He truly resembles a ruthless demon lord now.
He was furious. Lu Shi was furious because Ye Bugui hadn't even consulted him before jumping down without hesitation. This was simply irresponsible!
Moreover, Ye Bugui only said half of what he wanted to say. The other half was telling Lu Shi that if he went offline, he should find another way out!
This guy is too reckless! Lu Shi frowned. If Ye Bugui really died like this, Lu Shi suspected that he would lose control of himself.
However, Lu Shi took a deep breath before taking out the game console.
For the first time, he found himself afraid to look at what was displayed on the game console. This kind of self-deception was something he had never done before.
Lu Shi suspected that there was something wrong with his brain.
He finally mustered his courage before opening his eyes.
Only Lu Shi himself knew how happy and excited he was when he saw that Ye Bugui hadn't logged off.
Of course, all these complex psychological changes were reflected on Lu Shi's face with only one expression.
Therefore, the audience was unaware of Lu Shi's significant inner turmoil and assumed that he didn't pay much attention to Ye Bugui's act of sacrificing himself to pave the way for him.
After confirming that Ye Bugui was safe, Lu Shi took a step forward without hesitation, and he immediately fell into the abyss.
When Lu Shi landed, he was all too familiar with everything around him.
He actually went back to that street.
On the street in front of the underground hospital, I also saw that trash can filled with countless dead/infants.
"You've finally arrived." Ye Bugui walked up behind Lu Shi, his tone quite relaxed: "Your Majesty the Demon Lord is so late, surely you weren't up there afraid to see me?"
Unfortunately, Ye Bugui's probing and teasing had no effect on Lu Shi. Even though he heard what Ye Bugui said, his face remained expressionless.
"Of course not, I was just thinking about what I'll see later."
"Alright." Ye Bugui's tone betrayed no hint of disappointment: "Did you anticipate we'd come here?"
Before Lu Shi could answer the question, a strange noise interrupted their conversation.
Lu Shi turned around, and he was certain that the sound was coming from the trash can across the street.
"There's something inside." Lu Shi's tone remained relatively calm.
Ye Bugui stood in front of Lu Shi without hesitation and said before Lu Shi could refuse, "Save your energy, we'll rely on you for the Boss battle."
Lu Shi thought about it and felt that Ye Bugui's words made sense, so he hid behind him with a clear conscience.
After all, in the cultivation world, when two sects are fighting, the sect leader is always the last to make a move.
However, Lu Shi also understood that if Ye Bugui were in danger, he would definitely not hesitate to take action.
The monster in the trash can clearly didn't understand or want to hear what the two were saying.
The moment the trash can exploded, a centipede-like monster composed of countless dead infants appeared in their sight.
Perhaps it was because the centipede monster was too ugly, or perhaps it was because each of its limbs was too disgusting, but even Lu Shi, who had seen many monsters, realized that his sanity had dropped.
It was as if even a single glance at the monster would shock him.
Standing in front, Ye Bugui was not only visually stimulated, but he also smelled a putrid stench that seeped into his bones.
It's like the taste of someone who put a piece of meat in a jar and exposed it to the sun for months until it turned into water before opening it.
In that instant, Ye Bugui covered his mouth and nose, watching helplessly as his sanity value dropped below 80.
And it was still dropping. Ye Bugui found that he could hear the painful cries and sobs of children in his ears, and his brain was buzzing like a radio had been inserted into it.
His breathing became rapid, as if his heart was about to burst out of his chest and fly away.
He was drenched in sweat, not because he was sweating excessively, but because his body was rapidly losing water.
Even his feet could no longer support his weight. Ye Bugui had seen monsters even uglier than this before, but none had ever had such an effect.
Unfortunately, his mind was in complete chaos, and he had no time to think about the reasons.
The disgusting centipede monster swayed its body with great pride, as if it were extremely satisfied with its appearance.
“Close your eyes,” Lu Shi said suddenly after seeing Ye Bugui’s unsteady steps. “I suspect this is the monster’s skill; anyone who sees it will be stimulated.”
Ye Bugui obeyed Lu Shi's words without question and immediately closed his eyes.
The moment he closed his eyes, Ye Bugui found that all the discomfort in his body had disappeared.
"You're right!" Ye Bugui was about to laugh when he remembered something: "Did you close your eyes?"
"I didn't. If we both close our eyes, aren't we just going to our deaths?" Lu Shi forced himself to stay alert and stared at the centipede monster, neither of them willing to back down.
