Seeing Wu Yi's freshly repaired body disintegrate in midair, the doll's two scarlet eyes wept bloody tears. It lunged at Wu from behind. With the dean's eyeball empowering it, the doll moved with unnatural eeriness. It vanished in midair, then suddenly appeared behind Wu the next second, its two slender arms stabbing toward his head at an incredibly tricky angle.
But as it turned out, none of that did a damn bit of good. With a sharp smack, the doll took a vicious blow to its right cheek from a scabbard and went spinning through the air, crashing into an entire wall of shelves storing medicine.
The little episode changed nothing. Jiang Cheng was the first to crawl out through the hole Wu had made in the wall. Once he confirmed there was no problem, the chubby man followed, carrying Tang Qisheng on his back. Zhu Jie came after him, while Wu stayed behind to cover them.
Tang Qisheng clung tightly to the chubby man's neck, bawling his eyes out. "Thank you, you guys... You finally made it. If you'd been just a few minutes later, my wife and I would've..."
The chubby man was annoyed by the noise, but when he thought of how pitiful Tang Qisheng looked, he couldn't bring himself to scold him. "All right, all right. You're still alive, aren't you? Just hang in there a little longer. Once we get out of here and go back, you'll be back to normal."
The situation in the underground world was getting worse by the minute. The corridors warped further with every tremor, and blood vessels and membranes kept peeling away. Horrific screams echoed in the distance: the children whose eyes and brains had been removed. As the underground world slowly collapsed, those children were reaching the end