Chapter 376 (1/2)

“Neurotoxins?” Vivian pulled her eyebrows together. “You think neurotoxins would work?”

“Whatever. Let’s just give it a try.” Hao Ren approached the pool. The surging red fluid was emanating an even greater luster with an increased vitality like a liquid ruby. The heart, which was immersed in the pool was thumping with a greater force. “Neurotoxins, anesthetics, acids, alkalines… whatever you can get your hands on. Of course, be careful not to pour them in directly as that may agitate and wake it up too soon. We should set up some booby traps and time them to trigger once the thing awakens!”

“I never knew you were so evil.” Vivian glanced at Hao Ren, stunned but impressed with his little evil thoughts!

The vampire maiden began to draw a magic circle around the heart. It could only be triggered remotely and it would create a large area of corrosive Blood Mist. Although she was not sure if the corrosive mist would do any damage to the super life form, which measured several hundred kilometres across, she hoped that it would stun it for a while, no matter how slightly.

The MDT was spot on; this was a creature beyond the normal sense. The life form had seriously out-spec’d anything that God ever designed. No normal method was going to bring it down; not even the inspector gun Hao Ren was wearing. When going against such a massive creature, no explosives would do either—not even 200 lbs of C4 would work. The sheer size of the thing was its ultimate defense!

So, the only option left to destroy the ancient, awakening monster was to bring total destruction upon it. But before they did that, they had to evacuate the residents in Beinz.

However, Hao Ren had no clue about the kind of weapon he could use to bring the thing down: there were no nukes there and frankly speaking, he had every reason to believe that not even a nuke could bring the super life form to its knees!

By then, Vivian had finished laying her booby traps; it was a two-metre wide rune circle. Compared to the thousand-metre heart, it was just a drop in the ocean. The heart was just one of the many organs of the Gnarled Grove. A sense of helplessness began to weigh on Hao Ren’s mind. Will this circle work at all? he asked himself.

“Done.” Wiping the sweat off her forehead, Vivian said, “Shall we go and find the other hearts in the other caverns too?”

Hao Ren shook his negative thoughts away. He pulled the MDT out and said, “Show us the way!”

Without wasting any time, they moved swiftly through the complex underground world. They were not worried about getting lost as the MDT was also a navigation device. Soon, they found one cavern after another, all with similar hearts. Each cavern resonated with the increasingly strong heart thumping sound!

Once Vivian was done setting up the seventh magic circle, she gasped as she looked at the massive thing. “I’m afraid that I’ll be the first Blood Clan member to suffer from anemia if I keep drawing the circles with my blood like this… What damage can we expect here? A few scars? I wonder how this thing even grows!”

“Probably, that goddess of creation wasn’t as powerful as Raven 12345…” Hao Ren’s mouth twisted as he spoke. “But she’s definitely outgunned us! We’ll just have to do our human best and leave the rest to God. Now let’s get the hell out of here and meet the others.”

They immediately withdrew from the cavern, leaving behind the magic circles to say hello to the hearts when they fully awakened. A rhythmic thumping of the heart was heard coming from behind them and it sounded like it was sneering at them.

They came back to the first cavern they visited and found only Ophra as well as Elson there. Elson nodded at them gratefully. He seemed fine and was just lost in the caverns. It was Big Beardy who found him and got him out. Ophra stepped up to Hao Ren and said, “Is the news true?”

Clearly, it was a stupid question. But, she just wanted a confirmation becase she felt lost.

“Do you think it’s a joke?” Hao Ren spread his hand out. “Has Big Beardy gone with the bishop?”

“They’ve gone back to town using the teleportation stone. We were waiting for you guys.” Ophra furrowed her brows tightly. “The parchments, which the four masters brought out had an unforgeable, sacred seal on them. I’m afraid everything written on them is true… but still, it’s hard to believe!”

“I know it’s hard to accept, especially for believers like you,” Hao Ren said as he waved his hand, “but this is no time to harp on who has gotten the wrong bible! Let’s catch up with them first. Your knights will be of help too.”