Level 1 Mental Monster

"SSS..."

The coffee shop clerk saw that Lu Xin had not run away and had instead turned around to provoke him. He smiled too.

As the smile on his face twisted to a certain extent, his flesh suddenly tore apart, revealing black musculature. It writhed and extended outward, transforming into thick, distorted tentacles. Some bore huge mouths that sprouted sharp, short fangs, while others rolled open and revealed enormous eyeballs.

Then all the mouths abruptly opened wide and spat out threads of viscous liquid.

Lu Xin shuddered all over. "Run..."

But Sister only looked excitedly at the monster. "I'm not running. Look how cute it is..."

Before her words had even faded, the monster let out a roar and swung countless thick tentacles at him.

Lu Xin was shocked and terrified, and he could not help shouting, "I..."

But amid his cry, Sister suddenly tugged him along and charged straight at the monster.

"The mental energy fluctuations have reached their limit..."

At the observation post, a staff member rapidly hammered at the keyboard and shouted in a low voice, "The Level 1 Mental Monster has appeared!"

On the screens they could see, the empty subway station seemed to be undergoing an earthquake, trembling without end. Centered on that coffee shop clerk, huge cracks kept appearing in the ground, or deep pits as though they had been gouged out by immense force. Countless people nearby, including the "customers" in the coffee shop, had been torn apart.

It was as though an invisible force field was twisting, destroying, and tearing everything apart.

"A subway train will enter the station in three minutes. There are at least thirty passengers aboard!"

Another staff member shouted nervously and turned to the short-haired woman. "What should we do?"

The short-haired woman took a deep breath, unable to make a decision for the moment.

"Normally speaking, a Spider-type Mental Mutant without standard-issue weapons cannot possibly deal with this kind of Mental Monster..."

"But..."

"..."

On the constantly shaking screen before her, the observed subject was actually flying straight toward the coffee shop clerk, around whom countless force fields were twisting. The instant his body flashed, a pit gouged out by invisible telekinesis appeared nearby. As he suddenly crouched down, a hole appeared in someone's body seven or eight meters behind him.

And in such an extremely dangerous situation, he had actually forced his way to the coffee shop clerk's side.

Then he reached out and grabbed one of the coffee shop clerk's arms.

"Chi..."

At that moment, the image on the screen suddenly vanished completely.

That was because every camera in the subway station had been utterly destroyed by the invisible telekinesis.

The short-haired woman took a breath and suddenly shouted, "Move!"

Everyone sprang into action nervously, including the little girl in the next room.

"Heh heh..."

At that moment, in the subway station, Lu Xin was miserable inside, but an arrogant, teasing laugh came from his mouth. A frenzied, excited light flickered in his eyes. Countless sinister, terrifying tentacles lashed toward him. Instinctively, he felt that if any one of them touched or even grazed him, it would bring an irreversible and horrifying consequence.

Yet amid that endless danger, all he seemed to feel was excitement.

He rushed forward, twisting into countless bizarre and grotesque poses as he dodged the tentacles and reached the monster's side.

"Rip..."

He grabbed a piece of flesh from the monster's body and twisted with the motion. Pulp burst everywhere.

One of the monster's tentacles was actually torn right off by him.

The monster went mad with pain, and its countless mouths howled at once.

But Lu Xin's expression only grew more excited as he kept circling the monster.

His strength was clearly inferior to the monster's, and he knew that if the monster caught him, he would likely lose his life immediately. Yet not only was he unafraid, he seemed to be having tremendous fun. Like a cat tormenting a mouse, he darted closer to the monster and then away again. Each time he got close, he tore off another long tentacle.

He was dismantling the monster...

The monster had fewer and fewer tentacles left. It was incomparably furious and terrified, but no matter how violently it reacted, it only made Lu Xin more excited. He flickered around it like a ghost, tearing off chunks of flesh...

The monster's howls grew quieter and quieter, while severed limbs and bloodstains covered the ground around it.

But whether severed limbs or bloodstains, once they hit the ground, they gradually vanished with time.

At last, the monster no longer had the strength to resist. Filled only with terror, it crawled toward the station exit.

But Lu Xin leaped onto the wall beside it and gave chase. He tore a long, thin iron pipe from the top of the wall, then laughed wildly as he jumped down, aimed at the monster, and viciously drove the pipe down from behind it.

"Pfft!"

The monster was pierced through the head and nailed directly to the ground.

It struggled desperately, its few remaining tentacles flailing mindlessly.

Lu Xin crouched not far from it, watching its howls and struggles with abnormal satisfaction while remaining alert.

Fear appeared in the countless eyes on the monster's tentacles. Suddenly, every tentacle straightened at once.

Then, with a pop, they actually turned into clumps of bloody pulp.

The instant the pulp burst apart, it surged in all directions like a cloud of blood mist.

Fortunately, Lu Xin was extremely alert at that moment. With a quick sidestep, he dodged a mass of writhing flesh.

