Using the Weird Domain while being affected by the weird energy emanating from the surrounding flesh walls was one thing, but this weird energy could even help this fourth-tier split-head weirdo locate him. This meant that when he couldn’t instantly kill it with the Weird Domain, he instead exposed his own position—and things suddenly became rather tricky.
On the surface, Shen Ge was dealing with this fourth-tier split-head weirdo, but in reality, he was secretly competing with the sixth-tier weirdo in a battle of weird energy consumption.
Realizing that the sixth-tier weirdo behind the scenes intended to drag him into a war of attrition, trying to drain his weird energy before turning him into nutrients, Shen Ge decided to settle things quickly with the split-head weirdo.
Pfft—
At that moment, accompanied by the strange sound of flesh bursting open, a spray of blood exploded from the neck that Shen Ge had previously split open with his pig-slaughtering knife. Right after, the split in the neck “divided in two” again—the original neck with its original head on one side, while the other split half rapidly grew into another carnivorous-flower-like fleshy head.
“Good grief, it can split too?” Shen Ge felt utterly awful, thinking that fourth-tier weirdos really did all possess special abilities—each one could put on a show.
If he kept chopping, he might end up cutting out an eight-headed serpent, the national guardian beast of Sakura Country—and who knows, maybe it could even “burst” the sixth-tier weirdo from the inside.
Shen Ge suddenly thought this was a pretty good idea, but he didn’t have time to dwell on it. Guided by the sixth-tier weirdo’s weird energy, the split-head weirdo locked onto his position again and sprayed several streams of corrosive liquid at him.
Shen Ge once again activated “Bullet Time,” transforming into Neo and leaning back at an extreme angle to dodge all the corrosive liquid attacks, while simultaneously directing his pig-slaughtering knife and Weird-Destroying Revolver at the split-head weirdo’s two heads.
Bang!
Bang bang bang!
Under a barrage of shots from the Weird-Destroying Revolver, several bullets pierced through both of the split-head weirdo’s heads at incredibly tricky angles, and then the pig-slaughtering knife followed up on the wounds.
The pig-slaughtering knife, having absorbed Shen Ge’s sixth-tier weird energy, became exceptionally sharp. This one slash sank in more than halfway, as easy as cutting through melons and vegetables.
But although the split-head weirdo’s defense was broken by Shen Ge, its regeneration speed was astonishing—after the cells regenerated, flesh quickly condensed and wrapped around the pig-slaughtering knife.
“Power amplification!”
Fifty times!
A hundred times!
If the pig-slaughtering knife’s sharpness alone wasn’t enough to cut through the split-head weirdo’s neck, then Shen Ge would simply apply external force to strengthen his attack.
Pfft!
Shen Ge’s blade cut directly through the split-head weirdo’s flesh-petal head, slicing off half of it in one go, then slashed toward the other head.
The weirdo’s corrosive blood splattered everywhere, but Shen Ge had been prepared—all the corrosive liquid was blocked by the invisible barrier.
With a “plop,” one of the split-head weirdo’s heads fell to the ground. Shen Ge had intended to carve the split-head weirdo into pieces, but out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that the head that had fallen to the ground actually melted into a puddle of flesh and blood. After coming into contact with the split-head weirdo’s foot, it was “absorbed” back.
“Fuck, is your true form Venom?” Shen Ge was dumbfounded. No wonder this thing could split in two and grow a second head after being decapitated—so it was a knockoff Venom all along?
Shen Ge used his knife to block the split-head weirdo’s biting head, casually condensing an invisible barrier in front of its mouth to block the freshly sprayed corrosive liquid, while his other hand reached toward the weirdo’s body to use the Invisible Weird Domain’s derived ability—
Heart Extraction!
Counting the earlier attack that broke through the split-head weirdo’s weird energy defense, Shen Ge’s smooth combo should have been enough to incapacitate the split-head weirdo even if it couldn’t kill it. But things didn’t develop as he had expected—there was a small accident…
Shen Ge’s hand, reaching into the split-head weirdo’s body to use Heart Extraction, groped around for quite a while but couldn’t lock onto the target’s heart through the weird energy!
So it’s a heartless mutt after all?
Shen Ge’s series of attacks also kept the split-head weirdo busy healing and unable to launch attacks. And under Shen Ge’s relentless assault, it revealed that its actual ability was a “mimicry” similar to Venom—its entire body of flesh and blood could evolve into new parts under accelerated healing.
Like the second head from before.
At this point, whether to better deal with Shen Ge or to increase its own combat power, every wound Shen Ge cut open on the split-head weirdo divided in two again. In just one minute, however many times it was cut, it doubled its heads—no longer an eight-headed serpent, but a sixteen-headed serpent!
