Chapter 84: What Did They Go Through to Give Rise to Such a Desire?
Soon, Cha Hyun-soo arrived at the stairwell and happened to meet Pyeon Sang-wook, who was coming downstairs.
Seeing the other person stepping in blood, Cha Hyun-soo asked again, "Did you see a strange woman just now?"
Pyeon Sang-wook's eyes held some confusion; he didn't understand what Cha Hyun-soo was saying. Suddenly, Cha Hyun-soo felt his vision go black, and he immediately fainted in front of Pyeon Sang-wook.
"Take him back to his room," Xia Shang walked out from around the corner of the stairwell.
"The blood on the ground?" Pyeon Sang-wook lifted his foot and stepped on the blood on the ground with his leather shoe.
"Who knows? Maybe someone accidentally cut their hand," Xia Shang smiled, as if completely unconcerned about the blood on the ground.
Pyeon Sang-wook didn't speak. He silently helped up the unconscious Cha Hyun-soo, supporting him and taking him to his room.
Meanwhile, Yoon Ji-su, who was practicing singing, suddenly heard someone violently banging on her room door. She thought her music was too loud and was disturbing the neighbors, so a neighbor had come to complain.
"Damn it, I shouldn't have played for so long," she muttered, wondering how she would explain to the neighbor later.
Yoon Ji-su came to the door and explained rather guiltily, "Sorry, I usually get more inspiration at night. I'm really sorry for disturbing you. I'll try to be more careful."
While she was speaking, she saw through the intercom screen that a woman was standing outside her door. The woman's face had several festering scars, and her skin looked like tree bark, appearing somewhat creepy. At the same time, she kept shouting that she was so hungry.
"Your face? Are you injured?" Yoon Ji-su asked with concern.
But in the next second, the hungry woman began violently banging on the door. Yoon Ji-su saw with her own eyes as her room door dented inwards. So she quickly said, "I'll be more careful in the future. I've already apologized, you're going too far."
But the woman outside didn't pay her any attention and continued to forcefully hit the iron door. As the denting got worse and worse, it looked like the door was about to be smashed open.
Yoon Ji-su was so scared by her violent actions that she kept backing away. Inadvertently, she saw the woman on the intercom screen. Her face twisted and deformed, and she opened her mouth, revealing relatively sharp teeth. The hungry woman frantically banged on the iron door, her eyeballs almost completely bloodshot.
Watching her room door about to be smashed, the terrified Yoon Ji-su plopped down on the ground.
She looked around, picked up a baseball bat from the side, stood up, and took a defensive stance.
"Damn it, is this necessary?" Yoon Ji-su's breathing clearly became rapid. She repeatedly tightened her grip on the baseball bat and slowly approached the room door.
But just then, the banging sound outside the door came to an abrupt halt. The woman who had been on the screen also disappeared.
"Ran pretty fast," Xia Shang and Pyeon Sang-wook went upstairs together and naturally saw the scene just now.
"Why do I feel like you scared her away?" Pyeon Sang-wook walked to Yoon Ji-su's door.
When his burned face appeared on the screen, it immediately gave Yoon Ji-su, who was staring at the screen, a big scare.
"Must be an illusion," Xia Shang answered casually.
After Yoon Ji-su saw what the two looked like, she couldn't help but sigh in relief. Although that uncle looked a bit scary, the male doctor beside him had a slight smile on his lips and looked well-dressed and gentle. He shouldn't be a bad person.
Then, she cautiously opened the room door.
"Who are you?"
"Xia Shang, I live in room 1419. This is Pyeon Sang-wook, also a resident of this apartment," Xia Shang introduced himself to her.
"I'm Yoon Ji-su. Please take care of me," Yoon Ji-su bowed quickly to the two of them, holding the baseball bat.
Then she said there was a woman who had been knocking on her room door with a face full of blood just now. Saying this, she glanced outside the door and saw that the glass window at the end of the corridor had a big hole in it. "She didn't jump down from there, did she?"
Bang! Pyeon Sang-wook punched the door, directly leaving a fist print. Looking at the mark on it, he said, "That woman wasn't knocking on the door, she was hitting it."
"Speaking of which, the quality of this apartment's iron door isn't great. Living in a place like this really doesn't feel safe," Xia Shang said, putting his hand on the iron door. When he moved his hand away, a clear palm print was left on the iron door.
The fact proves that the iron door of Green Home Apartment was just a thin layer of sheet metal, seemingly filled with something like foam inside.
On the other side.
Lee Eun-hyeok was preparing to go out to work. He is Lee Eun-yu's brother, the brother of the girl dancing on the rooftop. After their usual bickering with his sister, he left the room. He is eighteen years old this year and currently works part-time as a tutor. Since he needs to go to school during the day, he could only go out at night.
But after going downstairs, he found that the apartment's main door was locked, and The Security Guard responsible for the main door was nowhere to be seen.
At this time, the residents planning to go out were constantly complaining.
