Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 461 - 76: The Sealed Building

Dozens of sticky tentacles stretched out from the exploding blood bubble, wrapping around the severed limb. Soon, sharp "teeth" grew from the tips of these tentacles, slicing through the frozen skin and flesh, allowing the tentacles to burrow into the interior of the detached arm...

A few seconds later, the severed right arm was reattached to the mysterious creature—only now there was a large mass of tentacles connecting the right arm to the creature's shoulder... At first glance, it looked like the exposed hydraulic muscle bundles commonly seen on engineering mecha.

The most direct result was that the mysterious creature's right arm had not only extended by half a meter but also had an all-encompassing attack capability... No matter from which direction Ling Xiao attacked, the right arm could swing around to the top of Ling Xiao's head and crush his skull with one blow.

However, the first person to experience this was not Ling Xiao.

"What's going on? Why is it still so noisy outside? Can't a person get some sleep?!" A man's voice came from a room on one side of the corridor, followed by a string of colorful curses, "Dammit, why is the power out? It's black as pitch; this is bullshit, what the hell brought me here, could it be..."

The room door was opened from the inside, and in the dim light, Ling Xiao saw a young man in plaid pajamas. His lips, eyebrows, and nose were pierced with various brass rings, with large tattoos on his neck, and a head of multicolored hair piled messily on top.

He looked like a street artist commonly seen in trendy districts—well, to put it nicely, he was an artist, but to put it bluntly, he was more like a punk who might dabble in rap or graffiti, cursing with every other breath.

It wasn't that Ling Xiao had any prejudice against such people, but that was just the first impression this young man gave him.

The street artist, who opened the door, glanced at the two standing in the corridor—one person and one mysterious creature—to be precise. His expression shifted from annoyance to stupefaction, and then from stupefaction to terror.

"Holy shit!!"

The young man immediately crossed his arms in front of him, a shield of thin ice forming in front of him...

But in the next second, the claws of the mysterious creature shattered this ice shield, piercing through the chest of the street artist.

Those who lived in this building were either abnormal ability users or people working at the Abnormal Ability Management Department. Obviously, this young man belonged to the former... It's very likely that, like Ling Xiao, he came here to have his abilities tested after discovering them.

It was just a pity that his ice shield was indeed a bit... fragile.

An ability is indeed an ability, but the layer of thin ice he formed... was really just a layer of thin ice.

A normal person could poke through it with their finger, let alone the claws of a mysterious creature.

The street artist, having lost his heart, fell flatly to the ground, eyes wide open, dying with a grievance.

His heart was left in the hand of the mysterious creature, still beating on its own...

The mysterious creature tilted its head, one eye on Ling Xiao and the other on the heart in its hand... The next second, it stuffed the warm heart into its gaping throat.

"Ah—" A piercing scream came from the room of the street artist, and only then did Ling Xiao realize there was another person in the room, a woman at that.

"Be quiet!" Ling Xiao immediately shouted, but it was too late.

The mysterious creature instantly rushed into the room, and half a second later, the screaming stopped abruptly.

The world returned to silence again.

Ling Xiao took a deep breath and tossed the door panel aside.

The mysterious creature's move was so swift that he didn't even see how the "street artist's" chest was penetrated, and the heart was already in its hand.

For the claws of the mysterious creature, the heavy door panel had about the same defensive power as the thin ice shield, and keeping it would only slow him down.

Ling Xiao placed the extinguished forearm horizontally in front of him, lightly resting his other hand on the blade, letting it absorb the blood seeping from his wound.

The wound had already begun to scab, and the blood was seeping at a speed neither fast nor slow—the depth of the initial cut he made was nearly half the width of his palm, had it not been for the strengthening of his body along with his self-healing ability, he would likely have already slipped into shock from blood loss.

But even so, a chill rose from the tips of his limbs, climbing up his spine to his neck.

The forearm was not gentle when sucking the bearer's blood, especially after slicing the mysterious creature's arm. That slash nearly made Ling Xiao faint... With such attacks, Ling Xiao estimated he could release it twice more; after two times, even if he wasn't killed by the mysterious creature, he'd likely be drained dry by the forearm.

Severing its limbs couldn't halt the mysterious creature's actions, so he must attack the vital points... Even if he couldn't kill it, recovery in those areas should be slower than the limbs...

But why hasn't anyone come yet?

The cold flame extended three meters with that slash, and the brightness of the flame also increased significantly. Anyone from the crowd gathered in the playground outside who glanced this way should have seen the forearm's flames through the window...

But why didn't they come in?

Could it be that they... can't get in?!

Ling Xiao suddenly thought of the unbreakable glass window...

Could it be that this building has already become a space isolated from the outside world? The people inside can't get out, and those outside can't get in?

Just as Ling Xiao thought this, the mysterious creature was already dragging a half-destroyed female corpse out of the room—it's "modified" right arm almost touching the ground, its sharp claws embedded in a head wrapped in long hair and blood grime; the female corpse left only the part above the pelvis, and the gooey intestines dragged along the floor, the air permeated with a dense smell of blood and excrement.

Ling Xiao heard the sound of a lock turning on a door closest to him, and he quickly and quietly shouted, "It's dangerous outside! Don't come out!"

Bringing out the people living on this floor to help distract the mysterious creature's firepower... Though this method sounded somewhat unethical, it was indeed the best way to buy time...

But after Ling Xiao discovered the building had been locked down, the tactic of delaying quickly lost all meaning.

Unless he could hold out until the people outside breached the containment... but by that time, there might not be many survivors left in the building.

"Is it... is it a mysterious creature?" a trembling voice came through the door, vaguely sounding like a young girl.

"It's a mysterious creature," Ling Xiao said. "Don't come out, find a place in your room, and hide."

"Who... who are you? Are you a Mysterious Creature Hunter? Or an abnormal ability user?" the girl asked.

Ling Xiao didn't answer her question.

Or, Ling Xiao didn't have the time to answer her question.

The mysterious creature threw away the remains of the corpse in its hand, and rushed toward Ling Xiao.

The girl's room was Room 607, right next to Ling Xiao's Room 608. There was no room in the corridor for Ling Xiao to dodge the attack, so he retreated once more into his own room with no door.

Just as he thought the mysterious creature would chase him in, it suddenly stopped, turned around, and pierced the claws through the door of Room 607!

Amid the sound of metal being torn, mixed with muffled sounds of flesh being pierced—clearly, the girl in Room 607 didn't heed Ling Xiao's advice to find a place to hide. Instead, she stayed close to the door, eavesdropping on the happenings in the corridor.

She must have noticed the abnormality early on—after all, being Ling Xiao's "neighbor," she couldn't have missed the initial sounds of fighting and screaming from his room.

Her best choice would have been to call for help, and indeed, she had done that.

Unfortunately, the security department at the base, which had promised her rescuers over the phone, never appeared before her, even in her last moments.