Chapter 381: Chapter 345: Escape

With a rumbling sound, the entire ancient house from the Republic era began to sink, descending into the vast body of the Black Tai Sui beneath the ground.

After Zheng Xuan and his team set up some arrangements, they finally cleared a path in. As the group stepped through the doorframe wrapped with electric arcs, full of technological feel, they saw half of the ancient house collapse, sinking into the black swamp below.

Xia Chan, carrying Sang Que on her back, moved swiftly, with a figure in a black robe wielding a scythe chasing behind.

Without hesitation, Zheng Xuan drew his gun, firing several shots at the figure in the black robe behind Xia Chan, each shot accurately hitting the joints of the legs and arms.

The figure in the black robe fell to the ground and was swiftly swallowed by the black swamp surging behind.

Xia Chan sprinted to Zheng Xuan’s side, Sang Que frowned, unable to recognize who Zheng Xuan was; every face here was covered by hallucinations.

“This place isn’t safe, we need to leave!” Sang Que quickly said.

Zheng Xuan nodded, gestured to the teammates to retreat one by one. Xia Chan looked at the door wrapped with electric arcs, somewhat fearful.

Sang Que also didn’t want Xia Chan to take risks, so she took out the embroidered shoes and handed them to Xia Chan, allowing her to leave with them.

Zheng Xuan took Sang Que from Xia Chan and hurriedly dashed through the door.

Inside the door, a thunderous roar, as if the sky was collapsing and the ground was splitting open, but outside, all was silent, just a normal forested valley with many complex devices set up around, and over twenty people in black tactical gear, armed and ready.

Sang Que collapsed on the ground, the surrounding people saw the black pus-streaked stains on her legs and unconsciously backed away.

Zheng Xuan crouched beside Sang Que, “What is this stuff? Do you know how to deal with it?”

Sang Que nodded, the power of the Mountain Ghost Coin was slowly returning. She suspended her right hand over her leg, using the power of the Kan Trigram Rest Gate to purify the black spots on her leg.

As one trigram after another was consumed, the black spots gradually faded away, and Sang Que’s legs returned to normal.

Once all trigrams were exhausted, Sang Que moved her ankles, still a bit numb but not affecting normal movement.

Xia Chan emerged from inside, and Sang Que immediately used the power of dismemberment to help her take off the embroidered shoes.

Suddenly, a flock of birds took flight, and the ground began to tremble slightly.

Sang Que shielded Xia Chan, retreating while surveying the surroundings with her Ghost Eye.

“Everyone needs to evacuate the mountain immediately, the Black Tai Sui is about to emerge!”

The ancient house itself was built upon the sleeping Black Tai Sui, usually hidden in the Ghost Realm, or rather, a special Death Domain, only accessible by those with the surname Wu.

Now Sang Que couldn’t confirm whether it was because she had killed Wu Liang or some other reason that caused the Black Tai Sui to awaken; the Death Domain couldn’t contain it, and it would surely appear in the real world.

Upon hearing this, Zheng Xuan immediately used his walkie-talkie to inform everyone to evacuate, but all that was heard was static interference.

Fortunately, they had encountered similar situations before. Zheng Xuan pulled a cord from around his neck, on which hung a specially made copper whistle.

Zheng Xuan blew the whistle hard, the sound wasn’t sharp, and before long, response whistles came from all directions, signaling everyone to evacuate.

Sang Que told the others to go first, while she and Xia Chan stayed back to cover the retreat.

The ground’s shaking grew more intense, thick black liquid eventually surged out from that door, the electric arcs on the door sizzled, forcing the living-like black liquid back, but soon more black liquid gushed out all at once, engulfing the entire door.

The ground caved inward, trees in the forest tilted and fell, all sank into the black swamp erupting from underground.

The mountain, its foundation collapsing, led to landslides, large areas of trees were uprooted, the thick black sludge like giant beasts in pursuit behind Sang Que and her group.

Some members of the tactical team stopped and fired at the black flow, bullets shot out like water but didn’t stir even a splash, yet those shooting suddenly screamed in agony, even though they hadn’t touched the black flow, black spots rapidly appeared on their bodies, black tears flowed from their eyes, and all around, people turned into fearsome Evil Ghosts.

“Don’t attack that thing, it will backfire!”

By the time Zheng Xuan identified the issue, it was too late, several teammates influenced by the black flow turned their guns on the people around them.

“Little Chan, help!”

Sang Que grabbed Xia Chan and instant teleported over, before the infected individuals could fire, Sang Que and Xia Chan together struck the guns out of their hands.

Xia Chan tightly bound the out-of-control individuals with her hair, their comrades around, shocked, unsure of what Xia Chan truly was.

Luckily, they were well-trained, recovering quickly from their shock, picking up their bound comrades, and continued their escape, dodging the debris rolling down from the mountain.

At the moment, the village at the mountain’s base was also being hit by the tremor, walls collapsed with a rumbling crash, roof tiles fell like raindrops, hitting the ground with a crisp cracking sound.

Houses collapsed one after another, the ground on the streets suddenly swelled, forming uneven mounds. Underground pipes burst, water spouted skyward, creating a chaotic scene.

Fortunately, the people from the village had evacuated earlier, otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

An hour ago, the team stationed in the village had already begun setting up a special power grid, extending from the edge of the village to both sides of Lishi Mountain. Although they didn’t yet know what was inside, in past cases of uncontrollable horror events in any location, they would use the same method to lockdown the entire area.

The villagers and tourists who had been evacuated were all gathered at a viewing plaza beside a lake far from the village. The tactical team members staying here consciously separated the tourists from the villagers of Wu Family Village.

As the anomaly occurred on the mountain, the villagers of Wu Family Village below also exhibited abnormal reactions, some clutching their heads and falling to the ground in agony, some attacking people beside them in a frenzy, while others developed strange black rashes, continuously scratching and crying for help.

The scene instantly descended into chaos, villagers screamed, fighting each other like mad.

When the tactical team members realized shouting wouldn’t work, they quickly donned gas masks and tossed out several specially designed smoke grenades, the smoke rapidly spread, and one by one, the frenzied villagers fell unconscious.

On the mountain, seeing they couldn’t outrun the advancing Black Tai Sui, Sang Que retrieved her painting from Xia Chan, telling the others to go first.

Sang Que stayed behind alone, releasing all the zombies from her painting to form a human wall.

When the surging black flow encountered something to devour, its speed indeed slowed, the surrounding black flow also converged towards this spot, bringing with it those eyes that emerged beneath the flow, once again forming a huge eyeball, staring at Sang Que.

This time, Sang Que seemed to sense some emotions from that eye – resentment, pain, and sorrow.

She couldn’t understand why she suddenly empathized with these emotions, leading her uncontrollably towards that eye.

When she was completely beneath that gigantic eye, from the Warring States Period until now, the resentment, sorrow, pain, and fear of successive witches exploded in her mind.

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