But the "customers" who had chased out from the coffee shop were instantly enveloped by the flesh and abruptly woke up.

During the battle just now, the "coffee shop clerk" had attacked almost indiscriminately. They had suffered terrible casualties, yet they had not moved at all, as though they felt neither pain nor fear. Now, they suddenly woke as if from a dream and scattered in every direction.

Some rushed toward the exits on both sides, while some even jumped down into the subway tunnel.

Each of them seemed insane, utterly unafraid of being crushed into meat paste by the train that was about to arrive...

"Trying to run?"

Lu Xin's eyes were full of fervor and excitement. His gaze shifted, and he shot toward the person closest to him.

It was a fat woman who was limping.

The woman had been struck by one of the coffee shop clerk's tentacles just now, and her entire left leg had bent at a bizarre angle. Yet she was still struggling to run outside, though she was slow. Sensing Lu Xin approaching from behind, she suddenly turned around and opened her mouth wide. Her mouth split all the way to her ears, and her yellow, greasy teeth looked much sharper than usual.

At that moment, she looked nothing like a human, more like a mindless beast.

"Whoosh!"

Lu Xin flashed to the side, dodging her biting mouth. Then he stretched out his arm, twisted, and snapped her neck.

Then he leaped forward and rapidly chased after the other fleeing figures.

An unusual fervor burned in his eyes, and his speed was indescribably strange and swift. In an instant, he had killed four or five "customers." But there were too many of them, and they were fleeing desperately. By the time he caught up to and killed four or five "customers," everyone else had already escaped in different directions. The subway platform was now completely empty.

"Crack..."

A faint sound suddenly echoed through the subway station.

Lu Xin abruptly turned his head and saw an old security guard standing in the security booth, staring at him in terror.

The old security guard had been very lucky.

The entire subway station had clearly been affected by the battle and severely damaged, yet this booth had somehow remained intact. And he himself was completely unharmed. But at this moment, he had made a slight noise and drawn Lu Xin's attention.

Lu Xin looked at him, his eyes seeming dark and bottomless. Then a twisted, excited expression appeared on his face.

The next moment, his body flashed forward and he rushed to the security booth. His fingers stiffened as he grabbed for the old security guard's head.

The old security guard raised his hands in terror to shield his head, clutching it tightly.

But the expected attack never came.

"Enough..."

Lu Xin shouted angrily and suddenly yanked Sister back.

Sister's slender fingers had nearly reached the old security guard's face, stopping only a few centimeters away.

Sister was crazy, but Lu Xin could stop her.

When he truly wanted to stop her.

During the battle earlier, even the slightest mistake could have resulted in the monster catching them, so Lu Xin had not dared to stop Sister. Even when Lu Xin wanted to flee and Sister wanted to go back, he had not dared to forcibly drag her away. With their intentions at odds, both their movements and reactions would slow down, possibly plunging them into danger. And those "customers" were abnormal too, so killing them was fine.

But this old security guard truly was a normal, ordinary person. Of course Lu Xin could not let Sister hurt him.

"Alright, alright..."

Sister was forcibly pulled back by Lu Xin and seemed very angry. But when she turned and saw Lu Xin's face, which had become somewhat twisted with anger, she suddenly became obedient. Her slender arms wrapped around Lu Xin's neck as she smiled. "Don't be angry, brother. I was protecting you too, wasn't I? Look at those monsters, they were all so fierce and scary..."

"If they're scary, then run..."

Veins bulged on Lu Xin's forehead. He wanted to say more, but Sister's expression suddenly changed.

"Oh no, those people are coming. Let's go quickly..."

Lu Xin was startled. He hurriedly flipped onto the wall and rapidly climbed away from the station.

Only bloodstains covering the ground and the trembling old security guard remained in the empty subway station.

"Rumble..."

The subway train suddenly entered the station, shaking dust loose throughout the station.

At the same time, a white figure flashed through the subway station. A girl who looked like a doll appeared there.

She held an umbrella in her hand, and her entire body was actually floating in the air.

Right behind her came the roar of a motorcycle engine as the short-haired woman rode her motorcycle directly into the station.

They looked around but did not see the Mental Monster, nor could they sense any lingering mental energy. They did not see the observed subject from before either. The entire subway station contained only broken corpses and bloodstains everywhere, along with the coffee shop clerk nailed to the ground, reduced to a puddle of remains. Surprise and a hint of fear crept onto the short-haired woman's face.

"How did he do it?"

She muttered in astonishment.

A Spider-type Mental Mutant, without standard-issue weapons or the support of an armed squad.

How had he eliminated the main body of a Pollution Source?

Her heart was full of bewilderment and doubt. Slowly turning her head, she saw the old security guard in the security booth.

The old security guard had been frightened senseless, terror nearly spilling from his eyes.

In his trembling hands, he still held an old-fashioned digital camera from the Old Era.