Why can't humans do it too?

"Hmm~, this is quite interesting~"

Although she spoke lightly, Xin Ke's physical condition was not very good at the moment, as she had been injured many times and had not yet fully recovered. She avoided the area that the tentacles might reach and carefully circled around to an angle that was safe enough—at least enough to give her time to react.

"Ready, Mr. Monkey?"

"Ah, come on."

Taking a deep breath, Su Er cleared his mind of all distractions and began to endlessly repeat a single sentence in his head.

【Don't move! Don't move! Don't move! Don't move! Don't move!】

bass! ! !

The gleaming dagger was forcefully thrust down!

Bang! ! !

Almost the instant a sharp insect chirp rang out, Xin Ke, who was prepared, was sent flying before she could even dodge!

She scrambled to her feet several times before finally coming to a stop. A sharp, broken spider leg was stuck in Xin Ke's thigh, just a hair's breadth away from piercing her abdomen and tearing off her internal organs.

Pain and the instinct to be threatened spurred the twisted monster to fight back instinctively. It was a completely subconscious reaction. The dagger pierced deep into its soft abdomen, even the hilt was embedded in it. It screamed shrilly and its tentacles angrily tore at the surrounding rocks.

The monster crawled frantically around Suer, but even so, Suer could still clearly feel that the thread had not broken!

Even with such severe injuries, this twisted monster never managed to break free from this invisible thread!

It can't bear to part with it!

Chapter 114 Support

With a mournful cry, like a helpless infant, dragging its badly injured body, this twisted monster tried to escape. Its belly rubbed against the cold rock surface, corroding a long groove in the earth like a snail.

The dagger, already embedded in its soft belly, sank even deeper... much deeper...

Even though it was expected, the monster's violent reaction when it was severely injured still far exceeded Suer's imagination. He didn't know where those seemingly weak tentacles came from to have such great strength.

Do not remove anything from the stomach.

Don't treat yourself.

【…】

With his gaze fixed on the monster's ugly yet somewhat pitiful back as it struggled to escape, Suer endlessly repeated these two sentences in his mind.

Following that invisible thread that has not yet broken, the thought reached its rightful place... becoming thinner and farther away, until it reached a place where Suer could only sense its existence but could do nothing more.

A tiny dot in my mind.

Strangely, apart from his initially injured arm, he was unharmed until the monster was completely out of his sight. Before he could even catch his breath, Suer hurriedly stumbled and crawled toward Xinke, who had just been knocked away.

The woman had taken precautions to avoid the monster's potential stress response, yet she was still severely injured in an instant. Although her physical abilities far surpassed those of humans, the forest elves were not a race known for their physical prowess.

If she hadn't reacted quickly enough and blocked the attack with her arm, the severed, sharp tentacle would have pierced her soft abdomen instead of her thigh.

Now that I can no longer use my spirit to heal myself, such an injury means death.

“…Couldn’t you have waited for me to come?” Su Er knelt down wearily and reached out to take the torn strip of cloth from Xin Ke’s hand.

This woman was far too wild for herself. When Suer came to her side, he saw that she had already pulled out the sharp tentacle that was stuck in her thigh and thrown it aside. She was trying to bandage herself with the torn cloth strips, but because her hands were trembling uncontrollably, she could not tie them up.

Although it sounds a bit perverse, Suer did feel a sense of...reality when he saw the woman unable to bandage herself due to the pain.

So you feel pain too?

"Heh~", whether she heard Su Er's thoughts or not, Xin Ke just gave a strange hum and didn't answer.

Xin Ke's clothes were already tattered beyond recognition, barely covering some sensitive parts of her body. She relied mainly on her robe for cover, and bright red blood kept flowing from the wound on her thigh. When it flowed across her fair skin, it had a strange and beautiful quality—damn it!

After successfully establishing a connection with the monster that had been transformed from a vampire, Suer found himself starting to feel a sense of affinity for blood. It wasn't quite to the point of being negatively influenced, but his affection for blood had definitely increased... in his opinion.

There were no ulterior motives. To be honest, during their escape, Xin Ke treated him with such complete lack of vigilance, as if he were a stone or a mindless beast. Even when Su Er said he hadn't seen anything, he himself didn't believe it.

It's just that I don't have that kind of thought at all.

The tightly wrapped cloth bandages bound the soft, elastic skin, squeezing the cut wound together, and the continuous flow of blood was finally stopped temporarily.

"Go, let's go!"

Almost immediately after the rough bandaging was finished, Suer urged impatiently, even though both of them were almost unable to move due to exhaustion and the pain they had suffered, he still tried his best to support himself and Xin Ke's body to stand up from the ground.

Even if you need to rest, you absolutely cannot rest near this forest elf outpost. The smell of blood from the previous massacre is so strong that it's like a bright and conspicuous bonfire burning in the dark night.

Something will come, something will definitely come.

So... we have to get moving.

Squeezing all his strength out of his body, he no longer had the power to carry Xinke on his back. The constant pain from his injured shoulder became a kind of medicine that kept Suer's nerves from fainting.

Dragging their injured thighs, Xinke and Suer supported each other as they slowly and stumbled their way toward the abandoned city Xinke had mentioned earlier.

