Eldritch Horror Theatre - Ch. 10: R-Rated Scene
Clothes were scattered all over the floor of the expansive hall.
Their owners were nowhere to be seen.
There was only a group of pale, strip-like creatures on the ground, twisting and tangling together like a ball of snakes, caressing each other.
And amidst the surrounding "snakes," a woman resembling a noble lady, wearing a burgundy evening gown, was elegantly lifting a teacup to her lips.
Even though only half the teacup remained, the noble lady still elegantly gnawed a piece off it, then, maintaining the etiquette of chewing with her mouth closed, produced crunching crack-crack sounds.
She seemed completely oblivious to the bloody holes pierced through both of her cheeks.
I must have committed many sins in my life to be forced to witness such a scene!
Fu Qian sighed silently and turned his head to look at the other four.
Judging from their expressions, they had taken quite a shock as well.
"Move!"
The Team Leader truly lived up to his title; he was almost the first of the four to recover his wits.
Taking one look at the noble lady's heavily swollen abdomen, he immediately issued the order to attack.
It couldn't be helped; this appearance practically had "I am the boss" written all over its face.
In this situation, nobody would believe it if you said she was just an innocent bystander.
The four-person squad clearly had excellent teamwork. At the Team Leader's command, the Buzz Cut Man lunged forward almost instantly.
Although the Old Man still looked a bit reluctant, he followed closely behind.
The Buzz Cut Man had now equipped a pair of uniquely shaped gauntlets. When he threw a punch, the faint sound of wind and thunder could be heard.
The Old Man held no weapon, but with a casual wave of his hand, a burst of flames exploded forth.
Under their swift attacks, the noble lady had no chance to dodge, and her figure was instantly engulfed.
At this time, the Team Leader, who appeared to be the strongest, didn't charge forward with them. Instead, he stayed where he was, pulled an item from his jacket, and locked onto the noble lady from afar.
The White Porcelain Girl, Su Gao, with her blade unsheathed, guarded his side, preventing the disturbed swarm of snakes from attacking him.
He's preparing an ultimate move, how decisive and ruthless.
Fu Qian knew what the Team Leader was trying to do.
Having jumped out of the way long ago, he finally got a clear look at what the Team Leader's Ultimate Weapon was.
In truth, it was an object hardly worthy of being called a weapon. It was about the length of a forearm, with a fist-sized sphere at the top, connected to a long, thin handle below.
With its bizarre design and the countless electrical currents coiling around it at this moment, it vaguely looked like something snapped right off a Tesla Coil.
This was the thing that had killed him earlier—the Team Leader's Ultimate Weapon.
The Team Leader was clearly catalyzing its power for a major attack. In just a few seconds, the gathered might had far surpassed the strike that hit him earlier. The blazing white lightning was almost too bright to look at directly.
Compared to the terrifying power right now, the hit he took earlier was merely a sputtering spark.
However, at that exact moment, a problem arose on the Buzz Cut Man's end.
A sharp, piercing cry rang out. Even from a distance, Fu Qian felt his head jolt, feeling as though his nose was about to bleed.
Accompanied by a spraying line of blood, the Buzz Cut Man flew backward, slamming heavily into the adjacent wall.
Before he could even adjust his posture, a blood-soaked figure dashed in front of him. A sharp Bone Blade pinned him firmly to the wall, skewering him like a lamb kebab.
Fuck!
The previously elegant noble lady was still elegant.
One of her legs had completely lost its flesh and blood, but it didn't affect her graceful stance in the slightest.
Four distinctively shaped, long bone claws pierced through the clothes on her back and extended outward; the one pinning the Buzz Cut Man was one of them.
The moment this image caught his eye, Fu Qian felt as if his head had been ruthlessly smashed with a hammer, his consciousness blurring for a moment.
[Sanity Value decreased by 5]
Hmm?
Fu Qian was genuinely startled this time.
