Atlas of Heaven and Man.

Chapter 332 Breakthrough
As Chen Chuan walked towards the underground floor, the signs of virtuality on his body became more obvious. The further he walked, the more serious the situation became. Not only that, the feeling of being watched also became everywhere.

At this moment, the flying-head monster hair on his wrist and the raccoon stone tablet hanging on his body also vibrated slightly.

It seems that what he is facing is indeed a strange story.

Because the lost objects of ghost stories will be sensitive to ghost stories, but the raccoon stone tablet also showed this kind of trembling, which may be because it felt some kind of threat?

The temperature in front dropped slightly at this moment. After walking down the stairs, he saw a metal door, but it was locked. He walked forward and pressed it. The door frame connection made a creaking sound, and the bricks and bolts gradually cracked and popped out. Under the force, the whole door twisted and deformed, and then fell backwards with a bang.

After the smoke and dust behind the door dissipated a little while later, he walked in and saw a "tree".

To be precise, it was a field-disturbing creature, but it felt several times larger, and almost half of the entire basement floor of the hotel was occupied by this thing.

Those branches extended outward, not only covering the entire underground space, but also penetrating the floor like invisible objects and extending upwards.

If it were just that, it wouldn't be a big deal. What's terrifying is that there are naked arms hanging on the branches, drooping like vines.

Near the lower end of the tree trunk, there are human feet, neatly arranged and stacked around, spreading out in circles along the roots.

Chen Chuan took a quick look and saw that some of the hands were slender, while others were strong. They should have been taken from different men and women. They looked mixed together, as if they were randomly pieced together on the branches.

Near the roots of the branches, there were countless hairs that looked like human hair, some of which were tangled in the branches. On the ground, there were layers of tattered clothes scattered all over.

Chen Chuan finally knew where those guests had gone. This thing was undoubtedly a strange story, but it should have undergone a certain form of transformation.
If some strange stories are not dealt with in time, without a constant supply of vitality, they will gradually deviate from their original state and become more and more powerful.

Just now he felt that he was being spied on, that those branches had extended to many corners of the hotel and were trying to influence him.

If a normal person came here, he would be gradually attracted or captured by it.

Such changes have occurred in just three years. I wonder what will happen if it continues to grow.

As if because he was unaffected at this moment, the thing let out a high-pitched scream like a human voice, and the lights that had always been there in the basement suddenly flickered.

After observing, Chen Chuan inserted the Xuejun Knife into the side wall, grasped the hilt with both hands, pulled it out with a clang, then held it with one hand, turned around, and slowly walked up.

The clusters of branches on the top suddenly waved down towards him.

Chen Chuan slashed upward with his sword. Previously, the killing power of Xuejun's sword against the flying head monster was limited because the two sides could hardly make contact. However, at this moment, the blood line on the back of the sword became brighter, and with a "swish", the branches were cut off. The broken hands fell to the ground with a crackling sound, and something that looked like red juice and blood spurted out from it.

After cutting through the branches that were trying to block him with several consecutive strikes, a feeling of comfort arose in his heart.

In the past, he could only rely on brute force and physical contact, or various unique methods to complete the elimination of ghost stories, but this direct and rough approach was still the most convenient.

He moved forward while clearing obstacles, his speed not slowing down at all. He covered a distance of thirty or forty meters in almost a breath. When he was about ten meters away from the tree trunk, he stepped forward and leaped forward. In almost an instant, he arrived in front of the thick tree trunk.

At this time, the strange tree made a higher-pitched scream, and those thick roots with strings of human legs and hair hanging on them turned out from the ground, trying to prevent him from approaching.

However, such an approach would expose the fact that those targets are their own weak points.

Chen Chuan let out a low shout and leaped forward. A flash of sword light suddenly burst out in front of his body, breaking all the entanglements around him. All kinds of broken limbs fell like rain. He jumped out of the heavy obstacles and came close to the tree trunk. In mid-air, he grasped the handle with both hands and slashed diagonally from top to bottom!
As a crescent-shaped knife light flashed by, a long oblique crack was suddenly cut on the tree trunk.

The strange tree let out a sharp hissing sound, and a tasteless, scarlet sap spurted out from its trunk. Chen Chuanluo was behind it, but he didn't stop charging forward. He turned his waist and swung his sword horizontally. Another flash of sword light crossed the tree trunk.

