Chapter 26

“So enthusiastic…” Lu Xin exclaimed as he looked at the shadow opening its arms and lunging at him.

He was originally charging at a bizarre and swift speed. However, at this instant, he stopped and leaped backward, avoiding the attack of the first shadow. Then, he spun and pounced towards the other shadow.

He reached out towards the side of the dark shadow.

Just like how his sister pounced on her toys.

…

“What’s that?”

The red moon was in the sky, radiating a dull red glow.

Meanwhile, more than half of the lighting devices around the wild lake had been destroyed by the psyche monster. The others were also badly damaged. Without maintenance, they slowly went out one by one.

As the lights went out, the glow of the red moon became more intense.

In such lighting, perhaps their eyes were playing a trick on them, but many people saw a hazy picture.

They saw the mud break open when Lu Xin was about to reach the core of the corruption area. A blurry shadow flew out from the mud, and the red moon caused a tree silhouette to appear on the shadow. The tree had countless stems and people were growing like fruits on their ends.

Some were men, some women, some old and some young. They looked like unreal blurry shadows, but one could still make out their insane appearance. Their features were distorted and they waved their arms around like crazy. They looked like tentacles of human-shaped cannibalistic flowers.

And the way they caught people was to jump into mid-air and hug their prey.

Based on what happened to the three members of the investigation team, if they got hugged by the creatures, they might be controlled by them.

The scene and the consequences caused one’s skin to tingle.

However, Lu Xin met the shadows head-on. He dodged left and right, turned and twisted as though he wasn’t human. He managed to dodge and attack despite the attacks of the countless shadows. Then, he charged towards the prey.

As a shadow lunged, he moved backward before going forward again, swinging slightly to the left, just in time to avoid the shadow’s pull. Then, he grabbed the shadow’s shoulder and tore off its arm. The action did not stop. With a slight twist, he turned to the shadow’s right and ripped off its right leg when the shadow reached out to the left.

His movements were flexible and bizarre. He circled the shadow only for a second or two.

The shadow had already been torn apart by him.

And only then did the other shadows arrive. However, Lu Xin had already darted to the other shadow.

At this time, all the vines from the “tree” came towards him.

The “fruit” at the ends of the vines opened its arms to hug Lu Xin. From what happened to the three members of the investigation team, if he was hugged by these human-shaped fruits, it wasn’t difficult to predict the consequences. Moreover, the three members of the investigation team had protective clothing and were only temporarily restrained but not corrupted…

However, Lu Xin wasn’t wearing protective clothing.

Therefore, he and the strange tree were fighting for a slight time difference.

“If I’m held by these shadows first, I will be doomed. However, if these shadows are caught by my sister first, they will be doomed…

“These shadows seem like the method of attack by the tree…

“However, why does it seem like they give me a familiar feeling?”

“…”

In the midst of the crazy and twisted battle, Lu Xin completely handed over the battle to his sister.

The more dangerous the battle, the more he couldn’t compete with his sister. Otherwise, if he was slightly slow, he would be doomed.

However, after handing over the battle to his sister, he was already observing the battle nervously. He used all his might to analyze and look at the Psyche Monster. Meanwhile, he tried to figure out what secrets it hid.

…

The investigation team at the lake, Qin Ran, and the blockade personnel in the distance were all silent and dumbfounded looking at the scene in the lake.

Under the weird moonlight, they could barely see the endless stretching vines and the people growing out of the tips of the vines.

Simply seeing it gave them chills as the hair on their spine rose. It gave them a sense of madness.

All of them were holding weapons, but they didn’t know how to use them against the monster.

However, one person charged forward despite all of this, and without any weapons, he fought the monster.

In this dangerous and bizarre scene, they felt a “playful” element in Lu Xin’s body movements. It felt as if he was very excited and enjoyed the feeling when facing a terrifying monster…

It seemed that he was even crazier than the crazy monster!

…

“The personnel on the scene reported seeing the shadow of a monster that resembled a combination of tentacles and a humanoid object…

“These human-form shadows at the top of the vines are the people who went to seek revenge on Qin Ran before?

“Their corpses have all been destroyed, but their spiritual bodies were devoured by the monster and fused with it…

“So they only remember going to take revenge on Qin Ran…”

At this time, in the building of the special corruption cleanup department, Han Bing from the Information Analysis Team was still doing her intelligence analysis in a somewhat mechanical way despite having undergone high-intensity training. However, as she spoke, her voice still trembled uncontrollably.

“So, the people who went to take revenge on Qin Ran are only considered ‘corrupted bodies’, and this is the real form of the Psyche Monster!

“So…”

She looked in Chen Jing’s direction. “What is he doing?”

“He’s doing the cleanup of the corruption source by himself!”

Chen Jing looked at the somewhat blurry image on the screen, and the video she saw on the digital camera flashed across her mind.

She paused for a while before adding, “Using his own method!”

At a nearby location, Han Bing was evidently shocked.

However, Chen Jing’s calmness infected her and the other members of the information analysis team. Even though she was obviously shocked by the scene of Lu Xin fighting the monster alone, Chen Jing still forced herself to remain calm, without even a trace of panic on her face. Instead, while staring at the blurred image on the display, she ordered in a deep voice: “Continue the information analysis!”

“Yes!”

Han Bing also took a deep breath to suppress the panic in the heart and continued to analyze. “It has been determined that the target is a super-level psyche corruption source, but it’s not yet at the second level. It has taken the initiative to infect and attack the investigation team and it can be deduced to have a certain degree of consciousness. However, the entire process of pumping the lake and detection did not stimulate it, so it can be seen that its consciousness is not high and it’s simply an instinctive reaction…

Its stats are—

Level: D+

Corruption Level: Low

Threat level: Medium

Growth method: Capture and obtaining of the remaining psyche.”

“…”

Hesitating slightly, she continued, “However, if it grows by capturing and merging the remnants of another’s psyche, and it has some confusion with its consciousness, why did it behave…”

Before she finished her sentence, Chen Jing had figured it out. “Why did it stare at Qin Ran?”

“Because Qin Ran was avenged, which led to this incident of psyche corruption…”

“So as the first ‘avenger’, Cui Wang was the core?”

“Finding Cui Wang’s body is the way to truly solve the psyche corruption incident?”

“…”

Hearing Chen Jing’s analysis, Corporal Han Bing was stunned for a moment and added, “Or through this method, a direct solution?”