Chapter 224 - 146: A Hero’s Entrance

Chapter 224: Chapter 146: A Hero’s Entrance

’What the hell is going on?!’

Gu Qing’s mind reeled, stunned by the sudden turn of events.

The Rat Head Mask, which had nearly crumbled to dust, suddenly reassembled itself without warning. It then teleported from over a hundred meters away, instantly clamping down onto the masked man’s face.

It was impossibly fast.

Even Gu Qing, with his Lightning Reflexes active, couldn’t react in time.

It wasn’t just Gu Qing. Even the masked man, the master of the Rat Head Mask, hadn’t expected it to restore itself and instantly return to his face.

Thus, when the self-restored Rat Head Mask suddenly clamped back onto his face, the masked man was completely stupefied. He had no idea what was happening.

What happened next plunged him from stupor into a terror he had never known before.

A bizarre red light suddenly pulsed across the surface of the Rat Head Mask on his face.

Immediately after, innumerable slender, sharp tendrils sprouted from beneath the mask and ruthlessly pierced into his face.

In that moment, an unbearable agony tore through his entire body, forcing a blood-curdling scream from his lips:

"AHHHHHHH—!"

The Rat Head Mask had come to life.

The tendrils boring into the masked man’s face began to rapidly drain his life force.

In the blink of an eye, the masked man’s muscular body visibly withered as his vitality was drained away at a terrifying rate.

"Urgh!"

"Save me!"

"Quick, help me get this mask off!"

"If you save me, I’ll tell the Night Court everything I know!"

"Hurry up and save me!"

The masked man fought for his life, trying to rip the Rat Head Mask from his face, but it had already taken root. In his utterly weakened state, he couldn’t budge it.

Desperate to live, he had no choice but to scream for help from Gu Qing, who stood nearby.

Getting captured by the Night Court meant losing his freedom and suffering some inhuman torture at worst.

But if he let this Rat Head Mask continue to madly drain his life force, there was no doubt he would be sucked dry and die.

The masked man had struggled for so many years to finally evolve into an Advanced Creature; he refused to die such a pathetic death.

To grasp at that one sliver of hope, he could only abandon the darkness for the light and beg his enemy, Gu Qing, to intervene.

Gu Qing didn’t need to be told. He had already formed a Qi Blood Long Spear in his hand and thrust it violently toward the Rat Head Mask on the man’s face.

He held nothing back in this thrust, aiming to pierce both man and mask.

With a loud CRACK, the spearhead easily pierced through the Rat Head Mask, impaling the masked man’s face underneath as well.

The masked man’s body was already at its limit. Taking a spear to the head, what little life force he had left was instantly wiped out, and he died on the spot.

As for the pierced Rat Head Mask, upon sensing that the masked man’s life force was gone, it immediately withdrew its tendrils from his face and shot toward the nearby Rat King.

Seeing this, Gu Qing instantly retracted the Qi Blood Long Spear, then condensed a Blood-colored Crossbow Arrow and took aim at the distant Rat King.

"WHOOSH—!"

A piercing sound tore through the air.

Gu Qing loosed the arrow, sending it flying toward the distant Rat King.

’Since I can’t destroy the Rat Head Mask, I’ll take a different approach. I’ll kill its target and stop it from absorbing any more life force.’

"THWACK—!"

The speeding arrow was even faster than the Rat Head Mask scuttling along on its tendrils, striking the Rat King first.

The Rat King was already on its last breath and didn’t look like it had much longer to live.

After taking another arrow, its remaining vitality plummeted, nearly hitting zero.

Just then, the Rat Head Mask, which had been scuttling on its tendrils, finally reached the Rat King and stopped.

As Gu Qing watched, the bizarre Rat Head Mask transformed into an impossibly long strip of flesh and quickly burrowed into the Rat King’s mouth.

"WHOOSH—!"

Without a moment’s hesitation, Gu Qing fired another arrow saturated with Qi Blood Power at the Rat King.

The arrow flew straight for the Rat King’s head, piercing clean through its hard skull.

It then dissolved into wisps of Qi Blood Power that mercilessly destroyed every cell in the creature’s body.

Under the brutal assault of his rampaging Qi Blood Power, the dying Rat King was utterly annihilated in a single instant, deader than dead.

’Is it over?’

Gu Qing extended his Spiritual Power, carefully probing the Rat King’s corpse for the Rat Head Mask that had burrowed inside.

After a thorough probe, he found nothing.

He didn’t let his guard down, however. Instead, he raised his crossbow and fired several more arrows into the Rat King’s corpse, making absolutely sure it was dead.

During this, Xia Shuran and the others hurried over.

They stared at the corpses of the masked man and the Rat King up close, their hearts pounding with shock.

Gu Qing, an Extraordinary Contactor barely in his twenties, had single-handedly slaughtered two monsters from the Rat God Cult whose power was clearly above the High-Level.

A complete and utter slaughter!

He had dominated his enemies from start to finish!

He beat them so badly they couldn’t even fight back!

That kind of power...

It was truly terrifying!

"Gu Qing, what exactly is your Biological Level right now?"

Liu Yue steadied her rattled heart, tearing her gaze away from the two monsters’ corpses. She looked at Gu Qing, who was still pumping arrows into the dead creature, and asked curiously.

Gu Qing didn’t even glance at Liu Yue, simply replying in a flat tone: