"Hiss~!"
"You've grown up, but you've also lost the strength you had as children. You don't think you can hurt me with a few words or a few toys, do you?"
The Pennywise, Pennywise, scoffed as if it didn't matter.
Its voice sounded like an angle grinder cutting foam board, sending chills down your spine.
The crowd paused for a moment, startled by the noisy chatter.
In that instant, the python-like Pennywise found its opportunity. It suddenly and forcibly reverted to its forty-meter-long python form, sweeping towards the seventeen contestants.
"You're just a ridiculous Pennywise; you were too scared to even come out of the well!"
Mike Hanlon roared, the veins in his neck bulging against his skin, his face turning even darker, as if smeared with soot.
The sound interrupted the Pennywise, and its body began to shrink again.
But suddenly, a sharp claw emerged from the neck of its snake body and swiftly grabbed it.
The person at the back reacted quickly and dodged it.
But Siva Baba and Rall, who were closest to them, were caught in the crossfire.
The Pennywise its shrunken tail, resembling a comical giant hermit crab, retained its serpentine mouth, stuffing the two people inside.
"Those who eat me will suffer the retribution of having their intestines ripped out and their bellies rotten!" the India ascetic rebuked.
"I will transform into blazing fire, igniting your freshness."
In the final moments, Rall unleashed his strongest conviction.
A creaking sound rang out!
Unlike most snakes, the Pennywise snake has sharp fangs in its mouth.
It completely devoured the two men, leaving them no chance of survival.
But as the Pennywise swallowed, a clump of food pierced through its abdomen and slid straight to the ground.
It made a 'smack' sound.
A faint flame flickered at the laceration on its abdomen.
Having just slipped aside, Wu Heng, seeing his opportunity, immediately commanded all the evil spirits to pounce on the Pennywise's enormous body and possess it.
The Pennywise's wounded body, affected by the evil spirits, slowed down even further.
"Since you like it so much, try this!"
On Wu Heng's two palms, a rectangular rune grenade appeared, Spirit-Touch Power surged into it, filling the steel and the projectile.
His legs bent slightly, his muscles bulged, and the stone slab beneath his feet shattered with a crack.
It instantly propelled the Pennywise to the location of his abdominal wound.
With everyone united in their conviction, Wu Heng threw two grenades into the Pennywise's body along the wound.
Boom!
The continuous explosions were deafening, and flying shrapnel, carrying the scent of death, whistled and exploded.
The shockwave completely tore the middle section of the Pennywise snake's body apart; shattered chunks of flesh, emitting white smoke, splattered onto the ground.
The debris rolled along the ground, covered in a thick layer of dust, just like the pieces of meat coated in flour when making sweet and sour pork.
"Is it over?" Beverly Marsh asked.
Da da da!
No one replied to her.
The remaining fifteen contestants continued their attack on the Pennywise's enormous snake head.
"Continue the attack!" Wu Heng shouted.
Rune bombs continued to appear in his hand and stuck to the clown's hideous head.
Wu Heng knew it couldn't end so simply.
The Pennywise's mutilated body was still enormous, not shrinking to a dry skin as in the story, and Wu Heng received no notification.
He had long suspected that even the main characters in the story didn't ultimately defeat Pennywise the Pennywise, but simply put him back into a deep sleep.
Because when some of them left Derry again after the movie ended, they still had lost their memories.
The fact that they crushed the Pennywise's heart so easily at the end was likely just a performance by the Pennywise himself.
Anyway, waiting another 27 years won't mean much to the Pennywise, but the main characters will probably be old and dead by then.
"Then keep the output going, this time we must wipe it out completely!"
Mike Hanlon, who hated the Pennywise the most, licked his lips, shouted a command, and continued cursing the Pennywise.
There's no way around it; they sealed away the Pennywise once before. Their defining characteristic is language, and their words are more effective at harming the Pennywise than firearms.
These candidates, due to their unusual personalities, are less likely to swear or have a talent for verbal sparring, because they believe more in fighting if they disagree.
"Why, why did you force me?" the Pennywise roared angrily, followed by a grotesque laugh, "Hehehehehehe!"
The giant python-shaped Pennywise, its body severed, suddenly opened its tightly closed, triangular eyes.
He flipped over and dodged Wu Heng's attack.
Wu Heng's " Seven Wounding Thunder Method " attack just now not only severely injured the Pennywise, but also affected the group of evil spirits that were possessing and delaying the Pennywise, blasting them to ashes.
"Damn Maturin, damn food, why are you taking this so seriously? I've been playing dead, you can go get your reward from the Maturin already!"
