CHAPTER 424: CHAPTER 288: THE HORIZONTAL SLAUGHTER

Chapter 288

Behind them, Flower Demon added one more line, "Don’t fucking call me Miss Hua!"

Two groups against two groups...

Clearly, Xiao Yu and others still had hand grenades, such lethal weapons at hand...

Old Goat Monster and Wei Feng exchanged a glance... and reached a decision in unison!

Whoosh!

They charged abruptly towards the cave entrance!

Using the entrance as cover, they planned to sweep away the treasures inside!

"They’re going in!"

Gong Jiu’s group felt urgent, and Xiao Yu, along with Yueh Xiangnan and a few soldiers, rushed over. Just as the two groups were about to enter...

"Don’t go in."

From behind them, a faint voice made them halt in their tracks, feeling as if they were hearing things, until Ye Changan and the others, hiding in the corner, murmured in a soft breath, "That was just Sui... "

Sui Yi’s voice.

Gong Jiu and the others were taken aback, yet before they could react...

Ah!

Screams came from the cave...

And then...

"Oh shit, it’s that giant snake!"

Upon hearing this, the faces of Gong Jiu and his group turned green.

The carnage inside the cave was in full swing; the giant snake was on a killing spree. Only someone at Liang Qing’s level could barely dodge, while Wei Feng and Old Goat Monster were powerless to kill it.

Only if a master of Sui Yi’s caliber joined forces with them—as they had done before—would they stand a chance, but the problem was... Sui Yi was already dead, and they didn’t have hand grenades!

"Retreat!"

"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!"

Wei Feng and his people suffered heavy casualties. From nearly twenty people, they were instantly reduced to just ten.

Left with no choice, they could only retreat back toward the original exit...

And the giant snake was lured out as well...

"Haha, just deserts!" Gong Jiu laughed heartily at the sight of their misery.

The death of the opposing people narrowed the gap between them, naturally a cause for happiness.

"Happy my ass! If we can’t deal with this big snake, none of us can get the treasure!" Wu Gu cursed.

But he was right.

"We four groups can join forces to kill this snake, then divide the treasure among us, to avoid all suffering losses. How about it?"

Wei Feng was always rational... (well, except for that time with Superman).

"Join forces with you? What a joke. Both of you are stronger than us. Once the giant snake is killed, we will have no chance of winning... However, the more people die, the less treasure there will be to take later. Wei Feng, your group has the fewest people now!"

The wheel of fortune turns; at that moment, Wei Feng and Old Goat Monster found themselves in a difficult position.

If only they had not entered the cave so soon, they should have let Gong Jiu and his people go first!

In the standoff, the giant snake had already swallowed the person it had clutched in its mouth...

The ferocity of the scene sent a chill down everyone’s spine...

Suddenly, Old Goat Monster made a ruthless move, grabbing one of Wei Feng’s men, snapping his neck, and forcefully hurling the body!

It flew over the body of the snake and landed on Xiao Yu’s side...

The man convulsed on the spot and then lay dead, motionless.

Before the others could react...

The snake twisted its head...

"Shit, that’s going to draw the snake over! Retreat fast!" Xiao Yu, along with Ye Changan and Professor Ye, were the quickest to react.

But the giant snake had already slithered over swiftly.

Compared with these strong and agile humans, a motionless creature on the ground was obviously more attractive...

So the giant snake made its way towards Xiao Yu’s group...

Soon, it would disregard what’s further away in favor of what’s near, attacking Xiao Yu and his group, who had hand grenades...

What a crafty act of using others to kill for one!

No one expected Old Goat Monster to be so ruthless!

Of course, it was one of Wei Feng’s men who was killed...

Wei Feng and his men were enraged.

"Why look at me? This is the best solution..." Old Goat Monster was completely at ease, confident that Wei Feng wouldn’t attack him at this moment.

Meanwhile... the giant snake had already opened its huge maw to swallow the dead man...

All of a sudden!

"What’s that!" Liang Qing shouted in alarm!

Everyone looked up...

A black shadow swooped down from the rock ceiling above.

Like a ghostly eagle in flight!

Clutching a gleaming blade, it descended vertically...

Thrusting down!

Toward the giant snake that was leaning down to swallow the dead man...

Thud!

One sword, directly stabbed into the head of the giant snake...

It couldn’t penetrate; they had tried before, even bullets couldn’t get through, but this time...

Squelch!

The sword’s tip pierced the skull and forcefully jutted in...

Boom!!!

The giant snake’s head didn’t even have time to shake before it was stabbed right through the skull, piercing the brain...

Boom!

The huge head thudded to the ground, and its massive body went limp, motionless...

Squelch... Sui Yi stood atop the snake’s head, pulled out the Demon Que Sword, blood and brain matter spurting out. Sui Yi dodged, then turned to look at Old Goat Monster and the others.

The sword of the Demon Que gleamed brightly.

"To murder one’s comrade and betray trust, such a person should be stricken down by humans..."

Her gaze suddenly became eerie and cold as she locked onto Old Goat Monster.

That instant, Old Goat Monster’s heart went suddenly cold; Sui Yi was still alive, and her strength was so...

In shock, Old Goat Monster let out a piercing scream, "Kill me, just with you! Kill her now!!"

Without waiting for the others to attack, he had already eagerly thrown the Black Meteor.

His right hand flicked back and forth, casting a fierce flurry of sword shadows.

Several Black Meteors were deflected directly onto the wall, causing a series of explosions..

Her afterimage streaked by!

A horizontal assault came!

What kind of speed was this?

