Chapter 354: The Man Who Chased God

Why isn’t it dead yet?

Lu Xin frowned, retreating rapidly, but the shadow beneath his feet suddenly surged forward.

Father seemed reluctant, but what choice did he have?

Mom wasn’t around, making him the only adult at home.

Besides, perhaps because the monster’s mental impact had delayed him for over twenty seconds, his temper flared. Unlike Lu Xin, who wondered how to kill the monster, Father just wanted to tear it to pieces.

His temper always seemed to be like this.

Impatient!

*Swish* *Swish*

As the shadow flew forward, that pool of flesh rapidly expanded.

The shadow had initially covered the pool of flesh, but as it swelled, a large portion broke free from its control. Then, more and more tentacles shot towards the ceiling, striking it like a frog’s tongue.

Is this the monster’s way of resisting?

The scene from the motel flashed through Lu Xin’s mind—when the Infant saved the one-eyed Man in the suit.

Back then, the Infant had escaped the shadow’s restraint by constantly expanding its flesh.

*Crash…*

Just as this thought occurred to him, the pool of flesh before him suddenly surged upwards.

Countless tentacles gave it points to leverage.

Most of the flesh was torn apart, remaining under the shadow’s cover, while the other part shot straight up to the ceiling.

It actually squeezed through the hole Lu Xin had made in the ceiling when he dropped down…

It escaped!

The monster actually got away…

Lu Xin didn’t dare let his guard down. The moment he registered what happened, he shouted for his sister.

*Tap tap tap tap.*

He scaled the wall nimbly, darted next to the hole, shrank his body, and slipped through.

Gritting his teeth, he hurried after the monster.

…

The monster was fast and no longer resembled a humanoid life form.

Blood threads connected, launched, and squeezed, allowing it to ascend through the layers of the ‘elevator’ Lu Xin had created, fleeing further away.

In a short time, it had already switched its mode of movement several times.

Sometimes, like a Spider-type, it used ejected blood threads to pull itself forward.

Sometimes, like a serpent, it slithered rapidly across the ground.

Sometimes, sharp, horn-like feet grew from its flesh, *tap tap tapping* as it climbed quickly.

Sometimes, it would even contract its body and use the accumulated power in its flesh to violently launch itself.

…

In just ten seconds, it had passed through several floors, seven or eight corridors, three or five doors, and a couple of windows to reach the ground. Then, it fled swiftly into the chaotic buildings of the ruined city beneath the Red Moon.

Lu Xin was fast and agile, exhibiting many movements that defied normal human understanding.

His body slightly bent, he climbed walls and ceilings. His lean frame seemed to need only a slight contraction to squeeze through tiny spaces while running at high speed. The complex layout of the dark building felt like his playground.

Thus, he relentlessly pursued the monster like a hunter chasing its prey.

*Whoosh! Whoosh!*

The monster’s flesh crawled past the jagged, broken windows and doors of the buildings on either side, and past shattered wooden frames swinging emptily in the air.

As it passed by, terrifyingly thick tentacles and indescribable masses of flesh periodically surged out from the hollow buildings. Some lashed out at Lu Xin, who followed closely behind, while others rapidly merged with the monster’s body.

“Such a cowardly god…”

But Lu Xin, chasing behind it, looked even more excited.

He sometimes ran along the face of a nearby building, sometimes disappeared into a hollow structure.

The next moment, he’d abruptly reappear, leaping high into mid-air, his shadow scattering, his face ferocious.

*Crash…*

Terrifying tentacles would suddenly emerge from the buildings on either side, smashing towards his face.

But his speed remained almost unaffected. Sometimes, while in mid-air, he would abruptly duck, shrinking bonelessly into a ball to dodge a sweeping tentacle. Other times, using the momentum from running on a wall, he’d raise his gun and fire forward.

Blue electrical arcs occasionally exploded on his path, leaving scorched, tentacle-like flesh scattered on the ground where he passed.

One chasing the other, they instantly crossed countless intersections.

Inside a hollow building, the Ability User teams from Central City and Qinggang City, having just found their way up, were terrified by the writhing monsters filling the city and emanating a dreadful aura. They were considering how to report the situation to the higher-ups as quickly as possible.

Suddenly, they heard a series of crackling sounds in the distance.

A fierce wind pressed forward, swirling debris from the ruins.

An aura sharp as a knife swept over them instantly, making every hair on their bodies stand on end.

They whipped their heads around just in time to see a terrifying mass of flesh speeding towards them.

Some drew their guns, others prepared their abilities, and some simply shut their eyes, ready to die.

Judging by the mental force field signature, they could tell this mass of flesh was the ‘God’ they had encountered in the underground lab!

