Tearing apart a composite monster and stomping it flat to prevent regeneration, You Han wiped some bloody dirt from her mask and looked grimly at the villa ahead.
This was the fifth villa she had to explore. If this was the source of the corruption, her strength might not be enough to retreat unharmed, but she had to go in, for she was a demon hunter.
Touching the position of her signal flare, she leaped several meters into the air and entered the villa through a window.
The situation inside the villa was the same as outside, covered everywhere with dark green, web-like substances, filled with disgusting green slime.
But compared to other villas, this one was strangely quiet.
Based on her experience, within the corruption zone, every place with people was a nest for different monsters, so it was impossible for there to be nothing here.
You Han slowly made her way from the second floor to the first. As the stairs creaked, she suddenly saw someone cooking in the direction of the kitchen.
So she slowly approached the kitchen and saw a monster with a vague feminine outline.
This monster was over three meters tall, with four slender and elegant arms, and eight long, fair, and slender legs arranged like octopus tentacles.
Each leg was perfect, and her bare feet on the ground gave her a magnificent presence.
Some people might have said one leg could be played with for eight years.
However, having these eight legs on a single body was somewhat terrifying.
The woman's body was still harmonious, but several terrifying tentacles, seemingly spliced together at random, grew from her back, sending shivers down one's spine.
At this moment, the female monster was cooking crayfish.
On one of the hideous tentacles behind her, a dense cluster of live crayfish grew, and these little creatures still seemed alive, snapping their claws and waving their limbs.
The front of the tail was a lobster head with claws, and the back was a lobster tail.
And she directly placed that tentacle on the frying pan and began cooking it.
After the lobsters were cooked, she removed the shells with an unchanged expression and put the meat into her mouth, chewing with a look of ecstasy.
As soon as she ate one, another one would regenerate on her tentacle.
This self-producing and self-consuming eerie scene made You Han's scalp tingle.
She had a feeling that this tall female monster was stronger than all the corrupted monsters in this villa area, at least disaster-level!
Although there were many monsters here, she had never encountered a disaster-level monster.
Therefore, this was highly likely to be the source of the corruption!
She placed her hand on the signal flare, preparing to sneak out and fire it, when her expression suddenly changed, and she jumped up abruptly.
And at the very moment she leaped, the floor where she had been standing was severed by a stream of dark green liquid!
She saw a demon hunter holding a long saber slowly appear before her, assuming an attacking stance.
She had seen this demon hunter before; it was one of the demon hunters who had infiltrated this villa area with her.
He was an assistant to Bing He, and through that long saber, he could unleash water-like blade energy.
But now, the demon hunter's eyes were hollow, and his body was covered with green patterns, clearly indicating that his consciousness was not under his own control.
The demon hunter held his long saber horizontally across his chest, with green water flow condensed on the blade. With a gentle swing, the water saber easily cut through everything in its path.
With just this one strike, You Han knew she was no match for this demon hunter.
Her gaze was solemn; this demon hunter's strength was clearly similar to hers. Even if he had hidden strength, the gap shouldn't be this large.
The situation was urgent, leaving her no time to think too much. She made a decisive move to abandon the fight and flee directly.
All she needed to do was send a signal to let everyone know the source was here.
However, she didn't see another demon hunter, whose face was covered with green patterns, aiming a sniper rifle at her...
...
"Should I go in or not... this is very likely the source, but if I don't go in, I'm really curious."
The appearance of the little boy brought an early end to Wen Wen's hesitation. When a soldier comes, block him; when water comes, cover it. The entire city was in crisis, and the anomaly here was so obvious. Even with danger, he had to brace himself and charge in.
He pretended to be surprised and ran to the villa, keeping the rune dagger hidden in his sleeve, ready to cut someone at any moment.
Upon entering the villa, Wen Wen found that including Zhou Nuo, there were four people in this family.
A middle-aged couple, who should be the heads of this family, and a young girl with a few freckles, who should be the little boy's sister.
"Uncle, my name is Zhou Nuo, what's yours?"
The little boy walked up to Wen Wen, looking up at him with pure innocence.
"Me? My name is Wu Wang," Wen Wen said, narrowing his eyes.
Although he didn't know what was wrong with this place, Wen Wen knew there was definitely something wrong, so he gave the name Wu Wang.
This way, if there were any malicious curses targeting his name, they would be transferred to Wu Wang.
"Uncle Wu Wang, will you play Ludo with me? It's tense and exciting." Zhou Nuo said hopefully to Wen Wen.
"Uh... no."
Accompanying women on shopping trips and playing with children were things Wen Wen disliked the most.
Zhou Nuo pouted, started crying, and clung to Wen Wen's arm, refusing to let go.
Wen Wen scratched his head, suppressing the urge to kick Zhou Nuo away, and said to the father: "Can you control your child? Stop bothering me."
"He's still a child, just play with him for a bit," the father said with a smile.
Wen Wen sneered: "I'm also a child, so it's okay for me to beat him, right?"
Perhaps it was the intimidating tone of Wen Wen that made Zhou Nuo let go and run off to play elsewhere.
If he hadn't let go, Wen Wen would have truly beaten the child.
Given the current state of the Jiu San residential area, if this Zhou Nuo were truly an ordinary child, Wen Wen would have to say his name backward.
After Zhou Nuo left, the atmosphere became much more harmonious.
Apart from Zhou Nuo sulking aside, the previous incident seemed to have never happened, and the attitude of the other three towards Wen Wen remained unchanged.
They were like stiff NPCs, stubbornly executing their character settings.
"Mr. Wu, your arrival today is good news for our family, so let's celebrate tonight," the father said to Wen Wen with a smile.
"What's there to celebrate?" Wen Wen asked confusedly.
"In a world like this, only by uniting can we survive. You came to our home today, and from now on, we are family."
After the father finished speaking, he turned back, and the family began preparing dinner.
"Celebrating in this situation... this family is indeed problematic."
The family of four became busy. Wen Wen pondered for a second, then sat on the sofa to observe the anomalies in the family.