Chapter 41: Breaking Through

When the red mist thread above the noodle stall owner’s head extended out, the surrounding Parasites connected to him also started to move. Some got directly into his van, while more found their own ways to rush to Hongye at full speed.

The Demon Generals, who were scattered as relay stations at the limit distance of the Fungal Demon Main Body inside the Hongye building, all brought the Parasites that supplied them with energy and rushed toward Hongye…

The night suddenly became lively. Many people took up weapon s and flooded the streets. Police, and the hooligans and gangsters who opposed the police, were on the same street, heading in the same direction.

On the way, any visible surveillance cameras were blocked or destroyed.

The traffic on the road was endless, and the crowds on the streets moved like a tide, yet everyone was very quiet, abnormally quiet, eerily quiet! They just silently hurried in the same direction, without talking to each other, and without even any extra meeting of eyes.

The night in a large area outside had already been turned upside down. The footage recorded by the cameras on those roads was sent in real-time to Little An’s phone by the panicked Canyue.

“Queen, look, look outside, look outside quickly…” Canyue was so scared that she was talking incoherently. Such a massive scene was simply beyond imagination!

Even though she had known early on that if the Fungal Demon Main Body activated all the Parasites, the number would definitely be terrifying. However, when she actually saw it with her own eyes, the people who were originally just numbers covered the streets like a tide, and cars filled the wide roads, the visual impact still exceeded her imagination…

Little An took a hurried glance and had no time to look anymore.

But this one glance was already enough.

With so many people, even if each of them just spat, they could really drown them.

Were they rushing directly to the Fungal Demon Main Body to survive, or to seek death?

The answer would only be known when the result was revealed. But these situations confirmed one thing even more: if they did not come, if they could not solve the Fungal Demon Main Body as soon as possible, they would definitely die!

They rushed very fast in the stairwell, leaping up a whole flight of stairs at a time.

In a short while, they rushed up to the fourteenth floor.

Should this be better than the expected situation?

No, Chen Fengshi and Little An instead grew more and more terrified.

When they jumped up to the halfway point of the fourteenth floor, they were shocked to see the stairwell door on the fifteenth floor open. On more than half of the stairs, men, women, and children were pointing knives and guns at them. And behind them, where they came from, the sound of rapid footsteps was catching up.

It was not that they ran fast, nor was it that the Fungal Demon Parasites moved slowly. Rather, the Fungal Demon Main Body intentionally wanted to catch a turtle in a jar. It launched the attack just when they were halfway up, making it so that whether they chose to advance or retreat, it was a dead end!

When Chen Fengshi and Little An saw the ambushed gun muzzles on the fifteenth floor, the people holding the guns also pulled the triggers without hesitation!

And when Chen Fengshi and Little An saw this, they immediately retreated. Without waiting for the people behind to come up, they ran directly out of the stairwell door on the fourteenth floor.

The two of them stood with their backs against the walls on both sides of the fourteenth-floor stairwell door. They both took a deep breath and saw the nervousness revealed in each other’s eyes. Yes, they feared guns and bullets, but—precisely because of fear, they had to use every possible means to deal with it!

“In a moment, I will charge!” Chen Fengshi did not have time to say more. He knew he needed a little time. As long as he could get close to the crowd and buy a moment’s time, it was very likely to change this hopeless situation.

However, he had never dealt with guns before; his experience only came from games. At this moment, the only method he could think of was to rush into the range where guns were hard to attack.

Little An took a deep breath and nodded with a grave expression. Her serious attitude showed that her emotions at this moment were equally unpeaceful.

The crowd rushed out, and before the people rushed out, the gun muzzles poked out first.

When Chen Fengshi rushed out, the last thought he used to encourage himself was a sentence: ‘Bravery is the power to turn fear into facing it!’

When Chen Fengshi rushed out, he reached out and pushed the gun muzzles away one by one. His spread arms, along with his shoulders, blocked the crowd. With his tyrannical brute force pushing, the people who had just rushed out of the stairwell door involuntarily stepped back one after another. This retreat caused the people behind them to fall like a tide down the up and down stairs, crashing and tumbling in a string, just like human dominoes being pushed over.

Chen Fengshi could not see the muzzles of the two handguns when he rushed out. When he used his body to push and ram the crowd as much as possible, the two older men holding the guns pulled the triggers. As their bodies leaned back, the muzzles lost their aim. One shot hit the wall, and the other flew past Chen Fengshi’s face!

The instant burning sensation next to his face was not realized by the highly tense Chen Fengshi.

As for the sharp blades that hastily stabbed and slashed at him when he rammed into the crowd, he had even less time to pay attention to them.

His situation was very dangerous. Not being hit by a bullet when he rushed out was surviving the first dangerous moment; if he could not push the crowd back, then the gun muzzles behind would eventually shoot at him. This was the second danger.

But the most dangerous part was after both of these two steps succeeded.

Yes, how long would it take for the fallen crowd to get back up and attack him?

