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Chapter 29 Things Are Different Now
"Shhh..."
The earth was trembling.
A dense vibration came from deep within the soil, like hundreds of claws digging at the soil and breaking up the rocks at the same time, and the ground gradually rose up.
"Bang!"
The soil and gravel were pushed apart, and a mound of earth four meters in diameter swelled and burst from the ground.
The yellowish-brown carapace was the first thing to emerge from the crack, followed by hundreds of hook-like legs gripping the edge of the cave wall, and the entire giant centipede monster, more than twenty meters long, was twisted out of the ground.
The jet-black mandibles clamped down on the boulder that Luo Lan had just smashed down from the dome, and gently snapped shut.
"Click. Click..."
The waist-high rock was crushed into fragments. The fragments rolled twice between the jaws before being chewed.
After chewing and grinding for a couple of seconds, the giant centipede belatedly realized that the texture was wrong; it wasn't the temperature and texture a living creature should have.
Two long, whip-like antennae on its head trembled violently, sweeping anxiously across the air, capturing any unusual movements around it, searching for the true source of the vibrations.
After a brief two-second hesitation, the massive, multi-legged body suddenly shot upwards.
The centipede's body, which was over twenty meters long, was completely straightened, and its huge head rose directly from the ground, approaching the cave ceiling, which was more than ten meters high.
The giant centipede discovered a "strange thing" hanging upside down on the ceiling of the cave.
Its jet-black mandibles were almost touching the scarlet eye on Luo Lan's head. Its antennae trembled slightly, and it vaguely felt that it seemed to have seen this red, shimmering eye before.
The mystery of the giant centipede is destined to remain unsolved.
At point-blank range, Luo Lan unleashed [Terror Lv.3], slamming it into the giant centipede's dark red eyes.
The giant centipede's body stiffened abruptly, its hundreds of legs simultaneously ceasing their clawing motion against the rock wall. Its entire torso remained in a long, upright position, abruptly held in place. Its mandibles remained open, and a low, abrupt humming sound emanated from deep within its mouthparts.
"despair."
With a flip in mid-air, Luo Lan landed lightly from the dome, her feet firmly planted on the broad and hard carapace behind the giant centipede's head.
The eight spider spears attached to its back unfolded slowly, their tips gleaming with a cold metallic luster in the dim moonlight. Each of the eight spears adjusted its attack angle, searching for gaps between the hard carapaces.
The giant centipede's carapace is made up of several large bone plates pieced together, with a layer of grayish-white soft membrane tissue showing through the gaps between the plates, clearly indicating that this is a vulnerable area.
"prick--"
With a thrust from its back, eight spider spears tore through the air, plunging deep into the weak points between the gaps in its shell.
The sharp spider spears pierced through the fragile nerves and tender flesh beneath the carapace with overwhelming force.
A stream of foul-smelling, turbid yellow fluid gushed out like a fountain from the deep wound, splattering all over Luo Lan's legs.
"roar!!!"
The excruciating pain of the soft tissue at the back of the head being pierced instantly jolted the giant centipede awake from the mental paralysis caused by the [Terror] spell.
The giant centipede let out a deafening roar, and a high-frequency sonic attack spewed from the depths of its mouth, shooting out in the direction it had originally locked onto.
Where the sound waves swept, several loose stalactites on the cave ceiling were shaken and broke off at their roots, falling down one after another.
But it clearly has the wrong target.
When the giant subterranean centipede recovered from its loss of control, it immediately realized that the real attacker was standing firmly on its head, just outside the range of its sonic attack.
The giant centipede's enormous body suddenly began to writhe violently in mid-air, thrashing and rolling back and forth within the wide cavern, trying to throw Luo Lan off.
Luo Lan's feet were almost blown away by the violent force. He immediately stretched out his hands and grabbed the two thick, long tentacles on the giant centipede's head, which were swaying back and forth, as if he were holding two reins.
Luo Lan lowered his center of gravity, and the eight spider spears, which were deeply embedded in his flesh, not only did not come out, but instead, with the help of this pulling force, they went deeper and deeper into the gaps in his carapace.
The deeper the wound, the more frenzied the giant centipede becomes.
Like an earth dragon turning over, the giant centipede's entire body, which was over twenty meters long, rampaged through the cave, which was not spacious for it.
Its thick, long body crashed into the rock face, sending shards of rock flying. It struck the ground, churning up the soil.
Hundreds of pairs of feet carved deep grooves into the rock wall, from which gravel and soil fell, turning the entire cave upside down.
Luo Lan was thrown about, his second heart pounding faster in his chest, and [Rage lv.1] was activated.
He tried his best to drive the spider spear deeper and deeper to stabilize his body. Under the impact of the rain of rubble, he relied on the [Dark Gold Skeleton] to withstand the impact of flying dirt and rocks.
The row of newly attached, crimson crystalline bone protrusions on his back glowed segment by segment from the base.
【Red Lightning Storm lv.1】!
Crimson arcs of electricity crackled and leaped, wrapping around eight steel-forged spider spears, and then shot into the soft tissue deep inside the giant centipede's head.
The wound oozed a turbid yellow fluid, and as it was burned by the electric current, it emitted plumes of white smoke with a burnt smell.
High-frequency currents raged within the demonic creature. The giant centipede's enormous body was completely out of control.
"Roar! Boom!"
It opened its mouth wide and once again tried to attack Luo Lan with sound waves. However, due to its physiological structure, the terrifying sound wave impact could only bombard the air directly in front of it, and even if it blasted down the distant rock wall, it could not harm Luo Lan, who was sitting firmly in a high position, in the slightest.
In excruciating pain and utterly helpless, the giant centipede, like a madman, began to crawl through the cave with Luo Lan.
After smashing his head against a rock wall, he crawled into a dark tunnel, wandering aimlessly through the narrow passage. Soil and gravel kept pressing against Luo Lan from both sides of the tunnel.
Mudslides, rock fragments, and sharp debris rained down on Luo Lan's stitched-up corpse.
In the [Berserk] state, Luo Lan's pain was suppressed to the minimum. He just clung tightly to the tentacles to stabilize himself and took all the damage, while continuously increasing the output power of [Crimson Lightning Storm].
Under the conduction heating of high-voltage current, large plumes of high-temperature steam, mixed with a pungent burnt smell, continuously spewed out from the cracks in the shell.
As the internal juices evaporated and the high-intensity electric arc continued to burn, the giant centipede's originally iron-hard, thick, yellowish-brown shell was losing its luster at a visible speed, darkening in color, and beginning to show the brittle and cracked texture of being struck by lightning.
A few dozen seconds later, the giant centipede's struggles became weaker and weaker. Its legs went from frantically pawing to twitching weakly, and even the strength to dig a hole was dissipated under the continuous erosion of the electric current.
After about a minute, the giant centipede monster, with most of its body still stuck in the underground tunnel and its head charred black from the electric shock sticking out, trembled and finally went completely silent, making no further sound.
That centipede monster is completely dead.
Luo Lan withdrew his hands from the pair of completely charred tentacles, looking down at the enormous creature beneath his feet.
[Things have really changed.]
Luo Lan had prepared himself for a bloody battle, but he never expected the battle to end so quickly and decisively.
The advanced predator that had once driven him to the brink of despair, the one whose mere sight of him filled him with dread, now lay dead at his feet in such a gruesome manner.
The entire battle took less than five minutes.
Not only because Luo Lan now possesses the strength to face the giant centipede after changing his body, but also because he has found the perfect positioning and rhythm for killing it.