Chapter 9 Who said patients can obediently line up? "Aaaaaah!!"
The violent maniac let out a piercing scream, clutching his severed arm and retreating repeatedly, his eyes filled with disbelief and terror.
He's an E+ level power-type demon!
His arm was broken by this woman's kick?!
But that's not all.
Cinderella had no intention of letting him go.
She gracefully withdrew her foot, then suddenly took a step forward, her hand gripping the human skin skirt as if it had come alive, instantly wrapping around the violent maniac's neck.
"Kneel down and apologize to your father."
Cinderella's voice was soft, yet it carried an undeniable command.
With a flick of her wrist, the human skin skirt tightened instantly, digging into the demon's flesh.
"thump!"
The burly man, over two meters tall, was forced to kneel down in front of Su Ming, his head being shoved to the ground with a dull thud.
The entire room fell silent!
The ghosts who were originally just watching the fun.
At this moment, they were all like chickens with their necks choked, not daring to make a sound.
The old man who was carrying his own head was so frightened that his head fell to the ground and rolled away without him daring to pick it up.
The players in the corner were completely dumbfounded.
"What... what kind of combat power is this?"
"What level is that woman? D-level? Or higher?!"
Su Ming didn't even glance at his defeated opponent at his feet.
He stepped over the severed hand and walked straight to the window.
At this moment, the nurse with the stitched-up face in the window was also stunned.
Her cloudy little eyes were fixed on Cinderella, and the scissors she was tapping on the table stopped.
As a long-time employee of the hospital, she could clearly sense that the woman's aura... was very dangerous.
That's the aura of a superior being of the same kind!
"that....."
The ghost nurse swallowed back her anger, replacing it with a voice that tried to sound as amiable as possible:
"Sir, may I ask... what kind of appointment would you like to make?"
Su Ming braced his hands on the counter, leaned slightly forward, stared at the sutured face of the ghost nurse, and said calmly:
"I want to see the dean."
"Give me your most expensive number here."
The ghost nurse's expression changed visibly when she heard the words "hospital director".
"See the dean? That's a special appointment with a top-tier specialist..."
She looked at Su Ming with some embarrassment, then at the group of ghosts queuing behind her:
"According to the rules, you have to wait in line, and a special number requires a payment of 500 ghost coins, or..."
"Or what?"
Su Ming raised an eyebrow.
The ghost nurse swallowed hard and pointed to a 꽭놂 next to the counter:
"Or, pay an equivalent amount of pain."
"We accept fresh organs and resentful limbs here. As long as they are heavy enough, you can get a registration qualification."
After saying that, she took a greedy look at Su Ming's chest.
Although this human looks intimidating, his vibrant, beating heart still holds a deadly allure for the vengeful ghost.
Su Ming smiled.
"Equivalent pain, huh? Fine."
He turned around and looked at the violent maniac who was still kneeling on the ground, trembling.
"Hey you, can I borrow something from you?"
The violent maniac suddenly looked up, his eyes filled with terror: "What...what are you going to do?!"
Su Ming didn't waste any words and gave Cinderella a look.
"Cinderella, do it."
"Yes, Father."
Cinderella's delicate face lit up with an excited smile once again.
She stomped down hard with her crystal shoe, stepping directly on the violent maniac's other intact arm!
"Snap!"
Another crisp sound.
Then, she reached out and grabbed it, like pulling up a radish, and ripped the severed arm off along with the rotten flesh on the shoulder!
"Aaaaaah!!"
The violent maniac fainted on the spot from the pain, disappearing as a cloud of black mist, clearly indicating that he had suffered a severe injury.
Cinderella, carrying the thick arm still dripping with black blood, gracefully walked to the window and tossed it onto the window like trash.
"Bang!"
The heavy arm slammed onto the tray, and the tray sank to the bottom instantly.
Su Ming looked at the dumbfounded ghost nurse, smiled, and tapped on the glass:
Is this enough?
The ghost nurse stared at the arm belonging to an E+ level evil spirit, feeling the intense resentment emanating from it, and nodded repeatedly, her mask nearly bursting off her face.
"Enough! That's enough! This is the special service of a special service!"
She fumbled around on the old printer for a moment, then handed over a black card with both hands.
[Item Obtained: Black VIP Medical Record Card]
[Permission granted: Direct access to the dean's office on the top floor, during which time most general ward rules may be disregarded.]
Su Ming took the card, twirled it in his hand, and nodded in satisfaction.
Thanks.
He turned and led Cinderella toward the elevator.
As he passed the group of ghosts still queuing up, all of them instinctively shrank to the sides, making way for him and creating a wide avenue.
This is the privilege of the strong.
rule?
Those are shackles imposed on the weak.
For Antusheng, he was the rule-maker!
The oppressive atmosphere in the lobby eased slightly after Su Ming and his companion disappeared from the elevator.
The players in the corner exchanged glances, all seeing the shock in each other's eyes.
"Um...do we still need to wait in line?"
"What the hell are you arguing about! Didn't you see that the big boss crippled even the most powerful ghost? That ghost nurse is definitely furious right now; whoever goes there will die!"
"What should we do then? Follow them?"
"Are you crazy? Following that monster will only lead to your quicker death!"
"Let's get out of here quickly and find some easy tasks on the second floor!"
...
Inside the elevator.
The old, rickety carriage swayed and wobbled as it rose, making a sickening metallic scraping sound.
The numbers on the display screen slowly jumped from "1".
Su Ming looked at the black medical record card in his hand, his eyes becoming deep.
"The dean has lost something..."
"In this hospital filled with limbs and organs, what could possibly be so precious that even a ghost of the director's caliber would consider it valuable?"
At that moment.
"bite!"
The elevator suddenly stopped on the 4th floor.
But this was not the floor Su Ming was aiming for.
The elevator doors slowly opened, revealing a dark and secluded corridor without a single ray of light. A faint, indistinct children's song drifted from the depths of the corridor.
"Two tigers, two tigers, running fast..."
"One has no eye, one has no mouth, how strange..."
Su Ming frowned slightly.
He did not press the button for the 4th floor.
"It seems we have some uninvited guests who want to invite us to visit."
Su Ming looked down at Cinderella, only to find that there was no fear on her face, but rather... a hint of excitement at encountering a new toy.
"Father, I heard it..."
Cinderella licked her red lips and spoke softly:
There was a pair of...perfect eyes.Chapter 10 Pediatric Nursery Rhymes! Cinderella's Collecting Obsession! "Squeak—Crunch—"
The elevator doors slid open to both sides extremely slowly, like a rusty old mouth.
What came into view was a dimly lit corridor.
This is the 4th floor, the pediatric ward.
It should have been a place full of childlike fun.
But at this moment, it has become a true scroll of hell.
The walls were covered with all sorts of cartoon stickers—Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, SpongeBob SquarePants...
However, the expressions of these cartoon characters are all distorted to the extreme.
Some had bloody tears streaming from their eyes, some had mouths split open like earlobes, and what they held in their hands were not balloons, but severed limbs and internal organs.
Countless teru teru bozu (Japanese teru bozu dolls) hung from the ceiling.
But upon closer inspection, they were not dolls at all, but rather dried-up skulls of a type of creature, swaying gently in the cold wind and making soft "creaking" sounds.
The air was filled with a cloyingly sweet smell that made me want to vomit.
It smelled of rotten candy mixed with the stench of old, stale corpse oil.
"Two tigers...two tigers..."
The eerie nursery rhyme grew closer, as if whispering right next to my ear.
Su Ming stood at the elevator entrance, but didn't rush to leave.
