I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

“Fucking… my eyes are tainted…”

Li Yue burst through the window, escaping before the shanty was crushed by the sludge.

Li Yue didn't notice that his shadow had picked up a flint from the ground and placed it in his hand.

“Save… save… me…” The sludge crushed the houses, sending mud and sand flying. Li Yue finally understood where all the ruins in Red Oil Town came from.

Realizing Li Yue was no longer inside the house, the sludge body contracted and lunged, chasing after the lost traveler, suddenly extending an arm-like pile of corpses from its body, clumsily smashing down.

Decent extensibility…

Li Yue didn't know why he had to comment on the texture of this sludge at this critical moment, instinctively retreating—his body seemed to foresee this situation, instinctively escaping a further distance, avoiding the sludge's strike.

“Bang!”

The earth trembled, the corpse arm smashing more bodies, oozing more corpse oil, stirring the ground into a sticky mess.

Of course, some of it splattered on Li Yue.

Fight or flee?

Li Yue faced a dilemma.

The known information told Li Yue that he needed to stay in Red Oil Town for a while longer to complete the growth of the light, but with such a lump of sludge active in the town, it would obviously interfere with his actions.

This was a low-intelligence demon, and didn't seem like an object with which one could coexist.

“Oil? Then burn it?” Li Yue wiped the corpse oil from his face and made his choice.

“Huh? Flint?” Li Yue had just had this thought when he discovered he was holding two dark flints in his hand.

Li Yue thought he had subconsciously taken them, so without hesitation, he turned and sprinted towards the square—the torches were all left nearby, he needed to light one and try burning this sludge…

So Li Yue fled, and the sludge chased; in the middle of the night, Red Oil Town began to liven up.

During the chase, the sludge constantly smashed the ground, throwing rubble, or directly throwing corpses, attempting to attack Li Yue from behind.

Li Yue, sensing the movements behind him, jumped left and right, always managing to dodge the sludge and the mountain of corpses, quickly approaching the town square.

While running, Li Yue was somewhat surprised by the performance of this body.

So much combat experience? Able to complete all the dodging movements with just instinct?

Li Yue began to suspect that the previous owner of this body was a famous hero.

Unfortunately, there wasn't a single related memory in his head, everything was as natural as instinct.

With a few flashes, he ran to the square, picked up a torch covered in corpse oil, and without hesitation, struck the flint in his fingers, and the moment it ignited, he turned and threw it at the sludge behind him.

“Screech… Owww…” The mountain of corpses was ignited with a "boom", becoming a raging bonfire in the middle of the night, and then began to charge around frantically.

While crashing, its body was constantly splashing scalding oil, like a walking giant oil pot.

From the outside, the mountain of corpses was indeed shrinking, and the burning effect was indeed good; but as a result, the monster's movements became even more disordered, almost splashing several handfuls of oil on Li Yue.

This forced Li Yue to quickly flee the square, hiding on the roof of a distant house, watching this no longer peaceful night.

The mountain of corpses burned, its surface eyes, ears, and nose all melted into the body, losing its senses and crashing around; Li Yue also took the opportunity to carefully study the X-ray vision, and found that he could indeed see through the burning outer skin into the deeper parts of the monster…

In the very center, surrounded by layers of charred corpses, was a core the size of a human head; the core was inlaid with all kinds of human faces, they opened their mouths and sucked grease, making strange noises.

Amplified by certain organs, it sounded a lot like "Save me."

Then, Li Yue continued to use his X-ray vision to scan the town, observing a completely buried dry well, and some hidden rooms after the collapse.

The rooms contained all kinds of tools that he couldn't understand, seemingly related to the making of holy bread.

Li Yue estimated that after walking around the dry well and these rooms again, the light on the map would be more complete, and he wouldn't be far from leaving this broken town…

As things stand, Li Yue has given up trying to understand why this body has so many functions, and has accepted it completely.

Anyway, he has already seen believers who squeeze people to refine oil, and demons who gather corpses to become bodies…

Growing X-ray vision isn't that hard to understand.

It's really important to make good use of it.

It's just a pity that the mountain of corpses is still rampaging in the square, blocking the path to the dry well.

Should he help it get rid of it?

Obviously, the core wrapped in layers of corpses is the demon's weakness. As long as he smashes it, he should be able to get rid of this randomly running oil pot.

“Perhaps this body isn't afraid of fire, but this place… really doesn't have any clothes to wear…” Li Yue stared at the burning sludge monster and the core in its body, not making any moves to pounce in.

Li Yue didn't want to leave Red Oil Town naked.

Or… try a ranged attack?

Having just transmigrated, Li Yue felt it necessary to fully familiarize himself with his new body, so he rummaged around and found a broken iron fork.

Fearing that one wouldn't be enough to kill the monster, Li Yue also picked up some hoes and wooden stakes, leaving enough ammunition.

At the same time, the fire on the pile of corpses was gradually dying out, and its movements became coherent and meaningful again.

Obviously, fire alone could not kill this monster.

Li Yue no longer waited, and threw the first iron fork…

“Pfft…” The throw hit immediately, the iron fork piercing through the monster's body, firmly nailing it into the ground.

Li Yue had seen the destructive power of this fork, and his confidence soared, and he was about to stab the monster to death on the spot.

But after burning off the excess corpses, the monster's movements became more agile. It pushed off the ground and jumped up, smashing towards the roof of the dilapidated house where Li Yue was hiding…

“Pfft, pfft, pfft…”

In mid-air, the pile of corpses was successively pierced by iron forks, hoes, and wooden stakes, several large holes in its body spewing out oil, and then it slammed into the wooden house, motionless.

The core was pierced by a wooden stake, and the demon died just like that, turning into a pile of fire mud.

“This cheat is a bit too much…” Li Yue patted out the sparks on his body and slowly stood up.

Looking at the sludge-like pile of corpses around him, Li Yue suddenly felt that the so-called demon wasn't so scary, like a paper monster.

“This thing isn't bad…” Li Yue felt that the wooden stakes were very easy to throw, so he ran to the square and picked up a few more to clip on his waist, which was considered to have ranged combat methods.

He also wanted to rub the wooden stakes a little thinner.

As a result, he accidentally rubbed them into wood shavings.

Li Yue changed to rubbing the iron forks, and understood even more how terrible his hands were—the prongs of the iron fork were forcibly broken off and rubbed into small iron nails…

Like a newborn who has just arrived in a new world, Li Yue found that all common sense was useless.

Clipping a row of iron nails around his waist, Li Yue used his X-ray vision to scan Red Oil Town, and finally didn't see any more living people or demons, so he detoured to those secret tool rooms, lit up the light on the map, and rubbed out more iron nails along the way.

Then he turned his gaze down towards the dry well, preparing to complete the final step of exploring the town.

In the dry well, Li Yue didn't see any traces of any water source ever existing, but it was covered with demon cores the size of human heads.

All of them were the demon cores of the kind of monster that had just died.

The demon cores were all in a sleeping state, and there was also a strangely shaped sculpture mixed in.

For some reason, this sculpture looked a little familiar.

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