it? Linda pressed her chest, trying to control her rapid breathing, "I haven't felt so much pressure at the edges, is this an alien from the Phantom World?" That's how you usually fight against such horrible things? Can we really destroy it? โ
"Horror? No, it's probably just part of it. Remembering Anna's previous answer, she was scared both at the edge and at the end, and Babu said thoughtfully, "Probably most of its body is still on the edge, only a part of it has come in." As for destroying it, it's really hard for us, but we don't need to destroy it now, just drive it away, and we should be able to save your Tanuki Town. โ
"Okay, what are we going to do?" Linda didn't question it at all, and asked directly.
"Cut off the connection between his inside and outside, cut off its hand into the present world, and the present world will naturally be able to get rid of it, as we did in our last crusade." Babu recalls what Thortown did in the first place, "It's up to me and Anna to cut it off, we have a way to do it, so it's said that only aliens can crusade against aliens." โ
"Understood." Algan also nodded, "Then how do we cooperate?" โ
"Cooperation? Keep at it, the longer the better, until ...... We find opportunities. โ
Babu sighed, and without further explanation, resisted the trembling of fear, and approached the entrance of the cave with his torch aloft.
Thanks to the predecessors of Tanuki Town, there were braziers on both sides of the entrance to the deepest cave, and the grease in the basins was still half full, Babu looked back at the others, took a few deep breaths, and only then did he grit his teeth and light the braziers on both sides.
Whew, the flames rose into the sky, illuminating the dark cave, and also allowing the four of them to see the existence in the depths of the cave.
It was a huge underground cavern, at least tens of thousands of square meters, and except for a small area at the mouth of the cave, there was an underground lake inside, at least in the past.
As for now, the lake seems to be a little strange.
If you look closely, it is no longer a lake at all, but a gelatinous black fluid, which occupies the entire underground lake, and from time to time there is no wind and waves spontaneously. Countless tentacles grow on the "water surface", looking like a big tree growing from underwater, every time the fluid shakes, these tentacles will shake with it, like the feeling of the wind blowing the treetops, and the large cloud of black gas that drifts around with the shaking of the tentacles is like pollen scattered by plants, floating away from the tentacles, and then quickly dissipating into the air.
The thing is, lakes and trees don't give people fear, but this thing does.
The fluid is filled with evil and destructive energy, and every time it expands, it radiates these evil and weird energies outward, and every catharsis of energy will make the four people around them feel a huge threat.
I saw it clearly, but a few people would rather they didn't see it clearly.
The disgusting fluid surface, the dense squirming tentacles, the evil and violent energy, the lingering whispers in the ear, all of these things make people feel sick and frightened, and they can't help but want to vomit, and they can't help but want to scream in horror.
Not to mention an eye, a huge eye.
The eyes that occupied half of the 'water' suddenly opened, and all that could be seen in the eyes was coldness and cruelty, and the eyeballs rolled for a while, and finally stopped at the four people at the door.
"Ah~" The moment he saw the monster clearly, there seemed to be a string called reason in Algan's brain that had been broken. Fear turned into anger at the extreme, and no one noticed that his face was crawling with anger at some point, and he suddenly let out a roar of rage and rushed towards the monster.
The other three were in a similar situation.
Everyone stared blankly at the huge monster in front of them, each of them was controlled by the horror in their hearts, unable to speak, unable to move, could only stare directly at the monster, the more direct they looked, the more fearful they were, and the more frightened they were, the more they could only stare blankly, everyone fell into a vicious circle, they could only stand in place, let the fear spread in their hearts little by little, and gradually control all their minds.
At this time, Algan's roar pulled the other three back from the vicious circle of terror, and instead saved everyone, but as if he had lost his mind, he himself shouted to get out of our house, and while holding up the two-handed sword, he rushed in at the monster, and even threw the torch on the ground and did not bother to take it.
Linda exclaimed in surprise and reached out to pull Algan who rushed past her, but Algan, who had always been polite to her, waved his hand vigorously to shake off Linda's pull as if he had suddenly gone berserk. This action had no control at all, and with a swing, not only did she shake off Linda, but even flew her straight out, and her back hit the rock wall hard before slowly slipping down, making her involuntarily cough violently.
Algan didn't even look at his wife and sister, his eyes were only the monster in the depths of the cave, and he continued to roar and rush forward frantically, but he had just taken a few steps out when he suddenly stumbled under his feet and fell to the ground defenselessly.
Because he stepped on a whip, Monica's whip. Monica tripped him with a whip, then grabbed him by the ankle and picked him up and threw him back out of the hole. I don't know if it was because he fell too hard or because his anger consumed too much energy just now, Algan, who was roaring and about to rush directly into the water just now, fainted directly after being fallen.
A low, strange chant suddenly sounded from the back, and when Babu turned around, he saw Linda standing in the back, her hands clasped in front of her, her fingers twisting and intertwined, forming all sorts of strange gestures, and chanting incomprehensible prayers.
