A Guide to Surviving the Mysterious Dungeon and the Twelve Talismans

He just needs a shield as a defensive tool.

Zhou An immediately swung his meat knife, and the blade smashed the head away.

The headless body began to turn gray at a visible speed.

The meat shield, however, began to harden rapidly.

Zhou An picked up the meat shield, flicked it lightly, and the arm snapped off at the shoulder.

Most importantly, the shield also has a grip handle, allowing a person to hold the shield with one hand to defend against enemy attacks.

"I just wanted to give it a try, but I didn't expect it to actually work." Zhou An tapped his shield with his meat cleaver, a smile spreading across his face.

The shield was very strong; even when slashed with a meat cleaver, it could only leave a very shallow white mark.

"Run, run!"

Like Xu Li, Mei Ying also sprouted a pair of small legs from under her head and ran straight towards the gate.

Seeing that things were not going well, Xu Li left early, but she was not running very fast and was still about seven or eight meters away from the gate.

The next second, they felt a blur before their eyes, and Zhou An appeared at the gate.

"Don't move! If you run any further, I'll bless your heads!" Zhou An kept tossing the meat knife in his hand.

This scene put immense pressure on the two of them, causing them to freeze in place, too afraid to run any further.

"No...we won't run anymore, spare our lives!" Mei Ying and Xu Li immediately knelt down and kowtowed, begging for mercy.

Zhou An walked over unhurriedly, then reached out and grabbed Mei Ying's hair, lifting her up.

"You only have a head left, how much strength do you have left?" Zhou An asked.

“Um…we currently have the strength of a ten-year-old child at most,” Mei Ying quickly replied.

"Ah, Da Chong, you're here! Quick, kill this human!" Mei Ying suddenly looked behind Zhou An and exclaimed in surprise.

Upon hearing this, Zhou An was somewhat surprised and immediately turned around to look behind him.

All that could be seen behind was emptiness.

By the time Zhou An turned around, Mei Ying's head had already split open, and a white worm as thick as a forearm flew directly towards Zhou An's face.

With a muffled "thud!"

Zhou An slapped the white insect into a bloody mist.

"Huh? Blood Shield? That powerful?"

"Oh, I must have used too much force and turned you into a bloody mist."

Zhou An lowered his head and looked at the white insect lying on his leg.

Xu Li's head also split open, and the white worm was Xu Li's true form.

It is larger than those from the US and UK, about the size of a fist.

Xu Li opened her ferocious mouth and was frantically gnawing at Zhou An's thigh.

It clearly wanted to bite open the wound and then burrow into its own body.

If Zhou An were just an ordinary person, or a low-level martial artist, it wouldn't matter.

With the sharpness of the insect's mouthparts, it can easily bite through the skin.

Once it burrows into the body, it can complete the host conversion and successfully parasitize.

This is true for both the US and Britain, and it is also true for Xu Li.

However, Zhou An obtained the Ox Talisman, which amplified its power a hundredfold.

They also acquired the physical qualities necessary to withstand this force.

With his current physical condition, even a bullet couldn't penetrate his skin.

Not to mention, Zhou An has a dog talisman that grants him complete immunity to damage.

The other party couldn't penetrate it at all.

At this point, the parasite also realized this and was immediately filled with despair.

But she didn't just sit there and wait to die; instead, she went straight back into her own head.

Her head closed again, and she returned to Xu Li's appearance.

It was only noticeable that Xu Li's face had become extremely pale.

The lips are turning bluish, which is a sign of excessive energy consumption.

"Don't kill me, I was wrong." Xu Li kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Give me a reason not to kill you," Zhou An said calmly.

For a moment, Xu Li was at a loss for words.

But soon, Xu Li thought of something and quickly said, "I'm very good at mouth-biting, I can help you bite it."

Zhou An was stunned, then his face turned icy: "You're forcing me to kill you."

As he spoke, Zhou An raised his foot, ready to stomp on the other person's head.

Just then, Zhou An's cell phone rang in his pocket.

Zhou An took it out and saw that it was Zhang Fei's phone call.

Zhou An thought for a moment, then answered the phone without moving his feet.

"Mr. Zhou, did you go to the bar?"

"I checked the location, and my girlfriend has gone to her best friend's house," Zhang Fei's voice came from the other end of the phone.

“Mr. Zhang, I’m here too. I’ve already investigated and found out everything,” Zhou An said slowly.

"Then...did my wife cheat on me?" Zhang Fei's voice trembled slightly.

"Well... how should I put it, things are a bit complicated. Why don't you come over now?"

"And also settle my final payment," Zhou An said in a deep voice.

There's still 40,000 yuan left to pay. With that 40,000 yuan, Zhou An can finally properly investigate this world.

"Okay, twenty minutes, twenty minutes." Zhang Fei was extremely excited when he saw that Zhou An did not immediately confirm that he had cheated.

He can accept it as long as his wife doesn't cheat on him, even if she's a lesbian.

It's good that they're not getting a divorce; he still has some feelings for his wife.

Xu Li breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she hadn't been killed. Just as she was about to speak, Zhou An grabbed her hair and lifted her up.

Zhou An's eyes swept around, and then he found a number of large glass bottles in the corner of the restaurant.

Seeing this, Zhou An stepped forward, took one of the glass bottles, and then put Xu Li's head into it.

The size is just right; it seems like it was bought specifically to hold my head?

Zhou An placed the glass bottle on the coffee table in the living room, then sat down on the sofa with an air of nonchalance, quietly waiting for Zhang Fei's arrival.

Twenty minutes later, Zhang Fei arrived on time.

Zhou An opened the door and let Zhang Fei in.

Zhang Fei doesn't look greasy at all; on the contrary, he's quite refined and even a little handsome.

"Where is my wife? Where is she? What exactly happened...?"

Zhang Fei strode inside, but once he reached the living room, he suddenly found himself speechless.

He froze on the spot.

Because he saw a pair of human remains on the ground.

Although it was shattered when Zhou An attacked it with a meat knife and shield, even the smallest piece was the size of a fist.

With the added constraint of clothing, it was barely possible to tell that this was a corpse.

Most importantly, Zhang Fei's gaze fell on the glass bottle on the coffee table.

Inside the glass bottle was a head that he recognized very well.

It's his wife Xu Li's, with her eyes closed.

She also wore very exquisite makeup; she looked beautiful and charming.

"Snap!" A crisp sound.

Zhou An closed the door.

The sound startled Zhang Fei awake. He then turned around abruptly to look at Zhou An, retreating several steps to create distance between them.

"You killed my wife!!!" Zhang Fei trembled all over.

There was fear, terror, and anger.

"Husband? Husband, is that you? Help me, help me!"

Suddenly, Zhang Fei heard his wife's voice.

He suddenly looked toward the coffee table.

The head, which had been keeping its eyes closed, suddenly opened them and began shouting loudly.

"You...you...she..."

For a moment, Zhang Fei wondered if he was seeing things.

He rubbed his eyes hard, only to find it was true.

His wife's separate mind was still calling out to him.

“Mr. Zhang, as you can see, your wife is not having an affair, but is being parasitized by a monster.”

"If nothing unexpected happens, your wife is already dead, as is her best friend."

"This is footage I secretly filmed; you can take a look." Zhou An took out his phone and showed Zhang Fei the footage captured by the button camera.

Zhang Fei watched the video with trembling hands.

When Zhang Fei saw his wife's head split open and a worm fly out, his eyes widened.