"Argh —"
Irezumi's crisscrossed skeletal wings cut deep into Irezumi's abdomen. Half of his body was instantly soaked in blood. When Irezumi stood up with his hand on his abdomen, he heard Lin Sanjiu's roar.
"How dare you yell when you hit me!"
Irezumi cursed. When he raised his head, his expression froze. Fortunately, he reacted quickly. He flipped his body backward and jumped far away. The moment he landed on the ground amidst the smoke, he stared at Lin Sanjiu's direction with a face full of vigilance.
Amidst the billowing dust in the distance, it was hard to even see the silhouette of a person clearly. However, that was not a problem because a gigantic white bone tail suddenly lashed out from the cloud of dust. The tail was as tall as a three-story building. Although its target did not seem to be Irezumi, when it tumbled down from the sky, it almost flattened Irezumi when it smashed down from the sky.
"What the hell is that thing …" Irezumi looked around and realized that his skeletal wings were long gone. He spat on the ground and a ruthless expression slowly appeared on his face, "It seems like I have to use some of my ability."
At this moment, Lin Sanjiu couldn't care less about Irezumi.
Her entire body felt like it was on fire. Before her sweat fell to the ground, it had already formed white smoke on her skin. Lin Sanjiu gritted her teeth as she endured the excruciating pain in her body. It was as if every cell in her body had been drilled by an electric drill. Her vision started to blur, and for a moment, she even forgot where she was.
Without the suppression of Nvywa's higher consciousness and with Mrs. Manas in a deep sleep, the foreign cell in Lin Sanjiu's body had never been so aggressive before. Since it was uncontrollable, it attacked Lin Sanjiu's body at will. Every time it mutated, it meant that Lin Sanjiu's original cells had fallen.
"You still have that thing in your body," Magus' voice became a little more serious, "Hmm … I didn't expect that you could modify your body to such an extent … Nuwa, that lunatic, still has some tricks up her sleeves."
Lin Sanjiu couldn't say a word. The spikes that were slowly growing out from her cracked skin had occupied her mind.
"If you want to control the mutation, you have to use your higher consciousness," Magus said in a low voice. Magus lowered her voice, but her nervousness and excitement still caused her voice to tremble. "... You have to learn how to suppress it with your higher consciousness before you can force it out and give it to me."
However, in Lin Sanjiu's ears, her voice sounded as if she was talking in her sleep. Lin Sanjiu tried her best to catch her breath. Just as she was about to say something, the words that came out of her mouth turned into a hiss of pain.
Irezumi, who had just leaped into the air, widened his eyes in shock. Below him, the tall woman had her eyes tightly shut. Both of her arms had disappeared into steel blades. Layers upon layers of steel blades protruded from her shoulders and twisted into a whip. The whip lashed out at Irezumi as if it had a life of its own. Irezumi, who was still in midair, was unable to dodge the whip. He could only roll back to the ground in a sorry state as blood spurted out from his wounds.
"You can create such a thing with the material of a human body?" Magus muttered to herself.
Before she could finish her sentence, Lin Sanjiu's legs gave way and she fell to the ground. She retracted her steel blades and soon, they formed into two arms. It was as if the foreign gene had done an experiment and decided that a human arm was more suitable for her.
When the dizziness finally subsided, Lin Sanjiu panted and tried to get up. However, just as she pushed her arms up, she suddenly felt something heavy on her back. It was so heavy that she couldn't get up. However, when he turned around to look, he saw that her body was still as clear as the sky. There was nothing there.
Her body didn't give her any room to think.
As Lin Sanjiu groaned in pain, a row of spike-shaped stubble suddenly protruded from the back of her tattered singlet. However, they seemed to be blocked by something. Even though there was nothing behind her, they seemed to have a hard time extending.
The spikes couldn't extend out. Instead, something pushed them back to her body. For a moment, Lin Sanjiu felt as if she was being torn apart. The pain intensified.
"I'm sorry." Irezumi panted as he crawled up from the ground. As he clenched his fists, the invisible shackles that bound Lin Sanjiu's body suddenly exerted a force of a thousand pounds. Her bones creaked under the immense pressure of the shackles.
