The Mountain's Divine Abomination

The leader of the Slaver Team led his men to the valley behind the village. Looking at the raging fire, he felt no fear, but rather a strong sense of joy.

He had been a Slave Catcher for several years and had naturally seen all sorts of villages.

Generally speaking, if a settlement is discovered by Slave Catcher, they will immediately choose to migrate. Some people who no longer want to live the life of a fugitive will stay where they are and wait to become slaves, thus buying some time for others.

The remaining people will leave with food seeds (True Thing Plant Seed) and most of the items they can carry.

Aside from that, these villagers wouldn't do anything unnecessary, because even a minute's delay could reduce their chances of escape. Conversely, if the other party did something unusual, it was highly likely that they were hiding something important.

"Search carefully, they must have set the fire..." The leader of the Slaver Team was about to give the order when a slight glimpse appeared at the edge of his vision. When he focused his gaze, a somewhat perverse smile suddenly appeared on his face.

He saw a person, a person bursting out of the valley with flames on their back!

With his years of experience capturing slaves, he was certain that the clothes this man was wearing were Phantom Object!

"Grab it! Be careful, it might be a pro!"

At the Slaver Team's command, the henchmen immediately pulled out slingshots, fishing nets, grappling hooks, and other items. They weren't new to this line of work; their daily practice focused on how to use their numerical advantage to subdue skilled opponents.

While the sturdy fishing net has no special abilities, it can effectively restrict the enemy's range of movement. The slingshot can be made from readily available materials to provide a wide-ranging attack on the target. As for the grappling hook, it is a good tool that can make the enemy hesitate to use it simply by throwing it.

Most importantly, these things are very cheap.

Because they were cheap, each of them carried several sets, so even if they were damaged by their target, they could immediately replace them with new ones.

With this combo advantage, most targets will be defeated. As for enemies that these three moves can't handle... well, there's always the leader who can rush in and fight one-on-one, right?

But today, just as these underlings set up their formation, their expressions began to change drastically, because the mountain wall behind the man engulfed in flames was suddenly forcefully pushed aside by a giant arm.

Countless pieces of trash, mixed with flames and molten material, fell like meteors, followed by an armored giant over twenty meters tall emerging from the mountain.

The armor, which had once looked quite handsome, was now covered in eerie rust. The steel plate on its chest and abdomen looked as if it had been torn open by some enormous force, revealing a huge gap that constantly exuded a hideous aura.

A murky, dark purple liquid, mixed with indescribable blood bubbles, eyeballs, internal organs, and a large number of limbs that defy description, flowed out. These indescribable flesh and organs, once on the ground, seemed to wriggle and crawl forward as if they were alive.

Having finally broken free of the valley, Feng Xue saw a group of stunningly beautiful girls blocking his path. He immediately tried to use his Ghostly Evasion, but before he could even grab the hem of his cloak, the girls closest to him suddenly let out a terrible wail.

Their once beautiful faces became grotesque, with dark veins undulating across their skin. Accompanied by several muffled thuds, their eyeballs suddenly burst open, and in some cases, their entire heads exploded into a spray of blood.

"Damn it, what the hell did this bastard revive?!" As Feng Xue saw the group of "beautiful girls" explode on the spot, she realized that this was probably the fault of the mecha behind her that could still produce a beautiful girl from its belly after being dissected. She moved her feet even faster.

"Lightness skill, there's lightness skill! Hmm, it would be best if I could fly!" Feng Xue wished her mother had given her two more legs. As soon as she escaped the sea of fire, she immediately used her Ghostly Evasion away.

Unfortunately, the Phantom of the Opera's teleportation ability is more like a stand-in than a teleportation ability; a mere five meters is not even as fast as he could run on foot.

However, Ghostly Evasion unpredictably does have its unique effects; at least, Feng Xue used it to avoid those exploding, apocalyptic beauties.

Yes, those beautiful girls whose eyeballs and heads had exploded, for some reason, began to writhe again, but this was neither a sign of Corpse Transformation nor Omen—

At least in Feng Xue's view, their name was still [Corpse], not a distorted mosaic black ball.

"What the hell did you just pull out?"

In the midst of her frantic run, Feng Xue suddenly heard a powerful female voice. Turning her head slightly, she saw a mature woman with red hair approaching. Her curvaceous figure created waves as she ran, but Feng Xue had no time to pay attention to such things. Hearing the woman's question, she asked in surprise:

Why didn't you explode?

"You didn't explode either?!" The red-haired woman rolled her eyes, but her speed increased even more, making her run just as fast as Feng Xue, who was boosted by her Internal Force.

"Tell me any clues you have quickly. I'm part of 'Flying Cat's' Slaver Team. We have plenty of ways to escape. If you want to be abandoned, then keep hiding!"

"The problem is I really don't know anything about it. I'm just a scavenger, how am I supposed to have gotten involved with this kind of thing?!"

As soon as Feng Xue finished speaking, she suddenly jumped up, and in that instant, the red-haired woman's tripping attempt missed its mark.

"Tsk!" The red-haired woman clicked her tongue in annoyance, but the next moment, she suddenly saw the man who had dodged her sneak attack pull out a bar of... soap from his pocket?

"You shouldn't have malicious intentions!" Under the bewildered gaze of the red-haired woman, Feng Xue's lips curled up slightly, and the soap in her hand slipped silently from her grasp. Almost the instant the soap touched the ground, the red-haired woman couldn't help but bend over.

Name: Phantom Object - The Soap Everyone Wants to Pick Up

Elements: [Items], [Forced], [Customs]

Description: It's an ordinary bar of soap, but when it falls to the ground, everyone can't help but bend down to pick it up.

Note: Perhaps squatting down would be a better option...

Seeing the red-haired mature woman bend over, Feng Xue immediately twisted her body, raised her foot and kicked out with great force, slamming her foot hard into the perfectly curved buttocks. As the mature woman holding the soap tumbled and scrambled several meters away, Feng Xue glanced at the mecha girl behind her who was still leaking beautiful girls from her belly, and then started running at full speed again.

"You bastard, don't let me ever see you again!" came the murderous roar from behind, but Feng Xue's lips curled into a smile:

"You need to survive first!"