He had one hand in his pocket, and with the other hand he gently turned the black medical record card in his hand, his eyes coldly fixed on the end of the corridor.
There, darkness seemed to writhe as if it were alive.
Then, two small figures, hand in hand, hopped out of the darkness.
Those were two children wearing hospital gowns.
The one on the left is a little girl with two pigtails, holding a dirty teddy bear.
Her skin was deathly pale, and her face wore an innocent smile, but...
Her eyes were empty.
Two dark, bloody holes were constantly oozing thick, black fluid.
Next to him was a little boy, slightly sturdy, but he had no mouth.
His face was half-stitched together with coarse black silk threads, like a sealed bag, only emitting a muffled "woo-woo" sound.
[Encountering a Special Mystery]: The Incomplete Twins (Rank D)
[Summary]: These twins suffered terrible abuse in life and became vengeful spirits searching for their organs after death. The older sister wanted the most beautiful eyes, and the younger brother wanted a mouth to speak.
[WARNING]: Do not agree to their game requests, or you will become a piece of their puzzle.
"Big brother...big sister..."
The blind girl stopped five meters away from the elevator, tilting her head, her two dark eye sockets "staring" at Su Ming.
"Did you...look into my eyes?"
"I've searched and searched... but I still can't find one that suits my eyes..."
The boy with the sewn-up mouth next to him also made excited "woo-woo" sounds, and a large, rusty pair of scissors appeared in his hand at some point, snipping away in the air.
Su Ming remained expressionless, and even seemed to want to laugh.
This kind of scavenging trick has been overused in horror movies.
"I didn't see it."
Su Ming replied coldly, then pressed the close button on the elevator.
"I'm going to the rooftop, I don't have time to play house with you guys."
However.
The elevator doors remained completely still.
An invisible force blocked the elevator doors, preventing them from closing.
"Hehehe... Big brother is so cold."
The blind girl laughed, her laughter sharp and piercing:
"Since you're here in the pediatrics department, you have to follow our rules."
"Play a game with us... how about hide-and-seek? If you win, we'll let you go. If you lose..."
She suddenly raised the teddy bear in her hand.
Suddenly, the teddy bear's belly split open, revealing that it was filled with all sorts of eyeballs!
There are creatures of various kinds, animals, and some unknown monsters.
Although those eyeballs had left the body, they still seemed alive, spinning wildly inside the bear's belly, staring intently at Su Ming and Cinderella.
"If you lose, leave your eyes... as part of my collection!"
As the girl finished speaking, blood began to seep from the surrounding walls.
The previously static cartoon stickers began to crawl up the wall, transforming into ferocious little monsters that surrounded the elevator entrance.
This is the ghost realm of the "Incomplete Twins"!
Here, they are the rulers.
If an ordinary player encountered this scene, they would probably be so scared that they would wet themselves and obediently agree to play the game.
But Su Ming just sighed.
"This is really troublesome."
He turned to look at Cinderella beside him.
At that moment, Cinderella was staring intently at the teddy bear in the girl's hand.
To be precise, it was staring at the brightest, clearest blue eyeball inside the bear's belly.
Her breathing became rapid, and a sickly longing flickered in her beautiful eyes.
"Dear…."
Cinderella stuck out her tongue, licked her red lips, and said in a trembling voice:
"That eye... is so beautiful."
"Like a sapphire...it would be perfect if it were set in my crystal shoe, wouldn't it?"
눒 means "dancer of desire," referring to Cinderella's almost obsessive possessiveness towards beautiful things.
"If you like it, then go get it."
Su Ming took a step back and leaned against the elevator wall.
"Whether it's their eyes or their lives... whatever you want, it's yours."
"Thank you so much for your kindness!"
Cinderella gracefully lifted her skirt and gave the twins a perfect curtsy.
When I looked up again.
The elegance on her face had vanished, replaced by a distorted and fanatical smile.
"Little sister...you have terrible taste."
Cinderella took a step, and her crystal shoes emitted an eerie red glow in the dimly lit corridor.
"How could you stuff such beautiful eyes into that dirty, broken doll?"
"That's a desecration of beauty!!"
The moment the last word was uttered, Cinderella moved.
"Enchanting Dance Steps!"
Her figure instantly transformed into a red whirlwind, moving even faster than the building in front of her!
"Waaaaah!!"
The boy with the sewn-up mouth reacted the fastest.
Although he has no mouth, his combat instincts are exceptionally sharp.
Seeing Cinderella rushing towards him, he immediately brandished his rusty scissors, like an enraged little wild beast, and pounced directly at Cinderella's waist.
Those scissors were covered in corpse poison; even a slight scratch would cause the skin to fester all over.
"Get out of here, you ugly monster!"
Cinderella didn't even glance at the boy.
During her high-speed sprint, her body suddenly made a waist movement that defied the laws of physics, perfectly avoiding the sweeping scissors.
Immediately afterwards.
Her long, slender leg sprang up like a spring, the sharp crystal heel whistling through the air as she kicked the boy's genitals with perfect precision!
"Snap—"
The boy with his mouth sewn shut couldn't even utter a sound of "sorrow" before his mouth was shattered by the kick!
The whole thing flew backward like a tattered sack, smashing hard against the wall and turning the cartoon stickers on the wall into a bloody mess.
Sold out instantly!
Although both are D-rank, this is a battle on completely different levels.
"younger brother!!"
The blind girl let out a sharp cry.
She clearly hadn't expected this seemingly beautiful woman to be so ruthless.
"I'm going to kill you! I'm going to gouge your eyes out!!"
The girl was furious.
The teddy bear in her hand suddenly exploded, and countless eyeballs flew out of it, floating in the air and emitting eerie mental fluctuations.
"Stare! Death stare!!"
Dozens of eyes opened at the same time, staring intently at Cinderella.
This is a psychological attack.
Anyone who is stared at by these eyes will fall into endless illusions, their bodies will stiffen, and they will eventually be at the mercy of these eyes.
However.
Cinderella, however, acted as if nothing had happened and continued charging forward.
"Hallucination?"
"In the face of vanity and desire... all fear is vain!"
Cinderella gave a cold laugh.
Her beautiful leather dress suddenly emitted a pink halo, which was her passive skill.
Any form of mental control is greatly diminished in the face of this outfit made of beautiful leather imbued with deep resentment.
"Give me that eye...!"
Cinderella had already rushed up to the girl.
She stretched out her hands.
Those fingers, painted with bright red nail polish, were like ten sharp scalpels, directly grabbing at the blue eyeball floating in the very center.
"No! That's mine! That's mine!!"
The blind girl gasped in terror, trying to reach out and grab it.
But she was too slow.
"Tear—"
Cinderella not only grabbed the eyeball, but also the girl's slender neck.
"I'm catching you, you little mouse."
Cinderella leaned closer to the girl's eyeless face and smiled wickedly:
"Since you have no eyes... then never see the light again."
After saying that.
She raised her other hand high, and a sharp crystal hairpin appeared in her hand without her noticing.
"puff!!"
The hairpin mercilessly pierced the girl's brow.
The black resentment dissipated instantly.
The blind girl's body began to crumble into pieces like burning paper, eventually turning into a pile of black ashes.
Only her blue eyeball remained, which Cinderella held tightly in her hand.
[Ding! Defeat the D-rank special mystery "The Incomplete Twins" and gain 50 points of Mysterious Aura!]
[Obtained rare material: Azure Peeping Eye (E+ grade)]
The battle ended too quickly.
