Because they wanted to open the manhole cover, within less than ten seconds, three members of the team were severely injured, with only Yu Ze still in relatively good shape.
But he also quickly noticed that even just standing still remained dangerous, although it could be slightly postponed.
The dense branches overhead were swaying, seeming like they could break at any moment and fall to impale their bodies.
The surroundings were littered with animal skeletons left behind from massacres, each bone hiding a potential crisis.
Lebeite’s body, after being shot in the head, convulsed and reconstructed the missing head thanks to an inner monster. For some reason, what usually completed regeneration quickly seemed exceptionally difficult today.
Luo Di, having been cut in half, was in the same condition,
His spine running at full power, yet the regeneration efficiency was frighteningly low, with life force continuously depleting.
Footsteps soon followed from behind the forest.
The Pine Tree Head Steward was transporting father here using a backpack structure made from trees.
Father’s voice echoed through the forest, as if every possible fatal medium was slightly vibrating,
"Your performance is impressive, exceeding my expectations.
Cleansing this area in such a short time shows that you are qualified to glimpse the entrance, even the most basic touch.
Originally, I just intended for you to reach here, and the lady definitely wouldn’t agree to you going further down.
However... perhaps some flexibility is truly needed.
In order to provide the lady with a fully satisfactory explanation tomorrow, I’m giving you an opportunity, a chance to feel the area below.
The condition is simple,
As long as you can touch me, I will help you open the manhole cover.
Of course, you may also refuse the experience and go home now.
Hua Yuan was the first to sit up, the inside of her pierced back of the head was filled with flower pistils, stacked with countless tiny heads, each seemingly able to represent her true body.
Her regeneration speed was the fastest among everyone, quickly mending the pierced wound, "It’s fine with me~ let them decide."
Luo Di’s situation was more troublesome, with the influence of bad luck making it difficult for him to regenerate an entire lower body.
He could only use the chain thrown by his left arm to retrieve the lower body hanging in the tree.
Then, utilizing the characteristics of the metal torture device, forcibly reconnecting the upper and lower body, with a visible staple structure at the flesh seams.
After confirming his legs could move normally, he looked at the team’s most knowledgeable member about "father," Lebeite, "Can the four of us make contact?"
"There’s a chance, but it’s more likely we’ll die."
Always confident, Lebeite showed unease at this moment, or perhaps anything involving his father made him uneasy.
"Yu Ze, what do you think?"
"Countryman, you decide."
When Yu Ze responded, he quietly signaled Luo Di in sign language from an unseen angle.
"Then let’s try it. Can we start now?"
At the tail end of "can,"
Lebeite already took action or perhaps he knew from the beginning that Luo Di would never waste such an opportunity, and he wanted to show his "growth" to his father.
In the videotape incident, Lebeite didn’t appear to gain directly, but actually, from the moment he entered the videotape, he had been absorbing the real fear in the environment, with his plants constantly growing.
If the videotape hadn’t forcibly ended after three days, he might have stayed inside, waiting for the fear to be drained dry.
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The current Lebeite, not only can quickly switch to a perfect posture, but also make his legs display some human characteristics, with slight white spots appearing.
As soon as Luo Di finished speaking.
The space around Lebeite seemed to freeze,
The ground beneath his feet grooved deeply under his steps, and he shot forward like an arrow, creating circle ripples in the frozen space.
Almost instantly, he reached up close to his father,
His arm reaching out, trying his best to touch his father’s body.
Seeing he was just a few centimeters away,
A particularly smooth gallbladder emerged in the grass underfoot, right where Lebeite stepped.
The friction changed, his center of gravity shifted... misfortune struck, and the "fall" situation was forcibly triggered,
No matter how Lebeite adjusted his body, he couldn’t regain balance.
Because he was moving so fast, the inertia was astonishingly large.
Whoosh~ In the blink of an eye, Lebeite disappeared from the area, faintly seen breaking a few trees which made no sound due to the talisman’s effect.
This fall directly sent him back home, crashing into the brass back door of the Invisible Manor, leaving a dent.
Lebeite’s body slowly slid down the dented bronze door, not only suffering full-body fractures but even his most basic cellular structure was damaged, collapsing on the ground like a sack of mud.
