403: Chapter 403 A Man More Terrifying Than a Monster

The woman wore a bizarre smile, staring straight at everyone.

What should have been her neck seemed to be connected to bloody intestines, looking just like the legendary evil ghost, the Flying Head.

As she gradually drew closer, Officer Zhou Liang and the others finally saw clearly what the constantly writhing thing actually was.

It was neither intestines nor a human neck or body.

Instead, it was a gigantic, blood-stained maggot that constantly twisted and stretched.

Topped with a pale woman's face, it was now slowly winding its way out of the darkness.

"Hehe..."

The monster let out a laugh, soft and sweet, yet it made everyone's hair stand on end and their backs grow cold.

"Open fire!"

Officer Zhou Liang let out a low roar and was the first to pull the trigger.

"Dadadada!"

The submachine gun instantly spat tongues of fire, accurately shooting at the bizarre creature.

A-Li, A-Yang, and Xiao Jie immediately followed suit.

Dense bullets poured out, tearing through the fog and bursting open flowers of blood on the monster's writhing body.

Blood and flesh splattered everywhere, and a stench instantly filled the air.

The monster let out a piercing screech.

However, although the bullets hit the target,

that maggot-like massive body seemed to have extremely strong resistance to damage, only trembling slightly under the impact of the bullets.

The monster twisted its body and continued to crawl toward them, its speed even a bit faster.

"Cover each other alternately, fight and retreat at the same time!"

Officer Zhou Liang shouted loudly, standing at the front with A-Li to suppress the monster fiercely with firepower.

A-Yang and Xiao Jie supported two security guards and turned to rush downstairs.

In the face of such extraordinary threats, any tactical movement appeared pale and powerless.

Their only choice was to run!

The four quickly adjusted their formation and headed all the way down the stairs.

Gunshots were endless, and the flashes of gunfire faintly illuminated the walls.

Bullets cut through the air, bringing up trails of whistling, but they could not stop the monster's tail-chasing pursuit.

During the panicked retreat, Officer Zhou Liang suddenly realized something was wrong.

The surrounding scene, that familiar sickly green light, the tilted fire hydrant box, and the stinking blood on the ground...

"Not good!"

Officer Zhou Liang's pupils shrank sharply.

In the blink of an eye, the scenery changed, and they had unexpectedly returned to the 84th floor.

And that maggot monster with a woman's face was impressively standing right in front of them, its huge blood-colored body blocking the way forward.

That pale face was facing them directly, emitting a hair-raising "hehe" laugh.

"Run!"

A-Li screamed in panic and turned to rush toward the nearby safety passage door.

Seeing this, the others hurriedly followed and ran into the 84th floor's fire anteroom.

"Help!"

Suddenly, a miserable scream came from behind.

Everyone looked back and found that the security guard running at the very back had been caught up by the maggot monster.

The blood-red body tightly coiled around him, and it was obvious he could no longer be saved.

"Fuck your mother!"

Seeing this, A-Li roared angrily, raised his submachine gun, and fired continuously at the monster, emptying the bullets in his magazine as if venting his anger for his companion.

"Get in!"

Officer Zhou Liang pulled open the tightly closed anteroom door and rushed in first.

A-Yang and Xiao Jie also pushed the remaining security guard and followed closely behind.

After emptying his bullets, A-Li couldn't bother to change the magazine and took a big stride into the door.

"Bang!"

The heavy anteroom door was slammed shut, shutting out the shrill screams and tearing sounds.

Still shaken, everyone leaned against the cold door panel, panting heavily.

"Let's go, let's enter the Area A passage!"

Officer Zhou Liang made a prompt decision.

Hearing this, the other team members all nodded silently.

Now there was no other choice; the stairwell behind them had become a dead end.

They could only risk trying this method, perhaps they could find a way out to survive and escape this bizarre building.

But they hadn't walked many steps along the corridor before they regretted it.

"Look... what are all these..."

Xiao Jie's trembling voice sounded, pointing his gun muzzle forward.

Officer Zhou Liang, A-Yang, A-Li, and the only remaining security guard slowly raised their heads and looked at the scene before them, completely dumbfounded.

They had shockingly barged into an even more terrifying world.

In the spacious office hall, a thick, impenetrable gray fog permeated the air.

It was even thicker than when they came last time, almost completely obscuring their vision.

Within the fog, it was densely packed with monsters of various forms.

There were those xenomorphic maggots with women's faces from earlier, winding and coiling, revealing bloody bodies, and there was more than one.

There were giants over two meters tall with bloated muscles like mountains of flesh, and red compound eyes growing on their foreheads.

There were oversized insect creatures covered in black shells all over, with limbs like sickles.

And there were many humanoid monsters wearing guard uniforms whose bodies had long been twisted and deformed...

This place was simply a living demon's cave.

With their intrusion, it was as if it had disturbed this dead and silent Hell space.

All the monsters hidden in the fog turned around in unison.

Countless pairs of eyes, either crimson, pale, or glowing with dim green light, stared fixedly at this group of uninvited guests in the darkness.