In the huge cross-shaped crack, the bright red liquid almost gushed out. At the same time, the whole strange tree shook and made a sound similar to vomiting.

With a loud crash, countless internal organs and broken torsos were seen spewing out from the tree trunk, and the entire space was suddenly filled with fluids.

Chen Chuan stared at the thing. Although the two sword strikes seemed to have severely damaged it, he found that those parts were shrinking rapidly. These attacks should not have touched its real vital points.

He changed his mind quickly, made a decision, swung the knife, leaned forward, and in just a moment, he rushed in through the broken gap.

After reaching the inner room, he looked up and saw many internal tissues hanging around, slowly agitating like breathing, and in the middle was something like a brain. This thing should have been nourished by the broken internal organs and fluids, but now they were all flowing out through the gap. This was undoubtedly the part that the strange tree was trying desperately to protect.

He took a deep breath, took a few steps forward, turned around suddenly, and slashed at the thing!
At this moment, as he came in, the cut outside immediately closed inward, and those limbs and hands filled the gap, secreting red gelatinous liquid, quickly repairing the cracks.

However, when these actions were halfway through, they suddenly stopped. After a while, the tree trunks, branches, and limbs began to dry up and shrink rapidly, and finally broke off and fell to the ground as if they could not hold on any longer, then shattered and scattered on the ground, turning into scattered black ashes.

However, there was no sound during the entire process, as if these were just an invisible object that did not exist in reality.

In just a dozen seconds, the entire trunk of the strange tree turned into collapsed ashes, and piled up into a thick layer of ash on the ground.

Chen Chuan took off his hat, patted it against his body a few times to brush off the ashes, then put it back on and glanced around to make sure that the thing had been completely removed.

However, there seemed to be a thick object under the ash. He poked it with the Xuejun Knife, and something about the size of a fist rolled out.

Chen Chuan bent down, reached out, picked it up, blew away the ashes on it, and saw that it was an object shaped like a heart that looked like it was carved out of wood or jade.

This should be the remains of this strange tree.

He put it away and walked out of the basement. Originally the whole hotel felt lifeless, but when the strange stories were dealt with, those insects and ants seemed to emerge all at once.

At the same time, his boundary credentials were restored, so he immediately contacted the city patrol team and asked them to come and deal with it. Dealing with it was secondary. He just wanted to let them know that everything was back to normal here, and there was no need to take any special measures in the future.

Back upstairs, he pushed the door open from the hotel, took a breath, and then walked towards the parking lot.

But after walking a few steps, he saw several gang-like thugs surrounding his car. There was an off-road vehicle parked in front of it with a grappling hook hanging on it.

Chen Chuan used his ID to take a look and found that these people were all gang members with dense torture and arrest records on their bodies, and the leader among them was even wanted.

He calmly reached into his pocket and squeezed it gently. A stone instantly shattered into a dozen tiny particles, and he casually pushed one onto his knuckles.

"Boss, someone is coming out from inside." A gang member saw Chen Chuan and shouted immediately.

The gang leader was stunned. He didn't expect that the person who went in could come out. He squinted and took a look. At just one glance, he realized that Chen Chuan might not be simple.

So he decided to give the other party some face.

He patted one of his younger brothers on the shoulder and said, "Go and say hello to him. The higher-ups have told us not to let anyone in or out. We just kept the car for him. Let him pay the storage fee, and the matter will be over. We won't stop him from leaving."

"I understand, boss." The younger brother threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, then staggered over with a few people. When they got close, he said, "Hey, that..." But before he could finish his words, he fell to the ground with a bang.

Several other gang members reacted quickly, realizing what was happening. They immediately split up and took out the weapons they carried with them. However, before they could figure out the situation, they fell down one by one and lay in the street in a mess.

Chen Chuan just walked slowly towards the car.

The gang leader sensed something was wrong, so he immediately left the car and ran outside. At this moment, he found that the boundary had been restored, so he immediately warned the outside world: "Blockade, blockade! Tough guys! Get your weapons!"

Chen Chuan didn't look at him, but walked straight towards the car. The gravel in his hand bounced, and the gang leader, who had already run about 20 meters away, staggered forward a few steps, then fell forward and lay there motionless.

Chen Chuan came to the side of the car, turned his hand, and the door opened.

At this moment he paused and looked back. The little boy was looking at him. He nodded at that boy, then got in, closed the door, started the car, and drove towards the blocked section of the intersection.

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(End of this chapter)