"Then you..." Ye Bugui couldn't imagine how much pain Lu Shi was in right now.
Actually, for Lu Shi, it's really not bad.
It's just the sound of a baby crying in my ear, and my head feels like it's being stabbed with an awl.
For Lu Shi, these pains were nothing compared to everything he had ever experienced.
“I’m fine. I’m right behind you, right behind you. That way, if it attacks me, I can immediately tell you what to do.”
As Lu Shi spoke, he pressed himself against Ye Bugui's back.
At this point, even the fans of the main couple in the live stream stopped shipping them; they were too nervous to say a word.
Ye Bugui took a deep breath and calmed himself down.
"Okay!" he agreed.
Just as Lu Shi had predicted, when the centipede monster discovered that its mental attacks were ineffective against the thin man in front of it, it finally changed its attack method.
The centipede monster burrowed into the ground, then suddenly emerged from behind Lu Shi, attempting to ambush him.
If it were an ordinary person, they would definitely not have time to react and would have been killed by the centipede monster.
However, Lu Shi was no ordinary person. Not only could he withstand the centipede monster's mental attacks, but he could also spare the energy to observe his surroundings.
When he heard the noise behind him, he immediately turned around.
Ye Bugui perfectly coordinated with Lu Shi's actions, switching places with him. During this time, the two didn't even exchange a word.
“It’s right in front of you,” Lu Shi said softly.
The moment the centipede monster attacked, Ye Bugui swung his baseball bat to meet it.
Compared to the centipede monster's all-pervasive mental attacks, its physical attacks are obviously much weaker.
After being struck on the head by Ye Bugui, the centipede monster actually let out a painful cry.
"That's really impressive," Lu Shi praised.
Ye Bugui couldn't help but laugh, but he still said modestly, "It was alright, that's because you commanded well."
But the centipede monster wouldn't give them time to chat; it attacked from the side again.
Southeast direction.
Ye Bugui exclaimed "Ah!" and managed to figure out which direction was southeast before the centipede monster launched its sneak attack.
This time, however, his blow actually knocked the centipede monster's head off.
However, for the centipede monster, a new head immediately grew out.
However, Lu Shi knew very well that its strength had been weakened, because the mental attacks it had suffered had also subsided considerably.
But Ye Bugui was thinking about how to teach Lu Shi to use time to express direction when he got back, as it was much easier to figure out than east, west, south, and north.
Under Lu Shi's command, Ye Bugui fought with increasing ferocity, finally making the centipede monster realize that it couldn't win against two opponents at once, let alone cooperate with them.
“You know what,” Ye Bugui joked, “the two of us are like Ma Yao, and together we’re more than the sum of our parts.”
"Ma Yao?" Lu Shi learned a new term and found it extremely interesting.
After the centipede monster collapsed, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.
The dead infants that made up the centipede monster turned into smoke and were blown away by the wind.
The doors to the underground hospital opened for them in an instant.
"Let's go." Ye Bugui reopened his eyes, and the first thing he did was to examine Lu Shi. Thankfully, this man had no wounds. "We're about to face a new enemy."
"Hmm," Lu Shi said, looking even more energetic than when he first came in. "If they were here too, our journey would have been much easier."
“Yeah,” Ye Bugui joked, “We did all the dirty and hard work, so we’ll definitely have to make them pay us back when we get out!”
As the two stepped through the gate and entered the underground hospital, they were greeted by a smoky smell.
“Remember the corridor we saw when we woke up this morning? It was covered in burn marks.” Ye Bugui said softly, “It seems that this hospital suffered a major fire before it was turned into an apartment.”
No sooner had they finished speaking than they heard a group of people screaming from the stairwell.
Those are the sounds a person might make before they die; they are so tragic and so painful.
Just by listening to their voices, Lu Shi felt as if he were sharing their pain.
The first person to run out of the stairwell was a person engulfed in flames.
"Let go of me!" the woman shouted, but she couldn't move because a child had grabbed her leg.
A note from the author:
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
Chapter 49
☪ Good Family Apartment 24
"Mom, please don't leave me again!"
The strangely shaped child clung tightly to the woman's leg; it clearly looked...
"Mom, please don't leave me again!"
The strangely shaped child clung tightly to the woman's leg. Despite its small size, it was incredibly strong, making it impossible for the woman to shake off the child or take a single step.
And so, the woman who was about to rush out of the hospital was engulfed in flames and burned to death inside because of her "child".
The woman, charred black as charcoal by the fire, rose again, this time with a laughing child sitting on her head.