Chapter 1016: 1014: Rotting Flesh, The Seam Dweller
The flipped seam turned into a wall space extending infinitely along the x, y, z axes.
Here, various gaps are scattered corresponding to the wall gaps, door gaps, clothing seams outside, and even some gaps on living bodies.
The hair on the Fourth Disaster can extend rapidly into every gap,
The hair ends have evolved human-like upper bodies, and there are even complete nerves between the hairs, which allow for external observation by moving the hair to the gaps.
The piece that Yi Chen just cut off was merely a section of the hair tip,
However, the extreme beheading effect was transmitted through the nerves between the hairs, causing the Fourth Disaster, Gap, to lapse into a brief stagnation.
Following the hair, about a kilometer away was Gap’s true form,
At first glance, it appeared as a mass of rotten flesh nearly filling the entire gap space, with faint human-like features visible among the decay, likely due to prolonged time in the gaps leading to severe degradation of the body, eventually turning into this lump of rotten flesh.
Moreover, the rotten flesh was continuously expanding, filled and surrounded by endless low-grade malice, growing even now, seemingly intent on filling every gap in the entire plane.
This expansion does not result in a growth of power, just a pure accumulation of malice, akin to an endlessly piling landfill.Of course,
This was merely what everyone saw in a brief glance, or rather, the initial impression the Fourth Disaster left - "unrestricted low-grade malice."
Once the vision became clear and the infinite rotten flesh image vanished,
Only a man, skin and bones from hunger, who hadn’t cleaned himself for who knows how long, remained,
His hair sprawled out due to never being cut, and if you disregarded the human-like structures at the hair tips, he really resembled a vagrant on the brink of death.
Perhaps because William and the others had entered the gap, his long-time Safe House, a place never before trodden by anyone,
He curled up directly, shivering.
He had never stepped out of the gap, nor had he had such unimpeded contact with others,
He didn’t even dare to look up at the three who had come here, as he had never tried visual observation outside of peeping,
"Don’t come closer, leave here... Don’t come closer, leave here..."
Gap kept repeating those words, as if he was on the brink of a mental collapse.
However,
Facing such a vagrant-like figure, shivering all over, both William, Yi Chen, and Lene felt a strong sense of incongruity and an inexplicable sense of impending death. ṛâNö𝐁Еꞩ
Unable to comprehend where this deadly feeling originated,
Just as Yi Chen was about to try and decapitate him, William reached out to stop him,
"Something’s odd, it’s entirely different from what I imagined. Let me try first... Mr. Yi, you can handle the final beheading."
As William spoke, he coughed out a pile of disgusting malignant tumors from his mouth, and the surface was even adorned with a face resembling a priest, with a cross on the forehead.
His hands kneaded the malignant tumors like dough into three bullets, swiftly loading them and firing at the curled up shivering Fourth Disaster.
One bullet aimed at the Fourth Disaster’s brow,
The other two deliberately missed, shot towards the flanks of the target.
The bullets fired,
But Gap did not dodge at all, the tumor bullets entered his brain, and the other two bullets suddenly expanded as they got near.
Explosion,
The explosion inside the skull and the external explosions on both sides happened simultaneously,
The power was naturally not equivalent to a professional bomber like Jin, but William’s explosions came with a malignant infection beyond just damage.
The outcome was peculiar,
As the blood mist dissipated, Gap still remained curled up there, entirely unscathed, with his previously pierced brow intact, and no tumors protruding from his body.
Infection failed,
This was the first time William had encountered such a scenario.
"Indeed, a Fourth Disaster... This level of harm doesn’t even tickle you, and my malignant cancer symptoms are entirely negated by you.
Utterly useless, Mr. Art."
Through the "Evil Sun’s Eye" on his brow, William saw everything that just transpired with absolute clarity.
The bullets hit, the explosions took effect, the infection was spread,
But the quantity was far from enough,
The nearly endless mass of inferior malice represented by rotten flesh didn’t care about such an explosion,
As malignant tumors need to absorb nutrients to multiply, but the nutrition in this decayed flesh was almost non-existent, making it hard for tumors to spread further.
Furthermore, those tumors clinging to the rotten flesh not only failed to propagate but were utterly obliterated by some terrible energy.
"William, what’s the assessment?" Yi Chen was getting a bit impatient.
"You go ahead, Mr. Yi, my malignant infection is ineffective against this person... I will observe your confrontation carefully, attempting to find an opportunity from it."
Before even finishing the words, Yi Chen had already stepped forward.
He did not use [Instant] to rapidly approach the target,
Since the Fourth Disaster remained curled in place without moving, Yi Chen opted for the typical killer’s approach.
Walking with an ordinary film-like pace, you could even vaguely hear an oppressive tune playing in the current space, pacing slowly towards the target.
This slower approach had another purpose, enabling Yi Chen to dodge quickly should anything unexpected happen.
However,
The kilometer-long distance was gradually closed by Yi Chen at an ordinary walking speed, and nothing happened, no attack from the Fourth Disaster, not even a single glance.
Instead, Yi Chen’s living presence seemed to intensify the target’s trembling, his muttered words becoming increasingly frequent.
Reaching a hundred meters, Yi Chen removed his shoes, using breathing and secretive killing experience to make not a single sound,
Each step silent and quiet, as much as possible to go unnoticed by the target.
As expected, this concealment proved useful.
The Fourth Disaster’s trembling did not further intensify,
Finally,
Yi Chen’s bare foot stepped within two meters of the target, his gaze firmly locked on the opponent’s neck.
Even though the opponent’s body was filled with endless low-grade rotten flesh, Yi Chen had confidence in beheading because his killings and deaths were equally vast and endless, not to mention such an unobstructed beheading.
He held the knife with both hands, slowly lifted.
This process also did not trigger any environmental changes.
Even distant William and Lene held their breath at this moment,
Endless killing intent concentrated within the blade,
Yi Chen, in a breathless state, cut down with one stroke,
Everything was so silent and quiet, but... as the Peeping Tom, Gap, who lived in the gaps since birth, his world was already silent.
At this moment,
He felt an unprecedented sense of death within him,
He wasn’t afraid of death, just afraid of not being able to peep anymore, thinking about not being able to observe others’ lives made his soul and rotten flesh agitated.
His repeated words turned into, "I don’t want to die..."
Buzz...
Yi Chen’s beheading was halted in mid-air, his pupils widened.
Because the target had vanished,
Furthermore, Yi Chen’s side abdomen along with the coat made from Yellow Skin was gouged out, the entire side abdomen, along with the kidney and part of the intestine inside, disappeared as if wiped away.
"What?! I can’t see clearly!"