War! Crisis! A Turnaround!

The moment he finished speaking, countless fresh tentacles surged out in front of 0221. They twisted together, transforming into two enormous hands. One reached for Cheng Shi, while the other dragged 0221 slowly toward the trunk of the Abnormal Mother Tree. Judging by the look of it, before "splicing" himself with Cheng Shi, he seemed to want to become one with the Mother Tree first.

Cheng Shi's expression darkened. Faced with the giant hand pressing down and nearly sealing off every direction ahead, he snapped his fingers and retreated three steps, dodging the hand's edge. Then he planted one foot on the finger formed from tentacles, crushing countless tentacles beneath it, and used the recoil to surge toward 0221, who was moving through the air.

At that moment, he was like a hunting falcon, with only 0221, his prey, in his eyes.

At the same time, Wang Mou moved as well. Shaken by Cheng Shi's tightly packed assault, this Assassin of Truth finally recovered and solemnly matched Cheng Shi's rhythm. He leaped through the omnipresent shadows and shot into the sky, arriving in front of 0221 in the blink of an eye.

A short blade, exactly like the Concentric Dagger, suddenly cut out from the shadow plane and stabbed straight into the original body's throat.

The Doctor's angle of assassination was extremely cunning. He had not chosen the obese, bloated half of the body as his target, precisely because he feared that those abnormal layers of fat would affect his judgment of the human body's weak points. Yet he had still underestimated his original body.

Although the other half of 0221's body looked skin-and-bones, its toughness was almost identical to the flesh and skin of a mummy blessed by Decay. The tip of the Doctor's blade scraped against 0221's withered