Ba Yu Fang peeked through the crack in the door, observing the street outside had transformed into a living hell.
Fierce monsters, wailing humans, mangled corpses...
Yet, it felt little disturbance in its heart; these were merely minor events to it.
It was just a tiny bit worried that Fang Ming might curb-stomp it if he returned and found it hiding indoors, seeking self-preservation.
"Fang Ming wouldn't kill me, would he?" Ba Yu Fang muttered to itself.
"Forget it, forget it. I'll go out and slay a few. At least it counts as me offering assistance."
Ba Yu Fang smacked its lips, quietly widened the door crack, and slipped out, stealthily beginning to dispatch these malevolent spirits.
...
Though H City was already in a dire state, it was insignificant compared to other regions.
Most parts of other countries lacked fully armed soldiers, nor did they have protective malevolent spirits like Ba Yu Fang. Facing the overwhelming horde of monsters, humanity was locked in an unprecedented struggle.
Meanwhile, at Broken Horn Peak, Fang Ming had encountered a malevolent spirit from the Celestial Realm – a Nether Fiend!
This spectral fiend was no more than two meters long, resembling a wriggling eyeball, its surface covered in decaying skin that continuously oozed pus.
"Flesh..." The Nether Fiend's eyes immediately glinted with greed upon seeing Fang Ming, and it began to wriggle and approach him with increased speed.
Fang Ming had no interest in fighting this creature at the moment; his sole focus was to evade combat and quickly reach the ancient tower to investigate.
However, he unexpectedly discovered that its innate ability was incredibly bizarre. Despite Fang Ming constantly increasing his speed, the distance between them never widened; instead, it grew shorter!
By all accounts, with the Nether Fiend's speed, Fang Ming should have been able to easily outpace it, yet this was the current situation.
"Innate ability?"
Fang Ming was growing impatient. Why did these creatures always appear at crucial moments to obstruct his actions!
After trying for several more minutes and still unable to widen the gap, Fang Ming became irate.
"Since that's the case, I'll slay you!"
Fang Ming's expression turned cold.
Although he wasn't a Nether Fiend himself, he was more than capable of killing an ordinary one!
"Rustle..."
Fang Ming's scales trembled, and his body suddenly leaped forward, his two sharp claws slashing towards the Nether Fiend before him.
This Nether Fiend could not only constrain the distance between them but also temporarily halt the opponent's actions!
The Nether Fiend's single eye watched Fang Ming, who was suspended in mid-air, and revealed a savage, greedy expression. Humans, even if not pure humans, it hadn't tasted in centuries!
Fang Ming's body was immobilized, but his consciousness was not. Seeing the opposing creature eagerly charging, a trace of mockery flickered in his eyes.
This kind of creature probably didn't know that some individuals were not to be trifled with!
"Annihilation."
The eyeball Nether Fiend's pupils split open, revealing a massive maw filled with sharp teeth, which lunged towards Fang Ming's head. At the same time, the runes on Fang Ming's body began to glow, finally condensing on his chest.
"Bang!"
Fang Ming landed heavily on the ground. The Nether Fiend before him had been annihilated into nothingness, leaving behind only a ball of pure resentment.
He did not hesitate, swallowing it in one gulp.
Continuing his journey!
Soon, Fang Ming arrived beside the ancient tower. Gazing at the hundred-meter-tall structure, a primitive aura washed over him. This ancient tower was at least several thousand years old!
Who had built it? And for what purpose?
Two questions flashed through Fang Ming's mind, but clearly, no one was there to answer them.
Pushing open the ancient tower's massive door, numerous pairs of eyes instantly turned towards Fang Ming. It turned out to be a group of Nether Fiends!
That's right, a group!
And judging by their appearance, they all looked identical. Even a pig could see they belonged to the same race!
But here was the problem: it was well-known that while some malevolent spirits were formed by human intervention, most were naturally occurring. Precisely because of this, the appearance of malevolent spirits was as varied as a thousand people having a thousand faces. How could such uniform appearances exist?!
Had malevolent spirits formed clans?
Fang Ming frowned, a vague sense of unease creeping into his heart. Could malevolent spirits now possess the ability to reproduce stably?
If these monsters could reproduce, did Chang Sheng's act of leading a large number of malevolent spirits to the real world for attrition warfare suddenly make sense?
Humans possessed intelligence and understood measures like family planning, but these malevolent spirits did not! If they began to reproduce, it would be an endless cycle. How could the Celestial Realm accommodate the endless growth of malevolent spirits?
Indeed, witnessing this scene, Fang Ming's internal scales had begun to tip towards Fang Dao Long. Perhaps the principal and the others' ideas were not wrong?
Was Chang Sheng perhaps manipulating him from the very beginning, constantly opposing his parents and the principal?
However, this was not the time to consider such matters. This floor of the ancient tower housed at least over a hundred Nether Fiends, and the tower had nine floors in total!
Fang Ming could handle one or two Nether Fiends, but facing over a hundred simultaneously... Fang Ming felt it would be quicker to slit his own throat.
Not far from Fang Ming, beneath a large tree, a dove lay struggling on the ground, its skin continuously bulging as if something was about to burst forth.
"Riiip!"
