This child is only about five or six years old, with unfocused eyes, sparse hair wet and sticking to the head from the rain, a dirty face, no matter how the rain washes, it cannot be cleaned.
Exposed arms, neck, belly, calves, and feet are all covered in long and fresh red scars, as if whipped, swollen and crisscrossed!
It’s a bit eerie.
Amidst the bizarre disaster, a child suddenly appears, curiously asking why they don’t hide from the rain.
They also want to ask why this child is running here alone!
But after holding back for a long time, they couldn’t ask.
Because everyone sensed that something was wrong, everywhere was filled with a sense of unease!
Everyone avoids the willow branches and rainwater like the plague, splashing on the child, but there is no screaming from his mouth.
Su Hao is even more puzzled. In his radar perception, he can’t sense any blood reaction from this child.
Like a corpse.
The four looked at each other, signaling not to act rashly.
Ah Xing and Ah Wang both prepared their means of attack, ready to strike immediately if the situation turned bad.
The child seemed to not receive a response, becoming very impatient and anxious, saying, “It’s raining, hurry and escape!”
“The whip hitting the body is so scary, you better hide quickly!”
Su Hao, with courage, tried to respond, “We are not afraid of rain, nor are we afraid of the whip!”
But the child seemed not to hear, and continued, “Hurry and hide, otherwise you won’t be able to escape!”
Crack!
A crisp sound.
The shadow of a whip flashed by, fiercely hitting the child, clothes torn, another wound opened on the back.
The child cried out in pain, rolling on the ground, curling up in the end.
The sight made the few people’s eyelids twitch.
At this moment, a humanoid figure taller than a willow tree staggered out in the rain, revealing sharp teeth, laughing loudly: “Can’t escape, hahaha!”
As the figure became clearer in the rain, the four also saw its appearance.
Standing over seven meters tall, with two horns on its head, eyes crimson, mouth full of fangs, hands full of sharp claws holding a long whip, it looked terrifying!
But seeing the monster in this appearance, the four were all stunned.
Just because this monster was actually wearing an apron, with a high chest and a round belly, a proper image of a kitchen auntie.
What a strange combination?
The seven-meter-tall auntie laughed loudly, “I told you to run! Are you still daring to run? Still running?”
Crack! Crack! Crack!
With each sentence, the whip in the auntie’s hand lashes out, leaving the child bloodied.
The child curls up on the ground, murmuring, “So scary! Run, run! Hide, hide~”
This was Su Hao’s first experience with such a situation. Instead of acting recklessly, he chose to consult a professional, “Ah Xing, based on your understanding, what’s going on here?”
Ah Xing’s eyes lit up with excitement, “Perhaps, this is the core! The origin of the bizarre disaster!”
“The core?”
Everyone looked at the huge monster and the child in astonishment.
Ah Xing stared firmly at the ‘auntie monster’, his tone very certain, “Exactly! We all know that the core of a disaster can manifest in various forms, with no fixed shape, any possibility exists. That means the core can take on a humanoid form. As far as I know, there are quite a few humanoid cores! All of them are transformed from humans.
The most peculiar aspect of these bizarre disasters is that they inherit some characteristics of the original object and manifest them in an extremely bizarre way. This is also the first time I’ve personally encountered a humanoid core of a bizarre disaster, but this is the core, there shouldn’t be any mistake!
As long as we find and destroy the ‘inducer’, we can resolve this bizarre disaster!”
Ah Wang uncertainly asked, “Which part is the origin, and which part is the inducer?”
Ah Xing subconsciously looked at Su Hao.
Su Hao focused on three targets: the auntie monster, the child, and the whip.
After careful perception, he found that all the fluctuations of the origin came from the child.
Su Hao voiced his judgment, “I sense fluctuations of the source coming from the child.”
Ah Xing immediately said, “Then let’s take down this monster first!”
