Chapter 748: Chapter 211 Savior Xu Shu (Part 2): The Birth of the Father (Request for Monthly Votes)
What is yin wood?
Yin wood is the kind of tree that grows in damp, shaded places.
And what is ikebana?
Ikebana is the art of flower arrangement.
These are two fairly serious terms.
Xu Shu felt at a loss for words, unable to accomplish or describe in detail what he saw before him.
After much thought, he could only arbitrarily combine these two unrelated terms to give an abstract description of the scene before his eyes.
Those "Underclassmen Monsters" with their fair, straight, five-meter-tall legs, toes that clung to the ground like blood vessels, plump cardamom securely settled between tree branches, heads growing on the flaps of the legs, and the bizarre chunks of flesh queuing up to enter the throng of blossoms on the tight little path... and so on and so forth.
Even Xu Shu, seasoned and worldly as he was, found his eyes wide open and couldn’t help but exclaim—Bro, I mean, sis! This is a bit weird!
The monsters’ bacchanalian revelry took the shape of a four-pointed star, occupying most of the rooftop area.
And at its central intersection, amidst a jungle formed by towering thighs, on an open ground built with bones and blood, lay a young girl in a white dress.
Her gaze was vacant and lifeless, her lower abdomen slightly protruded as if she were pregnant.
Vein-like blood vessels surfaced above the ground, the blood within them roaring, flowing into the altar and nourishing it, turning its color even more vividly red like jade.
The altar emanated a profound droning sound akin to a guard of honor, exuding a sense of authority and nobility, making the girl appear like an Empress seated on her throne, accepting tribute.
Xu Shu’s expression suddenly turned grave as his gaze fixed on the face of the girl being worshipped.
Hu Xinrui?
What’s she doing here?
As his childhood crush and unattainable first love from before he turned eighteen, Xu Shu was all too familiar with that face. He could recognize it at a glance and would never mistake it.
Moreover, her circumstances differed from those of the "Long-Legged Underclassmen"; her status was obviously higher!
Having experienced many Evil God sacrifices, Xu Shu, by now a "Sacrifice Ritual Expert," instantly recognized from the condition on the scene that a sacrificial ceremony was underway.
The ones being sacrificed were those pitiful girls who had mutated into zombies after death.
While Xu Shu felt that using dead people, who had initially been transformed into monsters, as sacrifices was a clear violation of the "basic principles of sacrifice," it did not hinder him from making the most crucial judgment—the Evil God was attempting to descend directly upon Hu Xinrui using this method.
Hu Xinrui was the vessel for the Evil God’s descent.
Inside her bulging belly, was most likely the body that the Evil God would inhabit!
In this matter, others might make mistakes or even be too scared to ponder in this direction.
But Xu Shu, having personally encountered many Divine-level beings in legends, had a naturally discerning eye and saw through it all at a glance.
"I need to figure out a way to stop that thing from descending!"
Without another word, Xu Shu merged into the other flesh and blood and moved closer.
The sacrificial flesh and blood, dense like a sea of flowers, provided him with the best cover at this moment.
Then again, perhaps no cover was needed, since the sacrifice ritual was so strange that Xu Shu saw no guards, which actually worked to his advantage, and he maintained a blood state only out of caution.
A few breaths later, Xu Shu arrived next to the altar and pulled out an altar—"Martial Artist" (Epic).
Xu Shu had two altars for the Martial Artist, one of which he had used in a hotel to interrogate a White Emperor Army member.
Now, there was only one left.
Facing an Evil God sacrifice, his first choice was naturally to intercept and replace it directly.
A few breaths later, Xu Shu thoughtfully withdrew the altar.
This time, the altar had no reaction!
"Strange, why is there no reaction from the altar? Is it because of the ’Cut Connection’ drug’s effect? Or is it because these zombie sacrifices are now considered monsters, not humans, so Lie Zhenzi doesn’t accept them?"
Xu Shu had no time to worry; the priority was to come up with a way to halt the sacrifice, to stop the Evil God’s descent.
Since he couldn’t intercept, the way to stop the ritual was, of course—
"Kill the vessel!"
From the blood, a long and sharp tentacle extended out—it was the Eight Spider Spears.
Xu Shu, looking at that familiar face, silently bid farewell: "Goodbye, my upperclassman."
Crack!
The Eight Spider Spears thrust out fiercely, striking Hu Xinrui on the forehead.
Pop!
The sharp spear tip, when meeting the soft skin of the girl’s forehead, should have torn through everything effortlessly, encountered significant resistance and, astonishingly, failed to pierce her skin.
Hu Xinrui let out a startled scream, crying out loudly, then sat up from the altar.
She looked around blankly, apparently not feeling any pain, and then continued to sit there lifelessly.
It seemed the sudden attack had startled her more than hurt her.
"... It’s this strong?"
Xu Shu’s expression froze for a moment, but then he sensed a cold wind on the back of his neck and swiftly dodged forward.
However, the attacker was extremely fast, surpassing him completely. He had moved less than a meter when he was caught up with.
Boom!
Rubble tumbled as sharp bone spikes pierced through Xu Shu, smashing the concrete ceiling beneath him, and the spreading shock wave cleaved Xu Shu in half.
Afterward, it slowly retracted, returning to a thin, tall man in a suit intertwined with several zombies in the forest.
The man had blood-red eyes and exuded an undeniably strong aura.