They were surrounded.

"Fuck..."

A-Li cursed in a low voice.

Xiao Jie's breathing was rapid, and the muzzle of his submachine gun trembled slightly.

A-Yang traced a cross on his chest, seeming to pray.

As for that security guard, his legs went weak and he collapsed onto the ground.

Officer Zhou Liang silently closed his eyes, tightened his grip on the gun in his hand, and prepared to make a final resistance.

Just as everyone felt despair and awaited their fate,

Bang!

a loud noise suddenly came, deafening, as if a cannon shell had slammed fiercely into the wall.

The entire floor shook violently with it, and dust fell rustling from the ceiling.

Then.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

There were several more consecutive violent impacts, like dense battle drums beating.

Accompanied by the huge commotion of twisted steel bars and cracked cement, it struck heavily on everyone's hearts.

That sound seemed to come from the other side of the hall.

Officer Zhou Liang suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils shrinking sharply.

Suppressing the violent beating of his heart, his gaze passed through the gaps where the monsters writhed and overlapped, staring fixedly into the depths of the gray fog.

There, a figure had actually actively rushed into that terrifying group of monsters, engaging in the most primitive close-combat hand-to-hand combat with them.

There was no roaring of guns and cannons, only the sharp sonic boom brought up by that person's fists tearing through the air, and the dull sound of slamming into flesh, blood, and bones.

Sparks splashed in the fierce impact, and the whistling airflow spread with the wind of the fists, forcibly pushing away the surrounding thick fog to form a vacuum.

Thus, it also made the fighting figure clearer.

The fists swung by that person were simply like a bomber loaded with ammunition.

Every blow that fell was accompanied by violent explosions and shockwaves, blasting the monsters into pieces.

A muscular giant nearly three meters tall didn't even have time to roar before half of its body was blasted to pieces by a straight punch powerful enough to pierce steel plates.

Its huge body flew backward like a broken sackcloth bag, knocking over a large swath of monsters along the way.

Then, a giant insect creature covered all over in black shells was grabbed bare-handed by that person.

Hearing only a teeth-aching tearing sound, its hard shell was forcibly ripped open, internal organs and shell fragments splashed and flew, and stinking flesh scattered all over the ground.

Just at the moment that person solved the insect monster, a shadow rapidly attacked from the side and rear.

That was a nimble xenomorph with sharp bone spurs.

However, the figure seemed to have eyes on his back, neither dodging nor avoiding, instead turning sharply and soaring into the air.

Bang!

A heavy whirlwind kick that seemed to contain the force of ten thousand jun struck fiercely at the attacker's lower body area.

The xenomorph monster let out a miserable scream, its entire body instantly twisting and deforming, carried by this huge force, shooting toward the back wall like a cannonball.

With a loud boom.

The wall instantly caved in to form a giant pit several centimeters deep, and countless cracks quickly spread around like a spider web.

Such an unbridled and savage combat posture made Officer Zhou Liang unable to help forgetting to breathe, leaving in his eyes only a high-speed bursting figure with faint firelight.

Those hideous and terrifying monsters now seemed to have met their nemesis.

Or rather... they had met an existence even more terrifying than them.

They were completely powerless to resist; after brief attempts proved completely ineffective, they let out fearful roars one after another, running away in all directions in panic.

The woman-faced maggot that had been relentlessly chasing them was even the first to twist its body, panic-strickenly darting into the deepest darkness of the hallway.

In just a dozen seconds or so, the originally crowded and writhing office area had been forcibly cleared of an open space.

Whoosh——

The fist wind stopped, and the pushed-away fog poured back in the blink of an eye, quickly filling the entire hall and engulfing everything anew.

Officer Zhou Liang and the others all watched this scene in astonishment, their brains blank.

It was as if they had just watched a horror movie or had a dream.

From the thick fog that had once again become silent and deep, a voice drifted out.

"How come there are these bugs everywhere?"

That voice was clear and transparent, carrying undisguised disgust in its tone.

Everyone stared blankly in the direction the voice came from.

In the fog, a figure walked over slowly.

Tap, tap.

The footsteps were not heavy, but they felt like they were stepping on their heartbeats.

With every step that fell, it crushed the scattered remains of monsters on the ground, making a hair-raising "crunch," "crunch" sound.

Two points of crimson light lit up in the darkness.

That figure was getting closer and clearer—

A face so pale that it lacked the slightest trace of blood faintly emerged from the fog.

On both sides of the forehead, there were two ferocious, winding bulges, resembling the newborn horns of a demon.

The corners of his mouth were slightly split open in a half-smile, and the ends of his eyes were upturned, outlining a ghostly arc.

This face carried a fierce and devouring ferocity, yet also an eerie wickedness.

Coupled with the terrifying scene of tearing apart monsters bare-handed earlier, it made everyone feel as if they were seeing the God of Misfortune descend upon this place.

Pat.

The figure finally stopped a few meters away from them.

He had a tall, straight figure with lowered eyes.