[The Bashful Python]
It was said that the largest python discovered by humans in the world was less than 15 meters long. This giant python was determined to show the world its horror. However, despite its ambition, it was actually a very shy snake. In order to let people know the terror of a python without showing its face, it always hid itself in the air.
Since it couldn't be seen with the naked eye, there was a high chance of getting caught by it unintentionally. Once you got caught, even if you were a man made of steel, you wouldn't be able to escape the fate of having your bones and tendons crushed. You would die limply unless you could survive for more than five minutes. The strength of the python was controlled by Irezumi, the owner of the ability. Whether you could survive or not depended on your relationship with Irezumi.
Lin Sanjiu didn't have a good relationship with Irezumi.
Lin Sanjiu had no idea when she was trapped by the invisible python, but it was already too late when she realized what was going on. Other than her head and legs, her entire body was tightly bound by the python, and the python was still shrinking inwards inch by inch. Lin Sanjiu felt the pain from both inside and outside her body, and a trickle of blood trickled down the corner of her mouth.
"Where's your Higher Consciousness?" Magus peeked out from the window. She clenched her fists so tightly that they turned white, "Now is the best time for you to unleash your Higher Consciousness. As long as you can suppress the thing that Nuwa left behind, I will help you get rid of this bastard."
Even though Magus didn't finish her sentence, Lin Sanjiu quickly understood what she wanted to say.
If she couldn't suppress it, Lin Sanjiu's life would be meaningless. No, it would be more accurate to say that she would be more useful dead than alive. After all, it was much easier to find something from a dead person. However, Magus didn't know that the thing that Nuwa left behind was a cell.
If she died, that cell wouldn't live long either!
Even though Lin Sanjiu tried her best to tell Magus that, the python's strength was too great. She couldn't even breathe. The voice that she squeezed out from her chest was so broken that it didn't make any sense.
Right now, the only way was to suppress the mutation in her body and let Magus deal with Irezumi. However, the spike on Lin Sanjiu's back was still standing there stubbornly. It showed no signs of disappearing.
How could she not want to suppress that foreign cell as soon as possible?
Even though Lin Sanjiu's Higher Consciousness was abundant, she couldn't activate her [School of Higher Consciousness]. Part of the reason was that she was affected by the crypt particles, and the other part was that Mrs. Manas, who was the "key", was no longer around. Right now, she was like an army of thousands of men and horses, but she couldn't command them. How could she suppress it?
The invisible python was still squeezing her body bit by bit. The air had long been squeezed out of her body. Even the bones in her chest started to creak, as if they would shatter at any moment.
Lin Sanjiu tried her best to resist the pressure from the python. Her mind was blurred by the pain, and suddenly, a thought appeared in her mind.
When she died at Kisaragi Station, the foreign cell in her body almost died as well. No matter what kind of creature it was, survival was the most basic instinct...
'What if I can use the crisis of death to make this foreign cell voluntarily accept my control? '
As Lin Sanjiu gritted her teeth and thought about it, she gradually relaxed her resistance.
After waiting for a few seconds without blinking her eyes, Magus's expression gradually turned cold.
When she pursed her red lips tightly, the wrinkles at the corner of her mouth deepened, revealing her age. She gently withdrew her finger and turned around. It seemed that she didn't want to look down anymore. She raised her eyelids and glanced at Qing Jiuliu, who had just gotten up from the ground, disinterestedly. Then, she crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"It's you …" As Qing Jiuliu wasn't as strong as Irezumi, he only regained his senses now. He stood up shakily and massaged his temples as if he had a splitting headache. "Huh? Where's Irezumi? What's going on?"
Magus's silhouette was motionless. The disappointment had brought a sense of coldness to her, making her look like an ice sculpture.
"Your friend is dying," Magus didn't even look at Qing Jiuliu. Without looking at Qing Jiuliu, Magus said in a low voice, "No matter which one of your friends is down there, they are going to die soon."
Qing Jiuliu was startled. Even though he didn't quite understand what she meant, he rushed to the window and looked down. When his gaze fell on the garden below, he was stunned for a moment. He couldn't help looking at Magus with a mixture of surprise and doubt.
