Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 860 The Spear of the Rending King (4K)

She's fine now, but what's next?
They couldn't get out. Hu Ling's breathing grew heavier and heavier, her chest, devoid of muscle, heaved violently. With each breath, the thin layer covering her sternum seemed to bulge out, as if it might burst at any moment. Meanwhile, Hippolyta trembled, clutching her eyeball that had fallen out of its socket, unsure of what to do.

Su Weiyu believed that the two of them must have suffered much more serious injuries than they were now, but they were never in such a difficult and desperate situation as they were now.

Judging from the supernatural power Hippolyta just used, you can tell how serious the injuries these two suffered in the past. They were put into the box on their waists and were back to normal in the blink of an eye. They probably have never encountered a situation like this before, with the box full of injuries. Otherwise, why would this girl look so helpless?
These two are probably out of the question, but Su Weiyu doesn't think she can handle the monster outside either; she doesn't even know how she got injured.

She and Hu Ling and the others had separated once along the way, but what she eventually found was the king's palace, not the place where royal secrets were stored. So she turned back and followed the path that Hu Ling and the others had taken.

When they reached the finish line, which is here, Hu Ling and her group were already fighting with a guard. To be precise, it wasn't a fight, but rather Hu Ling being unilaterally crushed.

When Su Weiyu arrived, Hu Ling and Hippolyta were alright, at least their heads were still intact on their necks. The man with the mustache who came with them had his head cut off and stuck on a tree branch.

Because of the sailor's "preservation" ability, the mustachioed man's head remained alive after being cut off. A branch pierced through the cut in his neck and emerged from his mouth, leaving him hanging on the tree with his eyes blinking.

Hu Ling and Hippolyta were in no better shape. Although their situation was better back then, their fighting spirit had been completely crushed. When Su Weiyu arrived, the two of them were not fighting at all, but just staring at each other in fear as they stood there boasting.

Su Weiyu was very cautious at first, worried that the other party was not human, but she soon realized that the person who defeated Hu Ling and Hippolyta was a real human, and he would not react even if she stood in front of him.

The man boasted and spoke with composure. From his words, one could tell that he was no ordinary person; at the very least, he was a close attendant of the King of Lie.

He claimed to be the Spear of the Rending King, and said that the Rending King had long anticipated that these people would take the opportunity to sneak into the palace.

In addition, he said he did not intend to kill them because their lives were very important, and that they did not necessarily have to be enemies.

Su Weiyu originally wanted to hear what else the other party had to say, but when they saw that the Spear of the Rift King stopped talking and walked towards Hu Ling and Hippolyta, they realized that the other party was going to finish things off.

So Su Weiyu reached out and completely destroyed half of the other person's torso. Half of the waist and half of the chest, along with an arm and the entire shoulder, were torn off by Su Weiyu, as if they were originally pieced together like Lego bricks, with gaps in the middle that could be separated.

The man who called himself the Spear of the Rending King staggered and fell to the ground. Despite his severe injuries, he did not die immediately. He even used his broken spine to launch an attack on Hu Ling and Hippolyta, which startled Su Weiyu.

At the critical moment, Su Weiyu destroyed the opponent's head, and the Spear of the Rending King lay completely on the ground like a lump of soft mud.

The battle should have ended there. After she helped the immobile Hu Ling and Hippolyta into the archives, she went to retrieve the head of the man with the mustache from the tree. She saw the "corpse" that had been dead come to life again.

The man's skull, which had been blasted into eight pieces by Su Weiyu, was pieced back together by an invisible force, as if an unseen hand was forcibly squeezing the split skull shut. Meanwhile, the man's mouth—his upper and lower jaws—was deformed and stretched forward like the mouth of a wild beast.

Su Weiyu saw that the abdominal cavity, which should have been exposed to the air, was dark inside the half of the other person's body that she had torn off. Just a moment ago, she could see bright red internal organs inside, but now she couldn't see them anymore. The abdominal cavity had become some kind of passage... more like a nest, and it didn't contain internal organs, but some kind of unseen and bizarre thing.

