The suppressed footsteps gradually approached, but neither Wen Wen nor Chu Wei felt afraid. Instead, they found the other party too slow.
When the monster finally appeared before them, Chu Wei got a clear look at its face and gasped.
It was a tall, humanoid monster, entirely blue, with two horns on its head. It wore a leather skirt on its lower half and held a golden harpoon in its hand.
As for its face, Chu Wei couldn't discern it.
This was because its entire head was surrounded by dense centipedes, and its shoulders and back were also covered in centipedes embedded halfway into its body!
Chu Wei himself was somewhat afraid of this type of insect. The sight of so many centipedes gathered together made his scalp tingle, almost making him want to throw up his dinner.
"It seems one monster bug isn't enough to control a disaster-level monster, so more are needed."
Wen Wen glanced at the monster's limbs again and noticed marks of chains binding them.
It appeared this monster, like the pig-headed one before, had been controlled and then allowed to be parasitized by these strange bugs.
This made Wen Wen feel a touch of sadness. After all, it was a disaster-level monster, being controlled by bugs that could be crushed with a single step. It was probably worse than death.
"Pathetic..."
After dry heaving, Chu Wei pointed at the monster and asked, "Didn't you say there were over a hundred bugs in the entire Huashan City? Counting the monsters I killed earlier and this one, we're already close to a hundred!"
Wen Wen shrugged and said, "A hundred and some is still over a hundred, and nine hundred and ninety-nine is also over a hundred."
After dealing with this fellow, he had to figure out the maximum number of these bugs, as it might represent the number of disaster-level creatures that could appear and be parasitized!
"Let's test it first. Looking at the previous pig-headed one and other parasitized ordinary people, their brains were ruined, but their strength should have increased to some extent..."
With his mind made up, Wen Wen drew his cold-ice longsword and sent out a wave of sword energy.
The power of the sword energy was directly related to Wen Wen's strength. Currently, Wen Wen possessed the physique of a mid-tier disaster-level monster, so the sword energy he released was naturally an attack of mid-tier disaster level.
Everything in its path was cut by the sharp sword energy, then covered in frost. "Splitting gold and breaking jade" wouldn't even suffice to describe this sword energy.
The blue monster roared, its arm muscles bulging, and it smashed down on the cold-ice sword energy, scattering it. Its arm was covered in frost, but with a shake of its hand, the frost shattered, leaving only minor frostbite.
This was the difference in strength between mid-tier and low-tier disaster levels. Although low-tier could stall with their abilities for a while, a single attack from a mid-tier expert was equivalent to a full-power assault from a low-tier. Over time, there were virtually no low-tier disasters that could defeat mid-tier ones.
Seeing the blue monster block his attack, Wen Wen's eyes lit up. It wasn't because of its strength, but because of the huge harpoon in its hand.
The forging method of this harpoon was crude, but the metal was truly good stuff. Moreover, this harpoon was as thick as a child's arm and over two meters long, offering a generous quantity.
Wen Wen wanted to fashion the spikes of the golden sea urchin into spears, but the sea urchin spikes were only suitable for spear shafts. The spearhead's strength was still somewhat insufficient. If he could get this harpoon, Wen Wen would have enough materials to craft a sufficient number of long spears.
After blocking Wen Wen's attack, the monster, disregarding Wen Wen's gleaming eyes, hurled the harpoon. However, its target was not Wen Wen but Chu Wei, who was watching from the side.
The startled Chu Wei had no time to dodge and was directly pierced by the harpoon, pinned to the wall like a piece of cured meat.
"Don't you have a brain? It's not me attacking you!"
Chu Wei was furious. He walked off the harpoon, rubbing his stomach, and shouted indignantly.
But immediately, Chu Wei's expression froze, because a centipede was burrowing into his flesh through the wound made by the harpoon!
This centipede had been clinging to the harpoon earlier, and when the harpoon pierced Chu Wei, it created a channel for the bug to enter Chu Wei's body!
Chu Wei tried to pull the centipede out of his body, but by then, his body had already healed.
Feeling the bug squirming inside him, Chu Wei was on the verge of tears. He glared fiercely at the blue monster and said, "We have a score to settle. It's just death, I'll be a good man again in a few seconds."
With that, he detonated a bomb, blowing himself to smithereens. The bug inside him was also blown to bits.
Wen Wen said expressionlessly, "Ah Wei, you're dead again."
After his body reassembled, Chu Wei widened his eyes and glared furiously at the blue monster.
"I almost let a bug burrow into my body. I, Chu, absolutely will not tolerate such humiliation!"
He then said to Wen Wen, "This guy is mine. Don't interfere; I'm afraid I might accidentally injure you."
As soon as he finished speaking, dark, chaotic lines covered Chu Wei, instantly giving him an eerie appearance, like an abstract painting.
Wen Wen, standing beside Chu Wei, twitched his eyelids a few times and then moved further away. Just standing next to Chu Wei made Wen Wen feel extremely uncomfortable.
His appearance, which seemed to embody death itself, and his aura of deathly stillness and void made Wen Wen extremely curious about what his abilities entailed.
The dense centipedes, parasitizing the blue monster, let out shrieks. They vaguely sensed unease, but they didn't know where this unease originated.
Chu Wei swayed his body, seemingly adapting to something. Then, after a few simple movements, he charged towards the blue monster.
The blue monster beckoned with its arm, and the harpoon flew back into its hand. It repeated its previous maneuver, throwing the harpoon again, but this time Chu Wei skillfully dodged it and got behind the blue monster.
Then, like a shrew in a fight, he swung his hand towards the centipedes on the blue monster. His hand movements weren't fast, and they didn't seem to be imbued with any special energy, so the centipedes, with their sharp forelimbs and powerful mandibles, bit at Chu Wei.
But the moment they touched Chu Wei, their bodies turned grayish-white, then withered completely and fell off the blue monster!
Witnessing this bizarre scene, Wen Wen's face showed a look of apprehension. "Is it poison... No, it's not. Their life force has been drained!"
Up until now, Wen Wen had only felt Chu Wei's abilities were troublesome, but not dangerous.
This was because, even though he was immortal, his weak frontal combat power limited his strength.
But after Chu Wei transformed into this state, his strength and speed had reached the level expected of a normal assimilating esper. Furthermore, he could directly drain his opponents' life force!
In fact, Wen Wen strongly suspected that if he, with his mid-tier assimilation strength, were to be touched by Chu Wei, could he escape unscathed!