145: Chapter 145 You dog, you dare to challenge me?

"Hubby~ it's me."

That voice was soft, melodious, and carried a laziness that could melt one's bones.

Every syllable acted like a precision key, instantly unlocking the softest door in Li Taiping's memory.

It was Su Jie!

No, it was Su Mei!

It was the woman who would cling to him every night, acting spoiled in his ear with that exact tone!

Li Taiping's pupils contracted sharply, and every muscle in his body tensed to the absolute limit in an instant.

His wildly swinging greatsword jerked to a halt in mid-air, less than a centimeter away from the forehead of a shivering shadow-type weirdness.

The violent sword wind blew the weird phantom so hard it flickered unsteadily, nearly dissipating on the spot.

But Li Taiping no longer cared about it.

He spun around abruptly, his eyes—turned crimson from the slaughter—staring intently as they scanned every inch of the surrounding ruins, attempting to find that familiar figure.

"Su Jie?"

He called out the name subconsciously, his voice turning somewhat hoarse from agitation.

Could it be she wasn't dead?

Could everything just now have been a hallucination?

Or was this some mechanism of the dungeon? Had she been resurrected?

Countless thoughts, like chaotic electrical currents, surged wildly through his brain.

That flame called hope, which had just been suppressed by endless slaughter, once again ignited uncontrollably and quietly in his deathly silent heart.

"Hubby, I'm over here."

The voice continued.

It was still so gentle, so familiar.

But there was no sign of her.

Li Taiping's heart sank abruptly.

He stood where he was, holding his breath, pushing his near-epic grade perception to its absolute limit.

The sound of the wind, the crashing of collapsing buildings in the distance, and even the suppressed sobbing of a survivor in some corner all entered his ears clearly.

Only the source of that voice was missing.

It was as if it came from all directions at once, yet also seemed to ring directly inside his mind.

Something was wrong!

This was very wrong!

The trace of ecstasy on Li Taiping's face froze instantly, replaced by a bone-chilling coldness.

He suddenly realized something.

He had been played!

Played for a fool by some invisible filthy dog!

This wasn't Su Jie!

This was the Sound Ghoul!

It was that bastard who had impersonated Su Mei when he first entered this dungeon world, crying outside the door of that tiny rental apartment to lure him into opening it!

The culprit who had almost caused him to have a mental breakdown!

It actually wasn't dead yet!

It actually dared to show itself again!

It actually dared to use Su Jie's voice to toy with him!

"Fuck!"

A rage even more violent and pure than before exploded from Li Taiping's chest like a volcanic eruption!

If the previous slaughter was to vent the grief of losing his beloved...

Then now, his anger stemmed from his most precious thing being wantonly trampled and desecrated!

"You filthy dog! You think you're worthy of using her voice?!"

Li Taiping let out a heaven-shaking roar.

Boom—!

Countless pitch-black spatial rifts spread wildly from him like a spiderweb.

The violent sword qi no longer had a specific target; instead, it turned into an airtight blade storm, slashing indiscriminately at everything around him!

Rumble!

Under this saturated carpet bombing, the surrounding ruins collapsed in swathes like falling dominoes.

The ground was torn open by bottomless ravines.

He was going to use the most violent and unreasonable method to force that filthy dog hiding in the shadows out!

Screech—

A strand of sword qi swept through a seemingly empty patch of air to the left.

Suddenly, an extremely faint sound, like glass shattering, came from the air.

Found you!

Li Taiping's gaze instantly locked onto that patch of void.

His Spatial Talent perception was pushed to its limit at this moment.

He "saw" it.

It was a nearly transparent, constantly twisting energy body, similar in form to a jellyfish.

It had no physical form, yet it could perfectly mimic any sound by vibrating the air.

"Die for me!"

Li Taiping struck out in fury.

But he didn't use his sword.

He threw his mouth open and took a deep breath toward that patch of void.

Half-step epic grade Spatial Power gathered in his mouth, forming a microscopic black hole invisible to the naked eye.

A terrifying suction force erupted instantly!

The Sound Ghoul let out a silent shriek, the air around it twisting violently as it tried to resist the suction.

But in the face of half-step epic grade absolute power, all its struggles appeared pale and weak.

Its transparent energy body was forcibly dragged out of the void, turning into a distorted shadow as it was uncontrollably sucked into Li Taiping's mouth.

Li Taiping's eyes were blood-red, his cheeks bulging high.

He didn't swallow.

Instead, he chewed with all his might!

He wanted to use the most primitive and cruel method to grind this bastard who desecrated his woman's voice into fragments!

Crunch!

A crisp sound, as if chewing on glass shards, echoed in Li Taiping's mouth.

There was no taste.

But the pleasure of grinding down a rule itself gave Li Taiping's rage-filled heart a trace of morbid satisfaction.

Pah!

He jerked his head and spat a shapeless mass of shimmering spatial fragments onto the ground.

The mass twisted twice on the ground before completely turning into nothingness and dissipating into the air.

The Sound Ghoul was utterly annihilated, body and soul!

Too brutal!

This bloody and bizarre scene completely terrified the weirdnesses that had luckily survived the previous blade storm.

They had seen slaughter; they had seen blood.

But they had never seen a creature chew a rule-type weirdness alive like a snack!

This human wasn't human!

He was a lunatic!

A devil ten thousand times more terrifying than monsters like them!

“Roar... (Run!)”

“Hiss... (Run fast!)”

It was unclear which Infected let out the first signal to flee with an indistinct roar.

Immediately after, the entire battlefield fell into chaos.

The weirdnesses that were fierce and malicious just moments ago, trying to besiege Li Taiping, were now acting as if they had seen a ghost, letting out all sorts of terrified screams and roars.

They scrambled and crawled, fleeing madly in all directions.

Their escape speed was incredibly swift, more than twice as fast as when they had charged forward.

However, Li Taiping had no intention of letting them go.

Not a single one!

His toes lightly tapped the ground, Spatial Power flowed, and he covered dozens of meters in an instant as if shrinking the distance, appearing behind the fastest-running Mutant Dog.

The greatsword swung down.

Blood splattered.

"Trying to run?"

Li Taiping's voice was cold, devoid of any emotion.

"Today, not a single one of you gets to live!"

He would use the lives of these monsters to offer a sacrifice to Su Jie's spirit in heaven.

He would turn these ruins into a true dead land where not a single blade of grass would grow!

A bloody feast of pursuit and slaughter began upon this wasteland.

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