At the same time, a chilling aura rose from the soles of her feet, making Su Weiyu shiver. The next second, she saw a hairy hand emerge from the other person's chest cavity, grab the end of the broken spine, and stretch the spine as if pulling up seedlings to help them grow. Then, like inserting an electric wire, she forcefully shoved the spine into the pelvic bone of the lower body.

Then the other person's entire body trembled violently, as if they were an electric toy that had been turned on, and their limbs gradually became flexible and skillful from being out of control.

The opponent's bones made a loud cracking sound, and the bones in his hands and feet were undergoing strange changes. His palms and soles began to elongate, to the point that the flesh of his palms tore apart, revealing swollen, pale metacarpal bones. He turned into a digitigrade animal like a dog, wolf, lion, or tiger.

Even the shattered face looked more canine, as if human features had been inlaid on the long face of a wolf, or like a human skin covering the skull of a wild beast.

This inhuman appearance sent chills down Su Weiyu's spine.

Without a doubt, this could not be a human.

So she took the initiative, swinging her goose-feather blade at the monster, using her powerful grip to amplify the power of the strike, and using her Instant Step to make the blow unavoidable.

But the blow didn't feel like it was striking a living, breathing animal; it felt more like it was chopping pork on a chopping board.

Anyone who has ever killed a living creature should understand that feeling. When a knife or sharp weapon is plunged into the body of a living creature, the trembling of the muscles, the tension of the body, and the subtle resistance of the creature being killed can all be transmitted to the wielder through the blade as a strange tactile sensation. That reaction indicates that the other party is a living being.

But Su Weiyu's blow was like cutting into a dead pig.

In a flash, she reached out and touched the monster's body, seeing its "true life form" in another dimension.

But the shape of the other person's true nature that she saw was completely different from the beast-like appearance she saw in reality!

Su Weiyu saw the other party's true appearance through the forbidden sense. The other party was still in the same state as when she destroyed him, with half of his torso torn off and his head split open.

But in reality, it's not like that at all; this guy has completely turned into a monster! The two shapes don't match up at all!

Without thinking twice, Su Weiyu carried out another act of destruction. She heard a sound of something being destroyed coming from inside the monster's body, but this damage did not affect its movements.

It opened its mouth, and the gap between its two rows of teeth widened due to the elongation of its upper and lower jaws. It shook its head like a crocodile and bit Su Weiyu's arm. Then its head began to roll dead like a crocodile.

Its head turned, but its body didn't. So its neck twisted like a pretzel, and Su Weiyu's arm was also twisted like a pretzel. The first twist was the elbow joint, which was the first to separate. The skin and flesh in that part became spiral strips of flesh, just barely connected.

Before the pain reached her brain, Su Weiyu felt the various details of her arm being damaged.

Then... the monster opened its mouth again and bit off her entire arm in one gulp.

Its forelimbs also broke through the limitations of joint angle, suddenly rising and kicking forward like a horse kicking, striking Su Weiyu in the stomach. The enormous force felt like a hole being torn in her stomach. Su Weiyu didn't know where she flew to, only hearing the sound of branches breaking in her ears, and the collision of her lower back with the thick, hard tree trunk, and the excruciating pain of her skin rubbing against the rough, broken tree stumps.

After falling to the ground, Su Weiyu remembered that when she stood up again, she felt that her stomach was empty, as if she had no stomach at all, and the pain was as if it were separated by a membrane.

Immediately afterwards, she was struck in the chest by an inexplicable force, like an invisible sword aura, which cleanly sliced ​​through her flesh.

At that moment, Su Weiyu felt that she was about to die. She knew that she had one chance to transfer her injuries to Xia Shou.

Although she is now safely sitting in the corridor on the second floor of the archives, Su Weiyu still can't figure out what she was thinking when she looks back on that moment.

If it were her now, she would be thinking about how to survive, whether or not to transfer her injuries, and whether doing so would hinder Xia Shou. But at that moment, none of these thoughts were on her mind. There was only an indescribable emotion. She only remembered letting out a roar, a powerful, unyielding feeling of fighting a bloody battle dominating her actions, even giving her the illusion of invincibility.

Then, the next second, she woke up.

Yes, that means waking up.

Her position suddenly changed, and she found herself at the entrance of the archives. Her posture remained that of walking towards the tree with the small mustache head hanging on it. She was completely unharmed, as if the fierce battle just now was all an illusion.

