Chapter 17 All Shadows

Until the Spider Ghost discovered that the cocoon was empty, and then someone stood behind her, disrespectfully tapping her head with something like a knife sheath.

The Spider Ghost's two twisted arms remained in a posture of clinging to the cocoon, her head rotating 180 degrees to look behind her, colliding directly with Wu, who was tilting his head.

In that moment of eye contact, the whole world fell silent.

With her current brain capacity, the Spider Ghost couldn't comprehend how the scene before her had unfolded. She stared at Wu for a few moments, then turned her head back to look at the meticulously woven cocoon, her eyes narrowed into slits, filled with confusion.

When she turned to look at Wu again, the latter slowly inhaled, then nodded sincerely at the Spider Ghost, as if advising her to accept reality as soon as possible.

This was all real, not an illusion.

She wasn't crazy.

After confirming this, the Spider Ghost was both shocked and enraged. Her body tensed, and sharp claws grew from her limbs at a visible speed. Her already ugly and bloated face became even more distorted.

The corners of her mouth tore open, revealing rows of backward-pointing, dagger-like teeth, and she pounced on Wu.

The bones in her entire body shifted, her joints reversed, and her limbs stretched out in a bizarre manner, opening wide in mid-air in the shape of a large character, seemingly intending to embrace Wu with her limbs and then tear him apart.

After feeling that she had grabbed her target, the Spider Ghost's limbs wrapped tightly around Wu's body like an octopus. The sharp claws at the ends dug into his flesh to prevent the prey from escaping. Immediately afterward, a large number of black, grotesque markings resembling human faces appeared on her pale, festering skin. The human faces opened their mouths wide, frantically tearing at Wu's body.

The Spider Ghost raised her head, emitting a cry that was somewhere between excitement and misery, and then suddenly bit off half of Wu's head.

Not far away, Wu, who had witnessed all of this, revealed an expression of disappointment on his face.

Slowly, the hand holding his knife began to tremble, and his eyes were dominated by another emotion.

Even more strangely, Wu also had shadows, and not just one, but five!

Five shadows of different shapes!

The shadows presented a very peculiar shape, standing in a row, with strange ripples from time to time, as if they were alive, and could come out of the wall at any time after receiving some kind of instruction.

If Jiang Cheng were standing here, he would recognize a huge, furry scarecrow, a woman drenched in water and constantly dripping, a man holding a giant axe, and an abnormally tall, gaunt figure.

And standing in the middle of these four shadows was a shadow as burly as an iron tower.

Compared to the other four bizarre figures, the shadow was inconspicuous, but it had an indescribable feeling, as if the other four shadows were instinctively avoiding it. This shadow stood directly behind Wu.

And among the five shadows, it was the only unique dark red one, with blood-red cracks constantly flowing across it.

Correspondingly, red cracks also began to emerge on Wu's body, snaking beneath his pale skin, looking extremely terrifying.

Not far away, the Spider Ghost was now hugging and gnawing on an unremarkable large stone.

After realizing that the taste was wrong, the Spider Ghost finally broke free from the illusion.

Being tricked one after another, the Spider Ghost became even more violent, but this time, she stopped, her left arm, which had completely mutated, stabbed fiercely into her abdomen, and then a mobile phone wrapped in layers of silk threads was dug out.

It was a red mobile phone.

It was also impossible to see how the Spider Ghost was operating it, but in the next second, countless mobile phone ringtones suddenly rang out, echoing in the empty cave. The piercing ringtones became more and more urgent. At the same time, Wu was finally ready to strike.

What he needed was a prey in this state: violent, resentful, desperate… They were originally products of despair, completing each other's redemption through mutual devouring.

His way of helping the other party to be liberated was to devour them, to make them a part of himself, so that they would never fall into despair again.

Amidst the ringing of the mobile phones, the Spider Ghost showed her strongest side.

A "rustling" sound came from outside the cave, the sound getting closer and closer, as if countless spiders were crawling on the rock walls.

The corners of Wu's mouth turned up slightly, and the five shadows also trembled with excitement. Wu suppressed the killing intent in his heart, intending to let the prey show everything she possessed before she died.

It had nothing to do with respect or anything. He just purely liked it this way, letting his opponent fully display the power they possessed, and then watching how he took away everything that originally belonged to her.