From the moment Cinderella made her move to the complete annihilation of the twins, it took no more than ten seconds.
The wall monsters that had been stirring around them lost their vitality the moment the twins died, and turned back into ordinary stickers.
The corridor fell into a deathly silence.
Cinderella stood in the middle of the corridor, playing with the blue eyeball in her hand, her face flushed with satisfaction.
"Dear...look."
Like a child presenting a treasure, she turned and walked towards Su Ming, cradling the eyeball in her hands:
"Isn't it really beautiful?"
Su Ming took the cold eyeball.
[Azure Peeping Eyes (E+ Rating)]
[꿰绍]: An eyeball with the power to see through illusions, once belonging to a being with the ability to see ghosts. It can be used to enhance the perception of summoned creatures, or as a core material for newly modified characters.
"It's definitely a good product."
Su Ming nodded and casually put the eyeball into his storage space.
"Perfect, one of my fairy tale characters...maybe it's a good fit."
He glanced at Cinderella.
This woman's fighting power was stronger than he had expected.
His obsession with "specific body parts" makes him the perfect executioner.
"Let's go, don't keep the dean waiting."
Su Ming pressed the close button on the elevator.
This time, there were no obstacles.
The elevator doors slowly closed, isolating the fourth floor, which was filled with the smell of blood and tattered dolls.
The numbers on the display screen started changing again.
5th floor...6th floor...7th floor...
The highest floor is the 13th floor.
"bite!"
A crisp notification sound rang out.
Top floor, I'm done.
Unlike the filth and disorder of the lower floors, the top floor was covered with a scarlet carpet, and the walls were adorned with exquisite oil paintings—of course, all of which depicted various anatomical diagrams.
At the end of the corridor was a huge double oak door.
The door was ajar, and a suppressed roar could be faintly heard from inside, followed by the sound of glass shattering.
"A bunch of useless trash! All of them are useless!!"
"My perfect bride is just one piece missing from the puzzle! And you're telling me you can't find it?!"
"If you can't find it, then take out your hearts and fill in the gaps!!"
Su Ming stood at the elevator entrance, listening to the roaring sounds inside, a playful smile curving his lips.
"It seems that this dean has a rather bad temper."
"The perfect bride?"
"Interesting… I'm also quite good at crafts."
Su Ming straightened his collar, then, with Cinderella in tow, strode towards the door.Chapter 11 The Mad Doctor's Perfect Bride! The Inflationary Modification Costs! Standing before that heavy oak door, Su Ming didn't rush to push it open and enter.
He first glanced at his attribute panel.
I just cleaned up those twins. Although the energy bar increased a bit, it's still far from enough for the next major modification.
"System, how much energy is needed to unlock the third fairy tale character slot?"
[Answer to host: The third modification requires 500 points of Weird Energy.]
[Note: As Anto's professional level increases, the energy required for each subsequent modification will increase exponentially. Furthermore, to create more powerful "C-grade" or even "B-grade" fairytale creatures, you must use higher-quality strange items as core materials.]
"500 points?"
Su Ming's lips twitched slightly.
The first time is free, the second time is 100 points, and the third time it's five times the original amount?
The inflation in this horror game is even more outrageous than in the real world.
"In other words, you'd have to kill so many D-rank monsters to collect them all."
"It seems we have to hunt down a big one."
Su Ming's gaze fell on the door in front of him, a fleeting glint of greed in his eyes.
The dean inside must be worth a lot of money, right?
"Moreover, energy alone is not enough; we also need top-quality materials..."
Su Ming stroked his chin. The reason Cinderella was born a D+ grade was largely due to her red dancing shoes and beautiful skin.
If it's a heavyweight character like "Snow White" or "Little Red Riding Hood".
Even if it's just to pay homage to the original work, they should at least include some hardcore items like "shards of the magic mirror" or "the fur of the progenitor of wolves," right?
"Pinocchio, time to get to work."
As soon as Su Ming thought about it, the shadow behind him instantly twisted and lengthened.
Accompanied by a chilling sound of bones grinding together, the terrifying puppet, over two meters tall and made entirely of black wood and bones, slowly crawled out of the shadows.
Compared to when he was first born, Pinocchio now has a layer of dark bloodstains on his body, and the rib cage on his chest has a metallic sheen.
That was the result of devouring zombies and various vengeful spirits.
"Dear…"
Pinocchio lowered his head stiffly, his long nose resembling a spear ready to charge at any moment.
"I can smell it… there's a big one in here."
"There are many interesting bones in his body."
Su Ming nodded in satisfaction.
On the left is a brutal physical tank, and on the right is an elegant magic assassin.
This lineup should be enough to clear a raid boss dungeon.
"Open the door."
Su Ming gave the order.
"boom!!"
Without a word, Pinocchio raised his enormous wooden foot and delivered a powerful kick to the expensive oak door.
Wood chips flew everywhere, and the gate collapsed with a crash.
The scene inside was finally revealed to the three of them.
This is not just an office; it's more like a huge slaughterhouse and operating room.
In the center of the room stood a large metal operating table.
On the operating table lay a woman's corpse with a graceful figure... no, to be precise, a pieced-together corpse.
Her left leg was fair and slender, while her right leg was rough and dark; her left leg was long and straight, while her right leg was somewhat bloated.
Beside the magic platform stood a monster of the shape of a 꾫, nearly three meters tall.
He was wearing a white coat stained with blood, and inside he was holding a needle and thread and a scalpel.
What was most terrifying was his head—it was a huge head made up of several disfigured faces stitched together!
The face of the doctor is that of a serious middle-aged man, but the back of his head is that of a crying woman, and a laughing clown face is sewn onto the left side of his ear.
[Encountering the Area Boss: Stitching Corpse Doctor Franken (C- Rank)]
[Introduction: The hospital's director is a fanatical perfectionist. He attempts to piece together his vision of a "perfect bride" using the most perfect limbs in the city. But he can't find a single organ worthy of this body.]
[Warning: He has an extreme aversion to flawed products and an extreme desire for perfect materials.]
The noise of the door being kicked open clearly interrupted the "artist's" creative process.
Franken slowly turned around, his patchwork face contorted with extreme rage.
"Who?! Who dares to disturb my magic?!"
"Dou's jerked! The blood vessel is 0.1 millimeters off! You've ruined Dou's masterpiece!!"
He let out a roar, and the magic knife was flung out, embedding itself directly into the wall beside him, the hilt trembling wildly.
But the next second...
When Franken's murky eyes swept over Cinderella, his anger froze instantly.
Instead, there was a chilling obsession and greed.
"Oh…..꽭呐….."
Franken threw away the needle and thread in his pocket and walked heavily toward the door, each step causing the floor to tremble.
"What...perfect skin..."
"What...exquisite features..."
"This is simply a miracle! This is the perfect bride I've always wanted!"
He completely ignored Su Ming and Pinocchio, and stretched out his large, flesh-covered hands, wanting to stroke Cinderella's cheeks:
"Give you...give me your skin, your face, your body, everything!!"
"With you, I can create true life!"
Seeing this wicked Frankenstein's monster approaching, Cinderella took a half-step back in disgust and hid behind Su Ming.
"Honey... he's so ugly."
"And he smelled worse than the rats in the sewers."
Su Ming stood still, looking at the C-rank BOSS that had gone mad. Instead of being afraid, he laughed.
"Dean Franken, is that right?"
"Want a daughter?"
Su Ming took out the carving knife from his pocket and pointed it at Franken's heart, which was pounding violently with excitement.
The organ was not only enormous, but also had an eerie purplish-gold color, clearly indicating it was not a genuine product.
