Chapter 96 - Killing with Sand (Please Follow)

Chapter 96: Chapter 75: Killing with Sand (Please Follow)"Damn it, get out of the way! They’re already dead—kill them now!"

The sudden appearance of the face-hugger worms had the four men yelling as they shot and killed their companions rolling on the ground covered in red hair.

However, anyone who killed the Yang God Corpse Dog would be affected by the evil curse, becoming parasitized by the Corpse Dog and turning into a new Corpse Dog.

Unless they maintained a sufficient distance.

But no one knew exactly how far that sufficient distance was.

It could be tens of meters or even several kilometers.

Certainly not five meters.

Thus, in an instant, the four men sprouted red hair all over their bodies.

Their eyes, noses, and ears melted away on their own, turning into blood-soaked holes, and their mouths grew ring after ring of sharp teeth, their tongues elongating like those of snakes.

The surrounding people scattered in panic, many raising their guns. They were unaware of the evil curse; they would just continue to attack these people who had turned into monsters.

"Everyone back off! No shooting!"

At that moment, Xu Shu jumped in, sweeping his leg around to knock down all the security guards nearby, scaring them into retreating repeatedly.

Yet, Xu Shu watched intently as the four men completed their mutation, his gaze sharp as ever, yet he didn’t rush to kill them immediately.

Let himself be possessed and exhaust it through sit-ups?

Ha, a crude strategy, one that would put oneself in danger.

Others might choose that, but Xu Shu wouldn’t.

He naturally had another way to deal with it—sniping from a distance!

Xu Shu slightly tilted his head, making room for Gu Pan, who was positioned on the opposite rooftop, to take unobstructed aim here.

For an excellent sniper, hitting a target two to three hundred meters away was as easy as eating and drinking.

Just like how Xu Shu was precisely headshot in the second simulation today.

These four should also get precise headshots.

Just then, the four who had mutated into Corpse Dogs seemed to sense something.

They turned their terrifying dog faces toward Xu Shu, then sharply towards where Gu Pan was hiding.

It could actually sense Gu Pan’s position, realizing that Gu Pan was aiming at it!

"Sigh..." Xu Shu furrowed his brows, took a half step back, and repositioned himself to block Gu Pan’s line of sight, raising his hand.

This was a signal for Gu Pan, who was aiming, to stop.

"Is the distance not enough?"

Originally, Xu Shu and Gu Pan had agreed that Xu Shu would control the Corpse Dog while Gu Pan sniped it from afar, to avoid the "evil curse."

But now, it seemed that the evil curse’s reach might be enough to contaminate Gu Pan from two or three hundred meters away?

It’s possible that killing it would also turn Gu Pan into a monster.

But it’s also possible that it knew it was going to die and was just pretending, to disrupt Xu Shu’s judgment.

This...

If they didn’t kill it, it would keep killing people, continuing to "infect" rapidly among the crowd.

But killing it, it was hard to ensure that they weren’t being fooled;

The Corpse Dog could do things that different species couldn’t do, and dared contaminate those that demons couldn’t.

Eerie and peculiar, defying all norms.

This was the Evil Spirit!

It seemed they could only be manipulated by it, played with in the palm of its hands.

Xu Shu furrowed his brows.

If Gu Pan died here, not to mention what would happen when they returned to the city later, just getting past the next challenges of Nagoul’s little demon and Narrow Sleeve Guanyin would be hard.

He couldn’t afford to gamble on this outcome!

"Squeal hahaha..."

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle~"

At this moment, the Corpse Dogs seemed to perceive Xu Shu’s hesitation, their creepy laughter echoing from everywhere.

Their faces contorted mockingly, as though they were bursting with derision.

That expression, it was almost as if they were saying, "Come on, if you dare, kill me."

That laughing sound was like they were asking him: Will you gamble? Will you?

"?" Xu Shu licked his upper palate.

So annoying?

Unexpectedly, this Yang God Corpse Dog was quite intelligent, playing with human emotions—it could smell the ’scent’ of emotions!

Seeing Xu Shu remain indifferent, they gleefully went after other refugees from the shelter.

Although it had split into four, its killing power was still very strong; its long tongue could slash a person in half at the waist. Xu Shu had seen it before; it killed people much faster than that Gu sculpture.

However.

"Plan one failed, I have to initiate plan two."

Xu Shu’s mouth twisted into a fierce smile and he called out to it: "Puppy, look here."

Swoosh!

The four parts of the Corpse Dog impudently surrounded him, and before his eyes, they lifted a little girl.

"Ah, Mom, save me~" the girl screamed in fear.

Her mother knelt on the ground with trembling legs and yelled, "Help, please save my daughter~"

This somewhat familiar dialogue, Xu Shu remembered, seemed to involve a little boy being captured in the simulation, but now reality had changed.

