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

York and his companions thought they had grasped the "hunter's" strange habits, but now the harsh reality tells them that this is not the case!

What's most terrifying is that the aura they exude is far heavier, colder, and...bloodier than that of the previous "hunters"!
The fishy, ​​sweet smell in the air was now so strong it felt almost tangible!

Their massive bodies slowly slid out from the shadows of the ferns, revealing sections of their torsos covered in bony armor, resembling mobile fortresses, with a pair of sharp, spear-like bony spikes extending from each side of each section.

They move silently, their massive bodies crushing the ground without disturbing even a fallen leaf, like heavy ghosts.

One, two, three... a total of five bizarre creatures, like ancient behemoths, slowly approached the camp in a fan shape, their enormous mouths opening and closing, locking onto the terrified people in the camp.

The eerie pressure they exuded had reached the fifth level!
If York and the others choose to leave with Shen Ge and his group, with Shen Ge "escorting" them, these fifth-tier monsters will naturally be no match for them.

Unfortunately, for "ordinary people," the fifth level means seeing a special car that goes straight to the underworld!

"Damn it! It's a high-level anomaly! Quick! Light the fire! Throw all the torches over there! Climb the tree! Quick, climb the tree!" York instantly recognized these anomalies that had only appeared in the ancient murals and terrifying legends passed down orally in the tribe. They were high-level anomalies that even the "Statue of the Gods" could not expel!

York's eyes were bloodshot with rage, and he was filled with deep regret for not choosing to leave with Shen Ge. Otherwise, he wouldn't be in danger with Xiao Ya now.

However, the monster was already close, and it was too late to regret it now.

York gritted his teeth and told Xiaoya to retreat with the tribesmen. He charged towards the strange creatures, letting out a deafening roar, and at the same time, he ripped open the already tattered animal skin sleeve on his arm.

On his muscular right arm, a totem resembling a roaring bear, composed of eerie dark red patterns, suddenly appeared. The totem seemed to come alive, radiating a scorching and primal aura...

Then, the veins on his arm, like wriggling worms, burst through his skin with a "plop plop plop" sound, wrapping around his hand like vines.

This York is a strange guy!

If Shen Ge and Xiao Qi were here, they would be extremely surprised, because neither the Ghost Eye nor Xiao Qi's detection, nor Shen Ge's repeated scanning using the system in the Black Mountain Base, the Stone Forest Tribe, and even after entering this primeval jungle, could detect this strange man, York!

Such terrifying stealth ability is something even a seventh-tier monster cannot achieve. It's hard to imagine how York managed to do it, or perhaps... he's hiding the secret of the new type of monster from that fragmented world.

York's aura surged instantly, his eyes turned bloodshot, and he grabbed a huge hardwood spear with an unusually sharp tip, as thick as an adult's arm, and like a ferocious humanoid beast, he fiercely faced the largest "hunter" monster at the front.

York had no time to think about why the hunters, whom even the "Statue of the Gods" couldn't drive away, had appeared here. He could only risk his life to buy time for Xiaoya and the others to escape.

The campfire in the camp flickered so weakly in the vast shadows.

Five "hunters," like mobile fortresses, completely surrounded them, their massive bodies almost blocking all escape routes.

The cold, bony carapace reflected a ghostly light in the dim light. Its huge, scythe-like mouth opened and closed, dripping slime that corroded the ground with a sizzling sound, and the pungent, sweet stench was so strong it was suffocating.

"Roar--!"

York let out a roar that sounded inhuman, and the dark red bear totem on his right arm seemed to burst into flames, radiating a scorching, primal aura.

His muscles instantly swelled, faint red lines appeared on his skin, and his eyes were bloodshot, filled with violent power.

He charged out like a human cannonball, his huge hardwood spear tearing through the air with an unstoppable momentum, stabbing fiercely at the seam of the chest and abdomen of the largest "Hunter" at the front.

clang--! ! !
A deafening clang of metal clashing rang out, sparks flying everywhere!
The hardwood spear was wrapped with worm-like veins extending from York's arm, and with the help of these veins, the hardwood spear actually pierced through the thick bone armor.

Although it only pierced a small section, the fierce attack caused the "hunter" to let out a sharp, piercing screech, and its huge body swung violently.

"Now! Attack the seams and joints! We can't let it get through!" York roared, bracing himself against the spear to widen the wound.

