Chapter 222
The high wall surrounding the spire was estimated to be twenty to thirty meters tall. The open spaces inside and outside were crammed with parasites sporting grotesque heads of all kinds.
The wall itself was also coated in a disgusting layer of flesh-and-blood “vines.” Tentacles extended from them, snatching up the parasitized individuals on the ground and feeding them into giant, fleshy maws embedded in the wall.
Whenever a parasitized victim was swallowed by one of these maws, a tumor would swell on the fleshy vine covering the wall, then burst open, giving birth to a new, writhing vine of meat.
This resulted in the entire high wall being densely covered with rotting-flesh tentacles, resembling some kind of monstrous, overgrown ivy creature. It was utterly revolting.
For Shen Ge to enter the spire, he essentially had two options. One was similar to how he entered the skyscraper in the Doom Banyan City: find a tall building nearby and jump towards the spire. The other was to use his Traits to scale the wall teeming with tentacle-vines, or to locate an entrance in the wall and fight his way through the horde at the main gate.
However, compared to the situation in Doom Banyan City, both approaches presented significant difficulties here.
The first option was hampered because the high wall had pushed outward some distance. The gap between the spire and the wall itself was several hundred meters. Moreover, there were no buildings taller than the wall in the immediate vicinity. There simply wasn’t a way to “fly” across.
The issue with the second option was that Little Seven’s analysis indicated the rotting-blood tentacles on the high wall seemed to attack based solely on “touch.” When they lashed down to the ground, they only ensnared parasitized victims upon direct physical contact, then dragged them into the flesh-maws.
Given the sheer density of the countless rotting-flesh tentacles on the wall, Shen Ge’s plan to climb over it into the spire would also be quite challenging.