But Shen Ge soon discovered a fatal flaw in the split-head weirdo: although it kept healing wounds and splitting into more heads, its overall size hadn’t changed at all.
Moreover, compared to the beginning, now that it had split into nearly twenty heads, its originally chubby body had actually slimmed down several times over.
Most importantly, after Shen Ge’s new round of slashing, the split-head weirdo didn’t split any new heads—it only completed one round of healing.
“Oh ho, hit the limit?” Shen Ge once again covered the split-head weirdo with the Invisible Weird Domain and reached toward its body—
Heart Extraction!
This time, Shen Ge successfully locked onto the split-head weirdo’s heart in just a few seconds, which made him realize that earlier he had clearly been affected by the “fat” on its belly—that is, the thick layers of weird energy defense—which should have produced a distortion from the weird energy collision, causing him to grope for so long without being able to reach the heart.
“Let’s see what you’ve got to block it with this time!” The moment Shen Ge grabbed the weirdo’s heart, he immediately infused weird energy and released a “Collapse” at several times the intensity.
Combined with a hundred times power amplification, he gripped the split-head weirdo’s heart tightly. Under “Collapse,” he yanked once—”pfft”—and the heart was directly torn out by Shen Ge.
The corrosive liquid inside the split-head weirdo’s body sprayed all over the ground. Shen Ge’s right foot got a bit on it, and his shoe was almost completely corroded away within seconds.
Fortunately, Shen Ge reacted fast enough—the instant the corrosive liquid touched him, he kicked and flicked the shoe off. Otherwise, even if his foot hadn’t been corroded down to the bone, it probably wouldn’t have been much better off.
Of course, this was only according to the situation of an ordinary human body. After Shen Ge’s perfect fusion with the system, setting aside the weird energy defense inside his body, his half-human, half-weird physique was already several times stronger than a human’s. This level of corrosive liquid wasn’t enough to instantly melt him.
“Ah, missing the Red Mist Armor’s 365 days.” Shen Ge couldn’t help but sigh inwardly. As the saying goes, technology makes people useless. He had relied too much on the Red Mist Armor’s defense in the past, so now that the Red Mist Armor was temporarily unavailable, he always felt a bit constrained.
In the past, when Shen Ge was inside a weirdo’s body and saw a black pit, black hole, or abyss, he’d jump in first and ask questions later—finding the “bottom” made exploration easier.
Now, forget jumping—even when he found something liquid-like, he had to test its strength with the invisible barrier first, afraid that one careless move would melt him.
[Successfully killed fourth-tier weirdo ‘Split-Head.’ Rewards: System Points x2000, E-grade Recovery Item x1, F-grade Recovery Item x3.]
[The weirdo corpse can be sold—Value: 3000 System Points.]
He had to admit, although this weirdo was troublesome, the rewards were quite good. After selling the corpse, that was equivalent to 5000 System Points in hand. Shen Ge was now less than 15,000 points away from 50,000 System Points.
“I remember the system said earlier to finish the battle quickly, otherwise it would alert other split-head weirdos. Perfect—I’ll find them and farm some points, and first transfer the trait equipment ‘Endless.'” Shen Ge was still thinking about his critical-hit sword. He wasn’t even thinking about how to escape from the sixth-tier weirdo’s belly—instead, he was thinking about how to take the opportunity to farm points.
After dealing with the split-head weirdo, Shen Ge arrived at the metal hatch door where the split-head weirdo had previously been stuck, and shone his flashlight inside.
He had expected it to be a room or passage behind, but unexpectedly, it was a pitch-black “flesh wall.”
Shen Ge came to the door and, while the hundred-times power amplification effect hadn’t worn off yet, first used the Weird-Destroying Revolver to fire several shots at one spot to “break the defense,” then threw several consecutive punches.
Bang bang bang!
After a round of continuous output, the flesh wall “squirmed” a few times with visible movement, feeling like those punches had landed on a big fat guy’s belly—the force was all dissipated by the fat. The blood holes shot out by the Weird-Destroying Revolver also fully healed within two or three seconds.
Shen Ge wasn’t surprised at all by this result. After all, even the fourth-tier weirdo parasitizing inside had terrifying healing ability—it was completely normal for the sixth-tier weirdo’s “main body” to be blasted to pieces and still merge back together and recover. That was the kind of strength befitting a sixth-tier entity.
Bullets and fists had no effect, so Shen Ge could only pin his hopes on the sharp pig-slaughtering knife. But after several slashes at the flesh wall, just when it looked like he was about to cut open a gap, the flesh wall rapidly healed again.
“Fine, let’s see whether you heal faster or I cut faster!” Shen Ge, borrowing the dozens-of-times power amplification, kept slashing at the flesh wall continuously, trying to use destructive power to suppress the other’s healing speed. Unfortunately, the speed of destruction and healing were about the same—and there was even a faint trend of him being outmatched.
