Familiar Things

At this moment, the monsters moved all at once.

Dragging their twisted limbs, they squeezed hoarse, bizarre screeches from their throats.

Some had large mouths splitting open on their abdomens, while others had necks that elongated, smashing the glass of nearby shops with a single swing of their heads.

Lin Xi only took one look, her small face turning pale.

"Mr. Ye, can we skip the cutscene for this dungeon?"

This was terrifying.

Su Rui also drew her energy pistol, aiming at the foremost monster with a grave expression.

"You're not even as good as my Xiaogua." Ye Chuan, on the other hand, didn't move. Black-gold chaotic power spread out from beneath his feet, instantly flooding the entire passage.

As soon as those monsters touched the chaotic power, their bodies stiffened in place, and the eyes on their bodies burst open one after another.

The whole process took less than three seconds.

The passage that had just been crowded with monsters instantly became completely clean, leaving only a few wisps of drifting gray smoke on the ground.

Lin Xi carefully opened one eye, saw the empty space ahead, and couldn't help but swallow.

"Mr. Ye, your mob-clearing efficiency would definitely get nerfed in a game."

"How would they nerf it?"

"A shadow nerf, of course. Then, when they get flamed, they'd give out some compensation to show they listen to feedback, dividing the players and creating conflict."

"That's pretty impressive."

The three of them passed through the main commercial area.

The closer they got to the core area, the heavier the stench of rot became, with long trails of blood dragged across the ground.

Occasionally, they could see mutilated corpses with eyeballs bulging under their skin, as if something was still breathing inside them.

Lin Xi's face paled, and she tried her best not to look at those corpses.

Su Rui said in a low voice, "Don't stare at those eyes. The Outer God's corruption will erode your mind through cognition."

Ye Chuan glanced at the eyeballs on the wall.

The moment those eyeballs turned toward him, they were crushed into ash by the chaotic power, without even a chance to struggle.

"Hmm, something is coming," Ye Chuan said directly, his intuition sensing something.

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire space station shook violently.

Piercing sounds of twisting metal came from all directions!

The overhead lights flickered madly.

Lin Xi's voice changed, "An earthquake? Can space stations have earthquakes?"

Su Rui looked up at the ceiling, her face turning instantly pale. "It doesn't seem like an earthquake. The space station is moving."

Ye Chuan also looked up.

With a sweep of his divine sense, he saw the ring-shaped space station outside slowly twisting.

Giant pustules bulged from the metal outer walls.

After the pustules burst, countless grayish-white tentacles reached out, with eyes the size of millstones growing at their tips.

In the center, a gray heart larger than the Blue Source Planet was beating, covered in densely packed eyes and the limbs of unknown monsters.

The Zeus Space Station had come alive.

This giant structure, as massive as Saturn, had now turned into a monster mixed with metal, flesh, and Outer God corruption.

Seeing this, Ye Chuan teleported the two of them into space to stand.

Lin Xi looked at the scene in the distance, completely numb.

Outer Gods could even infect buildings?

Just how strong was this?!

Right at that moment, an ancient, hoarse whisper sounded—

The voice clearly drilled into the minds of the three.

"Finally... a cultivator has arrived..."

"Annihilate... )(*(*&*&..."

"Belongs to us."

Ye Chuan's originally lazy eyes finally grew a bit colder.

"Oh? What cultivator annihilation? Do you know something?"

There was no answer from deep within the space station.

That black heart beat violently, and gray corruption surged from all directions like a tsunami.

Su Rui and Lin Xi groaned simultaneously.

Double vision appeared before their eyes, and countless chaotic whispers rang in their ears, like someone muttering mad words right next to them.

Ye Chuan raised his hand and waved.

A black-gold chaotic domain instantly expanded, protecting Su Rui and Lin Xi behind him.

When the gray corruption crashed into the chaotic domain, it immediately let out a sizzling sound, and in the blink of an eye, the corruption was burned completely clean.

Ye Chuan looked deep into the space station, the corner of his mouth twitching.

"That's it? Weak."

The black heart beat again.

This time, the flesh in the central control area slowly split open, and a blood-red humanoid monster walked out.

It had a vertical pupil on its glabella and dragged dozens of tentacles hung with eyeballs behind it.

Su Rui's pupils shrank slightly. "An Outer God Apostle."

The man didn't look at Su Rui and Lin Xi.

All of his eyes were dead set on Ye Chuan.

"Why..."

"You heard the whispers, and you stood under His gaze. Why weren't you corrupted?"

Ye Chuan was also sizing up the other party. "Outer God Apostle..."

This guy seemed different from the one he saw on the Blue Source Planet last time, and his aura was much stronger.

"As for why I'm not infected." Ye Chuan smiled. "Can a father be infected by his son?"

The Outer God Apostle's vertical pupil shrank violently.

The tentacles behind it all spread open, mobilizing the gray fog of the entire space station, and the whispers exploded once more.

"See Him."

"Understand Him."

"Become Him."

"Open the door."

Those overlapping voices were enough to cause an ordinary lifeform to instantly collapse.

But Ye Chuan only found it noisy.

"Shut up."

He raised his hand and lightly pointed at the Outer God Apostle.

The [Insta-kill] rule activated.

All the eyes of the Outer God Apostle lost their luster simultaneously, and its body split from the glabella, crumbling into ash inch by inch.

Lin Xi was stunned for several seconds.

"It got insta-killed just like that?"

Ye Chuan retracted his hand, his tone calm. "What else? Wait for it to finish its opening monologue?"

Su Rui looked at the pile of ashes, but her expression didn't relax.

Because after the Outer God Apostle died, the corruption in the space station didn't decrease.

On the contrary, the gray fog grew thicker.

The flesh on the walls began to grow madly, and the remains of the dead familiars turned into gray threads, all flowing toward the central core.

That black heart beat faster and faster.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

Every beat caused the entire space station to contract along with it, like a giant egg that was hatching.

Su Rui's expression completely changed. "This isn't right. The Apostle isn't the source; it's just the gatekeeper."

Ye Chuan stared at the black heart, sending his divine sense in along the corruption.

Soon, he detected an even deeper power.

The corruption Ye Chuan had just killed all flowed back to the heart.

Oh?

Ye Chuan was intrigued. "Killing mobs to heal the boss?"

Ye Chuan teleported forward, his chaotic power spreading beneath his feet, forcefully tearing a clean path through the gray fog.

The black heart seemed to sense danger, and the entire space station let out a low hiss.

The next moment, the metal walls in all directions split open, extending tens of thousands of tentacles.

The eyes at the tips of the tentacles opened simultaneously.

Countless gazes overlapped on Ye Chuan, attempting to drag his existence into some higher level of corruption.

Ye Chuan glanced up.

A black-gold immortal light suddenly rose behind him, and the aura of the peak Golden Immortal erupted with a boom!

He grasped a sword in the void.

"Slash—"

With a single sword strike, the galaxy seemed to be ripped in half by space, and the spatial monster before him was forcefully severed, leaving only an invisible spatial abyss.

"(*...*&*&*...&...(("

The monster roared, ultimately turning to ash in indignation.

Then, those powers gathered, forming a key in front of Ye Chuan.

Hmm?

Ye Chuan paused for a moment, reaching out to take the object from a distance.

[Item: Key of the Bizarre

[Upon use, it unlocks the adventure "???", which contains a large number of eerie creatures. You will return upon death or successful clearance.]

This thing...

Doesn't it look a bit familiar?

The Eerie Key?

Wait...

A door?

Ye Chuan fell into deep thought.