dognovel Chapter 117 The Terrifying Presence in the Building
Chapter 117 The Terrifying Presence in the Building
Chapter 117 The Terrifying Presence in the Building
A knife was suddenly plunged into his neck, causing Hong Xiaojun to freeze in shock; he had not expected this to happen at all.
The knife severed his carotid artery, but it did not appear to have damaged his vocal tract or trachea.
Fresh blood gushed out.
A surge of power welled up within Hong Xiaojun, his eyes blazing with fury, his face flushed red, and he grabbed Guo Yunxi's hand holding the knife, his fingernails digging directly into the back of her hand.
Guo Yunxi winced in pain, and then she saw Fang Yi stand up and suddenly punch his own swollen belly, which had become round from drinking water all the time.
His round belly immediately flattened out, and then Fang Yi opened his mouth and a large amount of water he had drunk gushed out, spraying it towards Hong Xiaojun, almost all of it splashing onto Hong Xiaojun's face and body.
Hong Xiaojun immediately let out a scream as his skin and flesh visibly peeled off, emitting white smoke.
"Why are you so hard to die?" Fang Yi wiped his mouth and sneered.
He then pried open Guo Yunxi's hands, which were gripping him tightly, one by one.
Guo Yunxi yanked the kitchen knife away from Hong Xiaojun's neck, looked down at the back of her hand, and saw blood oozing from it.
"So it was you guys—" Hong Xiaojun's breath failed him, and his whole body went limp.
"Oh, I finally broke my rule!"
Fang Yi clapped his hands and smiled as he looked at Hong Xiaojun, who was lying on the ground barely breathing.
He then pulled Guo Yunxi, who was standing too close, back two steps.
Hong Xiaojun, whose face was completely burned, stared intently at the two of them. With a bang, his head exploded, splattering red and white matter all over the ground.
"He—he scratched me, and I'm bleeding!" Guo Yunxi said angrily, looking at the gruesome corpse on the ground.
"It's alright, my beauty." Fang Yi, who had been listless just moments before, now seemed radiant.
He leaned over and pecked Guo Yunxi on the cheek. "The plan has changed. Now we just need to wait for Investigator Li to help us clear Zhou Yiwen's trap."
Guo Yunxi nodded, then asked with some concern, "So, can the investigator handle Zhou Yiwen?"
"Even if we can't handle it, we can still severely damage him. We just need to wait and see," Fang Yi said with a smile. "Besides, his and Zhang Song's operation is doomed to fail. No one is leaving here without my permission."
As soon as he finished speaking, he magically produced a delicate black USB drive in his hand.
This USB drive is exactly the same as the one Zhang Song gave to Li Jiuhe.
Outside the Biecheng Central Building.
Zhang Song, who had been hiding, stared wide-eyed in astonishment at Li Jiuhe, who had rushed into the strange crowd.
Although he didn't ask, he suspected that Li Jiuhe might be a very powerful Sequencer, otherwise he wouldn't have accepted his mentor's invitation to come in and rescue them.
But he never imagined that Li Jiuhe would be so outrageous as to directly enter the building through a violent assault.
Moreover, his speed in the assault was surprisingly fast; in just a few seconds, he had already arrived at the entrance of the building.
According to Zhang Song's guess, if Li Jiuhe was a strong fighter or a skill-based Sequence User, he should have used other methods, such as entering the building directly from the sky, or using some sophisticated means to conceal his identity.
But to my surprise, the way this guy chose to enter the building was so simple and unpretentious, without any skill whatsoever.
Those strange natives had all gone mad, rushing frantically towards Li Jiuhe, who was like a drop in the ocean, but they could not reduce the speed of Li Jiuhe's impact in the slightest.
Zhang Song could even see many indigenous people being thrown high into the air by Li Jiuhe's impact, only to crash heavily to the ground.
He genuinely hadn't realized that Li Jiuhe was actually a power-type sequence user, so this moment made him feel terrified.
Now, not only the plaza in front of the building, but also other pedestrians walking on the street are attracted by this place and rush towards the central building.
People from all directions converged in this direction like a tide, forming a dense, dark mass that was visually striking.
Li Jiuhe quickly rushed into the lobby on the first floor of the building.
