Chapter 212: The Little Red Demon
"Fan Ge, where are we going?" Xin Xia asked curiously, following Mo Fan.
"I know where the root of the problem lies. The place I'm taking you now is naturally where we'll eliminate the source of the trouble."
Mo Fan paused, then explained, "In fact, the problem here isn't a disease at all. It's the ability of a demon, and coincidentally, I have a way to deal with this kind of demon."
"What kind of demon?" Xin Xia asked curiously.
"It's a creature called a Red Demon."
"Red Demon?"
Xin Xia felt curious, but Mo Fan didn't explain in detail.
To be honest, he didn't know how to explain it himself.
Mo Fan and his group found the prison guard, then headed straight for the prison with him.
This was a key figure, so he naturally had to be brought along.
The prison was located on the edge of a sea cliff. The cliff was very high, steep, and majestic. Since ordinary prisoners were held here, there were no restrictions, and such a precipice was enough to make them despair of escaping. Below were reefs; if they jumped, the seawater had no reason to catch them!
The prison was a place of ill omen. Considering that everyone might be infected with the plague, before entering the prison, Xin Xia specially chanted a blessing of holy sound for him and her maidservant, allowing the blessed Sanskrit seal to enter everyone's skin. Once dark, evil, or poisonous energy tried to invade, these Sanskrit seals would form a defensive barrier.
The prison was also completely sealed off now, even the prison guards were confined inside. The prison should have been stocked with enough food and water, but the municipality was already in a state of chaos and had no time to manage the prison.
"Are you sure your deduction isn't wrong? These prisoners look perfectly normal; they don't seem sick at all. You analyzed it so thoroughly, but ended up finding the wrong place!" Fen'ai couldn't help but speak up.
The three of them searched around here, but there were no symptoms of infectious disease in the prison. Instead, each of them seemed more energetic than the people outside. When the prisoners saw the beautiful, gentle, and ethereal Xin Xia, and the adorable, loli-like Lingling, they all looked radiant, wishing they could burst out of their cells.
"These people are not quite right," Xin Xia said at this moment.
"Their minds are very strange. Logically, I should be able to easily perceive some of their thoughts and emotions, as they don't have the firm mental fortitude of mages. But when I tried to gather their thoughts, it was as if I was enveloped by a mist," Xin Xia continued.
"Alright, this is it," Mo Fan said, having arrived here and not intending to move further. He looked back at the prison guard.
The prison guard frowned slightly, because he always felt as if Mo Fan had seen through him.
But he hadn't revealed anything, so why did he have such a feeling?
"Although I don't know how you found out, it's the same here anyway. Go in and stay put," the prison guard said with a sneer.
As he spoke, dark red evil energy began to emanate from his body, feeling as if dozens of terrifying dark red specters were swirling around him. His dark pupils suddenly turned an evil red, and when his gaze fixed on the young girl Fen'ai, it was filled with a kind of greed. His grinning mouth grew wider and wider, and even saliva began to drip!
This form was not about coveting the beauty of the young girl Fen'ai, but clearly the terrifying appearance of wanting to devour the tender young girl!
His skin began to swell and tear, as if something inside wanted to break through his human skin and emerge into the world. A mass of wriggling long tentacles grew on top of his head, segment by segment, like long worms or centipedes, densely forming a horrifying mass of hair.
His legs transformed into black tree roots, growing wildly into the ground.
Under the dim light, the prison guard's shadow was cast on the smooth iron wall beside them, but it was no longer a human form; it was clearly an evil demon, with tentacles all over its back!
"What... what is this thing?!" The young girl Fen'ai was terrified when she saw this, and immediately cowered behind them in fear.
Mo Fan completely ignored her, a naive young girl.
One could even say, commonly known as a simpleton.
Xin Xia's face paled when she saw a perfectly normal prison guard undergo such a drastic transformation. She thought of the 'Red Demon' Mo Fan had mentioned earlier.
So, the monster in front of them was the Red Demon?
"It's good that you've revealed yourself. It saves me from wasting my acting talent," Mo Fan said indifferently.
He didn't take the creature in front of him seriously at all.
The prison guard monster's body nearly doubled in size, and its face was completely disfigured. The large and small pupils densely covering its forehead all locked onto Mo Fan at once, then it let out a strange laugh.
"You have something good on you. Give it to me, and I'll let you die painlessly!" The monster spoke human words, but its voice was extremely strange!
"You'd better just be content with becoming nourishment. Don't be so greedy," Mo Fan said casually.
"Rumble!"
The moment Mo Fan's words fell, dense Lightning power shot out from his hand!
The ferocious Lightning power almost directly struck the Red Demon's body!
And it was directly blasted away, rolling down the iron staircase and crashing heavily onto the spacious ground below.
However, the Red Demon didn't die. It slowly crawled up, its eyes on its forehead filled with furious blood-red light, and it lifted its head and let out a roar!
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Just then, the cells of the iron cages below were violently smashed open. In the iron cells, prisoners in their uniforms rushed out. They tore off their clothes and shackles, possessing astonishing brute strength.
They were all under soul control.
"Fan Ge, leave these prisoners to Fen'ai and me. You focus on that mastermind," Xin Xia said to Mo Fan.
As she spoke, Xin Xia slowly closed her eyes. When she reopened them, her beautiful, lake-like eyes gleamed with a sword-like sharpness.
Mental Pierce!
Xin Xia knew that she couldn't kill these prisoners. They were indeed criminals, but not death row inmates, and they were also victims of the plague. So the best way to deal with them was with mental attacks!
Mental power was formless and invisible, but it was directly transmitted into the minds of these tentacled prisoners through Xin Xia's wave of thought. These originally menacing prisoners, upon being subjected to the mental attack, immediately let out painful screams, looking as if their heads were about to split open.
Prisoners fell in batches. Xin Xia's Mental Pierce had a considerably wide range, and she actually managed to suppress hundreds of these serious offenders at once!
"Fan Ge, hurry up and act. I can't hold on for too long," Xin Xia said.
"Okay!"
Mo Fan responded, immediately unleashing his strongest destructive power.
The Lightning constellation and the Wind Element constellation also began to merge at this moment.