Jiang Cifei rested for a moment, warily scanning his surroundings. Seeing no movement, he stood up and walked to the wall. He pressed the conspicuous red button to lift the dungeon’s lockdown, then headed toward the exit without looking back.
Just as he was about to step into the secret passage, he paused slightly, turned back toward the empty dungeon, and shouted, “My thanks!”
Since the mysterious person who had sabotaged the dungeon was unwilling to reveal themselves, Jiang Cifei understood the message. He simply walked away, wasting no breath on sentimental nonsense or promises of gratitude.
Once Jiang Cifei had left, Yue Shi turned his gaze toward the remaining living supernatural creatures. He activated 【Death Sentence】, pronouncing their deaths one by one.
“Death!”
“Death!”
“Death!”
The god of death was whispering. The moment the weak supernatural creatures in the cells heard that single word, their life force was severed, and they collapsed limply to the floor. The slightly stronger ones struggled for only a few seconds before following suit.
Illusory, invisible tentacles drew the source essence from the corpses, strengthening themselves.
Yue Shi could clearly feel that his ability was reaching a threshold, a point where it was about to undergo a qualitative change.
Soon. It was coming soon. Just a bit more!
He had to keep killing!
Not all the supernatural creatures in the dungeon were weaklings. Yue Shi walked to the cell holding the mass of flesh. On the surface of that massive lump of meat, countless mouths of various shapes and sizes were still opening and closing, incessantly wailing, “Hungry...”
“Death!”
The curse of 【Death Sentence】 took effect immediately. The mass of flesh stiffened violently, and every mouth stretched to its limit at the same time, letting out a shrill, terrifying shriek.
A portion of the flesh rapidly lost its vitality, turning a dull gray. Several mouths closed weakly and stopped howling—they were dead.
But in the next second, a shocking scene unfolded!
The mouths that were still “alive” on the meat block savagely bit into the parts that had just “died,” frantically devouring themselves!
As the dead portions were consumed, the lethal death curse was rapidly neutralized.
Yue Shi’s eyes burned with intensity. This lump of meat possessed such powerful regenerative and curse-resistant capabilities.
He tried activating 【Death Sentence】 several more times, but the result remained the same. Each time, only a part of the meat would wither, but the living mouths would immediately devour the dead sections, seemingly digesting and absorbing the power of the curse along with them.
While Yue Shi was considering his next move, the meat block underwent an even more bizarre transformation.
All the various mouths on its surface began to converge and merge like melting wax. In the blink of any eye, a horrific, giant maw that took up most of the meat’s surface formed, filled with layer upon layer of sharp, jagged teeth.
The giant mouth suddenly gaped open and inhaled. A terrifying suction force erupted. The high-strength glass container holding it shattered with a loud crack, spiderweb-like fissures spreading before it exploded outward. The glass shards were sucked directly into the giant maw.
The suction created a visible vortex of wind that swept through the entire underground prison. Guns on the floor, scattered tables and chairs, distant debris, and even a few nearby corpses of the deformed guards were pulled in by this violent force, slamming hard against the steel bars of the meat block’s cell.
Small objects like pistols and debris were sucked straight through the gaps in the bars and vanished into the tooth-filled maw.
The wooden furniture and the guards' corpses were too large; they were crushed against the thick steel bars by the sheer force of the suction! The screeching sounds of splintering wood and shattering bone rang out one after another. Under the immense pressure, these objects rapidly deformed and disintegrated, squeezed into splinters and pulp before being sucked into the giant mouth.
After consuming a massive amount of matter, the meat block’s volume expanded at a rate visible to the naked eye, transforming from a lump of meat into a small mountain of flesh.
The iron chains restraining the meat mountain let out an ear-piercing groan, clearly reaching their breaking point.
Yue Shi took a few steps back. At the same time, he noticed that the “corpses” of Zeng San and Dr. Luo on the floor hadn't been sucked away.
It seemed these two weren't completely dead yet.
Yue Shi immediately lunged to Dr. Luo’s side and shook her frantically like a dramatic lead in a soap opera, roughly waking her up. He then took the opportunity to hypnotize her, asking directly, “What is that meat mountain with the mouth?”
Forced awake, Dr. Luo’s expression was vacant. Under hypnosis, she answered truthfully, “That is the 【The Glutton】. Theoretically, it can eat anything and digest anything. It has no upper limit; the more it eats, the stronger it becomes.”
“What do you intend to do with these supernatural creatures?” Yue Shi pressed, his gaze sweeping over the other cells.
“Release them into the city to create chaos,” Dr. Luo murmured.
“Huh?” Yue Shi almost thought he had misheard. Curious, he asked, “Why would you do such a thing?”
“To loot resources during the chaos, kill the transcendents in the city... the best-case scenario is to take over the city directly.” Dr. Luo spoke intermittently. “If that fails, we’ll use the chaos to slip into the city, obtain citizenship, and settle down to live like normal humans. We’ve had enough of the poverty and filth of the Chaos Zone.”
Yue Shi was speechless. He didn’t care if the city was destroyed; he just felt these people were being a bit overambitious.
“You think you can attack a city with just a few of you and one 【The Glutton】? You’re severely underestimating a city’s defensive strength.”
Dr. Luo shook her head with difficulty, revealing a deeper secret while under hypnosis. “【The Glutton】 is nothing. Our true trump card is that...”
She struggled to lift a finger that could still move, trembling as she pointed toward a nearby cell. Inside was the horrific four-headed, multi-armed, multi-legged stitched monster.
“That is the S-rank supernatural creature, the 【The Crucible of Life】. We usually call it the ‘Stitched Abomination.’ It can merge with... any living organism it touches, without limit!”
An S-rank supernatural creature!
Yue Shi’s eyes widened. If he could take down an S-rank, he would probably be stuffed to the gills with essence!
“What is the weakness of 【The Crucible of Life】?!” he asked urgently.
“It has no weaknesses,” Dr. Luo replied calmly, shattering Yue Shi’s beautiful fantasy.
“No weaknesses? How is that possible?” Yue Shi’s voice rose unconsciously.
Dr. Luo explained, “The original 【The Crucible of Life】 indeed had many weaknesses, but my ability is 【Bio-modification】. I continuously stitched supernatural creatures and transcendents onto it, making it stronger and stronger.”
“Not long ago, another transcendent came to Peace Alley. His eyes could see the weaknesses of supernatural creatures. With his assistance, every weakness of 【The Crucible of Life】 was completely patched up.”
Yue Shi fell silent. So this was the handiwork of his dear colleague, Zhu!
“Hungry—!”
The meat mountain known as 【The Glutton】 broke free from its restraints and was currently gnawing on the steel bars of its cell with its massive mouth.
When it came to inorganic matter like metal, its eating speed didn't seem particularly fast, but it wasn't slow either.
Yue Shi hurriedly asked Dr. Luo, “What is the weakness of 【The Glutton】?”
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