85: Chapter 66: Ruthlessness Against the Flower, Bizarre Characteristics 85: Chapter 66: Ruthlessness Against the Flower, Bizarre Characteristics “Get lost.”

Yang Chong’s tears hadn’t dried yet when someone kicked him to the ground.

He was now looking up at the tall, imposing figure of a man.

He wiped his glasses, “Ah, it’s, it’s you!

How could you be here?”

The man was naturally Xu Shu.

Yang Chong had not at all anticipated why Xu Shu, who had ostensibly left yesterday morning, had returned.

Xu Shu glanced at him dismissively, “Hmph, thanks to your excellent secrecy.”

Originally, they should have been informed the moment Xu Shu returned.

But Yang Chong managed the underground faux “Moon Mass” with such secrecy and strictly prohibited anyone from the shelter to disturb him, so the woman complied very much with Yang Chong’s rules.

After she had arranged accommodation for Xu Shu, she busied herself with the actual Moon Mass, neither daring nor having the spare time to send a message.

Thinking of this, Yang Chong couldn’t help but feel ashen-faced.

Xu Shu ignored him further; a mere mortal, easily extinguished, and he still had questions for him later.

For the moment, Xu Shu was observing the strangely conditioned Yang Manman within the altar.

Just now, when he had witnessed these cultists’ ritual actually managing to summon something, he was ready to flee, but then he saw their final step was stuck, unable to complete.

This piqued Xu Shu’s malevolence.

He simply took out the “Altar·Doctor,” which really reacted to the surging lifeforce on the other side.

They were offering life to the Evil God, and what he needed to offer to Lie Zhenzi was life as well, there was no difference.

Could it be interchangeable?

Xu Shu was not a man of indecision; he promptly tossed the altar over.

True to its purpose, it triggered immediately upon arrival, seizing control of the cult’s already prepared Summoning Array.

And it sacrificed all the humans within its range.

Everything concluded naturally, with a perfect outcome, the sacrifice was a great success.

Above the altar, a sphere entirely composed of golden characters coalesced, orbiting erratically.

Xu Shu found it somewhat familiar, reminiscent of the “Mystical Chapter” in appearance.

Although he couldn’t understand the inscriptions, they had a certain shared brilliance with those once found on the Black Widow Curse Seal, which were also at the very least a pale gold.

This was the “Doctor” mark!

Xu Shu cautiously seized the mark, finding instead of a burning pain, it was actually warm.

“Strange, isn’t it supposed to hurt when I touch the Black Widow Curse Seal, with the curse power attacking my body…

“Oh, I get it, the curse and the mark are separate entities?

“The curse is a curse, the mark is a mark, the curse is made from the monster’s Erosion Crystal, and the mark is obtained by sacrificing to Lie Zhenzi, only when the two come together, do they form a Curse Seal?!”

Although it was merely conjecture, he was fairly certain.

Xu Shu tucked the “Doctor” mark behind his back, seemingly putting it in his pocket, but in reality, he slipped it directly into the inventory of the Tai Chu Scroll.

*

“Manman, are you all right?

Manman, look at Dad.”

Yang Chong had already risen, shaking his daughter’s wheelchair, finding her unresponsive, reverted to her initial catatonic state.

Xu Shu watched the scene with cold eyes, but he was somewhat puzzled.

It made sense that Yang Chong, who had been outside the range of the altar, wasn’t sacrificed.

But why wasn’t Yang Manman sacrificed when she was directly in the line of fire?

“It shouldn’t be, the explanation in the Tai Chu Scroll has never been wrong, it stated that Lie Zhenzi doesn’t care if the person I sacrifice is good or bad, and that’s truly the case, it fits with my assessment of Lie Zhenzi.”

“Putting aside whether Yang Chong and Yang Manman could still be considered good people, she should have been sacrificed to Lie Zhenzi since she was within the altar…”

“Could it be…”

Xu Shu stroked his chin, suddenly harboring a bold suspicion.

Could it be that Yang Manman, covered in plum blossom spots, was no longer human?

Just as this thought arose, the previously catatonic Yang Manman suddenly let out a mischievous “hee hee hee” laugh, her eyes becoming sharp and spirited, seemingly no longer dull.

“Hm?”

Something was off; she was definitely not human anymore.

Xu Shu tensed up inside, choosing to trust the description in the Tai Chu Scroll, and so he took a step back, warily creating distance.

Yang Chong, meanwhile, rejoiced ecstatically, “Manman?

Are you really better?

Hahaha, Daddy has missed you so much…

Ah—”

He only got halfway through expressing his suffering when Yang Manman suddenly reached out and grabbed Yang Chong’s legs, “snap” a sound, tore them off, and gulped them down like two raw egg whites.

At the same time, she opened her rosy little mouth, and her tender, blood-veined clove tongue shot out like a frog’s, a meter long, effortlessly piercing through Yang Chong’s brow, exiting the back of his head, bringing along a bit of inconspicuous brain matter.

“Manman…” Yang Chong’s agony arrived swiftly and departed just as quickly, dying on the spot.

“Holy shit?!”

Xu Shu caught sight of this scene unexpectedly and couldn’t help but feel a chill between his legs.

She was too fast!

Had he not retreated in time just now, it would have been impossible to dodge such a swift attack.

She was strong!

In an instant, Xu Shu determined that Yang Manman was no longer human.

And moreover, judging by her speed of action, this unknown monstrous creature was likely not weak.

Xu Shu’s palm now held a trinket [Water Splashing Basket], and his attentiveness was razor-sharp, ready at any moment to activate Jingwei to block an attack.

“Hee hee hee, why so tense, little brother?

You’re so muscular, sister doesn’t have the heart to eat you~”