Monsters Can Be Killed

"So, this is just like when I first faced the city's malice."

This tearing is the native's malice towards him reaching a certain limit, completely tearing off the original disguise. Although he doesn't understand why he would encounter this kind of thing with more than four hundred points, Xiao Xiao already has experience in dealing with it.

In his vision, the group of co-workers were already pressing forward.

Shreds of human skin were tossed aside, and bright red tentacles fluttered like giant man-eating flowers.

Xiao Xiao could see the fragmented faces and eyes hanging at various crooked angles within the countless twisted tentacles.

He heard a cold, mocking laughter from the worm-like mouths.

The enhancement from Extreme Sensitivity allowed him to deeply feel the tidal wave of hatred, layer upon layer, surging towards him.

Every hair on his body stood on end, so he simply took the initiative.

"Whoosh..."

One of the monsters, charging closest, swung its massive tentacles to wrap around Xiao Xiao's neck.

But facing such a bizarre and twisted scene, Xiao Xiao remained unusually calm. As he rushed forward, he slightly shifted his body to the left, dodging the wriggling tentacles. He quickly pulled his hand from his pocket, and with a backhand flick.

A dim flash of sharpness cut through the air, and the monster's tentacle tore apart, falling to the ground and twitching.

Xiao Xiao held a fruit knife in reverse grip, unflinchingly looking at the people before him.

He didn't use a gun. He'd used all six bullets during the Despair Swamp incident, and Ruan Ruan hadn't given him any new ones yet.

So, he could only use a knife at this time. This was the fruit knife he had bought from the street after deciding to enhance himself for the first time.

The quality was poor, but who said a fruit knife couldn't kill monsters?

The surrounding shedding monsters, suddenly seeing this scene, were all startled, and their momentum slowed slightly.

The monster whose tentacle had been cut off retreated in fear.

"Scared already?"

Xiao Xiao tilted his head to look at them, expressionless, giving off a relaxed air.

Sometimes, when an expression is too relaxed, it makes people wonder if they are smiling.

Xiao Xiao was indeed very relaxed.

These monsters that had shed their human skin not only had nightmarish, bizarre forms, but also a substantial, intense malice.

Just like Jiang Cheng, whom he had met at the class reunion, even without shedding his human skin, he could send chills down one's spine. But after they really shed their skin, revealing their twisted essence, Xiao Xiao felt that they were very weak and pitiful.

He had easily killed one when he had just awakened, let alone now?

More importantly, he had no burden at this time.

Monsters can be killed.

Just like when he killed Jiang Cheng before, didn't he quickly return to normal?

Instead, he became more polite to people.

Xiao Xiao had already figured out this pattern. For the natives who hadn't "shed their skin," he couldn't kill them, or he would lose points.

But those who had shed their skin and turned into monsters, killing them was actually forcing them to put on human skin!

Therefore, he instead gripped the fruit knife tightly and mercilessly stabbed at a bright red heart that was frantically beating in his vision.

"Whoosh..."

Xiao Xiao's charging movement caused the group of monsters to panic, and countless tentacles surged towards him.

On countless cold and fragmented faces, panic was revealed, and mouths of various shapes shouted:

"Attack, kill him..."

"Ruin his face..."

"Take his knife first, don't let him hurt anyone..."

"..."

"Heh, want to take my knife?"

Xiao Xiao sneered. Mind Burst and Extreme Sensitivity had brought his control over his body to an excellent state.

Even in the face of the surging red tentacles, he easily evaded them.

The fruit knife, with the addition of the Violence Factor, seemed to possess terrifying sharpness.

With each swing, tentacles were torn apart, falling to the ground like earthworms, and the surrounding monsters retreated in panic.

However, under the effect of the Extreme Sensitivity Factor, Xiao Xiao suddenly felt something was strange.

The countless co-workers around him, who had torn off their human disguises and revealed their bloody, sticky tentacles, were glaring at him with eyes full of malice, charging fiercely towards him. They were numerous, fast, and possessed far greater strength than Jiang Cheng, whom he had seen before. For a moment, Xiao Xiao felt that twisted tentacles were everywhere, and flashing before his eyes were fragmented faces.

However, in this nightmare-like environment, their tentacles were simply sweeping down from all around.

