Chapter 650: Room 30 One Day Off
Room 8622.
To be precise, the entire sixth floor.
From the previous fight, the whole sixth floor had become a battlefield.
This kind of thing was not uncommon inside the Haosheng Hotel.
Whether it was the power of anomalies or the abilities of superhumans, a tiny room simply could not withstand them.
Sun Xixi hadn’t encountered any miraculous illusions or anomalies.
When she pushed open the door to Room 8622, the anomaly had already attacked her.
Although what was in Room 8622 was far stronger than what other rooms had encountered,
this area still only counted as the outskirts of Xi City.
The strongest anomalies were in the city center.
That was the conclusion reached by the Silent Council’s investigation, and Xi City was still generally following that finding for now.
At least in the outskirts there weren’t particularly powerful anomalies.
The Haosheng Hotel was probably the toughest bone to chew on the outskirts of Xi City.
What was in Room 8622, before Sun Xixi, at most only demanded a bit more effort.
The black thing in front of her was quickly cut into several pieces by the girl.
At this moment, she pressed her Bluetooth earbud to her ear and one by one asked everyone how things were going.
Iron Lion couldn’t be reached; he had probably stowed his Bluetooth earbud away.
Ding Dong had just checked in, the situation wasn’t great, but that woman was stubborn and didn’t plan to retreat.
Wu Zehui and Number One also couldn’t be contacted, they were probably still fighting.
Dantai Bie…
Uh… never mind. If he were contacted, he would probably chat on endlessly.
Although he was Sequence 3 as well, he had some means at hand and likely wasn’t in danger.
As for Chen Ye…
He should be fine too.
Even as a Sword Immortal Sequence, this guy remained somewhat inscrutable to the pink-haired girl.
Meanwhile…
Room 8722.
Only Chen Ye’s single remaining eye gleamed with a bloody light.
Within that light, strange talisman-like symbols flickered faintly.
The multi-headed anomaly in front of him hesitated slightly.
Those heads all turned toward Chen Ye, the eyes on each head fixing on him.
Two of the heads seemed to be bewitched, their eyes growing unfocused.
“Roar… die…”
The pause lasted only an instant.
Then the multi-headed anomaly lashed forward, its enormous, many-headed mass charging at Chen Ye.
Chen Ye dissolved into Green Smoke and vanished again.
On the empty ground where he had been, flames burst into being out of thin air.
Not only that, a surrounding area ignited into orange-red fire.
These flames burned the air itself.
A fierce conflagration quickly formed.
Temperature in the air climbed rapidly.
The multi-headed ghost roared and plowed through the fire, soon escaping the burning zone.
Chen Ye exhaled lightly.
The Scarlet Scorching Gaze ability was very useful in certain situations, but it couldn’t be moved.
Just now Chen Ye had tried to ignite this multi-headed anomaly but had failed.
He could only create an immobile sea of flames.
Back in Rong City, the Abyssal Blood Pupil could ignite anomalies themselves in bulk.
He could also ignite some low-level anomalies, but this multi-headed anomaly was clearly not low-level.
At that moment, roars came from the direction of the multi-headed creature.
Two heads that had earlier locked eyes with Chen Ye had apparently rebelled, seizing neighboring heads and beginning to gnaw on them.
With human faces scurrying about inside those heads, the multi-headed anomaly had clearly run into trouble.
At this point, behind the multi-headed thing…
Well, actually it had no real back; every side was packed with heads.
Chen Ye pressed his hand onto one of the creature’s heads.
The Demon Manifestation ability activated.
Faces appeared again on his left arm, those human faces scrambling to crawl onto the multi-headed body.
The head Chen Ye pressed erupted in rage, opening its maw to bite his hand.
A patch of black liquid suddenly appeared on Chen Ye’s hand.
The black liquid rapidly hardened into a piece of armor about the size of two adult palms, clamping tight against the multi-headed creature’s teeth.
The teeth bit down on the black armor, producing a nasty “creak, creak” sound.
During that opening, at least five human faces crawled onto the creature’s heads.
Clearly, the multi-headed anomaly was furious.
Chen Ye dissolved into Green Smoke and vanished again.
Just as he was about to slip into the Smoke Breath Mist,
he heard wind behind him and felt a cold sense of danger at his back.
A black Carapace reappeared, directly shielding the smoke form Chen Ye had become.
“Bang, bang, bang!~~~”
A series of cracking sounds rang out.
Chen Ye turned his head and found the tongues of the multi-headed creature.
Each tongue stretched out like a frog’s tongue yet was as sharp as an arrow.
These tongues were as abundant as the creature’s hair.
But that single strike was all it took.
The surface of the liquid armor now bore many pitted dents.
The force of that blow genuinely surprised Chen Ye.
If he had been hit by that strike directly, he probably wouldn’t have fared well.
Over this period the liquid armor had grown significantly through training with Sun Xixi, and its defensive capability had improved a lot.
Although it still couldn’t withstand a slightly stronger blow from Sun Xixi, it was much stronger than ordinary protective items.
The struck area was also steaming.
Obviously the multi-headed creature’s tongues carried a corrosive toxin.
It would take some time to fully recover.
“Cough, cough…”
Coughing rang out suddenly.
Several of the multi-headed creature’s heads began violently coughing.
With the human faces causing chaos among the heads, the multi-headed creature quickly fell into trouble.
With a snap of his fingers,
more Crawlers tore out of the Smoke Breath Mist and lunged madly at the multi-headed thing.
Chen Ye pressed his hand against the wall.
The remaining dozen or so human faces spread from his arm to the wall, then onto the ground, surging forward at the multi-headed creature one after another.
Chen Ye suddenly felt that such a terrifying, bizarre ability would probably only be used by villains.
“Cough, cough…”
“Ah~~~”
Coughs, roars, and screams blended together.
Without resorting to higher-level combat power, and in relatively manageable circumstances,
the multi-headed creature that had looked so troublesome could no longer give Chen Ye any real trouble.
“Hey, hey… Yezi, how are things on your side?”
When Chen Ye put the Bluetooth earbud in his ear, Sun Xixi’s inquiry came through.
“I’m fine here, no issues for now! Everything’s normal!”
“How are the others?”
As Chen Ye spoke, the multi-headed creature had fallen; a large pool of black blood gathered under its body like a small stream.
Chen Ye also received the System prompt awarding Slaughter Points.
This time, at least nearly a hundred more human faces were gained; he had expected only a few dozen, but there were unexpectedly so many.
These newly added faces swarmed toward Chen Ye like puppies.
Chen Ye pressed his left hand to the ground.
Those human faces crawled onto his left hand and then vanished.
“The others are fine, it’s just Ding Dong, she might be…”
“Chen Ye, Xixi, I’m fine. We’ll continue. There’s just one room left!”
Ding Dong’s stubborn voice came through.
Chen Ye looked up at the final Room 8723.
They’d finally reached it.
The anomaly in 8722 had been somewhat troublesome; the room in 8723 would likely be even worse.
Chen Ye was inclined to stop here.
But Ding Dong’s persistence…
That woman was very stubborn. Once she decided on something, no matter how many people argued, she would still do it.
“Yezi, Xixi, Iron Lion, I’m fine. Don’t worry about me!”
Chen Ye wasn’t worried because of some innate kindness or concern over Ding Dong’s state.
He only thought that if Ding Dong wasn’t in good condition, there was no need for her to force her way in.
Losing one superhuman was a loss for any convoy.