While Lee Eun-hyeok was waiting for the door to open, Seo Yi-kyung, who was stunningly beautiful with a hint of heroism, asked Lee Eun-hyeok if his mobile phone had a signal. Seo Yi-kyung is a former firefighter from the special forces. She wore a ponytail and looked neat and capable.
Lee Eun-hyeok took out his mobile phone and tried, but found that his own mobile phone also had no signal.
From Seo Yi-kyung's words, Lee Eun-hyeok learned that not only the apartment's front door and back door, but even the parking lot entrance were locked. It can be said that everyone is now trapped inside the apartment and can't get out.
"Hey! Hey! Is anyone in there? Are you trying to ruin everyone's business, you damn idiot?" A group of people gathered in front of the Security Office, constantly banging on the Security Office's glass.
One of the uncles looked inside through the crack in the door. He was Kim Seok-hyun, the owner of the apartment supermarket. Now that the door was locked, goods couldn't come in.
Just then, Xia Shang and the two others came downstairs and happened to see Lee Eun-hyeok smash open the lock in front of the Security Office door with a hard object.
"What's going on? Why are people all blocked here?" Yoon Ji-su asked curiously.
"Isn't it obvious? The apartment's main door is locked."
Xia Shang gestured towards the direction of the iron door.
After the Security Office door was opened, Seo Yi-kyung walked in and picked up the landline phone on the table. However, she quickly found that she couldn't make a phone call at all. It seemed like the entire apartment had no signal. Fortunately, at this moment, supermarket owner Kim Seok-hyun found the switch for the main door in the Security Office.
Just as he was about to press the switch button, everyone found that a very tall strange person was standing outside the apartment's iron door.
The strange person's height was at least close to three meters, and his mouth was full of blood.
"Woof woof woof!!" A small dog in an auntie's arms seemed to sense danger and kept barking at the strange person.
"Close the door," Lee Eun-hyeok beside him said calmly.
While everyone was still wondering why the other person looked like that, Xia Shang instead took two steps forward. Seeing Xia Shang step forward, Yoon Ji-su quickly said, "That guy looks like he's not quite normal. Don't get too close."
"Understood." After coming within the monster's analysis range, Xia Shang used his analysis ability on the strange person.
Before he could analyze successfully, that strange person's jaw suddenly split downwards. His crimson tongue instantly struck the glass door. The part of the glass that was struck immediately spread out spiderweb-like cracks and made a cracking sound.
Everyone was scared and kept backing away. Lee Eun-hyeok even roared loudly, "Quickly close the rolling iron door!"
Unfortunately, it was too late. The strange person swayed his tongue like a tentacle, smashed through the glass door with his head, and walked towards everyone.
Everyone screamed in succession. Some people even froze in place, their limbs feeling like they were filled with lead, unable to move.
The next moment, the strange person spat out his scarlet tongue. A tongue over ten meters long, dripping with blood, twisted among the crowd, instantly pierced through a resident's body, and lifted them up.
"Run! Everyone run!" Many people scrambled and crawled away.
Xia Shang could clearly see that the tongue monster was constantly sucking the deceased's blood. During this process, the tongue monster didn't move.
"Attack speed is good. Unfortunately, the attack method is singular, and the flaws are too obvious," Xia Shang analyzed softly.
[Analysis completed]
[Talent Skill: Bloody Long Tongue]
[Fusion Condition: Kill the Complete Form Tongue Monster]
[After Fusion, the Player will develop a Desire to suck, craving the blood from humans or Monsters. At the same time, the Player's mouth will undergo mutation. When the Player's sanity cannot overcome the Hunger Desire, the Player will completely mutate into a Monster.
In addition, this Talent has certain growth potential. As long as the Desire is satisfied, by constantly absorbing blood from humans or Monsters, the Player's tongue will constantly grow as they suck blood. Friendly reminder: During this process, the Player's Desire will also gradually increase, but when the Player overcomes the Desire, this Talent will no longer have growth potential.]
"This desire is really strange." Xia Shang was very curious what the other party went through to give rise to such a desire?
Of course, Xia Shang had no intention of fusion regarding the tongue monster's innate ability.
Fusing this ability would only waste his time. You know, this place isn't like The Boys, where you can speed up the fusion speed of abilities through Compound V.
So the choice of each ability must be made carefully.
Besides, he could also imitate the tongue monster's attack methods through transformation and could even extend multiple tongues, it's just unnecessary. The flaws are too obvious. Once the tongue is cut off, if it can't be reattached in time, he would essentially lose a large amount of flesh and blood.
Besides Xia Shang, only Pyeon Sang-wook and Lee Eun-hyeok's expressions didn't change much.
Not long after, the tongue monster completely sucked dry the blood from its prey's body. After flinging the dry corpse away, it set its target on Xia Shang, who was closest to it.
He saw a tongue over ten meters long, carrying a foul stench, attack Xia Shang.
Yoon Ji-su was so scared by the sight that she covered her mouth.
Pyeon Sang-wook beside her sharply snatched the baseball bat from her hand, preparing to help.
(End of Chapter)