The Pennywise's severed tail, like burning cotton, turned to ash and floated upwards, suspended in mid-air.
Its upper body was also melting, and faint flames still burned on the salad dressing-like blood.
That was Rall's belief and curse of death.
But then, the flames suddenly changed.
In the firelight, eerie snake shadows slithered and crawled, like streams of thoughts flowing from the minds of those who had been devoured.
These thoughts are presented in gray, the color of terror.
Wu Heng's attack did not stop, but it missed. His palm pierced through the Pennywise and landed in the air. The power of the explosion, apart from injuring his palm and blasting a large crater in the stone floor, had no other effect.
Wu Heng missed his attack and quickly withdrew.
The candidates' bullets pierced through the gradually darkening snake's body, striking the seeping stone wall and creating small craters.
"Damn it, the attack is useless!" Bill Denbrough, who had been cursing the filthy mud of Pennywise Beach, muttered anxiously to himself.
He dared not speak out, fearing it would affect others' beliefs, just as he concealed the record on the back of the container in the story. At that time, those people blamed him for concealing it. Did he really have to tell everyone that the container and the ritual might be useless when he knew that fear would amplify the Pennywise's fear?
"Since you don't like this boss-fighting game, then the game is over!"
"Let me introduce myself. Standing before you now is evil from beyond the universe, your true God. Fear it! Scream it!"
The Pennywise Pennywise's body had now completely changed.
It grew to about five meters tall, its body as black as a shadow and floating erratically, its eight spider legs like lampposts.
Its malevolent, blood-red eyes bulged out of their dripping, mucus-filled sockets. Its serrated jaws clenched and ground back and forth, spewing out strings of white foam that seemed alive.
Although what they saw was a giant spider, everyone present had the same thought: this is not its true form!
It is not a spider; it only resembles one to human senses, much like watching a shadow play through a screen—it is something invisible.
However, there is one good thing: the attack was effective under the curse of the main characters.
Everyone had adjusted their beliefs and direction. The spider's body was once again riddled with holes by bullets that resembled bombs, leaving it battered and mangled.
"I will sink you into the Deadlights!"
The Pennywise's crimson spider eyes stared intently at the crowd, without flinching.
Ash rose from the wounds where the spider's body had shattered, just like the snake's body before it, drifting into the air and merging with the previous ash, emitting a shimmering blue light.
Like a sapphire set in a cave.
The position above the massive stone arch has changed, as if these sapphires are a signal to activate some kind of switch.
Above the cave, fleshy patterns emerged like the wriggling heads of cicada nymphs, and began to twist and turn, from which floating corpses emerged.
The corpses were so numerous that it was impossible to count them all. Their heads drooped down their shoulders, their eyes were large but lifeless, and their toes pointed to the ground.
The Spider Pennywise raised its head, opened its huge fanged mouth, and a beam of orange light shot out from its mouth.
The orange light scattered upwards, illuminating the cave ceiling. Any corpses touched by the light turned to ashes and were absorbed into the orange glow.
Finally, even the Pennywise's remains, shattered to the point of having only three spider legs left after being relentlessly attacked, completely dissipated and merged into the orange light that filled the cave.
"Father, what's the next step in the attack?" Mike Hanlon asked, somewhat helplessly.
Only then did he realize how naive his previous idea of eliminating the Pennywise by relying on the jar container left behind by the indigenous people and the related records of the ' Ritual of Chüd ' had been.
"Everyone, step back and see what it's going to do."
Wu Heng waved his hand, signaling everyone to temporarily retreat to the passageway.
The fact that Pennywise could summon so many spare corpses as provisions shows that it was indeed acting in the story, but simply too lazy to continue entangled with the main characters.
For it, there is no such thing as "a gentleman takes revenge even after ten years," because in its view of time, even a hundred or a thousand years is not too late.
At this moment, Orange Light was replenished by a large number of corpses, and it seemed to have become substantial, as sticky as glue.
The vast underground cavern began to shake.
Wu Heng even felt that the entire Derry was shaking. He recalled the first theory from netizens in his previous life:
The entire Derry exists within it; it is Derry!
"Could it be...!"
Wu Heng's heart sank, and he looked up at the place in mid-air where the orange light was the most intense.
The orange light, like glue, transformed into a giant spider made of light and shadow. The spider's upper body had already pierced through the ceiling of the stone cave, like clipping through a scene in an animation, and protruded outside.
It is a hundred meters tall and sixty meters wide, with each leg resembling a towering tree.
The arched stone wall drew closer, clinging to the light and shadow, merging into it, and combining with the orange glow.
It's like the intertwining of flesh and blood, forming a bizarre physical substance.
