Chapter 189: Humanoid Monsters

As for Gong Xiao, she was likely the strongest person in the entire B-Building of 61 people, second only to Su Li. There was no reason to ask her to retreat to safety.

The wind and rain outside intensified. The monsters’ roars grew fiercer and more continuous, a thrilling and terrifying sound to the ears.

Everyone in the B-Building was focused on the situation outside. Excluding those responsible for logistics and chores, over forty people, primarily Level 6 Wielders, along with a few Level 7s and Level 5s, gathered in the corridors of the 31st, 32nd, and 33rd floors.

Of course, the building also housed Su Li, the only Level 8 Spiritual Source Wielder in the entire alliance.

Amidst the roars and shrieks of the various monsters, a colossal dark shadow suddenly rose from the water near the floating island.

Everyone’s vision was sharp. Despite the dark, rainy night, they clearly saw that the huge shadow rising from the water was a gigantic turtle.

The giant turtle was the size of a small house. Its shell was nearly ten meters long. It floated to the surface, its thick limbs extending and paddling toward their building.

Everyone stared at the giant turtle, their faces filled with astonishment.

They were not astonished by the gigantic turtle itself, but by the fact that a group of people was sitting and standing on its back, emerging from the water with the monster.

“Who are those guys?” Ding Longyun couldn’t help but shout. Everyone exchanged puzzled glances.

From their current vantage point, the figures all appeared to be human.

Suddenly, one of the figures on the turtle’s back let out a sharp cry.

The shriek was a mix of a human scream and a beast’s roar, unbearably piercing and chilling.

Following the shriek, the giant turtle’s speed suddenly accelerated.

The monsters gathered around the floating island scattered, seemingly fearing the giant turtle. They opened a path, and not a single monster dared to block the turtle’s advance.

Even the Spiritual Source Beasts that had gathered around the building either sank beneath the water or scattered, as if the building had suddenly become an ominous place they wished to avoid.

Soon, the giant turtle, carrying the group of figures on its back, closed in to within 100 meters of the building.

As the distance shortened, they finally saw the true appearance of the people on the turtle’s back.

They were indeed human, but distinctly different from normal people.

They looked human because they had human bodies and features. However, they had many grotesque differences.

Su Li saw one standing figure, no taller than 1.5 meters, whose face resembled a child’s, but whose exposed upper body was covered in dozens of fist-sized tumors. The tumors were dense and looked horrifying.

The child was looking toward the building, grinning mischievously. He was constantly scratching the tumors on his body, which seemed to itch. Many of the tumors were scratched open, oozing pus—a deeply repulsive sight.

Beside the child with the tumors stood a giant over two meters tall.

This giant was morbidly obese, weighing at least over 400 jin (approx. 440 pounds). His body was covered in rolls of fat. His eyes were completely obscured by the fat on his face.

Another person, by contrast, was skin and bones, as thin as a skeleton, standing on the turtle’s back like a living corpse.

The entire group of people sitting and standing on the giant turtle’s back were grotesquely deformed and bizarre-looking.

“Xuehui, can you tell what these people are?” The enemy was still too far away for Su Li’s “Peering Rune” to capture data. He could only rely on Xu Xuehui’s vision.

“Not human.”

Hearing Xu Xuehui’s reply, Su Li nodded slightly. He had already vaguely guessed the identity of this group. Xu Xuehui’s reply confirmed his suspicions.

“When they charge into the 30-meter range, attack immediately,” Su Li raised his voice, warning everyone.

“Understood!” Ding Longyun responded. People on the 32nd and 33rd floors also shouted their acknowledgment.

The giant turtle was fast, rapidly closing in on the building. The Spiritual Source Beasts that had been gathered around the building had almost all scattered. The rain was intensifying, and the wind howled through the deep night.

“Attack!” Su Li commanded.

With his order, various beams of light and projectiles immediately shot out from the 31st, 32nd, and 33rd floors, flying toward the giant turtle.

Ding Longyun opened his mouth and spat out an “Air Missile.”