He turned around and closed the heavy glass door, then punched a security guard who was rushing towards him in the lobby, sending him flying. The guard then knocked down another security guard behind him, and the two of them lay slumped on the ground, unable to get up for a while.
Li Jiuhe quickly pulled out the rubber batons from the two men and wedged them into the doorknob of the lobby.
However, there were just too many people outside, and the glass door could hardly stop them; it could be broken through in an instant.
Without delay, Li Jiuhe immediately turned around and rushed towards the elevator hall at the far end of the lobby.
Security guards and building staff came to stop him along the way. These people were expressionless and made almost no sound, but their attacks were extremely frantic, just like those outside.
Li Jiuhe unleashed a punch or a kick, never holding back in any of his attacks.
Anyone who got close was either thrown out or crashed into a corner; no one could stop him for more than two seconds.
Two elevators were stopped on the first floor, while the top floor of this building is the fiftieth floor.
He pressed the button, and one of the elevator doors opened. He quickly slipped inside.
Almost simultaneously, the heavy glass door at the entrance of the hall was smashed open by the large number of frenzied natives outside, with a loud crash and glass shards flying everywhere. Then, a large number of people were thrown into the hall, pushing and trampling each other, just like a horde of zombies, surging towards the elevator hall.
The elevator doors had already closed, and Li Jiuhe pressed the button to go to the fortieth floor.
He discovered that all the buttons above the 40th floor were unpressable, likely because they were locked by the system, preventing visitors from reaching floors above the 41st floor.
While the elevator was ascending, he quickly adjusted his breathing and checked his injuries.
In fact, he was not seriously injured during the conflict with the indigenous people. Instead, the light rain that had started to fall caused burn marks on Li Jiuhe's face and hands.
Fortunately, he ran fast and rushed into the building before the rain intensified; otherwise, his situation would have been much worse if he had stayed outside.
Li Jiuhe now understands very well that this matter is very complicated, to the point that he cannot fathom its complexity in a short time.
Moreover, he didn't possess Chen Zhenghai's extraordinary insight. Otherwise, if Chen Zhenghai had been still in the abandoned basketball court, he probably could have deduced the whole thing clearly on the spot, and might even have directly identified the person who murdered Zhou Yiwen.
However, Li Jiuhe had his own solution: to use the task definition ability to quickly advance the plot.
By quickly going through the current mission's storyline, all the suspicious points will naturally be exposed, and the outcome of the whole affair will be revealed to you.
That's why the initial task he set included "finding out the truth about the Boundary Stone".
The mission will not end until the truth is uncovered, even if all the trainees are rescued.
Just then, the elevator, which was ascending, suddenly stopped.
At the same time, the lights went out, and a dim emergency light overhead immediately turned on.
The elevator wasn't stopped by human intervention; rather, it seemed as if the entire building had been shut down, even the backup power supply.
The elevator just showed that it has arrived at the 23rd floor.
Li Jiuhe stepped forward and tried to open the elevator door directly.
He now possessed astonishing strength; he felt as if the elevator door was pried open without much effort, revealing a wall in front of him, and nothing else.
It seems the elevator stopped between the 23rd and 24th floors.
Looking up, Li Jiuhe bent his knees, then suddenly jumped up, smashing open the roof above with a bang. With a hook in his hand, he climbed out.
Standing above the elevator, he immediately saw the elevator shaft door on the 24th floor. He went straight up and pried the door open with his bare hands, then quickly crawled out.
The corridor on this floor was dimly lit, with only a faint emergency light shining in the corner.
Li Jiuhe quickly ran to one end of the corridor and slipped into the stairwell.
As soon as I entered the stairwell, I heard a series of footsteps coming upstairs, probably about six or seven floors away.
Looking down the stairs, you can vaguely see a dark mass moving about; the frantic indigenous people are swarming up the stairs at incredible speed.
They don't climb the building in a queue, but rather they rush and push forward one after another. Once someone falls, they are immediately trampled underfoot by the people behind them, turning into a human skin carpet in an instant.
So even though people kept climbing up, some people were squeezed off the edge of the stair railing and fell because of the crowd, hitting even more people below.
Li Jiuhe didn't stop and quickly ran upstairs.
