Ye Ruan rushed into the room without a moment's hesitation.
Inside, Song Ting, Yu Jingjing, and Tang Tang stood frozen in horror at the sight before them.
Blood covered the room, mixed with scraps of flesh.
The pregnant woman was already dead, her eyes wide open.
A deformed "baby" crouched on her abdomen.
The umbilical cord on its belly was still attached to the placenta inside its mother. Its hands resembled claws-tiny hands with pointed fingers.
Claws were a more fitting description.
The baby was only the size of an adult cat, its entire body a bruised purple. Its eyes could not even open yet, but its sharp claws had already begun tearing at the surrounding flesh.
Ye Ruan silently observed all this while moving gently to lead every girl in the room outside.
But just as they backed up to the doorway, someone bumped headfirst into the metal door with a dull thud.
The deformed baby abruptly went still. Its eyelids twitched, then opened.
Ye Ruan drew the forearm-length Curved Blade and stood in front of the others.
The deformed monster had eaten more than half of its mother's internal organs. Once it crawled out, the remaining skin and flesh of her abdomen caved in.
Yu Jingjing and the others had never seen anything like it before. They were stunned with terror.
Suddenly, the deformed monster tilted its head back, opened its mouth wide, and let out a piercing scream!
Ye Ruan's vision went black almost instantly. The sound burrowed into his ears like a needle and stabbed viciously into his brain.
It sounded remarkably similar to the cry of the giant ape they had encountered the last time they became separated from the Main Force in City H.
The sound lasted nearly four or five seconds, and animal