Bai Youwei looked at Pan Xiaoxin.
The child stood frozen in front of her holding the knife, his face pale, his expression showing panic, as if unable to believe he’d killed a monster.
Bai Youwei knew she should praise him, even thank him, but…
She looked down at the blood all over her legs.
The monster’s dissolved blood plasma and mucus soaked through her skirt, running down her legs—fishy, sticky, slippery…
Bai Youwei: “…”
She really didn’t want to say a single word.
“Xiaoxin is so brave!” Teacher Cheng praised generously.
Pan Xiaoxin looked bashful.
The man nearby said nervously, “There’s another one! There’s another one outside!”
Bai Youwei frowned and looked over. Outside the door was indeed another skinned monster, but it hadn’t come in. Instead, it was pressed against the restaurant wall, gnawing large chunks of flesh.
The man said tremulously, “Kill it quickly! Otherwise… otherwise…”
The monster was feeding. The festering area on the wall grew larger and larger, purple blood, green pus, bloody mucus mixing together in an indescribably foul stench!
The skinned monster’s abdomen also grew larger and larger!
It seemed insatiable, constantly gnawing, constantly swallowing, its belly growing so large it nearly matched its huge head!
Then Bai Youwei saw a crack split open on its heavy, sagging belly—
Teeth showed inside.
Everyone felt a chill in their hearts!
The belly continued sagging, finally becoming a blood-red ball that rolled to the ground, extending four limbs—another small skinned monster!
So the monsters multiplied like this!
Utterly unkillable!
In that instant, Bai Youwei was furious!
She looked coldly at the man slumped on the ground, demanding, “You knew all along! Why didn’t you say so earlier?!”
The man’s face turned pale, stammering incoherently, “Didn’t I say? I… I didn’t know! I don’t know anything! Hurry and kill them! The snake will come! The giant snake will be attracted!!!”
Bai Youwei gritted her teeth, no longer paying him any mind, wheeling herself outside.
However, the ceiling was simply too high—even with Cheng Weicai raising his cane, he couldn’t reach the monsters!
They made threatening gestures with their teeth and gums at them, their red heads squeezed among the meat tumors, their thin limbs clinging to the walls like agile big-headed geckos.
One monster suddenly leaped down!
Cheng Weicai hastily jabbed his cane upward! It missed. The monster jumped back onto the wall, rapidly scurrying up to the ceiling! Cheng Weicai was still looking up for it when the monster had already switched to the opposite direction to attack him from behind!
Bai Youwei threw her hammer at Cheng Weicai’s back!
It smashed the monster’s head. It fell to the ground and rolled twice, motionless, with a bloody hole cracked in its head oozing viscous blood. Then its entire body dissolved like tissue paper meeting water.
The monster on the ceiling grew more agitated and more vigilant!
It bit a dark purple hole in the ceiling, hiding in the rotten flesh and pus, refusing to come out.
Bai Youwei had Pan Xiaoxin throw bricks at it, but only knocked down some scraps of meat—it couldn’t hurt it at all!
The monster was feeding in the flesh!
One became two, two became four, four became eight! So many they couldn’t fit in the hole, and one by one they dropped down!
The falling monsters lunged at people!
With so many, they quickly couldn’t handle them.
“Fall back!” Bai Youwei commanded coldly.
She and Pan Xiaoxin retreated. Teacher Cheng swung his cane to prevent the monsters from catching up. The three of them retreated to the kitchen in chaotic haste, and Teacher Cheng immediately closed the door!
“Don’t close it all the way—leave a crack!” Bai Youwei said.
Teacher Cheng froze.
Bai Youwei looked at Pan Xiaoxin, saying coldly, “Hold your knife ready. Chop each one that comes in!”