The centipede suddenly spoke in human tongue, genuinely startling people.
However, Duan Yun, as a fair-minded Young Hero, didn’t hold much prejudice against this centipede spirit.
After all, in Yuzhu Villa, even pandas could be heroes; if not for Little Grey’s lackluster talents, a donkey could be a hero too.
But in the next instant, the centipede, carrying the body of the Meat Skirt Woman, darted over and bit at Duan Yun.
"Randomly biting people and you still want to be a hero!"
With a buzzing sound, the Gold Sword smashed down like a fly swatter!
The giant centipede, already battered by the Sixteen Strange Fist, with its flesh torn and spirit rattled, was now slow to respond, and thus was firmly smacked.
When its body burst into a spurt of blood and fell to the ground, the Meat Skirt Woman was also done for, her body convulsing.
It was clear that this convulsion wasn’t the instinctual twitching of a living person, but rather induced by the giant centipede.
From the beginning to the end, apart from that heartfelt cry of "I want to be a hero!", she hadn’t uttered a single word.
Neither Duan Yun nor the Murong brothers had sensed any sign of life from her. The Murong brothers even once suspected that she was breathing through her buttocks, but now they had found their answer.
She had been dead a long time ago, and the reason she could move like a person was probably all due to the giant centipede.
Rather than saying she was human, it would be more accurate to say she was a human-shaped centipede.
As they say, "A centipede does not fall until dead," this saying was perfectly demonstrated on the giant centipede.
Its body, already bombarded with Fist Power in several places and flattened by a sword from the Gold Sword, oozing pus, yet still struggling.
Duan Yun thought of something when he saw the centipede emerge from the woman’s head.
He scraped off a part of her hair and indeed found a scar.
With a slice of the Gold Sword, the scar was cut open and connected to the wound on the head.
In the flickering firelight, the inside of the woman’s head was clearly visible.
The centipede was parasitic in the human brain.
Visible to the naked eye were the tiny, diverging, strange blood vessels on the centipede’s body, also embedded into the human brain.
This thing eerily resembled what was inside the head of that bear-man creature.
Previously, Duan Yun had stayed in Qingcha Market for a while and, out of curiosity, dragged a box out of the water, only to find a bizarre acting bear-man emerged from the box.
Later, when he split open the bear-man’s head, he found two brains within: one bear, one human.
And between the human and bear brains, they were connected by these strange blood vessels.
It had a disgusting sense of flesh, almost like a strange insect that could suck the marrow from a brain.
This woman was not at peace even in death, apparently due to the parasitic centipede in her brain.
The bear-man had an extra human brain in its head, which made it act very human-like, so now this woman has such a centipede parasitizing her head, connected to the human brain, absorbing nutrients day and night, so does it also possess human-like thoughts, even uttering human language—"I want to be a hero!"?
But, is this scientific?
When Duan Yun cut open the bear-man’s head, he only felt absurdity and horror. But this time, cutting open the Meat Skirt Woman’s head, the feeling of absurdity and horror was even stronger.
Is there really someone in the Martial World doing this?
The dungeon littered with centipede corpses, coupled with the previously discovered monk’s body that hadn’t completed its molting in the wooden house, this place truly seemed like a terrifying experimental site.
Is there someone spreading the method of molting and conducting experiments in planting centipedes into human brains?
Or maybe, the method of molting and the human centipede are meant to complement each other.
This temple was probably destroyed in such manner.
If his deduction was correct, the box in the water and this Meat Skirt Woman were likely the work of the same group of people.
But what is the murderer’s purpose?
Is it simply for amusement, or to create many "monsters" similar to the bear-man and Meat Skirt Woman?
Either way is quite frightening.
For the moment, the unspeakable malice seemed to be crawling out from the woman’s head.
The key is, it’s hard to discern the motives of these people.
Whether placing a box with a bear-man in water or creating a centipede Meat Skirt Woman and leaving her to "contemplate" in this dungeon, these actions are quite illogical.
Or rather, they seem very odd.
If they simply wanted to harm others, then whether it’s the two-brained bear-man or this centipede Meat Skirt Woman, just releasing them into the Martial World would lead to many tragedies, and be more efficient.
Yet, they chose to submerge the box in water and leave it underground.
It cannot be that they are creating these things just for pure amusement, can it?
Waiting for someone like him to open the box and enter the dungeon to be killed, and then satisfying their twisted sense of fun?
Such a way of amusement is sheer madness; if it weren’t for Young Hero Duan’s exceptional skills, he probably would have died at the hands of this creature twice by now.
These mad experimenters who lay traps everywhere must all be killed!
Had he found out the origin of these things by now, the names of these people would probably have already been written in Young Hero Duan’s little notebook.
In order to quickly add names to his little notebook, Duan Yun began to carefully search the dungeon.
But in the dungeon, with its thirty-odd wooden houses of varying sizes, aside from the centipedes and human remains, no other findings were discovered.
These half-molted corpses laid out here didn’t look like people at all and were especially horrifying.