Meng Chao cast Lu Siya a deep glance.
He branded the black flames in his heart.
He bit his lips and tongue, and the blood that filled his mouth went back into his stomach.
He used his blood that was as hot as magma to cool down his burning nerves, blood vessels, and spirit meridians.
Then, with a growl, he pulled out his legs, which seemed to have been bound by tree roots, and pounced on the path Lu Siya had opened for him to escape.
Countless green waves and blood tattoos appeared around Lu Siya's right eye.
They pounced on the black flames one after another.
Her right eye once again became sparkling and translucent, dark red like blood.
She turned into Lu Siya again.
She tried to crush and pull out the two stalactites that had stabbed into her body.
However, there was still a stubborn power that was active in the depths of the green armor, and it was trying its best to interfere with her actions.
She had just pulled out the first stalactite.
The second stalagmite pierced deeper and was stuck in her bone seam.
With great difficulty, she crushed the second stalactite and pulled out the sharp stones one by one. Then, her feet were bitten by stalagmites that had crept up without her realizing it.
When she finally broke free of all the rocks, Meng Chao disappeared from the karst cave.
Meng Chao had already vanished from the karst cave. He had crawled into the depths of the crack.
Meng Chao heard angry and embarrassed roars behind him.
He sensed that the entire underground karst cave was trembling and was about to collapse at any moment.
Thousands of vines and green waves chased after him like a fierce beast.
But he could not turn back.
He could only use his hands and feet to crawl forward.
He crawled over the sharp stones, the sharp stalagmites, and squeezed through the cracks that were only the width of a palm.
Even if his flesh was a bloody mess from the friction, all the wounds that had just formed scabs burst open, and the last drop of blood was squeezed out of his torn skin, he did not care.
He could not sense fatigue or pain.
He could not sense fear or despair either.
The only thing that supported his body, which had long since dried up and was about to evaporate and combust, was a shining belief.
He would definitely escape.
He would escape and find a power that was ten times, no, one hundred times stronger.
Then, he would come back and destroy the mastermind, the mother, 01, or anything that came from the ancient era or the future, hell or the galaxy, God or demon, and save Lu Siya!
This belief released an incredibly powerful driving force.
His body was continuously withering due to the aftereffects of Ultimate Combustion, and it was perfect for him to adapt to the winding and extremely narrow gap.
The air in front of them was getting more moist and fresh.
The rumbling sound of the rushing river became clearer and clearer.
He even saw a fiery red light flickering not far away.
The night finally passed.
Dawn had come.
Even the torrential rain, which had been raging for a whole month, had unknowingly weakened, as if it was bowing before the unyielding will of mankind!
Meng Chao was just a few dozen meters away from touching the warm light.
At this moment, a piercing pain came from his left ankle.
Vines with poisonous thorns wrapped tightly around his ankles and injected deadly venom into his body.
He couldn't care less about entangling himself with the vines. With a ruthless kick and a tug, he crashed into the sharp edge of the rock beside him, smashing the poisonous vines and tearing off a large piece of flesh from his ankle.
He could not feel his left leg.
But that was not important.
As long as he could climb out of the crack and jump into Red Dragon River, it would not matter even if he had to replace his legs with chassis and tracks.
Meng Chao's knees and elbows were already bruised.
He was just ten meters away from the exit.
He could even feel the warmth of the morning sun caressing his cheeks.
However, an earth-shattering rumble came from the darkness behind him.
A shockwave that could topple mountains caught up to him at lightning speed and drowned him completely.
It was not a shockwave at the physical level.
If it had been a real shockwave, it would have blown Meng Chao out of the crack and into the gushing river.
But this was a shockwave at the mental level.
It was the strongest mental attack Meng Chao had ever encountered in his life!
In an instant, illusions appeared before Meng Chao's eyes.
He seemed to see a forest banshee with a head full of snake-like hair somehow appearing in front of him and blocking off the exit of the crack.
Even if he instantly realized that this was just an illusion and that his cerebral cortex had been disrupted by the other party's brainwaves, his sight, hearing, and touch had been hijacked, and false information was implanted in his brain.
Then, he gathered a Mind Blade and cut the snake banshee into pieces.
But the hole behind the snake banshee, which had been torn to pieces and turned into wisps of smoke, had already disappeared.
The crack in front of Meng Chao seemed to have been stretched ten times longer.
The fresh air, the roars from the river, and even the warm light disappeared into the depths of the darkness.
That was not all. Even the crack itself had gone through a shocking change.
Originally, sturdy stones and stalagmites protruding out like fangs were the only things that formed the crack.
But now, the substance that formed the endless crack had turned into skeletons.
Monster skeletons.
Tens of thousands of deformed and highly compressed monster skeletons.
Dragon Citizens were not the only ones who ran into modern monsters.
There were also the ancient ferocious beast skeletons that Meng Chao had extracted from the ancient war through the microcomputer.
