Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 74 Initial Defeat
Zheng Zha silently glanced at his left arm. When he activated Burning Night, almost all of the vampire energy was concentrated there. Now he understood what Mu Xiang meant when he said that the degree of energy concentration affected physical strength. That slash wasn't from an ordinary kitchen knife; ultimately, it was a spiritual attack.

But with the energy combined with his vampire count bloodline, the slash only cut halfway, barely touching the arm bone.

"What an unreasonable attack... If my enhancement had been weaker, wouldn't I have only lost an arm?" Zheng Zha sighed.

But he didn't let his guard down, because his sense of danger surged once again. However, when he looked around, there were no ghosts at all.

A tickling sensation came from his left arm; it was his wound healing... It looked like he would be fully recovered after a good night's sleep.

The simultaneous onset of a sense of unease and an itchy arm felt very strange to Zheng Zha.

"What's going on with the sixth wave? Logically, it should be even more intense."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Zheng Zha sensed danger reaching its peak, and then a sharp pain shot through his lower abdomen!
"Internal attack!" Zheng Zha said to himself, then activated the red flames.

However, the red flames couldn't reach inside... This delay caused Zheng Zha, with his physical strength, to suddenly spit out a mouthful of black blood, mixed with countless fragments of internal organs.

Even in his genetically locked state, the sudden, intense pain caused Zheng Zha to arch his back. He immediately blocked out the pain, then flipped his left hand, and a submachine gun was already pressed against his lower abdomen.

The next moment, gunfire erupted.

"Zheng Zha? Zheng Zha!" Zhan Lan's voice rang in his mind, "What's wrong with you? We saw you shoot yourself!"

Zheng Zha chuckled lightly, feeling much more relaxed after that shot: "It's alright. Didn't I say before that the sixth wave of attacks originated from within the body?"

At this moment, however, he was thinking about something else... It was very unreasonable that the Red Flame couldn't cleanse the impurities from his body.

He is of vampire blood, and red flames are a vampire spell that can be mastered by descendants of viscounts... No matter how you look at it, there shouldn't be a limitation of burning outside the body—red flames don't harm him.

Is it because my mastery of the Crimson Flame is insufficient?

Zheng Zha pondered silently. He realized that under Mu Xiang's special training, his mastery of the Crimson Flame had indeed grown stronger. Even without upgrading his bloodline, he was far stronger than when he first acquired it. It seemed the Main God only cared about teaching the use of skills; was there actually still a vast amount of room for improvement?

If he had a better grasp of the Red Flame, he wouldn't have needed to injure himself with a gun at all.

Just then, he felt a chill down his spine, and he heard reminders from Zhan Lan and Zero Point through the mental chain.

Zheng Zha turned around and saw a pale, ten-meter-tall woman standing up from the building. Although it was only a few stories high, Zheng Zha felt as if the entire building had transformed into a vengeful ghost.

"Is this the main body of the Ju-on?" Zheng Zha transmitted to the others through the mind chain, "The seventh wave of attacks, the opponent is a ten-meter-tall Kayako..."

Chu Xuan's indifferent voice came through, but now it carried a hint of realization: "The sixth wave can kill many people, but for you it's more like a weakening. If this is the main body of the Curse... then it makes sense."

"Zheng Zha, you were just injured like that, are you alright?" Zhan Lan asked.

Hearing his usual friends' concern, Zheng Zha laughed and said, "I'm fine, and besides, I have you guys with me."

That shot would have been a serious injury to an ordinary person, or even a member of the less-enhanced Reincarnation Squad. But for him, with pain shielded, it was nothing serious.

The ten-meter-tall Kayako slowly walked towards him. Zheng Zha remained calm and took care of his lower abdomen—it needed to be taken care of, otherwise it would have healed itself after a good night's sleep.

When he looked up, he saw Kayako's dark eyes coldly looking down at him, while Zheng Zha's eyes were blank, and his arms slowly swelled up, as if his muscles were bulging out of shape.

Quickly dodging Kayako's kick, Zheng Zha tentatively fired at it.

The gigantic Kayako's body also seemed to have thinned considerably; each time a spirit bullet passed by, it tore open large gashes. But soon, those wounds healed.

“There must be a vital point…” Zheng Zha said in a low voice, “but I don’t seem to be able to attack it.”

The next moment, crimson flames engulfed Zheng Zha's entire body. The threat posed by the giant Kayako had already pushed his genetic lock to its limit, so he dared not be careless and directly unleashed the most powerful crimson flames.

Zheng Zha shouted and rushed into Kayako's body, passing through without any hindrance, and then ran into the building that Kayako had just walked out of.

“Something’s not right about this Kayako.” Zero’s voice echoed in Zheng Zha’s mind. “I can see that besides Kayako, there are other people with different appearances who make up its body.”

