# Chapter 750: Flanking the Monster
In the dim hotel corridor, a massive bald-headed, furry-bodied beast was swishing its tail as it strolled leisurely. Its eyeballs rolled, constantly examining the doors on both sides. It would sniff past closed doors, and when it encountered an open room, it would actively walk in, take a turn, or approach blood-stained items to bite them, leaving tooth marks before leaving.
After finishing this floor, it prepared to take the elevator to another level, but at that moment, music came from the stairwell:
"Xiao Ming had a secret, he told his friend Xiao Hua, Xiao Hua heard the secret, she told her friend Xiao Liang, Xiao Liang heard the secret, he told..."
The music felt particularly jarring in the silent hotel and clearly agitated the monster beast that had been calmly patrolling its territory. It roared and charged up the stairs, leaping three steps at a time to the floor above, rushing toward the source of the sound!
A player was hanging in midair not far from the stairwell entrance. When the monster pounced at the dangling noise source in one go, Xu Huo and Lin Zhenhuai burst out from rooms on the left and right sides respectively. The sword energy cutting plane swept toward the monster's hind legs that hadn't yet left the ground, while a spring-loaded fist glove that could shoot two to three meters punched toward its head!
However, what neither of them expected was that this massive beast was extremely agile when moving. It first swiped its claw, severing Lin Zhenhuai's fist glove, then leaped upward, causing the sword energy to graze past its feet and land on the wall at the far end of the corridor behind them.
The chance of a single strike succeeding was very small. Xu Huo and the others had prepared before acting, but before the light arc from the sword energy had completely faded, the monster's claw swept toward Xu Huo with a gust of wind!
"Bang!" Xu Huo narrowly dodged this strike, but the monster's body was too large. Its two front claws wrapped around and blocked his escape route. He quickly used "Broken Oath Door" to protect himself, but when that claw came down, both the prop and the person were sent flying several meters!
Xu Huo stumbled backward. The already cracked "Broken Oath Door" was on the verge of shattering, and the monster lunged at him again—the distance he'd been thrown wasn't even enough to match the monster's full leap. He could almost judge that before he could steady himself, the monster would likely tear him apart from above!
"Explode!" He used the lighter together with "Beauty of Explosion," and in an instant, the shadow looming over him turned into a fireball!
This attack was very effective. The monster that had been crazily chasing him just a second ago now crashed against the wall, frantically rubbing its body to extinguish the flames. Lin Zhenhuai and Gao Xiaoyue, who had come up as reinforcements, acted—one wrapped a steel cable around the monster's neck, while the other turned a small pulley in hand. The steel cable automatically and rapidly retracted, and through a fixed prop inside the room's window, quickly pulled the monster into the room!
The pre-arranged mechanism was meant to try throwing the monster out the window, but what no one expected was that the blazing beast, just as it neared the window, suddenly dug its claws into the ground. After its claws carved several deep grooves into the floor, it finally managed to stop itself at the window's edge!
The steel cable was taut, but no matter how the pulley turned, it couldn't pull the monster's raised head any further—in fact, the monster's head was now bent backward at an angle almost impossible under normal circumstances. For an ordinary animal, the neck bones would certainly have snapped.
The monster's head had no fur, so it hadn't burned along with the body hair. Even with its neck twisted out of shape, its eyeballs could still be seen constantly rolling.
This simply couldn't inflict fatal damage on it.
At this moment, Peng Fengnian, who was ambushing in the room, threw a short blade, severing the monster's claws embedded in the floor. As the monster's body loosened, Xiao Ling beside him released a toy car that directly flipped it over!
The steel cable moved again. This time, the monster crashed into the window, and its massive body fell out of it!
The steel cable briefly released and retracted. Gao Xiaoyue stood still, but her expression showed she wasn't relaxed. "Quick!"
Xu Huo dashed into the room in one stride, leaped onto the window sill, and gestured behind him!
The steel cable vanished instantly. The monster that had been suspended began to fall rapidly. Xu Huo grabbed the violin string and jumped out after it. Whenever the monster tried to climb back in through a passing window during its fall, he swung his sword to drive it away!
"Accelerate the fall!" Sun Bo's voice came from above. Then the falling monster accelerated like a cannonball, slamming heavily into the ground on the first floor of the hotel!
That monster was truly tenacious. Falling from such a height, it immediately flipped over and stood up, trying to run into the hotel.
Besides Xu Huo, three others jumped down from upstairs—Yu Guangnan and two unnamed companions of Peng Fengnian. The two of them spread an electrified net on the ground, left and right. The crackling current occasionally splashed to the sides, electrocuting the monster back whenever it tried to break through!
"Whoosh...!" At that moment, a sharp whistling sound came from Yu Guangnan's direction. The special sound immediately attracted the monster's attention. As a whistle-like prop flew through the air toward the outside of the hotel, the monster pounced after it!
The front and back of the hotel were streets, looking similar to the outside. But in reality, there was an invisible barrier at the edge of the street. Players couldn't pass through it. Likewise, the prop Yu Guangnan threw fell down upon hitting it. The monster that chased after it stopped just before the barrier, not touching it.
Seeing this, Yu Guangnan couldn't help but feel disappointed. He looked at the other two.
The two cooperated fairly closely, immediately shrinking the range of the electric net to force the monster closer to the barrier. But the monster, having bitten the whistle to pieces, suddenly turned around with ferocious rage. It pounced directly onto the electric net, tearing it apart with claws and teeth, then lunged straight at the player on the right!
The monster had been burned bald and electrocuted black, looking like a skinned monkey. But its speed and strength remained. It suddenly accelerated and crashed directly into that player's defensive prop!
With unimaginable force, the player was sent crashing into the hotel's outer wall in a flash. The spot where he landed was already on the monster's forward path. Before he could crawl out from under the debris, the charging monster tore open his lower back with its hands and feet!
Xu Huo and the other two who had been chasing closely were splattered by the blood thrown out. Looking into the wall, the monster had already disappeared!
Yu Guangnan and the other player stayed behind to rescue the wounded. Xu Huo didn't stop for half a second as he chased into the hotel, following the blood trail on the ground directly to a room with an open door...
But just as he reached the doorway, the monster hiding inside suddenly pounced out!
"Compressed Air!" He quickly erected an air barrier in front of him, but his body still slammed into the wall behind him. Looking at the monster pressing against the barrier and constantly roaring, he shook off gravity, shifted to the other end of the corridor, pulled something from his pocket, and threw it directly into the blood-filled mouth chasing after him!