novelden Chapter 75 Escape from Death
Chapter 75 Escape from Death
"Knife! Quick!" Tashan shouted as he turned around.
Xu Si gritted his teeth and activated the "Melting Wax Messenger".
He could sense that the frozen Sovereign of the Corruption was rapidly awakening, and the power emanating from its massive body was becoming increasingly terrifying, with cracks already appearing at the edges of its domain!
"Hurry up!" Fu Xiaojian's heart jumped into his throat as he looked at the hellish scene behind him.
Finally, thanks to Tashan's relentless and frantic efforts to clear the way, the front of the convoy broke through the crumbling edge and stepped back onto the relatively "solid" mud!
As Xu Si leaped off the strange body, a flash of bloodlust appeared in his eyes. With his last ounce of strength, he abruptly withdrew Bing Xin's power!
Boom!
Without the support of the domain, the frozen world behind them collapsed instantly!
Countless shattered ice blocks, mud, and twisted tentacle remnants mingled together, collapsing and tumbling inward like a landslide!
The Lord of the Corruption let out an even more ferocious mental roar, and more tentacles broke through the ice and attacked the convoy once again!
The wrath of the Lord of the Rot was like a tangible tsunami, carrying with it a storm of ice shards and filthy mud, as it furiously pounded down on the convoy that had just escaped danger!
Those countless tentacles that broke free from the ice were like giant spears reaching out from hell, determined to crush these "insects" that offended it and escaped from its mouth!
"Speed up! Speed up! Don't look back!" Fu Xiaojian roared into the walkie-talkie, the engine of the Mengshi vehicle roared to its limit, and the tires dug deep grooves in the mud.
The pickup truck carrying Su Su drifted wildly through the mud. She leaned half her body out of the window, her fists flying like thunder, smashing several of the closest tentacles in mid-air, splattering her with foul-smelling slime.
Xu Si slumped in the driver's seat of the "Melting Wax Messenger," his face deathly pale and veins bulging on his forehead.
That last blow almost drained all his energy, and now he finds it incredibly difficult to even maintain his "star orbit," with his vision blurring at the edges.
He could only rely on instinct to slam on the accelerator, forcing the vehicle to flee desperately, following the trajectory of the car in front.
[Warning! The mental pollution caused by the Lord of the Corruption is intensifying!]
A colder, more twisted force disregarded physical distance and drilled directly into everyone's mind.
Low murmurs and insane hallucinations began to emerge, attempting to erode their will.
"Ah—!" The survivors screamed in pain from inside the bus, and someone started banging their head against the window.
Xiao Luo clutched his head tightly in the passenger seat of the Warrior, his nose bleeding and his clothes stained red, but he stubbornly maintained that thin, precarious psionic barrier, which was the only thing he could do.
"Stay calm! Everyone stay calm!" Fu Xiaojian's voice trembled slightly. He bit his tongue hard, and the sharp pain instantly brought him back to his senses. He was holding the [Stone Statue Puppet] tightly in his hand, but it was now useless.
Just then, the dormant "Ice Heart" within Xu Si's body stirred again, and a cool aura circulated on its own, barely helping him resist some of the mental erosion.
He suddenly looked at the small bottle hanging in the rearview mirror containing several [Insect Midge] ice beads—these tiny parasites from the "Ice Sleeper" were now emitting extremely weak, yet completely different, high-level fluctuations from the filthy energy of the Lord of the Rotten Swamp!
Try anything, no matter how desperate!
A ruthless glint flashed in Xu Si's eyes. With his last ounce of strength, he hurled the bottle at the relentlessly pursuing Lord of the Corruption! At the same time, a wisp of starlight from his fingertip precisely struck the bottle!
"Snapped!"
The bottle shattered in mid-air, exposing the few frozen insect midge beads to the air, which instantly vaporized, turning into a wisp of almost invisible, faint cold air.
[Purify Level 0 Parasitic Monster - Midge, Purification Points +10]
[Purify Level 0 Parasitic Monster - Midge, Purification Points +10]
[Purify Level 0 Parasitic Monster - Midge, Purification Points +10]
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However, this insignificant wisp of cold air, when it came into contact with the vast and filthy energy field of the Lord of the Corruption Swamp, was like water droplets falling into boiling oil!
"hiss--!!!"
A mental roar, far sharper than any previous shriek and filled with indescribable fear and rage, suddenly exploded in everyone's minds!
The frantically pursuing tentacles suddenly paused, as if they had encountered a natural enemy, and actually retracted slightly!
The massive, writhing body of the Lord of the Corruption also stiffened noticeably, and the power of its domain became momentarily disordered!
This is the precious moment!
"Charge out!" Although Fu Xiaojian didn't understand why, he would never miss this fleeting opportunity.
Like an arrow released from a bow, the convoy took advantage of the moment when the Lord of the Corruption was startled and hesitated by that high-ranking aura, and finally broke out of the core area of its viscous domain!
The roar and howling behind them instantly subsided.
The ever-present feeling of being swallowed up and the mental pollution finally began to weaken.
The convoy dared not stop for a moment, pushing its speed to the limit as it raced desperately through the muddy swamp.
Until that terrifying, turbulent area was left far behind, until the suffocating sense of mental oppression completely disappeared.
……
After an unknown amount of time, the convoy finally came to a slow stop in a relatively dry hilly area with sparse and strange plants growing on it.
The engines shut down, and a deathly silence enveloped the convoy.
No one spoke, only the heavy, bellows-like breathing of the survivors and their suppressed, terrible sobs.
Xu Si slumped onto the steering wheel, not wanting to move a single finger.
Fu Xiaojian pushed open the car door, his legs went weak, and he almost knelt down. He held onto the car door, looking at the swamp behind him that was still shrouded in thick fog, his face pale and his eyes filled with fear.
Su Su silently wiped the dirt off her fists and face, her cool eyes looking at Xu Si's scarlet SUV with a hint of barely perceptible worry.
Jiao Jiao climbed out of the pickup truck, her face pale and her legs still weak. She stared towards the swamp and murmured, "We...we really escaped?"
Xiao Luo leaned weakly against the Warrior's chair, revealing a smile that looked more like a grimace, with two bloody streaks under his nose particularly noticeable: "It seems...yes."
Xu Si lay in the driver's seat, his whole body curled up inside.
He was so close, so very close, that 110,000 purification points would have been his downfall.
That gamble just now was definitely the right one.
The midges from the "Ice Sleepers" seem to possess a natural deterrent effect on eerie entities like the Lord of the Rotten Swamp.
This made him feel even more fearful and curious about that snowfield and that terrifying being called the "Ice Sleeper".
What a pity, I should have caught more back then.
After resting for a long time, Fu Xiaojian finally spoke, his voice hoarse and weak from exhaustion: "Count the number of people, check the vehicles and supplies...we..."
He didn't know what the team should do now.
His gaze swept over the disheveled convoy, over every terrified face, and a wave of helplessness washed over him.