168: Chapter 168 Trapped Beast

"Su Qing!" Lu Chengfeng stopped in his tracks, raising his gun to fire.

However, the giant iron chain swept along the ground, instantly kicking up a wave of gale-force wind that blew Lu Chengfeng and the others far away.

Su Qing summoned her scissors and successfully cut the iron chain.

She flailed her arms wildly, trying to adjust her body in mid-air.

However, she was falling headfirst; landing on her neck from a height of 10 meters would cause her bones to pierce her trachea, resulting in instant death.

Seeing this, Chen Mo wanted to move, but the distance was too great; there was simply no time.

With a flick of his palm, Threading the Needle extended forward at extreme speed.

However, the distance between them was several hundred meters, and Threading the Needle could not find a fulcrum to connect to.

It crawled forward for over 100 meters before coming to a stop.

"Heh, want to run?" Mother Ghost extended her palm, preparing to crush Su Qing into a pulp.

Tears welled up in the corners of Su Qing's eyes; in that moment, she felt that she was truly going to die.

She looked in the direction where Chen Mo was and saw him rushing toward her.

Although she knew he definitely wouldn't make it in time, seeing the panic on Chen Mo's face and the concern in his eyes, she still managed a smile.

"Chen Mo, I'm going to die too..."

Seeing Su Qing close her eyes, as if she had already prepared herself to accept the judgment of death, the veins on Chen Mo's forehead bulged as he mobilized all his strength and sprinted into the forest.

"Riiip!" came a sound.

Suddenly, a figure flew out from the shadows to the side.

The Man in Military Uniform held a pitch-black longsword in his hand, instantly severing two of Mother Ghost's fingers, and reached out his arm.

He took Su Qing and dove into the nearby darkness.

Mother Ghost extended her palm and saw the two cleanly severed stumps, which were gushing blood uncontrollably.

She immediately opened her mouth, spewing out a white wax mist to forcibly coagulate the wounds.

Then, she furiously continued to chase after them.

Chen Mo stood at the exit of the forest as everyone passed by his side and entered the interior of the church.

Mother Ghost kept raising her iron chain, lashing at a wriggling black shadow within the ground.

The black shadow moved repeatedly from side to side, dodging all of the iron chain's attacks, while gullies were carved into the ground one after another.

Finally, Su Qing's head poked out from the damp soil.

The Man in Military Uniform gave her a forceful toss, then rolled repeatedly to dodge the final lash.

Chen Mo quickly stepped forward, caught Su Qing in a bridal carry, then covered himself with the invisibility cloak and vanished on the spot.

The iron chain struck the spot where Chen Mo was invisible, causing the ground to collapse.

"Chen Mo! I almost died!" Su Qing cried out loudly, kicking her legs frantically.

Chen Mo didn't answer; his figure moved rapidly across the ground as he watched the Man in Military Uniform, who was leaping up and down in the darkness like a fish.

"Why would this guy help me?" Chen Mo's eyes narrowed slightly.

In that situation just now, even Jiang Xinyi and the others hadn't moved at all.

A slight misstep would have turned one death into two.

Although he knew this guy was strong, it still felt very strange.

Chen Mo and the Man in Military Uniform coordinated to continue luring Mother Ghost into the church.

The iron chain swept horizontally in front of them; Chen Mo tossed Su Qing into the air and dove onto the ground himself.

With one above and one below, the iron chain swept right between them.

Su Qing flailed her arms, feeling as if her breathing had stopped.

She could clearly feel that if she had been just a little lower, the iron chain would have struck her legs and smashed her into a mist of blood right in mid-air.

Chen Mo lifted his upper body and performed two consecutive backflips, landing on his feet on the steel wire bridge suspended in the air.

The iron chain spun around, returning toward the direction of the forest.

Extending his arms, Su Qing fell back into his embrace, and then Chen Mo turned in mid-air, lifting his palm.

The steel wire bridge shifted from parallel to an incline, carrying Su Qing as they slid directly through the second-floor window of the church.

"That was so thrilling, Chen Mo." Seeing Chen Mo's series of maneuvers, Su Qing's fear dissipated.

As long as she was by Chen Mo's side, she felt completely safe.

However, what puzzled her was... wasn't Chen Mo a Night Watcher? Why was he performing so many high-difficulty stunts just like an acrobat?

Perhaps Chen Mo usually studied these techniques in secret.

Chen Mo released her legs and placed her steadily on the ground.

He said, "Go regroup with Lu Chengfeng and the others, and hide in the storage room."

Su Qing nodded and ran toward the stairs.

"Whew..." Chen Mo let out a long breath.

That was close; he almost lost another teammate's life.

Arriving at the window, Chen Mo saw the Man in Military Uniform constantly turning into a black shadow, leaping about within the underground soil.

With a wave of his palm, Chen Mo held five shadow cards between his fingers and threw them into the shadows to the side.

Mother Ghost was giggling, taking pleasure in tormenting the Man in Military Uniform, just like playing Whac-A-Mole.

However, five black rectangular objects suddenly shot out from five different directions.

Her pupils constricted, and her neck turned into wax oil, allowing her to dodge four of them.

But the last one still grazed her side profile.

It left a dark red wound on her face.

Sensing the owner of the cards, Mother Ghost looked toward Chen Mo's side and immediately charged toward the second floor where Chen Mo was.

The Man in Military Uniform glanced at Chen Mo, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly; he could finally enter the church safely.

Chen Mo sprinted forward, pushed open the door on the second floor, and the first thing he saw was the corridor.

The interior space of this church was circular; looking down from the second floor to the first, one could see the entire scene of the first floor.

Looking down from above, it was like a circle with another circle hollowed out inside.

The main door of the church was forced open by great strength, and Mother Ghost bent down, crawling in through the several-meter-high entrance.

Then she stood up; her massive body occupied nearly a third of the first floor.

"Where are you hiding?"

Looking at the church filled with wax statues, Mother Ghost kicked over all the tables and chairs, checking the faces of those wax statues one by one.

"Close the net!"

Chen Mo took a few steps back, looked at the invisible steel wires rigged on the door beam, and snapped his fingers lightly.

This section of steel wire instantly broke free from the wall.

Mother Ghost took a deep breath, and waves of ghost energy spread throughout the space.

She could feel hundreds of invisible objects shooting toward her from all directions.

She wanted to dodge, but her body was huge, and the interior space of this church was very cramped.

There was simply no way to dodge.

Use brute force to smash the church walls? That was not an option either, because she knew that this church was entirely formed by coagulated wax oil; to break through it, one could only use fire.

Invisible steel wires pierced through her body one after another.

The steel wire that passed through her temple exited from the other side of her temple and pierced into the opposite wall.

Hundreds of invisible steel wires firmly fixed her body in place.

Every time she exerted force, the "humming" sound of the steel wires tightening and vibrating could be heard by her ears.

Furthermore, Chen Mo had used a triangular structure, creating a cooperative tension with the surrounding walls, pushing the effect of the tension to the limit!

Everyone walked out of the second-floor storage room and leaned against the railing of the second-floor circular corridor.

Watching Mother Ghost before them, caught in a trap and roaring like a beast trapped in a cage, then looking at Chen Mo to the side, everyone gulped hard.