Woo woo, woo woo...
That tree of color moved without the wind, every single finger swaying like leaves in a breeze.
Alain narrowed his eyes slightly, sizing up this "old friend" that had caused him countless troubles.
The leaves formed by those fingers wriggled excitedly upon seeing him.
Every hand, every finger, assumed winding and smooth movements, like fish swimming in the sea, or perhaps like they were beckoning to him.
Alain gripped his greatsword tightly, about to charge at the big guy.
Kong!
Just at that moment, a hollow, muffled sound rang in his ears. In the next instant, pressure like a mountain nearly crushed his back.
Dong!
His feet were planted firmly on the ground, unable to move, unable to make any action.
Alain's meridians frantically resisted the sudden, monstrous force. Veins bulged at his temples, looking like winding snakes coiling beneath the skin.
He had experienced this scene before in the 2D Version. If he guessed correctly—
Wah!
The sound of a heavy gate opening.
In Alain's world of pain, the door at the entryway opened wide in his gaze.
The world behind the door was not 'The Forgotten Jigsaw Puzzle' or the 'Sci-fi Version', but a chaotic... no, a peaceful room.
Before he could think about what was happening, a tyrannical suction force threatened to wrap around him and fly him toward the door at the exit.
Alain understood the virus's intention: it wanted him to get the hell out of the Corrosive World and return to the Game World.
He stomped heavily on the ground, his shoe soles tearing up a muffled sound mixed with pitch-black mud.
Before his footprints could even cross the ground, black mud began to ooze, revealing the wooden floor beneath.
The jade-like deep brown was instantly submerged by the pitch-black darkness again.
The five fingers of the Corrosive Entity waved flamboyantly, and Alain could feel the suction becoming increasingly majestic, as if a tornado had whipped up at the doorway.
Ka!
His feet left the ground, instantly sucked toward the door of the unknown version.
The blackness in Alain's peripheral vision was gradually rendered with pink, but... this was not the pink he wanted.
He instantly broke free and placed his greatsword horizontally.
Kong!
Wedged against the doorframe, he successfully blocked his own momentum that had nearly scraped him out of the version.
"Alain!"
A prankster-like voice, half-smiling, drifted over. Alain didn't reply; just blocking this suction force left him with no energy to spare.
He looked at those giant black hands, as if seeing the enemy mocking him.
Alain took a secret breath, gritted his teeth, drove every muscle in his body, locked in his strength, and forcibly advanced two steps, successfully leaving the doorway to lean against the sofa.
He looked at the Corrosive Entity, which maintained its tyrannical power, and understood that no matter how many steps he advanced, he was only treating the symptoms, not the root cause.
So...
He raised his hand and, with a pah, snapped his fingers.
The next moment, a rustling sound echoed throughout Version 1.0F.
The darkness of the room seemed to turn into a grove of locust trees, with figures flashing back and forth from time to time.
Kacha!
Cute Mita heard the commotion and simultaneously felt something wriggling by her hand. Barely opening one eye, she saw a pale human head stationed beside her.
The girl's pain condensed significantly at this moment; the blackness on her face instantly turned pale with fright. She nearly did a somersault trying to run away.
It wasn't until she noticed it was a human-headed skeleton that she felt a little better.
"A skeleton...?" She couldn't help but look toward Alain's direction, discovering...
...
The young man's struggling figure flickered, and trembling heads stopped for an instant.
Their lower limbs merged with the black ground, while the human heads guided their direction like the masts of sailing ships.
Undoubtedly, the Man-Headed Spiders had gathered around Alain.
Half of the spiders advanced rapidly toward the Corrosive Entity with rustling sounds;
While the other half closed the room door.
Wah.
Alain felt the suction force on his body stop abruptly. Freedom spread throughout his whole body.
His unkind gaze turned slowly toward the Corrosive Entity.
The Man-Headed Spiders were sparing no effort in tearing and biting at the pigment branches, but they couldn't leave a single scratch on its surface.
Quite the opposite,
"Alain..." He could hear Cute Mita calling him, so he looked over.
"It's no use... against the Corrosive Entity, doing this will only waste the Man-Headed Spiders in vain..."
Just as the girl said, the Corrosive Entity crushed a spider's head with one hand. A chaotic pah pah pah sound rang out as fluid flowed all over the ground.
The spider's remains hung limply before falling to the ground with a pah.
"To defeat it... you cannot rely on your conventional knowledge." After she finished speaking, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
Alain looked at the Corrosive Entity in the center of the ocean of Man-Headed Spiders.
The spiders that had closed the door also joined the siege against the Corrosive Entity.
Even so, he couldn't see a single scratch.
Compared to other viruses, the Corrosive Entity was simply a different existence.
From creating a Corrosive World to snatching Mita's versions...
Was there some kind of connection in all this?
Alain thought; this was his second confrontation with the Corrosive Entity.
And the first confrontation...
The young man's gaze penetrated time, returning to the 2D Version, when he first encountered this black hand...
At that time, with just one sword strike, he had slain the seemingly powerful clone of the Corrosive Entity...
What was the reason for that?
As Alain pondered, he strode forward.
The Man-Headed Spiders automatically cleared a path, allowing him to reach straight to the front of the Corrosive Entity.
He didn't swing his blade with full force, even bolstering it with the last of the Failed Works Gauntlet's power—
Pah!
The strike turned onto the black palm.
In an instant, a strong sense of obstruction made his arms tremble, feeling waves of raw pain.
It felt like he was truly using a blunt axe to chop a towering tree.
Although the tree didn't move, it was hard to shake. Even if it just stood there, he couldn't cause it a single bit of harm.
Hiss.
Seeing a black hand about to grab his head, Alain hurriedly retreated two steps.
Wrong... not right at all.
One hit failed. Alain did not retreat further, thinking about what he had seen and heard.
In his gaze, one Man-Headed Spider after another rushed forward, constantly surging toward the Corrosive Entity.
Following the icons of "Bluetooth connection lost," they fell within the black hands of the Corrosive Entity.
Millie and Ugly Mita were buying time for him.
Think, Alain...
He silently warned himself.
The Corrosive Entity, in its essence, like the Parasitic Entity and the Mother Monster, is a mechanical monster.
The Parasitic Entity's mechanism is "Damage Judgment," and the Mother Monster's is "Weakness."
So what is the Corrosive Entity?
Alain observed the Corrosive Entity from top to bottom, left to right. It was pervasive, without a single flaw visible.
It was hard all over.
Could it be that after seeing so many versions, it had become so powerful... that it truly had no weakness at all?
Comparing... Version.
Version!!!
A flash of inspiration struck his mind, and starlight bloomed in the depths of his dark eyes.
He understood how he should subdue the Corrosive Entity.
"Alain, you thought of it?"
"My dear, I need your assistance."
Alain understood that to defeat the Corrosive Entity, relying on his own strength alone was not enough.
He also needed the help of the Mitas.
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