Then, the monster ran straight past them without a second glance.

Spared from death, they paused, stunned, then stared blankly in the direction the flesh monster had fled.

Then, with a *whoosh*, another black shadow shot past in front of them.

Vaguely, they thought they saw a smiling face offering them a concerned grin, but it vanished before they could greet it.

Everyone was completely baffled.

After a long moment, Gecko finally mumbled, “Team Leader…”

He turned to Chen Jing, “Did you just see something… chasing that God?”

Xia Chong’s neck was stiff as he also looked at Chen Jing, “Your Qinggang’s method for cleaning up pollution…”

“…Is it always this wild?”

Chen Jing couldn’t answer. After a while, she just gave a silent nod.

…

“It sure runs fast…”

“Is it running out of tricks, or planning something nasty?”

Lu Xin was pushing his speed to the absolute limit. In a way, Sister was entirely responsible for the chase now, because only she knew how to utilize his body to its utmost potential, achieving maximum speed and efficiency.

The entire city seemed to teem with countless horrific flesh and tentacle monsters hidden in the shadows.

They grew excited, emerging one after another from the darkness.

These endless monsters gave the impression that the entire city had become an incarnation of the flesh monster itself.

Of course, with Father present, these flesh monsters didn’t pose much of a threat to Lu Xin.

…

In an instant, they reached the vicinity of the city center, and the gap between Lu Xin and the flesh monster was closing.

The monster seemed to sense the increasingly alarming pressure from behind. Panicked, it suddenly turned into a street. This wide road was almost completely dark, devoid of any lights, and the tall buildings on both sides blocked all moonlight.

Lu Xin didn’t hesitate, charging into the street after it.

*Hum…*

The moment he entered, he sensed an unusual power.

It was a power that felt like countless eyes were spying on him from all around, attempting to influence him.

His speed slowed slightly as the shadow beside him spread out.

As Lu Xin tried to look around, the surrounding darkness grew thinner.

He almost instantly identified the source of those gazes.

At some point, thick, terrifying tentacles had grown on both sides of the street, no different from the ones he had shredded and dodged along the way. Except, these tentacles were now covered in blood-red eyes.

These eyes observed him and influenced him.

It felt like walking down a street crisscrossed with countless filaments, making every step incredibly difficult.

It was the ability of the one-eyed Man in the suit from the motel.

Now, such eyes grew on all the tentacles lining the street, and there were far more of them than when he faced the Man in the suit.

Naturally, this power was also stronger.

Back then, the Man in the suit alone had nearly pushed Lu Xin into a desperate situation.

Now, each tentacle seemed to possess the Man in the suit’s power. It was like facing a dozen of them waiting here for him.

So.

Lu Xin strode forward.

The shadow spread outwards, instantly climbing onto tentacle after tentacle.

*Pop pop pop pop.*

Countless eyeballs burst, splattering blood everywhere, like red fountains spewing bloody water from both sides.

Last time at the motel, he’d had someone beside him. Not now.

Therefore, Lu Xin barely paused before continuing deeper into the street, no longer paying any mind to the surrounding gazes.

*”Waaah…”*

As the countless eyes on both sides burst spectacularly, a cry echoed from halfway down the street.

It was the cry of an infant.

Unlike a normal infant’s cry, this one seemed saturated with shrillness and despair, thick with a madness that permeated every sound wave. It felt like this cry could instill a powerful desire for growth in every cell of a person’s body.

*Rumble…*

Up ahead in the street, a dark red color suddenly expanded endlessly.

It was masses of flesh swelling to hair-raising proportions, growing instantly out of the dark shadows.

It transformed into a wall of flesh, then swelled into a mountain of flesh easily ten stories high, blocking the already faint, pathetic Red Moon light above the street. Emitting a nauseating stench of decay, it pressed forward.

Within the flesh, an infant’s face, twenty to thirty meters in diameter, slowly emerged.

It wore a strange smile as it looked down at Lu Xin, reaching out a chubby hand to grab him.

Lu Xin didn’t look up at it but continued walking forward.

The shadow beneath his feet suddenly contracted into a line, instantly slashing across the infant form in front of him.

The giant infant, or rather, that mountain of flesh, began to crack from the top. Its head split open and separated to both sides, followed by its neck, chest… Blood and some unknown substances cascaded down with a *splash*, neatly dividing into two piles. The street floor was instantly covered in a foul-smelling layer of blood ten centimeters thick.

Lu Xin walked through the middle of the divided flesh.

The air around him distorted, causing the viscous blood beneath his feet to flee fearfully to the sides.

He looked up at the ‘God’ at the end of the street and revealed a gentle smile:

“Yo, cornered you…”