Contract

When Lin Shen touched it before, he felt that this thing didn't really look like a snake. Now, looking at it, it looks even less like one.

Snakes have heads, but the head of this thing is very indistinct. At first glance, it looks more like an earthworm or something similar, with only a tiny, almost invisible hole at the very tip, which should be its mouthparts.

Its body, however, doesn't quite resemble an earthworm's. It looks somewhat like a snake-skin rope woven from dark red metal wire.

Overall, if you don't look closely, this thing just looks like a rope.

Lin Shen couldn't quite figure out what this thing was, and he didn't have time to think about it.

As if sensing Lin Shen waking up, the thing's body suddenly expanded. Its body, which was originally only about three centimeters thick, instantly swelled up at the front to the thickness of a bucket.

The mouthparts, which previously looked like a pinhole, also expanded accordingly, becoming large enough to easily swallow a human head.

Inside the mouthparts were rings of blood-colored crystal sawteeth, like gears, slowly rotating within its body, flashing with flickering blood-red light, like a Blood Crystal shredder starting up.

If a head were swallowed by it, it would probably be ground into bloody remnants in an instant.

Seeing the monster's terrifying mouthparts about to swallow him, Lin Shen struggled desperately. Because the front half of the monster's body had expanded while the back half hadn't, Lin Shen, who had been tightly bound, found a slight gap.

In the instant the monster's mouthparts were about to descend, one of his hands suddenly pulled free.

Lin Shen, disregarding everything, slammed his fist hard into a red spot below the monster's head. That was an acupoint Lin Shen had seen on its body.

Because of the monster's expansion, this red spot had also become much larger.

Bang!

Just as the monster's mouthparts were about to swallow Lin Shen's head, Lin Shen's fist also heavily struck the red spot.

Lin Shen could feel the intense pain coming from his finger bones. He estimated that his finger bones were either broken or cracked.

The monster's body wasn't completely immobilized, but it became somewhat sluggish and still lunged towards Lin Shen's head.

The Seven Steps of Conflict didn't fully work. If it was just about strength, Lin Shen's meager strength couldn't even break through the monster's defense.

Lin Shen desperately turned his head to the side, dodging the monster's swallow, while simultaneously pounding his fist wildly at the red spot on the monster's body.

Excruciating pain came from his finger bones, but Lin Shen couldn't care less. Even if all his bones were shattered, it was better than losing his life here.

Blood splattered on the monster's body. That was the blood from the torn flesh on Lin Shen's fist splattering out. The monster was completely unharmed.

The monster was still moving slowly, not completely immobilized, but its movements had become very sluggish, and the force binding Lin Shen's body gradually became very weak.

Lin Shen's other hand finally broke free as well. He pressed against the monster's expanded front end and pulled his body out.

By this time, Lin Shen's other hand couldn't even make a fist anymore. His fingers were unnaturally bent and drooping, the torn flesh was blurred, and blood was constantly dripping out.

The monster's body was also trembling violently. With each tremor, its body also wriggled bit by bit, as if it was about to break free from the Seven Steps of Conflict's restraint on its body.

Lin Shen knew that it wasn't that the Seven Steps of Conflict ability was useless, but that his own strength wasn't enough to completely seal the monster's acupoints.

It was like someone wearing armor. Even if you know where the acupoints are, if your strength can't penetrate the armor, it naturally can't get through to affect the acupoints.

It was already a blessing that the vibrations from the impact could transmit through and have some effect on this monster.

Lin Shen used his good hand to feel for the clothes on the bedside, wanting to find the Pet Capsules for the Superspeed Gunslinger and the Steel Tail Scorpion.

But when he felt around, he didn't find the Steel Tail Scorpion's capsule, only the Superspeed Gunslinger's capsule.

At this moment, he couldn't afford to think too much. He fumbled for the key hidden close to his body and directly opened the Pet Capsule.

The Pet Capsule quickly transformed, and the Superspeed Gunslinger appeared before Lin Shen. Under his command, it drew its gun and began shooting at the monster.

The bullets hit the location of the red dot, but were surprisingly deflected to the side, leaving only a tiny white mark on it. The monster's body, however, wriggled even faster.

Lin Shen was startled and realized that the ability of the Tinder only worked when he used it himself. External force, even if it could hit the acupoint, wouldn't have the effect of Seven Steps of Conflict.

This further proved that the power of the Tinder was completely unscientific.

