As he laughed, Meng Chao noticed that the Vortex was sweating profusely.
It was slightly yellowish-brown, and it was murky and sticky. It gushed out of millions of pores at the same time, and it was far more than a normal person would sweat after a fierce fight.
Of course, the Vortex had never been a normal human.
Instead, it was a biochemical weapon that had received the most advanced genetic modifications.
He — it was like a melting wax figure.
Its facial features, which were originally very similar to Meng Chao's, gradually became blurry. They turned into semi-transparent wax that slowly flowed down.
As the wax on the surface fell off, the person pinned to the wall by Meng Chao's Bloody Soul completely changed.
It was a young man with a pale face and a protruding mouth.
There were hints of arrogance and unruliness in his eyes, but they were twisted due to pain.
He widened his eyes, and the more than one hundred blood capillaries that surrounded his pupils snapped before they were devoured by his widening pupils. In the end, his pupils and eyeballs froze forever.
As more wax gushed out of his body, it fell off, and flowed down, and his body shrank by 10%.
As his bones and muscles twitched, his height and shoulder width shrank to varying degrees. His chest was originally covered in muscles that looked like armor, but now, it looked a little thin and hunched.
At that moment, he no longer looked like Meng Chao.
Besides, Meng Chao noticed a huge tattoo on his neck that stretched from his chest to his neck.
Two intersecting black bones had been pierced by a sharp blade.
It was a tattoo from Black Bone.
They had even arrogantly used luminous paint to draw the tattoo.
Hence, in the darkness, the tattoo shone with a strange light. It looked like a skeleton burning with will-o '-the-wisps. There was no way that Meng Chao could be mistaken.
If he was not an important person in Black Bone, it was impossible for him to have such an arrogant tattoo.
Meng Chao felt as if his hair had turned into an ant's nest. His skin crawled.
As the order in Dragon City became more stable, the violence among humans gradually decreased. The gangs were looking to change their forms and use a more legal and safe method to obtain more benefits.
There was no need to even mention the nine strongest gangs in Dragon City in the early days. They had long since changed and formed the Survival Committee in the name of the nine great mega corporations to rule over Dragon City.
The gangs in the lair, such as Golden Tooth, Poison Scorpion, and Wild Wolves, might not be as strong as the mega corporations and had to be controlled by others, so they often had to do dirty and dangerous work. But deep in their hearts, they longed to clear their names and turn from traditional gangs into mega corporations that gathered food and beverage, entertainment, trade, drug research, biochemical modification, and weapon creation.
Even the Underground Emperor, Saber Jin Wanhao, was not a brutal person who would fight and kill at the slightest provocation.
Large gangs like Golden Tooth and Poison Scorpion abided by the rules even more than many of the businesses when it came to foreign guests. The reason behind it was simple. The lair's casinos, venison restaurants, monster coliseums, and the oldest industries were not able to support the lair with the weak spending power of the lair.
If tens of millions of citizens did not come to support them, no matter how strong a sect was, it would starve to death.
However, Black Bone was an anomaly among all the other gangs.
While most of the gangs sought to change and develop in the direction of becoming corporations, groups, legalized, and societies, Black Bone was the only one that stubbornly maintained its rule of the dark era, where the law of the jungle had collapsed, and where the strong preyed on the weak.
Black Bone was the gang that used brute force the least in Golden Tooth Lair.
It was also the most domineering and unyielding gang.
It was so unyielding that even the manager of Golden Tooth Lair, Saber Jin Wanhao, felt troubled.
However, Black Bone had gathered a group of fearless fighters, and their strength was second only to Golden Tooth.
Black Bone's gang leader was known as Phantom Bear. He had fought his way through the zombie crisis to the Monster War, and he had dominated the battlefield for decades. He was a powerful fighter of the older generation who had never fallen.
Aside from Saber Jin Wanhao, he did not listen to anyone else in the lair.
The lair was chaotic and complicated, so even if Golden Tooth and Poison Scorpion worked together with the other gangs to suppress Black Bone, both sides would end up with heavy losses.
Besides, Black Bone had the support of Universe Corporation, one of the nine great mega corporations in the outside world.
Universe Corporation's archenemy was Sky Pillar Corporation. It was the earliest and strongest exploration, mining, refinement, and weapon manufacturing group in Dragon City.
Universe Corporation was the challenger that caught up to them later, so it was only natural that they had to use more radical, extreme, and aggressive tactics.
Black Bone was Universe Corporation's vanguard in the lair, and they had not relied on luck to be able to do as they pleased to this day.
Just now, the Vortex had said that the person Meng Chao had killed was Phantom Bear Xiong Wei's favorite son, the gang leader of Black Bone.
It was only at that moment that Meng Chao understood what was going on!
At this time, he heard another 'slurp slurp, slurp slurp' sound.
Then, he saw something unbelievable.
More and more sticky wax flowed down from the heir of Black Bone, and it flowed faster.