"You can have her if you want her."
"But as a fair merchant..."
"I've got my eye on your roe, and your magic knife."
"How about...we switch?"
Upon hearing this, Franken paused for a moment, then a ferocious, maniacal laugh spread across his patchwork face:
"Exchange? You dare to presume?!"
"In this hospital, Nene is a god!"
"Since you won't give it to me, then I'll take it myself! I'll sew you all together!!"
"roar--!!"
Franken roared, and his originally bulky body suddenly burst forth with astonishing speed.
The skin on his back split open, and four more arms emerged, each holding a chainsaw, a bone hammer, and even a gigantic syringe!
A six-armed Frankenstein's monster!
This is the oppressive feeling of a C-rank BOSS!
"Pinocchio, push forward!"
Su Ming's eyes turned cold, and he quickly retreated.
"Cinderella, find a chance to cut his Achilles tendons!"
"Yes, sir! ... My dear!"
"Lies... need to be shattered!"
Pinocchio showed no fear and charged towards the oncoming chainsaw.
Although he is not as high-ranking as Frankenstein, he is an immortal puppet!
"Zzzzzzz—!!"
The chainsaw sawed fiercely at Pinocchio's shoulder, sparks flying and wood chips flying everywhere.
But Pinocchio didn't even utter a sound. Instead, he grabbed Frankenstein's waist tightly, and the skeletal cage on his chest suddenly sprang out and plunged into Frankenstein's belly!
Chapter 12 The Intimidating Force of a C-Rank Boss! "I am... an honest, tough guy!!"
After embracing Frankenstein, Pinocchio let out a roar, and the cage of ribs in his chest emitted a strange dark light.
Despite the flying sawdust and billowing black smoke, he actually withstood the frontal sawing blow from the C-level BOSS, with only a crack appearing on the black wood on his shoulder.
"Huh? It didn't break?"
A flicker of surprise crossed Franken's patchwork face, which then turned into an even more frenzied rage.
"Then let's do a few more!!"
His other two arms swung wildly from behind, and the bone hammer and the giant syringe smashed down on Pinocchio's head at the same time.
"Want to mess with that blockhead? Did you even ask me?"
A red afterimage flashed by suddenly.
Cinderella moved.
As a rare D+ grade summon, her speed exploded to its limit at this moment, even causing the air to crackle.
The crying woman's face on the back of Franken's head suddenly opened its eyes, trying to warn him: "Hehe... there's something behind me..."
"puff!"
Before the words were even finished, a sharp crystal shoe heel pierced deeply into the woman's eye socket!
"Too noisy, ugly and weird."
Cinderella's cold voice rang out behind Franken.
She took flight, her body completing an elegant yet deadly spin in mid-air. Her human skin skirt instantly transformed into a noose, tightly binding Franken's arm that held the bone hammer.
"Break it...!"
Cinderella was covered in frostbite, and her glass slipper was stomping wildly on Frankenstein's spine.
"Snap!"
Although it didn't sever the arm directly, the blow distorted Franken's movements, causing the bone hammer to miss its mark and smash into the nearby plank, creating a crater.
"Aaaaaah! My eyes! Damn woman!!"
Franken roared in agony, spurting copious amounts of black blood from the back of his blinded head.
He was completely enraged.
"Get out of here!!"
Franken's remaining arms reached back simultaneously, and the giant chainsaw swept around, forcing Cinderella to loosen her restraints and land gracefully with a few backflips.
"Tch, that skin is really thick."
Cinderella flicked the blood off her heels, her voice filled with disgust, but her eyes were brimming with fighting spirit.
In this exchange, they gained the upper hand!
Su Ming hid behind cover, calmly analyzing the situation.
"Pinocchio can withstand the frontal attacks, and Cinderella can break through their defenses; they're a formidable opponent."
"But this BOSS has too much health, and its recovery is amazing."
really.
Franken's head wound was visibly healing at an alarming rate, and the expression on his face grew increasingly ferocious.
"Great material...it's really good!"
"I originally wanted to crush you all, but now I've changed my mind."
"I want to cut off your leg intact and put it on my bride!"
Franken roared and suddenly plunged the syringe into his own heart.
"Gurgle—"
As the drug was injected, his body instantly swelled up, the sutures all over his body taut, emanating a terrifying aura that was suffocating.
Berserk state!
"And this... my children, come out and eat!"
Franken grabbed the severed limbs beside him, and the needle and thread became afterimages.
In the blink of an eye, he created seven bizarre, stylized monsters that charged at Su Ming like a pack of mad dogs!
"Are we going to deal with the summoner first?"
Su Ming's eyes turned cold.
At this moment, Pinocchio is fighting fiercely against Frankenstein, trying to return to protect him; Cinderella is looking for the next opportunity to break through.
"Don't worry about me!"
Su Ming shouted, carved a flower shape, and then advanced instead of retreating.
Facing the leading Stitched Monster, he sidestepped and precisely pierced the monster's nape nerve center.
"puff!"
One blow kills.
As a legendary doll restorer, his understanding of human anatomy is no less than that of this mad doctor.
But there are too many monsters.
"Tear!"
Another monster took the opportunity to tear Su Ming's arm.
Despite the excruciating pain, Su Ming didn't even flinch.
He kicked the monster away, and in the process of retreating, he fixed his gaze on the magic platform.
He discovered a fatal detail.
Even in his berserk state, even when he was blinded and enraged by Cinderella's stabbing, Franken's body always, intentionally or unintentionally, stood in front of the "perfect bride."
He would rather take a punch from Pinocchio himself than let the magic table be hit by a wave.
That's his Achilles' heel.
A cold glint flashed in Su Ming's eyes.
"Cinderella! Forget about that burly guy!"
"Go and ruin that bride!!"
"Slash that corpse's face to shreds! Peel her skin off!!"
This shout was like a thunderclap.
Frankenstein, who was about to use a chainsaw to split Pinocchio in two, suddenly froze.
His three faces simultaneously displayed extreme terror and panic, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
"You!! You're not allowed to touch her!!"
"She's perfect! Nobody's allowed to touch her!!"
Frankenstein completely abandoned Pinocchio in front of him, and even ignored the gap exposed behind him, turning around like a madman to grab Cinderella.
The previously impeccable rhythm of offense and defense was instantly thrown into chaos.
"Now!"
Su Ming's eyes flashed with intense light.
"Pinocchio! Hold onto his legs! Don't let him move!"
"Cinderella! Cut his Achilles tendons!!"
This is a psychological game.
A feint to the east while attacking in the west!
Franken's concern clouded his judgment, and he completely exposed his weaknesses under Cinderella's glass slipper.
"Received~ Father's wisdom is truly fascinating."
Cinderella made a sudden turn in mid-air, and her figure, which had been rushing towards the corpse, plummeted down.
Her target was the stitches on Franken's ankle that were exposed when he turned around!
A flash of cold light, and the crystal shoe fell like a jewel.
The outcome hinges on this moment!
"Got you... you big guy!"Chapter 13 The Collapsing Mountain of Flesh! Pinocchio's Feast! "Collapse—!!"
A muffled thud, like a steel cable snapping, erupted in the chaotic operating room.
Cinderella's crystal shoe, glowing with an eerie red light, pierced precisely into the unprotected stitches of Frankenstein's ankle.
That is the core fulcrum supporting the enormous body.
The sutures broke, and the tendon was torn.
"Ughhh!!"
Franken let out a bloodcurdling roar.
The right leg, having lost its support, twisted instantly, unable to withstand the increased weight after the berserk state.
