From the end of the world

Chapter 76: The Enemy Surfaces 2
The monster was originally a demonic monster with a goat's head, about three meters tall. Even though his limbs were cut off and he fell miserably to the ground, his huge body still gave people a very intuitive sense of oppression. Confronting him was like standing in front of a heavy truck loaded with goods, and people couldn't help but have the illusion that they would be crushed by his huge body at any time.

When he turned back into an ordinary human, the oppressive feeling quickly changed from intuitive to abstract, and then faded away. Not disappeared, but faded away. It was like a heavy truck full of goods was unloaded and transported away by invisible hands, and even the heavy truck itself was dismantled into parts, most of which were also transported away. The only one left was the driver who was at a loss, holding the burning fuel tank.

We couldn't even remove the burning fuel tank for him because he was the burning fuel tank.

Zhu Shi is still the fastest among us.

At the moment when the opponent showed signs of self-destruction, a silver sword light like a round fan cut off the opponent's head without hesitation. This sword gave me a very strange feeling. If the invisible hand was still moving something out of the opponent's body, this sword cut off the invisible hand.

Almost at the same time, I couldn't tell whether Zhu Shi threw a punch or a kick, because her movement speed was too fast. My eyes could only vaguely catch a blurry afterimage that hit the opponent's torso and knocked her away.

In the blink of an eye, the headless body was hit more than 20 meters away like a baseball, and then exploded in the air.

The head spun and fell in midair, trembling faintly, as if it was about to explode. Zhu Shi put the sword back into the sheath behind her and caught the head with her palms together. When she clamped the head with both palms, the vibration of the head stopped, as if it was forcibly suppressed by her strength.

"It seems to be the same as the information speculated..." Lu Youxun looked at this series of changes and seemed to understand something. He said in a calm tone, "The reason why monsters self-destruct is not because they are set up that way. It is because when the source of their power leaves, the power inside their bodies loses control and will explode from the inside."

Seeing that he had no comment on Zhu Shi's quick reaction, I thought I should praise him: "Zhu Shi, you are really quick."

"Really? Hehe..." Zhu Shi seemed flattered and smiled shyly.

She was holding the head of a monster in her hand. This scene was so weird. But I just like weird things. The contrast of a beautiful woman dressed in a martial arts style holding the enemy's head and smiling was completely in my good zone.

"It's a pity that I haven't had time to ask more questions, and I don't know what the conditions are for triggering the weirdo's self-destruction. Why didn't he self-destruct when I forced him to answer questions just now, but suddenly self-destructed after his resistance failed?"

Lu Youxun looked thoughtful, and then he glanced at the head in Zhu Shi's hand. His expression became even more strange, and he asked, "By the way, Zhu Shi, why did you leave his head behind? I told you before you left that even if the head you left behind was intact, I would not be able to extract any information from it."

"That may not be the case." Zhu Shi stuffed the head into Lu Youxun's arms and said, "I have sealed the remaining power in the head. This head will not explode for the time being. You can take it and have a look first."

Lu Youxun didn't understand what Zhu Shi meant, so he just lowered his head to observe the head as Zhu Shi said.

God knows what angle he observed from. After only two or three seconds, he froze in his place and said in astonishment: "The information in the brain tissue has not been destroyed?"

"When the source of his power left his body, I severed his connection with it. This way, the source of power cannot destroy the spiritual information in his body while leaving it." Zhu Shi seemed to have said something extraordinary.

Lu Youxun was shocked: "You can do this? None of the other impermanence who have fought against monsters have ever done this."

I was also surprised. Cutting off the connection with the source of power - it sounds like the sword immortal in the fantasy novel, not only can it cut off tangible things, but also the intangible connection between things. Zhu Shi actually has such a powerful ability?
She just stood there and made a fuss about my fire ability, which sometimes made people feel that she was just ordinary, but in fact she was obviously extraordinary.

"Instead of me, you should focus on this head first. Can you find out any information about it?" Zhu Shi urged.

"Okay, okay, I'll take a look right away." Lu Youxun was not angry at all. Instead, he seemed very happy. He turned his attention back to the head. "The brain tissue is basically not damaged. It's very fresh and even has enough activity. Hmm... your previous attack seems to have cut off part of the spirit and trapped it inside. Good, this way, I can do more things."

"More things?" I realized he seemed to be planning on doing more than just investigating the information.

"Yes, it's like this—"

He threw his head forward, then raised his right hand and pointed into the air.

The head seemed to be fixed by his fingertips, suspended in the air. Then he used his empty left hand to grope in his pocket, took out a piece of yellow talisman paper that seemed to be painted with cinnabar, and slapped it on the forehead of the head.

