Chapter 36: Must Be Decisive

The noodle stall boss had trained before; his routine postures from traditional martial arts were steady and standard, absolutely perfect!

Chen Fengshi stood up, a large patch of his sleeve rubbed against the ground and tore, and his skin was rubbed red too.

He wouldn’t be surprised if just anyone had trained in traditional martial arts, but what was with such power ful strength?

Even Liu Shuzhi was far inferior!

What made him even more depressed than this was, what was wrong with Little An?

He was sent flying, but Little An did not make any cooperative attacking movements. Now, the red mist thread extending from the top of the noodle stall boss’s head had already reached far to the end of the sky’s view, and perhaps it was already too late to interrupt it.

This Fungal Demon Parasite was too strange. At this moment, all over the noodle stall boss’s body, from head to toe, who knew how many red mist threads were connected, and the flowing state inside every single red mist thread was as if blood was continuously being input into his body.

“What are you dazing out for?” Chen Fengshi felt uncomfortable seeing his sleeve torn into a large, loose patch, so he simply tore off a section with a pull. The punch power in his chest was very strong, and it even hurt him! The noodle stall boss’s eyes were bloodshot as he looked at Little An and walked over, but she actually had no reaction?

Seeing the noodle stall boss getting closer, Chen Fengshi could only accelerate and rush over, even though he knew clearly that doing so would be very disadvantageous for him.

The raised fist of the noodle stall boss had not yet swung towards Little An when Chen Fengshi rushed over in time. As he grabbed the boss’s wrist with one hand, the noodle stall boss was already prepared and grabbed his wrist with a backhand. While exerting force to twist it, he raised his knee and crashed it towards Chen Fengshi’s body!

And Chen Fengshi’s reaction was almost exactly the same. Their knees instantly collided together in the air, and a sharp pain spread through Chen Fengshi’s leg. And their hands gripping each other’s wrists were bulging with strength in a contest of power!

Seeing this, Chen Fengshi’s hand twisted the noodle stall boss’s wrist and rotated it little by little. At the same time, the thickness of the golden mist on his body kept increasing, sucking the red mist on the noodle stall boss’s body to madly surge over like a black hole.

Chen Fengshi’s confidence doubled; after all, his strength was a bit more powerful, and this was the advantage!

Just as he was about to twist the noodle stall boss’s wrist, suddenly, all the resisting force was withdrawn, and Chen Fengshi snapped the noodle stall boss’s right wrist just like that!

However, Chen Fengshi secretly cried out that it was bad!

The noodle stall boss couldn’t win the contest of strength, so he directly gave up the confrontation of power, not hesitating to break his wrist, just so that—swinging his fist could smash into Chen Fengshi’s temple during that time!

It was too late to dodge this blow; Chen Fengshi could only turn his head to avoid it, barely dodging the vital spot, but the fist swept across his face, and the strong impact shook him until his vision went black for a moment.

Without thinking too much, he scooped Little An up by the waist with one hand, and kicked out with one foot at the same time!

This counterattack kick hit right on target, directly kicking the noodle stall boss to fly backward, while Chen Fengshi also used the reaction force to float out holding Little An.

After a momentary gap, he got a gap to recover, and the scene returned to his vision.

Only then did he see that Little An was like a vegetative person, allowing him to hold her horizontally, with no reaction at all.

“Wake up! Wake up!” Chen Fengshi didn’t dare to shout her name, but whether shouting or shaking, Little An had no reaction.

After the noodle stall boss steadied himself, he looked at Chen Fengshi with a look of disgust on his face. “We were having such a nice chat! But why are you demons and monsters? You pretend to be human, do you think I don’t know? Falling into the hands of me, someone who has cultivated the great magic of subduing demons and eliminating monsters since childhood, can be considered your just deserts!”

What else could Chen Fengshi say? It was obvious that this noodle stall boss most likely had Illusory Memory, and he believed that the incredibly strong power brought by his Fungal Demon Parasite came from cultivating some mystical skills. And for people who possessed the Power of Life, he saw them as demons and monsters.

Between the two of them, who was right and who was evil, it was impossible to clarify by arguing.

Chen Fengshi just wanted to quickly deal with him, but—he noticed that there were many red mist threads moving towards them in the surroundings, and Little An had inexplicably lost her perception. And the combat power of this noodle stall boss was astonishing; he had no confidence at all that he could defeat him quickly.

But most importantly, the red mist threads were already connected, which meant their information had already been spread out, and now there was no point in blocking the information transmission.

Chen Fengshi held Little An, turned around, and ran towards the Black Wild Horse parked by the road. Fortunately, the windshield was gone, so he directly threw Little An into the car, jumped into the driver’s seat himself, and directly started the ignition.

When the noodle stall boss chased to the roadside, the car had already rushed out.

Chen Fengshi saw from the rearview mirror that the noodle stall boss was not chasing, just standing by the road, looking in the direction their car drove away.

Turning past an intersection, there was a red light.

Chen Fengshi stopped, and only then did he have time to hold Little An and sit her properly in the passenger seat, fastened her seat belt, and then pushed, shook, and shouted at her, but she was still like a living dead, eyes open, blank, with no reaction at all.

Chen Fengshi paid attention to his surroundings, afraid that the noodle stall boss would suddenly rush out, and also noticed the red mist threads approaching in the surrounding sky, but it seemed that there was no imminent danger.

But he knew clearly in his heart that he and Little An were already in great danger! It could even be said that it was equivalent to being sentenced to death!

Escape? Where could they escape to?

Chen Fengshi looked in the direction where the red threads in the sky disappeared, and still remembered what Little An said in the recorded science popularization: there was a limit to the effective connection distance between the Fungal Demon Main Body and the Parasite.