Weaving into large nets, as if trying to surround him.

This caused a strange thought to flash through Xiao Xiao's mind:

"Could it be that they don't want to kill me, but just want to capture me?"

However, he immediately saw the blood-red eyes hanging like lanterns on the shattered faces of those monsters, saw the twisted and malicious intent in those eyes, and instantly understood: "That's right, they want to catch me and eat me..."

"..."

He sneered inwardly, and immediately stopped holding back.

In this harsh environment, as if enveloped by a crowd, individual strength is actually very limited. Just like on an ancient battlefield, even the bravest general, once surrounded by a crowd, would find it difficult to break through, because the space around him would be extremely small.

But Xiao Xiao had been strengthened by the Extreme Sensitivity state.

He had previously done a careful analysis:

The most complementary ability to his Mind Burst was the Extreme Sensitivity element, which could enhance information gathering.

Now, he immediately felt the advantage brought by this enhancement element. Even surrounded by countless monsters, he could keenly sense the malice surging around him, feel every strong tentacle coiling towards him. Coupled with Mind Burst, information analysis, and a body strengthened by the Violence Factor, he seemed to be in his element among the monsters.

Amidst the layers of twisted malice, he advanced and retreated freely, dodging and weaving, like a wandering Ghost.

At this moment, even the fruit knife seemed to be wielded with a strange sharpness.

A cold light flashed, and red tentacles flew around him, with splashes of blood splattering on the ground.

This further proved Xiao Xiao's previous idea: the Seer path is the most suitable enhancement path for him to develop...

"What happened?"

"Damn it, where did this lunatic come from?"

Even with Xiao Xiao's relentless counterattacks, the surrounding monsters still surrounded him tightly, every inch of space around him filled with nightmarish scenes. Looking into the distance, some of the foremen on the dock occasionally saw the commotion here from afar. They seemed surprised, waving their hands vigorously, shouting loudly, and rushing towards this direction, their faces showing shock and anxiety.

However, as they ran closer, the expressions on their faces became more and more ferocious.

Finally, when they rushed close, the human skin on their bodies had already torn, and they swung their red tentacles, joining the battle.

They were endless, as if every time he repelled one monster, two more appeared around him.

They even stretched out their tentacles, picking up sharp iron picks around them, or pulling out streetlights as tall as three meters as weapons. Some even stretched their tentacles into the ground, lifting large pieces of cement fragments, and smashing them at him.

This was the first time Xiao Xiao had faced so many monsters, and he had wanted to summon the Pain Hound several times in his heart.

But he held back.

With his mind working quickly, he had already made the most calm analysis:

He had not yet found the source of malice hidden in the crowd, and now was not the time to summon the Pain Hound.

Thinking this, he stepped in front of a face filled with anger and malice.

This was the monster that the Foreman had transformed into after shedding his skin.

It was originally rushing in the front, but after seeing Xiao Xiao take out the fruit knife to fight back, it hid behind the others.

But it still spared no effort to shout, urging the surrounding monsters to besiege him.

Xiao Xiao could even see that each of the three parts of his face, which had been divided into three, had different expressions. If pieced together, he could see the complete hatred, fear, and the viciousness of wanting to kill him at all costs on his face.

Kill him first!

Xiao Xiao twisted his body to avoid two tentacles coiling from behind, and then held the fruit knife upside down, about to stab it into its heart.

"Ah?"

Just as the dagger was about to pierce its heart, Xiao Xiao suddenly heard it let out a panicked cry.

This cry made Xiao Xiao pause slightly, and the fruit knife did not stab down.

In his almost time-stopped thoughts, he pondered many things every second, and collected a lot of information.

For some reason, he suddenly felt that the scream made by the monster transformed from the Foreman sounded a bit like...

...a person?

This realistic, human-like cry slightly affected Xiao Xiao's mood.

At the same time, more information entered his field of vision.

He suddenly realized that those monsters whose tentacles had been cut off did not disappear, nor did they stand up like Jiang Cheng.

So, was it because all the monsters needed to be killed before they would return to their original state, or...

...was this time different, and killing them meant killing them?

The sudden guess made his heart tighten, and an invisible sense of tremor seemed to instantly flood into his scalp.