Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 335 The Blocked Building
Ling Xiao was stunned, and immediately changed to the hilt of the sword and smashed it towards the glass with greater force.

"Bang!" The sound of the collision was very dull - Ling Xiao was confident that the power of his blow could even smash the polycarbonate riot shield that comes standard with the Public Security Bureau, but there was not even a trace of a crack on this ordinary tempered glass window.

This is definitely not normal!

However, there was no extra time for Ling Xiao to make more attempts. The strange creature had already rushed out of the room and rushed towards Ling Xiao in a crooked but extremely fast posture!

Ling Xiao's room is at the end of the corridor, more than fifty meters away from the elevator and the stairs. If he turns around and runs away, with no obstacles to block the monster's movements, Ling Xiao will be caught up by the monster before he can even run halfway... Not to mention that in this state of pursuit, his back is completely exposed to the monster. Once caught up, he may not even have a chance to fight back.

If they confront each other head-on... they won't be able to even run away. Ling Xiao doesn't think that he and his ulna can kill this monster with just his strength.

In this brief moment, countless coping strategies flashed through Ling Xiao's mind, and finally a big word "drag" appeared in his mind.

This is the experimental base of the Tianshu Tower's superpower management department. A group of powerful superpowers are stationed in the base for a long time, as well as a large number of fully armed guards and various light and heavy weapons... As long as you make a big enough noise and delay long enough, someone will always notice what is happening here.

By then, no matter it is psychics, monster hunters or cutting-edge weapons of modern technology, they can all deal with this monster that only has melee combat capabilities.

Just when Ling Xiao made up his mind, the monster had already rushed to him, and its sharp claws went straight to Ling Xiao's heart!
Ling Xiao bent his knees slightly, pushed his feet hard, and jumped up and did a backflip - after being strengthened by the radius, he jumped more than three meters off the ground, and even the ceiling of the corridor was within reach.

Ling Xiao quickly adjusted his posture in mid-air. He twisted his torso, and with the hand that was not holding the sword, he rubbed the ceiling hard, using the force to move sideways - although the pain caused by the intense friction between the wound on his palm and the ceiling was heart-wrenching, it was better than being pierced by the pair of sharp claws.

Barely avoiding the monster's pursuit, Ling Xiao stepped on the side wall of the corridor three times in a row. Within just half a second, he completed a large-scale move of nearly 270 degrees in the air at a height of three meters, and then landed steadily on the side and rear of the monster.

The cold flame wrapped in the ulna sword suddenly expanded to more than three meters in length. Using the inertia of falling, the sword slashed down, instantly chopping off the monster's right arm!

Ling Xiao was gasping for breath... The series of operations just now were very extreme even for a strengthened body. Ling Xiao could clearly feel that the strengthening effect brought by the radius and ulna was gradually fading. A feeling of fatigue and tearing pain in the joints and muscles all over the body due to the ultra-extreme exercise were constantly surging up.

"Where is the alarm? Why is there no alarm?" Ling Xiao was very confused.

The corridor is full of monitoring equipment. In addition to the common smoke detectors and surveillance cameras, there are also many special monitoring instruments that are only available in the Weird Creatures Research Institute... Not only did strange creatures appear in this corridor, but such a fierce battle also took place. Logically, the alarm should have sounded throughout the building by now.

But at this moment, Building No. 3 was eerily quiet.

Ling Xiao could only hear his own heavy breathing and the sound of his heart beating wildly in his chest.

"This isn't normal... It's not just the weird thing in front of us... There's something wrong with this building, this building itself." Ling Xiao made a judgment immediately, "Glass windows that can't be smashed, completely isolated external sounds, and all the equipment that has stopped working... Could it be an environmental weird thing? This building has been transformed into an environmental weird thing by the thing that calls itself a god?!"

Ling Xiao was still wondering why the alarm did not sound, while the injured monster on the other side slowly bent down and picked up his broken arm that had fallen on the ground.

