Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 460 - 76: The Sealed Building

Ling Xiao was taken aback and immediately switched to the hilt of the sword, smashing it against the glass with greater force.

"Bang!" The sound of the collision was dull—Ling Xiao was confident that the force of this blow could shatter even the polycarbonate riot shield standardly issued by the Public Security Bureau, yet this ordinary tempered glass window didn't even show a single crack.

This is definitely not normal!

However, there was no extra time for Ling Xiao to attempt more, as the mysterious creature had already rushed out of the room, charging towards Ling Xiao in a crooked but extremely fast manner!

Ling Xiao's room was at the end of the corridor, more than fifty meters from the elevator and stairs. If he turned to flee, without any obstacles to hinder the creature's movement, Ling Xiao wouldn't even make it halfway before the monster caught up to him... not to mention that in such a chase, his back would be completely exposed to the creature. Once caught up, he might not even have the chance to fight back.

And if he faced it head-on... he couldn't outrun it, and Ling Xiao didn't think he and the Ruler Sword could kill this creature with just their strength.

In that brief instant, countless strategies flashed through Ling Xiao's mind, and finally, a big "delay" appeared in his thoughts.

This is a testing facility for the Abnormal Ability Management Department at Dubhe Tower, where a group of fairly strong superhumans are stationed long-term, along with a large number of fully armed guards and various light and heavy weapons... As long as he caused a big enough commotion and delayed long enough, someone would eventually notice what's happening here.

By then, whether it's superhumans, Mysterious Creature Hunters, or the pinnacle of modern technology's weaponry, they could deal with this creature that solely possesses melee capabilities.

As Ling Xiao made up his mind, the creature had already closed in, its sharp claws reaching directly for Ling Xiao's heart!

Ling Xiao slightly bent his knees, pushed hard with his feet, and performed a backflip—after being enhanced by the Ruler Sword, he jumped over three meters high, his hands almost touching the corridor's ceiling.

Ling Xiao quickly adjusted his posture in mid-air. He twisted his body, using the hand not holding the sword to swipe forcefully on the ceiling, leveraging himself to move sideways—despite the excruciating pain from the wound on his palm and the ceiling's harsh friction, it was better than being pierced through by those sharp claws.

Just narrowly avoiding the creature's pursuit, Ling Xiao stepped three times on the corridor's side wall, and within a mere half-second, he completed an almost 270-degree large-scale maneuver three meters up in the air, then landed steadily behind the creature.

The cold flames engulfing the Ruler Sword instantly surged over three meters long, and utilizing the momentum of his descent, he slashed down, severing the creature's right arm clean at the root!

Ling Xiao panted heavily... The series of maneuvers just now was extreme even for his enhanced physique; he could clearly feel the enhancement from the Ruler Sword gradually fading, and a wave of fatigue combined with the tearing pain from his muscles and joints due to the super-extreme movements was continuously surging in.

"Where is the alarm? Why isn't the alarm going off?" Ling Xiao was puzzled. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

The corridor was filled with surveillance equipment, including not only the common smoke detectors and cameras but also special monitoring instruments unique to the Mysterious Creature Research Institute... Mysterious creatures appeared in the corridor, and such fierce combat had taken place; logically, the alarm should have been blaring throughout the entire building by now.

But now, Building No. 3 was eerily quiet.

Ling Xiao could only hear his own heavy breathing and the frantic beating of his heart in his chest.

"This isn't normal... It's not just the mysterious creature in front of me... there's also something wrong with this building itself," Ling Xiao immediately judged. "The unbreakable glass windows, the completely isolated external sound, and all the non-operational equipment... Could it be an environmental anomaly? Has this building been transformed into an environmental anomaly by the thing that called itself a god?!"

Ling Xiao was still pondering why the alarm didn't trigger, while on the other side, the wounded creature bent down slowly, picking up its severed arm from the ground.

The cuts on the shoulder and the severed arm were frozen into hard ice lumps by the cold flames, with the icy chill infiltrating deeper into the creature's body tissue like a virus... If a regular person were struck by this blow, they would have been frozen into a stiff corpse already.

"Creak... ha-ha... cough... hiss..." The creature's hollow throat emitted a series of unclear screeches, and then, its right shoulder's severed end began to swell like a balloon.

Ling Xiao suddenly had a bad premonition. He quickly ran backward, picked up the severely deformed door panel from the ground, and used it as a shield in front of him.

"Boom!" A loud explosion sounded, and the gigantic blood bubble burst, spraying foul-smelling liquid in all directions!

Some of the liquid naturally splattered onto the door panel, and Ling Xiao could hear a continuous "hissing" sound. When he peeked out, he saw that the door panel was corroded with numerous pits of varying sizes and depths.

Not only the door panel, but the ceiling, walls, and floors near the creature were also not spared—only the window, so close by, remained intact despite being splattered with the corrosive blood.