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The two creatures acted with a single mind, their strength surging in perfect unison as they heaved upward with terrifying force. Before anyone could do more than gasp, He Lingchuan’s body sank until everything below his waist was beneath the ground.
The youngest of the ferry-crossing ghostspawn paid a savage price for that feat. Seven or eight weapons crashed down on its exposed back, turning flesh into mush. Xu Chun, who had no idea where he had fished up a short spear, lunged and rammed the weapon straight through its torso.
Meanwhile, Willow, Skinny, and Duan Xinyu clung to He Lingchuan’s shoulders and arms, hauling him upward with all their strength, trying to yank him out of the ground like a stubborn scallion from mud.
The ferry-crossing ghostspawn ignored the pain it was suffering. Snarling, it reached to its chest and ripped out the embedded arrowhead that He Linghcuan had shot with a wet sound. That burst of pain seemed to ignite something feral inside it. With a backhanded swing, it struck Xu Chun square in the ribs, sending the man flying a whole three meters until he slammed against a stone wall.
After that, the ghostspawn threw its head back and roared.
Far off in the tunnel, the bone puppets answered that roar as if summoned by their master. Their ranks surged forward, their pace kicking up by a brutal thirty percent.
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