Liu Zheng also jumped up and quickly reached a height even greater than Father John.
"What?!"
Father John looked up in shock.
In an instant, the offensive situation reversed, and he was on the bottom while Liu Zheng on top.
Without a second thought, Father John raised his long-handled axe.
The handle of a long-handled axe is not made of ordinary wood, but of specially treated wood with a hardness comparable to inferior metal.
However, even a real metal bar could not stop Liu Zheng's jumping strike.
The axe handle, as thick as three fingers, snapped in two with a snap, and the Cleaver's knife, still brimming with force, cleaved Father John's shoulder.
"Ah!"
He let out a scream and crashed down from the sky.
"Bang!"
After a dull thud, Father John knelt down.
His right shoulder slumped limply, and blood seeped from his shawl, dripping from his sleeve onto the ground.
"Dad!"
Seeing his miserable state, Fula couldn't help but cry out.
"Don't worry, you won't die. I used the back of the knife."
Liu Zheng raised his eyelids slightly and said.
He turned the Cleaver over after breaking the handle; otherwise, Father John would have been hacked to pieces.
While Liu Zheng was speaking, Father John took out a blood collection device and stuck it into his leg.
"Again? Do you really think this is a turn-based game?"
He swung his tentacles, knocking the blood collection device away and fracturing Father John's finger.
"Why do you all inject into the thigh? Why can't you inject into the buttock with an intramuscular injection?"
Liu Zheng complained.
"Awoooooo!"
Seemingly unable to bear the humiliation any longer, Father John let out a terrifying howl.
His right shoulder, which had sunken in, suddenly arched back up in an indescribable way.
Immediately, his whole body began to tremble, his bulging muscles rolling beneath his coat like countless giant worms crawling.
And the hair on his face began to grow wildly, turning from white to black.
"Oh no, he's about to Beastification!"
Anke, who had been observing from a distance, shouted.
"Dad, don't leave me!"
Fula cried out loudly, her voice piercing and shrill.
When she witnessed her father truly turning into a beast, the little girl finally let go of all the pretense of strength she had put on.
Father John, his face contorted in shock, paused for a moment, then pushed off with both feet, his body flying backward, narrowly avoiding Liu Zheng's Cleaver.
His figure became increasingly hunched, like a wolf struggling to stand.
Blood-red tears seeped through his blindfold, wetting the hair on his face.
" Fula, Fula."
Father John called his daughter's name and reached out his hand to her.
However, the once large and warm hands have turned into curved and sharp beast claws.
"Daddy, I'm here. Daddy, please don't turn into a wild beast. Let's go find Mommy, let's go home together."
Fula walked towards Father John, crying, but Anke caught her in his arms.
" Shirley, Fula, let's go home."
Father John kept repeating his words, more tears of blood flowing from his eyes, staining the black hair on his face red.
"Boss, is there any way to cure the Beastification Disease?"
Liu Zheng asked without turning his head.
"For those showing early signs of Beastification Disease, the Bloodhealing Church provides a sedative made from special blood, which can delay the onset of the Beastification Disease. But for Father John, who has already begun to Beastification, I don't know what can be done."
Anke shook his head.
"Treatment with blood?"
He Pensive.
If the cause of the Beastification Disease is indeed due to Blood Therapy, then there must be something wrong with the blood used by the Bloodhealing Church.
If there's no way to lower the concentration of the problematic blood, then how about directly reducing the quantity of blood?
Thinking of this, Liu Zheng suddenly rushed out.
Faced with the surprise attack, Father John instinctively fought back.
He swung his beastly claws, fiercely grabbing at the Cleaver.
The black beast claws left a trail of afterimages in the air, moving much faster than when the long-handled axe was used.
"Clang!"
The beast's claw struck the side of the Cleaver, producing a sound like metal clashing.
Liu Zheng's tentacle trembled slightly, and the Cleaver seemed to slip from his grasp.
"Holy crap, this power level is at least twenty points higher than before. Could this be the legendary 'three times stronger after corruption'?"
As he spouted nonsense, he swung the Meat Saw Father John in the kidneys.
"Aww!"
Father John let out a wild roar, his outstretched claws reaching up to grab Liu Zheng's tentacles.
At this moment, he had no thoughts of family or duty, only endless bloodlust and the desire to hunt.
"I crave blood!"
With Father John's short, indistinct roar, blood suddenly appeared.
Liu Zheng's tentacles were severed by the beast's claws, Meat Saw flew out of his hand and to the side.
"Ah!"
Anke and Fula exclaimed in unison.
While they didn't want Father John to be killed, they also didn't want to see their protector, Liu Zheng, injured.
Only Xia Kai remained calm. The locals might not be able to see it, but he could see it clearly: the big boss had four tentacles.
"Are you stupid? I have four hands!"
Liu Zheng's two tentacles wrapped around Father John's waist, lifted him up, and then spun him around like a windmill, smashing him against the surrounding tombstones.
The hard tombstone shattered under his brutal movements; Father John's bones, now Beastification, were harder than a hammer.
He only threw Father John aside after smashing all the surrounding tombstones to pieces.
Father John struggled on the ground for a long time before finally getting up, cowering as he looked at Liu Zheng, his claws waving defiantly at him.
Even through the blindfold, Liu Zheng could see the fear in his eyes.
However, Father John's gaze was neither on his face nor on the butcher's Cleaver in his hand.
Instead
Liu Zheng looked at his severed tentacle; the cut was rapidly scabbing over and healing, with only a little residual blood.
Could it be that...?
Without hesitation, he swung the Cleaver and cut open the wound that had already stopped bleeding.
Fresh blood, reeking of decaying plants, flowed out again.
"No, don't come near me! This isn't the blood I want!"
Seeing Liu Zheng approaching with the severed tentacle, Father John shouted and retreated.
In his terror, he raised the beast's claws and slashed open his own chest.
Thick blood gushed out and splattered onto the ground.
Most of the blood dried up and turned black, with only a small clump of blood remaining active, like an anomaly.
"Is this my blood?"
Looking at the clump of blood, Liu Zheng felt a strange sense of familiarity.
"It is said that hunters can gain power from the blood of wild beasts when they hunt them. They call this the Blood Echo."
Xia Kai suddenly shouted from afar.
"Huh? How did you know?"
He turned his head and asked.
"In response to your question, before entering this dungeon, I used an item to obtain some information about the dungeon in advance."
Xia Kai said with a fawning smile.
"Oh, is that even possible?"
Liu Zheng said enviously.
He had no intelligence whatsoever before he came in, and he almost got killed on the spot.
"Huh? You've never used this before, bro?"
Xia Kai was even more surprised than him.
According to that veteran, the drop rate for items obtained in advance from dungeons is quite high.
"No, this is only my first dungeon."
Liu Zheng pursed his lips, then turned and shoved the tentacle into Father John's mouth.
You dislike my blood, huh? Then you'll have to eat the top!
"Ah?!"
Xia Kai's mouth was even wider than Father John's, big enough to fit two tentacles inside.