The stone slabs, ashes, and even filthy sewage on the ground all rushed towards the orange light.
In just 17 seconds, the cave could no longer contain this robust and enormous cosmic monster.
Everyone stared at the enormous creature that was still taking shape. This time, not only the main characters but also the other candidates were dumbfounded.
"How do we fight this?"
The candidates looked at the small amount of firepower they had and were somewhat speechless.
"Keep hurling insults, don't stop," Mike Hanlon urged, seeing Bill Denbrough and Richie Tozier's stunned expressions after they stopped their verbal attack.
Blood was flowing from his lips.
That was caused when he accidentally bit his lip while unleashing his Black talent through rap attacks.
"Damn it, it's a pity that ordinary bombs can't hurt it at all because they don't have the power of belief to support them," Ben Hans said angrily.
Faced with such a gigantic monster, the only way he could think of to deal with it was with high-yield bombs.
Wu Heng turned around and glanced at everyone.
They noticed that although their expressions showed some helplessness when facing this behemoth, they were not afraid.
Especially the candidates,
They were prepared for death long ago, and were able to face it without the slightest fear.
"With a size like that, our small attacks are definitely useless. Hitting it would be like an ant gnawing on an elephant," Wu Heng said after a moment's thought.
Especially the people around him, all of whom are of average physical condition, could probably be killed if hit on the head by a rock the size of a fist.
What's more, this is a boulder in front of us, covering an area of nearly 3,800 square meters, which is about to be smashed down from a height of over 100 meters.
At this moment, given Pennywise the Pennywise's massive size, a single, gentle dive attack would be enough to crush everyone to death. In that case, Wu Heng alone would be of little use.
Wu Heng remained calm.
He had previously considered various possibilities, including how to deal with the situation if Derry really was the Pennywise, and how to deal with the situation if "It" from the Supreme Universe intervened after killing Pennywise the Pennywise.
"Since that's the case, this is the only way!"
With a wave of his hand, Wu Heng released Swine Two, who had been inside the Life Box since entering Derry.
Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard Wu Heng's words.
Although it was unclear how the priest planned to deal with this behemoth, his tone clearly indicated that he had a solution.
"Only the Giant Buddha can subdue the trolls, so everyone stay calm!"
Wu Heng's face was filled with reverence. He stood behind Swine Two and put his hand on Swine Two's shoulder.
The human skin covering Swine Two's body was torn from the inside out, and the fleshy tendrils twisted and wrapped around Wu Heng's body.
The branch pierced his heart and went deep inside.
Wu Heng then Siphon blood from the Swine Elixir within the Life Box to supply Swine Two.
The suppression power emanating from the Mother Buddha bronze statue was also lifted by Wu Heng, and the Swine Two creature began to grow wildly.
It instantly doubled in height, reaching four meters.
Its outer disguise, the skin of the voyeur from the cliff in the real world, was completely torn to shreds.
If it returns to reality, it will be impossible for it to continue pretending.
Under Wu Heng's communication and control, more branches of the Swine Two surged into his body, piercing the Life Box along his heart.
"Hiss!" Wu Heng groaned, controlling the pain in his brain and desensitizing his physical senses.
He had a bowl-sized gash torn open in his chest.
The Swine Two's body had grown to ten meters long, and the Swine Elixir inside had been completely drained, leaving a section of its root shriveled. Since obtaining the Swine Elixir, Wu Heng had never Siphon to this extent before.
"Everyone, cooperate with Swine Two, don't panic!"
Wu Heng's body was now completely encased in countless flesh-colored branches, and his voice reassured everyone.
Everyone stood still, watching as the branches enveloped them and bound them into their bodies.
The flesh-colored branches, like a large tree, are covered with countless writhing giant clumps of earthworms and thinner worm clumps at the tips, and these clumps of earthworms form different parts.
With eight arms and two legs, and a sturdy canopy like a fan supporting its back, this is the enlarged form of the Swine Two, based on the Mother Buddha.
"Hehehe!"
Pennywise Pennywise had grown to a gigantic size, now resembling a cosmic spider, laughed bitterly.
Its normal tone now sounds like an emergency siren, deafening, shrill, and noisy.
Due to its enormous size
The Pennywise stone spider's body had already pushed through half of the cave, and its body was standing on the ground, with only its two forelimbs protruding into the remaining half of the cave.
Its remaining six spider legs, simply standing upright, had already pierced through the ground, sinking two meters deep.
"Come out and soak up the sun, my little toys."
Its two forelegs, the thickest of them, reached into the dilapidated cave, and began to strain, as if digging a worm's burrow, to pry it open.
To reveal what lies beneath, there must be 22 trembling worms.