The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

Chapter 220: Killing the 4th level monster instantly
Shen Ge went down several floors and finally arrived at the 37th floor. From this floor on, the corridor underwent tremendous changes.

The overall look is like it is in the intestine, with a thick layer of fat oil on both sides, and it also emits a faint black strange energy, which is very weird.

The corridor was narrower than the previous floors and the stench was even stronger. Strangely, apart from some dried blood stains, no corpses or rotten objects were found in the corridor and the surrounding rooms.

Shen Ge looked around but found nothing, so he planned to go up again through "collapse", but this time after he unfolded the invisible strange domain, he was attacked by the invisible strange energy that permeated the corridor, which increased the strange energy consumption of the unfolded domain several times.

In the past, Shen Ge would have had all his weird energy drained away at this moment, but now, on the one hand, the upper limit of his weird energy is no different from that of a 4th-level weird, and on the other hand, he has the red mist armor to back him up, not to mention the spirit apple and weird energy jar in his pocket.

Therefore, after his strange energy was drained, Shen Ge immediately bit a spiritual apple to restore his strange energy.

"Master, after you used your ability, we detected that the strange energy in the corridor was rapidly gathering in your direction, causing the failure of your ability to be used." Xiao Qi reminded.

Shen Ge asked: "Can you measure how much of the ghost energy in the corridor was consumed by me at that moment just now?"

"Master, less than one tenth."

Only one tenth?

Shen Ge originally planned to use the strange energy to offset and force a breakthrough to the next level, but this level of consumption was obviously a bit extravagant. After all, his strange energy needed to be quickly restored by consuming the spirit apple. At this time, it was basically confirmed that the hotel and the monster had merged, so he must be in the belly of the monster in the strange hotel.

In other words, these strange powers are like the blood flowing in the monster. Even if some of them are consumed through strange power offset, they will soon recover.

"Ahem. Shen. Tan." At this time, Hu Tinglan's voice suddenly sounded behind Shen Ge.

After Hu Tinglan woke up from her coma, she found herself tied up like a dumpling by something like strange tentacles. Fortunately, her neck could still move and she could barely see that she seemed to be "carried" by someone.

"Hey? Are you awake?" Shen Ge asked.

Hu Tinglan asked: "Detective Shen, where are we?"

"The hotel should have merged with the monster. We should be in the monster's stomach now. Currently... on the 37th floor of the hotel?" Shen Ge replied.

With the help of the flashlight beam that Shen Ge swept around, Hu Tinglan was able to see the situation in the corridor clearly. She almost fainted when she saw the wriggling flesh walls. At this moment, she suddenly remembered a report she had handled a few months ago, and quickly told Shen Ge the contents of the report.

The report was transmitted to the Special Initiatives Department three months after the strange disaster in South Korea. It was said that a serious strange incident had occurred in Europe. A high-rise building in the city center had undergone "alienation" and it rose from the ground like a stone giant.

The most terrifying thing was that after the building pulled up the mutated leg-like things from the ground, the ground of the entire block began to crack, and a large number of parasites that looked like corpses emerged from the ground.

The anti-spam department in Europe captured several "samples" and sent them to research departments in various countries for study.

The Great Celestial Empire also received a corpse, and through research it was found that the strange energy contained in the bodies of these parasites had a certain "fusion" effect.

The research institute at headquarters once tried to extract these fusion energies and fuse them with non-living things, but unfortunately all the experiments failed.

"Failed?" Shen Ge couldn't help but frowned when he heard this. After hearing what Hu Tinglan said, his suspicion of the headquarters deepened.

He felt that the experiment was not simply a failure. It was likely similar to previous human experiments, which were merely using failure as a cover and then continuing the research in secret.

So, the appearance of this haunted hotel is an experiment by the headquarters?
Are the top brass at the headquarters crazy enough to conduct experiments on their own territory, which is also the venue where the Asian Anti-Spectre Research Society is about to launch?
Shen Ge couldn't understand why the headquarters did this. In addition, he was trapped inside the strange hotel and didn't know that the headquarters was doing its best to suppress the spread of strange events outside. They even sent out the "Strange Energy Mechanical Force", one of the trump cards of the Special Measures Department, to blockade the city.

thump.

thump.

thump.

At this time, Shen Ge suddenly heard footsteps coming from the end of the corridor. It sounded like there were quite a few footsteps, so he asked Hu Tinglan to be quiet.

Hu Tinglan quickly shut up, but Shen Ge still took special precautions and asked Xiao Qi to wrap her with the Corrupted Blood Armor to ensure that she could breathe normally.

