Warning! The evil god's minions are invading the eerie dungeon.

"Old Chen, why are you so late?"

The refined-looking middle-aged man in front of Chen Mu approached.

In Chen Mu's perception, there were two obvious signs of malice quietly surrounding him from the shadows, cutting off his way back.

Chen Mu's eyes darted around, but instead of backing down, he walked towards the other person, his expression serious as he lowered his voice:

"Something came up. I unexpectedly obtained some information that might involve a level-two sealed artifact..."

"Um?"

The refined middle-aged man's expression changed.

The two menacing figures in the shadows also clearly stopped, showing no signs of approaching further or preparing to attack.

Chen Mu leaned forward slightly, getting closer to the refined middle-aged man, one hand covering his mouth, his expression serious, as if he wanted to whisper something secret.

The refined middle-aged man subconsciously turned his ear closer.

Chen Mu leaned close to his ear and said in a low voice:

"If Sun Wukong gets kidney stones, is it considered an illness or pregnancy?"

Refined middle-aged man: ?

Just as his CPU was overheated.

Chen Mu's muscles suddenly swelled up, and he controlled the strange leg that he hadn't trained in, delivering a powerful uppercut to the chin of the refined middle-aged man.

If an ordinary person were to take this hit, it would take at least ten seconds to recover. If an ordinary person were to take this hit, their jaw might even be shattered.

The refined middle-aged man staggered, his pupils dilated for a moment, and then he took a step back to steady himself.

Seeing this, Chen Mu knew that he had little chance of winning if he continued to fight. So he took advantage of the opening and suddenly leaped up. In mid-air, his facial features and muscles suddenly twisted and contorted, turning him into a half-human, half-bird. At the same time, fine feathers appeared on his back and arms.

The malice lurking in the shadows had already blocked his way in, so he used the [Human-faced Owl] skill to fly straight up and headfirst towards the ceiling, intending to reach the second floor and escape through a window.

A muffled thud.

He was stuck in the ceiling with his upper and lower body positioned on different levels, and his fingers sticking out on the first floor twitched a few times.

"grass……"

Chen Mu saw stars and felt like his brains had been splattered together.

"I forgot the 'Ghast Druid' was purified... I can't pass through walls..."

Taking advantage of this moment, the refined middle-aged man had recovered, and the muscles in his face were twitching constantly, as if he were being kneaded like clay.

Before long, his refined appearance disappeared, and he turned into a faceless monster with no nose or eyes and a smooth, mirror-like surface.

The monster's face became dark and ethereal, as if covered by an unreal mask.

"Hehehehe...you even dared to ambush me..."

The faceless creature's facial muscles twitched, tearing open a bloody gash that revealed ghastly white fangs.

"As expected, you humans are all treacherous and cunning creatures, as slippery as those camouflaged insects, hard to catch..."

They are strangely instinctive, filled with malice and bloodlust, even towards their own kind.

Even when no humans enter the eerie instance, they will fight and prey on each other. However, when humans are present, they prefer to hunt humans, since humans are mostly weaker and more palatable.

However, those who have survived to this day are all quite skilled.

It lost track of two groups of humans yesterday and is now starving.

Fortunately, the human in front of them was different from ordinary people. He seemed to be not very bright and actually bumped into the ceiling and got stuck.

Seeing Chen Mu struggling and thrashing between the floors, the faceless monster did not hesitate. It stretched out its hands like boneless clay and kept stretching them out to grab Chen Mu.

Chen Mu, who now only has his lower body on the first floor, is just as helpless as his neighbor who is stuck in the washing machine!

"grass--!"

Chen Mu was so anxious that he felt like Sun Wukong, who was exiled to Chengdu with his buttocks facing outwards and pressed under the Five Finger Mountain. He felt a chill in his lower body and was on the verge of death.

He immediately roared and strained with all his might, his bare skin, including his arms, rubbing against the ceiling until it bled profusely.

At that moment, the faceless monster's hand was about to grab Chen Mu's ankle!

Just then.

On the ground floor, which Chen Mu could not see.

His deep shadow suddenly flickered, and it seemed as if a dark golden vertical eye emerged from it, looking at the faceless monster.

The faceless monster, which was about to succeed, suddenly froze, feeling a cold and terrifying aura appear around its neck, as if it could freeze even its soul, rendering it unable to move.

At this moment, the two malevolent figures lurking in the shadows also sensed something was wrong and rapidly approached from their hiding place, rushing towards Chen Mu, but it was too late.

Chen Mu roared again, scraped off a layer of skin from his elbow, and squeezed his way out, smashing through the glass window of the pet shop from the second floor and fleeing into the distance.

"Hmm...that's fine..."

Inside the shadow space, Qi Xie's consciousness stuffed his left eye, which was connected to a nerve more than a meter long, back into the eye socket of his main body. The shadow space still had pain and consciousness, so he could naturally gouge out the eye for use. The reason for using [Flesh Recasting] to connect the optic nerve was because he was worried that the [Ghost Eye] would become free and uncontrollable after it was completely separated from the main body.

He wasn't in a hurry to appear and hunt the faceless monsters, since most of the strange creatures' activity ranges were relatively fixed, and he could come looking for them whenever he wanted to.

Without wasting any time, he silently rode his shadow to chase after Chen Mu.

call!call!call!

After leaping out from the second floor, Chen Mu weaved and twisted among the buildings for a moment before quietly landing under the cover of the buildings and fleeing into the distance on foot.

Although flying with the [Human-faced Owl] is fast, it consumes too much energy, and the sound of its flapping wings is particularly noticeable in the silent, dead city.

Deng!Deng!Deng!

He sprinted wildly, the wind, carrying a chilling and putrid stench, filling his throat and lungs, making his throat taste metallic and sweet. He felt the sound of the wind and his vision become abnormally blurry and unreal.

What kept him from collapsing was that the portraits of his two teammates on the system panel had not turned gray, which meant that they had escaped the attack of the faceless monster.

Judging from the fact that the faceless monster could mimic his teammate's face and call out his name, he was certain that the other party had attacked his teammate.

Secondly, the location of "Passerby A" should be not far away.

That crazy yet powerful figure seemed to become the embodiment of redemption and hope at this moment.

He prayed in his heart that if he could meet that guy again, he would never think of running away again, and he would accept whatever fate brought him.

He ran for an unknown amount of time, until he rounded another building and felt he was about to give up.

Suddenly, an arm reached out from the corner next to him, covered his mouth, and dragged him into the dark shop around the corner.

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