The cuts on the shoulder and broken arm were frozen into hard ice blocks by the cold flame. This virus-like coldness was still invading deeper into the monster along the body tissues... If an ordinary person was hit by this knife, he would have been frozen into a zombie long ago.

"Ka... haha... cough... hiss..." A series of meaningless hissing sounds came from the monster's dark throat, and then the broken right shoulder began to swell up like a balloon.

Ling Xiao suddenly had a bad premonition. He quickly ran back, picked up the severely deformed door panel on the ground, and used it as a shield in front of him.

"Bang!" With a loud bang, the huge blood bubble exploded, and the smelly liquid splashed everywhere!
Naturally, a lot of liquid splashed onto the door panel. Ling Xiao only heard a series of "hissing" sounds. When he stuck his head out to take a look, he saw that the door panel had been corroded by numerous pits of varying sizes and depths.

Not only the door panels, but also the ceiling, walls and floor near the monster were not spared - only the window that was close at hand remained intact even though it was splashed with highly corrosive blood.

Dozens of sticky tentacles stretched out from the bursting blood bubble, and they entangled the broken arm. Then many sharp "teeth" grew at the front of these tentacles, which cut through the frozen flesh and helped the tentacles drill into the broken arm...

A few seconds later, the severed right arm was reattached to the monster's body - except that between the right arm and the monster's shoulder, there was a large bunch of tentacles for connection... At first glance, it looked like the exposed hydraulic muscle bundles commonly seen on engineering mechas.

The most direct result is that the "length" of the monster's right arm not only extended by half a meter, but also possessed the ability to attack in all directions without blind spots... No matter which direction Ling Xiao attacked from, this right arm could go around Ling Xiao's head and crush his skull with one claw.

However, the first person to enjoy this treatment was not Ling Xiao.

"What's going on? It's so noisy outside, can't we sleep?!" A man's voice came from a room on the side of the corridor, followed by a series of curses, "Fuck, why is there a power outage? It's pitch dark, this is fucked, fuck, they tricked me into coming here, could it be..."

The door was opened from the inside. With a ray of light, Ling Xiao saw that it was a young man wearing plaid pajamas. He had copper rings of different sizes on his lips, eyebrows, and nose, a large tattoo on his neck, and a head of colorfully dyed hair piled messily on top of his head.

He is like a street artist commonly seen in trendy neighborhoods - well, to put it nicely, he is an artist, to put it bluntly, he is just a gangster who can rap a little, do some graffiti, and always says "fuck you".

It’s not that Ling Xiao has any prejudice against this kind of person, it’s just that this was the first impression this young man gave him.

The street artist who opened the door looked at the two people standing in the corridor - to be precise, one man and one ghost - the expression on his face first changed from irritability to dullness, and then from dullness to horror.

"Fuck!!"

The young man immediately crossed his arms in front of him, and a shield made of thin ice appeared in front of him...

But the next second, the monster's sharp claws shattered the ice shield and pierced the street artist's chest.

Those who can live in this building are either people with special abilities or people who work in the department managing people with special abilities. Obviously, this young man belongs to the former... and he is most likely like Ling Xiao, who is also one of the people who came here to be tested after discovering his abilities.

It’s a pity that his ice shield is a bit... fragile.

The superpower is indeed a superpower, but the thin layer of ice he condensed... is really just a thin layer of ice. An ordinary person can poke it through with a finger, let alone the sharp claws of a monster.

The street artist who had lost his heart fell straight down, his eyes wide open, and he died with his eyes open.

His heart fell into the hands of the monster and was still beating on its own.

The creature tilted its head, one eye staring at Ling Xiao and the other at the heart in its hand... The next second, it stuffed the hot heart into its open throat.

"Ah——" A shrill scream came from the street artist's room. Ling Xiao then realized that there was another person in the room, and it was a woman.

"Don't make any noise!" Ling Xiao shouted immediately, but it was too late.

The creature rushed into the room in an instant, and half a second later, the screams stopped abruptly.

