Published: March 2, 2025
Beijing Central Square.
Originally energetic tourists, the local residents had been completely driven away by the military. They gathered around the defense line, taking photos with their phones, looking like spectators at a spectacle, eagerly watching the hosts that had clustered together in the Central Square.
It was like watching monkeys at the zoo...
However, the "monkeys" paid no attention to the surrounding visitors. Once they gathered in Beijing Central Square, they immediately seemed to lose all their senses, collapsing to the ground.
If it weren't for the vines extending from their facial features still writhing, everyone might have thought the incident had come to an end.
"What the hell, all noise and no action..."
"Who says otherwise? My big knife has been itching for action, but I didn't get a single head earlier."
"I tell you, brother, if you didn’t get one, consider yourself lucky. I just killed one, only to find out these guys don't give any points; it was all for nothing!"
"Damn it, then why am I wasting time here?"
"Hey, hey, hey, don’t be in such a rush to leave. Don't you feel like something extraordinary is about to happen? Look at the military around; they’ve even brought out the photon cannons and heavy weaponry..."
Among the surrounding crowd, there were many sharp-eyed onlookers. From the surface, these hosts looked like a pile of corpses lying haphazardly on the ground, but from the military's weaponry and their expressions, many had already sensed that things might not be as simple as they appeared.
Suddenly, one of the hosts lying on the ground twitched violently; in the next moment, its facial features burst apart, and several vines crazily squeezed out from its face!
These vines instantly tore apart the host's head, twisted its body, and in a short time, disgusting chunks of flesh were splattering onto the ground, like a layer of scarlet carpet being laid upon the earth.
The extruded vines seemed to gain some kind of power; they twisted, intertwined, fused together, and kept reaching upwards until they extended over ten meters high, finally coming to a halt in mid-air.
It looked like a propped-up wooden beam.
"This is really disgusting..."
A series of gasps erupted from the crowd. However, in this world, the more terrifying and bloody things became, the more attention they drew.
"Now that's exciting!"
A somewhat perverse voice rose sporadically from the crowd. With the sound of camera shutters clicking, the atmosphere in Beijing Central Square seemed to become much more lively.
...
"Let's drive them away; having these people here is really too much of an inconvenience."
In the sky, Tang Hao's team was still floating in mid-air, looking at the crowded scene below, they couldn't help but frown.
"No need. Let them stay; they serve as a secondary defense line and buffer zone outside the military. If things go south, they can buy us some time."
Qin Tian rejected Gul's suggestion. His eyes were wide open, staring unblinkingly at the pile of corpses below until the second body suddenly exploded.
Again, several vines twisted and broke free from the host, stretching out, intertwining together, and shooting straight up into the sky like a sharp arrow...
"Bang."
"Bang."
It was as if a signal had been given. With the series of explosive sounds echoing, the bodies on the ground burst apart in succession. Countless vines extricated themselves, and blood and mud instantly covered the ground.
"This is..."
Watching this bloody and bizarre scene, Qin Tian and the others all frowned. They observed the vines entangling and gradually coalescing into a massive vine cluster.
Until a loud explosion sounded.
Beside him, Tang Hao's face turned pale as he maintained a punching stance, and he swung his fist from his right hand, instantly striking the vine cluster below. The sudden blow obliterated the entire vine cluster into dust, even destroying the entire Beijing Central Square in the process.
"Tang Hao! What are you doing?"