In just two seconds, she had charged from one end of the corridor to the other.

A hundred-meter distance!

Two seconds!

The Demon Que Sword was raised!

A hundred-year Inner Strength gathered at the tip of the sword...

Swipe~~

Old Goat Monster’s neck twisted bizarrely, his hand frozen in the posture of a raised eagle claw, the position eerily unnatural..

With her back to him, Sui Yi had blinked past the spot where he stood..

Thump, his body hit the ground, and Wei Feng saw a thin line of blood on his neck.

Old Goat Monster.. a being whose strength was almost equal to hers and who was adept with Hidden Weapons..

Struck down in one sword strike?

"Retreat!"

Without further words, Wei Feng promptly led Liang Qing and the others to flee!

Gong Jiu and the rest were still in shock, now unable to care about their escape, they just stared dumbly at the giant snake corpse and Old Goat Monster..

Dream on.

How could it be that just a few hours apart.. this person’s strength had doubled again.

And more than just doubled.

The stunned crowd was awakened by a cool and indifferent glance from Sui Yi, who banded together and eagerly approached to ask in detail, but before they could, Sui Yi said, "More important than the treasure?"

They turned and ran off without a trace, rushing into the cave together.

Xiao Yu and the others had already emerged.

"You.. are really.. I’ve never seen such a strong martial artist before," Professor Ye was at a loss for words to describe what he had just witnessed.. It was nothing short of miraculous.

The gap between people is truly immense.

Hearing this, Xiao Yu shot him a glance, "Professor Ye, are you talking about me?"

Although her strength was considerable and she was considered an elite in the military, compared to this person..

It felt utterly disheartening.

Sui Yi only responded with a faint smile to the crowd’s admiration and disbelief, "We don’t have much time, you should go in and look around. Take anything useful, but choose something light and portable... otherwise, it’ll be hard to leave this place."

Does that mean you already know a way out?

Professor Ye and Xiao Yu exchanged a look and then both entered the inner cave together.

Only then did Sui Yi lower her head to examine Old Goat Monster’s body.

She was very curious about Old Goat Monster, most curious of all was...

Her fingers touched Old Goat Monster’s face, rubbing and pressing lightly a few times, then she took out a bottle of water to moisturize her fingertips, before touching the area behind his ear..

Ye Changan stood by and watched as a flesh-colored, thin... mask was peeled from the vicious and brutish old man’s face?

Revealing a similar, yet not identical face.

Still an old man, yet even more gloomy and cunning.

Especially that hawk-like nose~

Sui Yi pondered. The first time she saw Old Goat Monster, she felt there was something odd about his appearance, but she didn’t think much of it at the time. As she had more interactions and her strength improved greatly, she used her Magnetic Sensation to probe and found that this man’s skin was unusually thick~~ (he was wearing another layer of Human Skin Mask).

That was when she decided to tear off his Human Skin Mask.

It was just strange why this man had disguised himself...

To evade the Tang Family’s pursuit?

"Is this a Face-changing Technique?" Ye Changan’s willingness to accept new ideas was strong, and upon seeing this, he was astounded.

It directly reminded him of the face-changing techniques in martial arts novels...

"Pretty much... the Human Skin Mask from Face-changing Techniques."

Human Skin?

Just as Ye Changan was about to touch the discarded mask on the ground, his fingers hesitated, but then he picked up and examined the Human Skin Mask.

Sui Yi was surprised and observed him.

"I am a medical student.. I must be proficient in brain surgery and skin grafting, this is nothing," Ye Changan said with a smile.

That made sense.

"But you’re not really a formal doctor yet," Sui Yi said with a slight smile, and then continued to check the old man’s body, and removed his Eagle Claw Sleeve as well.

This Hidden Weapon was nice, worth adding to a collection... It would be a good gift for Gong Jiu and the others as well.

In the end, she also took the Mechanism lock chain.

After finishing up, Sui Yi stood up and entered the cave with Ye Changan..

At that moment, everyone was anxious to pick locks, but without tools or a Divine Weapon in hand..

Ah, everyone’s gaze suddenly fell upon the Demon Que Sword...

"We can’t pick the locks right now," Sui Yi said indifferently. "Once we go into the water, however, the chest will open easily."

"Into the water? Do you mean we have to swim to leave this place?"

The crowd was astonished.

"Yes, we’re in a water channel of the Underground Mountain Range, the temple tower is the hub. Once it’s closed, all the entrances here are shut and the water flow is squeezed out. But once the temple tower moves away, all the exits open and water pours in. We can then follow the current and exit through the water surge..."

Sui Yi made it sound simple, but the others knew how terrifying the mechanism’s design must be.

Just the fact that it dated from a long time ago showed the grand scale of the engineering.

But really?

"Is what you’re saying true? How do we know you’re right or wrong.." Yueh Xiangnan suddenly chimed in.

Sui Yi didn’t look at him, her expression indifferent, "Whether you believe it or not doesn’t matter, it’s enough that I’ve said it."

She was always like that, having fulfilled her moral duty, the choices of others as well as their life and death were their own to bear.

Yueh Xiangnan’s expression stiffened, and just as he was about to say something, he was met with a cold gaze from Xiao Yu.

He fell silent.

The capabilities of Sui Yi were evident to all. At the moment, she seemed to know everything, leading others to think her map played a big role, but Gong Jiu and the others knew that the map was only applicable to the surface of the Ancient City and didn’t cover the underground affairs.

It seemed Sui Yi had made quite the gains inside the tower.

However, this was extremely advantageous to the rest of them! (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your votes for recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to continue reading.)