As she chanted, the red mist on her body became thicker and thicker, and there seemed to be many invisible tentacles waving behind her, giving people a more and more strange feeling. Monica and Babu exchanged glances, and with their experience working with the illusion mage Suni in Thor, the two of them invariably protected Linda's side.
As soon as she approached Linda's side, Babu suddenly felt like a man on her back.
He didn't even use his eyes to see what was happening, and with a knee-jerk reaction, he crossed his hands with daggers and tried his best to meet them.
"Dang" was like a metal collision, and even sparks flew into Babu's face, and the huge impact made Babu's legs weak, kneeling on one knee, and his knees hit a burst of pain, and the dagger raised above his head to parry just held a thick and powerful arm, and several sharp claws on the arm were almost poking his face, one of which even cut off one of his floating hair.
It was a strange humanoid monster that had been dealt with several times before, its huge body was not covered by epidermis, and its blood-red muscles were exposed to the air, and the disgusting smell of blood came from the surface. It was the smell of blood just now that Babu spotted the two monsters lurking around the corner. But this time, the monster crawled out of the fluid alien body of the underground lake, as if it had just been born from its body, and as soon as it crawled out, it took the initiative to pounce, and the speed was far faster than the taste.
With all his body energy infused into his arms, Babu pushed his hands violently, pushing the monster's huge body backwards, followed by a flying kick, and forced the monster bigger than himself to fly out, planting it back into the fluid monster in the cave.
Kicking the monster away, Babu didn't chase it, but stuck the dagger at his side. Monica, who was on her side, shook the long whip with one hand, tied the legs of a monster and flipped it over, and threw it back into the hole the same way, and at the same time picked up her right leg, and the long leg was like a big axe in the air, intercepting a monster that pounced in the air, stepping on her head and slamming it on the ground, and her heel was crushed a few times.
Just then, Babu's dagger arrived.
Throwing the monster's corpse aside like garbage, he exchanged hands with Monica beside him, and then each of them held up the two monsters that crawled out again.
"Ahh
A pillar of pure black fire erupted from between Linda's hands with a scorching heat, and swept along the opening of the cave towards the gelatinous surface of the 'lake'. It was clear that there was still some distance from this flame-like flame, but both Monica and Babu felt a noticeable burning sensation, and even the ends of one side of their hair curled.
The pillar of fire slammed straight into the lake, and then the ground shook.
Those tentacles like trees on the surface of the lake, intertwined into a net on the surface of the lake, netting the black pillar of fire in it, the flames with explosive impact, as soon as they touched, the tentacles that exploded the tentacles of the tentacle net were broken and scattered in all directions, but no matter how many were broken, more tentacles would grow again, and the cave was obviously roaring and shaking, but the gel monster seemed to have not suffered any damage at all, but there were several giant hands formed by shadows larger than people, and they grabbed the three people at the entrance of the cave.
Before the giant hand fell, a sword light flashed.
Algan finally woke up.
Fear was still entrenched in his heart, but at least he had regained his senses, and after opening his eyes and looking around, Algan drew his sword and stood up, facing the position of the wrists of the roots of several giant hands that had been photographed, and it was a big whirlwind of two-handed swords.
With the burst of source energy, the two-handed sword was like a hot knife cutting into the butter, easily cutting off the arm composed of shadows, and the more solid shadow hands lost their support and disappeared in an instant. Soon, however, more hands came out of the cave, teeth and claws, and demons danced wildly, as if they were going to pinch the four of them to death.
"Let's taste the human drink."
As he shouted, the Bรกb pulled out a ten-kilogram leather bag, which was undoubtedly full of high-strength spirits. The bag was cut several times, and the leather bag was not cut, but there was only a thread connected, and a little force would crack a few large openings. Babu stuffed a handful of sugar into the bag, then tightened the strip of cloth and cotton to the mouth of the bottle, lit it with a torch, and took advantage of the opportunity for Argan to cut off a few ghost hands and leaned into the cavern, tossing the bag at the giant colloidal alien.
Babu was so hard that he even used the source energy to amplify his strength, and the bag flew far away. It was just a leather bag, and it didn't make the alien feel threatened, so he didn't pay attention to it at all, and let the leather bag directly hit the root of the tentacles that were intertwined into the web and were intercepting Linda's black pillar of fire.
Under the effect of the impact, the already fragile leather bag finally burst open, and with a bang, the flames rose into the sky. It was not a black flame formed by magic, but a real flame, the flame exploded as the leather bag shattered, and with the power of alcohol and sugar, the flame firmly attached to the roots of the large tentacles and burned vigorously, looking very powerful and amazing.
But it's just that it looks amazing.
Ordinary flames didn't seem to do much harm to this alien, and even with the addition of alcohol and sugar, it only scorched the skin of the tentacles, causing them to twitch painfully for a while, and could not form a real threat.
But this time is different, at this time, this strange tentacle is confronting Linda's black pillar of fire.