Sure enough, countless shadows poured in like a tide, overlapping each other, but in front of the defenseless Wu, they split into two streams. Wu watched the shadows flood towards the Spider Ghost, merging into the Spider Ghost's back one by one.

The Spider Ghost, who originally had no shadow, now also had a shadow. Moreover, as the shadow continued to pour in, the Spider Ghost's shadow grew stronger, completely merging into a monster composed of various limbs.

Finally, the Spider Ghost also gradually retreated, merging into her own shadow.

Only then did Wu realize that this shadow monster resembled a giant spider, and the Spider Ghost, which had merged in the end, just formed the head of the giant spider.

The shadow monster waved hundreds of arms, accompanied by a shrill cry, and charged towards Wu.

Seeing the Spider Ghost summon all the shadows, Wu's last worries also disappeared.

Without the entanglement of the shadows, Jiang Cheng in the bar would be safe.

Wu threw the knife in his hand towards the Spider Ghost's head. A gleam of cold light flew at an extremely fast speed, but the shadow monster in its complete state had exploded in strength, and its speed had also increased more than a little. With a flexibility that was completely disproportionate to its huge size, it barely avoided the knife.

Just as the Spider Ghost tilted her head, about to attack Wu, who had lost his weapon, a face without expression suddenly flashed before her eyes.

Wu threw the trench coat he had taken off directly over the Spider Ghost's head. Taking advantage of the Spider Ghost's inability to break free, he raised his knife sheath and beat the Spider Ghost's head with a flurry of blows.

"Bang!"

"Bang, bang!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

It was unknown what material the trench coat was made of. No matter how hard the Spider Ghost tore at it, she couldn't tear it open. At first, the Spider Ghost could still control the limbs on her body to counterattack, but what came was an even more brutal beating. Before long, her head was dizzy, and in the end, she simply stopped resisting, letting him beat her, thinking that she wouldn't be beaten to death anyway, so she rushed out with her head covered, thinking of getting rid of Wu first.

Wu rode on the Spider Ghost's body, shook his sore left hand, exhaled, switched the knife sheath to his right hand, used his left hand to grab the Spider Ghost's neck, raised the knife sheath with his right hand, and began a new round of blows.

The huge spider monster wailed and charged around in the cave, smashing the rock walls. The space that originally belonged to the Spider Ghost began to collapse. More and more corpses squeezed out of the rock walls, the scene was very creepy.

"Damn it!" Fatty leaned against the wall, watching the swaying bar, and all around were the noisy sounds of wine glasses shattering on the ground. "What's going on? An…an earthquake?"

At this moment, 13 had already come down from Zhou Ze's back. He stared at the vicinity with a pale face and said weakly, "This space can't hold on any longer. This is not a bad thing, it means that the body of the guy who built this Sunset Land has suffered a heavy blow and is unable to maintain the stability here." Although 13's body was weak, he could still stand on his own.

"Did Wu succeed?" Fatty's face lit up, and he asked quickly.

"That's called success," Jiang Cheng corrected, "The villains are the only ones who succeed!"

"It's all the same, it's all the same, get the idea!" Fatty didn't care much about this kind of thing, anyway, it seemed that Wu had the upper hand, otherwise, all of them today would probably die here.

"You guys stop saying useless things, where…where are we going now?" Zhou Ze wasn't interested in their chat, mainly because he couldn't understand it. He had just dodged a falling lamp that almost hit his head. The scene inside the bar had also become more and more strange. Some places didn't change at all, and didn't even shake. The lamps, chairs, sofas, and tables were all intact, and even the wine in the glasses was calm without ripples.

But there were also some places that had completely collapsed, yes, collapsed!

The walls completely collapsed, the ground caved in, and things like tables and chairs, and even people shaped like sculptures, were twisted together by a strange force and dragged into the abyss.

"We'll hide in the places that haven't changed." 13 supported Fatty's arm and urged, "Go, those places belong to the original space of the bar and are not affected by that guy."

Everyone fled as fast as they could. This time, 13 declined Zhou Ze's kindness to carry him on his back, because Fatty had already picked up 13 and avoided the constantly falling lamps with extremely agile steps.

Zhou Ze vowed that he had never seen such a flexible fatty, not even in movies. Every part of his body seemed to have eyes, and his control over every muscle and bone in his body had reached an incredible level.

Fatty嫌弃Zhou Ze was moving too slowly, so he simply held 13 in one hand and picked up Zhou Ze in the other, like grabbing a chick, and took him to a safe place before putting him down.

