The still-streaming Xiaoshuai-with-glasses and the middle‑aged man with the scruffy beard had all four of their eyes locked deathly tight on that dark chamber after the explosion.

In the livestream chat, the barrage of comments was surging like a tidal wave.

"Did you guys hear that just now? That bang almost scared the piss out of me!"

"What was that thing that just got blown out?"

"Didn’t see clearly, just saw some black shadow suddenly fly up into the sky."

"Looked like that iron door, right? I remember when they first went into the dark chamber, they opened an iron door first."

"Did the monster inside the dark chamber smash the iron door and send it flying?"

"I remember it took six people together to pull that iron door up, how did it just get blasted away like that?"

"Do not use normal human logic to guess at monsters outside your understanding!"

"Damn it, the really scary part just now was actually the explosion at the dark chamber door!"

"Yeah yeah yeah, it was like detonating blasting caps in a mine, scary as hell!"

"All that dirt and rock flying just now, looked like it knocked over quite a few people, right?"

"What the hell kind of monster is hiding in there? This is way too ridiculous, isn’t it?"

"Old Mu, are you two really going to keep streaming? What if a real monster comes out—where are you two gonna run?"

"Look at you two shut‑in nerds, totally out of shape, don’t get yourselves eaten by the monster just like that."

"Wuwuwu... Old Mu, what a tragic way you died! But don’t worry, I’ll take good care of your wife for you!"

"Then... then I’ll take care of Little Monkey’s girlfriend!"

"I suggest you just bail for now! Don’t throw your lives away!"

"Don’t rush off yet, at least get a shot of the monster!"

"Exactly, if I don’t see the monster hiding in that dark chamber, my whole body itches!"

Staring at the barrage from the viewers and fans, Xiaoshuai-with-glasses and the bearded middle‑aged man glanced at each other.

"Should we bail first?"

Xiaoshuai-with-glasses asked, heart pounding.

"Well..."

The middle‑aged man with the scruffy beard, hearing that, took one look at the viewer count in the livestream room and hesitated.

Numbers breaking a hundred million like today, he might never see again in his entire life.

And more importantly, he still hadn’t captured the key shot of the monster; just leaving like this, he really wasn’t willing to accept it.

Seeing his expression, Xiaoshuai-with-glasses instantly guessed what his partner was thinking.

He bit his lip and said, "Let’s keep shooting a bit longer!"

"Once we get the shot of the monster inside showing itself, then we retreat!"

"Okay!"

This time the bearded middle‑aged man didn’t hesitate at all and nodded crisply.

"Ah!"

Just as the two of them settled on a plan, a chorus of screams came from the ancestral grave side.

The two of them jerked their heads up at the sound, craning their necks to look.

...

"Gulu gulu... gulu gulu..."

As that sound like boiling water came closer and closer, a monster made of flesh and blood slowly crawled out from the dark chamber.

At first, the thing looked like a huge lump of meat.

But once it crawled out of the dark chamber, its body slowly spread out.

When its body fully unfolded, a tailless "scorpion" with a grotesque, nauseating shape appeared in front of everyone.

The "scorpion’s" body was piled together from one human corpse after another.

Judging from the clothes on those corpses, they should be the three groups that had gone down into the dark chamber earlier.

Under the "scorpion’s" body was row upon row of caterpillar‑like prolegs.

But look closely, and they were actually human hands and feet, one after another.

On each side of its body, there was a gigantic "human hand" arranged along the length.

The "fingers" of those two giant hands were made up of human thighs one by one.

Those thighs kept curling and flexing, no different from human fingers.

At what would be the "scorpion’s" head, row after row of human heads were neatly lined up.

Those heads were all faces everyone recognized.

Including the cold youth, the trio of burly men in suits from earlier, and even that soldier who’d almost been saved just now...

They were like the "scorpion’s" eyes, constantly rolling back and forth.

The dull expressions and vacant gazes on those human heads looked unspeakably eerie and terrifying right now!

As for the "scorpion’s" final mouthparts, they were made up of tongues woven from coils of intestine and teeth formed from rib bones.

When this "scorpion" presented itself in front of everyone, they were all stunned.

"Hiss..."

Everyone involuntarily sucked in a breath of cold air.

Fuck!

What the hell kind of monster is this?

"Ah!"

Anlin, who had just regained consciousness, caught sight of that bizarrely shaped yet grotesque and disgusting "scorpion," let out a wail, and promptly fainted again.

Forget Anlin, that weak girl— even Yang Qingshu and Tongtai and the others were so terrified their legs went weak.

"F‑fire... fire, dammit!"

"What are you staring for, hurry up and shoot!"

Kunshi Qinawa was shaking all over with fear.

But at the same time, he didn’t forget to order his mercenaries to open fire.

Too bad this bunch had all been scared stupid by now.

Even though they were still holding guns, for a moment they just couldn’t react.

"Gulu gulu... gulu gulu..."

The familiar sound rang by everyone’s ears again.

When the monster loomed up close in front of their eyes, they finally realized that the boiling‑water noise was actually coming from the top of the creature’s head.

Floating right above those human heads was an Evil Ghost statue.

As the strange sound rose, a cloud of blood mist suddenly sprayed out from the "scorpion’s" head.

But in just a few seconds, it was completely absorbed by that Evil Ghost statue.

"So it really is that statue!"

Old Banhan recognized it at a glance—what was floating over the "scorpion’s" head was exactly the statue he himself had placed in the dark chamber earlier.

Just as the noise cut off, the "scorpion" suddenly moved.

It yawned open that grotesque, horrifying maw and the strands of intestines inside shot out in an instant.

Those intestines, like a bunch of tentacles, grabbed the two mercenaries standing right in front of it.

The two mercenaries hadn’t even managed to fire before they were swallowed straight into the "scorpion’s" mouth.

They didn’t even get a scream out before they inexplicably became food in the monster’s belly. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"Hurry... hurry up and fire!"

Kunshi Qinawa screamed hysterically again.

This time, his roar finally had an effect.

The mercenaries around the graveyard snapped out of their daze, hurriedly swung their muzzles around, and aimed at the "scorpion" in front of them.

"Da‑da‑da... da‑da‑da..."

Once they had their target, they squeezed the triggers like crazy.

Bullets poured down on the "scorpion’s" flesh like raindrops.

Where the bullets punched into the "scorpion’s" body, they left one bloody hole after another.

But the "scorpion" didn’t bleed so much as a drop of fresh blood; instead, whitish‑red pus surged out from the bullet holes in clumps.

The sight of it nearly made everyone on scene puke on the spot...