When the roots were burned, the tentacles' conditioned reflexes twisted and twitched, and the tentacle net that intercepted the black fire pillar also collapsed, and the black fire pillar bombarded the surface of the alien gelatinization.
This was the first time that the alien body was impacted, and its jelly-like body began to churn violently, like a turbulent wave on the surface of the 'water', and as it churned, a large number of strange monsters crawled out of its body, but it was rolled up by tentacles and swallowed back into its gelatinous body.
"Boom boom", the black pillar of fire continued to bombard, non-stop, and the tentacles and shadows of the alien body surface were broken in large swaths, until the red mist wrapped around Linda's body became thicker and thicker, and she reluctantly stopped the bombing.
As soon as she put down her hand, Monica had already stuffed a silver bottle into her mouth, and although she looked reluctant, she still poured it down. Linda was also polite and gulped down the potion.
As if in retaliation for the attack he had just received, for a while, a large number of shadow-forming ghost hands poked out of the cave, repeatedly impacting the group in front of the cave entrance from all directions. Algan, Babu and Monica desperately supported each other, barely withstanding the attacks of a large number of ghost hands and protecting Linda, who was relatively fragile behind.
However, the ghost hand was only the beginning, the huge eyes on the surface of the alien body had been closed, but at this time they opened again, and the terrifying eyes swirled, and finally your pupils turned to the entrance of the cave, and your eyes fell on the group of five people standing in the doorway.
Time seems to have frozen.
Through the cold pupils, the endless malice and terrifying pressure were used wildly on the five people, and the other four even forgot to breathe, staring blankly at the huge eyeballs, and even Anna was trembling violently, burying her face deep in Babu's arms and trembling.
However, although Babu's body trembled, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and everyone else instinctively stared at the eyeballs and fell into endless fear, but for some reason, he was in a much better state than the others, although he was also afraid, but not so frightened that he fell into a daze, at least his vision could avoid the huge eyeballs and patrol the surface of the alien body.
So he saw what he was looking for, and when he saw each other in his dream, where the foamy point of light was.
From the beginning, Babu would roam the area every few moments, until the opponent's eyeballs were reexposed and the attacks became more frequent, and he finally found his target.
The two spaces entangled in front of me, one representing the normal present world, and the other representing the strange and unpredictable world filled with red mist, the two spaces are entangled and twisted, and they are in a state of constant motion. At their intersection, only one point remained calm, motionless throughout, and the Bรกb spotted it again, and it happened to be where he had speculated.
This confirms many of his conjectures, the two spaces he saw before and now do not only mean edge oscillation, and this point does not only represent the intersection of the two worlds when the edge oscillates, it must have a deeper meaning, but he has not yet discovered it.
The cold gaze of the eyeballs swept over everyone, and the time spent on Babu and Anna was significantly longer than the others, and before they could take their eyes away, the gelatinous bodies of the alien species had changed.
All the liquid began to flow in the same direction, faster and faster, and soon a huge vortex was formed. The whirlpool carried a terrifying suction, and as the vortex expanded, everything around it was sucked into its body.
First of all, the monsters closest to it, the monsters that were originally split from its body, were devoured first, and they disappeared into the whirlpool in an instant and could not find a trace.
Then came the group at the mouth of the cave.
This time, Monica and Babu felt more attraction than the suction they felt when they found the handbag, they felt as if their bodies were about to be crushed, and the group had no ability to resist, spinning in the air, getting closer and closer to the center of the whirlpool.
Algan and Linda struggled, almost in despair, but Monica did not struggle, but followed the power of the vortex without resistance, trying to save every ounce of strength, and even closed her eyes.
"Monica, help me."
Babu suddenly reluctantly moved his arm, pointing in one direction.
Monica opened her eyes suddenly, and the power that had been accumulated in her body for a long time exploded instantly, and with maximum strength, she kicked Babu's thigh.
Under the force of the huge impact, Babu broke free from the suction of the whirlpool and flew in the direction he was pointing, while Monica fell into the whirlpool at a faster speed, and was swallowed by the whirlpool in an instant, until her head was swallowed, and her eyes were still looking at Babu without blinking.
Babu didn't look at Monica, who was engulfed, he only had the dot in his eyes, the dot that remained still between the present and the edge, and nothing else.
The spot was not far from him on the xenomorph's surface, and he was flying towards it.
More than half of his body has been sucked into the whirlpool, and the jelly-like liquid has not reached his chest, and the jelly has a very viscous touch, and the surface tension is very great, and when it touches the surface of the bab, it feels like a flying insect stuck in a spider's web, and it can't break free by its own strength at all.
But with Monica's kick, inertia against the suction of the whirlpool, Babu was still moving towards the target, but his body was swallowed more and more, and in the end, only his head and right shoulder were still exposed, and his arms were raised in the air.
But his head was half swallowed up immediately, and even his nose was gone, and only his two eyes were still exposed, watching his arms approach the target little by little, little by little.
Getting closer, getting closer.