Chapter 253: Red Coffin (Conclusion) (6000 words)_4
After a few quick compressions, he tilted Zhang Xiaomo's head to the side.
Repeating this, it wasn't long before Zhang Xiaomo's body twitched slightly, spitting out a mouthful of water, and then she began to cough violently.
The injured exorcist, having only just come into contact with water, was immediately alright as the water receded at once; he was just choked a bit and was already coughing on his own, no serious issue.
Yan Junze sat next to Zhang Xiaomo, whose face had turned deathly pale but was gradually regaining consciousness, staring at the Red Coffin lying quietly on the ground with an ashen face.
At this moment, the coffin lay still, apparently undamaged; its dread was ever-present.
Zhang Xiaomo slowly regained consciousness, opened her eyes, and looked at Yan Junze. It took her quite a while to come back to her senses.
"Don't talk for now, just rest for a bit," Yan Junze said, his gaze still fixated on the motionless Red Coffin, "I think... I've found what its Obsession is."
After a pause, Yan Junze suddenly laughed, "Since you like to devour people's fear, then fine, I'll let you have enough of it this time."
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No more than a minute had passed.
The Red Coffin in front of them began to shake violently, and a cloud of grey mist emerged from the opened coffin.
Yan Junze grinned, "Come on, this can be my fear too!"
Whoosh, a thick, deep-yellow tentacle emerged from the narrow space of the coffin, flinging at least half its length onto the ground outside the coffin, startling Zhang Xiaomo who had just woken up.
"What is this?" she couldn't help asking.
"Another of my fears," Yan Junze said with a smile, turning his head to look once more.
The tentacle was so massive that, though half of it was flailing outside, the other half was stuck at the mouth of the coffin, writhing furiously.
The coffin itself began to shake violently, as if it held an ancient beast trying to break free of its cage, to present itself before the person who harbored intense fear of it.
Zhang Xiaomo could even see fleshly suckers underneath the skin of the exposed tentacle, all slightly opening and closing at this moment, dripping with viscous pus, looking extremely disgusting.
Crack!
A crisp sound suddenly emerged; a fissure appeared on the outside of the Red Coffin, followed by another crack bursting open on the opposite side.
The tentacle's owner continued to push crazily outward, causing cracking sounds to be incessant in that moment.
Boom!
Suddenly, something happened inside the coffin space; a large clump of yellow mist burst forth, collapsing inwards, followed by the cracked Red Coffin collapsing rapidly inside.
The gigantic tentacle, at that very moment, was also pulled back by some strange force.
A long, eerie shriek that seemed to have traveled from a great distance, as if through countless centuries, was emitted from the collapsing coffin at that moment.
Without a doubt, the shriek belonged to the tentacled demon.
Right before Yan Junze and Zhang Xiaomo's eyes, the Red Coffin broke into several wooden fragments, and the large tentacle, rapidly retracted, along with the dark void inside the coffin, disappeared without a trace after the collapse.
All that could be seen was the shattered coffin.
The once sizable Red Coffin now seemed to have become merely a pile of very ordinary, broken wooden fragments.
As Zhang Xiaomo stared at these coffin fragments, her mouth agape in disbelief, she repeatedly glanced over at Yan Junze.
Yan Junze paid no attention to her expression but merely pursed his lips at the pile of broken planks, "Your Obsession was to fill your space with the greatest fear. This time, you should be satisfied."
As soon as he finished speaking, a task completion message popped up.
[Red Coffin, Terrified (Low), completed, awarded 1500 Different Dimension Energy points.]