He was very fast, far exceeding the speed of the crazed indigenous people below, but during his climb, staff members from one floor would occasionally appear.
These staff members, in varying numbers, launched a frenzied attack on him.
Once he had cleared these guys out of the way and they weren't in his way anymore, the crowd chasing him from downstairs had closed the distance to him by two floors.
When he arrived on the 35th floor, some staff members began attacking him with weapons.
After being knocked down by Li Jiuhe, they found only tables, chairs, shovels, and other items, but there were several U-locks used to lock the doors.
Li Jiuhe quickly picked up the U-locks and continued running upwards.
Upon reaching the forty-ninth floor, there was no path leading up to it.
At this moment, the pursuing, crazed natives were still three floors away from him, and the dense footsteps seemed to be stepping on Li Jiuhe's nerves.
His heart was pounding. Although he was very tired, his physical fitness had greatly improved, so he was able to continue running.
Turn around and enter the corridor on the 49th floor, then close the door to this stairwell.
Click, click, click—
After securing three U-locks to the door, Li Jiuhe ran to the other end of the corridor. If he wasn't mistaken, there should be another stairwell there.
The corridor on this floor is shaped like the Chinese character "" and is extremely dark. The two sides are probably offices or storage rooms.
Just as he reached the other end of the corridor, a rumbling, squeezing sound came from the direction of the stairwell that had just been locked behind him.
The crazed indigenous people had reached this floor, but because there were too many people and the stairwell was narrow, they could not create an effective impact force and could only rely on their numbers to continuously cause compression.
Before Li Jiuhe even got close to the door of the stairwell, he suddenly jolted and stopped abruptly.
The double doors in the stairwell were half-open, and a thick, dark arm could be seen extending from inside. The hand was probably as big as a palm-leaf fan, and the muscles on the arm were twisted into strips, with each vein extremely clear and terrifying.
Then a tall man with black muscles emerged from the stairwell.
The reason it is called "Drill" is because it is nearly three meters tall, completely naked, and has extremely large muscles in its hands and feet, which are presented as strange strips.
However, this man was not a strong, muscular man; he was only muscular in his hands and feet, but his torso was extremely bulky.
Her belly was swollen high, as if she were ten months pregnant, and her back was also swollen, but with strangely shaped deformed hematomas, at a glance, there were four or five of them.
Each hematoma was larger than a fist, and the bulging parts on the surface of the hematoma were throbbing, as if the thin membrane would be pierced by the thing inside at any moment.
This strange person was covered in a glossy, jet-black substance, as if someone had poured gasoline on him and it was stuck to his body.
When Li Jiuhe saw the man's face clearly, he was stunned.
Because the strange man in front of them had an old face, full of wrinkles, and his features were exactly the same as Zhou Yiwen's.
The only difference was that he looked fierce at the moment, giving people a sense that strangers should not approach him.
This huge, bloated creature, with several deformed hematomas hanging on its back, pointed at Li Jiuhe upon seeing him.
"Shameless brat, you dare to come here again? Prepare to die!"
This strange fellow even spoke in the same voice as Zhou Yiwen, but there was a hint of evil in his tone.
As soon as he finished speaking, he took two steps forward and grabbed at Li Jiuhe.
Those muscular arms were incredibly long; when falling vertically, they could touch the ground directly without bending over.
Li Jiuhe immediately retreated quickly, avoiding the grab, and at the same time, a guess formed in his mind.
As Zhang Song just mentioned, there might be some terrifying entity hidden in this building, which should be this strange person in front of us.
If one of these four students was indeed the one who plotted to harm Zhou Yiwen, that person should know what this terrifying being was, which is why he or she dared not rush in.
As for the strange man in front of him who looked exactly like Zhou Yiwen, Li Jiuhe suddenly realized that Zhang Song was right. The mutation of the entire Biecheng might really have been orchestrated by Zhou Yiwen.
The goal was to trap or even eliminate the murderer hiding among the trainees who had plotted against him.
Therefore, his magical power manifested here, taking the form of this terrifying monster.
It now seems that this strange man is ruthless; anyone who tries to get close to the 50th floor is his target.
Bang!
Just as Li Jiuhe dodged, all the stone bricks in the corner of the wall where he had just stood flew up and splashed everywhere.