Zhou Ze's mouth didn't close until he landed. His head was buzzing. He originally thought that only the fatty in front of him and he were the same kind of people, all ordinary people. He even had a feeling of sympathy for this fatty. As long as it was within his ability, he also wanted to help him survive.

But now it seemed that he was wrong, completely wrong.

He was the only trash here… No, ordinary person.

"What are you staring at me with that look?" Fatty noticed that Zhou Ze's gaze towards him was gradually developing in an unspeakable direction, and a chill suddenly rose in his heart. He thought he had met a pervert.

Zhou Ze was stunned for a moment, and then blurted out after reacting, "Brother Fatty, I just want to repay your life-saving grace!"

Fatty: "?!?!""

"Damn it, don't come over here, I'm telling you, firstly, I don't need you to repay me, secondly, I don't like this kind of thing, thirdly…" Fatty took a stance, raised his fist the size of a sandbag, and shook it, threatening, "

I've practiced with the doctor, if you disgust me again, I won't be polite!"

Zhou Ze didn't know whether to laugh or cry, what was all this mess, but before he could explain, a burst of chaotic footsteps approached them, followed by a piercing sound of air being torn apart.

Zhou Ze was pushed hard and fell to the ground.

When he climbed up and saw a delicate throwing knife stuck in the wall next to him, his whole body couldn't help but tremble a few times. The thin blade was still shaking slightly, which showed the force of this knife.

It was Jiang Cheng who pushed him. At the moment, at a distance of 7 or 8 meters away from them, a group of people gathered around. Most of these people were wearing bar staff uniforms, and there were also familiar faces of Jiang Cheng and Fatty.

That waiter he had met before.

"It's you!" Fatty was secretly vigilant. The throwing knife just now came from this person. At the moment, he was still pressing a throwing knife in his hand, the blade tip faintly flashing with cold light.

Standing in the center of these people was a stern-faced middle-aged man, obviously the leader of this group.

The middle-aged man stared at Jiang Cheng, with undisguised hatred flashing in his eyes. He whispered to the people around him, "Catch this kid, remember, the chief judge specifically ordered that this person must be alive! As for the others, it's best to catch them alive. If you can't catch them, you can't let them run away!"

"Understood!"

These people were obviously well-trained. They split into two waves as soon as they came up. One wave of 5 people rushed towards Jiang Cheng, while the other wave of people chased after Fatty and Zhou Ze.

The incident happened suddenly, and Jiang Cheng and the others were quickly dispersed. Jiang Cheng ran towards the back, while Fatty and the others ran in another direction. 13 was lying on Fatty's back, comforting him, "Don't worry, Wu will solve that guy. As long as we hold on until he comes out, these people are no match at all! It'll be soon!"

13 sighed inwardly. Fortunately, the chief judge didn't appear, otherwise these people wouldn't be able to hold on until Wu came out.

But in a sense, this was not good news. The chief judge didn't appear, which meant he should have something more important to do.

Now that No. 2 had lost contact, if the chief judge took the opportunity to sneak attack while Wu was fighting that guy, the consequences would be unimaginable.

With 13's understanding of the chief judge, this kind of thing was very likely to happen.

"Please, don't drop the ball at a critical moment!" 13 prayed in his heart that Wu could hold on. It was a very strange feeling. After all, not long ago, he was hoping that Wu would be rubbed on the ground by Nos. 1, 2, and 3.

Fatty was different from Jiang Cheng. He was completely unfamiliar with the location of the bar, so he was quickly blocked by the people who had surrounded him. Seeing a door behind him, Fatty hurriedly opened it, and the group ran in.

But after going in, they were blocked by another door not far away.

This was an iron door, with the doorknob wrapped several times with iron chains, and then locked with a very old-fashioned padlock.

The people chasing from behind slowed down when they saw this scene, and slowly pressed up with a sneer, "Run, why don't you run anymore? Aren't you running very fast?"

"I can open this lock, buy me some time!" 13 knelt in front of the door and began to pick the lock.

Someone rushed up immediately after seeing this scene, and Zhou Ze hardened his heart and decided to fight the other party.

But in the next second, a figure flashed before his eyes, and then the person who rushed up flew back twice as fast as before, until he hit the wall before stopping. His right face was swollen as if he had two goose eggs stuffed in it.