Watch Out

The tongue moved like lightning. The instant it stuck to her wrist, it yanked her toward its gaping, bloody maw! Feng Ling had almost no time to react!

The Bone Blade swept out!

The tongue was severed. Feng Ling immediately crouched low and slipped behind the monster, guarding against the possibility that it might spit out a third tongue.

The clumsy monster stood there in a daze. Its tiny, squeezed-together eyes looked left and right, unable to find Feng Ling for the moment.

Meanwhile, Feng Ling sucked in a sharp breath.

She saw that the Big Head Monster's back was piled with layer upon layer of skin folds. Every fold was crammed with pustules of varying sizes. Their sheer density disgusted even Feng Ling, who normally had nerves of steel.

What the hell was this thing?

Feng Ling looked at the Big Head Monster in revulsion, wondering if it might be a Warty Toad.

If it had really looked like a toad, she would not have found it so disgusting. But it wore human skin, which made it utterly revolting.

The pustules across its back trembled as the monster moved, secreting purple-green slime that left Feng Ling with nowhere to strike.

This was clearly the perfect chance for a sneak attack from behind, but she seriously suspected those pustules were filled with acid that would corrode her Bone Blade.

Her brief contact with the monster's tongue earlier had already left clear burn marks on her wrist.

Feng Ling lowered her gaze and saw the Big Head Monster's thick, stubby legs. An idea flashed through her mind, and she immediately formed a new plan—

The Bone Blade shifted its angle and swept close to the ground, slicing through the monster's ankles with a sharp swish!

As long as she cut off its legs, who cared how corrosive it was? She could just throw fire straight at it!

The Big Head Monster's bloated body lost its balance. It wailed in agony as it swayed and toppled over.

Just as Feng Ling was about to press her advantage, the pustules on the monster's back began to shake violently!

Several streams of thick acid sprayed toward her. Feng Ling instinctively raised her arm to block and twisted aside, but she was still a step too slow.

A stream of acid grazed her right arm and splashed past, bringing unbearable pain!

She gritted her teeth and retreated to the other side of the villa. Looking down, she saw that the place where the acid had hit her right arm was already a bloody mess, with white bone exposed.

The acid was truly terrifying, practically comparable to volcanic lava!

Unable to walk, the Big Head Monster dragged its fat across the ground. A third and fourth tongue shot from its wide-open mouth, lashing rapidly through the air, while acid sprayed everywhere like a malfunctioning fountain.

Feng Ling's movements were severely hampered. Furious, she circled behind the blazing fire and kicked a pile of burning charcoal chunks at the Big Head Monster!

The red-hot chunks, trailing flames, landed on the monster. At last, it withdrew its tongues and cried out, "So hot! So hot!"

Though it wailed, its body showed no signs of burns. Instead, the charcoal chunks were coated in thick acid and went out silently.

Why wouldn't it die?!

Feng Ling was roused to ruthless fury. She tore down a burning curtain from the villa and flung it over the monster's head. Then she extended her Bone Blade and viciously stabbed through the curtain into its body!

Avoiding its pustule-covered back, she stabbed hard at its head and limbs!

After more than twenty stabs, the curtain had been almost entirely corroded away. The head beneath the cloth had caved in as well, and the monster stopped moving.

Pungent acid and blood poured from beneath the burning cloth, gathering into a foul-smelling stream.

By then, Feng Ling's Bone Blade was covered in mottled burn marks.

Thick smoke filled the air. Firelight illuminated her icy face as she stared coldly at the Xenomorph gradually being consumed by the flames, not daring to lower her guard in the slightest.

Unless she saw a Card, no one could be certain it was truly dead. Besides, there was still another Xenomorph in this villa...

Feng Ling glanced toward the villa, at the little girl with one arm severed.

The little girl curled up beside the glass door. She had intended to flee in the chaos, but suddenly met Feng Ling's eyes. She immediately shrank back and froze in place, too afraid to move.

The scythe on Feng Ling's shoulder slowly rose...

Even if she was only a little girl of about ten, even if losing an arm made her look pitiful, she was still a Xenomorph.

From the moment it logged into a human body, it became a murderer.

It deserved to die.

Besides, the fat man had shouted "Hidden Boss" several times earlier and mentioned that the Hidden Boss was worth a lot of Points. Feng Ling would have to be an idiot not to understand that her identity was special—she could not let this little Xenomorph leak information about her.

She watched the little girl expressionlessly. The adrenaline that had surged during her fight with the fat man was fading, and her heartbeat was settling. Faced with such a weak opponent, she truly had little interest.

Just as she was about to give it a quick death, the little girl's pupils suddenly trembled. Her lips parted. "W-watch out..."

In an instant, alarm bells rang in Feng Ling's mind!

The Bone Blade whipped behind her—slash! A nearly transparent tentacle was cut off!

But the Bone Blade had only severed one tentacle. Five more had already pierced through Feng Ling's abdomen and left leg!

Enduring the excruciating pain, Feng Ling followed the strange, slender tentacles and discovered that the Tall Thin Man who had left earlier was crouching atop the courtyard wall, staring at her as though facing a formidable enemy.

Why had he come back?

Had he noticed the villa on fire and turned back halfway?

Feng Ling spat out a mouthful of blood, suspecting her spleen had been punctured. Yet at the same time, that familiar rush of exhilaration returned.

She stared sinisterly at the Tall Thin Man on the wall, a smile curling across her lips. Her hands suddenly seized the transparent tentacles embedded in her body and began pulling them back, fistful by fistful!

Horror appeared in the man's eyes. He turned, leaped over the wall, and fled, retracting all his tentacles!

The tentacles were barbed, flaying Feng Ling's hands bloody. She gritted her teeth and chased out of the villa, just in time to see the man jump into another villa diagonally across from it. She immediately pursued him—

This villa had not been renovated. Its yard was covered in weeds, gravel, and sand, while several bags of cement and sand were piled beneath the eaves.

Feng Ling moved slowly along the courtyard wall, wary of an attack that could come at any moment.

She made her way around the wall to the backyard and saw a Swimming Pool.

The continuous rain over the past few days had filled the pool halfway with rainwater. Several ripples spread across the surface.

He was in the water.

Feng Ling was certain of it.

Though she could not see any figure in the dark, murky pool water, she was certain he was in there, restlessly waiting to deal her a fatal blow.

Heh, a lousy assassin.

"You think I can't do anything just because you're hiding underwater?" Feng Ling murmured. Her cool gaze shifted toward the cement and sand not far away, and her lips curved slightly upward.

If he loved hiding in the water so much, then he could stay there forever!

Feng Ling rushed forward several steps, grabbed a bag of cement in one hand and a bag of sand in the other, and hurled them into the Swimming Pool! The Bone Blade swept through the air and sliced the bags open!

Splash!

Water splashed everywhere. The already murky pool became even cloudier, but Feng Ling had no intention of stopping. She picked up two more bags and repeated the trick, throwing them into the pool again.

The Xenomorph in the water could endure no more. Transparent tentacles shot out like arrows!

Feng Ling had been prepared. She leaped aside, dodged them, and took cover behind a tree, watching the changes in the pool.

Faint steam rose from the water's surface, along with bubbles.

Feng Ling froze briefly. Could cement and sand really cause that? Then she reconsidered. One of those bags might have contained lime.

With a loud splash—

A half-transparent humanoid creature burst from the water and crawled ashore in agony.

Feng Ling laughed. Her Bone Blade slashed diagonally in delight, instantly cutting off the Xenomorph's head!

The headless body began melting like water.

A Silver Card spilled from the corpse, gleaming with an eerie luster in the night.