It’s over. I’m going to die!
Her soul floated helplessly in mid-air. Watching the boning knife in the undead’s hand draw closer, Bai Tang’s mind was filled with only this one thought.
If her soul was directly cut, her flesh body without a soul would be no different from death.
The demon hunter lady was entangled by the Barrel Butcher and could not free her hands.
Death was approaching. This time it seemed there really was no way to dodge…
Suddenly, at that moment—
Pa——!
Like the crisp sound of a small whip striking soft, delicate skin. The instant she realized her body could move, she took a rapid backward step, brushing past the danger by a hair’s breadth.
How on earth did she dodge that?
Not only was Bai Tang herself stunned — even the demon hunter lady, and even the Barrel Butcher and the undead, froze in place. They stared at Bai Tang with incredulous eyes, as if looking at a monster.
The undead’s attack missed. The entire tavern fell into dead silence for a moment.
How did she manage to instantly break free after being directly subjected to the undead’s soul control?
“Not her, why are you all looking at me? You want to hit me, but you won’t even let me dodge?”
Bai Tang’s cheeks grew redder and redder. She gritted her teeth. The hand behind her back moved somewhat unnaturally, as if she was embarrassed.
Theresa was stunned for a moment. She noticed the girl’s flushed cheeks and the hand behind her back that seemed to be secretly rubbing her butt. Then she saw the pitch-black tentacles behind the girl wildly waving and itching to move.
She instantly understood.
“Hey! Why are you making a face that says ‘So Bai Tang, you have this kind of hobby’?! And we’re in the middle of a fight — can you not give a thumbs-up?!”
Bai Tang was furious.
She was not a masochist! She did not enjoy having her butt whipped! It was only because the tentacles sensed danger that they used this method to help her break free from the soul control!
The Witch teacher had said this was an instinctive reaction from the danger-sensing tentacles when a situation arose.
She would like to reiterate: Bai Tang did not have masochistic tendencies.
Not even a little!
“You two bastards!!!”
The Barrel Butcher had never experienced being ignored like this. He suddenly felt like he was being toyed with. Furious, he swung the boning knife in his hand, wanting to chop the two girls who looked down on him into pieces.
“Theresa, hit the undead first.”
“Got it!”
After each drinking several bottles of potions to recover from injuries and restore spiritual power, the two girls threw themselves back into the battle with full focus. Relying on the information they had summarized from the previous fight, Bai Tang quickly came up with a countermeasure against the Barrel Butcher.
The opponent possessed an extremely perverted recovery ability. With their current strength alone, it would be difficult to kill him on the flesh level. But now the Barrel Butcher had voluntarily released the undead inside his body. While gaining even more terrifying abilities, he had also exposed his most vulnerable weakness.
Although at first glance the Barrel Butcher and the undead had two completely different skill sets — the Barrel Butcher focused on the physical flesh level while the undead specialized in attacking defenseless souls — and they could even cooperate with each other, making them ridiculously difficult to deal with…
In reality, compared to Bai Tang and the demon hunter lady’s combination, they still had one fatal flaw.
Controlling the pitch-black tentacles to scoop up the long-barreled flintlock gun that had fallen beside the demon hunter lady, Bai Tang realized it was already too late to aim at the undead in the Barrel Butcher’s abdomen.
She took a backward step, retreating.
“Theresa, catch your gun!”
Bai Tang acted as bait to draw attacks, only needing to focus on dodging. As for attacking, she left it completely to the demon hunter lady on the other side, who no longer had to worry about anything else.
Theresa caught the flintlock gun thrown by Bai Tang and began loading a new type of bullet that glowed with a quenched幽 blue color and had special effectiveness against undead. She consumed her spiritual power to grant it even greater power.
Bai Tang closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When she opened them again, she was being chased by the Barrel Butcher in a miserable escape. Even several of her tentacles had been cut off.
Stay calm. Aim. Then pull the trigger!
Bang——!
The dark muzzle of the flintlock gun spat out flames. A bullet wrapped in幽 blue flames tore through the air and shot straight toward the undead in the Barrel Butcher’s abdomen.
Sizzle~~
Unfortunately, this shot did not hit the vital point. It only pierced through the undead’s shoulder.
Even so, the direct burning effect on the undead was still something the opponent could not endure. The rhythm of its pursuit on Bai Tang was completely thrown off.
“While it’s sick, take its life!”
Of course Bai Tang would not let go of such a good offensive opportunity. The Demon Hunter Revolver in her hand and the tentacles behind her both seized the moment to output crazily. During this time she even threw several bottles of plague virus potions at the Barrel Butcher.
Whether they worked or not, she threw them first anyway.
“Ying ah——!!!”
Unable to tolerate the two girls acting as if they were riding on his head, the Barrel Butcher once again rolled his eyes back. The undead repeated the same trick and released its soul-targeting control skill.
