Su Qi and Tentacle Man stepped out from the doorway of the apartment complex.
Outside the door stood a mountain-like structure reminiscent of a cement monster, comprised of various flesh and pollutants; it was a Pollution Abnormality.
It was only as big as a basketball court at the moment.
But as they proceeded, it would devour everything on the streets and grow gradually.
Besides that.
There were two elite monsters, Swollen Man and Split Mouth Woman, who were bloated with a considerable amount of pollutants filling their bodies.
Tentacle Man had used his ability to secrete a large amount of tranquilizer to stabilize their minds.
"Remember, once you two get there, just run, it's your chance to survive," Tentacle Man said coldly, his gaze revealing a terrifying murderous intent, "Otherwise, I'll throw you in right now."
Both monsters trembled all over and hurriedly nodded.
"Let's go, we're moving out."
Everyone boarded the body of the Pollution Abnormality which rolled down the street like a tide, swallowing the surrounding monsters, abandoned cars, and broken street lamps at an extremely fast pace.
It was loud, but indeed unstoppable.
Level 1 and 2 Pollution Monsters couldn't even escape in time, and Level 3 and 4 Monsters, which averaged 100 attribute points, had no choice but to flee hastily.
In just a five-minute journey.
They had already reached the vicinity of the end of the block.
At the same time.
They also felt various deep moans, whispers, and impacts of spiritual power.
"I can't go any further from here," exclaimed Tentacle Man, taking a deep breath. He extended his tentacles, which developed spikes and viciously stabbed into the head of Pollution Abnormality, injecting a mass of green fluid, "It will run forward as hard as it can, creating noise to divert attention. The rest depends on whether you can seize the opportunity."
"No problem, leave it to me," Su Qi nodded.
Tentacle Man jumped down, attracting attention with Split Mouth Woman and Swollen Man.
Of course, they had also been injected with a large amount of hormones; otherwise, merely standing kilometers away from that horrifying source would cause their minds to collapse.
"Charge!"
The Pollution Abnormality was injected with a large quantity of stimulant hormones, doubling its speed in an instant.
Su Qi, holding onto a part of the Pollution Abnormality, hid underneath it and then immediately activated the clock.
The large pit at the center was a kilometer away.
Its speed was extremely fast, nearly fifty meters in a second, recklessly charging forward under the influence of hormones.
Its massive body naturally drew the attention of those horrifying monsters, comparable to Evil Spirits.
Cloud-like jellyfish tentacles, a fifty-meter-tall siren head, and a mountain of flesh covered in eyes all took notice.
In that instant.
Every cell in Su Qi's body seemed to suffocate for a moment, his mind briefly went blank, and then the notification [Spiritual Power -2, Current 65] appeared.
These were true Evil Spirits; merely catching their gaze resulted in such terrifying spiritual impact. Without the clock's 90% immunity, Su Qi probably wouldn't have lasted five seconds.
"Here they come!"
Su Qi noticed that the three terrifying Evil Spirits, as if seeing an amusing toy, were all attracted by the mutated combination and started to move, chasing after it!
At that moment.
The mutated combination dashed forward, already having advanced three hundred meters.
Four hundred meters!
Five hundred meters!
"Boom!"
A jellyfish tentacle fell from the sky like a skyscraper being directly thrown down, violently shaking the ground!
The eyes on the flesh mountain emitted a strange light, dyeing the Sky Dome blood-red.
And finally, the siren head, whose headgear was not just for show, emitted a vibrating terrorizing sound.
At this moment.
Su Qi felt as if struck by a heavy hammer, blood streaming from all his orifices, even the clock's immunity couldn't hold up.
At the same time.
[Spiritual Power -5, Current 60]
"Pfft." Su Qi spat out a mouthful of blood, his eyes regaining clarity: "This Evil Spirit is still much weaker than the shadow illusion from the last instance!"
He could still hold on.
But... the mutated combination couldn't. It stopped in the last three hundred meters. The hormones made it go mad, but the might of the three great Evil Spirits instilled it with extreme fear.
It directly changed direction and started to frantically flee.
"It seems we can only get this far."
Su Qi jumped off of it and, the moment he landed, burst forth with all his strength, starting to run toward the center.
The three Evil Spirits were distracted and did not notice him—just a dot as insignificant as an ant.
Su Qi kept moving closer to the central crater.
But.
The closer he got, the more visibly his spiritual power decreased.
[Spiritual Power -2]
[Spiritual Power -3]
[Spiritual Power -4]
"Only a hundred meters left."
Su Qi's whole body surged with vital energy. Despite various spiritual impacts, his gaze was unwavering, and he moved as fast as an arrow released from a bow, without stopping.
Finally.
He rushed to the edge of the gigantic crater at the city center, then turned his gaze into the pit.
At that moment.
His mind exploded!
Whether his eyes were open or closed, they were filled with incomprehensible dark hues, countless voices whispered in his ears as though various phantom limbs were pulling at his body!
His consciousness seemed to be dragged into Hell, or buried deep in the Abyss, then thrown into a black hole!
Even the clocks were clicking, with numerous cracks forming.
In the next second, his spirit was about to be torn apart like fragile paper!
At this moment.
The Evil God's Eye in Su Qi's item slot suddenly flashed with a bright red light, emitting an even more terrifying and astonishing aura!
"Boom!"
It was like two tides clashing!
Su Qi's whole body shook violently, as if he was suddenly pulled from the bottom of the sea, his mind and spirit instantly clearing.
He was drenched in sweat, his gaze astonished.
"What just happened..."
The moment he saw what was inside the pit, he had already lost consciousness, something no clock could withstand. The feeling was exactly the same as when the first instance's phantom arrived.
But now he was pulled back.
However, now was not the time to think about that.
Although his spiritual power was still rapidly declining, Su Qi could now look directly at the object in the pit.
It was a massive heart, weakly beating in a fifty-meter-wide crater.
"Is this the source that polluted the world?"
Su Qi stared in shock, who would have thought that a thing that created so many terrifying abnormalities, destroying the entire city, was just a nearly dead heart!
And this heart had been beating here for two years.
At this moment.
Su Qi could finally see the content under [?] and [!].
The question mark told him.
[This is the heart of an Ancient God]
While the exclamation mark showed.
[Pierce it, and the pollution of this world will end, while also obtaining a heart of an Ancient God on the verge of collapse.]
So that's how it is.
Su Qi's gaze intensified, and without time to hesitate—as his spiritual power was descending shockingly fast—he produced his slaughter knife in his hand, and charged up directly along the slope.
At that moment.
Something unexpected happened.
In this crater where no one but Su Qi was supposed to be present.
Suddenly there came a voice, sounding taunting as it laughed:
"Mortal."
"Your knife, cannot pierce the heart of an Ancient God."