Chapter 645: Multi-Headed Anomaly
Countless Crawlers took shape within the Smoke Breath Mist, swarming forward in dense waves.
Those Crawlers climbed from the walls, the ceiling, and every direction toward the multi-headed anomaly.
When the first Crawler landed on top of the multi-headed anomaly's head,
several of its heads suddenly expanded their already gaping mouths even wider, swallowing the Crawler in one bite.
Even while the Crawler was still inside that gaping mouth, it had already dissolved into smoke.
One Crawler was bitten into smoke, but more Crawlers surged out of the Smoke Breath Mist.
One after another, they crawled all over the multi-headed anomaly's body.
One after another, the widening mouths bit Crawlers into dissipating smoke.
Chen Ye narrowed his eyes slightly. He hadn't expected this thing to have such an ability.
But Chen Ye wasn't flustered at all. He had numerous methods at his disposal, and the Smoke Breath Mist was merely a convenient tool—it couldn't be considered the strongest of all his abilities.
The Human-Faced Scorpion also charged forward, engaging the multi-headed anomaly in battle.
The stinger formed from smoke on the Human-Faced Scorpion's tail flickered once, striking toward the multi-headed anomaly.
Just as the Human-Faced Scorpion's stinger was about to pierce the forehead of one of the multi-headed anomaly's heads,
the multi-headed anomaly's head swayed slightly. A mouth appeared directly in the stinger's path and bit down on it in one snap.
The stinger dissolved into smoke.
But in the very next instant, a newly formed stinger thrust forward again.
The gaping mouth bit the stinger once more.
Right at that moment, a flash of blade light streaked by.
It was Hatred. Hatred had finally been drawn from its sheath.
Relying on Hatred's sharpness, as long as the timing of the strike was good enough, it could nearly slice this multi-headed anomaly in half with a single blow.
The next moment, two gaping mouths clamped down fiercely on Hatred's blade.
"Hehehe... found... found you..."
The other heads instantly let out bone-chilling, mournful laughs.
All their gazes locked onto a single direction.
Chen Ye's heart jolted. He transformed into Green Smoke and dissipated into the air.
But what happened next was enough to make Chen Ye's heart race slightly.
Under normal circumstances, as long as he concealed himself within the Smoke Breath Mist, ordinary anomalies were completely unable to detect his location.
But this multi-headed anomaly!
There was no way it could have pinpointed his exact position from the direction of Hatred's attack.
That left only one possibility.
Earlier, when it had devoured so much Smoke Breath Mist, could it have been analyzing his location through that very smoke?
Chen Ye transformed into Green Smoke and darted through the Smoke Breath Mist.
But the multi-headed anomaly chased relentlessly behind Chen Ye, and the distance between them grew shorter and shorter.
Chen Ye dove straight into Room 8716.
The multi-headed anomaly behind him didn't care whether Chen Ye was in Room 8716 or not—it simply crashed through.
Its massive head, composed of dozens of skulls, smashed straight through the partition wall between the rooms on the seventh floor like a sledgehammer.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
The sound of walls exploding behind him came one after another.
Whether it was because of the Rule Zone or not, such destruction somehow didn't cause the building to collapse.
Originally, the corridor had been lined with guest rooms on both sides.
After this multi-headed anomaly's collision, it had turned directly into one large open space.
"Hehe... got... got you..."
A massive head appeared in front of Chen Ye without warning, blocking his path.
At this moment, that enormous head was very close to Chen Ye.
Those seemingly thin legs had actually managed to achieve such speed.
There was no time to brake.
Chen Ye let out a furious roar and raised his left hand.
After training in the *Blood Moon First Set of Broadcast Calisthenics* for so long, Chen Ye could clearly feel that the strength in his left hand had increased significantly.
It was even several times stronger than when he had first clashed with Jiang Rou.
Chen Ye formed his left hand into a palm and chopped down toward the massive head in front of him.
A flash of red flame energy flickered across his arm.
This palm strike was incredibly fast. Chen Ye could even feel the air currents whistling along with his left palm.
A gaping mouth aimed directly at Chen Ye's left hand.
If this palm strike came down, Chen Ye's left hand would surely be bitten off.
But just as this palm strike was about to land,
Chen Ye disappeared, transforming into Green Smoke.
The multi-headed anomaly was momentarily stunned.
Right at that moment, in front of the two heads that had been biting Hatred,
a palm strike burst out from within the smoke.
This palm strike's target wasn't the multi-headed anomaly, but rather the Hatred blade that the two heads had been biting.
"Aaaahhhh~~~"
A shrill, furious roar erupted.
Hatred was deeply embedded into the multi-headed anomaly's heads.
At the same time, Chen Ye's palm made contact with the two severed heads of the multi-headed anomaly.
At the same moment, Demon Manifestation was activated.
Countless human faces bulged up along his arm, appearing like maniacs just released from prison.
Those human faces climbed onto the multi-headed anomaly's body.
Chen Ye grabbed Hatred's handle with his reverse grip.
Hatred's first form (Wailing) was activated.
Hatred's blade body trembled slightly. Countless black qi erupted from the blade.
Under the Wailing state, Hatred's lethality against anomalies was enhanced, and its sharpness increased significantly.
With a gentle twist, two large heads were ground into pulp.
Hundred-Ghost Eater, serving as a secondary blade, directly stabbed through the forehead of one head.
"I'll... I'll eat you..."
The other heads roared in fury.
Chen Ye had already transformed into Green Smoke and disappeared, holding his twin blades.
And at this moment, at least three or four human faces clung to the multi-headed anomaly's body.
Those human faces went mad, gnawing on the multi-headed anomaly's countless heads.
But the multi-headed anomaly wasn't backing down either. It opened its gaping mouths and gnawed back at those human faces.
The other heads glared angrily into the Smoke Breath Mist.
Countless Crawlers took shape once more and swarmed forward.
But the multi-headed anomaly ignored them entirely, charging madly straight toward Chen Ye's location.
So many heads, so many eyes all staring in that direction.
Chen Ye was certain they couldn't see him, yet they could still lock onto his position.
It had to be because of the Smoke Breath Mist they had devoured earlier.
This thing was really troublesome.
It was at this moment that Chen Ye realized he did have many trump cards up his sleeve.
But not many of them were suitable for this kind of battlefield.
The grudges Hatred had absorbed weren't enough—it couldn't activate its second form, Bitter Wailing!
He couldn't exactly use Blood Moon Summoning or tactics like the Resentment Dragon and wraiths to deal with this one multi-headed anomaly, could he.
Without the Monster Pickup Truck by his side, his options felt somewhat limited at the moment.
The Blood Eye flickered slightly.
Chen Ye decided it was time to use the Blood Eye's abilities.