Mu Xiang's voice also appeared: "Uh, I want to take a look at the situation... Zhan Lan, can you share the results of your investigation with me?" After a while, Mu Xiang said again: "As expected, Zheng Zha, besides Kayako's clones, there are many souls of people it killed. I suspect that this giant ghost has a core, and the clones and the souls of the victims are just decoys... You have enough time to find out."

"Furthermore, I need to tell you that Kayako's ability to control space and time has already manifested itself," Mu Xiang said alarmingly through the mind chain. "Because I was just sent to another place by it, and damn it, it's heading towards Chu Xuan right now. So I'm worried that if it can't beat you, it might just send you away directly, or run off to another place to kill a bunch of people and strengthen itself?"

Chu Xuan said calmly, "It shouldn't be that bad. If I'm not mistaken, the two of us have done our best to hold off Ju-on... With Ju-on's current power, it's probably not enough."

Upon hearing these words, Zheng Zha silently acknowledged his understanding. He himself then darted through the still-unfinished staircase at an astonishing speed.

From Zero's perspective, even though he had enhanced his vision with the Druid's Eagle Eye, Zheng Zha's speed was still a bit too fast.

Through countless hideous ghosts, Zero saw the blood-red figure moving at high speed. He silently watched it all, monitoring the situation with his Gauss sniper rifle.

He will definitely protect Zheng Zha.

Zheng Zha kept walking upwards, and along the way, countless pale arms appeared out of thin air behind him, but none of them could touch his body before being melted by the red flames.

He needs to reach a height where he can attack Kayako... and judging from Kayako's obstruction of him, his thinking should be correct.

Kayako entered the building once again, and her giant hand slammed down on Zheng Zha.

This time, Zheng Zha couldn't easily melt the hand; instead, he was suppressed by a tremendous force. The other parts of the giant Kayako became increasingly faint, as the power concentrated on this hand.

A deep red flame separated Zheng Zha from the pale, massive hand. Zheng Zha gritted his teeth, his arms outstretched as if supporting the sky, his bulging muscles glowing an unnatural red. With Zheng Zha's roar, the enormous hand was suddenly pushed away.

The moment she was pushed away, her pale hand could no longer hold on and recoiled as if it had encountered something terrifying, avoiding Zheng Zha's red flames.

Even so, half of the arm was burned off.

Just as Kayako was gathering her strength to heal her injuries, Zheng Zha pushed off the ground and leaped out of the building's window.

From the air, he could clearly see that within the massive Kayako's chest, there was a bluish-white Kayako. At this moment, the other ghosts or Kayako's clones had faded considerably, but this Kayako remained unchanged.

"Found you!" Zheng Zha's entire body blazed with crimson flames, and two even deeper crimson flames erupted from his left and right hands, like a blood-red meteor falling from the sky. His left hand formed a claw, and his right hand made a slash, striking directly at the top of Kayako's head!
The giant Kayako's head posed no obstacle to him; he plummeted straight down, about to crush the pale blue figure.

Just then, an invisible force supported him... or rather, an invisible barrier separated him from Kayako.

Zheng Zha roared madly, his entire body engulfed in crimson flames that burned against the invisible barrier. If an observer were to witness this, they would notice that the space around Zheng Zha was slightly distorted, a result of the terrifyingly high temperature of the crimson flames.

At this moment, the giant Kayako's hands disappeared, and all the power was concentrated on Zheng Zha, preventing him from getting close to the core of Kayako.

At that moment, Kayako raised her head, her dark eyes meeting Zheng Zha's.

The resentment and killing intent in his eyes were far stronger than when he first appeared, but Zheng Zha's eyes were blank and he was not afraid at all. He was just suppressing the power below him... He was going to kill this guy!

"Oh!"

A loud bang came from afar, and then the bluish-white Kayako was violently torn apart.

This is a zero-point Gaussian sniper round!

With its core severely damaged, the invisible barrier could no longer hold... Zheng Zha, like a hot knife cutting through butter, shattered the barrier, grabbed Kayako's neck with his left hand, and slammed his right hand down on its head!
Zheng Zha actually caught the pale blue spirit in his hand and plunged it from the height of a three-story building. When Zheng Zha landed, Kayako had already been melted into nothingness, and his left and right hands were slammed into the ground.

Zheng Zha silently pulled out his hands and raised his head. The enormous, pale body collapsed in front of Zheng Zha like a snowman, and then vanished into thin air.

"Slaying Kayako, the main body of the Ju-on, once will grant two C-rank side quests and a reward of 4500 points..."

Zheng Zha smiled happily. He had already exited the state of unlocking the gene lock. He waved in the direction of the hotel, then held his knees, enduring the severe pain and numbness in his abdomen, as well as the spasms in his arm muscles.

"We made it!"

(End of this chapter)