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After Fan Luming fell, his twin sister instinctively turned her head. But before Fan Hemian could see what had happened to her brother, she heard Ji Dong shout, “Be careful, Xiao He!”
In the next moment, an arm wrapped around her waist from behind. Fan Hemian was lifted with force, her legs quickly leaving the ground, and she was thrown in an arc mid-air, swiftly shifting three meters from left to right.
An arrow swiftly flew through the air and pierced the spot where the girl was originally standing,
“Go check on your brother first!”
The girl felt the arm around her waist loosen, and at the same time, she heard Mo Tiangen speaking. It was then that she realized it was Mo Tiangen who had timely held onto her waist, and helped her to avoid the invisible monster.
The second arrow promptly arrived, but it suddenly stopped in a certain position, hanging still in mid-air.
“Hurry, go!”
Mo Tiangen gave Fan Hemian a push, then picked up the [Universal Foldable Stick Chair] and smashed it in the direction of the arrows.
Fan Hemian quickly turned around and ran to her brother’s side. Fortunately, Fan Luming had only been slapped away by the monster, and aside from hitting his head on the door frame and feeling a bit dizzy, he hadn’t been seriously injured.
He had already gotten up by himself by this point, grimacing in pain as he held his back.
“One arrow is in its forehead, the other is in its chest!”
Ji Dong shouted, “Hit the vital points!”
“Got it!”
Mo Tiangen swiftly wielded the [Universal Foldable Stick Chair], fiercely swinging it forward.
When dealing with the patient-like man, who was both invisible and invincible, among everyone present, no one’s weapon was more powerful than Mo Tiangen’s [Universal Foldable Stick Chair].
Ji Dong saw the man being repeatedly pushed back by Teacher Dagen’s strikes. Even though he was not afraid of pain, he couldn’t withstand the fierce physical strength of a person with a brute force ability.
In the end, he could only leap and pounce onto the nearest cabinet, and then hang himself from the ceiling in a posture that resembled a gecko, stretching his neck to look down.
Just now, this monster had taken a solid strike from Ren Jianmo’s knife. The blade had gone from the side of its neck to the front of the opposite rib.
Although its body could regenerate quickly like a starfish, its clothes could not restore their original state. So when it hung upside down, the torn patient gown naturally fell, exposing a large area of skin underneath.
Ji Dong saw that on the exposed chest of the monster, there were rows of black stitches crisscrossing, resembling many broken pieces forcefully stitched together with thick thread.
——I got it!
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Ji Dong finally understood!
——The reason why the joints of that thing were so flexible, twisting in any direction at will, was because its body wasn’t whole from the beginning, but rather pieced together after being divided!
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Sure enough, when he spoke loudly, the monster’s head that was hanging from the ceiling suddenly twisted 180 degrees and focused completely on him.
Ji Xiao’niao placed an arrow on the bowstring, slowly backed away, and circled the wall.
“We’ll hold this thing off, you guys quickly go find those specimens!”
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Although it was just a vengeful spirit fueled by resentment, Zhong Bin felt a sense of danger as its true form was about to be discovered.
It no longer focused solely on Ji Dong but launched an attack on everyone in the specimen room.
To buy time for the Fan siblings to search for the specimens, Ji Dong, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen used all sorts of methods to chase the man in the patient gown around the room.
For a moment, there were flashing blades, sparks flying, and a sturdy stool dancing in the air with countless bottles and jars smashing everywhere.
Every time they broke something, they could hear Fan Luming’s distant screams of panic.
The thing was, those jars were filled with formalin solution, so when they crashed on the ground, the liquid, broken glass, and whatever was inside would scatter everywhere. Fan Hemian and Fan Luming had to use flashlights to search through the mess, rummaging through the contents with their bare hands.
Soon, their bodies were covered in formalin, and their palms were scratched with long and short, thin and wide wounds from the glass shards.
Unfortunately, Ji Dong and the others were trying to restrain the monster, so they couldn’t immediately help Fan Luming and Fan Heiman.
Because the thing they were fighting was truly immortal.
Even when its head was chopped off by Ren Jianmo, the monster could still move freely with its headless body. And in less than a minute, a new head would emerge from the severed neck, shaking as it lunged towards the person who had attacked it.
Ji Dong noticed that each time they injured the male patient in the hospital gown, the regenerated limbs appeared even more twisted and deformed than before.
It was as if the creature was constantly “evolving.” It was gradually losing more of its human form and becoming stronger and more ferocious!
——If we continue like this, we won’t last much longer!
Ji Dong was extremely worried.
Just then, the monster suddenly leaped high and grabbed onto the broken ceiling light fixture with its somewhat rugged fingers, hanging itself up there.
Then its body trembled, and from within the tattered hospital gown, its form began to change. The black stitches that connected the flesh pieces were stretched to the extreme as if they could break at any moment.
