"The demon dragon is here!"
"Run!"
"Help!"
Faint cries of panic drifted over. At a street corner, a bizarre monster slowly crawled out like a python.
At first, when Li Chen saw its head emerge, hair hanging in disarray, followed closely by its torso, he thought it was human. But an instant later, several feet of segmented limbs below it abruptly shot out of the alley as well. Its terrifying, centipede-like body waved no fewer than twenty-one pairs of sickle-shaped pincers. It reared upright, its face hideous as a corpse demon's.
Whoosh!
The monster sprang out as though riding through the air. In an instant, it caught up with a civilian lagging behind the others. Its hideous human head opened its mouth wide and sank its teeth into him like a zombie.
"Aah!"
The civilian screamed, but he was almost paralyzed with fright and could not struggle.
The monster extended its twenty-one pairs of pincers. The arms growing from its human torso clamped onto the civilian's shoulders and gave a savage wrench.
Riiip!
With a sound like tearing cloth, the man's right arm was ripped clean off, sending blood spraying everywhere.
Smack, smack!
Horrifying chewing sounds accompanied the grinding of flesh and bone as the demon creature gnawed fiercely at the civilian's wound, feasting to its heart's content.
"What kind of monster is this?"
A look of astonishment entered Li Chen's eyes as he watched.
With his knowledge, he could only vaguely identify it as something akin to a Corpse Puppet, a branch of Flesh Puppets.
Several more of the same monsters crawled out in succession from the intersection at the other end. They wound across the ground like true centipedes. Although they could not fly, they seemed to have primordial energy shielding their bodies, drifting half-suspended above the ground