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Qin Fang looked down.
Something alive was tearing through the forest!
It fled wildly through the mountains, moving so fast that trees snapped and fell in its wake.
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Yet its gait was grotesquely strange. It ran on all fours, but kept trying to stand upright, as though it no longer knew how to move.
Then Qin Fang saw it clearly.
Even he sucked in a sharp breath!
That monster had once been human.
Now it was only a mass of flesh barely holding a human shape!
Great patches of skin had sloughed away, exposing dark red muscle beneath.
Abscesses of every size covered the muscle. They burst as it ran, oozing yellow-brown fluid.
Its face was still mostly intact, but its features had twisted beyond recognition. One eye hung crookedly from its socket; the other was gone, leaving a deep, bloody hole.
Its mouth had split back to its ears, exposing jagged teeth. Black, bloody froth spilled out with every "breath."
Worst of all was its back.
A gaping slit had opened there. Dense clusters of fleshy buds lined its edges, writhing frantically.
Through the slit, he could make out a dark red spine and the lumps packed around it in different colors—some purple-black, others gray-white.
And the sound it made as it ran—
It was not a roar.
It was countless people wailing together.
Men, women, the old, children—
Despair, pain, terror, madness—
Every voice had been kneaded into one and forced out through that torn throat!
It was as if hundreds upon thousands of tormented souls were imprisoned inside its body, unable to find release.
For a moment, even Qin Fang froze in midair, his pupils contracting.
The thing stopped abruptly in the middle of its run.
Its one remaining