Monster at the Gas Station

Please collect, recommend tickets, monthly tickets, follow-up readings, and various other supports. Please help promote and support!

Screech!

An extremely piercing scream tore through the air above the forest.

The heavily wounded spellcasting Harpy, using its last ounce of strength, instantly amplified the remaining pale blue electricity around its body, and a ring of lightning erupted outwards from its center.

The powerful shockwave, accompanied by crackling electrical sounds, slammed into Gu Su and the skeletons, blasting them several meters away.

Gu Su crashed heavily against a tree before hitting the ground.

A dull pain throbbed in his chest, and the Plague Cutter in his hand nearly slipped from his grasp.

He gritted his teeth and quickly got up from the ground, his gaze locked onto the front. He saw that the Harpy leader, who should have been dead, was dragging its broken body, flapping its nearly severed wings, and staggering towards the bird's nest at the gas station.

Black blood dripped all the way, leaving a hideous bloodstain on the ground.

"Chase, hurry up and chase!"

A fierce glint flashed in Gu Su's eyes, and he immediately gave the order.

The skeletons also got up from the ground. Although their bones were slightly damaged, their fighting spirit was undiminished.

In their eyes, the Harpy leader escaping in such a severely wounded state was undoubtedly a slap in the face and a missed opportunity for great merit.

Thus, more than ten standard-sized skeletons rushed out of the forest with all their might, galloping towards the abandoned gas station, each one giving it their all, afraid that a companion would snatch the credit for killing the leader.

But just as the skeletons rushed out of the forest and were about to approach the gas station.

From the bird's nest on the roof of the gas station, a rapid and sharp shriek suddenly came.

Boom!

After a muffled, heavy explosion, the ground of the abandoned gas station suddenly vibrated violently.

Immediately after, a large amount of thick, black, viscous oil gushed out from the doors, windows, and cracks of the small supermarket next to the gas station. It converged like a tide, gradually forming a giant oil monster.

The oil monster was bloated, with thick black oil constantly dripping from its surface. It looked like a giant snail carrying the wreckage of the gas station on its back, slowly poking its head out of its shell. Its massive oil body slammed downwards fiercely.

The six skeletons at the forefront, unable to dodge in time, were instantly swallowed by the giant oil body.

They didn't even make a sound, only causing a few faint ripples on the surface of the oil before disappearing completely, clearly having been completely corroded and dissolved by the oil.

The two elite skeletons behind them, instead of retreating, raised their cleavers and iron angle spears, roaring as they charged forward.

But their weapons had no effect on the giant oil monster.

The iron angle spear was instantly engulfed and swallowed by the viscous oil. Not only did it fail to harm the oil monster in the slightest, but it was also firmly stuck by the oil, making it impossible to pull out.

The cleaver struck it as if chopping into cotton, leaving no mark. Instead, it was stained by the oil, and rust gradually appeared.

Even more chilling was that the monster made of oil was slowly moving towards Gu Su and the skeletons, dragging the wreckage of the abandoned gas station with it.

Wherever it passed, the ground was stained by the black oil, and the vegetation instantly withered and corroded, emitting a pungent, foul odor.

Gu Su's pupils contracted, and he instantly understood that this bizarre oil monster was by no means something they could handle at their current strength.

Without any hesitation, he decisively gave the order: "Retreat, all of you, fall back!"

Although the remaining skeletons were unwilling, they strictly followed the order, immediately stopped their attack, turned around quickly, and retreated towards the forest, not daring to linger.

Only when he confirmed that all the retreating skeletons had safely returned to the edge of the forest did Gu Su breathe a sigh of relief.

He quickly took stock of their numbers. Originally, there were more than ten skeletons, but now only five were intact.

The rest were either swallowed and dissolved by the oil monster or damaged in the previous fierce battle.

In just a moment, his skeleton squad, plus the five temporarily summoned skeletons, had lost sixty percent of their strength.

This was his brought-along undead force; if it were any other unit, their morale would have been gone long ago.

Looking at the five unharmed skeletons, Gu Su's breathing became heavier, his chest churning with heartache and anger.

He looked up at the oil monster still slowly moving towards them not far away, his eyes cold, and he muttered to himself, "Just you wait!"

After the anger subsided, Gu Su forced himself to calm down and scanned the scattered Harpy corpses in the forest.

These corpses were from previous hunts, as well as those that died fighting alongside the Harpy leader just now.

Gu Su no longer hesitated. He bent down, reached out, and picked up a relatively intact Harpy corpse beside him. His voice firm, he decisively ordered, "Take the corpses, let's go."

The five skeletons immediately stepped forward, dividing the tasks clearly. They picked up the Harpy corpses from the ground, some carrying two, others struggling to hold up three, and steadily followed behind Gu Su, moving towards the depths of the forest.

During the retreat, Gu Su occasionally looked back to observe the oil monster's movements and gradually discovered its weakness.

This monster made of oil, although huge in size and extremely destructive, appearing very imposing, had an exceptionally slow movement speed, like a snail, far unable to keep up with their pace.

Seeing this, Gu Su immediately had an idea. He changed his direction of movement, not heading directly towards the Graveyard Demon, but changing his position.

He planned to lead the skeletons to deliberately lure the oil monster in another direction, avoid its entanglement, and then return to the Graveyard Demon with these Harpy corpses after completely shaking off the monster.

After all, the skeleton squad had suffered heavy losses, and temporary summons could not fight the oil monster.

It was most appropriate to quickly bring these Harpy corpses back to the Graveyard Demon to replenish the number of elite skeletons.

However, Gu Su hadn't expected that as he ran off with the skeleton, carrying the harpy's corpse, the ooze monster would stop near the forest.

It didn't enter the woods. Instead, it extended tentacles made of ooze and devoured the corpses of small animals hanging from the trees.

If Gu Su were here, he would have discovered that these small animals hanging from the trees were food specifically prepared for the ooze monster.

This creature didn't appear out of nowhere; it was a symbiotic organism of the harpy.

Everything it needed for daily life was provided by the harpy. When the harpy was in trouble, the ooze monster would come out to fight for it.

This time, the harpy leader had underestimated Gu Su, never expecting him to act so cunningly.

In just a single exchange, he had wiped out all the harpies. Otherwise, with the ooze monster devouring and attacking from the ground, and the harpies ambushing from the sky, no matter how large an army came, they would have all died.