Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 919 - 267: Totem Pole (Part 2)

So now, only after Zuo Jing opened and then closed the door could he stand safely at the entrance.

When he saw this scene.

Chen Ming suddenly considered, since he couldn’t find the source of the danger, why not just go out and deal with Zuo Jing first?

If Zuo Jing were gone, he could thoroughly investigate the laboratory without worrying about interference.

Chen Ming thought for a moment, it seemed there was nothing wrong with this plan, so he took a step toward the outer area of the laboratory.

However, just as he took that second step.

He suddenly felt a chill creeping over him.

Chen Ming quickly turned his head warily, and in the process of turning, the chilling sensation transformed into a sense of extreme danger, the kind of danger that threatened An Wuping’s existence.

He felt a presence from within the laboratory, a chaotic yet uniquely ordered dangerous aura.

Chen Ming precisely focused his gaze in the direction the aura emanated from.

As he directed his gaze, heavy and dense footsteps slowly echoed from that direction.

The danger, while already threatening An Wuping’s survival, continued to increase, as if this immense danger could easily kill him.

It was far more terrifying than the danger he sensed with metal liquid detection before.

Something was off.

The last time Chen Ming sensed danger this intense was when he was almost hit head-on by a Speed Particle Spear in the Pirate Space Station.

Back then, even a direct shot from a Speed Particle Spear couldn’t necessarily kill An Wuping, so why could something from Zuo Jing’s laboratory?

Chen Ming found it hard to believe, but his danger perception ability had saved him many times, and he couldn’t ignore the instincts warning him.

Besides, the situation might not be the same as before.

For instance, although a simple handgun could solve Chen Ming’s original body, the combat capabilities of his original body were certainly not weak.

So this thing might not directly kill An Wuping through physical means but could use other methods to cleverly kill him, as long as he guarded against those methods.

Besides the unsettling danger perception, Chen Ming also felt that the size of the thing’s movements seemed off.

The timing of the problems with the Spirit Beast Project and the dimensional infection on the Space Station were about the same, and the spreading tissue didn’t have time to destroy the laboratory’s equipment.

Therefore, the number of damaged surveillance equipment in the laboratory wasn’t much, and it was the same in the direction from which the noise came.

The sound was so heavy, indicating the creature must be large, making it impossible to avoid his surveillance.

So why didn’t he see it just now?

Just as Chen Ming was about to switch the surveillance to figure out what was going on, the heavy footsteps suddenly quickened.

The sound of footsteps, like a predator discovering its prey, became more frantic and heavier, as if the creature was sprinting, making one wonder even more what lay behind the sound.

Chen Ming was not affected by this frantic sound, he immediately pulled up the surveillance.

At the source of the sound from the corner ahead, where something was supposed to be, the surveillance showed nothing, absolutely nothing.

However, when Chen Ming actually lifted his head, the source of the heavy, frantic footsteps emerged from the corner ahead.

This was a... creature, perhaps it could be called a creature.

A columnar creature propped up by numerous human arms that had lost all their fingers, leaving only the palm.

These hundreds of arms also formed layers of broken limb sections, creating a columnar body, with flesh sticking together, and overturned skin and broken bones visible everywhere within.

The body trembled and shuddered constantly, shedding a massive amount of visible blood.

At the very top, there was a head with two faces: one front and one back.

The front face bore a seductive, neutral smiling expression.

The back face was a cold, expressionless visage.

Both faces appeared as if they were carved into a Totem Pole.

But it would be better if it truly were a Totem Pole because what Chen Ming saw were two faces forcibly molded into mask-like visages using blood and human skin, in a way he had witnessed many times.

This situation was nauseating.

Yet what it looked like wasn’t important, as Chen Ming had seen all sorts of hideous things before.

What mattered was the threat and sense of danger this creature posed, exactly the presence that Chen Ming perceived could pose a lethal threat to An Wuping.

Chen Ming already felt something was off, and upon seeing the creature with his own eyes, he sensed even more that something was wrong.

It seemed like a mixture of various spiritual energy entities.

Although bizarre, there was a strangely harmonious quality to it.

Chen Ming glanced at the surveillance again.

Confirming that this Totem Pole-like existence could only be seen with the naked eye.

The blood dripping from its body was also absent in the surveillance, only visible to the naked eye.

The fact that surveillance couldn’t lock onto it already indicated it was a troublesome entity.

Despite the danger, Chen Ming felt compelled to try.

He assumed a charging stance.

However, just as he was about to rush forward, he suddenly halted.

Cold sweat dripped from the forehead of his original body.

He realized he was just a hair’s breadth away, a mere step from death.