Indeed, the foreseen future was not all-inclusive!

"Chirp chirp chirp~"

Corpse Dogs grabbed the girl’s limbs and pulled hard, wanting to dismember her right in front of Xu Shu, all the while grinning at him.

They were truly vile!

But immediately afterward, the Corpse Dogs saw a blur in front of them, then felt a lightness in their arms—the girl, along with their arms, had been torn off by Xu Shu and tossed to the weeping mother.

It was not over yet, with a command of "rise," Xu Shu grabbed the necks of the Corpse Dogs, lifted them high up in the air in a handstand.

This was undoubtedly a feat of great strength, requiring much more force than just lifting a person, a testament to a Warrior’s ferocity.

"Gurgle?"

The Corpse Dogs, encountering this situation for the first time, struggled fiercely, but clearly, they were no match for Xu Shu in strength.

So, they extended their sharp tongues, attacking Xu Shu in rapid succession like a torrential rain of pear blossoms.

Clang clang clang!

Xu Shu had already activated Jingwei earlier, his body covered in a thick shield; the sharp tongues stabbed at him, creating a symphony of metallic sounds.

Although these Corpse Dogs were sinister, their strength in parasitic trickery was strong but relatively lacking in individual physical attack capabilities.

This whipping session was like scratching an itch through boots for Xu Shu who had activated Jingwei.

It simply couldn’t penetrate!

Xu Shu dared not kill the Corpse Dogs outright, but moved laboriously toward the doorway—moving under the pressure of Jingwei’s state was very difficult, and the two steps he took were nearly at the limit.

But that was enough, he only needed a direction.

Swoosh! —

Amid the fierce sound of tearing through the air, two Corpse Dog clones were thrown by Xu Shu like javelins, hitting right at the center of the quicksand outside the door.

"Splat~"

Both Corpse Dogs plunged in, instinctively struggling a few times.

But the result was, the more they struggled, the deeper they sank, unable to escape.

"Ha ha, success!" Xu Shu laughed heartily.

Even he could be killed by the quicksand trap unable to extricate himself.

These Corpse Dogs, not strong in force, were even less capable of freeing themselves.

"Chirp chirp chirp?!"

The other two Corpse Dog clones were startled.

Having never seen such a sight before, they were slow in their reactions.

But in that moment, they were already grabbed by Xu Shu and were lifted like Hercules lifting a cauldron.

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle!"

The Corpse Dogs panicked, attacking him desperately, but it was useless; they couldn’t break through Jingwei’s shield.

Xu Shu repeated his maneuver, using his Throwing Skill to plant these two head-first, feet up, into the quicksand.

Now, all four Corpse Dog clones were trapped in the quicksand, the more they floundered, the deeper they sank, completely unable to get out.

And the highly poisonous quicksand corroded them.

"Still laughing?" Xu Shu stood at the edge of the quicksand, looking down at them from a high position.

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle~"

The mocking laughter of the Corpse Dogs had completely turned into cries of panic and fear.

In no time, these Corpse Dogs were completely submerged under the quicksand, entirely engulfed.

"I wonder, if it dies in the quicksand, is it me who killed it? Or the one who set the trap?"

"Unfortunately, this means my plan to use it and the Gu sculpture’s crystal to break through to level 12 on the spot has failed!"

Seeing this, a gleam appeared in Xu Shu’s eyes, showing not much disappointment.

As the old saying goes, when it rains it pours, and adversities tend to come together, he had grown accustomed to it, thus his mentality remained very stable.

Turning back, by this time, the hall was filled with heart-wrenching cries.

The battle had come quickly and gone quickly, occurring in the blink of an eye, but in that brief moment, nearly ten lives had been claimed by the Corpse Dogs, who each had family members, now incessantly crying on the ground.

However, it was a fortunate misfortune, otherwise, more would have died.

Xu Shu remembered that previously these Corpse Dogs would split into four, then eight, continually spreading, those who killed it turned into monsters, and those it killed also became monsters, and eventually, it single-handedly created a mini zombie outbreak in this refuge, chasing and killing people, slaying hundreds all by itself.

"Sir! Thank you, thank you sob sob sob..."

The woman, whose daughter was nearly dead but revived, knelt on the ground; she passionately kissed Xu Shu’s toes, expressing her gratitude for his rescue.

She kissed from his toes to his ankles, then from his ankles to the calves, knees, and thighs...

Continuing up this way, then subconsciously reached to unzip his pants.

Ah?

Xu Shu was utterly stunned.

Holy shit, what a defiance of the heavens!

Is this the basic cultivation of a female believer of the Life Mother Goddess Church?