Chapter 114: Chapter 114: The Strange Squad is Formed!
Translator: 549690339
Han Dong carefully inspected the mask before passing it to Chen Li with reassurance.
[The Central Layer]This kind of underground space, was filled with a great amount of dust, shaped like fire cores.
Before verifying its composition, direct contact with this substance should be avoided.
“Miss Chen Li, please wear it… there is no problem.”
“Okay.”
As she held the mask in her hands and slowly moved it towards her face, Snap!
The mask autonomously adhered to her face and integrated into her skin!
The mask that the clown ripped off was not just a face mask, but a ‘protective skin’ that could cover the whole body.
Her face: a white face with red lips, also heavily applied with black eyeshadow.
Not only the face, but Chen Li’s [hairstyle] and [clothes] also changed.
Hair: the originally loose hair was completely changed, tied into cute ponytails with colorful rubber bands, and the middle-parted hair seemed to match Chen Li’s slightly small oval face.
Clothes: Her ragged red clothes unexpectedly turned into a stylish red jacket.
The interior of the jacket was matched with a white t-shirt with a clown’s face printed on it.
The lower part was denim shorts, rainbow stockings, and tennis shoes.
This kind of outfit was totally inconsistent with Chen Li’s original temperament and image.
Because Chen Li herself seemed quite tall, plus her good figure, and a rather beautiful face … she could fully pull off this style.
Even somewhat … sexy.
Chen Li also discovered her own transformation right away.
Wearing such a short skirt and stockings was something that she, who was born and raised in a small mountain village, had never encountered before.
She felt a little uncomfortable, even somewhat shy.
Because of her fear of clowns, Chen Li dared not move much and could only hide behind Han Dong.
Han Dong looked up and down at Chen Li whose appearance had greatly changed, seeing the effectiveness of her attire…even though it was quite exaggerated, it indeed isolated the person from their environment.
“You, little lady, are pretty good!” praised the clown.
And so, the most unique team was temporarily formed.
The team members were: [Hammer-wielding Clown], [Faceless Plague Man], and [Knife-wielding Clown Girl]
They exited the safe house.
The grey, endless underground corridor made Chen Li feel unwell as soon as she stepped out.
However, her outfit faintly exuded a fan-like sensation, paired with a light pink outline that completely isolated her from the environmental factors. “This way! The central control room is probably in the center below…”
The hammer-wielding clown, relying on his memories from long ago, took charge of leading the way.
Just after turning the corner, the team simultaneously stopped in their tracks.
The passage ahead was completely blocked by a giant worm-like life form.
The huge and greasy body occupied the entire passageway, not to mention the worm’s body broke through the walls and extends to other areas of the sewer.
“Oh no, the road is blocked … very annoying! We’ll have to go around.”
“Wait a minute…”
Han Dong called out to the clown who was about to turn around and leave.
“Since the central layer is inherently dangerous, it doesn’t matter where we go…it might be safer to take this ‘shortcut’.”
Han Dong stretched out his hand towards the giant worm blocking the passageway.
The clown immediately understood Han Dong’s intention, thought for a moment, “It’s possible…but it might be somewhat disgusting, can you guys withstand it?”
“As long as it’s possible.”
Disgusting… Han Dong didn’t think there was anything disgusting about these blood-flesh creatures, having spent every day in the [Old Sewers] dealing with mushrooms, bacteria, mutated rats, and even inoculating beneficial fungal organisms in his own body.
Han Dong drew out his Plague Dagger.
He firmly stabbed the blade into the worm’s body, straining to cut an opening! He did not trigger the plague effect throughout the process in order not to irritate the giant worm.
For such an invertebrate, making a small cut on its body wouldn’t create much of a reaction.
Thus, the entrance to a special passageway was opened.
This was Han Dong’s idea.
Since the giant worm connected different areas of the [Central Layer], why not use its body as a connective passageway?
The central layer was filled with dangers, it would be safer to walk directly inside the body of this giant worm.
He pried open the worm wall.
A warm and slightly red worm tunnel appeared before them.
There was some fluid accumulated on the ground of the worm tunnel, but the acidity wasn’t strong, there wouldn’t be much issue navigating inside. “You’ve got quite the move, young Nicholas!”
The clown gave a thumbs up, once again affirming Han Dong’s interesting outsider status.
And so they moved forward along the winding worm tunnel. In relatively narrow areas, they had to stick to the warm and sticky walls to pass through.
After reaching a certain depth, traversing approximately five layers of wall through the worm tunnel.
Han Dong cut another opening and the team emerged from the worm’s body.
“Wow! Such a convenient shortcut… Just up ahead, that should be the [Central Control Room] ! ”
The clown picked up a sign, brushed off the dust on it, the destination was just ahead.
Additionally, the constant mechanical rumbling coming from deep in front also somewhat proved that they were on the right path.
However…
“There’s something!
Han Dong’s [Eye] seemed to have detected something in advance.
Deep within the passage, a dangerous spirit form was moving along the walls…
clearly, these things had locked onto Han Dong and the others, and were coming with killing intent.
Evil spirits? Ghosts? Aliens?
The fire-core substances scattered in the passage interfered with Han Dong’s observation to a certain extent.
He was unable to confirm what exactly was moving quickly within the walls, only able to vaguely discern twisted countenances, which anyway, were very dangerous.
Han Dong and Chen Li stood back to back, ready for battle.
Ready to confront the ‘oddities’ that would soon emerge from the walls, ground or ceiling.
“Intruders who venture into this place, without hearing the call…shall die!” A voice filled with resentment echoed through the passage.
Following this, a number of distorted faces protruded from the walls of the passage.
Stretching, twisting, struggling.
Just as these strange entities seemed to break free from the confinement of the wall and attack the group as evil spirits Duang! Duang! Duang-
Seven consecutive hammer strikes!
Each strike landed heavily on the hideous heads.
It felt like playing a game of whack-a-mole.
With each strike, the sound of something hard shattering could be heard, accompanied by a large amount of foul fluid splattering.
The voice of resentment echoing in the passage was leveled by the hammer, and everything returned to normal.
“That’s settled, those were just a few ‘scout’-like things! Quickly clean them up, then they won’t be able to transmit any information. Let’s hurry while we still have time and go deeper.
Rush to get the map before the annoying ones find us.”
The clown happily waved at Han Dong, hopped and skipped, and walked towards the depths of the passage.
Looking at the strange life forms embedded in the wall, killed instantly before they could crawl out, Han Dong sighed,
“It is indeed the final boss of this incident … some minor tricks are far from enough to kill him. Let’s take it slow..”