While pushing the crowd, Chen Fengshi let out a low roar. The strength of his body was released without reservation. Thus, the golden mist inside his skin quickly emerged. The red mist on the crowd’s bodies was instantly like encountering a black hole, continuously being sucked toward the golden mist, which in turn became the energy for the golden mist to continue expanding!

The tumbling people were trying hard to steady themselves, while Chen Fengshi, with his nerves tense, kept silently muttering, ‘Hurry, hurry, hurry up…’.

The expansion range of the golden mist grew larger and larger. Among the fallen crowd, some with knives got up and rushed over; some with guns were trying to stand up, their handguns struggling to aim at Chen Fengshi.

This was a race against time. If Chen Fengshi was shot before the expansion range of the golden mist was large enough, then his story would probably end here today.

But, was the golden mist covering enough area equal to being able to immediately exorcise the Fungal Demon?

The two with guns stood up, the muzzles in their hands pointing at Chen Fengshi—was he a step too slow?

Fortunately, Chen Fengshi’s brain did not short-circuit at this moment, so he quickly retreated, stepping back to the door, standing against the iron wall.

The guns fired, the sound spreading in the stairwell, exploding in the emptiness of the elevator shaft, making the walls seem to tremble.

Chen Fengshi took a deep breath, still unable to completely dispel the tension in his heart.

Fortunately, he dodged quickly. And now, he only hoped the golden mist would exorcise even faster! With the expansion range of the golden mist being sufficient, he certainly did not need to stand in the stairwell as a target. Retreating to dodge could at least buy a few seconds or even a dozen seconds of buffer, and at least there was still a chance to create more time using the same method.

However, it was obvious that when the Parasites rushed out again, they would definitely target his charging tactics. Using the same method would inevitably come with extremely high risks, far exceeding the risks just now!

Little An had been adjusting her breathing. Except for the brief moment when Chen Fengshi charged in, her gaze had never left him.

At this time, she finally understood where Chen Fengshi’s confidence came from. The golden mist absorbed the Fungal Demon and then expanded itself. Both its efficiency and expansion range were very astonishing! The power of the Golden Power of Life let her see the hope of fighting the Fungal Demon Main Body head-on, and also added a lot more chances of winning to their attack operation.

“I will buy you time!” Little An’s body was suddenly covered by red mist. Then, she reached into her clothes and took out two tiny black dots like dust. They were Fungal Demon Primordial Bodies. One was from the Fungal Demon Main Body that Chen Fengshi had eliminated, and the other’s origin was unknown.

There was not much time. More and more Parasites in the stairwell were standing up, and they could rush out for a second time at any moment!

Little An held her hands together in front of her as if holding something. The two Fungal Demon Primordial Bodies spun rapidly between her palms, releasing a circle of red mist.

This state was very much like the time she eliminated the illusory memory left by the Fungal Demon for Chen Fengshi at the school.

From the rapidly spinning Fungal Demon Primordial Bodies, red mist threads suddenly extended out one after another, swinging rapidly between Little An’s hands.

Suddenly, Little An opened her eyes. In those eyes, the black pupils turned blood-red—those rapidly swinging red mist threads suddenly grew wildly and extended out, instantly flying past the stairwell door, grouping in twos to connect themselves to the tops of the heads of those Fungal Demon Parasites who were just rushing out!

Thus, those Fungal Demon Parasites suddenly all seemed to freeze—not moving at all.

Those holding knives maintained their walking postures, not caring how tiring it was to stand on tiptoe; those swinging their knives had no fierce expressions on their faces, but their sight maintained its original focus without changing; those holding guns kept their aiming postures; those about to rush out were just one step away, yet they stopped there, their gazes fixed on the route moving from the middle toward the side of the door…

A fine layer of sweat oozed from Little An’s forehead. She urged, “The Fungal Demon Main Body is up to you. I will try to buy as much time as possible. I can hold on for at least three minutes!”

Chen Fengshi poked his head out to take a look, and then was shocked by the state of the Fungal Demon Parasites in the stairwell. This situation really looked a lot like time had stopped. But it was not that time had been stopped, because the sweat on many of the Fungal Demon Parasites was clearly in a flowing state.

Time had not been stopped; it was just that three red mist threads were simultaneously connected to the top of each Fungal Demon Parasite’s head, and two of them were connected to the two Fungal Demon Primordial Bodies in Little An’s palms.

Even without knowing the details, this situation was easy to guess. Little An used a similar connection method to block the Fungal Demon Main Body’s control over these Parasites. This was definitely not an easy task. The increasing sweat on Little An’s forehead was enough proof. Her red lips tightly closed, her speechless silence, her grave expression, and the abnormal state of her blood-red pupils were all enough to explain this.

There was no time to ask more, and no time for this and that. Chen Fengshi spent two seconds digesting the situation, then went over and scooped Little An up horizontally in his arms. Without allowing any explanation, he took steps and said, “Let’s go together. You don’t need to carry too much of a load at the same time. As long as you can ensure that the Parasites in the range of the stairs above and below won’t attack us, that’s enough!”