The remaining tribal warriors who had stayed behind with York to stall for time also turned red with rage. They knew this was a moment of life or death, and they hurled their specially made oil torches at the "Hunter's" massive head and mouthparts. Although they could not cause any real damage, the flames and thick smoke somewhat interfered with the Hunter's perception.

Several tribal warriors charged forward fearlessly, using rudimentary weapons, and even their teeth and fists, to frantically attack the connection between the "Hunter's" leg joints and torso armor.

However, these are fifth-order strange creatures, how could a mortal body break through their defenses?
puff-

puff!

In an instant, blood splattered everywhere in the camp, and flesh flew everywhere. The tribal warriors who rushed forward were bizarrely dismembered and torn apart, and not even a trace was left.

"Come back quickly!" York cried out in anguish, but he was held back by the strange creature in front of him and could not come to his rescue.

puff!
Another tribal warrior was cut in half at the waist, along with a stone fragment, his blood and internal organs spraying all over the ground.

"Atu!" Xiaoya cried out in a low voice from afar.

Meanwhile, the two anti-monster warriors who had chosen to stay behind worked together seamlessly. One used his body as bait to attract the attention of a "hunter," while the other used his speed to circle around to the side and stuff the last remaining high-explosive anti-monster grenade into the gap between the joints of its raised forelimb.

Boom!

A violent explosion rang out, and the flames and shockwave blasted one of the "Hunter's" forelimbs into a bloody mess, causing its massive body to stagger.

"Good!" York perked up, his arms bulging with muscles, and the eerie black veins on his arms became even more prominent, with new veins constantly spreading out and wrapping around the spear and his arm. In an instant, York's arm became almost as big as his burly body.

He exerted his strength and pushed the spear, which was already embedded in the bone armor, a little further in. Dark green viscous fluid flowed down the spear shaft, making a corrosive "sizzling" sound.

However, the fifth-order power is far more bizarre than imagined!
Enraged by York's stab, the "Hunter" swung its massive head violently, sending York and its spear flying. Simultaneously, the other "Hunters," freed from their interference, unleashed their enormous scythe-like mandibles, like the Grim Reaper's scythe, and began their reaping!
scoff!

Before the two warriors who had blown off the hunter's bizarre forelimbs could even rejoice, a new arm suddenly grew back in the strange creature.

Its speed was so fast that even Piccolo Daimaō, who had mastered limb regeneration in "Dragon Ball", would be ashamed of himself.

At the same time, a tribesman who tried to climb a giant tree to escape was easily hooked down by the mandibles and torn apart instantly; another man, who had just been knocked down from the tree, was trampled into a pulp by the giant legs.

The camp instantly turned into a bloody slaughterhouse, with screams and the sound of bones breaking filling the air.

"No!" York fell heavily to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

The monster transformation did not turn the tide of the battle. Moreover, after removing the monster energy suppressor from his arm, the rate at which the monster energy eroded his body accelerated, and he was about to lose control of the mutation.

He struggled to get up, but saw a huge shadow of a "hunter" loom over Xiaoya, who had fallen to the ground and was too frightened to move. The cold, sickle-like mandibles were raised high!

"Xiaoya!" York roared desperately, his eyes bloodshot, as he unleashed the last bit of strength within him in an attempt to pounce on her.

At this critical moment!
boom--! ! !
The natural green wall at the edge of the temporary camp, formed by countless giant vines and ancient trees and several meters thick, was as if it had been struck hard by an invisible giant hammer and exploded with a loud bang.

Countless splinters of wood and vine fragments, mixed with soil, poured down like a torrential rain. The violent surge of strange energy and the pungent smell of blood instantly dispelled the strong, sweet stench of the camp.

A red figure shot out from the blasted hole like a meteor. It was Xiao Qi, who was holding Cheng's mother. Following closely behind were Camille, the Sherry sisters, and two nearly exhausted anti-ghost warriors being dragged by the blood-corroding tentacles controlled by Shen Ge.

Behind them, the eerie energy storm, churning with purplish-black arcs of destructive electricity and devouring everything, clung relentlessly like a leech.

Shen Ge's original intention was to use the "unfortunate" meteorite that crashed down to destroy the spatial rift, and then find an opportunity to lead people into the rift under the protection of the Ghost Domain, to go to the next fragment world.

