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Chapter 165 A Fine Line Between Life and Death (Please subscribe, request monthly ticket)

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Yan Junze had never felt death so close to him before.

At this moment, he was certain that the strange boy hidden outside was definitely not the real Tricky Silk; otherwise, he might have been done for at their first encounter, without any chance to fight back.

He checked the time; it was still a long way off from dawn. If he lingered here, he didn't know when that concealed child would become impatient and enter the warehouse to search for him.

Of course, if Yan Junze knew that the boy feared the Tricky Silk strangeness and didn't even dare to enter the warehouse, he would have made another plan.

After all, the Tricky Silk strangeness was still far away, and the boy's sensitivity to the oppressive aura of strangenesses had surpassed Long-tongued Zhenzhen, almost on par with Ke'er.

After thinking it over, Yan Junze turned his head to look at the Crawler Monster lying beside him with a backpack on its back.

"The child's target should be me; he's not very interested in you. Maybe you can draw his attention so that I can find an opportunity to leave the warehouse and slip away from the base of the mountain," he said.

Although it understood the words, the Crawler Monster was as bewildered as ever. It looked up at Yan Junze, confused about his strange idea.

In fact, it would have been best to have Zhenzhen come out and divert the strange child's attention, but Zhenzhen's magnetic field was extremely unstable at the moment, and Yan Junze didn't dare release her for fear of causing even greater disasters.

"Like this…"

Just as Yan Junze was about to put his plan into action, he suddenly stopped, looked up, and saw a purple-green child's head peeking out from behind the large stone—then, the skinny body of the child crawled to the front of the stone like a giant spider.

The child had sensed the events unfolding in the Underground Space after waiting for so long, and the oppression he felt from the Tricky Silk strangeness was weakening.

At this moment, the warehouse in front of him no longer seemed as intimidating as before.

After crawling out, the child sniffed a few times, as if he was able to confirm that his perceptions were correct. He immediately bent his body and scurried toward the warehouse door.

During the crawl, a trail of greenish slime was left behind him.

"Not good, it seems like he's found us."

Seeing this, Yan Junze was startled and immediately pointed towards the left side of the door, instructing the Crawler Monster, "You go that way, get out first and attract his attention, quick!"

The Crawler Monster fully understood the command and immediately crawled out of the warehouse door, rapidly moving to the left with the black backpack on its back.

The approaching child was taken aback, not expecting the appearance of the Crawler Monster. So, he immediately turned to look at it with caution, facing in the direction where the Crawler Monster had escaped.

He seemed to be considering whether to pursue, and at this moment, the child was turned sideways facing the warehouse door.

Yan Junze swiftly slipped out of the door, his left hand still clutching his waist, his teeth clenched tightly, and he quickly left towards the right side, outside the door.

He was very careful with his footsteps, making no noise, and since the child's attention was on the Crawler Monster, just a few more seconds of distraction would mean that once Yan Junze slipped behind the mountain base, he would no longer be found.

However, it turned out that an immature plan was akin to fantasy.

Yan Junze had only taken four or five steps when the child turned its head around.

Clearly, his focus wasn't on the departing Crawler Monster. Since consuming the three words "Yan Junze," the obsession implanted by Cheng Jingting had made Yan Junze the sole target of his assassination.

Upon turning his head, the child immediately spotted Yan Junze attempting to escape, and instantly his mouth split open, oozing green slime as he bent his hind legs and leaped towards him.

Seeing this, Yan Junze felt as if a bucket of cold water had been dumped over him, making him feel chilled from head to toe. He released a club and swung it backward, but hit nothing.

The child's movements and dodging speed were astonishing, and he seemed different from the common Wandering Spirits, as well as unlike Sculpting Spirits or Semi-Sculpting Spirits.

For Yan Junze, the child was like a jar of fermented pickles, a marinated corpse, a very pure body that didn't seem to be any kind of spirit.

This was highly unusual; he had never encountered such a situation before.

Who exactly was it? Why was this individual targeting him?

At this point, Yan Junze had no time to think further, for, after his missed strike with the club, a cold sensation immediately spread across his body, soon followed by a scorching pain.

Looking down, he saw a terrifying wound on his abdomen, through which the outline of his intestines could be vaguely seen.

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Not only that, but the pain in his spine was excruciating, with at least two spots slashed deep enough to expose the bone.

The Rewind Energy was insufficient; unable to rewind, Yan Junze's will to survive was now fully ignited.

He quickly pressed his back against the rocky wall at the base of the mountain, preventing the child from attacking him from behind, and then desperately swung his hammer down at the child attacking again.

The blow went astray again, and upon contact with the child's body, it felt slimy, almost completely sliding off the force of the hammer.

The child merely tilted slightly to the side, stretched out a claw, and buried its sharp fingertips deep into Yan Junze's thigh.

Using this grip, the child climbed up onto his shoulders.

"Fuck... your mother!"

Yan Junze's eyes were bloodshot as he caught sight of the Crawler Monster shivering in the distance, not daring to get closer.

In this life-or-death moment, he didn't think twice and released Long-tongued Zhenzhen.

Normally, Zhenzhen would have rushed to Yan Junze's aid immediately upon seeing him in trouble.

But now, Zhenzhen had just possessed a strangeness, the magnetic field was extremely chaotic, and Yan Junze was unsure whether releasing her would help or harm him, but he had to try.

Zhenzhen stood to one side, pressing closely against the rocky wall as if she were a corpse, motionless.

Her head hung low, her half-meter-long tongue swaying slightly, seemingly unconcerned about the crisis Yan Junze was facing.

Thud!

Sharp nails pierced Yan Junze's shoulder, the tearing pain forcing a dreadful scream from him.

In the deserted hinterland of Mountain Park, there was no one to hear him scream.

Zhenzhen seemed to have lost her spirit intellect, the strangeness magnetic field in chaos, just gloomily standing against the rock wall as if ready to explode at any disturbance, yet showing no response even to Yan Junze's scream.

At the brink of death!

Yan Junze violently threw his hammer at Zhenzhen, hoping to rile her up, make her notice him, and ideally get the two strangenesses to fight one another, just like Resentful Granny and Back-faced Woman did previously.

But just as the hammer was about to hit Zhenzhen, her tongue lashed out, colliding with the hammer mid-air.

With a loud bang, the hammer was repelled and fell to the ground.

Zhenzhen also let out a muffled grunt, staggered backward, and pressed completely up against the wall.

Clearly, the hammer could inflict a certain level of damage to her, but the impact wasn't severe.

Thud!

The other shoulder of Yan Junze was once again penetrated by the child's sharp nails, blood gushing out, flowing rapidly from the pierced holes, rendering both arms immovable.

At this moment, his complexion was ashen, he lurched forward, and slammed heavily onto the ground.

And Long-tongued Zhenzhen, after repelling the hammer, did not come over or shift her attention here.

It's over!

Yan Junze felt a sense of despair.

His head, pressed against the ground, was stepped on by the child. The child extended its razor-sharp nails, lightly tracing Yan Junze's neck, puncturing the skin and flesh and reaching the artery.

After a brief two-second pause, with a forceful move, the artery was instantly severed.

A large amount of blood surged from Yan Junze's neck.

[Host detected on the brink of death, triggering "Automatic Rewind on Near-Death," Different Dimension Energy insufficient, trigger failed…]