Chapter 43: Awakening

  Upon closer inspection, I discovered an astonishing fact. The back of this so-called "god" was actually connected to a centipede. In other words, two living organisms were symbiotically linked together, with their flesh and blood interconnected.

  This is simply unthinkable. From a certain perspective, this "god" is actually a centipede, and the centipede is actually "god". The two things are actually one existence, a monster!

  On the wall painting, the person marked with the centipede pattern finally ruled over all of humanity underground and eventually became a symbol of religion. Putting aside the mythical fabrication, Nüwa's, this non-human pure breed actually really exists! Ancient Egypt's cat-headed god, ancient India's elephant-nosed god, China's Zhu Bajie and Lei Zhenzi, don't tell me that there are "prototypes" with a similarity of over 80%.

  I guess the real story version should be like this, the underground human beings do not know where they found this monster, and they worship it as a god, but it likes to eat people, so humans finally have no choice but to lock it up, find an unknown small island, build a pyramid in the underground to suppress it, and at the same time can also serve as a sacred place for religion. As for myths and legends, Jesus' deeds are just proof that they were all nonsense made up by later generations to serve the purpose of ruling ideology.

  "It's necessary to take down that bottle of blue blood and go back to study it," Kouga said.

  I hastily shook my head and said, "Ake, we've seen what we need to see. What's the point of messing around with this thing? Let's hurry back up to the surface. I don't want to touch this ghostly thing, who knows if it's dead or just hibernating. If we wake it up, you're responsible?"

  "Hmph, so you think I'm counting on you? I wasn't asking for your opinion." Oniyasha spat out saliva, flexed his wrist, and pulled out a strangely-shaped hook from his bosom, similar to a human claw. I was amazed at what kind of treasures this little guy had hidden on him, pulling out new things like magic tricks.

  Oni no Yaiba's wrist rotated smoothly, and he whistled softly. His face was extremely calm, with only his right eye narrowing slightly. He loosened his fingers, and the throwing claw flew out silently, tracing a parabolic arc before landing steadily on the glass bottle. The claw naturally opened, its five fingers sticking to the glass wall. Oni no Yaiba's wrist pulled back, and the claw seemed to be manipulated like a marionette, grasping the glass bottle tightly in his palm as if it were a real hand.

  I secretly thought that this method was absolutely brilliant. However, Oni no Yaichi smiled triumphantly: "Hehe, baby, come back." Just as he was about to reel in the line and retrieve the object, the glass bottle suddenly got stuck. Oni no Yaichi gradually increased his strength, but the glass bottle remained lodged in the centipede's wrinkles, not budging an inch.

  "Damn it, this is too humiliating." Oni no Yaiba didn't believe in evil spirits and once again increased his pulling force.

  I urged a few times and slowly walked to the edge of the big well, wanting to see what was down there.

  Just as I poked my head above the dark well opening, suddenly a pair of green eyes stared back at me.

  "What the hell?" I instantly changed color, and at this moment, a figure suddenly rushed out of the well, too close, I didn't even have time to move, that shadow-like thing stuck to me and hugged me, a huge force sent me flying straight out.

  I hugged that thing and rolled around for a long time, suddenly feeling a heart-wrenching pain coming from my ribs and other side muscles. I opened my eyes to take a look, and the creature holding onto me was... Xu Lai!

  "Xu Lai, it's me, Dong Zi! Are you crazy?!" I slapped Xu Lai several times in a row, but this guy not only didn't flinch, instead my hand felt burning pain, his skin was as thick as old tree bark.

  "Open your dog eyes, this monster is not Xu Lai at all!" The shout of Gui Ye Jia entered my ears, I calmed down and took a closer look, suddenly inhaling a breath of cool air.

  Embracing my body, except for the head which is Xu Lai, from the neck down it's a worm-like monster covered with arms and 'legs', each arm protruding sharp claws, which are embedded in my 'flesh'.

  I was in so much pain that I almost spat out white foam, Xu Lai opened his sharp teeth and bit towards my neck, I could only use the strength of eating "milk" to hold his head back, but what made me even more angry was that if I used too much force, I would scratch the nails inside the meat, which would make me hurt even more. The submachine gun fell to the side at the moment it was knocked over.

  "Brother Sheng, save me quickly!" I begged Ghost Night for help. With a glance at him, I shivered as Ghost Night, who was holding someone's hand, had already let go and was staring solemnly ahead, his gaze fixed on the large well in front of him.

  "The military unification law, seeking others is not as good as seeking oneself!" I saw the ghost yaksha didn't come to rescue me, Xu Lai Yue 'pressed' tighter and tighter, I also got 'aroused' with a killing 'nature', people just need to go crazy once, sometimes their brain works especially well. Suddenly I thought of the big dagger still 'inserted' in my pants leg!

  I gritted my teeth and lifted my right leg, this action suddenly pulled several muscles, I could clearly feel the warm blood seeping into my lower body, a few seconds of movement in my mind seemed to have passed for several hours. When I touched the bayonet, I almost fainted from dizziness.

  "Damn it, Xu Lai, I've had my eye on you for a long time!" I cursed loudly to boost my own morale, and immediately stabbed Xu Lai's insect-like body with a loud "whoosh", the big knife having a blood-letting groove, one stab and you can't stop the bleeding, greenish liquid mixed with fresh blood splattered all over his face, if someone saw him, he looked like an Asura.