"Boom!"
This C-rank boss, as massive as a mountain of flesh, has finally lost its balance.
Covered in blood and filled with resentment, he knelt heavily on the ground, the sound shaking the entire top floor.
Even the rows of surgical instruments were shaken so badly that they crashed to the ground.
But I still didn't give up.
Even kneeling, even with blood gushing from his ankles, Franken still stretched out his neck and even crawled frantically on the ground with his remaining arm, trying to get closer to the operating table.
There was no fear of death in his eyes, only madness for that "perfect bride".
"No...you can't touch her..."
"She is sacred...she is my life..."
Tears streamed down Franken's patchwork face; the once terrifying monster now revealed a pitiful, infatuated expression.
But on the battlefield, there is no mercy.
"Even if you're kneeling, you're still too tall and an eyesore."
A deep, muffled sound came from above.
Before Franken could even climb to the edge of the altar, a huge black figure descended from the sky.
It's Pinocchio!
Although there was a deep cut on his shoulder and he was covered in wounds, his fierce and malevolent aura remained undiminished.
"Get down...!"
Pinocchio clasped his hands together, like a heavy hammer, and slammed them hard into Frankenstein's back.
"Thump!!"
Frankenstein's massive body was slammed to the ground, his face making intimate contact with the floor tiles, shattering them.
"Roar! Get out of the way!!"
Franken struggled frantically, his two arms flailing wildly behind his back, the bone hammer and syringe hitting Pinocchio hard with muffled "plop" sounds.
But Pinocchio was like a stubborn rock, firmly suppressing the giant beast, never letting go even as his body was battered and splintered.
"The doctor said... During the surgery, the patient is not allowed to move around!"
Pinocchio's electronic eyes flashed red, and the skeletal cage on his chest suddenly popped out, like a shackle, tightly wedging Franken's neck and shoulders.
The outcome is decided.
Having lost its mobility and being pinned down by tanks, the BOSS's only fate is death.
"Da, da, da."
Clear footsteps sounded.
Su Ming walked coldly towards Frankenstein step by step.
Instead of looking down at the defeated man at his feet, he first looked up at the "perfect bride" that Frankenstein regarded as a treasure.
"To expose one's weaknesses to the enemy for such a pile of rotten flesh."
Su Ming lowered his head, a hint of disdain flashing in his eyes:
"Doctor, you're being very irrational."
"As an artist, your taste... is absolutely terrible."
"True perfection is the unity of soul and body, not a jumbled mess like this."
Upon hearing this, Franken suddenly raised his head, his cloudy eyes fixed on Su Ming, and a beast-like growl escaped his throat:
"What do you know...what do you know?!"
"That's art! That's a miracle!!"
"Give her my heart... Just give her my heart... and she will wake up!!"
Su Ming crouched down, his fingertips gently rotating the carving knife, the tip of which was aimed at Frankenstein's violently beating heart.
"Since you're so eager to donate your heart..."
A cruel smile appeared on Su Ming's lips:
"Then I will grant your wish."
As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of light appeared on his blade.
"Pfft!!"
Su Ming gripped the knife tightly and, using all his strength, plunged it precisely into Frankenstein's rough chest sutures.
Black blood gushed out, splattering all over Su Ming.
But he didn't even blink.
The wrist is flipped, the blade is swirled, blood vessels are severed, and tissue is peeled away.
This set of movements is so fluid and graceful, it's like mending a worn-out doll.
"Aaaaaah—!!!"
Franken let out his last desperate cry.
My body convulsed violently, my arm stiffened in mid-air, and then fell limply to the ground.
"Tear—"
Su Ming took a deep breath and suddenly lifted himself up.
A huge heart, entirely purple-gold in color and still throbbing, was forcibly pulled out of Franken's chest cavity!
As his heart was removed from his body, Frankenstein's massive body quickly lost its luster and finally went completely limp.
A mad doctor, a generation gone, has fallen.
[Ding! Defeat C-rank area boss "Stitching Corpse Doctor Franken"!]
[Combat Rating: S (Attacking a higher-level opponent, perfect tactics)]
[Basic reward: 150 points of Weird Energy.]
[Received reward for defeating a higher-level opponent: 50 points of Weird Energy.]
[Current eerie energy: 250/500.]
Su Ming breathed a long sigh of relief, looking at the heavy heart inside his chest with burning eyes.
[Item]: A brutally stitched heart (C-grade top-tier material)
[Introduction]: A heart filled with an obsession with perfection and madness. It not only possesses an extremely strong hematopoietic function, but also contains the power of "stitching" and "resurrection".
[Uses]: It is the best engine to give "life" to inanimate objects, and also the core power source for making advanced puppets.
"nice one."
Su Ming carefully put his heart away.
Just then, Pinocchio, who had been pressing down on Frankenstein's corpse, suddenly turned his head, his scarlet electronic eyes fixed on Frankenstein's massive skeleton, and a craving grinding sound came from his throat.
"Darling… your bones smell so good."
"May I...eat it?"
Su Ming glanced at the corpse on the ground.
Although Frankenstein is dead, his skeleton, which has undergone countless modifications, is indeed top-tier reinforcement material.
"Approved," Su Ming said calmly. "Don't waste it."
"Thank you... dear!!"
Pinocchio let out an excited roar and tore open Frankenstein's back, ripping out an entire thick spine!
"Snap! Snap!"
The sound of chewing could be heard.
Pinocchio was frantically gnawing on the spine of this C-rank BOSS, as if it were sugarcane.
As it devoured, the broken black wood on its body began to heal, and a metallic luster appeared on the surface of its originally dull bones. Its body also grew taller again, becoming even more burly and ferocious.
[Ding! Your summoned creature "Pinocchio" has devoured a C-grade spine!]
[Evolution successful!]
[Rank upgraded to: D+!]
[Gained new trait: Bone Armor (significantly increases physical defense and grants immunity to low-level pain).]
At that moment, Cinderella walked over from the side.
She didn't eat as rudely as Pinocchio, but gracefully stepped on the pool of black blood flowing from Frankenstein.
The crystal shoes on her feet seemed to come alive, greedily absorbing the resentment of the blood.
The crystal shoes, which were originally transparent and reddish, have now turned into a deep scarlet red, as if they were carved from the purest rubies.
[Ding! Your summoned creature "Cinderella" has absorbed a large amount of high-level resentment.]
[Rank upgraded to: C-! Skill charm effect enhanced!]
Seeing the two children whose strength had greatly increased, Su Ming nodded in satisfaction.
This is Antoine's snowballing ability.
They fight to sustain themselves, growing stronger with each battle.
"Honey, this sparkly thing looks pretty good too."
Just then, Cinderella picked up a gleaming magic knife from the ground.
Su Ming took the magic knife.
[Item]: Frankenstein's Scalpel (C-Tier Weapon)
[Characteristics]: Tear (wounds that cannot heal), Precision (damage bonus to biological anatomy).
"I really need a weapon to take advantage of."
Su Ming threw away the ordinary carving knife in the box and replaced it with this scalpel.
With this thing, you can deal significant damage even when finishing off tough opponents.
After resting for a while, Su Ming stood up and walked to the dusty desk in the corner of the room.
Now that we've defeated the boss, we should at least get some story items.
He pried open the locked drawer.
Inside lay a yellowed diary and a key.
Su Ming picked up the diary and began to flip through it quickly.
[Month 10th: Finally... I finally found that legend!]
[That thing really is hidden in the hospital's underground level, in that restricted area that's been sealed off for fifty years!]
