Thick, powerful fingers closed, scooping up a handful of earth from the ground.
An enormous head leaned over and sniffed hard with its flat nose. Its murky, pus-filled eyes turned toward the direction Wang Chen had fled, greed gleaming in their dark yellow pupils.
"Man, what a delicious scent!"
It burrowed out of the earth, its massive body shaking off countless clods of dirt.
When it stood upright, it was actually over five zhang tall!
The giant, with distinctly feminine features, strode forward, each step leaving a deep footprint in the ground.
Its hide was blackish gray, covered in wrinkles like old tree bark.
Looking closer, every wrinkle was a twisted human face contorted in agony, letting out soundless wails.
Upon reaching the edge of Ruined City, the giant stopped.
It seemed to be wary of something.
Yet it was clearly unwilling to give up just like that. Abruptly, it opened its blood-basin mouth.
"Waaah~"
A torrent of mud-colored liquid sprayed wildly from the giant's mouth, pouring onto the ground like a waterfall.
Mixed within it were dark red blood cocoons.
The force of impact shattered the cocoons one after another, and the people hidden inside sprang to their feet.
They wore fitted gray tunics, with lean, hardened builds and vacant expressions. Pairs of gray eyes were dull with deathly stillness.
"Go!"
The giant spread its palm and scattered the earth it had grabbed earlier over the gray-clad men. In a muffled voice, it said, "Bring him back to me—alive!"
Before its words had even faded, dozens of gray-clad men shot forward like arrows loosed from a bow.
Their movement techniques were swift to the utmost extreme.
"Cough, cough!"
The giant's throat suddenly caught, and it coughed up a blood cocoon into its mouth.
It hesitated for a moment, then