Wait!
A flash of inspiration hit Shen Ge. He suddenly thought of a good idea—he deactivated the dual Weird Domains of Invisible and Silent, and instead activated the Motionless Weird Domain, releasing a large amount of weird energy to maintain the domain.
Then—
“Bullet Time!”
Influenced by Shen Ge’s Weird Domain, time in the entire space suddenly became slow. The collision between the sixth-tier weirdo’s weird energy and the Motionless Weird Domain’s weird energy caused the entire space to become distorted.
The whole space gave off a very strange and peculiar state—as if here, you couldn’t feel the passage of time, and everything was still.
Shen Ge wanted to move but couldn’t. He knew this was the sixth-tier weirdo resisting him—both sides’ weird energy had clearly entered a stalemate. Until one side’s weird energy was “exhausted,” neither could break free from this strange and peculiar state.
At this moment, Shen Ge noticed that under the influence of this strange state, the flesh wall’s wound healing speed had also slowed down.
To be precise, it had also “stopped” healing.
Shen Ge’s eyes turned sharp. From the very beginning, he had never expected his Motionless Weird Domain to be able to completely suppress the sixth-tier weirdo and slow down its entire body, giving him a chance to break through the flesh wall. Rather, the current situation was exactly the “result” he wanted.
Just as the sixth-tier weirdo concentrated its weird energy to defend against Shen Ge’s Motionless Weird Domain, Shen Ge suddenly deactivated the Motionless Weird Domain, then quickly slashed at the flesh wall several times, cutting off several chunks of flesh.
The sixth-tier weirdo reacted quickly too—after being attacked, it immediately gathered weird energy to heal. But at this moment, Shen Ge once again expanded the Motionless Weird Domain to cover the entire space.
This time, after the Motionless Weird Domain spread out, that strange and peculiar state clearly took several seconds longer to appear. Instead, the entire space was affected by the Motionless Weird Domain and slowed down for a few seconds—and Shen Ge didn’t miss a single attack opportunity, slashing several more times in those few seconds.
As a frontline combatant who had dealt with the Research Department for years, Shen Ge knew very well that regardless of a weirdo’s rating, a weirdo’s healing ability came from weird energy.
Therefore, his initial plan was to divert the sixth-tier weirdo’s weird energy—to make it concentrate its weird energy to consume his Weird Domain. Once the sixth-tier weirdo fell into the trap, he would immediately deactivate the domain and attack the flesh wall, catching the other side off guard.
Obviously, the brainless weirdo couldn’t figure out Shen Ge’s plan. After being forced to divert its weird energy, Shen Ge took advantage of the moment when the other side wasn’t strengthening its weird-energy healing to launch his attack.
Just like that, Shen Ge successfully exploited the bug—opening and closing the Weird Domain, attacking and luring in turn. After several rounds of contest, he successfully cut a large hole in the flesh wall.
Behind the hole was a pitch-black flesh-wall passage that looked like an intestine—no black blood, no tentacles, and no trace of any weirdo, only squirming flesh walls and disgusting blood vessels.
Before the other side could use weird energy to heal and seal the entrance he had cut open, Shen Ge “mistified” and slipped into the passage.
Once inside, a nauseating stench of decay immediately hit him in the face—the entire passage gave off a foul, rotting odor.
Just a few seconds after Shen Ge entered, with the Motionless Weird Domain no longer restraining and influencing things outside, the flesh wall immediately healed and sealed shut. There was no way out now even if he wanted to leave.
After entering while maintaining “Mistify,” Shen Ge didn’t care whether the sixth-tier weirdo could directly lock onto him through weird energy. He first habitually maintained the three-property state of “Invisible + Silent + Untraceable,” then expanded the Silent Weird Domain to condense an invisible barrier around himself for defense.
Once everything was prepared, he slowly walked deeper into the passage with his flashlight, trying to find the research institute inside the sixth-tier weirdo’s body.
After walking deeper for about twenty minutes, Shen Ge squeezed out from the narrow exit of the flesh passage and arrived at an open area.
“This place… really does look like a space station completely parasitized by Xenomorphs.” Shen Ge shone his flashlight around and looked—it immediately reminded him of the famous scenes from the old movie Alien.
Obviously, the situation here was a hundred times more disgusting than the scenes in Alien. At least in the movie, there wouldn’t be “living” flesh walls, ceilings, and a layer of creep deep enough to submerge one’s knees.
The entire space also gave off a nauseating stench of decay—this concentrated disgusting smell was comparable to dozens of times the stench of fermented herring canned fish!
Even Shen Ge, who had seen plenty of big scenes, was about to be knocked out by the stench!