That was a spinning wheel! A spinning wheel that turned, stained with curses!
If I can bring out even a single thread of the "curse" from there, I can stitch up the last piece of the heart! My bride will then awaken!
But...it's too dangerous there...that thing guarding the spinning wheel...it's not a ghost...it's...
The diary entry came to an abrupt end.
"A spinning wheel? Cursed thread?"
Su Ming stroked his chin, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.
"The mention of spinning wheels and slumber reminds me of a famous fairy tale."
He picked up the key.
[Item]: Key to the underground restricted area (negative level).
[Description]: The ticket to the abyss of despair. A place even Frankenstein dared not easily set foot in.
"Although we haven't decided who to summon next, cursed items of this caliber are definitely invaluable materials."
Su Ming tossed the key up and caught it steadily.
"Pinocchio, Cinderella".
Su Ming turned around and looked at the two people who looked completely different.
"Are you full?"
"I'm full, dear." Pinocchio patted his hard, iron-like chest, his voice like muffled thunder.
"That's good."
Su Ming opened the window; the night breeze was slightly cool.
"Our downstairs neighbor seems to have some good stuff hidden away; let's go visit them."Chapter 14 The Elevator to the Abyss! The Fourth One in the Mirror! The night is deep.
The air on the top floor of the hospital still carried the strong stench of Frankenstein's death.
Su Ming did not linger.
He took the newly acquired Nocturne and Cinderella back to the elevator entrance.
The old elevator seemed to have been waiting for them all along; with a "ding," the doors opened automatically.
Su Ming stepped inside, but instead of pressing the floor button, he took out the bronze key he had just retrieved from the drawer.
He inserted the key into the lock at the bottom of the elevator button panel.
"Click".
As the key turned, a mechanical sound of gears meshing echoed from deep within the well.
Immediately afterwards, a bright red button suddenly appeared below the negative floor buttons that originally only had "B1" and "B2".
That's the switch leading to the third basement level—the underground restricted area.
"Let's go see what the legend is all about."
Su Ming reached out and pressed the red button.
"Buzz—"
The elevator jolted violently and then began to plummet rapidly.
The speed of this descent far exceeds that of a normal elevator, and the intense feeling of weightlessness causes the eardrums to bulge.
The lights inside the elevator car began to flicker wildly, emitting a buzzing sound. In the intermittent brightness, the image reflected on the originally smooth elevator mirror seemed to undergo some subtle changes.
Su Ming stood at the very front, looking at himself in the mirror.
He was pale, his arm was bandaged, and he held a still-dripping scalpel in his hand.
Behind him, to his left, was the tall and imposing Kim Nocchio; to his right was Cinderella, who was fixing her hair with a nonchalant expression.
There are three 그 in total.
This is normal.
But Su Ming's eyes narrowed slightly.
Because in the far corner of the mirror, in the huge shadow of Nocco, there seems to be a fourth blurry figure standing there.
The figure, with its head down and dressed in an old-fashioned hospital gown, was slowly approaching Nozomi's back, its withered hands almost touching Nozomi's injured shoulder.
"꾩Nocho."
Su Ming didn't turn his head, and spoke calmly:
"Even though you're made of wood and don't need to take a bath, could you please stop getting all sorts of dirt stuck to your body?"
Ginno Cao was stunned for a moment.
His rusty, mechanical brain seemed not yet to grasp his father's meaning.
But he instinctively obeyed Su Ming's every word, suddenly turned around, and waved his large hand at the air behind him!
"call--!"
The strong wind it generated swept through the corner of the elevator.
"whee....."
A very faint laugh, like the squeak of a mouse, rang out, and then the shadow vanished instantly.
The lights in the elevator were then restored to normal.
"Father... what was that just now?" Cinderella frowned; she hadn't noticed anything amiss at all.
"It's nothing, just a lost little bug."
Su Ming said calmly, his gaze still fixed on the constantly changing floor display screen.
"It seems that the path leading underground is itself a kind of selection."
"If one's wisdom is not firm, he will probably be scared out of his mind before he even gets to the place."
The numbers on the display screen changed from positive to negative.
-1.....-2.....
The moment the numbers jumped to "-3", the elevator made a heavy thud and slowly came to a stop.
There was a deathly silence all around, with only the cold wind blowing in through the cracks in the door, making a whistling sound.
"Get ready to work."
Su Ming gripped the scalpel and gave a hand signal to the two summoned creatures.
Ginnoc immediately stepped to the front, protecting Su Ming behind him; Cinderella, meanwhile, silently pressed herself against the wall, ready for a surprise attack.
The elevator doors slid open slowly.
A musty, rotten smell, mixed with the smell of rust, instantly filled the carriage.
Outside the door, it was pitch black.
The blackness was so thick it resembled ink that couldn't be dissolved, making it impossible to even discern the outline of the corridor.
[WARNING! You have entered a high-risk hidden area: The Forgotten Textile Room (Basement Level 3).]
Danger Level: Unknown (Due to the curse, it cannot be assessed).
[Hint: This place holds the hospital's earliest secrets and imprisons an ancient, vengeful spirit born of love turned to hatred. Watch your step and do not touch any of the "lines."]
"Wire?"
Su Ming keenly captured the key words.
Instead of rushing out, he took out a lighter from his pocket and lit it with a "click".
A faint flame flickered in the darkness.
With the help of this glimmer of light, Su Ming finally saw the scene before him clearly.
Pupil constriction.
What kind of corridor is this?
This is clearly a giant spider web!
The walls, ceiling, and even the floor of the entire corridor were covered with countless thin red threads.
These lines are extremely thin, almost invisible in the darkness, but under the firelight, they reflect an eerie, blood-red glow.
They crisscrossed, like a giant predatory net, blocking all paths of escape.
And on those silk nets, there are also "cocoons" of various shapes hanging.
Some cocoons are only the size of a basketball, and look like they're wrapped around some small animal.
Some cocoons were about the size of a 그, and were even slightly wriggling, as if the thing inside wasn't quite dead yet.
"So beautiful..... What a cruel arrangement."
Cinderella looked at the red threads, a hint of amazement flashing in her eyes:
"Father, these threads... seem to have been peeled off using blood vessels."
"Blood vessel?"
Su Ming raised an eyebrow.
Use blood vessels as threads to weave a net.
This "Guardian's" craftsmanship seems to be much more refined than that rough-and-tumble Frankenstein.
"Sizzle—"
Just then, a mutated rat that appeared out of nowhere, probably attracted by the firelight, frantically crashed into the red line closest to the ground.
There was no sense of obstruction.
It's like tofu hitting a steel wire.
The enormous mutant rat didn't even have time to utter a sound before it was instantly sliced in two by that thin, thread-like red line!
The incision was as smooth as a mirror, and fresh blood gushed out.
But strangely, the blood didn't fall to the ground; instead, it was instantly absorbed by the red thread!
The red thread, having absorbed the blood, trembled slightly and made a soft sound.
"Zheng—"
The voice was extremely pleasant to hear, yet it carried a deadly killing intent.
Immediately afterwards, a response seemed to emanate from the depths of the corridor.
"Squeak... squeak..."
That's... the sound of an old-fashioned spinning wheel turning.
Rhythmic, slow, and heavy.
Su Ming extinguished the lighter, and darkness enveloped him once more.
"It seems that the family already knows that the guests have arrived."
Su Ming put the lighter away and said to Gu Noca behind him:
"Gonnocho, the road here is too narrow. With your size, you're likely to run into a landmine."
"Make it smaller."
