Jack didn't take Boss Hu's solemn promise to heart; he silently moved forward with his gun drawn, pulling out a powerful flashlight from his waist. With a "click," he turned on the flashlight, directing a strong beam of light towards the corner of the basement, finally allowing everyone to see what was in the corner.
No one's scalp didn't tingle; a creature about half a person tall, covered in black scales, was hanging upside down from the concrete ceiling, resembling a large bat without wings. Its bright green eyes were staring intently at everyone in the room.
The creature had a humanoid shape, with feet resembling eagle claws but ten times larger, firmly embedded in the concrete, stabilizing its hanging position. Its arms, which were much longer than its body, ended in sharp claws similar to scissors. At that moment, the monster was holding a steaming heart in its hands, with hot blood dripping rapidly from its grasp. When it noticed Jack shining the light on it, the creature seemed unaccustomed to the brightness, shielding its eyes with its claws while letting out a furious, metallic screech.
"Wh… what is that? What the hell is that thing?" Boss Hu shouted, trembling, his grip on the machete faltering. If it weren't for the excessive hair wax on his head, his hair would probably be standing on end.
"Jack the Ripper! It fears sunlight and moves quickly, only eating human brains and hearts. Its weakness is its two eyes!" Jack said as he moved forward, suddenly removing the original magazine from his gun and stashing it in a nylon bag at his waist, quickly pulling out a new magazine to load.
Some sharp-eyed individuals immediately noticed that the magazine Jack had just removed contained what seemed to be ordinary handgun bullets, but the magazine he subsequently pulled out held bullets that, while the same size and shape, were engraved with complex black inscriptions, giving off a mysterious and eerie vibe.
"Everyone stop dazing off! Get in line and get ready to run!" Jack's low shout snapped everyone out of their stupor. Boss Hu, jolted awake, quickly rallied the group into formation, relying on his usual authority.
"嘣..."
Jack's gun fired sharply, a copper bullet whistling through the air towards the Hell's Ripper over forty meters away. However, the .1143 caliber seemed to have lost its usual power today, as the creature quickly raised its arm to shield its eyes. The bullet struck its right eyebrow with a spark, causing its head to tilt back slightly. It then shook off the dizziness and charged forward, roaring without any sign of injury, as if the shot had done nothing at all.
The Hell's Ripper was quite small, only about half the size of an adult human. Its sharp claws dug into the concrete, allowing it to scuttle along the ceiling like a gecko. Its astonishing speed created an overwhelming sense of pressure, as if a dump truck were barreling towards them, with debris flying from its claws.
"嘣..."
Jack fired again, but this time the bullet was different. The previous one was a regular bullet left in the chamber, while this one was a special bullet inscribed with mysterious runes. As it left the gun, it traced a purple arc in the air, speeding towards the creature's right eye at an almost imperceptible pace.
As if aware that its eyes were a weak point, the Hell's Ripper suddenly sensed danger at the last moment and ducked its head. The purple bullet struck it squarely on the forehead.
"Aww…"
The Hell's Ripper let out a piercing scream, crashing heavily to the ground and struggling to get back up. Although the bullet didn't kill it, it was enough to make it drink deeply from the cup of pain. A deep blood channel was carved into its black head, and the scales that could withstand close-range shots from regular bullets proved useless against the power of the mysterious bullet, seeming no stronger than fish scales.
The Hell's Ripper lay motionless on the ground, occasionally twitching as if electrocuted, with black liquid slowly oozing from its head and pooling on the ground. If it were anyone else, they would surely think this creature was done for. However, Jack, who had dealt with the Hell's Ripper more than once, knew that it was an elite species among low-level hell creatures that relied on its wits. This situation was clearly a ruse to feign death, so Jack unhesitatingly fired two more shots at its "mangled corpse." But the creature suddenly twisted its body, bizarrely dodging the bullets, and then sprang forward with terrifying speed towards Jack.
Perhaps realizing that Jack was not easy to deal with, the Hell's Ripper, despite having evaded several bullets, suddenly changed course mid-attack, swinging its claws towards the panicking crowd.
It must be said that beneath the Hell's Ripper's disgusting exterior lay a cunning mind. After it bisected a few humans, chaos erupted in the crowd once again, even more intense than before. People desperately surged towards the exit, ignoring one another, shoving and trampling each other, fearing they would be the last to be devoured by the terrifying monster.
The Hell's Ripper was calculating its moves perfectly. With the crowd providing cover, Jack couldn't fire indiscriminately. Heads, severed limbs, and splashes of hot blood flew through the air like scattered flowers. The crowd screamed in a frenzy, and Boss Hu, who had initially tried to maintain order, had long since vanished. Who knew how he managed to escape under the watchful eyes of so many? Standing on the outskirts, Jack raised his gun, futilely waving his arms to aim, but the chaotic crowd became the creature's best shield. Jack was not a butcher; he couldn't bring himself to shoot without certainty.
"Ah... help..."
A girl in a white shirt was kicked to the ground hard. Her pretty face could not arouse the pity of the people around her. They trampled on her body indifferently, causing her to stoop to the ground.
She was Ashue. She and Lingling were separated from each other when Jack started shooting, and they could only passively run to the exit with the flow of people. Just now, a man behind her dragged her mercilessly to the back. Finally, he kicked her down hard.
Axue's frail body couldn't stand up in the crowd. She could only hunched over and tried not to let others step on her, but what could she do even if she wasn't stepped on? She had already seen a terrifying black shadow falling from the sky on a man next to her. The man was knocked down by the shadow. Before he even screamed, a beating heart was skillfully picked out of the chest by a sharp claw. Like eating a tomato, the black figure swallowed the still beating red heart in a few mouthfuls. When she turned her head, a pair of lynx-like Marcus-colored eyes stared at the pale Axue next to her.
The moment the man beside her was eaten by the black shadow, all the muscles in her body seemed to be tangled together. Although she had seen living corpses eating people more than once, she even naively thought that she would no longer be afraid of such a scene. However, it backfired. When she was stared at by the black shadow's terrifying eyes, she felt a "buzzing" sound in her head, like something exploded. The result was the same as the first time, she only felt a heat between her legs, she became incontinent, and was so scared that she peed her pants.
She could already smell the stench from the mouth of the black shadow monster. Ashue wanted to close her eyes and wait for death, but her whole body was so stiff that she couldn't even move her eyelids. She could only watch the monster's claws dripping with hot blood getting closer and closer to her...