He took two steps back, and moved his raised finger in the air several times before finally putting it down. The face of the head suddenly trembled, and then slowly opened its eyes, looking at us blankly.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Shi looked at Lu Youxun deeply.

"I... should be dead..." The head was stunned at first, and then surprised, "... I'm not dead!?"

He immediately saw us, and said with fear and anger: "What else do you want to ask me? Let me go!" Lu Youxun actually resurrected this head? After being surprised, I thought about it, and then said to the head: "You haven't reacted yet, you are already dead."

"Dead? How is that possible? I'm clearly still alive and well!" He spoke loudly at first, then froze for a moment, "Wait, why can't I control my shadow... You sealed my power!?"

Lu Youxun looked at the other party's reaction and sighed to himself: "My skills still seem to be not mature enough..."

"What did you do to him?" I asked curiously.

"Well, it's like this. His head was just chopped off. Although his consciousness was dead, his brain tissue was still alive, and there were even some soul fragments left. So I used this brain as a medium, combined with psychic magic, to wake him up again." Lu Youxun seemed to say something quite outrageous, "But now he seems to have some mental problems. I don't know if he is escaping from reality due to the shock of death, or if it's because my skills are not mature and I can't wake him up properly, so he can't recognize the reality."

"This can be considered a resurrection..." I said.

"Not really. He will still die in a while." He shook his head. "So if you have any questions, you'd better ask them as soon as possible."

The questions I wanted to know the most have been answered to a certain extent. As for further questions...

"How did you become a weirdo?" Zhu Shi asked the head that had turned back into a normal human appearance, "You're not a civilian demon hunter in Xianshui City, are you?"

"I am also very curious about this question." Lu Youxun also showed curiosity. "I am Youxun from Xianshui City. I know all the cultivators in Xianshui City, whether they belong to Luoshan or the common people. But I have no impression of your face."

"Monk?" I heard a new word.

Zhu Shi looked at Lu Youxun with dissatisfaction.

"Oh, sorry, it was a slip of the tongue. It was a demon hunter..." Lu Youxun first changed his words fluently, and then continued to speak to the head, "If I'm not mistaken, you should have been an ordinary person before. Where did you get the power to rival a top demon hunter?"

Hearing this, the head seemed reluctant to answer at first, but being "awakened" by Lu Youxun, he was probably unable to resist the question, and in the end he could only answer honestly as before: "It was the Monster Maker... The Monster Maker turned me from an ordinary person into a monster."

"Monster Maker..." Lu Youxun frowned.

I put aside my doubts about the term "monk" and asked the head: "You mentioned this title in the maze space. How did the monster maker turn you into monsters?"

"I don't know the detailed principles either. I only know that he implanted something called 'Heart Seed' into my body, and then I was able to transform into a monster." The head seemed to be unable to control its own answer, and even revealed more information involuntarily. "The Heart Seed can give us power, and it can also make us desire to devour human souls. Once we die or fall into despair, the Heart Seed will leave our body."

"No wonder you didn't self-destruct when we first caught you. You only self-destructed after your resistance failed. Because you didn't give up trying to survive and struggle at the beginning..." I suddenly realized.

Lu Youxun suddenly asked: "What does the monster maker look like?"

"He... was wearing a white suit." The head showed an expression of trying hard to recall. "He should be a man in his forties, thin and tall. He may have done some etiquette training. Sometimes I feel that he speaks in a pretentious manner. As for what his face looks like... I don't know, because he is wearing a mask, a silver mask..."

"You said... the silver mask?" Lu Youxun's face suddenly twisted, and his fists clenched, making a creaking sound.

"Lu Chan, what's wrong with you?" Zhu Shi was surprised.

Lu Youxun turned a deaf ear to him, took out a blank photo from his pocket, walked up to the head, grabbed it, and shouted, "Remember his appearance carefully in your mind!"

The head opened its eyes wide, and it seemed that it could only try hard to recall the appearance of the monster maker according to what Lu Youxun said.

Lu Youxun looked down at the blank photo in his hand, and Zhu Shi and I also leaned over to take a look. It was possible that Lu Youxun read some information from the skull through contact, and that information appeared on the blank photo. I saw a person's portrait gradually emerge on the blank photo.

It was a man wearing a white suit and a silver mask.

As soon as he saw this person, Lu Youxun's eyes suddenly burst into tears. He crumpled the photo into a ball and growled with hatred: "Humanitarian Department!"

(End of this chapter)