Many people in the B-Building possessed long-range attack methods. They were the first to strike.

The Air Missile flew dozens of meters, then split into two: one striking the turtle’s head, the other striking the group of people on its back.

The giant turtle reacted swiftly, retracting its head. The missile aimed at its head struck the water instead, exploding with a “BOOM!” The missile aimed at the people was blocked by the obese giant.

The missile struck the giant’s fat-laden abdomen, sinking deep into the layers of fat. It exploded within the fat, creating a colossal, spherical explosion, but the fat managed to contain the blast.

Besides Ding Longyun, several others had similar remote attack abilities. One man could fire ice arrows, which shot thirty meters through the air toward the group on the turtle’s back.

Another man could condense Spiritual Source energy into a bomb and throw it. Although he could only launch one bomb at a time, and the speed was slower than Ding Longyun’s “Air Missile,” its pure explosive power was greater than the Air Missile’s.

Suddenly, the skeletal, dry man retracted his body, inhaled sharply, and his skin-and-bones body instantly swelled, expanding into a gigantic human sphere. He opened his mouth, which stretched almost to his ears, and let out a torrent of air.

The body that had expanded into a sphere quickly contracted back to its skeletal state. The air he spewed out instantly pulverized the incoming ice arrows and detonated the Spiritual Source bomb in mid-air. The wind torrent then surged toward the building, turning into several terrifying blades of wind that shot toward the 31st, 32nd, and 33rd floors, sweeping over the crowd.

The wind blades were incredibly powerful and swept across a wide area. Everyone scattered and ducked to avoid the attack.

“Hiss-hiss-hiss!” The sound of stone being cut rang out. Crisscrossing marks immediately appeared on the corridor walls. Window glass was instantly shattered.

By the time the crowd dodged the wind blade attack and stood up again, the giant turtle, carrying the grotesque humans, had closed in to within 20 meters of the building.

The child on the turtle’s back, who was less than 1.5 meters tall, grabbed two of the tumor-like growths on his body and violently ripped them off. He hurled the two pus-oozing tumors toward the 31st and 32nd floors.

Ding Longyun cursed. He never expected the tumors on the child to be weapons. He quickly opened his mouth and fired an “Air Missile.”

The Air Missile instantly split into two, striking the two tumors the child had thrown.

With a “BOOM,” the tumors and the Air Missile exploded simultaneously in mid-air, the destructive power astonishing.

Su Li’s chest moved, and the hilt of the Dragon Rhino Sword emerged. He gripped the hilt and drew the Dragon Rhino Sword.

He knew that the crowd’s long-range attacks were insufficient to stop the giant turtle and the grotesque figures on its back.

“Go down!” Su Li roared, leaping across the corridor and plunging into the strong wind and heavy rain outside, landing firmly on the raft floating below.

The water surface in front of the building was dotted with many rafts of varying sizes, all moored with ropes.

As Su Li commanded, Gong Xiao, Ding Longyun, Xu Haishui, Luo Jun, Bai Wenwei, Jin Sixing, and the others on the 32nd and 33rd floors leaped out of the building and onto the rafts below.

In the blink of an eye, over thirty people jumped out of the building—more than half the total B-Building population—the true elite force of the alliance.

Su Li did not want to bring the fight into the building. The Gold Eagle One B-Building was their new temporary base. If these grotesque humans entered and started fighting, the destruction would be immense, potentially jeopardizing the entire structure.

The best way was to block the giant turtle and the grotesque humans on its back outside the building.

The crowd had just leaped onto the rafts when the giant turtle, carrying the grotesque humans, charged toward them.

With the turtle’s speed and immense power, the rafts couldn’t stop it. They would be instantly shattered.

Su Li took a step forward to meet the charging turtle. He gripped the Dragon Rhino Sword with both hands and unleashed the “Dragon Rhino Slash” without hesitation.

The Dragon Rhino Sword transformed into a pure energy body, instantly extending to a colossal length. The powerful cleave, moving with irresistible force, shot toward the charging giant turtle.

The power was immense and unmatched.

(End of Chapter)