Chapter 172: Crying Baby_2
"Quick! Smash this wall, I'll burn them!" Xiang Beifei shouted at Sun Yushan.
Sun Yushan immediately swung her massive hammer again, putting all her strength into it, and slammed it toward the wall in front!
Boom!
A large hole was blasted in the wall!
The steel and concrete here were over a hundred years old and very fragile, utterly unable to withstand Sun Yushan's robust hammer strike during her Meridian Opening phase; it created a large hole directly, but behind it, there were still various tentacles.
Xiang Beifei didn't hesitate. Almost at the moment Sun Yushan shattered the wall, his flame fist burst open, igniting those tentacles. Soon, the tentacles began retracting nonstop, revealing the gloomy sky outside.
"Quick, Fan Kai, Escape Technique!" Xiang Beifei shouted.
Fan Kai immediately grabbed Xiang Beifei and Sun Yushan, but his expression changed again!
"It's still no good, it seems like they've blocked not just this building but the entire city!" Fan Kai shouted.
"Then let's get out! Head to an open area!"
Xiang Beifei immediately squeezed through the broken part of the wall, and Fan Kai and Sun Yushan flashed through; the three directly jumped from the third floor, Fan Kai's earth immediately caught them, lifting them into mid-air.
Meanwhile, the tentacles behind them still tried to catch them but were repelled by Xiang Beifei's flames.
However, after they came out, they realized the situation was even worse!
Because every building in this abandoned city was crawling with dense, black tentacles! These black tentacles seemed to be parasitic on the buildings, surrounding them from all sides.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
All the tentacles surrounded them from all sides, as if the entire world was showered with tentacle rain, even the ground sprouted various black, sharp tentacles; the three gasped in shock.
"Quick! Earth!" Xiang Beifei shouted.
He had become the commander among the three, clearly understanding the system traits of Fan Kai and Sun Yushan, and therefore knowing when it was necessary for Fan Kai to act and when it was necessary for Sun Yushan to clear the way.
Fan Kai conjured layers of hazy earth, these sands floated in the air, forming a sphere around the three of them.
Rustle!
All the earth burst into flames, these earthy flames roared, blocking the encroaching tentacles.
However, they were still unable to escape from there.
At this time, the spot they came out from was exactly where they saw the pioneering point earlier, just over ten meters away from them.
"Fan Kai, head to the pioneering spot, quick!" Sun Yushan shouted.
Fan Kai didn't think twice, in his haste, he grabbed Xiang Beifei and ran toward the pioneering point.
However, Xiang Beifei bellowed, "Don't go!"
He quickly grabbed Fan Kai and Sun Yushan, which wasn't easy since both of them were in the Meridian Opening phase; he yelled, "Don't you get it? There's something odd about this place; the pioneering spot is dangerous too!"
As soon as his words fell, black tentacles also suddenly sprang out from the pioneering point's marker, furiously surging toward them. Sun Yushan and Fan Kai were both startled.
Rustle!
Xiang Beifei punched towards those tentacles, dispersing the black tentacles; the three immediately backed away.
Sun Yushan and Fan Kai broke into a cold sweat; they finally understood Xiang Beifei's Perception had always been right. Had they approached the pioneering point earlier, they would probably have been entangled by these black tentacles by now.
This city seemed to have changed long ago.
"Move out toward the City of the Old Days!" Xiang Beifei shouted.
Fan Kai's earth immediately carried them, moving quickly toward the outside, but the movement was slow, and soon they realized they could no longer move, as, unknown to them, they had been surrounded by a disgusting viscous liquid which solidified into solid white crystal walls, blocking their path.
Sun Yushan again swung her hammer at this solid wall, but this time she nearly got blown away herself!
"It's useless! This thing has gotten thicker!" Sun Yushan said anxiously.
Now they were completely out of options.
As they moved, the white porcelain baby was crying while continuously climbing up the walls, following them the whole time, crying nonstop. When Xiang Beifei and his companions stopped, it stood on the rooftop of an abandoned building.
"Wah, wah, wah..."
The baby screamed at Xiang Beifei, and then it fiercely spat at them. The spit transformed into disgusting mucus in the air, swiftly flying towards them.
Xiang Beifei and his two companions tensed up, realizing the mucus was the baby's saliva.
Fan Kai quickly led them in dodging, but the saliva grew more frequent. After spitting, it did not fall but solidified, forming layers of crystals in the air, blocking their path and pushing them to a desperate situation.
Xiang Beifei calmly analyzed the situation before him using "Learn by Analogy," realizing the long, thin tendrils were controlled by the strange baby. He felt this baby might specifically be targeting him.
Because each time it attacked, it almost always targeted him and did not bother much with Fan Kai and Sun Yushan, always trying to capture him.
Although he did not understand the reason, Xiang Beifei did not ponder further as he had to devise a way to repel these tendrils.
This baby's strength was very high, definitely at the Meridian Opening stage of a desolate beast, but it seemed very fearful of his flame—more accurately, his Spiritual Power.
This gave him a certain advantage.
He quickly processed the situation in his mind and after searching in the sky filled with tendrils for a moment, his focus landed on the baby.
The deployment of these tendrils was closely related to this baby, suggesting that the baby was in control.
Therefore, if he could defeat the baby, he should be able to disperse the tendrils.
"You guys wait here."
Xiang Beifei leapt forward, bursting out from Fan Kai's layer of sand, his figure fiercely vaulting through the air towards the baby who was spitting from afar on the wall.
"Wait, what are you doing!" Sun Yushan shouted.
"Come back, it's dangerous!" Fan Kai also grew agitated.
But Xiang Beifei moved too quickly, and in the blink of an eye, he had already soared into the sky!
spit! spit! spit!
Seeing Xiang Beifei charging, the baby spat again, the saliva crystallizing rapidly into sharp stakes in mid-air, with the intent to knock Xiang Beifei down.
However, when these stakes pierced towards Xiang Beifei, he clearly analyzed their trajectory, stepping on the stakes with each leap, using their force to propel himself forward.
Not a single stake hit Xiang Beifei; instead, they became points of leverage for him. By the time the crying baby realized, Xiang Beifei had already leaped behind the weepy creature, smashing a fist down towards it.
But the baby reacted quickly too; as Xiang Beifei's fist came smashing, the tendrils burst out suddenly from behind him, wrapping around Xiang Beifei's back and rapidly entwining his body.
"Wah, wah, wah..."
The baby seemed to cry triumphantly, its reaction speed obviously higher than Xiang Beifei's, but Xiang Beifei seemed to have anticipated all this, staring at the baby.
"Want some sunflower seeds?"
Xiang Beifei spat out several sunflower seed shells from his mouth, the shells swiftly flying towards the baby.
The baby appeared startled, seemingly unsure whether it understood what Xiang Beifei said, but immediately a tendril appeared behind it, wrapping around the seed shells.
But the next moment, it sensed something was wrong, as an eerie Spiritual Power arose from the seed shells, quickly spreading up the tendrils and permeating into them!
Then abruptly exploded!
Boom!
Each tendril seemed to suddenly become a hundred pounds heavier, all the tendrils were unknown by how much heavier made by Xiang Beifei, their sensitivity immediately dropped a notch, even the tendril holding Xiang Beifei started to droop.
Heavier than Mount Tai!