mousepad-d2 Chapter 25 Being handsome is a lifelong thing
Chapter 25 Being handsome is a lifelong thing
He stood at the highest point of the factory building, holding a burning strip of cloth in his hand. Although it was hot, he did not let go immediately.
Instead, he exchanged a strange glance with the man wielding the whip, grinned, his expression dripping with sarcasm, and then released his grip.
Being handsome is a lifelong thing.
If you know enough about this strange phenomenon, you'll know that it doesn't have eyes at all.
However, Xu Si felt that the strange creature should be able to understand his demeanor.
Then, in a panic, the large cleaver severed a strangely swung tentacle.
His cool demeanor lasted for less than three seconds.
Burning strips of cloth drifted down into the deadly swamp, a mixture of gasoline and slime.
Time seemed to stand still at that moment.
Xu Si could clearly see the flames leaping on the strips of cloth, which appeared so faint yet so deadly against the backdrop of the viscous, reflective, eerie liquid.
"boom--!!!"
First came a roaring fire, like the tram's final, brilliant display.
Then a deafening explosion suddenly rang out!
It wasn't a momentary explosion, but a continuous, surging, terrifying roar that seemed to ignite the entire chemical plant!
The flames, like a giant beast awakening, spread at an alarming speed along the corrosive slime in all directions of the factory.
Orange-red flames licked everything in their path, the intense heat distorting the very air.
Those originally immortal and indestructible corrosive monsters emitted silent shrieks in the flames (perhaps just a fluctuation of energy annihilation), their bodies tumbling and disintegrating in the cremated swamp, never to be reassembled.
[Purify Level 2 Eerie Site: Rotten Moon Swamp, Purification Points +2000]
[Purify Level 1 Eerie Site: Rotten Mire, Purification Points +700]
[Purify Level 0 Mystery: Rotten Swamp, Purification Points +100]
[Purify Level 0 Mystery: Rotten Swamp, Purification Points +100]
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A series of system notifications sounded, but Xu Si didn't have time to be happy because the factory they were standing in had already begun to collapse.
"Let's go!" Tashan's voice came from the sea of fire.
"Here!" Xu Si, carrying Su Su in one hand and an empty oil drum in the other, used his Star Pupil at full power to leap down towards Tashan.
A wave of heat hit him, and Xu Si endured the burning sensation as Ta Shan caught him.
Then, Xu Si also felt the same way Su Su had back then.
When the leather bag was truly indescribable, the two of them were each sandwiched under one armpit by Tashan, and most importantly, Tashan was now a naked man.
The boy's face was flushed red by the firelight.
Tashan charged forward like a mad stone rhinoceros, carrying Xu Si and Su Su as it rampaged through the flames and collapsed factory buildings, not caring which way the factory's main gate was, and relentlessly attacking the direction of the flag in its mind.
The scorching, bubbling, viscous corrosive liquid beneath his feet licked his rock-like skin, making a sizzling sound, but it did nothing to stop him.
Xu Si was sandwiched under Ta Shan's armpit, his face pressed against the other's hard and hot stone skin. His nostrils were filled with the smell of burnt food, sweat, and a strange, sulfur-like rocky odor. He could only close his eyes tightly and use his Star Eyes to guide him to a relatively safe direction during the gaps in Ta Shan's collisions.
"Left! The pipe on the left is about to collapse!"
"The ground ahead is sinking, jump!"
Su Su was much more silent. Her body was tense, and she tried to minimize the amount of exposed skin she wore, occasionally throwing a punch to deflect burning fragments that flew towards her.
Finally, amidst a deafening roar and a wave of intense heat, the explosion occurred.
Tashan smashed through the last brick wall at the edge of the factory, carrying the two of them out of that hellish place.
The three of them fell heavily onto the gravel ground outside the factory and rolled around in a heap.
"Let's go!" Xu Si broke free immediately and took a deep breath of the relatively fresh air outside the factory.
However, now is not the time to relax; the scorching heat behind them reminds them that they are still not out of danger.
Tashan was completely exhausted and fell into a coma. Xu Si and Su Su each dragged one of his legs and continued to rush forward.
The convoy was not far ahead. Xu Si was still holding a huge oil drum in his hand, and he hadn't let go of it. This was the only real gain he had at the factory.
The entire chemical plant was now engulfed in flames, the towering firelight suppressing the sunlight of the blood-red sun and turning the sky an eerie orange-red.
The two staggered back to the gravel ground where the convoy was, dragging Tashan with them. Behind them, the chemical plant had become a raging inferno. The scorching heat waves hit them even from hundreds of meters away, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of burning and chemical substances.
"My God..." Fu Xiaojian looked at the towering flames, his face turning pale.
"Did you set fire to the eerie lair?" He could still sense the eerie and violent energy fluctuations.
"Brother Dao, Brother Dao!" Xiao Luo quickly stepped forward to check on the three men's condition and cleaned away any lingering auras from them.
They are in a state as if they have crawled out of hell.
If the sequence hadn't modified their bodies, probably none of them would have made it out. This was the first time they had encountered such a troublesome and bizarre creature; they couldn't fight it, and they couldn't touch it either.
All his martial prowess was rendered useless.
Feeling the burning sensation on his body, Xu Si grimaced.
The burning flames had little effect on him, but he still couldn't avoid getting some of the corrosive liquid splashing around him.
Fortunately, the energy absorbed by the star anchor in real time is slowly repairing him.
The worst off was Tashan. Not only was he completely naked, but his hair had also been burned off and he had almost no intact skin. However, his powerful self-repairing ability was visibly reshaping his body.
"Brother Fu, will Brother Shan be alright?"
"It's alright. It might even be a good thing for him. The Stone Descendant Sequence is a self-torture sequence. The more severe the injury, the faster the growth. He might even be able to break through to Sequence 2 through this," Fu Xiaojian said.
However, Tashan had already fallen into a coma by then.
"What a loss!" Because of her experience, Su Su curled up into a ball, so only her calf was burned.
What she meant by "losing out" was that she and Xu Si both returned empty-handed and nearly lost their lives.
Xu Si at least had a large fuel tank. She took such a big risk and didn't get anything in return, so she was somewhat unwilling.
The factories she visited were filled with large storage tanks, like sewage treatment plants, with absolutely no materials to collect.
"Sister Su, Brother Shan and the others brought back a lot of potatoes. The harvest was pretty good!" Luo Xiaotian comforted her.
"Oh?" Xu Si's eyes lit up as well.
It turned out that several people on the school bus had gone with Tashan to the canteen to collect supplies. The rice, flour, and cooking oil stored in the canteen had all been completely rotten. There were several large baskets of potatoes stored in the warehouse, but most of them had sprouted.
After the strange occurrences at the factory, the people on the school bus escaped with the potatoes, while Tashan went to support them.
So they didn't leave empty-handed this time.
Those who went to the administration building actually benefited the most this time.