The axe, set ablaze, chopped into the slick tentacles, unexpectedly severing them all.
The blade clanged against the ground, slicing an opening through the blood-covered flesh on the floor.
Beneath the glow of firelight, half of the monster's face became visible—an utterly revolting, half-human, half-insect visage.
Its swollen cheeks featured six acid-dripping holes; its mouth had mutated into a needle-like proboscis; the whites of its eyes were pitch-black, transformed into compound eyes.
Its lower half was completely that of a fat, white maggot, with numerous tiny holes in its abdomen, oozing a mixture of white and red pus.
The blood-red tentacles had extended from slits at either side of this oversized maggot's waist. As Chen Ke severed a bunch, they retracted, and the creature's waist seemed zipped up, capable of opening and closing at will.