Who would have thought that the collision between the eerie meteorite and the black hole vortex would generate a violent eerie storm that tore the sky apart and shattered the entire eerie space!

Meanwhile, Blood Spider, who had stayed at the temporary camp, discovered that York and the others were being attacked by the hunters in a strange manner and quickly reported it to Shen Ge.

Shen Ge had sensed that York was acting strangely before, but he never expected that this oddball's identity would be so well hidden!
Since he figured he might as well run somewhere, Shen Ge chose the temporary camp route and "incidentally" rescued York and the others, since this guy possessed a stealth ability that even his Ghost Eyes couldn't detect.

As several figures rushed past the temporary camp, York's mind was a complete mess. He clearly couldn't understand why Shen Ge and the others would "run away" now that they were back.

Then he saw arcs of electricity in the sky and a terrifying energy storm, as if the whole sky was about to collapse.

The "hunter" that was about to tear Xiaoya apart was the first to be attacked. Xiaoya was "casually" taken away by Shen Ge, but it was not so lucky.

Its massive body was violently pulled by that invisible force, and it involuntarily slid into the strange energy storm. Even though its huge legs dug deep into the ground, carving out deep trenches, it still could not resist the terrifying suction from the spatial level.

This sudden upheaval caused all the "Hunters" to freeze in their strange movements. Their icy will instantly locked onto the even more terrifying, extinct energy storm. Their massive heads turned in that direction, letting out threatening growls, instinctively sensing a deadly threat.

Xiaoqi reacted with lightning speed, several blood-corroding tentacles shot out like lightning, one of which wrapped around York, who was about to be sucked away, and suddenly pulled him away from his original position.

At the same time, it also flung out several blood spiders, which turned into blood threads in the air, strangely "binding" the hunters to the spot.

The next second—

puff!
puff!
puff!
The fifth-tier hunter was bizarre; after being swallowed by the bizarre energy storm, it was as if it had been thrown into a meat grinder, instantly turning into splattered blood.

"This way!" Shen Ge glanced at the route map provided by the Blood Spider, then made a sharp turn and rushed into a maze-like area formed by countless giant buttress roots.

boom!
A purplish-black arc of destructive electricity grazed their afterimages and struck their previous path, instantly turning a giant fern forest into nothingness, leaving behind a huge, smooth-edged, bottomless crater.

The natural barrier formed by the buttress roots temporarily blocked the view and slightly slowed the straight-line pursuit of the energy storm. It seemed that the collapse was slower due to the influence of space.

But Shen Ge's heart sank to the bottom. He could feel that the ghost energy storm was not over. The rampant ghost energy was like an invisible net, still covering this area, spreading even wider, as if it wanted to swallow the entire space in one go.

Shen Ge's eerie eyes flashed with an eerie light, and the real-time route map fed back by the blood spider unfolded in front of his retina. He suddenly pulled the blood-stained tentacles connecting the group, forcibly changing their direction. The group, like puppets being pulled by an invisible giant hand, narrowly rushed into the natural maze formed by countless huge plank roots.

boom--! ! !
Another devastating arc of purplish-black electricity, like a whip of divine punishment, lashed fiercely at the spot where everyone had been just a second before.

That area vanished instantly, leaving only a bottomless, enormous crater with ominous purple light flickering at its edges; even sound was swallowed up by the raging, eerie energy.

The complex barrier formed by the buttress roots, like the ribs of a giant beast, temporarily blocked the view and some of the straight-line impact of the raging energy storm behind them.

The violent energy turbulence crashed against the massive, intertwined roots, producing a dull, thunderous roar. The roots trembled violently, and debris flew everywhere, but they were not destroyed instantly.

"Master! The energy index at the core of the energy storm is still soaring, the spatial structure is collapsing at an accelerated rate, and this area won't last much longer!" Xiao Qi's voice was urgent and electronic as she frantically calculated the spread speed of the energy storm and possible escape routes.

Shen Ge could clearly sense that although the "movement" speed of the strange energy storm had slowed down due to the obstruction of the complex terrain, the spatial rift node at the center, which was detonated by the collision of the "meteorite ball" and the black hole vortex, was now like a runaway nuclear reactor, releasing destructive energy that increased exponentially!

The entire "ceiling" of the eerie space groaned under the weight of the pressure, and fine, dark cracks spread and expanded in the void like a spider web.

It felt as if the entire sky was about to collapse completely in the next second! (End of Chapter)