Chapter 684: Chapter 666: Deep Dive
The Lame Walker gazed at the group of people who had suddenly appeared before him, focusing particularly on Mr. Question Mark.
Its slippery head tilted slightly, feeling both puzzled and threatened.
Until now, since arriving in this world, it had never seen any native life forms capable of self-healing after being infected by the Hole.
Even Maximus, who had killed it four times, couldn’t do it. Once infected, he needed to quickly sever the corresponding body part, and couldn’t regenerate thereafter.
If it weren’t for these natives somehow acquiring combat uniforms, its invasion would have been unstoppable.
Moreover, the “Hole” was its most prized ability, a crucial pillar for climbing to divinity.
“How did you manage to do it?
Even those guys ‘out there’ find it hard to repair my Hole structure. You’ve been infected for such a long time, and it’s deep infection.
According to the plan, you should have long become mindless fodder, eaten by my offspring.”
Mr. Question Mark did not respond, instead spinning a coin on his finger, as if waiting for a certain moment.
Seated on the big tongue, Gust retorted in his place, “Your damn hole is like a PY, there’s nothing impressive about it. I could fill it in a second.
So cut the crap, we don’t need them to make a move. I’ll personally cook you up—a lowly creature without a tongue, what’s so impressive about that…”
Suddenly, the webbed hand pressed down!
The big tongue seat under Gust instantly transformed into a pool of blood and water,
his facial expression contorted, his lips pressed against his nose, his eyes rolling back, his scalp clenched together.
His entire body was pressed immobile against the ground, with nearly all his internal organs damaged, as if an unseen huge webbed hand was pressing on his back, and a dense hole structure was trying to invade his body.
Gust decisively bit into his own tongue.
The moment the tongue broke…Pah!
His body exploded, breaking free from the invisible suppression, transforming into small tongues that converged in another area.
“Whew~ Scared to death! Oh dear, just kidding, why so angry? I just don’t like tongueless people, it seems unsophisticated.
Don’t be angry, after I adjust, I’ll be right over to kill you!”
Gust immediately began performing various exaggerated warm-up exercises on the spot.
The Lame Walker realized something; It had long noticed that the low-level creatures of this world had a habit, a habit of flapping their gums.
It also realized that this creature, composed entirely of tongues, was merely distracting it.
It shifted its gaze from the tongue creature to the other two important targets,
one of which was the man with the question mark who could erase Hole infection.
The other was Maximus with severed arms, who posed the greatest threat to it.
However, neither of them moved, just remaining in place.
But it felt something was off about the scene in front, as if something was missing, as if something had been overlooked.
“Wait…how many natives came down just now? Seems like three.
One was the tongue, one was the question mark, and the other weak native, with weak aura, not very distinctive…where did he go?”
Just when it realized someone was missing, the teleportation was complete.
The one who originally chose to stand beside Teacher Guo, Luo Di, with a tongue growing in his palm, turned out to be Gust’s tongue monster pet, helping him further erase his presence.
With Gust’s distraction, and the presence of Mr. Question Mark and Maximus, two significant figures here.
Luo Di was overlooked.
Teacher Guo immediately used Vortex teleportation to silently position him behind the opponent.
At almost the same time, Luo Di’s mind echoed the Squad Leader’s voice, who had absorbed the opponent’s skin and flesh, already analyzing the weakest area on this Outer God’s back.
The hand containing Corner, Hell, and Outer Realm traits—”Prometheus’ Hand”—was already attached.
Luo Di’s concealed methods were unleashed at that moment.
An alternative hole, a metallic-lined hole, a hole that could reach the depths, opened up on the Lame Walker’s back.
This was Luo Di’s hole tunnel, not under the opponent’s control.
And at the moment the tunnel completed,
Teacher Guo, using the last of his strength and the vortex lines he left in Luo Di’s palm, transported everyone but himself inside.
just the white-haired Teacher Guo remained at the bottom of this deep pit.
There was a reason for not going in himself.
A slight smile hung on his lips, and he softly said, “Want to kill me, you Outer God…your downfall already shows, the vortex is pulling you into the quagmire called defeat.”
These vortex-like words caused the Lame Walker to pause, as if truly guiding its mind, making it want to go over and kill this local dog.
But reason and crisis made it react; it must not waste time on the person in front.