This time, even the demon hunter lady was not spared. Both their souls drifted out of their bodies. Their flesh bodies left behind could not move and could only forcibly endure the incoming attacks.
At the critical moment, two pa pa sounds rang out one after another.
“It hurts! Why did you have to add an extra one, hey!”
Bai Tang rubbed her whipped butt. Tears were almost coming out from the pain. Even to wake her up, there was no need to use such heavy force, right?!
It must be red!
No matter how she thought about it, there must be red marks left on her butt!
Bai Tang used her tentacles to pull the immobilized Theresa out of the undead’s attack range and reached out to slap her awake.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m fine.”
Theresa shook her head and poured another small blue potion into herself to replenish the spiritual power she had consumed.
Hearing this, Bai Tang raised the corner of her mouth.
“Then let’s follow this rhythm and fight a guerrilla battle!”
When Bai Tang realized that the undead drilled out from the Barrel Butcher’s abdomen could not act separately from him, and that the three of them could not create too large a gap in mobility, they only needed to follow a ‘one pull, one hit’ kiting strategy. As long as they paid attention not to get hard-controlled by the undead’s shriek, victory was only a matter of time.
Most of the Barrel Butcher’s aggro was drawn by Theresa. Bai Tang always kept herself and Theresa at the two ends of a straight line, trapping the Barrel Butcher in the middle of the line so he was attacked from both front and back.
Since the undead’s soul-targeting attack was lethal on contact, they would not let it touch them even once!
“Gun!”
Just like a beautiful pass on a top-level soccer field, Theresa, who was being chased by the Barrel Butcher, directly threw down the long-barreled flintlock gun that was only a hindrance in close combat and drew her short blade to respond.
The long-barreled flintlock gun that fell to the ground slid across the floor like a kicked soccer ball.
Until it was picked up again by Bai Tang at the other end, aimed, and the trigger pulled.
The two girls’ coordination was nothing like a first-time cooperation. They played the Barrel Butcher, who was constantly caught in the middle, like a top. Even when they were hard-controlled by the undead, the tentacles would pa whip them awake in an instant.
The only price they had to pay for this was a brief burning sensation on their butts.
Just as Bai Tang had expected, while the Barrel Butcher’s flesh body possessed a perverted recovery ability, his undead half was especially fragile. After taking only a few attacks, its aura had already become extremely weak.
It looked like it could dissipate at any moment. There was not much room for trial and error left.
Swish swish swish! Several pitch-black tentacles shot out and firmly entangled the Barrel Butcher’s limbs. Even the most perverted recovery ability had its limits. Looking at the Barrel Butcher whose blood-red eyes were staring fixedly at her while struggling in vain, Bai Tang calmly loaded the last three bullets into her Demon Hunter Revolver.
“Mr. Walker, do you know what crime you committed?”
“Urgh ah!” the Barrel Butcher roared. His fierce gaze looked as if he wanted to swallow Bai Tang whole.
“Oh ho, you’re still quite arrogant!”
Bai Tang no longer hesitated. She aimed the muzzle at the fragile undead inside the Barrel Butcher and continuously pulled the trigger, pouring the remaining bullets in the Demon Hunter Revolver’s cylinder one after another.
“Ying ah———!!!”
The pungent smell of gunpowder briefly covered the scent of blood. The Barrel Butcher and the undead were essentially one. When one was heavily injured, the other could not escape either.
The final shriek the Barrel Butcher and the undead jointly released before dying struck straight at Bai Tang’s soul, causing a trace of fear to rise from deep within her heart. Her delicate body trembled violently.
In the next moment, the tentacles sensed danger and instinctively swung, heavily whipping the girl’s small, perky butt.
“It hurts!”
She did wake up, but the pain was also real. Bai Tang thought that for a long time afterward she would probably have to sleep on her stomach.
“Whew, that was really troublesome. We finally took care of him.” A smile appeared on the girl’s face. She turned around and complained to the demon hunter lady, “By the way, Theresa…”
The unfinished words caught dryly in her throat. Her forehead touched something hard and warm. Bai Tang’s smile completely froze on her face.
No way… The demon hunter lady actually betrayed her.
Theresa was pressing the gun muzzle directly against Bai Tang’s forehead. Her expression was especially gloomy, filled with disgust toward evil creatures.
“Yeah, we finally took care of him. So now it’s your turn, evil Parasitic Demon!”
Bang——!
Her head exploded like a round watermelon. In the final moments of her life, Bai Tang remembered the Witch teacher’s instructions before she left tonight.
The Witch teacher had already divined the future in advance…
This time she really had become brainless. She should never have come.
Completely losing all signs of life, Bai Tang’s headless corpse fell to the ground with a thud.