A Born Lunatic!

Chapter 49: A Natural-Born Lunatic! (Third update, seeking monthly votes!~)

As soon as the words fell.

The surging crowd noise was suddenly cut off.

The myriad lights of the city were still before their eyes, but the strong sense of everyday life vanished in an instant.

It happened in the blink of an eye.

The bustling crowd disappeared, leaving only the vigilant Old Jiao and Lu Chen.

Old Jiao opened the guitar case.

Inside lay a Beheading Blade and a sword.

After handing the sword to Lu Chen, he immediately said, "You handle the report, Qingzi, be careful of your surroundings."

"Got it."

Lu Chen replied immediately.

Fang Qingyu also took a deep breath and looked around.

The Vigilance icon showed no abnormalities yet.

Lu Chen stood between the two, constantly speaking into the radio.

"Currently, no Life Spirit has been found. It's highly likely to be a solitary type."

Other team members were also on their way.

Once a Life Spirit was discovered.

All team members had to assemble.

If an exceptionally powerful Life Spirit was found.

All other team members had to retreat.

Truly a set of rules that were both very unified and very contradictory.

Time ticked by, second by second.

Lu Chen's reporting voice was exceptionally clear in the dead silence.

Reports of locations from others kept coming in through the radio.

Just then, Fang Qingyu felt a sharp pain on the back of his neck.

It was a chill, similar to a sixth sense, spreading from his tailbone all the way to the crown of his head.

The Vigilance skill icon flashed wildly on his retina.

"It's here!"

Fang Qingyu exclaimed instinctively.

It was exactly the same as that day in the rainy alley.

Except this time, there wasn't that terrifying sense of impending doom.

Hearing this, Old Jiao slowly retreated, moving closer to the two.

Lu Chen's reporting voice abruptly stopped.

Fang Qingyu was the first to hear the crisp sound of bones growing.

"Prepare for battle!"

Old Jiao immediately turned and roared.

The surface of the buildings in front of the three bulged with dozens of pus-filled protrusions.

As the plaster peeled away, asphalt-like mucus seeped from the cracks between the bricks.

The moment the first brick was pushed aside, Fang Qingyu saw the monster being born.

A human's half-spine pierced through the wall like a sprouting seed.

Each bone protrusion frantically grew barbs.

The spine suddenly arched like a living snake, the bone spurs tearing through the wall and bringing down large chunks of cement.

When it was completely detached from the building, the black umbilical cord still attached below dripped amniotic fluid mixed with bone marrow.

Where the back of the head should have been, it split vertically, and two rows of hooked teeth unfurled from the depths of the opening, clinging to partially digested scraps of flesh.

More strange noises surged from all directions.

The manhole covers around them clanged as they were pushed up, and a spine covered in excrement slowly rose from the sewage.

"Qingzi, fall back!"

Jiao's blade was held across his chest.

As if responding to his warning, the umbilical cord from the biological maw on the building suddenly shot out.

The barbed cord, smeared with bone marrow, tore through the air, and Fang Qingyu could even see bone fragments clinging to the tip of the hook.

Lu Chen's sword edge stirred up an invisible airflow, severing the umbilical cord the moment it struck, the amniotic fluid spurting from the cut instantly corroding half of his sleeve.

Fang Qingyu then moved behind the two of them.

He looked at the black professional title before him.

He didn't know whether to be happy or helpless.

[Life Spirit · Marrow Gu]

He had actually encountered a Mother-Child Symbiotic Type Life Spirit, the same kind as the Umbilical Fiend he killed last time.

Requires Contemplation Method initiation, Martial Method minor success, and 400KG strength to contend!!

Fang Qingyu had opened another meridian today.

He wasn't sure of his exact strength.

But it should be around 350KG.

Combined with his minor success in Baji Quan, it wasn't like he couldn't fight, right?

However, he had promised Old Jiao tonight, so he should get familiar with the process first.

If he acted rashly...

It probably wouldn't be good.

There were more Marrow Gu than he expected, about four or five, surrounding them from all directions.

Although Old Jiao and Lu Chen were very cautious, they weren't overly worried.

They knew the strength of the Marrow Gu.

The two of them were more than enough.