Yet his eyes were full of awe.
"Father has grown stronger again..."
Lebeite’s encounter didn’t scare the others,
"Hua Yuan, let’s go!"
Hua Yuan began to disassemble, transforming into human-like flower pistils that drilled into the soil, fully leveraging the environmental advantage and blending with the surrounding flora.
She didn’t hurry to get close but spread out completely; as long as one pistil existed, she could maintain her survival and establish contact.
Luo Di took a deep breath on his side,
because having Lebeite as a reference, trying to make contact through "Speed" was impossible; another method had to be sought.
Luo Di wanted to drag his grandfather and the steward carrying him to Crystal Lake to gain the maximum geographical advantage.
Zzz~ A burst of static electromagnetic interference echoed through the forest.
The domain effect just reached his father’s feet and instantly dissipated, unable to take effect.
"As expected... trying to pull a high-ranking entity into the movie realm isn’t so simple, let alone someone as top-tier as my father."
Being unable to influence was within Luo Di’s consideration; he immediately narrowed the film effect to only affect himself and a one-meter radius around him.
Transforming into "Jason’s" likeness, he moved forward with a steady and weighty step, eliminating everything potentially underfoot with Consciousness Slash.
Luo Di and Hua Yuan coordinated once more, adopting a slow approach.
nothing unexpected happened along the way,
which instead made Luo Di increasingly anxious, even somewhat hoping for an unexpected event to occur so he could respond accordingly.
Still, nothing appeared,
not a branch fell, no slippery substance was stepped on, and no wild animal suddenly dashed out from the forest, a complete stillness.
When they were only two meters away from his grandfather,
The mountain forest suddenly started to rain.
Upon hearing the sound of rain, Luo Di felt an undescribable sense of crisis! With just less than two meters left, he decisively abandoned the cautious approach, bursting instantly.
Likewise, Hua Yuan beneath the soil started to act,
dense flower pistils surged in from all directions, forming a ring to encircle his father’s foothold, aiming to touch his feet.
"About to make contact!"
Luo Di’s outstretched hand was just about to make contact.
Drip~ A raindrop coincidentally fell.
An unexpected event... Luo Di’s four fingers simultaneously flew into the air.
This scene made him widen his eyes in disbelief! These were merely ordinary raindrops, which logically, due to air resistance, would only have a slight impact upon hitting a human body.
Yet, it severed Luo Di’s fingers in an instant, akin to bullets.
The same happened to Hua Yuan,
the dense raindrops perfectly matched her flower pistils, neither more nor less, all smashed to pieces by the raindrops.
"I must make contact!"
Luo Di was unwilling, with the target right in front of him.
He immediately activated his Hell attributes, from the severed fingers grew metallic wire and tentacle structures, even unconsciously forming an asymmetric structure.
The father, who hadn’t once looked head-on at everyone, now turned his milky eyes towards them, watching the asymmetric structure forming in Luo Di’s hand, which bore a high degree of similarity to that of Madame in some respects.
Yet... it still didn’t work.
Drip! A raindrop fell.
However, this time the raindrop did not destroy his hand structure but landed right at the center of the skull... vertically piercing through Luo Di’s body like a straight line.
Ruining the pituitary,
The whole person slumped instantly, the asymmetric structure in the palm disintegrating rapidly, unfulfilled.
With his consciousness lost, Luo Di collapsed heavily to the ground, no longer a threat, nor did he hold any intent to contact his father anymore.
The rain now fell on him, yet it caused no further harm.
Hua Yuan, hidden deeply beneath the soil, was also damaged, her entire body riddled with tiny holes formed by the raindrops, gradually withering away.
footsteps echoed from the forest behind,
Lebeite shielded his head with his pure white hands, steadfastly withstanding the piercing rain, returned relying solely on his physical body.
The father nodded slightly to indicate approval, but quickly looked towards another direction, trying to seek out the "fourth person" in the team.
The opponent had vanished without a trace, all signs erased.
Lebeite’s rashness, as well as Luo Di and Hua Yuan’s joint efforts, now seemed to all be a smokescreen, each distraction a strategy to earn an opportunity for the "fourth person"...