Chapter 58: Ghost-Faced Moth Empress

Fear almost completely consumed Dante.

Even though he had handled quite a few bizarre incidents over the years, no anomaly had ever filled him with such profound terror.

While those past experiences were bizarre and horrifying, he had at least been capable of dealing with them.

The Mother of the Ghost-Face Moths was different; it was an existence beyond human capability to handle.

Although it possessed no strange traits or abilities, what it brought with it was pure despair.

Dante had lived through that battle firsthand, witnessing with his own eyes as missiles struck its body without causing even the slightest scratch.

Lu Xiao's slightly heavy voice rang out.

"It's too late! It's already here!"

Everyone turned their heads, looking in the direction Lu Xiao was facing.

Guided by the beam of the high-intensity flashlight, they clearly saw a pair of brightly colored wings.

Just the flapping wings alone were as large as an entire room.

Dense clusters of human faces covered those brightly colored wings, countless hollow eye sockets weeping streams of black liquid.

Its true body, however, was that of a naked female form.

An extremely voluptuous and seductive figure, adorned with exquisite patterns across her skin like the masterpiece of a top-tier tattoo artist.

She also possessed a face of breath-taking, devastating beauty.

Especially her eyes!

Unlike other Ghost-Face Moths whose eyes were hollow and devoid of eyeballs, hers were a pair of seductive, fox-like eyes.

The driver swallowed hard.

"Good grief! My ex-wife is completely unworthy of comparison in front of this beautiful lady!"

Slicker wore a miserable expression, yet still found time to retort.

"Your ex-wife would definitely be very sad if she heard that!"

Dante reacted quickly; he raised his assault rifle and emptied a full magazine.

All the bullets struck the constantly flapping wings.

However, those bullets merely kicked up faint sparks.

Dante wore a look of utter despair.

Lu Xiao raised his hand and fired a grenade.

"Boom!"

The Mother of the Ghost-Face Moths remained completely unharmed.

Her lips parted slightly, as if exhaling a single musical note.

Lu Xiao, taking the brunt of it, instantly felt his mind churn violently, his very brain matter seeming to tremble.

The others were not nearly as fortunate.

Blood streamed from all seven orifices of their faces, presenting a truly miserable sight.

Invincible!

Enduring the excruciating pain, Lu Xiao tossed the close-defense grenade launcher aside.

In its place, his right hand now gripped a silver revolver with a barrel roughly twenty centimeters long, carved with delicate patterns.

S097 - Corrupted Revolver!

His left hand tightly grasped a bone thorn.

At that moment, the voice of the Omniscient Mirror echoed in his ear.

"The price for this shot is the flesh and blood of your left forearm! At the same time, it will fill you with an extreme fear of rats!"

Without time to hesitate, Lu Xiao pulled the trigger with his right hand.

"Bang!"

The gunshot rang out, the Mother shifted sideways, and the bullet struck her left wing.

A fist-sized hole instantly appeared.

Simultaneously, countless cracks spread outward from that hole.

The power of the corruption curse took effect in unison.

The Mother's pretty brows furrowed, and without hesitation, she severed her own left wing.

The massive left wing had barely detached from her body before it shattered completely, turning into a puddle of corrupted pus that dripped onto the ground.

Lu Xiao raised the muzzle of the gun once again.

The voice of the Omniscient Mirror sounded once more.

"The price for this shot is the flesh and blood of your right foot's sole! At the same time, it will fill you with an extreme fear of light!"

"Bang!"

This shot precisely struck the Mother's remaining right wing.

The Mother opened her mouth once more.

A piercing, shrill scream pierced Lu Xiao's ears.

His eardrums vibrated at high speed, instantly shattering into fragments.

Blood poured from his ear canals.

At the same time, the Mother severed her right wing as well.

Her body dropped to the ground, her bare feet stepping onto the earth.

With a light tap of her toes against the ground, she charged toward Lu Xiao at lightning speed.

Lu Xiao was her greatest threat at the moment.

Right now, Lu Xiao's left forearm was reduced to bare, ghastly white bone intertwined with a complex web of blood vessels and nerves.

The sole of his right foot was in the exact same state.

Yet he still raised the muzzle, aiming straight at the charging Mother of the Ghost-Face Moths.

"The price for this shot is the flesh and blood of your left thigh! At the same time, it will fill you with an extreme fear of the act of thinking! Furthermore, this shot will miss!"

However, with his eardrums ruptured, Lu Xiao could not hear the voice of the Omniscient Mirror at all.

"Bang!"

A flash of fire vanished instantly from the muzzle of the Corrupted Revolver.

The flesh and blood on Lu Xiao's left thigh instantly vanished.

His entire body shuddered, instantly losing balance as he fell backward onto the ground.

Sure enough, his aim was thrown off at that moment, and the bullet flew wide.

By this time, the Mother had already closed in on Lu Xiao.

A pale, patterned arm reached out to grab Lu Xiao's head.

Suddenly, Lu Xiao felt a wave of intense fear wash over him.

It was the feeling of a mouse meeting a cat, a terror springing from the depths of his soul.

Because, just a moment ago, he had performed the action of thinking.

Fortunately, the fear lasted only a fleeting second, just as he had only thought for a fleeting second.

The bone thorn clutched in Lu Xiao's left hand stabbed viciously into his own abdomen.

The azure gemstone at the tip of the bone thorn abruptly burst into a dazzling white light.

The movements of the Mother of the Ghost-Face Moths paused briefly.

It was precisely this brief pause.

The muzzle of Lu Xiao's right hand had already lifted, pressing directly against the Mother's chest.

"Bang!"

First came the gunshot, and only afterward did the voice of the Omniscient Mirror arrive.

"The price for this shot is the flesh and blood of your abdomen! At the same time, it will fill you with an extreme fear of your own right hand!"

This shot struck the Mother's body dead-center.

A fist-sized hole appeared right in the middle of her chest, completely transparent from front to back.

Simultaneously, countless cracks spread out from that hole, taking mere seconds to propagate.

Within a single breath, those cracks had spread all over the Mother's entire body, from head to toe.

At this moment, her body looked like an exquisite yet thoroughly cracked porcelain doll.

The flesh and blood on Lu Xiao's abdomen had vanished entirely.

His still-writhing intestines were exposed to the air, looking utterly horrifying!

Yet he smiled, a smile of absolute, manic frenzy curving his lips.

He seemed to have rediscovered the feeling he had when he first fell into the Dark Abyss.

That sense of urgency, like dancing on a tightrope!

That sense of helplessness when facing terrifying anomalous entities!

That terror of having one's life threatened every single second!

The thrill of adrenaline surging wildly due to sheer fear!

In the Dark Abyss, a single moment of carelessness meant becoming food for anomalous entities.

At first, this sensation tortured Lu Xiao, driving him to frantic despair and even making him contemplate ending his own life.

But now, this very sensation intoxicated him.

Lu Xiao's expression was utterly entranced, his cheeks flushed with color.

Recovering from her brief dizziness, the Mother's hand continued reaching for Lu Xiao's head.

The very instant she touched Lu Xiao's head, her entire body shattered completely.

That palm, capable of driving any man to madness, ultimately managed to leave nothing more than a faint scratch across Lu Xiao's forehead.

The Mother of the Ghost-Face Moths, perished!!!

Immediately following this, overwhelmed by the excruciating pain, Lu Xiao rolled his eyes and passed out cold.