I Pursued My Scummy Ex’s White Moonlight – Chapter 109

The stairs of the Inpatient Department’s¹ second floor were densely covered with slimy moss, and scattered rhizomes clung everywhere. Su Wenwen and Luo Xi looked at each other and quickly used the walkie-talkie to notify the others.

After receiving a reply, the two of them went inside to investigate. Unlike the mother nest they had encountered before, the originally soft, flesh-like mucous membrane had become extremely thick. The originally spacious corridor could now barely allow one person to pass through.

Reaching out to touch it, it actually moved.

This feeling was like entering the abdomen of some kind of large creature; it was very strange.

Luo Xi extended a hand to Su Wenwen and said, “Stay close to me. This mother nest is clearly more mature than the one we met last time. We have to be extremely careful.”

Su Wenwen nodded, her ten fingers intertwining with Luo Xi’s, and then squeezed into the slimy passage. If it weren’t for wearing a thick and heavy cold-proof suit and a helmet, Su Wenwen would definitely have been disgusted to the point of vomiting, to say nothing of Luo Xi, who had mild mysophobia.

The two of them were like they were walking into an esophagus. They walked for quite a while before coming out of another opening, and here was another scene entirely. Stepping on the ground, their feet actually sank in by two centimeters. It was a sea of blood-red everywhere, and meatballs were hanging in mid-air.

Su Wenwen cut open a meatball, and only scattered bones fell out from inside, as if all the nutrients of the flesh and blood had been provided to the mother nest and digested.

Suddenly, tentacles from the ceiling attacked the two of them. Su Wenwen was already prepared; with a turn of her body, her dagger easily sliced it off.

But then, even more tentacles extended over from all directions, seeming to want to capture Su Wenwen and Luo Xi as nourishment.

Luo Xi’s mental power had reached a new height after her last coma. No matter how many tentacles there were, they could not get close to her.

Su Wenwen glanced over and confirmed that nothing would happen to Luo Xi, then switched her dagger for an iron awl. The scorching hot iron weapon spun and danced in her hand. The moment a tentacle touched it, it was either melted through or forcefully torn apart.

Before long, those tentacles all retracted. The two of them then followed the tentacles in pursuit. The tentacles retracted to a spacious area and then stopped.

Here, there was an opening on the left and one on the right. Su Wenwen had Luo Xi use her mental power to probe for the location of the pistil, but Luo Xi’s expression became grave. Just as she was about to ask what was wrong, she heard the low roars of zombies coming from the left opening.

Faceless zombies charged over one after another. Their originally extremely fast speed was slowed by several times under the intervention of Luo Xi’s mental power.

Su Wenwen blocked the entrance by herself, waiting to kill the zombies one by one as they came. The iron awl in her hand was constantly waving. Occasionally, when she failed to smash a zombie’s head in one hit, its neck would be twisted and broken by Luo Xi’s mental power.

The corpses gradually piled up.

But after a while, it became quiet inside the opening. Su Wenwen squinted her eyes and looked over. There was a blurry figure. She shone the flashlight beam inside and saw a brain-type zombie². However, it was different from the brain-type zombie she had seen last time. It had hands and feet, a slender body, and was topped with a huge head, like a big-headed doll³.

It stood before the opening, not approaching the two of them rashly, seemingly pondering something.

Just as Su Wenwen was about to take the initiative to attack, Luo Xi clutched her head and squatted down. She quickly retreated to Luo Xi’s side. Just as she was about to ask what was wrong, the scenery before her eyes suddenly changed into a sky of vast white fog. A sense of weightlessness made her fall from a height of ten thousand meters. She was so scared that she gripped the iron awl in her hand tightly, refraining from crying out.

It was actually a mental power zombie again. Just now, Luo Xi was clutching her head, so she must have been resisting the mental invasion, but Su Wenwen was completely unable to resist and was directly affected by the illusion.

She didn’t dare to move recklessly, afraid that just like last time, she would accidentally injure Luo Xi.

Su Wenwen remembered that she had an item to resist mental power and quickly called out in her mind: “System, hurry and use the item for me.”

【The item has already been used, but given that the zombie’s mental power level is too high, the item’s effect is in a nullified state.】

Damn it.

Su Wenwen looked down. Fortunately, below was an ocean. She put away the iron awl and got into a diving posture to enter the sea.

With a splash, she fell into the ocean, then slowly swam to the surface. The feeling of the water flowing over her hands was very real.

But the System panel showed that her health points were continuously dropping, indicating a state of blood loss. Yet, her body, as far as she could see, had no wounds, nor was there any stinging pain. It was obvious that she was affected by the mental power and just couldn’t see them.

【The Host has now fallen into a place similar to a digestive tract. Ulcerations have already appeared on the skin of your body.】

What, ulcerations?

She couldn’t just sit and wait for death.

She looked all around. The ocean was boundless, so she tried swimming in one direction. After swimming for a while, the System prompted her that she had already touched an obstacle.

Su Wenwen reached out her hand in confusion but couldn’t feel anything. It seemed the System was not affected and could act as her eyes.

【Host, a little to the left.】

【There is a protruding crossbeam ahead, lower your head.】

【This digestive tract is so long. Aiya, the Host’s hair has all been melted off. The Host must keep her head up as much as possible. Whatever you do, don’t sink down. If your head gets injured, the System won’t be able to save you either.】

Ahhh, being reminded like this by the System, Su Wenwen kept her head tilted back as much as possible. She had no idea what her body had become. If Luo Xi saw her, it would be just too much.