The light at the intersection turned green, and he directly burned rubber and shot out.

He didn’t know if controlling traffic lights in movies was true or false, but he remembered hearing before that traffic police controlled them remotely at intersections. Anyway, the faster they ran, the better.

Chen Fengshi drove at full speed in the opposite direction of the red mist thread connection, and kept driving until he couldn’t see the red mist threads in the sky when he looked back, then he detoured and headed in the direction of the red mist thread connection.

He couldn’t figure out what the situation with the noodle stall boss was, and Little An, who might know the situation, was unconscious again. But Little An at least still had breathing, and didn’t look like she was in life-threatening danger, at least not to an imminent degree.

Chen Fengshi really wanted to take her to the hospital for a checkup, but he felt that now was not the time to go to the hospital!

It was not dawn yet, and many departments’ functions were not fully operating.

After dawn, they might be completely finished, doomed with no chance at all.

Before dawn, he felt he had to do something!

Of course, what Chen Fengshi was thinking was not to do something to Little An in her living dead state… although when he paid attention to her condition, his eyes would involuntarily linger on the peaks on her body and her delicate face for an extra zero point zero few seconds.

Chen Fengshi pondered whether he should seek help from his companions, but Little An’s phone didn’t have a fingerprint lock and could only be unlocked with a password.

In this way, he could only rely on his own judgment.

The car sped on the road; Chen Fengshi felt he was driving too fast. Fortunately, apart from occasionally encountering taxis, he hadn’t seen any other cars on the road, which made it stress-free for him as a novice driver to drive fast.

“Xiayueyuan… go there!”

Chen Fengshi was surprised and delighted, turned his head and saw Little An panting, her arm trying very hard to lift up. “What’s your situation?”

“Fungal Demon Main Body type Demon General.” Little An propped herself up on the seat and sat up straight. As she took deep breaths, and the red mist on her body turned into golden mist, her body’s motor ability quickly recovered. She moved her hands and feet in surprise, and said: “The Golden Power of Life’s resistance to the Fungal Demon is shockingly strong.”

“Is this the reason why you suddenly turned into a vegetative person, and I had no negative reaction?” Chen Fengshi was very curious about what strange methods that so-called Fungal Demon Main Body type Demon General had used at that time.

“The Fungal Demon Main Body possesses the ability to control the activity of various microorganisms, and can directly interfere with the various fungi coexisting on living things.” Little An explained simply, so that Chen Fengshi could understand and just have a basic concept.

“Is the noodle stall boss the Main Body?”

“The connection distance between the Fungal Demon Main Body and the Parasite is limited. In order to extend control power and for their own safety, mature Fungal Demon Main Bodies will breed new Main Bodies, functioning like signal stations to expand the control range. Among the Main Bodies acting as signal stations, there is a type that exists entirely for combat, which we call Semi-Main Body type Demon General.” Little An had recovered to normal by now, so the golden mist on her body returned to its original red mist state.

At this time, Chen Fengshi drove the car into the underground parking lot of Xiayueyuan, and parked next to a white Wild Horse on the second floor as Little An prompted.

Little An casually stole a car cover from a nearby car, covered the Black Wild Horse with it, and then opened the door of the white Wild Horse, beckoning Chen Fengshi to get in.

Changing cars, this was very logical!

But why were they the same model of car?

“How much do you like this car?”

“This one is mine. My best friend likes to buy the same things, but my interest in Wild Horses is just average.” Little An’s explanation made Chen Fengshi understand, and he couldn’t help but imagine the expression on her best friend’s face when she saw the black Wild Horse with no windshield and a rattling dashboard.

However, he didn’t need to guess.

While Little An was driving, she sent a voice message to her best friend. “Little White, I need it urgently, Little Black is left there, the car cover is from the XXXXX car.”

Little An’s best friend didn’t reply for a long time; it was so late, she was probably asleep. The surprise of the Black Wild Horse would probably be experienced by her in the morning.

The car drove very fast, always on the edge of speeding.

Little An’s expression was always very grave.

She suddenly said: “I didn’t expect that we would be finished together.”

“…We have to do something, right? Even a cornered beast knows how to struggle. If we kill the Fungal Demon Main Body before dawn, relying on your skills, we might still have a way to live, right?” Chen Fengshi couldn’t predict the control power of this Fungal Demon Main Body, but he felt that no matter what, this was the only thing they could do now.

That was why he ran towards the direction of the Fungal Demon Main Body, even though it was very likely a dangerous trap, or even walking right into a net, but he had to do this, and could only do this!

“Your decisiveness is worthy of appreciation.” A smile hung on the corner of Little An’s mouth as she slowly took a deep breath, and then gently and slowly exhaled.

So she was nervous too.

Little An unlocked her phone with one hand and dialed a number. It connected quickly, and the voice on the other end sounded sleepy, with the tone of someone woken up by a call and forced to be awake. “My Queen, I wasn’t sleeping!”

Even at a time like this, Chen Fengshi couldn’t help but laugh out loud. What a cute girl… such an obvious guilty conscience!

“Canyue, which day on your night shift do you not sleep? I don’t have time to talk about you today—hurry up and get to work, I’m exposed.” Little An said as she switched to the camera, took a click of Chen Fengshi, and sent it over. “Ran into a Semi-Main Body Demon General with this unlucky guy.”

“Got it!” That girl seemed full of fighting spirit, but she once again revealed her scatterbrained nature; at a time like this, she actually agreed with a cheerful leap, completely forgetting that she should worry about her boss a little! “Location locked, informants in the district have been mass-messaged.”