Don't Want to Become a Monster

The black rain suddenly fell harder, with bean-sized raindrops smashing against the muddy ground and splashing up layers of black flowers. Visibility was shattered by the impenetrable curtain of rain, leaving only blurry black shadows beyond ten meters.

Seven or eight bandage monsters surrounded them not far away, their bodies wrapped in dark brown bandages that had soaked up the black rain, constantly dripping with sticky, purplish-black slime.

"S-so many?!" Seeing that there were actually so many bandage monsters, Xiao Tian revealed a look of shock.

One must know, there seemed to be only one bandage monster in the small town, and it had even been shrunk by Ye Chuan.

Who would have thought there would actually be so many outside!!!

"Hmm..." Ye Chuan, however, felt a slight headache.

Fighting in this black rain would restrict his movements somewhat.

Moreover, Ye Chuan didn't know what would happen to him if he touched the black rain—would he turn into a monster? But considering the protection of Chaos, Lilith, and his younger sister, it might not necessarily be the case.

Those bandage monsters began to approach!

Their blood-red eyes gleamed with a terrifying light in the rain, their mouths stretching into eerie arcs to reveal ghastly white broken teeth. Their low snarls mixed with the sound of the rain and crashed over, making one's scalp tingle.

These bandage monsters were even more hideous than the one encountered in the church earlier. Some of the bandages had burst open, revealing the rotting, blackened, constantly squirming flesh underneath.

Some had even lost an arm, relying solely on half a rotting limb to prop up against the ground, yet they still approached at an unexpectedly fast speed. When they crawled in the mud using both hands and feet, they emitted sticky, squelching sounds.

"Forget it, let's avoid the brunt for now!" Without another word, Ye Chuan wrapped one arm around Xiao Tian's waist, firmly tucking her under his armpit, while his other hand hoisted the iron door panel over his head to block the rain.

"Waaah?!" Xiao Tian was caught off guard by being picked up and was too scared to move recklessly.

The next moment, the rotting arm swung by the bandage monster that pounced first—that arm scraped past the door panel, its bandages tearing apart. Purplish-black slime was flung onto the iron plate, accompanied by a corrosive sound, and the door panel instantly burned out tiny craters.

Ye Chuan exerted force beneath his feet, forcefully carving out a path through the ankle-deep mud, and began to sprint wildly.

The mud was viciously splashed up, instantly sticking to his trouser legs, but the heavy resistance didn't affect his speed in the slightest.

After all, his physical fitness was right there; even if his cultivation was sealed, his physical abilities remained.

Xiao Tian, tucked under his armpit, tightly gripped the hem of his clothes, her cheek pressed against his arm. In her ears were the howling sounds of the wind and rain, and behind them, the increasingly closer snarls. Her heart was beating so fast it felt like it would burst out of her chest.

"Brother Cai Kun! They've caught up!"

Xiao Tian shouted with a trembling voice. From the corner of her eye, she glimpsed the bandage monsters behind them drawing ever closer. The one at the very front had even extended its sharp nails, almost grabbing Ye Chuan's heel!

"They can run that fast?" Ye Chuan was also a little surprised. One must know that his speed was already incredibly fast, yet these eerie creatures could actually catch up.

"Roar!" A bandage monster extended its claws—

Catching it out of the corner of his eye, Ye Chuan violently dodged sideways, simultaneously raising his foot and delivering a vicious backward kick right into the chest of that bandage monster. It was sent flying backward, crashing into its companions behind and tangling into a ball of mud.

But in just an instant, that bandage monster scrambled up from its companions, its body rapidly healing, and it continued to chase after them with snarls.

"Things that can't be killed are just troublesome. Why are they mechanism monsters?"

Ye Chuan cursed under his breath, reaching into his backpack to pull out the Shrink Ray.

Science!

The moment he pressed the switch, the pale blue beam of light was scattered by the dense black rain, turning into fragmented points of light that completely failed to target the fast-moving bandage monsters. Instead, due to the gap created by raising his hand, the sharp claws of a bandage monster scratched the door panel, leaving five deep gouges.

He simply tossed the Shrink Ray back into his spatial storage—this thing was completely useless in the black rain. If it came to a head-on clash, he didn't care about himself, but Xiao Tian was right beside him. Once they got entangled in a fight, there was no guarantee she wouldn't be drenched by the black rain, not to mention these bandage monsters couldn't be killed, and dragging it out might draw even more of them.

The only way was to find a place that could shelter them from the rain and limit the number of these monsters before going all out to deal with them.

Carrying the door panel and holding Xiao Tian, Ye Chuan sprinted madly through the rain, his eyes dead-set on scanning the path ahead.

The sound of the black rain smashing against the door panel, the snarls of the bandage monsters, and the squelching in the mud wove together into a suffocating net in his ears.

Xiao Tian kept her eyes tightly shut, not daring to look behind her. She only felt Ye Chuan's arm tightening its grip, his footsteps growing faster, and the wind stinging her cheeks.

Just then, Ye Chuan seemed to discover something.

In the rain ahead, a protruding cliff face faintly appeared. A large chunk in the middle of the cliff was hollowed out, forming a natural haven!

The ground beneath the cliff was relatively dry due to the shelter of the cliff face, with only a small amount of accumulated water. Moreover, the entrance was narrow, allowing at most two bandage monsters to pass through simultaneously.

"Good spot!" Ye Chuan rushed over, tossing Xiao Tian out the moment he entered.

"Ouch!" Xiao Tian rolled on the ground, feeling dizzy and disoriented.

Ye Chuan didn't pay attention to Xiao Tian, immediately turning back and viciously swinging the iron door panel backwards!

The seven or eight bandage monsters that pounced simultaneously were directly sliced in half at the waist by Ye Chuan's door panel!

"Blocking the door is much more comfortable." Ye Chuan took out the Air Cannon from his spatial backpack and fired a shot with a raise of his hand!

With a loud boom, an invisible force instantly blasted the black rain in the area ahead dry, even forcibly crushing those bandage monsters!

But the bandage monsters were still regenerating, so Ye Chuan fired another shot!

"Boom!"

Another invisible force rippled out, sending the bandage monsters whose bodies were still coagulating flying once again.

Ye Chuan's Air Cannon had a limit on the number of uses. Even though he had upgraded it, he couldn't use it an infinite number of times. But at this moment, Ye Chuan couldn't care less about that and directly fired the Air Cannon once more.

The earth-shattering boom left Xiao Tian behind him almost dumbfounded.

What kind of weapon was this?

"Sweeping is so satisfying!" Ye Chuan stored the Air Cannon, its uses completely depleted, back into his spatial backpack and looked outside once again—

Those bandage monsters had already been blasted away. As for whether they were dead or not, Ye Chuan didn't know, but there seemed to be no signs of them coming over.

After doing this, Ye Chuan turned back to take a look, only to find Xiao Tian sitting on the ground, her face looking a bit dreadful.

"What's wrong?"

"I... Brother Cai Kun, I think I got rained on." Xiao Tian pointed to her arm. At this moment, her arm had started to turn purple, and even blue veins were popping out.

Although Ye Chuan had run while holding the door panel over them just now, it was raining heavily after all, and Xiao Tian inevitably had the black rain attach to her.

"You're..." Seeing Xiao Tian's gradually darkening purple arm, Ye Chuan crouched down and began to examine it.

"Brother Cai Kun... Please take care of... Mother's matter..."

Xiao Tian seemed to realize her death was imminent, trembling as she handed over the spirit sword in her hand.

"Kill me..."

"I don't want to turn into a monster..."