With a single grab, the strange man scattered the hard stone bricks like pebbles.
Li Jiuhe took out the investigator's pistol, quickly loaded it, aimed, and fired a shot into the man's stomach.
The bullets were engraved with sequence runes. When one shot hit the target, it blew a hole in the person's stomach, and a large amount of black liquid gushed out. However, the monster moved freely and seemed to be completely unaffected.
His speed suddenly increased dramatically. With a leap, his thighs, covered in bulging muscles, sprang across a distance of seven or eight meters and landed above Li Jiuhe's head. He then raised his hands together like a hammer and smashed them down hard on Li Jiuhe's head.
Li Jiuhe rolled on the spot, and a thud sounded behind him, creating a gust of air that pushed him a distance away.
After narrowly avoiding the terrifying attack, he had just stood up when his clothes tightened, and a strange man with incredible speed caught up with him, grabbed him, and slammed him against the wall on the side of the corridor.
Li Jiuhe's body was not only strong, but also very agile due to the influence of the chained stone man.
Just before hitting the wall, its limbs immediately bend up, like a frog, and it crouches down the moment it touches the wall to release the force.
He then charged forward, his clothes ripped open with a whoosh, the torn part still clutched in the monster's large hand.
After escaping, Li Jiuhe did not go far. Instead, he quickly returned and plunged his silver-corroded dagger into one of the deformed hematomas on the man's back.
The hematoma suddenly burst open.
The strange man roared and reached out to grab Li Jiuhe, but failed.
At this moment, Li Jiuhe understood that this guy's weakness lay in those blood tumors; it felt like each blood tumor was a boost to his power.
Or to be more precise, these blood tumors are the foundation of this freak's power.
The strange man turned around and pounced on Li Jiuhe again, but Li Jiuhe quickly dodged with his agility, and seized the opportunity to prepare to strike the other blood tumors on the man's back.
During this process, he suddenly felt the stairwell door from which the strange man had just come move slightly.
Looking up, I saw that the door was indeed shaking slightly, as if someone had just gone in.
"Could it be that Zhang Song took advantage of the fact that I had attracted most of this strange man's attention and slipped in?" he wondered to himself.
But then he thought about it again. The area below was filled with a large number of crazy indigenous people. The elevator was not working and the stairwell was also crowded with indigenous people. How could Zhang Song possibly get up there?
That guy hadn't eaten all day, and just climbing those fifty floors would have left him exhausted, let alone sneaking in unnoticed.
Just as I was wondering, the door to the stairwell suddenly opened a wide gap, and a marble rolled out from it, rolling smoothly into the middle of the corridor.
At this moment, Li Jiuhe had already evaded the strange man's pursuit once again and successfully popped another blood tumor on his back.
As soon as the marble stopped, it suddenly emitted a wisp of smoke with a bang and disappeared. At the same moment, the stairwell door that Li Jiuhe had locked with a U-lock on the other side suddenly opened.
A tidal wave of indigenous people surged into the corridor. Some were shoved against the corridor walls, while others were pushed and shoved by those behind them, falling down and being trampled into a bloody pulp.
A large number of indigenous people surged in from this direction.
Li Jiuhe seized an opportunity to rush towards the stairwell where the marbles had been thrown, but was viciously clawed on the back by the strange man, instantly turning his back into a bloody mess, with almost his entire back flipped up, and even his bones and internal organs clearly visible.
He endured the intense pain and rushed to the stairwell door, sticking his head inside to quickly scan the area.
Then a woman's figure disappeared at the corner of the stairs leading to the fiftieth floor.
Taking a deep breath, Li Jiuhe endured the excruciating pain and said, "You don't have a USB drive—"
He believed that the people who went up could hear him, but no one returned, as if they didn't care at all.
puff!
Li Jiuhe's stomach was pierced through, and the strange man's arm emerged from his abdomen, still clutching a portion of his intestines.
Li Jiuhe's body trembled, his mouth filled with blood, and he looked down expressionlessly at the five fingers the strange man had extended.
"So it was you!"
The plot has progressed to this point, and he has already obtained very important information, including the traitorous student who has been hiding all along, as well as the secret of the USB drive in his hand.