The crimson gaze, like two substantive beams of light, swept one by one across the battle-ready team members and the security guard paralyzed on the ground.

Officer Zhou Liang opened his eyes wide, staring fixedly at that terrifying face.

He finally saw clearly that the other party was not born looking fierce and evil, but was wearing a mask that covered his true face.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, moistened his dry throat, and spoke cautiously:

"Sir, we are from the Special Investigation Team, here at the Noah Building to execute a mission. We accidentally ran into trouble and got trapped here."

Officer Zhou Liang tried his best to make his tone sound steady and sincere.

"You look like... you shouldn't be on the same side as the Noah Organization either. Perhaps we can join forces..."

"Special Investigation Team?"

As the words fell, the masked figure raised his head, his crimson eyes flashing slightly with light, as if considering something.

Beside him, A-Li stared blankly at that mask, as if a string in his brain had been plucked, and suddenly blurted out:

"You are... White Owl!"

But as soon as the words left his mouth, he immediately shook his head repeatedly.

"No, how could you be White Owl? White Owl should be in the experimental area right now; perhaps he has already successfully taken the data and escaped this ghost place..."

"Besides, your voice isn't right either. We just spoke on the communicator earlier. Could you be using a voice changer..."

He muttered under his breath, full of confusion and incomprehension.

Hearing this, Officer Zhou Liang's heart suffered a violent shock.

This mask was like a bolt of lightning, splitting open a certain corner deep within his memory.

That night on the highway in the midnight suburbs, a man wearing the same mask chased the Driving cars with his bare feet.

Afterwards, relying solely on his fists, he fought evenly and inextricably with Officer Gao who was wearing symbiotic armor, and even had the upper hand for a time.

The image in his memory gradually overlapped with the silent man before him.

Officer Zhou Liang swallowed saliva once more, and his heart couldn't help becoming even more nervous.

If the person in front of him was the real White Owl, that legendary, murderous Devil Head.

Then who on earth could the "White Owl" who participated in the operation with Captain Gao earlier and even spoke with them have been?

A terrifying thought floated into his mind.

Could it be that their so-called "cooperation" was a scam from the very beginning?

This real "White Owl" wasn't their ally at all.

No wonder he had such a violent Killing Intent.

No wonder he could slaughter those terrifying monsters like bugs.

Thinking of this, a layer of cold sweat oozed from Officer Zhou Liang's back.

He secretly took half a step back, and his hand hanging by his side made an obscure tactical gesture toward A-Yang behind him.

Seeing this, A-Yang standing behind him had his pupils suddenly shrink, and his hands couldn't help tightening their grip on the submachine gun.

The newcomer was none other than Fang Cheng.

At this moment, Fang Cheng listened to the words of the two Special Investigation Team members and saw their secret little actions, but showed no reaction to them.

The long-lasting Killing Intent on his body and his black combat uniform stained with blood all proclaimed danger.

It pressed down so heavily that everyone didn't dare to breathe a single loud breath, nor did they dare to move arbitrarily.

The floor fell into a suffocating silence.

Suddenly, Fang Cheng asked:

"Do you know how to get to the top floor's conference hall?"

His tone was plain, just like an ordinary person who got lost in a shopping mall and asked a security guard for directions.

This sudden question startled everyone who was on high alert.

Their tensed nerves were like being plucked by a hand, almost snapping on the spot.

The tension that had almost condensed into substance also instantly relaxed a bit.

Officer Zhou Liang reacted the fastest, immediately pointing at the security guard nearby who had been scared silly:

"He knows the way! There is a building security guard in our team."

Saying this, he grabbed the security guard slumped on the ground and pulled him up.

The security guard shivered all over from fright and said stammeringly:

"I... I... Right, right, I know! I've worked here for almost ten years, I can find the place even with my eyes closed..."

Fang Cheng glanced at him.

This security guard looked like an ordinary person, with a pale face and his legs still trembling.

Did he really have this ability?

Seeing doubt in Fang Cheng's eyes, Officer Zhou Liang hurriedly added:

"Also, A-Yang in our action team this time is deeply experienced and knowledgeable. He has also experienced similar events before, perhaps he can help us find a way out of this fog!"

Officer Zhou Liang praised A-Yang fiercely, almost desperately showcasing the utilization value of his team.

A-Yang, who was called out by name, was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted and hurriedly took over the conversation:

"Yes, that's right, this... should be an 'Inner World'."

"If we can't find the correct path and wander around blindly, we will only encounter more and more terrifying dangers."

"Inner World..."

Hearing this, Fang Cheng recalled his previous experiences in Miwu Mountain and nodded slightly:

"No wonder, so that's how it is."

Seeing his words recognized by the other party, A-Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued to display his professionalism:

"The so-called Inner World is a relatively independent different dimension space. Sir, if you want to go to the top floor, I'm afraid you can't use conventional methods. We need to discuss this thoroughly, first..."

His words weren't finished yet.

Hum——

A strange fluctuation rippled without warning in the air beside everyone.

Immediately following, a pitch-black thin line appeared out of thin air.