“How is it possible, why can someone here establish such a high-dimensional tunnel? Why can they make a hole in me?”
The Lame Walker didn’t care about the native before it. It sensed an unprecedented crisis and focused entirely on the [Hole Nest] within its body.
The secret of “Infinite Rebirth” lay hidden deepest inside.
Teacher Guo saw the Outer God before him cease to move, and sighed slightly. He had intended to lure the other closer to kill himself, so that he could buy more time for everyone, after all, he had been completely drained, unable to make any contribution.
If death could buy time and increase the odds of success, he would absolutely be willing to do so.
“I didn’t expect I would have to go this far, once we fail, there’s no turning back… alas, I’m really not a competent teacher.”
Teacher Guo experienced a moment of consciousness loss, his body about to collapse.
A hand reached out to support him firmly.
Wu Wen appeared beside him with an extremely strange skin stance, the infected hole structure temporarily controlled and restrained by her flesh.
A gentle voice conveyed over: “Don’t worry, Teacher Guo… Luo Di will always succeed, not to mention this time there are so many teachers helping together.”
Gust used his tongue to hoist the armless Maximus onto his back, to avoid bringing misfortune during transit.
Mr. Question Mark was playing a solo running game, reaching top speed, dashing ahead of everyone.
Luo Di then took out his open spine stance, managing to barely keep up with the two predecessors’ speed.
He had imagined beforehand that the inside of this Outer God would be extraordinary, but didn’t expect it to be so vast, to an exaggerated extent.
They sprinted nearly a thousand meters in a short time, still seeing no end in sight.
And soon, change occurred.
Mucus began seeping through the passage, and with the appearance of cracks, a tadpole-like creature dropped in, rapidly growing into a form resembling the Outer God.
But in the next second,
not using his tongue to whip, but throwing Teacher Ma like a cannonball. Content orıginally comes from novęlfire.net
Before the tadpole could fully form, it was smashed to bits. Needless to say, this throwing seemed even more effective than Teacher Ma acting directly.
his tongue quickly retrieved Teacher Ma, reattaching him to his back, with any injuries immediately licked away by his tongue.
Another type of intervention quickly followed, with the metal passage created by Luo Di forcibly cut off, presenting multiple forks ahead, each with a different feel.
Dark, sticky, with rock layers, and where flippers’ stomping sounds could be heard.
These forks, however, didn’t delay everyone, with Mr. Question Mark at the forefront seemingly knowing the “answer”, able to make the right choice instantly.
Thus, using Teacher Ma as a cannonball to clear obstacles along the way, with Mr. Question Mark selecting the correct route, they traversed over five thousand meters.
They suddenly stepped into the void, falling vertically.
Landing in a hemispherical internal hall, nearly a kilometer in scale, with an all-pervading hole structure on the walls and ceiling.
This is the [Cave Core], the origin of all hole structures.
At the front of the hall,
an obese, hairy toad-like lifeform lay, or rather was embedded in the wall, integrated with this area.
Its stature exceeded a hundred meters,
with six slender, disproportionate “hands” resting at its sides,
its bloated abdomen occupying about 70% of its body surface, covered in protruding [Ovaries], which carried swimming divine tadpoles.
Its back embedded in the wall maintained a transfer connection with the hallway.
As long as the divine husks outside died,
a divine tadpole would be delivered,
capable of completely metamorphosing during the hole transmission process, forming a divine larva, maturing quickly upon contact with outside air.
a metallic shackle that didn’t fit the environment bound one of its legs, seemingly restricting and confining it here.
this is the true form of the Lame Walker,
its long-closed eyes gradually opened, six eyes shaped like tadpoles swimming in circles within the whites, observing the invaders.
Anger, hatred, unease…
the divine tadpoles in the toad’s abdomen were almost all transmitted out, merely needing a complete transfer process in the passage to mature.
By then, there would be hundreds of divine husks arriving here to obliterate the invaders.
Mr. Question Mark made a move.
He pressed his arm against the wall, releasing a game domain, from which [Doors] appeared out of thin air, sealing all the passages.
He brushed aside the dark green hair hanging before his eyes,
and uttered words of magnetic resonance from his lips:
“Thank you for your deep infection, sparing me from instant death but imprisoning me at the deepest point, allowing close proximity to your offspring.
I have completed the hole decryption, next… we will kill you.”