Chapter 43: Semi-Finished Product

“Hey hey hey? Captain~~~~ can you hear me?”

Ou Mi You was lying at the edge of the sand pit, shouting toward the center of the vortex.

But of course there would be no response.

Ou Mi You was only doing something so stupid out of boredom.

“Sigh, the Captain and Leng Leng went down just like that… what’s happening now?”

After Wu Yin and Leng Qiongling were pulled into the depths of the sand pit by the vortex, Ou Mi You and Le Paxi were still being harassed by the endless sand and Daizer.

It took about half an hour before they finally cleaned up Daizer, and the sand and stones stopped falling on their path and above their heads.

“What do we do now?”

Ou Mi You asked Le Paxi, who was standing to the side cleaning the sand off her gown.

“We’ll have to continue the mission on our own.”

“Sigh, fine then. Heave-ho.”

Ou Mi You pushed herself up and stood, shaking the sand off her shoes.

Finally, she shouted toward the sand pit, “Captain and Leng Leng! When you come out later, remember to find us!”

“Ready?”

“Le Paxi, aren’t you going to shout something?”

“If shouting could make them hear me, I would have smashed this place open long ago.”

“That’s a boring way to think.”

“Oh? Heh, if that’s how you feel, I could try throwing you into the sand pit to see if you can find them.”

“No way!”

After horsing around for a bit, the two finally entered the passage ahead.

This passage was almost no different from the ones they had walked through before, but gradually they could smell a wave of medicinal liquid mixed with a rust-like odor.

“Le Paxi.”

“Mm.”

Without a doubt, ahead lay the target of their mission: Abraham, and his unknown experiments.

“I wonder if the little girl and little boy have been mistreated.”

“Let’s hurry up and save them.”

When they reached the end, a large door blocked their path.

Needless to say, a thick smell came from behind this door.

“Fine, don’t blame me for this.”

Ou Mi You stepped back a little distance, drew the spear from her side, and pierced through the door with one strike.

Then she kicked it down and walked in.

The entire space was almost completely dark, with only faint red and green lights flickering in the distance.

Wrapped in this atmosphere, both of them held their breath and silently walked toward the light.

In a spot illuminated by the lights, a creature with the build of a middle-aged man was tied to a chair.

He seemed to be unconscious, showing no reaction even as the two walked right up to him.

“Hey hey? Hello?”

Ou Mi You waved her hand in front of him, but the middle-aged man did not wake up.

“Ugh… what now?”

At a loss, Ou Mi You turned to Le Paxi for help, but the latter covered her mouth, her eyes fixed on the darkness deeper in.

“Since you’re here, there’s no need to hide yourself, is there?”

Le Paxi spoke into the depths of the darkness.

Immediately, a powerful light hit the two of them in the face, making them instinctively raise their arms to block it.

Countless searchlights along the edges of the space were all turned on, as if it were the opening of a stage performance.

From a corner far away where the light didn’t reach, there came the sound of clanking steps, one after another.

Abraham walked out from within.

He was still dressed in white, but unlike before, his hands were wrapped in black iron chains that dragged long on the ground.

“Ah, the messenger who guides the world towards its end. You have finally come to this place.”

As soon as he saw the two standing beside the bound man, Abraham revealed the same disgusting, ecstatic expression he had shown when he saw Leng Qiongling.

“Huh? What’s all this nonsense?”

Ou Mi You stepped forward, hands on her hips, and twisted her mouth as she said, “Anyway, you’d better let go of the little girl and the little boy right now and come quietly with us, or don’t blame me for smashing this place to pieces.”

“Hehehehe, no need to be so hasty, esteemed ones. We can sit down and draw a beautiful blueprint for the new world…”

“Stop your delusions, Abraham. We’ve run out of patience.”

Le Paxi cut Abraham off loudly, her sharp voice conveying an unyielding harshness.

“What a pity…”

Abraham flicked the iron chains wrapped around his hand.

The chains slammed against the ground, and the sound echoed through the empty space.

Both of them tensed up in unison.

Suddenly, behind them, the man who had seemed dead began to struggle wildly, snapping the thick iron chains binding him one by one.

“AAAAAAA—!!!”

Letting out an inhuman roar, the man’s body started to swell continuously, rapidly encroaching on the surrounding space.

Sensing the danger, the two drew their weapons almost simultaneously and attacked the man from opposite directions.

At that moment, the man’s body suddenly accelerated its expansion, nearly inflating into a ball shape, and actually bounced off both attacks!

A bit surprised by the sudden rebound force that sent their arms flying back, the two quickly distanced themselves after another failed attempt and began observing the man’s form.

“Whoa, what is this? So gross…”

Ou Mi You frowned, stuck out her tongue slightly, and made a gagging sound.

After the two had retreated, the man’s body contracted inward again, gradually returning to a human-like form.

“This ability—is it a Madman? No, that’s not right… it’s more like a… Mad Beast.”

Le Paxi muttered, then raised her Giant Spiked Hammer high.

The next moment, drawing a blurry afterimage, the giant hammer smashed toward the man.

The man didn’t seem to react at all, but his body moved on its own.

A thick arm extended from the back of his neck, blocking precisely between the giant hammer and the man.

A powerful shockwave erupted from the impact.

The wind pressure blew Le Paxi’s gown fluttering and also blew away the chair the man had been sitting on.

But that arm remained unmoving, still firmly pressing against Le Paxi’s hammer.

Faced with such an abnormal phenomenon, Le Paxi withdrew her hammer, stood back on the ground, and swung a crescent-shaped arc of light.

The arm tried to block again, but the force of this strike was almost double that of the previous one.

This time, the arm was smashed away, but the moment it was hit, it immediately severed its connection with the man, leaving him standing safely in place.

The severed arm quickly began to rot and finally turned into a pile of dust.

“Is this your final product?”

Le Paxi asked Abraham, who was watching from a distance.

“Hehehehe, of course not. Just a little more… just a little more, and the final sacrifice…”

Abraham spoke words that gave an ominous feeling, making Le Paxi frown.

“Either way.”

She gave Ou Mi You a look.

“It’s time to end this.”