This sudden transformation was enough to scare the wits out of any faint-hearted soul!
The woman's skin cracked open as pink tentacle after pink tentacle burrowed out from inside her body.
In less than two seconds, she transformed into a gigantic pink octopus, looking utterly terrifying...
[Low-level Beast "Strangler"]
[Lv 12]
[Comprehensive Combat Power: 3155]
[Skills: Constriction, Mental Pollution]
"What? A low-level beast with 3000 combat power?!"
Everyone gasped in shock, and the two Xia sisters screamed even louder. They had never seen any Abyss minion boast such high combat power right out of the gate!
This was simply mind-boggling...
Even Bai Ze found it somewhat hard to believe, and he hastily summoned Little Diamond Wind.
After a gust of whirlwind swept past, Little Diamond Wind's massive figure appeared in the hall. He glanced sideways at the tentacle monster before him, then shook the bell hanging at his waist...
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
Following three rings of the bell, the monster's soul shattered and its body began to dissolve...
At the same time, the male Exotic Beast that had been lurking behind the group preparing to launch an ambush was likewise struck dumb by the bell's chime, its body rapidly disintegrating!
"Are these devils from another world? This was only a low-level one, but the high-level ones seem extremely strong. I might not be a match for them..."
Little Diamond Wind turned his head and said to Bai Ze.
Meanwhile, two notification sounds for gained experience rang out:
[Killed low-level Exotic Beast "Strangler", Experience +200]
[Killed low-level Exotic Beast "Assassin", Experience +200]
"It's fine. If we encounter trouble we can't solve when the time comes, I'll have the Great Sage step in."
"Understood..."
At that moment, everyone stood to the side, silently waiting for Bai Ze to speak.
Bai Ze walked over to the dining table, called everyone over, and said, "The monsters are indeed real monsters, but this food is real too. Let's eat and talk at the same time!"
With that, everyone sat down around the dining table, eating and chatting.
"Boss, they say that in this Abyss, the clearance method is different for every team!"
"Within one hour of descending, a note will appear in the team leader's storage space or pocket, and the method written on that note is how the team needs to clear the level!"
"Oh... Is that so?"
Bai Ze felt around his person and actually discovered that a note had indeed appeared in his pants pocket!
"Restart... human glory?"
"Huh?"
Bai Ze was a bit dumbfounded. What kind of clearance method was this, and what on earth was "restart human glory"?
He was extremely puzzled in his heart, but he still vaguely grasped the general idea...
Just as everyone was finishing their meal, they suddenly heard the sound of a child crying coming from the third floor of the neighboring building.
"Sob, sob, sob... Mommy... Don't..."
Bai Ze and the others saw two children holding the door shut from inside a bedroom. Their bedroom door had been broken through, and two or three tentacles were actually punching through holes in the door, constantly thrashing as they tried to grab the two children!
"They're humans?!" Xia Qiu exclaimed.
"Little Diamond Wind!"
"Yes!"
As soon as Bai Ze finished speaking, he instructed Little Diamond Wind to take all four of them, ride the wind, and instantly charge into the opposite bedroom.
These two children were also terrified out of their wits by the group, but Bai Ze immediately went over to comfort them.
He then had Little Diamond Wind step in to deal with the two Exotic Beasts outside the door!
However, the combat power of these two Exotic Beasts was noticeably lower, turning out to be only around 1700. It seemed there were disparities among Exotic Beasts as well.
At that moment, Xia Qiu and Xia Chun were chatting with the two children, but Bai Ze had already spotted something amiss...
Looking through the window, he saw that quite a few neighbors had actually all gone downstairs and were staring up at this place with a strange look in their eyes.
"You two kids from the Zhang family, hurry down here! Your uncle and aunt are waiting right here for you!"
"You two kids hurry on down! It's too dangerous up there!"
The tone of these neighbors was rather stiff, as if they simply wanted the two children to come down...
Bai Ze roughly scanned the area; there were about a hundred neighbors downstairs, and more neighbors kept joining in from the distance. The number was likely to break a thousand soon!
This doesn't look good. Let's head up to the rooftop...
Soon, Bai Ze led the group to the rooftop and used a giant boulder to block the only passageway, preventing those neighbors from coming up.
What made everyone's blood run cold, however, was that the shouting neighbors downstairs were growing more and more numerous. No matter what they said, the core theme boiled down to just two words: "Come down!"
They gave off a feeling that was both foolish and terrifying...
"Tch..."
Faced with hordes of monsters, Bai Ze wasn't actually all that worried. Even if Little Diamond Wind couldn't handle them, there was still the Great Sage!
Failure was impossible for him...
What he was currently worrying about was how to restore human glory. How on earth was this supposed to be restored?
He really had no clue at all! If they couldn't restore it, the few of them wouldn't be able to leave the Abyss!
With this thought, Bai Ze looked over at the two children they had just rescued.
The two children were shivering, looking utterly pitiful, apparently traumatized by the mutation of their own parents.
And rightfully so; they had lived with their parents for over a dozen years, only to suddenly discover one day that their parents were two monsters. Who could possibly stomach that?
"Hmm... Restoring human glory, literally speaking, actually means helping humans regain control of this world and become the masters of the world."
"But there are simply too many monsters in this world. Even if I had Brother Monkey slaughter all 100,000 of these monsters, the remaining humans still wouldn't be able to withstand the few monsters left over..."
"Unless we give humans the means to grow stronger themselves, otherwise..."
Bai Ze sighed. He couldn't think of any good solution for the moment, and right at that moment, a massive horde of monsters had begun slamming against the door, looking ready to smash their way in at any second!
"Little Diamond Wind, slaughter the monsters here, and then let's head into the mountains!"
"Yes, Great King!"
Little Diamond Wind acknowledged the order, then waved the command flag in his hand!
Instantly, a ferocious whirlwind whipped up, directly destroying all the facilities on the rooftop and sweeping every last monster in the stairwell up into the sky.
Afterwards, he wreaked havoc across the residential compound, sweeping all the monsters into the tornado to steadily wear down their HP, slowly blowing them to death with the wind...
The sound of gained experience notifications rang out continuously. In just a few short seconds, everyone leveled up directly!
Then Little Diamond Wind rode the wind, carrying the group and the two children toward the depths of the mountain forests, quickly disappearing deep among the mountain ranges...
One of the two children happened to have a mobile phone. When the group took the phone and checked it, they never expected a news flash to pop up on the screen!
[According to the latest news from Guangming City, large-scale casualties have occurred within the Waterside Floral Residence community, suspected to be an invasion by terrorists!]
[Residents are advised to exercise caution and avoid going out alone to avoid encountering terrorists!]
When Bai Ze heard this news, he almost lost it!
"Oh no, we've become terrorists..."