“Hiss!”
A heart-rending scream echoed throughout the abbey.
However, it wasn't Wu Tian who made the sound, but the monster attacking her.
As the two limbs from above descended, Wu Tian had already drawn the Western-style short sword from her waist and met the attack.
When the dark, purplish short sword slashed at the two massive limbs that gleamed with metallic luster, it cut through them as if they were hot butter, encountering no resistance.
Leaping backward out of the abbey, only the monster inside was left howling.
“How do you have something like this?” Perhaps the intense pain had cleared the monster’s head, and its speech was no longer as erratic as before.
In the darkness, the monster’s form gradually became visible. It had pursued Wu Tian to the open ground outside the abbey.
With no dust to obstruct her vision, Wu Tian could now clearly see the monster’s true appearance.
“The Head Maid?”
The monster before her was quite similar to the spider spirits in ancient Chinese lore, with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a spider.
However, its upper body was as terrifying as its lower half. Besides the few heads that showed a hint of a human likeness, all other parts were just pitted, rotting flesh riddled with holes.
That’s right, it was indeed “few” heads. In addition to the Head Maid she was familiar with, there were at least four other heads on its body, all male, staring blankly ahead.
“Yes, yes, I am the Head Maid, and they are all my humble servants! Oh no, no, they are also my lovers. Look at their expressions, they must love me! Hehehe.”
The Head Maid stroked these heads growing on her body as she spoke.
The scene was as bizarre as it could possibly be.
“I’m not in the mood to listen to your sob story.”
Wu Tian had guessed part of the reason, but she felt no goodwill, only deep hatred, towards the one who had caused her separation from Lin Junhui.
With that, Wu Tian entered full combat mode, her revolver continuously unleashing bullets at the Head Maid.
The Head Maid’s combat power had significantly decreased compared to when they were in the Tianfu safe zone. The reason was unknown, but this was undoubtedly a good thing for Wu Tian.
Striking the enemy while they are down, the specially made bullets still inflicted great damage on the Head Maid’s head.
Although it grew back after being blown apart, it didn’t disappear without a trace like the cultists encountered near the cafeteria.
However, while it was regrowing its head, Wu Tian had already closed in.
The new six shots hit its other heads, and her short sword swung towards its newly grown head.
The limbs it had been hit by earlier had not yet regrown, and the head it had just been hit by would certainly not grow back!
“Slish,” the short sword smoothly sliced through the Head Maid’s neck.
The disheveled head rolled onto the ground, making no further sound.
The headless body also swayed and collapsed.
Wu Tian cast a cold glance at the head on the ground, her face still filled with madness and malice.
“What a shame you died like this.”
Reloading her bullets, Wu Tian prepared to leave without looking back.
She hadn’t taken more than a few steps when she heard a rustling sound from behind.
“What?”
“Thwack! Snap!”
She turned around, but before she could even see what was happening.
A searing pain shot through her left shoulder.
A slender, probing limb pierced into the窝 of Wu Tian’s collarbone and emerged from her shoulder blade.
The shattering of bone and the searing pain of marrow being scraped made Wu Tian’s temples throb. She quickly used her gun to push against the limb and blast it apart.
The headless corpse that had just fallen was still twitching not far away; the attack had come from it.
Only these two probing limbs near its mouth could extend to a sufficient distance.
Its four heads at the front of its body were already clustered together, and the heads on its back that Wu Tian hadn’t seen earlier were slowly moving forward.
Suddenly, all the eyes of these heads turned to Wu Tian, and they spoke in unison:
“You will die here!”
The intense pain prevented Wu Tian from hearing what they said. Her right hand grabbed the limb that had pierced through her body, and after pulling a few times, she managed to wrench it out.
However, numerous tiny hairs remained lodged inside the wound. Pulling out the limb didn't alleviate the pain; instead, it pushed these needle-like hairs deeper.
“Hiss, puff.”
Wu Tian could only gasp for air to relieve the pain in her left shoulder, quickly searching her backpack for a healing spray.
This was a healing agent made by Andrea, who had conveniently pocketed it when escaping from hsAC.
Its effect was better than the original, with the only drawback being the risk of parasitic infection.
But at this moment, Wu Tian couldn't afford to be so picky. She grabbed the spray can and pressed it against the wound.
What came out wasn't a misty healing agent but a gel-like substance.
In less than two seconds, the healing gel filled the wound.
The effect was immediate, and the pain was greatly reduced. However, it still hurt when she moved.
Fortunately, it didn’t significantly impede her movement. She could endure it. The monster in front of her was about to complete its mutation.
At that point, she might be facing the fully evolved Head Maid.
Time was of the essence. Wu Tian first unloaded her bullets and replaced them with “super bullets” soaked in the extract from the meteorite core.
She fired three rapid shots at the continuously wriggling monster.
The first bullet had already obliterated the monster’s upper half, and the remaining two shots were aimed at its middle and lower body.
After three gunshots, only a pile of rotten flesh remained on the ground.
Wu Tian hadn’t expected the power of these bullets to be so great. Her mouth hung open, unable to recover for a long time.
“Was I too wasteful?”
The pile of rotten flesh on the ground could not answer her question.
“Forget it, as long as I’m alive.”
Wu Tian took out bandages from her backpack and wrapped her wound to prevent infection.
She hadn’t found Horus in the abbey, so she couldn’t exchange something with him.
Although Andrea had explicitly stated that only the items from the mine were needed, having an extra item was always an extra layer of security.
If the subsequent battles were all like this, using three bullets at once, and she only had fifteen in total, who knew if she could hold out until she rescued Lin Junhui.
“I need to be more economical with them from now on. I should at least keep ten bullets.”
Beyond the abbey was the Scenic Lake. Wu Tian’s route almost overlapped with Lin Yuan’s, and naturally, she came across traces of Lin Yuan’s battles.
“Is that an explosion?”
As she stepped on the charred vines on the ground, Wu Tian’s anxiety grew. This person was much faster than she had anticipated, and he hadn’t died on the way. He might have already gone up the mountain!
She hoped his target wasn’t Lin Junhui!
With a silent prayer, she walked through the completely carbonized vine corridor.
The sky had become brighter. Although it was obscured by clouds, Wu Tian still saw two groups of people battling not far away at a glance.
One was a monster composed of countless vine-like tentacles, while the other side was unclear, only that there were quite a few of them.
Subsequently, the side with more numbers fired a missile-like object, hitting the enormous monster.
The monster became enraged, its extended vine tentacles swinging wildly, each strike shattering one or two small shadows.
When the snipe and the clam grapple, the fisherman benefits.
Wu Tian prepared to sneak past while these two parties were locked in battle.
But the bright light behind her was suddenly blocked.
Turning around, she saw.
A Western beauty with blood-red “wings” and a cross hanging on her chest, suspended in the air, smiling at her.
“Hello~”