"Decent stuff," the Zerg said, satisfied, turning around. "Come here."
Hearing the command, the eight-eyed leech excitedly raised its front body, revealing densely packed suckers opening and closing underneath. Its body was glossy black with a white line on its back, eight eyes evenly spaced, and extremely tight gaps between its teeth. One glance, and your sanity would plummet.
How disgusting...
Chu Ran stared ahead, her rationality teetering.
The blood from her leg pooled into a stream. Her body grew weaker, death approaching.
The eight-eyed leech quickly wriggled forward, radiating the pleasure of an impending feast, drool overflowing. It crept closer to the boy's severed leg, its mouthparts dripping with sticky liquid.
This scene was like a slow-motion movie, gradually filling Chu Ran's entire view.
It was... so disgusting.
This was a scene from a nightmare.
The bloody smell wafted through the air. Sunlight, mixed with dust, fell from above, sliding down Chu Ran's pale skin to the ground.
Chu Ran raised her head slightly. Her slender neck was as fragile as a dying swan, utterly defenseless. The scene before her grew hazy. In a daze, she seemed to see herself being slowly swallowed by the eight-eyed leech.
Had she died less than a day after being reincarnated?
Devoured alive by such a disgusting bug...
She thought she shivered, but in reality, she was too weak to move.
No...
No way!
She couldn't accept this!
The blazing sun poured down recklessly. The air grew scorching and distorted, as if it would burn everything. The intense pain inside her body gradually evaporated. Anger, like paper focused by a prism, instantly ignited and flared up, spreading like wildfire in an instant.
She couldn't become bug food!
She couldn't end her second life in such a disgusting way!
A surge of fierce rage exploded from Chu Ran's chest. Her body grew hotter and hotter, completely enveloped by the blazing sunlight.
Not far away, the eight-eyed leech was about to swallow the boy's severed leg in one gulp when a "whoosh" sound rang out. Its body froze in midair. The next second, black blood splattered everywhere like fireworks.
"This aura..."
The Zerg man looked up in surprise at Chu Ran.
The rotting food could actually awaken?
The wind rose.
Mixed with the smell of blood and dust, it formed a huge vortex.
Chu Ran slowly rose into the air with her eyes closed. Gold crawled from her cheeks over her eyes, forming a cross shape on her forehead. Her wounds healed quickly. Behind her, a red cape fluttered in the wind. In her right hand, which hung down, appeared a golden long staff.
If anyone could see through her body, they would notice a dark shadow deep in her heart emitting a dim red light.
As the wind surged, she suddenly opened her eyes. Her golden pupils held only pure killing intent.
"Kill!"
With a twist of her right hand, the Golden Cudgel instantly elongated and smashed down from above toward the Zerg man, bringing a howling wind.
"An unknown Chinese divine being," the Zerg man frowned slightly, quickly retreating a few steps. "Troublesome."
He spread his five fingers and pushed forward. A huge black vortex appeared above, causing the surrounding space to warp and distort.
The Golden Cudgel collided with the black vortex. The resulting spatial fluctuations instantly shattered the surrounding walls. Rubble flew everywhere like hail, and broken walls littered the ground.
Expressionless, Chu Ran pressed her index finger lightly on the staff. Golden light radiated around the staff, and then the black vortex exploded.
The Zerg man's heart tightened. He quickly teleported ten meters away.
Bang!
The air current from the Golden Cudgel's strike grazed his cheek, leaving a blue bloodstain. The Zerg man's face darkened. "A-rank divine power, huh."
The Golden Cudgel missed its target, spinning back into Chu Ran's hand.
A drop of blood trickled from Chu Ran's mouth, but she felt no awareness. Her pupils had completely turned gold.
She stood before the sun, the blazing sunlight like her wings, casting the earth into shadow.
With a backhand, the Golden Cudgel struck again with ten million jin of force, smashing down at lightning speed.
Damn!
The Zerg man's eyes showed hatred.
He raised his head and let out a screech. His body instantly swelled and transformed into a giant Zerg Beast. The beast's body reached three meters tall, its sharp limbs covered with dense spikes. A single touch could scrape off a large chunk of flesh.
C-rank Zerg: Sixteen-Legged Blood Spider!
The immense impact raised clouds of dust.
The sixteen-legged blood spider crossed its four front limbs, barely blocking the Golden Cudgel.
Chu Ran's face was like a dead mountain—no expression, not a ripple. With just a point of her index finger, the Golden Cudgel's weight instantly doubled.
"Not good!"
The sixteen-legged blood spider cursed under his breath and quickly raised four more front limbs to defend. There was a continuous tearing sound. Its massive body was pushed backward, slowly sliding.
With a crack, four limbs broke off.
He hurriedly spat white silk, tightly binding the broken limbs.
Some white silk fell to the ground with a sizzle, corroding the ground into pits.
"Return."
Chu Ran said coldly. The Golden Cudgel turned backward and rose into the air.
The sixteen-legged blood spider breathed a slight sigh of relief. But the next second, the Golden Cudgel smashed down again at incredible speed.
Fuck, a feint!
He hastily raised eight legs to block. Crack, crack. The white silk and four sharp limbs fell to the ground, the remaining four tottering.
My legs!
The sixteen-legged blood spider's pupils turned bloodshot, a mix of fear and dread. His carefully planned hunt had run into such a tough nut!
He had lost all thought of summoning Zerg Beasts to surround her; that would only be asking for mass suicide.
Seeing the Golden Cudgel rise into the air again, the sixteen-legged blood spider gritted his teeth and turned to flee. Spatial fluctuations began to appear before him.
Chu Ran slightly raised her eyelids. A cloud appeared under her feet as she flew forward rapidly, her expression indifferent. She brought the Golden Cudgel down hard on the fleeing prey once more. "Die."
The rear half of the sixteen-legged blood spider instantly collapsed.
His heart hardened, and he actually severed the part of his body that hadn't entered the spatial vortex, sacrificing his tail to escape as he plunged into the vortex.
The wind stopped at some point.
Chu Ran seemed to regain a bit of consciousness. The gold in her eyes quickly faded. The cloud beneath her dispersed, and the Golden Cudgel vanished from sight.
She tried to turn her head to look back, but a mouthful of blood sprayed out. The healed wound tore open again, and a torrent of blood rained down to the ground like a storm.
Like a dying butterfly, she fell straight from the air.
"Chang He!"
Her rescuer had arrived.