One more catty, one more attribute point-Chapter 582 - 478: Mortal Purgatory, Solo Dance of Blood_2

While comforting himself forcibly, he fed the talisman water to his mother lying on the sickbed.

Strangely enough, just moments ago his mother was so weak she had stopped breathing, but as soon as Gao Ming brought the spoon filled with talisman water to her lips, she suddenly opened her eyes, bursting with astonishing strength. The bed creaked, and his sister behind him let out a hissing sound. His mother’s pupils were golden, with serpentine vertical slits, showing a bloodthirsty beast’s greed and desire.

"Sss..."

She opened her mouth, her long tongue licking the talisman water on the spoon.

But that wasn’t enough, she immediately turned her head towards Gao Ming, reaching out to snatch it, her wild and greedy gesture startling him. He felt an overwhelming force coming at him, and before he could react, his mother had snatched away the porcelain bowl.

The sound of "gulp, gulp" rang out; the large bowl full of talisman water was quickly drained by his mother.

Snap!

With a flick of her emaciated wrist, the porcelain bowl shattered on the ground.

In the deadly silence, Gao Ming suddenly sensed a dangerous atmosphere emanating from his mother. He stood up from beside the bed and slowly backed away, instinctively grabbing his sister’s arm.

"Mother!" Gao Ming’s forehead broke out in a cold sweat, his heart pounding in his chest, "Do you feel better now, Mom?"

"Ah!"

The response was a painful roar.

His mother clutched her head, her eyes almost tearing apart.

A strong light burst forth, and something seemed to be wriggling under the thin blanket.

"Gulp!" Gao Ming shivered all over, and only then did he see that beneath the quilt were no longer human legs, but a long, thick snake tail.

"I’m so hungry!"

At that moment, his mother’s scream came, her jaw opening like that of a snake.

Inside were rows of sharp teeth; the huge oral cavity could swallow an entire baby.

She exhibited no human rationality anymore, just greedily staring at the two siblings before her.

Her shriveled abdomen clung to the dark, damp ground as she crawled, the rustling sound accompanying the trembling of the floor, dust falling from the ceiling; Gao Ming was nearly driven mad, unable to comprehend why this was happening.

It was supposed to be talisman water that cured illness, so why did his mother turn into a monster after drinking it!?

There was no time left to think, much like a python devouring a white rabbit when starving.

There was no trace of the tenderness of bygone days in his mother’s eyes, and with a heavy flick of her tail on the ground, her body shot out like an arrow released from the bowstring.

Bang!

Gao Ming hugged his sister, instinctively ducking down.

A chill passed over his scalp; his mother nearly flew right over their heads.

He narrowly dodged the strike at the brink of death, but Gao Ming felt no ounce of relief, only despair, as his mother was right at the doorway—they were now trapped in the narrow room, like turtles in a jar, with nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

"Mom, Mom, it’s me, Gao Ming, wake up!" Gao Ming’s voice carried a sob as he picked up a rolling pin from beside him, shielding his sister behind his body.

Alas, it was completely useless; his mother, after mutation, had no sense left.

"I’m so hungry!" She monotonously repeated, her face filled with a grotesquely twisted smile, her black fingers striking out at the siblings once more.

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Gao Ming closed his eyes and swung the rolling pin in his hands with all his might.

Bang!

Everything went dark before his eyes.

A colossal force surged from beneath his feet; the trembling sensation that had been present now intensified greatly.

Buildings collapsed, monsters roared, blood spurted, and behind him came the soft calling of his sister, "Piggy, Piggy!"

Gao Ming felt his limbs weaken, tears uncontrollably flowing.

He was still alive!

Opening his eyes, his vision gradually blurred.

Only then did he notice that half the house had collapsed, with a beam stuck right in front of him.

A huge hole that seemed to lead to the Abyss tore open beneath his feet, and from it crawled a bull-sized spider, covered in sharp hairs, fighting with his mother. Its Long Spear-like sharp legs pierced into his mother’s chest, while the frenzied mother used her blood-drenched mouthparts to tear the flesh from the monster’s body, whipping its relatively weak abdomen with her sturdy long tail.

The two monsters entangled together, and amidst the thunderous booms, flattened all the surrounding houses, scattering dark red blood all over the ground.

"Heavenly God above." Gao Ming’s gaze was vacant; in just a matter of minutes, the entire city had plunged into Purgatory.

Dark clouds filled the sky, with Flying Dragons circling above, as fire and venom rained down from the heavens. In the distance, the towering bugs were so immense that words could not describe their grandeur, causing the ground beneath them to tremble and reducing entire blocks to rubble.

The once high and mighty Martial Artist lords were now in utter panic, desperately trying to flee.

Yet, halfway through their escape, they were seized mid-air by the flying insects, their bodies penetrated by sharp teeth and Mantis Blades, and with a little force, nothing was left but large splashes of blood and guts falling from the sky.

Gao Ming had seen the hellish scenes depicted by monks in temple murals, such as mountains of knives, seas of fire, flaying, and tendon-pulling.

But even the extremes of the monks’ imagination couldn’t compare to a ten-thousandth of the sight Gao Ming was witnessing right now.

Rip!

The two monsters in the distance had already determined the victor.

The mother had impaled the spider’s brainstem with her serpent tail, while her body was cut at the waist.

Even so, she was still alive, greedily crawling on the ground, dragging a long trail of blood behind her.

Various twisted intestines were pulled out for a long stretch, and coupled with the fierce and greedy smile on the woman’s face, the sight was nothing short of a nightmare.

"We’ve got to get out of here fast!"

Gao Ming covered his sister’s eyes, hoisted her onto his shoulder, and ran toward the outskirts of the city.

From time to time, large clusters of fire would fall from the sky, causing explosions, or the ground would rise beneath their feet, or some human-altered monster would suddenly pounce out of a building.

This was a battlefield between monsters, a bloody meat grinder.

Gao Ming’s heart was racing.

He lived in the outer city, the most hostile environment within the city, with gangsters and occasional Demons infiltrating the city, not to mention the harsh living conditions. But now, it became an advantage; they were close to the city wall. To leave the County, they just needed to cross a few blocks, and he knew of a hidden doghole in the city wall, not far from here.

Under the towering city wall, in the doghole reeking of urine.

Get his sister through first, then Gao Ming hunched his shoulders and crawled through the winding path.

Even with his thin frame, it was difficult, at times it felt like he couldn’t catch his breath, but luckily everything went relatively smoothly. Once Gao Ming crawled out of the doghole and saw the light outside the city wall, he felt a huge relief, a sense of being reborn. But his smile faded quickly, for on the wilderness outside the city wall, there was an even larger battlefield.

Waves of mutated creatures, along with those surviving Martial Artists, were now rushing crazily in one direction.

They were like a black tide, carrying with them despair and a desire for self-destruction, then shattering into pieces against the rocks. That rock turned out to be a girl his age. Her skin was pale, she wore a black long dress, her long hair blood-red, her eyelids marked with a trace of crimson.

In her hands, she wielded a strange weapon, like a huge Scythe Blade, but also with an exaggerated Scythe Blade at the end of the handle.

Spinning, slicing, sometimes leaping high and then lightly hopping down, it looked like she was dancing alone by the sea illuminated with fireflies, but with every swing of the blade, an inevitable downpour of blood followed. Gao Ming gaped, stunned by the bloody spectacle and the startling beauty of the girl, unsure what to do for a moment.

Then, he heard a light chuckle beside his ear, "Duck!"