The towering stone statue looked just like the ones displayed in churches, bearing the eerie appearance of the Holy Mother Mary. However, within the field of True Sight, the outside of the statue was stone, while its interior was constantly writhing, dark-red flesh. At the core of that flesh was another statue.
Without hesitation, Lu Ban raised his gun and shot at the statue.
Bang—
A moment later, the statue shattered, and dark-red flesh splattered down, forming a small rain of blood.
The statue hidden within the flesh fell out and landed on the ground.
Lu Ban saw that deep-yellow grass and plants had already begun growing around the statue. They writhed incessantly, like worms.
He reached out and picked it up.
The part of the statue that had been touching the ground had turned viscous, like the flesh of some organism. Lu Ban's act of picking it up was like tearing a lump off his own skin. The contact surface was blurred like a wound, and countless tiny white things resembling larval sacs spilled out from the filthy break.
The larval sacs began hatching as soon as they hit the ground, quickly turning into white worms. The worms fed on the corrupted ground, and in the blink of an eye, they began splitting and multiplying.
Lu Ban thoughtfully stomped on them, as though he had stepped in a pile of cow dung.
With some regret, he turned his gaze toward the statue in his hand.
The place where the statue touched Lu Ban's hand began to change. Lu Ban could sense the skin cells where they had made contact beginning to divide and reproduce. This frenzied proliferation, similar to that of cancer cells, drew in the surrounding nutrients, while the newborn cells sprouted constantly twitching flagella. Fine, undulating fuzz