In the distance, four Marrow Gu arched their spines, their barb-like teeth glinting under the lights.

Old Jiao's Beheading Blade was the first to cleave through the mucus.

Sparks flew as the blade met bone spurs.

Lu Chen's sword stirred the airflow, turning the splashing corrosive amniotic fluid into a spiral barrier.

"Three o'clock direction!"

Old Jiao suddenly roared.

A third Marrow Gu dove from the top of the lamppost, its joints cracking as it split into three forked tailbones.

Lu Chen spun and swung his sword.

The severed tailbones writhed in mid-air, spewing foul-smelling bone marrow.

Fang Qingyu just stood behind and watched.

The two of them fighting looked like...

Just one word.

Clear division of labor, calm and collected, a pleasure to watch.

Dealing with things in the most correct way in the face of death was completely different from normal sparring matches.

It made Fang Qingyu's fingers itch a little.

When the fourth Marrow Gu burst from the ground.

Corrosive soil mixed with broken bones erupted. Fang Qingyu instinctively leaned back to avoid the splashing debris, while Old Jiao's blade, swung in reverse, smashed the cranial fissure of the Marrow Gu.

But before Fang Qingyu could recover.

His temples throbbed.

The Vigilance icon on his retinas was flashing frantically.

Above Old Jiao and Lu Chen's heads.

The last Marrow Gu had already emerged halfway from the shadow of the billboard.

Its umbilical cord coiled around the steel frame, silently closing in.

Its barb-like teeth were only half a meter away from the back of Lu Chen's head!

"Get out of the way!"

Fang Qingyu roared, activating his breathing technique at the same time.

He then stomped on the ground tiles and leaped into the air.

His Baji Quan stance, accompanied by the sound of cracking bones, slammed into the umbilical cord, his right hand's five fingers digging directly into the bone marrow cavity.

The Marrow Gu immediately let out a baby-like wail.

Fang Qingyu followed up by closing the distance and crashing into the monster's embrace, his left elbow striking the center of the Marrow Gu's head, its skull making a brittle cracking sound under the immense pressure.

The Marrow Gu roared and struggled.

Its twisted spine suddenly coiled around Fang Qingyu's waist and abdomen.

The barbs tried to dig madly into his flesh.

But Fang Qingyu had already used the force of being strangled to leap into the air.

He clamped his legs around the Marrow Gu's cracked skull.

His abdominal muscles contracted like a constricting python.

He slammed to the ground with his full weight.

Crack—

As the searing pain of his back hitting the ground arrived, the two rows of barbed teeth in the skull's cracks were forcibly torn out.

However, Fang Qingyu didn't stop there.

Foul-smelling blood covered the ground.

He rolled in the blood to dodge the umbilical cord's death throes, and a powerful knee strike sent the Marrow Gu's remains flying into a nearby wall.

Upon impact, it exploded into a shower of bone fragments.

"What the hell..."

"He's a natural-born lunatic."

Meanwhile, Old Jiao and Lu Chen had already finished dealing with their own battlefields.

Standing behind Fang Qingyu, they felt their scalps tingle.

"Are you alright?"

Seeing no further movement around them, Old Jiao stepped forward.

Fang Qingyu finally snapped back to reality.

The madness in his eyes gradually receded, and he looked a little embarrassed.

"Uh, I'm fine. Sorry."

He was supposed to just follow along this time.

But he saw that the Marrow Gu was about to succeed in its sneak attack.

So he couldn't help but act.

"It's fine. Actually, it's my fault. I shouldn't have treated you like a rookie."

Old Jiao gave a wry smile.

He had previously thought Fang Qingyu's ability to kill the Umbilical Fiend was due to potential unleashed by the sheer terror of facing death.

But what he just witnessed...

Completely changed his mind.

Not only did his timely intervention save his teammate, but his seasoned combat skills, combined with his exceptionally proficient Baji Quan, had kept the Marrow Gu on the defensive from the very beginning.

And in the end, with sheer ferocity, he had simply brutalized the Marrow Gu to death!

This was no rookie at all.

He was like a madman who had been dancing on the edge of life and death for over a decade!

A lunatic who specialized in hunting Life Spirits!