Chapter 197 - 195: Seizing the Body
Su Mo felt she was moving at the fastest speed she had ever managed. The Sky Tree towered into the sky, and the wood vine thrown over by Lu Chen had been hung by Peng An to a point very high above the river.
Upon arrival, she stood on the thick trunk and looked down. Her pupils dilated as they focused on the scene below.
The first soldier to be stricken had already stopped breathing. Countless insects moved in and out of the corpse. She silently counted the time in her heart; the body visibly shriveled but then, within a few seconds, it was filled by the insects and stood up, wobbling.
"Body-snatching," for some reason, Su Mo thought of this term.
"Sis, let’s get moving!" Jianxiong, witnessing the scene below, felt his scalp tingle as well. Behind him, Fang Xia, Peng An, and the others all looked uneasy.
"One minute," Su Mo snapped back to reality.
Jianxiong: "What?"
"From consumption to rebirth, it only takes one minute. It’s even more terrifying than zombies and highly infectious," Su Mo said as she threw her backpack into the System Bag, took off her coat, placed it over the rope, and tested its strength before glancing back, "I’ll go first."
No sooner had she spoken than she steeled herself, running forward along the sturdy tree trunk, her feet lifting into the air as her coat, now a makeshift zipline, slid rapidly towards the other side on the wood vine.
Beneath her, the river churned, and countless crocodiles leaped up, desperately trying to bite her down. Fortunately, the wood vine was tied high enough. Lu Chen’s face grew larger and larger before her until she crashed into the Sky Tree on the opposite bank, caught in his arms.