The depths of the sinkhole seemed to have turned into a monster graveyard with billions of years of history.
Meng Chao was like a grave robber moving through the tunnel with great difficulty, but he was discovered by the souls guarding the grave.
He had no other choice but to grit his teeth and continue moving forward.
But the crack in front of him gradually closed up as the monster skeletons swelled up, multiplied, and squirmed about.
Meng Chao ran into a wall in front of the layers of monster skeletons.
No matter how much he roared and swung his fists, how much he ground his flesh and crushed his fingers, he could not break the seal on the monster skeletons.
He knew clearly that this was an illusion.
But the Other World had always been a blurry place where the boundary between matter and consciousness was blurred.
As long as his mind was strong enough.
Illusions could also kill people.
Low laughter came from behind Meng Chao.
He sensed that the walls made of skeletons around him were swiftly collapsing and pressing against him.
He could only turn around.
He saw a horrifying scene.
He had already crawled hundreds of meters through the crack.
But now, the crack was devoured by a huge karst cave.
Of course, it was a karst cave made of billions of monster carcasses.
It was a karst cave that had a diameter of at least thousands of meters. Countless deformed and deformed monster carcasses gathered on the walls. They tore at each other madly, roared, and struggled. Together, they formed a relief known as Hell.
At the center of the karst cave was a towering mountain.
It was a Mighty Miracle God formed by the corpses of countless monsters, and it stood tall in the sky.
The monster carcasses formed its skeleton, and the Blood Flowers formed its blood vessels and nerves. The endlessly proliferating green tide gave it layers of muscles, skin, and armor that were as tough as steel.
It sat there without moving. In its eye sockets that were as deep as black holes were two huge red crystals. They shone with a light that could capture people's souls as they stared at Meng Chao.
Dozens of vines that looked like cranial nerves stretched out from the center of the Skeletal Giant's brows. They were wrapped tightly around … Lu Siya!
Compared to the Skeletal Giant, Lu Siya was tiny and fragile. She was like an exquisite toy.
The dozens of vines were wrapped in sharp, venomous needles. They pierced her limbs, spine, neck, and temples deeply into her body and bound her blood vessels, nerves, bones, and soul.
It made her look like a marionette bound tightly by a steel wire.
Even so, Lu Siya endured the pain and struggled with all her might. She would rather have her skin torn and even her bones crushed to move her body according to her will.
When Meng Chao sensed Lu Siya's determination to fight to the death with her, he was shocked.
He knew that this was Lu Siya's mental projection.
It was also Lu Siya's truest self in the deepest part of her heart.
Similarly, the Skeletal Giant in front of Meng Chao was also the mental core of the monster's mastermind, or rather, Mother 01.
It was not a big problem to say that it was its soul.
The mastermind dragged Meng Chao and Lu Siya into the deepest parts of its mind.
This was a last resort.
After all, there were unique aspects to soul battles. They might not necessarily be directly related to the strength of the physical body.
Mind attacks worked both ways. When the ports in their brains were connected, the monster mastermind could release its mind power to Meng Chao and Lu Siya in an endless stream, but Meng Chao and Lu Siya also had the chance to launch fatal attacks on the other's consciousness and subconscious.
If Lu Siya had not fought back with her life, the monster mastermind would not have been able to physically drag Meng Chao back underground.
It would definitely not use a mind attack that was like a double-edged sword.
After all, even the mastermind of the monsters did not want humans to see its truest heart.
But knowing this did not seem to be of any help to the outcome of the battle.
No matter what, the other party was a powerful carbon-based life form that had survived from the ancient war until now.
Even if it was dormant most of the time, its mind was still so strong that Meng Chao and Lu Siya, who were mere mortals, could not compare to it.
Lu Siya was bound even tighter by the vines. Gradually, sharp spikes protruded out of the blood vessels around her pinky.
Meng Chao was also trapped by the monster carcasses that kept multiplying. He could not free himself. The deformed and twisted bones had already submerged his feet, ankles, calves, and thighs. They were about to devour his waist and chest.
They could not find any openings in the depths of the other party's consciousness.
They could not find a way to shatter the illusion and escape from the monster mastermind's mind either.
Meng Chao and Lu Siya looked at each other.
They gritted their teeth and used all their strength to extend their arms at the other party in hopes that they could work together to break free of the vines and bones so that they could escape the damn illusion.
The skeletal giant stared at them without moving.
It just let them struggle nonstop and get closer to it.
When their fingertips were just a few centimeters away from touching each other, a strange light shone in the huge, red eyes that looked like clusters of crystals.
The speed and strength of the vines swiftly increased.
The monster carcass beneath Meng Chao also grew sharp fangs.
Both of them could not help but moan at the same time.
"It's meaningless."
The skeletal giant let out a thunderous sigh and stated emotionlessly, "Your struggles are meaningless."
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