The world became quiet again.

Ling Xiao took a deep breath and threw the door panel aside.

The monster's attack was so fast that he didn't even see how the "street artist"'s chest was pierced before the heart was already in its hands.

For those claws, there wouldn't be much difference between the defensive power of the heavy door panel and the thin ice shield. Keeping this thing would only slow down his speed.

Ling Xiao held the ulna with the extinguished cold flame horizontally in front of him, and placed his other hand lightly on the blade, allowing the blade to absorb the blood seeping from the wound.

The wound had already scabbed over, and the blood was seeping out at a moderate rate - the cut Ling Xiao made at the beginning was almost half the depth of his palm. If he had not strengthened his body while also strengthening his self-recovery ability, he would have probably gone into shock from excessive blood loss by now.

But even so, a chill still rose from the ends of its limbs and crawled up its neck along its spine.

The ulna was not polite at all when it came to sucking the blood of qualified people, especially the sword that just cut off the monster's arm, which almost made Ling Xiao faint... Ling Xiao estimated that he could only release such attacks twice at most. As for after two times, even if he was not killed by the monster, he would probably have been sucked to death by the ulna.

Cutting off the limbs won't stop the monster's movements, so we have to attack its vital parts... Even if we can't kill it, its vital parts won't recover as quickly as its arms...

But why hasn't anyone come yet?

The cold flame just extended to three meters, and the brightness of the flame also increased a lot. As long as one of the people gathered in the playground outside looked in this direction, they would definitely be able to see the flame of the ulna through the window...

But why don't they come in?
Is it because they...can't get in? !
Ling Xiao suddenly thought of the unbreakable glass window...

Could it be that this building has become a space isolated from the outside world? People inside can't leave, and people outside can't come in?
Just as Ling Xiao was thinking this, the monster had already walked out of the room, dragging a half-broken female corpse - its "transformed" right arm had almost fallen to the ground, and its sharp claws were embedded in a head covered in long hair and blood. Only the part above the pelvis of the female corpse was left, and the rotten intestines were dragged on the ground. The air was filled with a strong smell of blood and filth.

Ling Xiao heard the sound of the door lock turning on the door closest to him, and he quickly shouted in a low voice: "It's dangerous outside! Don't come out!"

Lead the people living on this floor out to help me attract the monster's firepower... Although this method sounds a bit unethical, it is indeed the best way to delay time...

But after Ling Xiao discovered that the building had been blocked, the tactic of delaying time had lost all meaning.

Unless he could drag the people outside to break the blockade... but by that time, there would probably be few living people left in the entire building.

"Is... is it a ghost?" A trembling voice came from through the door, and it could be vaguely heard that it was from a young girl.

"It's a ghost." Ling Xiao said, "Don't come out, find a place in the room and hide."

"You...you...you...who are you? Are you a monster hunter? Or a mutant?" the girl asked again.

Ling Xiao did not answer her question.

In other words, Ling Xiao didn't have time to answer her question.

The monster threw away the remains in its hand and instantly accelerated towards Ling Xiao.

The girl's room was Room 607, which was next to Ling Xiao's Room 608. There was no space in the corridor for Ling Xiao to dodge this attack, so he could only retreat back to his room without a door.

Just when he thought the monster would chase in, it suddenly stopped, turned around, and pierced the door of Room 607 with its sharp claws!

Mixed in with the sound of metal being torn was the muffled sound of flesh being pierced - it was obvious that the girl living in Room 607 did not listen to Ling Xiao and find a place to hide, but stayed close to the door, eavesdropping on the movements in the corridor.

She should have noticed something unusual very early on - after all, as a "neighbor", it was impossible for her to not hear the fighting and screaming in Ling Xiao's room at the beginning.

Her best option was to pick up the phone and call the police, which she did.

Unfortunately, the rescuers promised by the base security department on the other end of the phone did not appear in front of her until her consciousness fell into her dying state.

(End of this chapter)