Just then, the auntie monster turned its head with a sinister smile towards Su Hao and the others, “Oh~ aren’t you running away?”
With that, it flicked its long whip, making a loud crack in the rain curtain.
Crack!
Countless raindrops were struck, bursting into fragments.
Ah Xing’s heart trembled, shouting loudly, “Be careful, the whip is coming!”
Now they were in a very awkward situation! They could only hide within the ‘counter-space barrier’ provided by Su Hao, not daring to charge into the rain curtain. Because once soaked by the rain, it would be futile, their bodies would be emptied in the blink of an eye.
If they didn’t hide and stayed in place, wouldn’t they become targets for the auntie monster’s whip?
Ah Xing took the lead, a qi blade shot out, piercing through the spatial barrier from inside to outside, and in the blink of an eye, it cut the auntie monster’s neck.
Splurt!
The head of the auntie monster was actually cut off by the air blade, rolling onto the ground.
Unexpectedly, the head, rolling on the ground, still laughed heartily, “You can’t escape!”
With that said, the headless body swung its whip.
Whoosh!
Ah Xing gritted his teeth and moved to a different position, positioning his body in front of everyone.
He was covered in a highly durable qi shield and believed he could withstand the whip’s strikes, so he didn’t hesitate to charge forward.
The only uncertainty was whether his stomach would run away if hit by the whip.
But as the team leader, if he had to take a blow, let it be him! How could he retreat at a critical moment?
Crack!
A crisp sound of the whip cutting through the air.
The whip passed in front of Ah Xing as if it were rain, disappearing without a trace.
“It didn’t hit me!” Ah Xing was shocked. He couldn’t understand how Su Hao’s shield managed to achieve this. He concluded that Su Hao was not only an origin mage but also the most inscrutable and inexplicable mage of the bizarre source!
He couldn’t help but glance at Su Hao beside him.
At this moment, Su Hao pointed his finger, and a beam extended from his fingertip to the ‘auntie monster’.
“Little cannon”!
Boom!
A violent explosion, the entire auntie monster shattered into pieces, scattered around.
But the head still laughed manically, holding the whip and waving it, striking the positions of the four individuals one after another.
“The inducer is the whip!” Su Hao instantly made a judgment.
The true ‘inducer’ should be this whip!
He reached out his hand.
“Little cannon”!
Boom!
The whip was blasted aside but remained intact!
Su Hao thought to himself, “What material is this made of, so tough?”
The fragments of the scattered ‘auntie monster’ flew back and quickly reassembled into its original form, laughing hysterically and wildly whipping around.
But without exception, all the strikes missed, which relieved everyone.
Su Hao carefully observed the entire whip and noticed slight differences between the handle and the body. So, he gathered a bit more power and fired a stronger ‘little cannon’, hitting directly on the handle of the whip.
Boom—
A violent explosion tore the auntie monster’s body into pieces once again, and the handle of the whip was the first to bear the brunt, instantly pulverized by the explosion.
The long and large whip body seemed to lose control, dropping straight to the ground, landing right next to the crouching child.
If the child sensed something, he opened his eyes, looked at the damaged whip, then carefully lifted his head to look behind him.
The rain stopped, the wind ceased.
The wildly swaying willow branches calmed down, and specks of starlight appeared in the sky.
The ‘monster’ that had been weighing on his heart all this time disappeared!
A smile appeared on his heavily scarred face, and he exclaimed joyfully, “No need to run! No need to hide!”
Then, his body began to emit a strong light, illuminating the surroundings as bright as day.
*Swoosh!*
The light dissipated, leaving behind a pile of dazzling source pearls.
The once large whip that fell to the side also shrank drastically, reducing to about a meter, resembling a casual willow twig picked up from the roadside.
The twig also emitted a faint light, then gradually faded away, returning to its ordinary appearance.
Ah Xing watched all of this unfold and muttered, “Is it over? Have we successfully resolved the bizarre disaster…”
