Hunter of Immortals

Chapter 156: Surrounded

Li had a way to suppress this irrational sense of fear, and Adam had his own way of overcoming it as well.

While fleeing the scene, Adam forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, then rescinded his fusion with Nun before invoking Mummy and fusing with it instead.

This scream of horror was clearly a psychic cyberhex ability. As the anomaly of pain, Mummy possessed exceptional defenses, both physically and psychologically, allowing Adam to more effectively ward off all types of attacks.

Sure enough, after fusing as one with Mummy, most of the fear in his heart instantly receded, and even though he still felt terrified, he no longer felt so fearful that he was running away uncontrollably.

"We can't let it get away!"

Adam forcibly overcame his fear as he lashed out with his bandages to try and capture the fleeing the anomaly.

This anomaly's combat prowess wasn't anything special, but its ability was extremely troublesome to deal with. This type of restrictive cyberhex could wreak immense havoc in battle if it were paired with other anomalies.

"I can't get caught... I can't get caught..."

Looking at the wave of oncoming bandages, the anomaly of horror fled for its life once again while clutching its head tightly to its chest. All of its limbs seemed to have a mind of their own, allowing it to traverse through the cluttered slaughterhouse in an extremely smooth and agile fashion, quickly taking it out of the encirclement formed by the bandages.

"Li!"

With a thunderous roar, Adam was finally able to snap Fighter Li back to his senses. He bit through the tip of his own tongue, using the pain combined with his clarity mantra to lift the cyberhex of horror before re-entering the fray.

His conical hat was hurled through the air once again, and under the manipulation of his inner power, the conical began to whiz through the slaughterhouse, evading all of the obstacles as it sped directly toward the anomaly of horror as if a tracking device had been installed onto it.

Having already been decapitated by the conical hat, the anomaly of fear didn't dare to take any chances this time, and it immediately sprang up from the ground before clinging onto the ceiling, hanging upside-down using its limbs like a spider to evade the attack.

However, right at this moment, a chill ran down the anomaly of horror's spine, and a dagger was driven into its back.

A burst of clown cackling rang out, and the anomaly of horror turned to look behind it, but didn't see anything.

Clown had already concealed itself after making that sneak attack.

After absorbing the anomalic power of the gargoyle anomaly from last time, many of Adam's anomalies had become significantly stronger, and even the likes of Clown could come in useful in battles now.

After fusing as one with Mummy, Adam had invoked many of his other anomalies for fear of any unforeseen circumstances.

Given how unclear the situation was, he had no intention of fighting his opponents one-on-one, and if an opportunity arose for him to gang up on an opponent, then he certainly wasn't going to pass it up.

The anomaly of horror was at a complete loss as it stared at the knife wound on its back, and right as it was about to continue fleeing for its life, the space around it was completely sealed, following which a pair of scythe arms slashed down to slice it into pieces.

"Is it over?"

Sure enough, ganging up on an enemy was definitely the way to go. Even though the anomaly of horror was a level three anomaly, it was nothing more than a lamb to the slaughter in the face of all of Adam's anomalies and Fighter Li.

"I don't think so..."

No anomalic power was being produced by the remains of the anomaly of horror, which meant that it wasn't completely dead.

Sure enough, even after being dismembered into pieces, the anomaly of horror still hadn't given up on running away. As a level three anomaly, the anomaly of horror didn't possess much combat prowess, but its desire to survive and its fleeing abilities were top-notch.

The pile of dismembered body parts began to struggle on the spot before fleeing in different directions.

The arms were relying on the fingers to escape, while the legs were jumping around erratically like grasshoppers.

"We need to split up and chase them down!"

Adam invoked all of his anomalies, while Fighter Li also set off in pursuit of the fleeing body parts of the anomaly of fear.

Finally, after three minutes, they managed to gather all of the body parts back together again, then had them incinerated by a blast of fire from Hellhound.

As the remains of the anomaly of horror slowly burned away, the anomalic power that Adam had been eagerly awaiting finally appeared.

