Ch. 196 - Gluttonous Maw
After vomiting everything from his stomach clean, Yang Yi finally caught his breath.
But his belly had ruptured, which was surely a fatal injury.
Yang Yi reached for his abdomen, covering the wound to keep his intestines and organs from spilling out. Only… the sensation was wrong.
"What… is this?"
Yang Yi was stunned.
There was now a mouth on his stomach, replacing where his navel used to be. It was wide enough to swallow a person whole.
He couldn’t fully control it; right after vomiting, it opened again, trying to eat the pile of sticky vomit nearby. Yang Yi was so startled he backed away quickly.
"Stay back!"
Seeing Suna about to approach, Yang Yi quickly shouted to stop her.
Circling around the mound of white, viscous sludge, Suna finally saw Yang Yi, and the gaping abyss of a mouth on his round belly, opening and closing as if craving food.
"Why do you have a mouth on your stomach?"
"I don’t know either. But don’t come near, I can’t control it!"
Yang Yi immediately checked his activity log and personal status panel.
There were some garbled characters:
【????????? Look ???? directly ???? upon ???? the great ???? existence ???? and ???? your ???? sanity ???? # ???? @ ????! ￥ ???? @ ????! ???】
【Warning: Your Corruption depth has increased to 21%】
【Warning: Your Corruption depth has reached 27%. You have developed a new mutation: Gluttonous Maw. Please check the Corruption Interface for details.】
"As expected… a new mutation." Yang Yi’s expression darkened.
The last warning had appeared just seconds ago, exactly at the moment his belly had “burst”.
So it wasn’t that his stomach had ruptured, rather, the mouth on his stomach had vomited.
Yang Yi immediately pulled up the Corruption Interface.
Yang Yi , Corruption: 27% (A large human diagram; left eye is black, stomach is black)
Warning: If Corruption depth reaches 100%, the player will be dragged into the Abyss.
Contaminated Areas: Left Eye, Stomach
Mutated Organs:
P.S.: You can control the mouth above… but not necessarily the one below.
Yang Yi scanned the information quickly, finally understanding what the mouth was.
It kept opening and closing, even tugging his body forwards, and it was lined with neat teeth, always trying to swallow nearby food.
"Dammit!"
Furious, Yang Yi transformed into his wolf form and punched his own belly hard, doubling over in pain.
Since the Gluttonous Maw was part of his body, they shared sensation; it was like punching himself.
The maw bit his wolf paw in retaliation, but didn’t bite down hard, as if recognising it as part of itself, spitting it out with a disdainful splash of saliva.
This couldn’t go on!
Carrying around a mouth that wanted to eat everything was far too inconvenient,