Its body suddenly swelled up twice its size, surpassing three meters, like an inflated giant spider, occupying a large portion of the ceiling.
Then, with a kick of its two hind legs, it lunged towards Ji Dong like a locust.
In that instant, Ji Dong didn’t have time to think much.
He instinctively activated his powers and shot an arrow at the same time.
Purple and blue electric light wrapped around the arrow, flying straight towards the monster’s chest, which was just within reach.
The arrow was very close, and Ji Dong’s bowstring was heavy.
The arrowhead pierced into Zhong Bin’s chest like it was entering tofu, going all the way in until it barely stopped.
At the same time, a powerful electric current surged through the monster’s body, bursting into sparks.
Ren Jianmo and Mo Tian could see, in that instant, the sparks outlining a tall and distorted “human” figure.
Taking advantage of the brief moment when the monster was immobilized by the electricity, Ji Dong rolled and crawled away in the opposite direction, trying to get as far away from the monster as possible.
When he was running away, he accidentally stepped in a puddle of formalin solution, stumbling in a sorry state. He quickly supported himself with an elbow on the glass-covered cabinet nearby to barely stabilize himself.
But Ji Xiao’niao didn’t have time to care about the broken glass digging into his arm.
“Xiao He, Xiao Lu, hurry up!!”
Ji Xiao’niao shouted hoarsely, urging them to move quickly.
Unfortunately, it was a difficult task to distinguish which body parts of Zhong Bin’s they were looking for among the remains, flesh, and organs.
Luckily, there were labels on the specimen bottles. Although they didn’t have names, they indicated the gender and age of the deceased.
Fan Hemian and Fan Luming knew the age of Zhong Bin at the time of his death, so they just needed to find all the specimens labeled “male, 44 years old.”
They found five things, including the palm of a left-hand, a dissected half of a heart, a kidney, and a piece of liver. The largest and most intact was a spinal bone connected by steel wire.
“Don’t rush us, we’re already looking for them!”
Fan Luming also felt frustrated and snapped back loudly. He was crouching next to the back door of the specimen room, hunching over and using a flashlight to scan the rows of low cabinets against the wall.
Inside, there was a stack of seven or eight skulls, easily distinguishable by their colors, some made of plaster molds and others made with real skull caps.
Fan Luming opened the cabinet and rummaged through it, knocking everything onto the floor. After three seconds, he realized that none of the genuine items were what he was looking for. They were all too small, likely belonging to either a woman or a child, not an adultman.
Then, his flashlight beam illuminated something deep inside the cabinet.
That was a large specimen bottle, with over half of the formalin solution remaining, soaking a dark spherical object.
Fan Luming’s heart skipped a beat, and he quickly bit down on the flashlight, using both hands to pull out the specimen bottle from the depths of the cabinet.
In the beam of the flashlight, he saw a complete human head. The head had half-closed eyes, lips turned outward, and an open set of teeth. Even though the skin on the face had shriveled and dehydrated and was now wrinkled and waxen yellow, Fan Luming didn’t even need to check the label on the bottle to recognize it at a glance.
This was what they were looking for, Zhong Bin’s head!
Without hesitation, Fan Luming raised the specimen bottle and smashed it hard on the ground.
With a crisp “crack” sound, the bottle split in half, spilling liquid all over the floor and revealing what was soaked inside.
“I found it!”
Fan Luming took the flashlight out of his mouth with one hand and reached out to pick up Zhong Bin’s head with the other, shouting, “I found his head!”
In the next moment, Fan Luming picked up the head and turned it over, and his heart almost stopped in fear. He was so close to throwing the head away in panic.
He saw that the eyes that were half-closed just now were now wide open. A a pair of bulging, white, and protruding eyeballs were unblinkingly staring straight at him.
“Oh my god!!”
Trembling and shivering, Fan Luming said, “There’s something in his mouth!”
Yes, besides the wide-open pair of eyes, Fan Luming also saw something in Zhong Bin’s open mouth.
Fan Luming, with all the courage he could muster, while trembling like a sheep with epilepsy, extended two fingers and cautiously reached into the deceased’s mouth, shakily pulling out that piece of metal.
In a state of extreme terror, with adrenaline rushing through his body, he suddenly found himself strangely calm.
——Is this the Mouth of Truth we’re talking about?!
At this moment, Fan Luming surprisingly had the composure to think like that.
But in the next second, he heard Ji Dong urgently and anxiously calling out, “Xiao Lu, get out of the way!!”
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The author has something to say.
The Mouth of Truth is a sculpture of a human face on the portico of the Church of Santa Maria in Rome. It has an open mouth and legend has it that if a liar puts their hand inside, it will bite them. 😄
Reading this while eating meat was a mistake.