Shen Heng ignored them and quickened his pace.
I heard a series of loud thuds and the hissing sound of threads shooting out.
The battle was progressing rapidly.
The moment Shen Heng stepped off the stairs and onto the fifth floor, the sounds of battle ceased.
Soon, Wei Leyang's voice came through the headset.
"Mission accomplished, I've killed him!"
Shen Heng let out a soft sigh of relief, and his pace changed from running to walking.
Wu Cheng's voice came through the earpiece.
"Ah, as expected of you, Lord Wei!"
"Oh, of course!"
"Does this mean we can go back to sleep?" Han Ling yawned.
"I'm almost there. Your house is closer, so you should be arriving soon, right?" Wu Cheng said.
"Well, we've arrived!" Han Ling replied, accompanied by the sound of a car door opening.
"Now that we're here, why don't we go up and take a look? This is a new Calamity Beast!" Wu Cheng said.
Upon hearing this, Shen Heng paused abruptly, the image of the worm resembling a large intestine flashing through his mind.
Are you sure you've killed that Calamity Beast?
Hearing the words coming through the headset, Wei Leyang lowered his head slightly.
He glanced at the head lying on the ground, with seven or eight threads still stuck in it, and said:
"Of course, I inserted several threads into his head; even if he doesn't die, he definitely won't be able to move..."
Wei Leyang stopped halfway through his sentence, looking at his foot, which was trembling slightly as he stood on the corpse.
He didn't move; what really moved was the corpse he was trampling under his feet.
The next moment, a short, red worm suddenly tore through the corpse's belly and clothes, appearing in his sight.
It didn't jump too high, but instead pounced directly at the foot that was stepping on its belly.
The next moment, a sharp pain shot through my ankle...
"Snort..."
Hearing the abrupt interruption of the words in his earpiece, followed by a muffled groan, Shen Heng's heart tightened instinctively. He quickly asked:
" Wei Leyang, what's wrong?"
However, Wei Leyang did not respond through the earpiece.
Seeing this, the team leader and others who had not yet arrived at the scene also became nervous.
"What's wrong?" Han Ling's worried voice came through the earpiece.
However, no one could respond to him. Wei Leyang, who knew the specifics, was obviously unable to reply, and Shen Heng could only hear the occasional very faint groans coming from beside him.
" Shen Heng, hurry over and take a look." Wang Hai's voice was still steady, but his speaking speed was much faster than usual.
"Yes, I know, I'm already on my way!" Shen Heng replied as he quickly ran towards Wei Leyang's direction.
He soon arrived at the location of the detention cell.
This is a rectangular, gray-white, enclosed space. On both sides of the corridor are small single rooms with iron gates, explosion-proof lights embedded in the ceiling, and surveillance cameras installed in the corridor. The overall atmosphere is cold and oppressive.
Shen Heng ran with a clear goal in mind towards a detention cell located relatively far inside.
Soon, the scene inside the detention room came into Shen Heng's view.
Two people were lying in the small space.
One of them lay motionless on the ground.
The other one was curled up and trembling on the ground; it was Wei Leyang.
Shen Heng strode inside, glanced at the blood-stained belly of another corpse, and then quickly turned his gaze to Wei Leyang.
He squatted down, staring straight at Wei Leyang, his brows furrowed as he spoke.
" The Calamity Beast burrowed inside?"
Upon hearing Shen Heng's voice, Wei Leyang forced himself to look at Shen Heng.
His once handsome face was now unusually pale, covered with large beads of sweat.
He nodded, and said with some difficulty:
"Hmm, ha... He bit a hole in my foot and burrowed in... hah... He's inside now, and I've used my Origin Power to trap him inside, but... hah... But, he might not last much longer!!"
Exhausted, strained, and pained voices echoed in the detention room, and were also transmitted to the members of the Linhai Supervision Bureau team through their earpieces.
In an instant, everyone's breathing became unconsciously heavy.
Shen Heng frowned even more deeply. He looked over Wei Leyang's body and asked:
Where are you now?
"Climbing... Hah... Too fast! By the time I reacted, I could only stop them here."
Wei Leyang managed to turn over and pointed to his chest.
There, a small drum was moving up and down, left and right, sometimes even disappearing for a moment, making it impossible to pinpoint its location.
But judging from the frequency, it's clear that it's always trying to move upwards, towards the head area.
Shen Heng's gaze followed the bulge for a moment, then he looked back at Wei Leyang and said:
"Don't say anything yet, focus on fighting it, we'll figure something out!"
Wei Leyang nodded with some difficulty, then slowly closed his eyes.
Shen Heng remained in a half-squatting position, his brows furrowed, his gaze unconsciously sweeping over the corpse beside him.
His gaze lingered on the corpse's face.
That's... Huang Shaohua?
Did they get detained for some unknown reason and then die?
Shen Heng frowned and turned his gaze back to Wei Leyang.
He had no interest in people he'd only met once, especially since several police officers had died in this mission, let alone some thugs.
The most urgent task is to find a way to solve Wei Leyang's problem.
Is there any way to get the Calamity Beast out?
Let it come out by itself?
Impossible. Even a fool would know that we absolutely cannot come out now.
Moreover, this was the same Calamity Beast that had just been tricked into trusting him after being chased.
That would force him to reveal himself?
Can...
Shen Heng frowned, his gaze fixed on Wei Leyang's chest.
Not long after, Han Ling arrived, with Le Gu Nan following beside her, carrying the Realm-Suppressing Stake.
Not long after, Wang Hai and Wu Cheng also arrived.
"No, what are you all standing there for? Hurry up and save Wei Leyang!" Wu Cheng said anxiously as soon as he came in.
"We're thinking about whether there's any other way to force the Calamity Beast out," Wang Hai said in a deep voice.
Wu Cheng frowned, glanced at Wei Leyang, and then fixed his gaze on the moving bulge on his chest.
"What method are you looking for? Isn't it obvious where this Calamity Beast Calamity Beast is? Just cut it open and pull it out!" Wu Cheng said.
"Pain might distract Wei Leyang, and the damage to his body could also disrupt the Origin Power · Flow. If that happens, the Calamity Beast will directly burrow into his brain," Wang Hai said in a deep voice.
"This..."
Wu Cheng choked for a moment, then thought for a second and continued to ask:
"Can we use our Origin Power together to force this Calamity Beast out of Wei Leyang's body?"
" The Calamity Beast is inside Wei Leyang's body. Once it disappears into Wei Leyang's body, if we can't keep up, it will cause our Origin Power to conflict with Wei Leyang's Origin Power."
"Could we use an anesthetic or something?"
"It's still the same; it's inside Wei Leyang's body, Wei Leyang will..."
After several methods were refuted, Wu Cheng said somewhat impatiently:
"So we're just supposed to stand here and do nothing?"