NOVPUB"Ah, almighty Buddha, please come to our world and display Your miracles for all to see!"
Seeing the blood-covered Maitreya split open, Wan Xiu completely lost his mind.
At that moment, Wu Bin and Song Bing could also distinctly feel that the atmosphere around them had changed, as if something was about to emerge from the bloodied Maitreya.
"Old Wu, something doesn’t seem right, should we continue going up?"
It wasn’t that Song Bing was cowardly, it was just that everything happening before his eyes had exceeded his understanding.
If his opponent were human, even a killer like Ding Sheng who murdered without batting an eye, Song Bing would face him fearlessly when angry.
But at this moment, what he was facing was something unknown, and it just felt wrong.
This made Song Bing feel uncertain.
"Let’s wait and see. If something seems off later on, we’ll run immediately."
Wu Bin was no fool. His senses were even sharper than Song Bing’s, so he was even more aware of how formidable the entity that was about to emerge could be.
As the eerie aura grew stronger, Wan Xiu’s laughter became even more maniacal.
It was as if, once this sinister entity descended upon this world, Wan Xiu would receive some immense benefit.
Two minutes passed, and the entire underground hall was shrouded in this eerie atmosphere.
Unexpectedly, nothing happened.
The smile on Wan Xiu’s face froze. He hadn’t anticipated this turn of events at all.
Where had things gone wrong?
Unable to contain himself, Wan Xiu cautiously approached the bloodied Maitreya, and asked with uncertainty, "Buddha, do You have any reservations? Are the offerings we’ve presented not enough?"
As Wan Xiu asked this, a withered yet powerful hand suddenly extended from within the bloodied Maitreya and forcefully pierced into Wan Xiu’s chest!
Wan Xiu’s eyes widened in shock, his face filled with disbelief.
"Buddha..."
A pained expression crossed Wan Xiu’s face.
To the very end, he couldn’t comprehend why the Buddha, whom he had devotedly served for so many years, would suddenly take his life!
Blood flowed from Wan Xiu’s chest, defying gravity as it floated in the air, absorbing into that withered limb.
The once withered arm began to flesh out, nourished by the fresh blood.
This hand extracted Wan Xiu’s heart, retracting back into the Maitreya statue.
From this, it seemed that the split Maitreya statue was like a portal to another space, acting as a passageway connecting two worlds!
"Don’t just stand there, run!"
Wu Bin yelled out, leading Song Bing towards the exit.
Although Wu Bin didn’t know what the owner of the hand looked like, his heartbeat had uncontrollably quickened.
This feeling was like encountering a tiger in the street; you would instinctively feel fear unless you were in a desperate situation, otherwise, you would never think of confronting the tiger head-on.
As Wu Bin and the others ran towards the exit, they noticed that all the blood from the corpses was being pulled towards the bloodied Maitreya as if attracted by some force.
This ghastly entity was absorbing everyone’s blood to strengthen itself!
No wonder Wan Xiu had kept talking about offerings, and no wonder Zhu Quanyou and Wang Li were deliberately brought here to be killed.
It turns out everything was to satisfy the conditions for summoning this ghostly entity!
Soon, Wu Bin and his group had run to the very end of the exit.
Fortunately, they found a partially concealed door at the end of the exit corridor, which wasn’t completely locked.
So, this underground hall was specifically built by Tang Hao to summon this so-called Buddha Venerable?
At that moment, Wu Bin had no time to ponder and quickly led Song Bing out of the door, directly to the level above, only to find themselves behind the temple that had been buried by soil.
Due to the landslide, more than half of the temple was submerged, but there was still a good half that wasn’t, coincidentally serving as the entrance and exit to the underground hall.
No sooner had Wu Bin and his group escaped than they saw a rescue team at work in the distance.
Approaching, Wu Bin realized that the rescue team was actually all familiar faces from The Ninth Research Institute.
The rescuers were also taken aback to see Wu Bin and his comrades suddenly emerge from the other side.
"Weren’t you guys buried down there? How did you come out from that side?" 𝘯𝑜𝑣𝑝𝑢𝘣.𝑐𝑜𝑚
Seeing that there were no other people around, Wu Bin quickly said to Han Biao, "Old Han, there’s something terrible down there, we need to evacuate immediately!"
Wu Bin recounted what they had encountered below to Han Biao.
On hearing this, Han Biao’s face immediately turned serious.
"I need to report this to the higher-ups. You guys evacuate first; I’ll take care of sealing this place off."
Though Han Biao didn’t know exactly what the Buddha Venerable that Wu Bin mentioned was, he realized that if this entity truly emerged from underground, it could have a significant impact on the surrounding villagers.
With this thought, Han Biao immediately took out his phone and called to report to his superiors.
On the way down the mountain, Song Bing couldn’t help but ask, "Old Wu, who was that guy? He seemed to have a lot of authority."
Song Bing, not knowing The Ninth Research Institute, naturally didn’t know who Han Biao was.
Wu Bin vaguely explained, "Just a friend. Didn’t I used to frequent the hospital? We met there, he’s a cop."
Song Bing made a sound of acknowledgment, but soon his worries resurfaced.
"If that ghostly thing is so powerful, ordinary cops won’t be able to handle it, right? Are they going to send in the army?"
Wu Bin curled his lip, thinking that for such a strange entity, even if you send in the army, it would be useless; in the end, it would still be up to the people from The Ninth Research Institute to clean up the mess.
"Don’t think too much. Our top priority is to leave here quickly. We can leave the situation here to the professionals."
It must be said that the people from The Ninth Research Institute were quite efficient.
Shortly after Wu Bin and his team had evacuated, the support troops from The Ninth Research Institute arrived.
They first evacuated the villagers from the foot of the mountain to a designated location for quarantine and containment.
This was because, according to Wu Bin, the Buddha Venerable had been artificially summoned by Wan Xiu.
Although they still didn’t know exactly what this Buddha Venerable was, what if there were villagers like Wan Xiu among them?
Consequently, part of The Ninth Research Institute’s team enclosed the whole back mountain to prevent the Buddha Venerable from escaping, while another part began questioning the villagers to find out if they had encountered any strange occurrences recently.
At that moment, in the bedroom.
Wu Bin stood by the window looking towards the back mountain, a worried look on his face.
Sitting on the bed eating chips, Zhu Ling said indifferently, "It’s just a heart-eating ghost. There’s nothing to worry about; the people from The Ninth Research Institute should be able to handle it."