It originally gathered under his feet due to gravity.
But as a large amount of wax fused with him, it turned from a murky, sticky, yellowish-brown color to a crystalline, semi-transparent substance. It stretched out its tentacles like a mollusk, as if it was alive!
Meng Chao had never seen such a strange life form before.
He swung his chain saber and stabbed it deep into the creature's body.
But the creature was like sticky glue. Its body slowly split apart before it closed up again in front of the chain saber. It was not affected in the slightest.
Meng Chao swung his chain saber a second time.
This time, he activated the spirit energy magnetic field of the flames and electrical arcs.
Blazing flames and crackling electric arcs blasted into the creature's body.
Not only did they not destroy the functions of its cells, they charged it up and made it move even faster.
It let out strange sounds as if it was mocking Meng Chao's futile efforts.
Then, like flowing water, it surged into the darkness in the depths of the maze.
Based on its formless and unpredictable body, it had a way to slip in or escape from the ventilation pipes, sewers, door cracks, or any crack that was more than 0.1mm wide.
'This is the Vortex's true form!'
Meng Chao came to a realization.
He had only decided to join the hunting squad last night, and no one knew about his new body. So how did the enemy manage to create a disguise that looked so real in just a few short hours?
The Vortex's true form was clearly a mollusk that had received advanced biochemical modifications. It could take on the appearance of any person or creature at will.
Of course, since it did not have bones, its mass was rather limited, so it was impossible for it to take on the appearance of a human out of thin air.
It could only attach itself to other people and turn into a lifelike shell, or rather, a highly intelligent and terrifying "painted skin".
And this was the most sinister part about it.
It first devoured the youngest son of Black Bone's gang leader, then controlled the body of the heir of Black Bone to fight against Meng Chao. It even lured Meng Chao into killing "itself".
Hence, Meng Chao's Bloody Soul stabbed the heir of Black Bone's chest and completely burned his heart!
The Vortex was about to flee into the darkness.
Meng Chao swung his chain saber for the third time.
This time, he did not throw it at the Vortex. Instead, he threw it at a corpse around him.
This was the battlefield where the pursuers and the ambushers had fought fiercely.
Beside Rattlesnake Xiang Wei's corpse were corpses strewn all over the place.
The pursuers were caught off guard, so they were ambushed. Many of them did not have the time to use all their ammunition.
Meng Chao's chain saber moved like an agile snake and wrapped around a heavy weapon belt that was stuffed full of hand grenades.
He hooked it with his pinky, and the weapon belt flew above the Vortex's head.
Flames and electrical arcs clashed against each other again, and they triggered all the hand grenades.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Dozens of fireballs and thousands of sharp shrapnel that spun at high speed went charging at the Vortex.
Even if it was a Supernatural Entity that had received advanced biochemical modifications, it still had to obey the most basic laws of living things.
Its viscous liquid form might allow it to change constantly and make it unpredictable, but it also greatly weakened its offensive and defensive abilities.
Based on the memories from Meng Chao's previous life, the Vortex was not famous for its fighting strength. It was not a peerless beast that destroyed Dragon City head-on.
Instead, it was the most mysterious assassin in the shadows.
In this life, it had yet to evolve to its final form, so Meng Chao was certain that it was impossible for it to be impervious to weapons.
Just as he expected, shrill screams came from the dozens of overlapping fireballs.
The Vortex's mocking laughter when it thought that victory was in its grasp and that it controlled everything finally turned into an angry and pathetic screech.
A thick, burnt stench came from the air.
It was as if a toad had been burned until it smelled like toad oil.
Of course, even if it was a mollusk, as a Supernatural Entity, it was not something that could be destroyed by dozens of hand grenades.
When Meng Chao wrapped his chain saber around his right arm and the whirlwind charged forward, he was just in time to see a ball that had been burnt black and was a horrible sight crawl into the maintenance pipe through the hidden door of the maintenance room on the wall of the tunnel.
To kill the impersonator just now, Meng Chao had been willing to make both sides suffer heavy losses. Naturally, he did not have the strength to destroy the entire maintenance pipe to capture the Vortex's tail.
Besides, the Vortex still had subordinates. They were monster puppets formed by wanted criminals and former Reaper Squad members. They had definitely prepared a fatal trap in the dark.
Meng Chao thought about it for a while and gave up on the pointless chase. He knelt down on one knee and carefully examined the scene of the grenade explosion. He found some black marks left behind after the protein was burnt.
When the Vortex did not attach itself to a human body, its offensive and defensive abilities were indeed not strong. It could be killed on a physical level. This made Meng Chao sigh in relief.
He turned his head around to search for the weapon left behind by the Vortex.
He found that there was a pretty good quality Red Radiance Jade embedded in the red saber. It had been refined through a unique process, and at first glance, it was not much different from a Red Radiance Jade crystal marrow.
Unfortunately, since it had been filled with too much spirit energy, the saber had broken in half, and the crystal had long since been reduced to powder.
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