The tentacles abruptly retracted. Elsa, no longer concerned about the heavy machine gun fire from the cliff, pushed Wang Xiaoxin and Andrea forcefully away. Curling into a ball, she burrowed underground.
Wang Xiaoxin used the opportunity to pull Andrea backward. Even though the "potion" hadn't been fully released, it was more than enough to deal with her.
However, Elsa, having burrowed underground, was only quiet for two seconds before emerging again. Her entire body had turned an abnormal red. Like a fish in a hot pan, she thrashed about uncontrollably. Pustules swelled and vanished, marking a critical moment in her evolution. She couldn't muster the strength to control the rampaging "power" within her.
"I... am I going to die? No, my children, come accompany me!!! Hahaha!!!"
Her tentacles expanded rapidly, pulling the retreating Wang Xiaoxin and Andrea back. Lin Yuan finished changing his magazine and was about to cycle the bolt when he witnessed this scene.
"Lao Wang!"
"Bang!!!"
His shout was met with a dull explosion, akin to a whale fall, and a scattering of flesh, tissues, bones, and various tentacles.
"Sizzle, bang bang bang bang bang."
This was followed by a crackling of electricity and a series of small explosions. Lin Yuan, however, didn't look. He simply shielded Wu Tian beneath him. After a moment, the bottom of the cliff finally fell silent.
"Meng Yue, I'll go down to check first and rescue them." The nearby rescue team members were still unconscious. There were several people below, who should also only be unconscious.
"Go ahead, I'll protect myself," Wu Tian said, handing a... Wang Xiaoxin understood this. Now, the only thing she could use was her own body. She still had a considerable amount of "potion" within her. One more "injection" could permanently deal with Elsa, but the current problem was how to get close.
Just then, Lin Yuan, who had retreated halfway, suddenly remembered something and shouted at Andrea, "I have one more bullet! Coat it with meteorite!"
Lin Yuan raised his hand, holding a bullet with the primer facing up.
"Huh?!" Elsa felt a twinge of panic. After all, she had personally witnessed her previous body being killed by such a bullet. If it happened again, she wasn't sure. "Catch the king first," she thought. This man was so foolish to openly reveal such crucial information. With this thought, her body rapidly lunged towards Lin Yuan.
Unfortunately, perhaps due to the fragmentation of consciousness, her intelligence had also diminished.
"Andrea, catch!" Seeing Elsa charging, Lin Yuan feigned panic and directly threw the loaded revolver to Andrea. It was "smoothly" intercepted by Elsa in mid-air.
"How laughable," Elsa said, playing with the revolver. But as soon as she saw the cylinder, she froze.
"How is that possible! There's no bullet head!!"
"You tricked me!" An enraged Elsa glared at Lin Yuan, as if she were about to devour him. Her peripheral vision, however, caught a flash of fire behind him.
The Magnum bullet, coated with meteorite core extract, accelerated by the long barrel of the M1891, shot out with an initial velocity of 1200m/s, blasting Elsa's head with a dazzling red glow and preventing regeneration in her skull.
This strike wouldn't kill her, but it gave Wang Xiaoxin an opportunity. Almost the instant Elsa's head exploded, Wang Xiaoxin's entire body wrapped around her, constricting Elsa. She quickly searched for her consciousness-hosting organ, tightening her grip, much like a python hunting its prey, coil by coil. Lin Yuan could even hear the sound of bones shattering.
"Hurry! It's going to explode!" The "potion" within her had reacted violently with the immortal tissues throughout her body. She could no longer break free and could only die along with Elsa.
"Quick, split off a tissue that can house consciousness!" In this critical moment, Lin Yuan suddenly recalled Andrea's description of the consciousness exchange process with Wang Xiaoxin. At that time, besides blood filaments, a mass of tissue containing Andrea's consciousness had entered Wang Xiaoxin's body!
Lin Yuan, who had wanted to see if Wang Xiaoxin had any further actions, was pulled behind by Andrea. Tentacles enveloped him, protecting him from flying sharp bone fragments or other strange tissues.
"Boom!" A similar muffled, thunderous explosion sounded. Flesh and blood splattered everywhere. It was over.