【Rest assured, Host, the villain is not nearby.】

Su Wenwen breathed a sigh of relief, but then she became a little worried about whether Luo Xi could defeat that zombie. After all, the System had also said that the zombie’s mental power was very strong.

She didn’t know how long she had been swimming. It seemed that the flow of time perceived in the illusion and the normally perceived flow of time had become different.

【Yes, so the Host must escape as quickly as possible. The System’s items are being consumed every minute.】

Su Wenwen accelerated her swimming speed.

Before long, she saw an island, which instantly made her feel overjoyed. She hurriedly swam over, but just as she was about to reach the shore, there was a wall blocking her way, making it impossible for her to get ashore.

She tried several times, but couldn’t swim past it.

“System, what do I do ah?”

【Host, forcibly break through the wall.】

So she was being blocked by a wall. Su Wenwen took out the iron awl again and stabbed forward with force. After repeating this action several times, the sea surface suddenly became turbulent, and a whirlpool appeared, sucking Su Wenwen in.

She desperately swam upwards, but still drifted along with the current. Fortunately, she drifted onto the shore. After her feet were on solid ground, the illusion before her eyes was also broken. She quickly looked down to check her condition.

Not only was her skin ulcerated, but even the cold-proof suit on her body had been melted into tatters, becoming a slimy paste sticking to her body, accompanied by a strong, stinging pain. On her entire body, only the spatial backpack was intact.

She quickly scraped off the filth from her body, took out water and a towel from the spatial backpack, wet it, and wiped her body. After cleaning for a long time, she finally cleaned her body, and the originally rotted skin was also healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After putting on a new cold-proof suit, Su Wenwen’s anxious heart finally settled. She sized up the surrounding soft walls, which were densely packed with tiny pores. She had thought some small things might crawl out and was worrying about whether she could handle it when the pores suddenly sprayed out a pungent gas.

Su Wenwen accidentally inhaled a mouthful, and the System panel showed that she was in a poisoned state and began to continuously lose health again.

Being poisoned was better than encountering small things. With her current abilities, dealing with a single large zombie was easier after all. For swarms of small things, it was area-of-effect special abilities like fire-type or mental power that had the advantage.

Su Wenwen ignored the poisonous gas and continued walking deeper inside. She stood at the end of the passage and looked down. Below was a huge stomach sac, and inside were many undigested animal skeletons and human bones, mixed with crimson liquid into a filthy blackish-red color.

Could it be that she had just fallen into this kind of place?

That’s too disgusting]!

That rotten stench still lingered around Su Wenwen. Every breath felt like eating a mouthful of shit⁴.

She shook her head and looked up. A huge black tumor grew on the ceiling. Densely packed, fine veins covered the tumor, connecting to the pores in the soft walls. The poisonous gas was being sprayed out from this tumor.

Su Wenwen gripped her dagger, covering it with her fire-type skill. The dagger turned completely red. She forcefully threw the dagger upwards. The dagger shot into the black tumor like a streak of bright red flowing light. The extremely high temperature cooked the surroundings, and the smooth soft walls turned outward like flower petals. The surrounding pores gradually stopped spraying.

However, Su Wenwen fell into another predicament. She didn’t know where she was, and there were no roads to take. If she retreated, she would have to go through the digestive tract. She really didn’t want to walk through the digestive tract; it was too disgusting, and she didn’t have many clean clothes left.

She could only forcibly break through the wall.

Su Wenwen randomly chose a spot and chiseled at the soft wall with the iron awl. Relying on her body’s strength, she forcibly tore off the chiseled-apart soft wall. Before long, she saw a door. She kicked it open with her foot and walked in.

This was a hospital room. Only a few soft walls extended in from the crack of the door, so it still retained the original appearance of a hospital room.

Su Wenwen walked towards the window. She was originally going to reach out and open it, but she caught a glimpse of Tang Yue downstairs talking to his teammates.

Opening her five senses to listen, it seemed that Tang Yue and his teammates were having a dispute.

“Wait a little longer.”

Tang Yue said: “What are we still waiting for? What if the mother nest matures? Wouldn’t that mean a zombie tide will really erupt?”

“But Team Leader Su and Team Leader Luo are still inside the corridor. Besides, the intelligence about the mother nest isn’t necessarily accurate. Let’s wait a bit longer.”

Tang Yue gave a cold laugh: “Wait? If the zombie tide really does erupt, will you take responsibility?”

Another person said: “Stop arguing. Let’s just wait a bit longer. What if we blow up the building and still can’t kill the mother nest.”

Blow up the building?

So Tang Yue wanted to blow himself and Luo Xi to death in here. Su Wenwen narrowed her eyes and used the walkie-talkie to contact Luo Xi on a private channel.

But she couldn’t get through. It seemed the signal was being interfered with inside the soft walls, which was why Tang Yue was urging everyone to quickly blow up the building.

Just at this moment, Tang Yue seemed to have become a little impatient. His crystal special ability suddenly activated. Before everyone could react, their ankles were locked by crystals that shot up from the ground, and the remote control in their hands was snatched away by Tang Yue in the same motion.

“What are you doing?” They were a little angry, but they also couldn’t break free from the hard crystals.

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