Then, Shen Ge entered the "invisible + silent" state and moved silently towards the end.

After Shen Ge walked to the end, he saw a group of "people" walking up the stairs at the corner. These people were wearing uniform combat uniforms, but their heads were gone, replaced by all kinds of disgusting parasitic and weird heads.

Judging from their attire, they should be anti-ghost warriors from the Dajing Special Policy Department. According to Hu Tinglan, there had been no anti-ghost troops stationed here before. Could it be that they came in after the strange incident happened?

It's a pity that these people were already dead. Shen Ge had no way to catch one to ask about the situation. He used the characteristics of "invisible + silent" to make way for these people. These parasites then walked through the corridor to the front, as if they were looking for something.

Shen Ge thought for a moment, then continued to follow them in his dual-characteristic state, wanting to see what these parasites were trying to do.

Shen Ge followed this group of parasites through the dim corridors, entered the stairwell and went up two floors, then went through the stairwell and went down two floors. Normally, they should still be on the 37th floor, but in fact, according to the floor number displayed in the stairwell, they had arrived at the 44th floor.

The situation in the overlapping strange space is complicated and the environment is distorted, so it is impossible to judge the direction according to normal thinking.

Just when Shen Ge was wondering what these parasites were doing here, they walked through the corridor and came to a spacious "room". Hanging from the ceiling in the center was a heart with a diameter of at least ten meters, and the outer surface of the heart was covered with a layer of rock.

Rocky Heart?

Shen Ge felt that this thing looked familiar, and seemed to be somewhat similar to the heart in the body of the new Ghost King No. 2 cultivated by "Tian Gan" in South Korea.

Could it be that this is really the work of God?

Shen Ge remembered that the interior of the "heart" was very large, and this rock heart was actually just a protective shell, and the real heart of the Ghost King was inside.

So he raised his hand, and the rotten blood tentacles attached to his arm stretched out, wrapped around the rock layer of the heart's outer shell, and pulled himself up. Soon, Shen Ge found a gap on the side of the rock heart, which was almost the same as the strange heart seen in Bangguo, a crack several meters wide, enough for him to squeeze in directly.

After entering the heart of the rock again, there were blood vessels everywhere, crisscrossing like dense vines in a primeval forest.

In the center is a huge black mist ball with strange energy, and the sound of "thump thump thump" heartbeat can be heard.

Just as Shen Ge was observing the heart, he saw the rock layer of the heart's outer shell slowly open, and blood vessels as thick as arms stretched out from it, wrapping around the parasites standing around, and then feeding them to the heart.

Every time the "heart" swallows a parasite, more blood threads will appear and wrap around the heart, "growing" a new rock layer.

"Is this to cultivate the parasites in the bodies of the Ghost Warriors and use them as nutrients to feed the hearts to cultivate the Ghost King?"

Shen Ge remembered that Fatty Xin had mentioned before that Tian Gan cultivated the two ghost kings of the Sakura Country and the Korean Country in this way.

Is it the Great Celestial Empire's turn this time?

So the location for creating Ghost King No. 3 was chosen to be Dajing?
Shen Ge felt that the possibility was very low. First of all, unless the headquarters and Tian Gan were in collusion, a time-consuming and resource-intensive plan like cultivating the Ghost King could not be implemented quietly in Dajing.

After all, the conspiracy between Sakura and the Demon King of South Korea had been planned for several years by the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, who gradually infiltrated their underground research base and implemented it step by step.

Although the headquarters has also made moves to absorb the Monster Association, as the "old boss" of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, they must be aware that the goal of those crazy people in the Twelve Zodiacs is to become the behind-the-scenes controllers of humanity.

Therefore, as long as the headquarters is not stupid, it is impossible to allow the Ghost King's plan to happen under their noses, not to mention that Dajing is the "heart" of the Great Celestial Empire!
Shen Ge felt that there were more and more mysteries, but no matter what, as long as he could get out of the strange hotel, he might be able to find the answer.

Incombustible realm!

Shen Ge used his ultimate move directly inside the "heart", trying to lower the ignition point of the "heart" through the influence of the strange domain.

However, as the fatal part of the ghost hotel, the strength of its ghost energy defense is naturally the greatest. After a round of ghost energy consumption, only a layer of rock skin of the heart is peeled off.

"Master, the monster seems to have noticed that you are sabotaging its heart, and seems to be dispatching manpower. A strong fluctuation of strange energy has been detected on the same floor." Xiao Qi reminded.