"Yes, Father."
Nocturne obediently twisted his body, and with a series of cracking sounds, his body curled up, transforming into a small wooden puppet about one meter tall. Although his combat power would decrease, he would become more agile.
"Cinderella, the soles of your shoes are too hard; they make a noise when you walk."
"I want you to... jump over it."
"This online dance video shouldn't be too difficult for you, right?"
Cinderella looked at the dense network of red threads, a challenging smile playing on her lips:
"Of course, Father."
"This is the best stage."
Su Ming nodded, took a deep breath, and took his first step out of the elevator.
He didn't step on the ground, but instead stepped on a gap in a tile without a red line.
"Since it's a textile workshop, let me take a look..."
"Is it your spider web that's strong, or your knife that's sharp?"
Chapter 15 Waltz on the Edge of a Knife! The Sleeping Weaver Girl! "Clang—"
A red line lying in mid-air was gently touched, causing it to tremble slightly.
The sound wasn't loud, but in the deathly silent corridor below, it was like a death knell.
However, it wasn't a reckless intruder who triggered this trigger, but rather a delicate crystal shoe.
Cinderella was like a ballerina dancing on a tightrope, her toes lightly touching the veins.
The sharp red thread cut into the sole of the crystal shoe, but it couldn't cut through the cursed, hardened crystal, thus becoming her leverage point.
"What a perfect stage..."
Cinderella spreads her arms wide, her body moving lightly through the dense mesh, her red skirt fluttering, yet she always manages to avoid the deadly threads by the narrowest of margins.
She even had the leisure to reach out and fiddle with the "cocoons" hanging in the air, listening to the faint groans coming from inside, a morbid pleasure on her face.
"Father, look, there's a bug wearing a white coat in here."
"His heart is still beating, he's really strong."
Su Ming followed behind, his steps not as flashy as Cinderella's, but exceptionally steady.
He swung the scalpel in his hand from time to time, precisely picking through the hanging mucus and bits of flesh.
Beneath their feet, the one-meter-tall puppet Pinocchio was crawling on his hands and feet.
"I want to dance too... but I'm too heavy."
Pinocchio grumbled aggrievedly, carefully avoiding the low red lines, looking somewhat comical, yet unexpectedly safe.
This strange three-man team advanced a hundred meters through this forbidden zone of death.
The deeper you go, the denser the red lines become, and the stronger the smell of blood in the air. You can even hear a "thump-thump" sound, like a heartbeat, coming from inside the walls.
It's as if the entire lower three layers of the body are a huge living organ.
Sudden.
"Snap!"
Above his head, a huge cocoon seemed unable to bear the weight, and the red threads connecting it snapped violently.
The cocoon, which looked like a sleeping bag, slammed directly onto Su Ming's head!
"께心!"
Su Ming didn't need to lift a finger.
Cinderella in front delivered a spinning kick, and her glass slipper landed precisely on the fallen cocoon.
"Bang!"
The cocoon was kicked away and crashed into the red netting on the side.
"Sizzle—"
Like cutting butter with a hot knife.
The cocoon was instantly cut into countless pieces of minced meat by the red thread net.
The contents inside were also exposed.
It turned out to be a security guard who had already mutated, his whole body covered in red fur.
Even though it was chopped up, the head was still rolling on the ground, hissing and trying to bite the nearest red line.
But the next second...
The surrounding red lines seemed to come alive, tightening instantly and piercing directly into the bits of flesh.
"Slurp..."
A chilling sucking sound rang out.
In just a few seconds, the bits of flesh and blood on the body were completely sucked away, leaving only a pile of shriveled skin and bones.
The red lines, now saturated with blood, became even more vibrant, and even began to slowly writhe in the air like snakes.
"What a greedy stomach!"
Su Ming watched this scene, his eyes turning slightly cold:
"It seems that this textile worker is not only skilled, but also has a big appetite."
"Hurry up, don't keep her waiting."
The three quickened their pace.
Finally, after traversing this long, deadly maze, a half-open iron gate appeared ahead.
A rusty brass plaque hung on the door, with the words "Clothing Center" faintly engraved on it, but it was mostly covered by black bloodstains.
The rhythmic creaking sound came from behind the door.
Su Ming stood at the door, took a deep breath, and gently pried open the iron door with his scalpel.
"squeak--"
The grating sound of the door hinges rubbing together echoed in the empty room.
The scene inside was finally revealed before my eyes.
This is a space the size of a football or basketball court.
The surrounding area was piled with tattered clothes and sheets like 께껚, and... human skin that had been peeled off.
In the very center of the room stood a strangely shaped giant spinning wheel.
This spinning wheel is not made of wood, but is pieced together from countless pale human bones.
The axle is the spine, the pedal is the pelvis, and the spindle is a sharp femur.
A woman dressed in an old-fashioned head nurse uniform was sitting in a bone chair with her back to the door.
Her movements were mechanical and stiff.
One foot rhythmically pedals, while the other hands busily move in front of the spindle.
She is spinning thread.
But what she held in her hands was not cotton, but hearts that were still beating and kidneys that were still wriggling!
She skillfully used her fingernails to cut open those organs, extracting thin blood vessels and nerves, which she then wound around a spindle, spinning them into a tough and sharp red thread.
[Encountering Regional Lord: Weaver of Fate Arachne (Rank C)]
[Gi Shao: Formerly the hospital's most dedicated head nurse, and also a passionate knitting enthusiast.]
After being embroiled in a medical malpractice incident, she turned the entire hospital into her textile factory, treating all lives as raw materials.
[Characteristics: Blindness (Her eyes are sewn shut, but she can sense everything through the vibrations of the threads), Flesh and Blood Weaving (She can manipulate the threads she uses, and can even extract your blood vessels to use as threads).]
"Again... new materials... have they been delivered?"
The woman didn't turn back.
But her hoarse voice, like two pieces of sandpaper rubbing together, came through clearly.
She stopped what she was doing.
He slowly turned around.
Even Su Ming, who was used to seeing monsters, couldn't help but frown at that face.
It was a face covered in wrinkles, with the eyes sewn together tightly by rough black cotton thread, and dried tears of blood still clinging to the corners of the eyes.
She had a silver needle in her mouth, and her lips were stretched into an exaggerated arc, revealing a full set of sharp, piranha-like teeth.
"Um?"
Arakni tilted her head, her sewn-up eyes seemingly "looking" at Su Ming:
"What a strange material..."
"A hollow piece of wood...a whore in someone else's skin...and another one..."
She sniffed through her dark nostrils, then a look of extreme greed appeared on her face:
"Give me back... a human with perfect blood vessels!"
"Your veins... will surely be able to weave the strongest thread of destiny!"
Before he could finish speaking...
"collapse!"
The countless red lines that had been hanging down in the room instantly straightened!
The creatures, resembling countless red venomous snakes, simultaneously raised their heads, aiming at the three people inside the door.
"Take off your skin..."
Arakni raised her withered, claw-like hand and gently hooked her fingertips.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Dozens of red lines shot towards Su Ming from all directions with a whooshing sound, sealing off his escape route.
This is a greeting gift from a C-rank monster!
Compared to Frankenstein's sweeping violence, this impenetrable cutting net is even more despairing.
"Pinocchio, stop him!"
"Yes, Father!"
Pinocchio roared, his enormous body forming a wall that blocked Su Ming's path.
"Sizzle sizzle—!"
Those sharp red lines cut into his D+ grade skeleton armor, scattering sparks, but they couldn't penetrate it at all.
"Old woman, your thread is too soft!" Pinocchio mocked.