"As long as that girl is dead, the other guy won't live long," Magus said softly, "I will be the one to kill him."
"Wait a minute," Qing Jiuliu blinked his eyes. He was still trying to sort out the relationship between them, "Are you on Lin Sanjiu's side? Why don't you go and save her? "
"There's a limit to my kindness," Magus pursed her lips.
Even though Qing Jiuliu was a little confused by her words, he realized that he didn't have the time to say anything when he looked out of the window. He felt that the mermaid on his waist was still there. "I'll go then," he said hastily and leaned half of his body out of the window.
"Hmm? So high? Maybe I should take the stairs … "He turned around and looked at the door. He hesitated for a moment," Will Lin Sanjiu be dead by the time I go down? "
Magus shot him a glance as if she was looking at an idiot.
"I don't care anymore. I'm going down," Qing Jiuliu gritted his teeth. Just as he climbed up the window frame, he suddenly froze, "Huh?"
Magus furrowed her brows and followed his gaze. What she saw next startled her as well.
Since the python was invisible and colorless, Lin Sanjiu's deformed body was exposed to the duo's eyes. They could see it clearly, and it made them shudder in fear. However, there was one thing that was different from before. Lin Sanjiu's feet had sunk deep into the grass, up to her ankles.
"Oh?" Magus let out a soft sound. She raised her eyebrows with interest.
With Lin Sanjiu's feet as the starting point, two long ripples shot out from the depths of the grass toward Irezumi. It was as if something was crawling under the ground. Along the way, the grass swayed in a straight line. When Irezumi finally realized that something was wrong, it was already too late.
Suddenly, two shadows sprang out from the soil under his feet. Amidst the flying soil and grass, two snow-white bone whips quickly coiled around his legs. With a forceful swing, he was lifted upside down. At the same time, Lin Sanjiu felt her body loosen up. The python had disappeared.
She plopped down on the ground and pulled her legs out from the soil.
The place where her legs used to be was now replaced by two white bone whips. When the bone whips broke through the soil and lifted Irezumi up, soil and dirt fell from the bone whips. Qing Jiuliu gasped involuntarily. The two bone whips had already coiled around Irezumi as if they were his arms. Then, with a jerk, the bone whips flung Irezumi far into the distance.
The bone whips were extremely powerful. After Irezumi crashed through a few buildings, he finally disappeared into the horizon.
Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath and stood up with great difficulty.
Following her movement, the bone whips retracted at a speed visible to the naked eye. When she stood up, her legs were bare again.
Qing Jiuliu was so shocked that he was at a loss for words. He looked at Lin Sanjiu and then at Magus, hoping that someone could give him an explanation. However, Magus only stared at the small figure downstairs. Her red lips curled into a charming smile, "Attaagirl."
Lin Sanjiu looked up, following the direction of Magus's voice.
"The thing you want is here," Lin Sanjiu said in a low voice. Her chest was still heaving from the fight, "Where's my friend?"
Magus smiled and snapped her fingers. Following her action, the window on the lower floor of the suite suddenly opened. While Lin Sanjiu held her breath, a familiar face slowly peeked out from behind the window. There was a hesitant expression on his face. Lin Sanjiu's face was a little familiar.
When Irezumi coughed out a mouthful of blood and struggled to get up from the ground, a pair of feet appeared in front of him.
"W-why are you here?" he asked in a muffled voice with blood in his mouth.
Number 46 let out a sigh.
"I knew you wouldn't listen to me obediently. You would definitely come looking for your kidnapped candidate …" He stroked his fringe and said softly, "I saw everything that happened just now."
"Hmm," Irezumi sat up straight, panting. His face was filled with indignation, "Why didn't you help me kill her?"
Number 46 sighed again.
"Let me ask you, why are we not allowed to have female candidates?"
"Because … we are afraid that the trial target will sneak in," Irezumi answered honestly with a frown.
"Is the trial target dead?"
"… Dead."
"Then why can't we have female candidates?" Number 46 tilted his head and smiled at him.
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