Shen Ge was not surprised at all that he would call for help when his "heart" was threatened. In the belly of the strange villa in Luhu Water City, he was surrounded by all kinds of weird things and parasites summoned by Liu Zongrui.

At that time, he only had the dual characteristics of "silent + invisible", so it was not easy for Liu Zongrui to find him, not to mention that he now has an additional characteristic of "invisible".

To be on the safe side, Shen Ge directly switched from dual characteristics to triple characteristics, and continued to try to expand the strange domain to find the weak point of the heart for a breakthrough.

At this time, the "rock" on the surface suddenly unfolded, and two strange men, nearly three meters tall, one fat and one thin, like the fat and thin monks, with only a layer of dark gray hairless skin left on their bodies, entered the heart.

"The strength of the strange power is level 4?" Shen Ge was extremely surprised when he saw the levels of the two monsters. What surprised him was not the strength of the monsters, but how monsters of this strength appeared in Dajing quietly?

You should know that the "promotion" of the weirdness has strict restrictions on the strength of the weird energy. Even if a level 3 weird swallows a level 4 weirdness, it cannot immediately transform into a level 4 weirdness. Instead, it needs to absorb and transform the weird energy into its own weird energy. Only after the strength of the weird energy is enhanced can the level 4 "transformation" occur.

In other words, unless the headquarters directed and acted it themselves, it would be impossible for two level 4 monsters to appear in the city quietly.

Obviously, in Shen Ge's eyes, even if the headquarters was not an accomplice in this strange incident, it was impossible for them to be completely unaware of this incident!
At this time, after the two level 4 monsters entered the "heart", they looked around for enemies that threatened the heart. However, Shen Ge was in the state of "invisible + silent + traceless". Not to mention the two of them who were also level 4 monsters, even the monsters and weirdos who were one or two levels higher might not be able to detect his existence.

In other words, in order to detect Shen Ge who was affected by the three characteristics, unless there was an 8th-level monster in the world four years later that could sink the Sakura Country with a stomp of its foot, and crush Shen Ge with the strength of his monster energy to break his characteristics, otherwise the only way to offset Shen Ge with monster energy would be to accelerate his consumption of monster energy.

Unfortunately, these two level 4 monsters couldn't even determine Shen Ge's approximate location and try to offset his strange energy.

Instead, Shen Ge took the initiative and came behind one of the monsters with a butcher knife in hand. He first used the invisible strange domain to consume the opponent's strange energy, then used the "heart-digging" skill to open a gap in the monster's vest, and then cut it open with the butcher knife, "assassinating" him without anyone noticing.

But after killing just this one level 4 monster, Shen Ge's evil power had already run out. He had to retreat to a corner and eat a spirit apple to recover before attacking the second monster.

[The host is brave and invincible, single-handedly kills level 4 weirdos, and is rewarded with system points x5000, level E recovery items x1, and level F recovery items x3. 】

[Weird corpses can be sold - value: 8000 system points. 】

"Yes."

If Shen Ge's "three assassination characteristics" cannot be cracked, he is equivalent to the "invincible" state, not to mention that the strength of a 4th-level monster is not as strong as that of a 4th-level weirdness.

Even though they have been completely alienated by the strange flesh and blood, lost consciousness and turned into complete monsters, their bodies are still human. After fusing with the strange flesh and blood, they cannot integrate the strange powers as perfectly as the strange ones. Therefore, neither their physical strength nor their special strange powers are as good as those of the same level of strange ones.

Of course, the physical strength of the level 4 monsters is such that even the strange rockets cannot penetrate them, but unfortunately they ran into Shen Ge... a mage who relies on the "magic penetration" skill to make a living.

The invisible strange domain "invalidates" the monster's greatest reliance by offsetting its strange energy, allowing it to directly penetrate the skin and attack the internal organs.

No matter how tough the skin of a level 4 monster is, its internal organs are still fragile.

This resulted in a level 4 monster that could easily wipe out a team of anti-ghosts at the headquarters, and was killed instantly without even seeing what Shen Ge looked like.

However, although Shen Ge killed two level 4 monsters in seconds, he did not expect that the "heart" immediately discovered that its antibodies were ineffective against Shen Ge and immediately entered defense mode.

All the black strange energy floating around the heart gathered around the heart and slowly wrapped it up. As the heart contracted, green corrosive liquid like magma squeezed out of the rock layer and rushed in all directions.

Shen Ge had seen the power of these corrosive liquids before in South Korea, so he didn't have time to think about it. With the help of the high mobility of the strange leather boots, he immediately returned along the original route and escaped from the heart layer.

(End of this chapter)