[Doctor: Q Ling Meng]

While Fireworks of Romance and Chang Xi leisurely ate watermelon and enjoyed the air conditioning, the strange ticking sound in the hall outside continued without pause.

As if summoned by something unknown, the contaminated Shadow Guards emerged one after another from the various rooms and made their way to the hall of their own accord.

As time passed, their mutation grew increasingly severe. On these beings made purely of shadows and Spiritual Energy, flesh began to grow not only on their faces, but all over their bodies.

The newly grown flesh had no skin and no blood vessels, only huge masses of scarlet meat connected to one another, with disgusting yellow blisters bulging high from them.

The Shadow Guards now looked like humans who had been skinned alive, covered in blisters, with blood-red compasses replacing their faces.

Bai Zhi had left a total of six Shadow Guards here. With the help of those six, even the Shadow Guard Chang Xi had previously trapped inside the Steel Cage was freed.

After the Shadow Guards arrived in the hall one after another, fleshy Tentacles spread and crawled out from the bodies of all seven of them, then attached themselves to the enormous Stone Box lying upside down on the floor.

Within mere seconds, dense blood-red lines like a spider web had spread across the upturned Stone Box.

New flesh began to form atop the Stone Box.

At that moment, an old sow suddenly appeared in the hall. Yet within three or four seconds, under the ticking that sounded every few moments, what had happened to Chang Xi and Fireworks of Romance happened to the sow as well.

But compared to Elite Players like Fireworks of Romance and Chang Xi, an ordinary sow had nowhere near enough resistance. In only a few seconds,