That black hole isn't going to appear again, is it?

With the experience of what had happened last time, Adam ordered all of his anomalies to devour the anomalic power as quickly as possible while making preparations to intercept that mysterious force, should it appear again.

Sure enough, in the instant that the anomalic power emerged, a vortex also appeared in the air, and it sucked away a large proportion of the anomalic power, while Adam was powerless to do anything about it.

Adam adopted several courses of action and even recruited Fighter Li's assistance to try and oppose the vortex, but it was all to no avail. All he could do was urge his anomalies to speed up and devour as much anomalic power as possible.

Around a minute later, all of the anomalic power was completely gone, and once again, Adam had only managed to obtain a small proportion of it.

"What is that thing?" Fighter Li asked as he pointed at the vortex, which was gradually fading away. "How could there possibly be something like this in someone's psychic body?"

"I don't know, either. I'm even more interested in the answer to that question than you."

This was the second time that his prey had been stolen from him, and it was a very vexing feeling.

However, it was still better than nothing. The power of a level three anomaly was still a great source of sustenance for the lower-level anomalies in his body, and all of his anomalies had grown a little stronger after devouring that portion of the anomaly of horror's power.

"Let's keep going. We weren't ambushed this time, so it's clear that the efforts we made to fool the host were effective. As long as those anomalies don't band together, picking them off one by one is a relatively simple task."

Right as Adam's voice trailed off, all of the machines in the slaughterhouse that had been switched off suddenly sprang to life again. One cow after another was placed onto the conveyor belt before being killed, dissected, sliced, minced...

At the same time, the sound of heavy footsteps rang out within the slaughterhouse.

"I enjoy the smell of death, but I'm even more fond of the smell of food..." A cleaver-wielding anomaly slowly stomped its way into the slaughterhouse, dragging its rotund body over the ground as the machines began to operate again. "This feeling makes me stronger."

At the same time, the roof of the slaughter was smashed open, and the alien anomaly also descended through the opening.

Soon, a total of seven anomalies had gathered to completely surround this place, and some of the anomalies were ones that Adam had seen before, while others were completely new faces.

How did this happen? Do these anomalies have some type of psychic connection with one another?

Out of the anomalies that Adam recognized, he knew that the mother and son pair possessed extremely powerful restrictive abilities, while the alien anomaly and the chef anomaly were very fearsome in direct battle. Just the four of them alone would've been quite difficult to deal with, and with the other three thrown into the mix as well...

"Should we retreat?"

"I think we should."

There was no way that the two of them could oppose seven powerful anomalies at once. It was like a feast being presented to Adam, but he had no choice but to retreat for now.

The best thing about adapters invading the psychic worlds of normal people was that they could leave at any moment, and the plug could even be pulled by someone on the outside.

This was because normal people didn't have the ability to construct psychic boundaries, and at the moment, neither of them were engaged in battle, so they could leave in an instant.

"Let's go!"

Both of them were extremely seasoned fighters, and in the instant that they made their decision, they immediately prepared to depart from the psychic world. However, during the disconnection process, they suddenly encountered some type of obstructive force, and Adam was shocked to find that he was still right where he was a moment ago.

"What's going on? How can anomalies create psychic boundaries? Isn't that an ability that's unique to adapters?" Fighter Li asked as he turned to Adam.

"I'm not sure what's going on, either." Adam was even more astonished. "This is the first time I've encountered something like this."

"Didn't the Psychic Church teach you about this? I've heard that they've managed to collate a lot of knowledge about adapters in the civilized world."

"The problem is that I only went to school for a short time before coming here," Adam sighed with a resigned expression. "There was simply too little time available to me to justify wasting it in the classroom. What do we do now?"

"We'll have to fight for our lives." A cold tone crept into Fighter Li's voice as he spoke, and the steely resolve to lay down his life also surfaced in his eyes. "I wouldn't have had long to live anyway, it's perfect for someone like me to die in battle."