The appearance of these monsters is very... peculiar.

They still retain a human structure, draped in tattered fabrics that vaguely resemble shirts, jackets, and kimonos.

Their legs crookedly touch the ground,

while the arms are raised high above their heads.

The flesh on the inside of their arms clamps onto their ears,

and extends forward and backward like putty, wrapping their entire faces airtight.

The wrists of their hands meet above the head, palm to palm, like a folded Venus flytrap.

These "things," at a glance, there are more than ten,

they stumble, walking through the fog towards the Fujimura Family’s house,

the raised palms collide with each step, making a crisp snapping sound like a Venus flytrap.

Danger flickered in Li Ang’s mind, and he stood in the corridor, releasing the Level-Zero superpower of the Psychic Enchantment System [Stun Spell] on the Venus flytrap monster at the front.

The spiritual energy surged, causing the monster at the front to freeze momentarily,

but soon it resumed its steps, continuing forward slowly and steadily.

Wang Congshan also arrived at the corridor at this time, seeing those monsters, she instinctively cursed, "What the hell are these things."

"Because they can’t afford a house, they have to live outdoors like vegetative people."

Li Ang casually joked, stuffing the document in his hand into his backpack, "Let’s go, leave here first."

Those Venus flytrap monsters stagger as they move, slower than an average person,

Li Ang rushed out of the house, arrived under the eaves, suddenly turned around, crouched slightly, placing his hands on his knees.

Wang Congshan instantly understood, tucked her handgun into her pocket, stepped onto Li Ang’s palm with one foot, and leapt onto the roof of the Fujimura Family’s house, then turned and stretched her hand down the eaves to pull Li Ang up.

The two were too familiar with wall-jumping, having done it since elementary and middle school for snacks, take-out, and even to tease cats and dogs.

They jumped onto the eaves, looking down to discover the fog had enveloped the surrounding neighborhood,

within view, hundreds of Venus flytrap monsters roamed, seemingly able to sense the two players’ location, approaching from the surrounding streets.

"Where did these things spring from?"

Wang Congshan clicked her tongue, "I never saw them on the way here."

"Could it be similar to Silent Hill’s setting? After a certain threshold, you enter another layer of reality."

Li Ang casually said, "I deliberately checked earlier, there’s no clock inside the Fujimura Family’s house,

the nail on the wall where a clock should hang is empty.

Either the clock was taken, or that’s how the setting is designed. The system doesn’t want us to have a clear sense of time—taking too long without going to the Hiratsuka Family Residence will trigger the Venus flytrap monsters as punishment."

"As for the time... it’s been roughly 45 minutes since we entered the script task."

Wang Congshan said gravely, "I’ve been keeping track of my pulse and heart rate according to the Special Affairs Bureau’s training manual, with a margin of error of plus or minus five minutes."

"So it’s between 40 to 50 minutes,"

Li Ang nodded, just about to speak when a chill suddenly ran down his neck. Instinctively, he lowered his body, bowed his head, and pressed Wang Congshan’s head down as well, "Careful!"

Zheng—

An air-piercing sound suddenly rang out on the opposite street, and a blood-stained sharp bone spike rapidly whizzed over their heads, the gust lifting Wang Congshan’s bangs lightly.

Li Ang exhaled half a breath, looking in the direction the bone spike flew from,

only to see a Venus flytrap monster arching its back, turning its hand sideways, aiming the wrist’s blossom-like opening at the two players—the sharp bone spike should have come from the internal skeleton of its arm,

with a piece missing, its left arm appeared somewhat limp.

What is this? Zombies vs. plants?

If this scripted world were in comic form, Li Ang would have several question marks floating above his head,

He had been running the Level-One superpower of the Psychic Prophecy System [Combat Premonition], enhancing his perception attribute,

allowing him to sense some deadly dangers ahead and roughly identify enemy types.

The Venus flytrap monsters below were clearly not living humans,

but neither were they pure flesh creatures or non-corporeal spirits or ghosts.

Rather, they existed in a peculiar state between the two, seemingly dead yet alive, neither dead nor alive.

Snap snap.

More Venus flytrap monsters constantly emitted clapping sounds, closing in on the Fujimura Family’s house,

they seemed to have reached the effective range for the bone spike ammunition, standing still,

imitating that first Venus flytrap monster, turning their hands sideways, wrist skin blossoming open, aiming at the two players.

"Go!"

Wang Congshan pulled Li Ang by the shoulder, the two retreating to evade a volley of bone spike ammunition.

Who knows what mechanism lies within the arms of these Venus flytrap monsters, the power of the fired bone spikes rivals that of modern firearms,

the cement structure exterior of Fujimura Family’s house was hit by bone spikes, debris flying,

numerous bone spikes embedded in the wall, tiles flying.

"To the rooftop."

Wang Congshan decisively pulled Li Ang to the roof, bowing low, handgun quickly aimed at a Venus flytrap monster, pulling the trigger.

Bam!

The silenced handgun still emitted a clear gunshot over the village.

The demon-busting bullet spun, hitting the Venus flytrap monster, forcing it back several steps, its left hand arm wrapping the head exploding, leaving its head sunken in, revealing black-red internal filling.

Such injury on a normal person would require ten lives,

yet the Venus flytrap monster merely staggered, then regained its footing, lowering its exploded left arm, continuing to aim at the two players on the roof with the right arm. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

"The demon-busting bullet is effective, but there are too many monsters."

Wang Congshan calmly assessed the situation, turning to glance down the street—similar Venus flytrap monsters were distributed in the back neighborhood,

the two players seemed to have fallen into an ocean of enemies.

Li Ang furrowed his brows slightly, raised his arm, and directed spiritual energy downward.

Level-Zero superpower of the Psychic Creation System, [Burn a finger], inflicting fire damage on an enemy.

Hua!

A bright flame suddenly ignited on a Venus flytrap monster below,

yet the blaze sufficient to severely burn a normal person merely burned the monster’s tattered cloth into ashes, charring and cracking its surface skin,

unable to halt its aim.