"Is that a ghost? Or an animal?" Luo Dong no longer knew what word to use to describe it.
Foul-smelling, murky slime dripped from the tentacles. The pipes burst section by section as densely packed tendrils scrambled out, each tipped with a finger taken from a different living person.
Unlike the monster in the room on the Third Floor, the abnormal thing in the pool had not mutated from a single person. It had "eaten" many "people."
Bang!
The floor bulged, cracks spread through the tiles, and something moved beneath their feet.
The monster seemed part animal and part plant. The tendrils growing beneath the pool resembled the roots of an old tree, wrapping around the entire Fourth Floor.
"Quick! Back! Get back!" The pool was enormous, and Yu Ruohu had no courage to climb across it. Clinging to the wire mesh, he now felt like a fish sizzling on a hot plate, frantic with anxiety.
The two Catfish Gang members hurriedly jumped down from the mesh and moved away from the pool.
Within a fraction of a second of their departure, slick, black finger-tipped tendrils crawled onto the mesh. Fingers belonging to different living people poked through the holes and pulled the mesh where they had just been into a twisted mess.
Animal cries rang out inside the iron cages. Like sharks that had caught the scent of blood, the finger-tipped tendrils swarmed into the cages near the pool!
They forced open several boxes in the corners of the cages, pierced the rats inside with their fingertips, and tore them to shreds.
The bloody, horrific scene left Yu Ruohu trembling with belated fear. If those tentacles had emerged when he was halfway across, he would probably have met the same fate as the rats.
The sound of bursting pipes