Chapter 641: The First Use of Demon Manifestation
Just as Chen Ye and his team began their operations.
Other areas of Xi City also started stirring one after another.
Compared to their first entry into Xi City, the superhumans had rested for a day and were now far better prepared and much more cautious.
Even though they were only on the outskirts of Xi City, those anomalies could still kill.
The number of survivors who had come here had noticeably dwindled.
Even though everyone knew they could find enough supplies in Xi City, no amount of supplies was worth more than their own lives.
Back at Haosheng Hotel...
Seven superhumans, each assigned to one floor.
Each person had to face whatever was in their room alone.
Chen Ye stared at the pitch-black room but didn't step inside. He just stood at the doorway, his blood-red eyes scanning the space.
But no matter how hard the Blood Eye looked, it was still just one eye.
In the pitch-black room, nothing could be seen.
The Blood Eye flickered slightly as the ability Scarlet Scorching Gaze activated.
In the center of the dark room, a tiny flame ignited. As the fire flickered, it illuminated the entire space.
The room was still empty, with nothing at all.
From his earpiece came the sound of Iron Lion crazily ramming against a door.
And each impact was stronger than the last.
It seemed that the reckless Iron Lion was getting angry because he couldn't open that door.
Aside from Iron Lion, sounds of fighting could already be heard through the earpiece.
Judging by the sounds of combat, it should be Sun Xixi.
These chaotic noises were somewhat annoying.
"Chen Ye, I've got something over here!"
"I've got something too!"
"My room is empty! There's nothing at all!"
Voices came through the earpiece one after another.
Based on the information transmitted through the earpiece.
Chen Ye made a judgment. Clearly, not every room contained an anomaly.
With the earpiece, everyone could get quick feedback, which helped them make better decisions.
Could the room before him be the same as theirs, just an empty room?
Chen Ye didn't rush to a conclusion.
After a moment of thought, Chen Ye gripped the handle of Hundred-Ghost Eater with his right hand and began to channel the power of Purple Rakshasa.
Hundred-Ghost Eater possessed the Demon Manifestation ability.
But this time, Chen Ye didn't plan to transform into that three-meter-tall demon form.
Purple Rakshasa seemed to have several other abilities.
Chen Ye intended to try and see if he could partially invoke the Demon Manifestation ability.
After all, it was once ranked as the number seven Wonder. What marvels did it hold?
Inside the blade of Hundred-Ghost Eater, within the Ghost Prison.
Purple Rakshasa could clearly feel that something within its body seemed to be slipping out of its control.
Inside the Ghost Prison, Purple Rakshasa screamed, begged, and roared in madness.
"Milord, please, let me go! Let me go!"
"Milord, I beg you!"
These voices reached Chen Ye faintly.
But Chen Ye remained unmoved.
Soon, Chen Ye's left hand began to change.
Faces appeared on his left forearm, some wild, some sinister, some silent and pained...
Each face was like a soul, or like a giant insect, crawling all over Chen Ye's arm.
When he had fought Purple Rakshasa before, Chen Ye had seen these dense faces on its back.
Chen Ye reached out and grabbed the doorframe, and the faces spread from his left hand onto the frame like a tide.
These faces crawled onto the doorframe and then spread into the room.
Wherever these faces passed, a varying degree of death aura manifested.
Chen Ye noticed that some faces were particularly ferocious. Where they crawled, the death aura was significantly stronger than that of the others.
When Purple Rakshasa had faced him back then, it clearly hadn't been able to use this ability.
There were about a few dozen faces, crawling along the walls into the fire-lit room.
Soon...
"Ahhh~!"
A bloodcurdling scream finally rang out from inside the room.
There really was something here!
Then Chen Ye saw a figure with long, slender limbs and long hair flash across the room.
In the corner above the doorway, where the wall met the ceiling.
That was the figure with long limbs and hair, clinging like a gecko.
The figure's gender was unclear, but the black aura wrapped around it proved it was no good.
It had likely been hiding above the doorway, waiting for Chen Ye to enter before launching a surprise attack.
Fortunately, Chen Ye was cautious enough. Even though he could easily destroy an anomaly like this, he didn't choose to rush in recklessly.
At that moment, the gecko-like anomaly was frantically slapping at its own body in terror.
Because on this gecko person's body, a face had emerged on its surface. As the gecko slapped at it, the face slithered across its skin.
Just then, several more faces chased along the wall and climbed onto the gecko person's body through the point where it connected to the wall.
"Ahhh~!"
The gecko person screamed in panic, scrambling wildly around the room.
Eventually, it charged toward Chen Ye standing at the door.
A wall of smoke formed in front of Chen Ye, blocking the gecko person back.
The gecko person landed on the left wall.
Perhaps it had lost its mind from panic, but its landing spot was right in the middle of the crowd of faces.
In that instant, several more faces climbed onto the gecko person's body.
These faces emerged on its surface, each wearing an expression of delight. They opened their mouths wide, as if biting into something.
The gecko person was in so much pain it couldn't maintain its hold and fell to the floor.
More faces swarmed over, crawling down the wall to the floor, then pouncing on the writhing, rolling gecko person.
One face opened its mouth, and a tongue shot out, piercing straight through the gecko person's arm. Blood slid down the tongue into that face's mouth.
Soon, the gecko person's body was covered in faces.
Chen Ye watched the entire process clearly.
This method of attack reminded him of an animal from the insect world: piranhas.
Piranhas acted just like this. Once they found prey, they swarmed in and devoured it clean.
At first glance, this ability didn't seem particularly powerful.
Chen Ye could think of several ways to counter it.
But still... this ability was genuinely terrifying.
When he had fought Purple Rakshasa before, Chen Ye had been cautious and hadn't touched it.
If he had actually made contact with Purple Rakshasa back then, he would probably have been besieged by these faces as well.
Soon, under Chen Ye's watchful observation, the gecko person's body slowly dissolved. Yet there was no blood throughout the entire process.
The gecko person looked as though it was being eaten from beneath the skin, one bite at a time.
Even the blood hadn't been spared.
A new face joined the crowd of faces.
This face had deeply sunken cheeks, barely any flesh on them, but its eyes were filled with venomous hatred.
It seemed that this ability had grown a little stronger with the addition of the gecko person's face.