The Superspeed Gunslinger shot at other parts of the monster's body, with even worse results. Shooting the red dot location still left a trace that was equivalent to nothing, but other places didn't even leave a mark.

Bullets that entered the monster's mouth were shattered into pieces upon hitting the Blood Crystal-like serrations.

Those Blood Crystals were even harder than the monster's body, which reminded Lin Shen of what Uncle Cang had said earlier: this guy had an accident during his promotion to Crystal Gene Level and already possessed a partial Crystal Gene body.

Seeing that the monster was about to break free from the restraints of Seven Steps of Conflict, Lin Shen had no choice but to rush forward himself, tear off a bedsheet to wrap around his hand, and use his other uninjured fist to strike the red dot location.

After a few punches, a faint bloody color seeped out from the bedsheet wrapped around his hand, and the monster's body became very sluggish again, almost unable to move.

But Lin Shen knew this wasn't a solution. If he kept hitting like this, his hand would be crippled sooner or later. Once the monster was no longer restrained by the power of Seven Steps of Conflict, let alone him, Lin Shen, the entire Lin Family Courtyard would probably be bathed in blood by the monster.

This was a Gene Mutation Creature that possessed Crystal Gene Level power. If his third and fourth brothers were here, there might still be a way, but now there was no strong person in the entire Lin Family who could contend with this kind of Gene Mutation Creature. Calling people over would just be sending them to their deaths.

So, at first, Lin Shen didn't have a chance to press the alarm to call people over, and now there was no need to call people over.

The rooms where they, the siblings, lived were specially designed, with strong defensive capabilities and good sound insulation. After all this commotion, no one outside had heard anything and rushed over.

Lin Shen's first thought was to escape, to preserve his useful body so that he would have a chance to rise again in the future.

If his life was gone, no matter how big the family business was, it would be useless.

Just as he was about to turn and flee, Lin Shen's heart stirred, and he thought of the Tinder he had obtained earlier, the "Boundless Strength Contract."

The Boundless Strength Contract required signing a Blood Contract with a creature. It didn't say that the contract had to be signed with a newborn creature.

However, adult creatures would no longer grow, so signing a contract with them would be useless. Therefore, under normal circumstances, one would definitely sign a contract with a youngling.

But the Boundless Strength Contract actually had another benefit: after signing a contract with a creature, that creature would be equivalent to becoming a pet, making it difficult to disobey its master's commands.

Of course, this contract wasn't completed by just dripping blood on it. It required drawing a Blood Contract on the other party's body with blood, and the other party could not resist during the process. Once they resisted, the Blood Contract would fail.

If he had a choice, Lin Shen would naturally want to find a Gene Mutation Creature with sufficient growth potential to sign the Boundless Strength Contract.

Now, for the sake of his own life, the safety of the Lin Family members, and the Lin Family's property, he had no choice but to try and see if he could sign the Boundless Strength Contract with this creature.

Of course, it wasn't without benefits. This creature's level was high enough. Although he might not be able to use it to enhance his strength, he would gain a powerful pet, which would also be of great help for the trip to Gourd Mountain.

As for whether it was willing or would resist, Lin Shen didn't plan to ask for its consent. He would use Seven Steps of Conflict to forcibly control its body and complete the Boundless Strength Contract.

Having understood this, Lin Shen no longer hesitated. Enduring the waves of piercing pain from his finger bones, he punched the red dot on the monster's body again.

Activating the Boundless Strength Contract, he used his other hand, trembling, to draw the Blood Contract on the monster's body. His hand was covered in blood, even skipping the step of biting his finger.

It was strange to say, but after activating the Boundless Strength Contract, Lin Shen's blood, when it touched the monster's skin, which was even harder than steel, actually seeped in as if a branding iron had been pressed onto flesh.

Even under the control of the Seven Steps of Conflict power, Lin Shen could clearly see the monster's body tremble noticeably, as if it had been scalded.

Unfortunately, under Lin Shen's continuous and frantic self-harming strikes, the monster was completely unable to move, making it difficult to disrupt the formation of the Blood Contract.

Just as the hand Lin Shen was using to strike the red dot was about to lose all sensation, the Blood Contract was finally successfully drawn.

The moment the Blood Contract was completed, the originally dull and lusterless bloody pattern suddenly burst forth with a scorching light like magma.

The next second, both the blood pattern and the scorching light seeped under the skin and disappeared. The monster, which had been violently shaking, also quieted down.