Chapter 192 Bizarre Phenomenon

Not only this night thief was like that.

Previously, Thief Lao Shi was the same.

He was even prepared to sell out Mouse Seat, but Fang Yue inexplicably lost control and killed him.

Now, having asked about the whereabouts of Mouse Seat, and with the area already in chaos, Fang Yue abandoned the night thief and didn't linger.

Bypassing the night thief army, he headed straight for the mountain path.

Without the restraints of the Nuo Mian Gui, Fang Yue felt incredibly light. Even the state of [Gui Poison] on his body was mostly washed away by the Breath of the Night, returning him to normal.

Just as Fang Yue went up along the mountain path...

"Look, everyone! That guy!"

It turned out that the leader of the thief squad, struggling to deal with the Nuo Mian Gui, had noticed Fang Yue's actions.

"Why is he running away... Not good! Lord Mouse Seat is still up there!"

"If something happens to Lord Mouse Seat, our matter of getting a quota will be in vain!"

"We can't let him go up!"

The matter of the quota had not yet been truly settled. Lord Mouse Seat had said that after completing this mission, he would help fight for it, but there was only a high probability of success.

But if something happened to Lord Mouse Seat during this mission, the matter of any quota would naturally be over.

Their expressions changed, and everyone abandoned the Nuo Mian Gui, chasing after Fang Yue. Those with ranged attacks even started to interfere directly, but Fang Yue blocked them all, and his speed increased instead of decreasing. Black qi wrapped around his legs, and he rushed towards the top of the mountain at high speed.

"His speed..."

"It's faster! He was hiding something during the fight just now!"

"If he had burst out with that kind of speed just now, even we wouldn't have been able to trap him!"

Looking at Fang Yue's suddenly increased speed, the thief leaders' expressions turned ugly.

That speed was something only Mouse Seat, who specialized in speed, could match.

More small hands emerged from the ground, from the cliffs, from their bodies. The thief leaders chased while dealing with the strangeness, and their speed was greatly hindered.

Watching Fang Yue get further and further away, the thief leaders' expressions gradually darkened, but they couldn't match his speed and could only roar and threaten him in impotent rage.

Fang Yue naturally ignored them.

He had no psychological burden in killing night thieves.

But his real goal was to find the Phoenix Organization and find An Dong Er.

He could kill night thieves at any time.

If he didn't catch this sneaky, fast-running Mouse Seat today, it wouldn't be so easy next time.

Rushing all the way, Fang Yue quickly reached the top of the mountain.

But unexpectedly, what he saw was the sight of small hands all over the ground, swaying in the wind like weeds.

Fang Yue was shocked to discover that the small hands growing out of the ground had small mouths on their palms and were starting to gnaw on the surrounding objects.

From soil to trees, flowers, and grass, they ate everything.

Thousands of small hands lay on the ground, seemingly sucking something, eating happily, not even noticing Fang Yue, the living person who had just rushed up from below.

Fang Yue noticed that there were also some bloody clothes scraps and bone fragments on the ground, and he immediately understood what had happened here.

No wonder the smell of blood was so strong, but there weren't many corpses.

Looking further away, Fang Yue's expression darkened.

The roofs of houses, the walls, the roots of large trees, the branches, and even the leaves were covered with this strange [Mouth Hands].

Stepping into a sea of [Mouth Hands].

*Bang!*

Amidst the splattering of black blood, a small pit was directly crushed into the ground, the air wave exploded, and fragile arms broke apart, staining the surroundings red.

Fang Yue didn't stop, stomping all the way through, rushing into the meeting hall before the black blood could stain his clothes.

But to his dismay, the meeting hall was also infested with various swaying [Mouth Hands], gnawing on the furniture.

Just as Fang Yue was about to retreat and look for someone, he suddenly noticed an interesting phenomenon.

There were more than a dozen [Mouth Hands] gnawing on the floor tiles.

And the floor tiles had indeed been mostly gnawed away, revealing... the stairs below!

A secret passage?

The Phoenix Organization really likes to play these kinds of tricks.

But if the [Mouth Hands] hadn't gnawed out the entrance, Fang Yue wouldn't have found the secret passage so easily. After all, the entrance to the secret passage was still in a relatively remote corner of the hall.

"Night! Ox! Ox!"

The roars of the thief leaders were already ringing out from behind. Judging from the sound, they should still be on the mountain path, but not far from the top of the mountain.

Without thinking much, Fang Yue rushed over and directly stomped on the remaining floor tiles at the entrance to the tunnel.

*Bang!*

With a loud bang, the entrance to the secret passage was directly revealed to Fang Yue amidst the billowing smoke.

Without hesitation, Fang Yue rushed into the secret passage.

But as soon as he entered, Fang Yue was shocked to discover that both sides of the stairs were covered with densely packed small hands.

And the back of the stairs was even more covered with small hands, making rustling noises, as if they were gnawing on the secret passage staircase.

With a fluorescent bead providing lighting at his waist, Fang Yue rushed down the stairs with a grim expression.

Before long, there was light below, seemingly a flat ground.

Jumping down, the ground unexpectedly burst out with nearly a hundred colorful arms, opening upwards as if to welcome him.

"Get lost!"

With a stern shout, internal force exploded, and the [Qi Field] directly crushed the onrushing [Mouth Hands], and Fang Yue landed steadily as black blood and broken limbs splattered on the ground.

Following the stairs down, there was only one exit at the flat end.

Looking towards the only passage ahead, he could see faint human soul candle flames providing illumination.

Under the light of the candle flame, he could vaguely see a corpse, only half of which remained, being gnawed on by something, slowly decreasing in size.

Judging from the corpse, it should have died not long ago.

It seemed that Mouse Seat had most likely just passed through here!

Recalling the scene of the [Mouth Hands] ejecting from the ground just now, Fang Yue's heart sank.

"A growth-type strange!"

If strange creatures were divided by type, there would be many categories, which were some small experiences summarized by the people of this world.

And growth-type strange creatures were the type that most people were unwilling to encounter.

Because... they were very troublesome!

Take the Nuo Mian Gui as an example.

At first, the Nuo Mian Gui only grew small hands, which were poisonous, and it seemed that it could only parasitize corpses.

But soon the Nuo Mian Gui began to grow rapidly, not only possessing regenerative abilities, but also immediately turning to absorb the nutrients of those weaker night thieves when other weaker night thieves joined the battlefield, strengthening its own strength.

When Fang Yue rushed to the top of the mountain, the Nuo Mian Gui began to grow small mouths, no longer satisfied with the parasitic method of absorbing nutrients, and began to devour various nutrients through active eating.

Without a doubt, the Nuo Mian Gui must have a main body, and it must possess a certain amount of wisdom, similar to the strange knowledge of the Yang Xu Gui.

It's just that the main body was hidden too well, and Fang Yue didn't have time to waste on it, so he could only leave it at that.

And now, the Nuo Mian Gui even understood the concept of 'predation'!