The corpse did indeed come back to life, and its appearance was indeed as bizarre and absurd as she remembered. But strangely, it did not move; instead, it stood there motionless like a sculpture.

Su Weiyu was glad that she hadn't hesitated at that time. She directly gave up on retrieving the mustache's head and used a teleportation technique to return to the archives.

As she hid in the archives, she happened to catch a glimpse of the monster starting to move, as if it had just woken up from a nap.

At the same time, she felt her arm begin to rotate uncontrollably, as if she had been bitten by a crocodile and rolled over in a death twist, twisted into a fried dough stick, and then the whole thing broke off.

Then my stomach felt like it had been hit by a cannonball, the pain was excruciating, as if my ribs had been shattered into pieces, and the wound from the battle appeared on my chest, hot blood gushing out and soaking my clothes.

All the injuries I experienced in that hallucination have been replicated in reality!

The only thing to be thankful for now is that she is not in a fight.

What happened next was quite simple. She forced herself to climb the stairs, her mind racing like a computer, analyzing all the bizarre events she had just encountered.

Finally, she leaned against the stair steps and painstakingly used her goose-feather knife to write on her thigh.

This technical work became especially difficult for her as she neared death, so much so that she ultimately failed to finish it and had to transfer her injuries.

Now, free from the intense pain, and having calmed down in a safe environment, my thoughts have become clearer, and I'm slowly coming to a conclusion about what just happened.

She felt she should have figured out some of the other person's abilities.

This man, who calls himself the Spear of the Rending King, possesses several special abilities.

First: He is human, at least he was human while he was alive, and he possessed the strength to overwhelm Hu Ling and all of them while in human form.

Second: After his death, he will turn into a monster that can trap people in a very realistic illusion and fight the bewitched person in the illusion.

Third: All injuries sustained in the illusion will be perfectly replicated in reality upon awakening, but the replication does not seem to be automatic; at least it requires waiting for the monster to regain consciousness.

The best evidence is that when she first woke up, the monster seemed to be dozing off, and she was fine then. But as soon as she ran into the archives, the monster woke up, and all the damage occurred at once.

Of course, Su Weiyu actually drew some other conclusions, but those conclusions were not very reliable.

Because she knew that, in fact, she had never actually fought the other party.

After the Spear of the Rift "came back to life" and took that form, she never actually touched it. The form of its life that she saw with her forbidden senses was also part of her own imagined illusion.

At this point, she dared not sneak out.

Who knows if going out now will cause me to fall into that illusion again?

If she gets affected again this time, she won't be able to use [Substitute] to transfer the damage, and she will definitely die.

On the contrary, staying in this archive seems to ensure that nothing will happen.

After waking up, the inhuman and beast-like creature lingered outside the door, guarding against intruders like a watchdog.

It seemed completely unaware that someone had slipped into the building it was guarding, its head always turned outwards, not glancing inside even once.

Su Weiyu sighed softly and looked at Hu Ling and Hippolyta beside her.

She wanted to ask them how they were feeling, but knew it was futile.

To be honest, she doesn't know what to do now.

She really wanted to save the two of them, after all, they were key to this operation... although only key to Sparrow's operation, they were still considered one of her own.

Moreover, she admired the lifestyle of these two siblings quite a bit; setting aside their political stances, she even appreciated them.

Unfortunately, she had no treatment options and could only watch helplessly as they clung to life over there.

Su Weiyu reached behind her waist and took off Captain Sparrow's compass. When she was at a loss, she would always subconsciously look at the compass needle. This was one of her habits before she met Xia Shou. After meeting Xia Shou, she hadn't carried a compass for a long time.

This time, she boarded the ship wearing a compass, a habit that had returned.

When Su Weiyu took out the compass, she didn't expect it to point her in the right direction, but this time, when she opened the cover, she saw that the golden pointer on it had stopped.

The pointer indicates a direction!
Su Weiyu opened her eyes wide. She picked up the compass, stood up, raised her head, and carefully looked around the interior of the building. Then she stood up and, following the pointer, walked towards the large bookshelves arranged to the side.

What does this mean? Do I need to go look it up in the book?

(End of this chapter)