Utterly disheveled, this struggle to muster all her strength only to escape was an unspeakable humiliation for Xin Ke, especially this weak and vulnerable posture, entrusting her life to a monkey.

You can deceive yourself into thinking that the two of you are supporting each other forward, but the truth will not deceive you—it was the weak monkey, not her, that kept the two of you from falling.

Every step forward was a struggle requiring all their strength, whether it was him or her.

Suddenly, Suer stopped in his tracks.

Without time to explain anything, he quickly helped Xin Ke sit down on the ground, signaling her to be quiet. Then he lay down on the ground and pressed his ear, which still had normal hearing, against the ground—listening intently.

not enough.

Instead, he untied the bandage wrapped around his arm and pressed the wound directly against the cold ground. It felt cool, but more than the refreshing sensation, the faint vibration and sharp pain emanating from the wound told him that his judgment was correct.

A big guy is coming.

It comes from underground, travels through rocks, and the earth trembles with its movement.

Sul quietly straightened up, wrapped the cloth strip back around his arm, and instead of supporting Xin Ke and the other person to speed up their escape, he searched for a place to hide.

But Suer knew this was just burying his head in the sand.

It knew they were here—Sur's gaze swept over the shackle on Xinke's ankle, which was peeking out from under her robe, and over the dark brown strips of cloth on his and her bodies, stained with seeping blood.

Even with all his strength, he couldn't escape very far. Even now, when he turned around, he could still see the forest elf sentry post. It hadn't blurred into an indistinct dot at the end of his vision. Suer could still vaguely see the collapsed walls and the decorated treehouses.

Chapter 115 Worms

The earth began to tremble more noticeably, and even Xin Ke noticed the change. Suddenly, in her line of sight, the ground on the other side of the road that the two of them had just trudged across was strangely bulging up.

It wasn't like a goblin submarine smoothly separating rocks and soil as if swimming out of water; rather, it was a very brutal breakthrough, violently crushing the earth surrounding it, with the splashed soil and rocks piling up into a small mountain amidst the rumbling sound.

It resembled a giant worm magnified thousands of times, covered in sharp spikes and neatly arranged, densely packed dots that shimmered with red light. Visible red muscles surged like a tide, propelling the giant worm out of the ground.

Demon species.

One of the most common demon species that roams this continent, it doesn't need to use too many abilities; the power derived from its enormous size alone is enough to crush all weak creatures—Sur, and at this moment, Xinke.

Despite its mountain-like size, it moved with unimaginable speed. This enormous demonic creature pierced through the ground and arrived at the forest elf's outpost in just a few breaths, coiling around it like a python hunting its prey.

As if stimulated by the fragrance of the corpses and blood, this demonic creature impatiently opened its mouth, and layer upon layer of sharp teeth extended into its cavity in circles—Boom!

It suddenly slammed downwards!

The dust kicked up engulfed the area where it was, and the demon's maw, expanded to its limit, swallowed the entire outpost whole, leaving nothing behind.

Nothing exists there anymore.

Watching the colossal creature burrow into the ground once more amidst the rumbling of the earth, the effects of what was merely a simple act of feeding were akin to a natural disaster. Suer couldn't help but feel a chill of fear at the sheer power it possessed—if he had lingered in the moment of rest, he and Xinke would probably be the ones dead there now.

They were buried with that string of skulls.

They dared not linger, not only because the monster mutated from the vampire species was not truly dead, but also because this area was far too conspicuous. Even now, the crimson blood mist spread by that monster had not completely dissipated; it had only been somewhat dispersed by the commotion caused by the demon species earlier.

However, this also spread the blood mist further, turning the area into a sweet hunting ground filled with the blood of elves, inviting many monsters that noticed the place to come.

“…Let’s go,” Suer said, struggling to his feet and turning his gaze away from the distance.

His whole body ached, as if it wasn't just his shoulder that was injured, but his entire body. Just the brief moment he sat on the ground watching that demon destroy the outpost, Suer's muscles seemed to freeze, unable to move... and he didn't want to move.

All I wanted to do was lie on the ground and not move.

Is it still there?

"It is, but the distance has increased, and I can no longer command it."

Knowing that Xinke wasn't referring to that demon species, Suer gave a brief reply.

Xin Ke's condition was also not good, yet this woman acted as if her injuries did not exist, trying to get up from the ground again on her own strength—but she could not do it.

"Heh, wasn't it said that the connection was easy to break free from?" Xin Ke finally stood up from the ground with the help of Su Er's outstretched hand, and said with a slight pant.

"...Because you want my flesh and soul, right? I guess so." His gaze fell on the sweat on Xin Ke's forehead caused by the pain, and even the four beautiful soul stones were shimmering slightly. Without pointing this out, Su Er just wanted to continue forward as before, supporting each other's bodies.

The arm that was stuck shifted slightly outward, but then returned to its original position in the next second. Not understanding what this woman was planning, Suer gritted his teeth and took a step forward with all his might.

He can still hold on.

"Greed...?" she murmured to herself. Despite the constant pain in her legs, Xin Ke tried her best to walk more normally, as if she hadn't been completely injured yet.

Black ash fell from the sky.

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