Jiu Tun Tong Zi stared directly at Mo Chuan's slowly closing eyes, his gaze dazed, as if resisting something.
But Jiu Tun Tong Zi clearly lost in the end. After failing to break free from Mo Chuan's embrace, she actually opened her mouth and bit where she had bitten Mo Chuan before.
Although she didn't break the skin, Jiu Tun Tong Zi didn't give up and continued to gnaw forcefully at Mo Chuan.
Loss of consciousness, depletion of strength, and the onset of pain, in an instant, a sword-shaped golden curse mark lit up on Mo Chuan's cheek, flickering slightly.
At the same time, Mo Fei in the hotel suddenly woke up from her sleep. She seemed to have sensed something, quickly put on some clothes, and immediately went out.
In the hall, the vines entwined around Mo Chuan and Jiu Tun Tong Zi suddenly lost their spiritual power and untangled themselves.
Jiu Tun Tong Zi and Mo Chuan, who were embracing each other, rolled on the ground a few times and finally crashed into a wall, coming to a stop.
Jiu Tun Tong Zi's pupils also returned to their original purple color, but because Jiu Tun Tong Zi's soul was fragile after rebirth, this kind of mental ability was simply a dimensional strike, so she immediately fainted.
Zhang Henshui watched Xu Dan and Gao Jianjun, who had stopped using their abilities and were now twisting strangely, their sanity almost at zero. But he forced himself to calm down, picked up Mo Chuan's lantern, and quickly moved over to check on Mo Chuan and the other two.
Xu Dan and Gao Jianjun simultaneously released their control over spiritual power, and then, as if they had some skin disease on their faces, began to scratch their faces frantically. In the end, the former even gouged out his own eyes, while the latter bit off his tongue.
Scratching sounds also echoed from the shadows not far away. Soon, Han Qiang, with a face full of blood and ears that seemed to have been torn off, emerged, leaving only two bloody holes.
The three "people" walked together, then cupped their eyes/tongues/ears and held them up, as if offering them to something.
A bizarre thing happened: the "offerings" actually disappeared.
But the matter was far from over. As if they had received "divine blessings," countless tiny plant roots began to drill out from the pores, blood vessels, and organs of their bodies, and gradually began to cover them, becoming three root balls.
Soon, the three root balls slowly merged again, gradually transforming into a monster... a god statue in the form of a tree, with its hands empty.
The god statue was not small, its head was basically level with the ceiling of the second floor. The faceless face slowly twisted, as if searching for Mo Chuan and the other three.
But Zhang Henshui, seeing that the situation was not good, had already moved the three of them to a storage room.
Looking at Mo Chuan and Abe Haruko, who could barely maintain their spiritual power circulation, he sighed in his heart—was he going to die here today...
He himself had a way to transfer away, but how could he abandon these two?
Zhang Henshui knew well that if he were greedy for life and afraid of death at this moment, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
Stall for time! He would bet on Mo Chuan waking up!
Mo Chuan, you must wake up!
With this thought, Zhang Henshui tore off his police badge and serial number from his police uniform, wrapped them in a blanket he found, and stuffed them into Mo Chuan's arms.
"Butterfly Dance."
Holding the Dream Weaving Shuttle, Zhang Henshui's body flashed with purple light, slowly transforming into several faintly glowing butterflies that flew out of the storage room.
On the first floor hall.
As the god statue searched everywhere, the lotus pedestal surrounded by skulls at its base began to dig up the marble tiles on the ground like a large tree, and its roots penetrated the ground.
At this moment, a cluster of glowing butterflies flew past its eyes, then circled its head and flew towards the back door.
As expected, the god statue was attracted by the butterflies and slowly turned around, extending its six arms to grab them.
The butterflies dodged the god statue's attempts to block them as they flashed and moved, but the god statue had six hands. These six branch-entwined arms gradually closed in like a net, step by step blocking the butterflies' retreat.
With one careless moment, a few butterflies were caught in its palms, and the god statue immediately squeezed them with force.
"Illusion Shatter!"
As one of Zhang Henshui's few offensive skills, the damage was not high. The captured butterflies merely caused a small spiritual power explosion in the god statue's palm, and then turned into specks of fluorescence, disappearing into the air.
The god statue's palm was also slightly mangled, but a few green lights flashed from the gaps between the branches on its body, from its feet to its palms, and it healed itself as if a living person's wounds were healing.
This monster was likely able to absorb the essence from wood and soil to repair its injuries and expand its size.
Seeing that the effect was minimal, the remaining butterflies paused slightly, but then continued to fly desperately towards the back door.
First, lure it to the development zone behind Shengjing Avenue! There are fewer people there! And there are no forests, which can prevent the god statue from absorbing nutrients from them.
However, after Zhang Henshui flew desperately to the back door, he immediately used [Illusion Shatter] to blow open the back door.
But the scene that followed made Zhang Henshui lose hope in an instant.
It turned out that the tree roots the god statue had dug into the ground not only penetrated underground to absorb nutrients, but also, upon discovering that they could not go deeper (the sewer system), directly broke through the ground from the outside, enveloping the entire Marshal's Bath City.
"This is bad..."
"Rumble!!!"
Outside Marshal's Bath City.
After receiving Zhang Henshui's call, the police immediately felt that something was wrong and quickly checked the other party's last reported work report to find out where they might be.
But by the time the police approached the area, it was already too late.
Outside Marshal's Bath City, branches intertwined and twisted into a giant "egg," and dense tree roots were distributed on the "egg shell," twisting and entangling like blood vessels.
The highest-ranking offensive ability users in the police force had exerted all their efforts, but they still could not break through the "egg shell's" defenses.
Looking at the "egg shell" that was slowly repairing itself, the leading police chief felt immense pressure.
"How is it? Have the surrounding civilians been evacuated?"
"They have been evacuated, the reason given is an A-class spiritual disaster."
"What about the military?"
"They are rushing to arrive. Major General Yang Xiaodong and Brigadier General Zhao Qingfeng are personally leading the army."
"Good..." The police chief breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "Send people to figure out what kind of monster this is, and try to find out if there are any living people inside! Cooperate with the firefighters to try to enter from the sewer!"
"Yes!"
"Wait a minute."
The two were startled and turned to look behind them. They saw a tall old man with white hair and a white beard, like a lion, standing behind them with his arms crossed and a frown. Behind him followed a young man wearing an orange hoodie and a girl wearing a hood.
"Have your people step aside."
The police were about to say something when the old man raised his arm, and thunder boomed in the sky.
"Heaven's Punishment!"