Meanwhile, Cinderella also made a move.
"Dare to call me a whore?"
The murderous intent in Cinderella's eyes was almost overflowing, and her deep red crystal shoes left a series of bloody marks on the ground.
"I will sew your mouth shut... stitch by stitch!"
Su Ming stood behind Pinocchio, peering through the gap at the top of the bone spinning wheel, at the golden thread that radiated the [Sleeping Curse].
A determined glint flashed in his eyes.
"Go forth, my children."
"Take that spinning wheel...and have it from me!"
Chapter 16 Crimson Waltz! The Ultimate Collision of Two C-Rank Ranks "Crack—!"
With a crisp cracking sound, the battle began instantly.
Seven mummified puppets, suspended by red threads, pounced on Su Ming like mad dogs.
Their claws are sharp as scimitars, and they emit terrifying roars from their mouths.
However, they hadn't even gotten within three meters of Su Ming.
A crimson storm swept in.
"Too slow...too ugly!"
Cinderella's figure left a trail of afterimages in mid-air.
After being promoted to C- rank, her speed increased again.
The deep red crystal shoes on her feet seemed to be burning with tangible blood flames.
"Bang!"
Before the head of the first desiccated corpse could even turn, it was slammed hard by a slender heel that contained terrifying explosive force.
The skull, reinforced by the red thread, exploded instantly, just like a ripe watermelon!
But this is just the beginning.
Using the reaction force from that kick, Cinderella completed a double-stage backflip in mid-air, defying the laws of physics.
"Crimson Waltz - Spin!"
She was like a red ghost dancing among a horde of corpses.
Each time her skirt fluttered, it was accompanied by a crisp cracking sound of bones breaking.
Every time the glass slipper lands, a puppet is inevitably shattered.
In just three seconds.
The seven mummified puppets, each possessing D-rank strength, were all reduced to a pile of broken bones and rotten flesh!
Sold out instantly!
This is the terrifying dominance of the C-level "Desire Dancer"!
"Oh? This aura..."
The Weaver Girl Arachne, sitting on the bone chair, finally stopped spinning thread.
Her stitched-up eyes trembled slightly, as if she were re-examining the woman in the human skin dress before her through some kind of perception.
"I see..."
Have you crossed that threshold too?
"No wonder they dared to trespass into my textile workshop..."
Arakni's voice became shrill, tinged with excitement, but also with a furious sense of being offended:
"But here! I'm the only one here!!"
"No matter what you are... once you enter my network, you're not getting out!!"
"Thousand Threads - Flesh and Blood Peeling!!"
Arakni suddenly spread her fingers wide, her withered arms waving wildly.
"Bang bang bang bang——!!"
The red lines throughout the room went berserk instantly!
If the red lines were previously just static traps, now they have become living meat grinders.
Countless sharp blood vessels surged from all directions, tearing the space into countless tiny fragments.
"Father, be careful!"
Pinocchio roared and slammed his giant body into the ground.
"Bone Fortress!!"
Boom!
Several giant white bones pierced out of his body, forming a circular bone prison defense circle around him and Su Ming.
Those sharp red lines cut into the bone, sparks flying and a hissing sound emanating from them.
Even with the [Bone Armor], Pinocchio felt immense pressure, and his bones were being cut open at a visible speed.
"So this is what they call a field advantage...?"
Su Ming stood firmly in his bones, his calm gaze observing the battle situation through the gaps in his bones.
He did not panic.
Because the real attacker is still outside.
"Cinderella, don't worry about these threads!"
"Cut the body directly!!"
"Understood~"
Outside, Cinderella let out a sweet laugh.
Faced with the overwhelming netting, she did not choose to resist it head-on, but instead put her body's flexibility to the extreme.
Like a slippery red snake, it weaves through only the gaps, its target the seated Arakni!
"Gotcha, you old hag!"
Cinderella appeared instantly above Arachne's head, her right leg raised high as if to strike down with a battle axe!
"when--!!"
A resounding bell rang out.
Cinderella's ultimate attack was actually blocked!
Suddenly, the wide hem of Arakny's nurse's skirt was lifted up.
It revealed a giant spider spear covered in black bristles, pieced together from human leg bones!
She's not human at all.
She's a half-human, half-spider monster!
Its two spider spears crossed above its head, forcefully holding Cinderella's glass slipper in place.
"You're quite strong... you little bitch."
Arakni grinned, revealing a ferocious smile with her sharp, pointed lips.
"But your legs... seem much thinner than mine!"
"Pfft!"
The other two spider spears shot out like lightning, aiming straight for Cinderella's abdomen.
"cut!"
Cinderella snorted and, using the momentum, twisted her waist forcefully, barely avoiding the fatal blow.
However, the human skin dress on the side of the waist was cut open, and blood was seeping out.
The two quickly separated.
Cinderella landed on a pile of clothes not far away, her gaze becoming somewhat serious.
"This old woman's body is even harder than that Frankenstein's monster."
And the most troublesome thing is those ubiquitous lines.
With just a flick of her finger, Arachne's surroundings can turn into deadly weapons.
"No dragging it out."
Su Ming saw it clearly from inside the bone cell.
Although Cinderella has been promoted, she is extremely strong in one-on-one combat.
But in such a treacherous environment, the longer it drags on, the more disadvantageous it becomes for her.
We must break this deadlock.
Su Ming's gaze fell once again on the automatically turning spinning wheel.
Even amidst the fierce battle, the spinning wheel continued to turn with a creaking sound.
The spindle above continuously draws in air and blood energy, transforming it into new red threads that constantly replenish Arachne.
"That source of her energy."
"As long as the spinning wheel keeps turning, her thread will be endless."
Su Ming clenched his fist and dissected the body.
Pinocchio!
"Father!"
"No need for defense anymore."
A hint of madness flashed in Su Ming's eyes:
"Remove this tortoise shell!"
"Transform! To your ultimate form!!"
"Charge forward like a bulldozer and smash that spinning wheel to pieces!!"
Since you can't win with skill, then use your absolute size and strength to break the balance!
"Yes, sir!!"
Pinocchio let out a deafening roar.
The bone cage that was originally protecting the area instantly shattered, turning into countless bone fragments that shot out in all directions, forcing back the nearby red lines.
Immediately afterwards.
"Click-click-click—"
Pinocchio's body began to expand wildly, his original two-meter height increased to three meters, and his black muscles bulged all over his body, making him look like a small black giant.
"I am... the rampaging destroyer!!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Pinocchio strode forward, ignoring the fine threads cutting his body, and like a runaway train, crashed violently into Arachne and the spinning wheel in the center of the field!
"You dare!!"
For the first time, Arachne showed a look of panic.
She has two legs.
But faced with such a heavy impact, they dared not take it head-on.
Even more precious is her spinning wheel!
"Die, you stupid blockhead!"
Arachne screamed, and seven spider spears simultaneously pierced Pinocchio, attempting to turn him into a hedgehog.
But in that very moment...
Cinderella, who had been wandering around, moved.
She kept waiting.
Wait until the BOSS is distracted protecting the spinning wheel for a moment!
Where are you looking?
"Old woman!"
Cinderella's figure suddenly appeared below the abdomen of the Arachnid spider.
That's her blind spot.
Also, defend the weakest point!
"This kick... is for my new skirt!"
Cinderella's glass slipper burst forth with a dazzling red light, and she transformed into a red drill, kicking hard at Arachne's soft abdomen!
"Pfft!!"
That was a solid, decisive blow!
Green insect blood gushed out instantly!