In the dream, as soon as Cheng Jinyang woke up, he rolled away from his original position and quickly got up. Then he saw Xing Yuanzhi standing beside him, with a surprised smile on her face.
"As expected," she said, touching her own body, "as long as we enter this dream state simultaneously and in close proximity to you, we can enter this dream."
Cheng Jinyang didn't reply, only looked around cautiously. The two of them are on a street at night. This starting point... is actually the worst starting point because it is difficult to find suitable weapons nearby.
The best starting point was, of course, Su Lili's home from last time, where not only her father's pistol and long sword were available but also a burglar-proof door that could block the monsters for a few seconds. After that, they could escape through the window, buying a few more seconds. As for here...
"Let's go!" Cheng Jinyang shouted, grabbing Xing Yuanzhi's hand and fleeing quickly.
A few hundred meters north from this position was the town's elementary and middle schools; if they headed northeast along the main road, they would reach the center of Pukou District in about 16 kilometers.
Cheng Jinyang had tried hot-wiring a car before and then driving directly out of town, but he encountered a terrifying monster ambush near the ring road—the monster possessed powerful abilities to spew high-temperature flames, and it blew up the car directly.
Surprisingly, he respawned near the scene of the accident and was repeatedly tortured by the monster more than a hundred times, almost becoming his nightmare.
In fact, the farther away from Wujiang Town, the more powerful the monsters in the dream world became. Therefore, after Cheng Jinyang deduced this, he basically only moved around within Wujiang Town, never daring to venture too far away.
Dragging Xing Yuanzhi into the alley, the roadside sign indicated: to the left is Wujiang Town Elementary School, and ahead is Wujiang Town Middle School.
"Where are we going?" Xing Yuanzhi asked urgently.
"Forward," Cheng Jinyang quickly replied.
The reason for choosing to hide in the middle school is simple; both schools faced south, so entering the elementary school would require detouring... there isn't enough time.
"Here it comes!" Just as they were about to rush into the school gate, Xing Yuanzhi, who had been keeping an eye on the rear, suddenly shouted.
Without looking back, Cheng Jinyang, drawing upon countless experiences of nightmares, had formed a precise map in his mind. With his right hand still gripping Xing Yuanzhi, his left hand slapped the car parked at the school gate.
Gravity Manipulation!
Directly behind us!
The car, originally parked on the ground, suddenly rolled backward. Initially not fast, it picked up speed after traversing a few meters, creating a whistling sound as it heavily slammed into the monster far away.
The alley was a typical narrow bike lane common in the suburbs, offering hardly any space to dodge the horizontally charging car.
The monster screamed, swinging its claws, and chopped into the car's chassis, but its body was pressed down by the car and propelled forward, flying directly into the residential area at the end of the street.
"So strong?" Gravity Manipulation worked for the first time, leaving Cheng Jinyang shocked beyond measure. Excited, Xing Yuanzhi beside him immediately exclaimed, "Hurry! Find its body!"
The two hurriedly chased along the road, returning to the residential area where Cheng Jinyang lived. They saw that the car had smashed through the fence, hitting the ground floor of the residential building, with cracks spreading like spider webs all over the wall.
The monster was crushed against the wall by the car, its lower body completely turned into pulp, its clawed arms embedded in the car's chassis, and its deformed head hanging weakly, clearly lifeless.
"It's here, it's here!" Xing Yuanzhi exclaimed excitedly, feeling the surge of vitality in her blood.
"Although I don't know how much blood concentration can increase, the fact that it can increase at all... is already quite precious." Cheng Jinyang also felt a similar recovery of strength, but he didn't know what it was before. Now, thanks to Ah Zhi's guidance, he knows:
"Oh, so this is the purification and increase of blood concentration."
The two stayed by the corpses of the dead monsters for a moment, and after a few minutes, they barely absorbed the dispersed blood qi in the air. In the distance, there were sharp cries, miserable and piercing, unlike those of humans.
"Let's go!" Cheng Jinyang's face changed suddenly.
"Go where?" Xing Yuanzhi immediately asked back, her face showing an extremely eager expression, "Kill them! They're all walking blood qi!"
"But you have to be able to kill them!" Cheng Jinyang said, pulling her away and flying.
As they rushed out of the residential area gate, they saw two monsters rushing towards them from the left.
One had arms transformed into giant sharp claws, while the other had an unusually small left arm and a huge bone heavy hammer for the right arm.
Fortunately, there were several cars parked at the entrance of the community.
Cheng Jinyang slapped another car, activated the Iron Shoot algorithm, and the car began to roll and fly out.
"No!"
He noticed the surrounding terrain and suddenly grabbed Xing Yuanzhi's hand again.
"Run!"
The car continued to accelerate like a cannonball. In just a few tens of meters, it had accelerated to about 30 meters per second, close to one-tenth of the speed of sound, sweeping towards the two monsters.
The hammer monster swung its right arm forcefully, as if trying to smash the car away, but it was directly hit by the car and thrown away.
The claw monster on the right hand side, however, crouched down, dodged the trajectory of the car like a cheetah, then dashed close to the ground and quickly crossed the distance, approaching the two of them in an instant.
Xing Yuanzhi still wanted to try using martial arts against the enemy. But when she wanted to try, she was pushed aside by Cheng Jinyang, and then her face was splattered with warm blood.
Cheng Jinyang, who had just been holding her, had his waist cut off by the monster's claws.
As if her psychological defense suddenly collapsed, her mind went blank, leaving only a buzzing sound in her ears.
Blood and minced flesh... so dirty, so filthy!!!
The monster swung its claws again, and she instinctively used light body technique to swiftly dodge away.
As the monster's claws struck again, her right foot landed on Cheng Jinyang's severed body, piercing through it directly.
Xing Yuanzhi felt a sudden pain in her heart, then her vision was thrown into chaos.
Ah... my head, it's been chopped off.
Her head rolled on the ground for a few rounds, and in the stable view that finally settled, she saw the monster holding her headless body, its chest and abdomen splitting open like a zipper as it slowly enveloped and devoured her body.
After an unknown amount of time, Xing Yuanzhi woke up again, only to find herself back in the room from her previous dream.
She felt her face in terror, confirming that there was no blood on it, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.
Cheng Jinyang, who had resurrected a few seconds earlier, had already retrieved a handgun from under the sofa and was now rushing to search the wardrobe, only to find that the long sword was not inside this time.
"Don't just stand there!" He turned around, seeing that Xing Yuanzhi had already woken up, and urged, "Find some weapons!"
"Okay!" Xing Yuanzhi quickly got up and began to search aimlessly.
However, not long after, heavy footsteps could be heard outside the door.
The monster was coming!
"Jump out the window!" As the anti-theft door was torn open by claws, Cheng Jinyang had already grabbed Xing Yuanzhi's waist and smashed through the window in one leap.