  Xu Lai let out a pained shriek, the fingernails embedded in his body suddenly retracting. I took advantage of the opening and struck again, punching countless transparent holes into Xu Lai's insectoid body.

  Half a minute later, Xu Lai stopped any movement, closed his eyes and finally swallowed his last breath.

  I panted heavily, and with one kick, I kicked Xu Lai off me. I hastily scrambled to my feet from the ground.

  "Wheeee~ I almost lost my life." I propped up my knees with both hands, staring at the eerie corpse of the bug that Xu Lai had become after being infected by the centipede's venom. Was he transformed into a mindless monster?

  "Dongzi, you're really something, suffering such a heavy injury yet acting as if nothing's wrong." Oniyasha glanced at me and said in a low tone, before quickly focusing intently on Ooike.

  I'm really angry, this guy not only refused to help but also spoke sarcastically. If you hadn't saved me before, I would have stabbed you with a dagger. "Wait, my wound!" In an instant, my anger vanished and turned into deep shock. I touched all over my body and found that the dozens of large gashes made by Xu Lai had miraculously healed, and the blood had somehow coagulated. After moving my limbs again, although it still hurt badly, I no longer felt like my heart was being torn apart. At least, I could barely move my hands and feet without any problem.

  "Grass, I've become a superman?" I couldn't believe it and touched the wound again.

  "Oniichan said calmly, 'Be mindful of the surroundings. Wait until night falls and there's no one around before making a move. It's not time yet.' He pointed his submachine gun at the well, his eyes turning cold as he whispered, 'It's coming out.'"

  "What?" I was shocked, my intuition told me that there was trouble, and I quickly picked up the gun and aimed it at the well.

  In just one breath, a few swift sounds, three figures flashed out of the well.

  These three are monsters just like Xu Laiyi, with human heads and insect bodies!

  "Damn it!" I cursed silently.

  At this time, a commotion came from inside the well, and the noise became clearer and clearer. The mouth of the well shook slightly.

  "Grass, you crow's mouth, it seems that it is indeed a nest! This is their den!" Oniyasha glared at me with dissatisfaction and immediately pulled out a hand grenade and threw it into the well.

  Several breaths, boom... a loud noise, and several mournful cries came from the well. However, the shaking of the well mouth became even more severe, apparently the ghost night demon's hand grenade thoroughly enraged them.

  Those three-headed monsters went mad and pounced on us.

  I hastily pulled open the distance, just now I was at a disadvantage due to being caught off guard. This time with a submachine gun in hand, I was naturally much calmer. With a burst of fire, three monsters were suddenly severed into several segments.

  Not even having time to relax, Inokuchi again spawned seven or eight monsters, these few faces looked like the Japanese devils with small beards.

  A bucket of sweep... The monster fell to the ground.

  Another 7 or 8 emerged from the well, and another sweep shot... The monster came out again.

  One after another, Ghost Leg and I have lost count of how many we've taken down. The monsters seemed to be endless, pouring out of the well like there was no end in sight. I cursed non-stop as my ammo dwindled to just three clips left. Meanwhile, Ghost Leg, trying to conserve bullets, charged forward bare-chested, using his dagger to slash off the heads of these creatures. Luckily, he's agile and quick on his feet - if it were me, I'd have been killed by now.

  "These monsters are unbearable, they actually understand the People's Liberation Army's human wave tactics. We're outnumbered and outgunned, sooner or later we'll be overwhelmed by this sea of monsters." I take out my pistol and aim for a headshot, muttering to myself.

  The monster's severed limbs and arms piled up into a small mountain, directly hitting the head of the giant centipede above, 'mixing' with the bloody stench that made people vomit.

  I had an idea and called out to Oni-Itachi, "Can't we blow up the stone pillar and use this giant centipede to block the well mouth?"

  Oniichan didn't stop moving as he thought for a moment before responding, "Well, it's worth a try, but I don't have much explosive left on hand."

  "It doesn't matter now, there's no other way." I was getting anxious and sweating profusely, facing more and more monsters, and it was clear that I was already at a disadvantage.

  Oni no Yaiba tossed me an assault rifle and told me to hold my ground while he ran towards a stone pillar to set up a small amount of explosives.

  "Hurry up!" I shouted, a monster charged in front of me, and I barely dodged it. The firepower was cut off all at once, and three monsters surrounded me, baring their teeth and pouncing on me fiercely.

  "Grass, I'm going to die!" I was shocked and lost color.

  Just then, with a loud crash, one of the stone pillars was blown up.

  With a loud crash, the giant centipede's massive body slammed down onto the ground in a huge chunk.

  At this time, an unexpected change occurred. I was shocked to find that all the monster heads stopped attacking at the same time and came to a sudden halt within thirty centimeters of me, standing still in place without moving.

  I was taken aback, but not stupid enough to stand there like a fool, so I quickly dodged and retreated to the edge of the altar. The oni rushed over, his face ashen, and trembled as he said to me, "We're in trouble."

  "What does it mean?" As soon as I finished speaking, the rope with human claws hanging from the oni's hand was slowly moving up section by section. I let out a light gasp and looked up to see that the "god" on the centipede's back had opened its eyes at some point, expressionlessly pulling the human claw upwards while curiously sizing us up.

  Monsters kept emerging from the well, trembling and crawling under the giant centipede's body.

  The centipede's eyes suddenly emitted an evil green light, its big mouth opened wide, and it began to chew on the monster's severed limbs, with fresh blood flowing all over the ground.