Suddenly, a black claw pierced through the dove's chest and emerged. The dove's body stiffened, and it instantly stopped breathing.
The claw tore through the skin, and then, a triangular, jet-black, carapace-covered head emerged from the dove's body and quickly broke free.
A black monster, ten centimeters tall and twenty-odd centimeters long, appeared in the world.
The monster, in its entirety, resembled a miniature dinosaur, with a triangular head and four eyes distributed on either side, looking coldly at its surroundings.
It lacked forelimbs but possessed wings on its back. Its entire body was covered in smooth carapace, still stained with some blood. Beneath its powerful legs were two sharp claws.
Ferocious, cold-blooded!
These were the words that instantly came to Fang Ming's mind.
"Chirp, chirp..." Above the parasitic beast's head, another dove called out to it. Its mate had died by this monster's hand, and it dared not approach easily.
"Kill it."
Fang Ming gave the order, also wishing to test the strength of this parasitic beast.
Upon receiving the command, the parasitic beast's eyes flashed with cold light. It pushed off with its two powerful legs, angled its back wings, and the entire body shot into the sky like a black lightning bolt.
"Bang!"
The dove had no time to evade and was struck head-on. The parasitic beast's sharp triangular head instantly smashed it into a pulp, which fell to the ground as a pile of mush.
"Such speed!" Fang Ming was astonished. This speed was almost supersonic!
"Bring back the prey."
The parasitic beast, biting down on the deceased dove, ascended into the sky. After a few minutes, it arrived at the entrance of the tree hollow. However, its size was a bit too large, so it could only grip the tree trunk with its claws to stabilize itself.
Fang Ming directed several parasitic monsters to bring the dove back. He was not disgusted by the gore and proceeded to devour it bit by bit.
After all, laying so many eggs required energy, and he had long been famished.
As for eating raw, he had done it too much in the Apocalypse game. After all, in that wild world, being able to eat was a luxury.
Having eaten his fill, Fang Ming began to consider his next plan.
His current reliance was only on this single parasitic beast, which was definitely insufficient. Now that Water Blue Star was linked to the Apocalypse, various monsters were rampant. If he didn't develop quickly, death awaited him!
Moreover, Fang Ming had another idea, contemplating the possibility of transforming back into a human, but he needed to find his original body first.
"Number One, take these larvae and scout the surrounding area. Once you find suitable hosts, help them parasitize. Be cautious; do not provoke overly powerful ones for now."
Number One, referring to this parasitic beast, would eventually have countless offspring. Fang Ming was too lazy to name them, so he simply called them Number One, Number Two, and so on.
Under Fang Ming's command, all the parasitic monsters crawled out of the tree hollow and onto Number One. Number One released its grip on the tree trunk and flew into the distance.
While waiting, Fang Ming took the time to lay another batch of eggs. This was his future! The more, the better. Compared to his life, shame was irrelevant now.
At this moment, in a certain part of the forest, two behemoths faced each other with angry eyes.
One was a creature originally belonging to Water Blue Star – a spotted leopard. The other was a creature from the Apocalypse world – a whip-tailed ape.
The spotted leopard was an E+ rated beast, while the whip-tailed ape was a D-rated monster. Furthermore, monsters from the Apocalypse world possessed certain special abilities. Even though the whip-tailed ape was only D-rated, if it fought a beast from Water Blue Star, it could likely overcome two minor grades!
The outcome of the battle was self-evident.
As the spotted leopard pounced fiercely, the whip-tailed ape suddenly spewed a torrent of fire, completely engulfing it. The spotted leopard instantly burst into flames, its pouncing motion interrupted by a kick from the whip-tailed ape.
"Bang!" The spotted leopard let out a scream and was slammed violently against a tree. The sound of bone snapping echoed; its spine had been completely broken! It died instantly, without any possibility of survival.
The whip-tailed ape pounded its chest and strode to the spotted leopard, biting its neck and drinking its blood.
On a nearby large tree, a black monster watched this scene with indifference. Seeing the whip-tailed ape relax its guard, it leaped into the air, flapping its wings to position itself directly above it.
Several palm-sized parasitic monsters fell from its body like dumplings, landing precisely on the whip-tailed ape.
"Splat, splat, splat..." A faint sound echoed. The whip-tailed ape felt a stinging sensation on its body and quickly reached out to grab. Upon seeing their appearance, its eyes widened in shock, and it began to shriek in terror.
"Wah! Wah! Wah!..."
The whip-tailed ape panicked, frantically trying to remove the parasitic monsters on its body. But by the time it had removed all of them, these parasitic monsters had already completed their parasitization and died!
Number One, having completed its objective, flapped its wings and left the area without looking back, continuing to search for the next.
"Ding! System prompt: Your offspring have been born. Rating experience +30."
Fang Ming, who was nestled in the tree hollow, blinked in surprise. What was going on? How did an offspring with +30 experience suddenly appear?
He quickly switched his perspective and saw a nearly two-meter-tall humanoid parasitic beast bursting forth from a whip-tailed ape. Jet-black scales covered its entire body, its angular exoskeleton exuded a faint glow, and sharp barbs grew at its joints. Its muscular limbs and the emotionless ape-like face with four cold, unfeeling eyes.