Just taking a single look at this thing had directly drained 5 points of his Sanity Value.
That's equivalent to five lives!
The risk of this mission was simply too high!
After killing him in one strike, the noble lady didn't pause at all. She yanked out the Bone Blade, instantly dodged to the side, and sliced the Old Man—who had just gotten up—clean in two, along with the floor beneath him.
In her lightning-fast movements, her elusive figure seemed to carry absolutely no weight.
A furious shout came from the side. The Team Leader had finally finished channeling. A straight pillar of electricity formed by countless lightning bolts instantly swallowed both the noble lady and the Old Man's corpse on the ground.
A Lightning Railgun?
Watching the endless beam of lightning, Fu Qian finally understood the true destructive power of the Team Leader's Ultimate Weapon.
However, under this apocalyptic attack, countless thin black threads rapidly wove into a cocoon in front of the noble lady, stalling the lightning beam for a split second.
Relying on this slight obstruction, the noble lady's ghost-like figure escaped the blast radius of the lightning beam.
With a flash, she closed in right in front of the Team Leader.
A wail far more piercing than before rang out again. The Team Leader's entire body shuddered, blood trickled from his nose and mouth simultaneously, and his body stiffened on the spot.
Under the attack of the Lightning Railgun, one of the four Bone Blades had completely vaporized.
But the remaining three still cleanly pierced through the Team Leader's body, lifting him mid-air.
The Team Leader's Ultimate Weapon boasted impressive power, but unfortunately, the opponent had maxed out her evasion stat.
The baby's cries grew even heavier.
Fu Qian looked at the noble lady, who no longer resembled a human, and fired consecutive Air Bullets.
The transformed noble lady didn't even try to dodge. After a crisp clattering of bones, not a single mark was left on her body.
Just as expected, his attack methods could barely pierce this monster's defenses.
[Spawn of the Evil God has descended. Containment Failed.]
At this moment, the prompt sounded in his ear, and the scene before him rapidly blurred.
The last thing Fu Qian saw was Su Gao leaping high into the air, throwing a flurry of blade light at the noble lady.
Phew!
Back in the Warehouse, Fu Qian let out a long breath, vaguely feeling that his head was still aching.
He didn't expect to still fail even like this.
Strictly speaking, the squad's battle plan just now hadn't had any issues.
Decisive and straight to the point: once the target was locked, a portion of the team would run interference to buy time for the highest-damage Ultimate Weapon.
No matter how you looked at it, it was very reasonable.
The only thing was that they hadn't anticipated that the Buzz Cut Man's interference attack would startle the snake in the grass and provoke that Spawn of the Evil God, and on top of that, its mother was excessively overpowered.
That woman's speed after transforming was simply too fast, and combined with that bizarre shield, the Team Leader's Ultimate Weapon never scored a direct hit.
Defeated by their own decisiveness!
[Do you wish to consume 1 point of Sanity Value to attempt containment again?]
Having finished his summary, Fu Qian decisively pressed his hand onto the fog door that appeared.
"Yes."
He already had a new idea.
...
Returning once more to the eye-opening hall.
"Prepare to move!"
"Hold on!"
This time, just as the Team Leader was about to give orders, Fu Qian stopped him directly.
"If you want the thing in your jacket to be of any use, it's best not to disturb her."
"Those two must wait here as well."
Since when do you get to give orders!
The Buzz Cut Man and the Old Man flared up immediately.
How did he know?!
Having his biggest secret suddenly exposed, the Team Leader was startled inwardly and reached out to stop his subordinates.
Setting aside how the other party found out, Fu Qian's performance along the way made him feel that this young man wouldn't speak without basis.
Seeing the target being so cooperative, Fu Qian gave a satisfied nod.
Carefully avoiding the strip-like creatures and unidentified liquids covering the floor, he walked over and sat down directly across from the noble lady.
"Hello there, beautiful."
(End of Chapter)
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