Indeed, there was nothing in this underground cavity.
No light, no water, no animals, no plants—just a whiff of ancient, stale air that had been sealed for who knows how long, like an empty canister that had been closed for tens of thousands of years and suddenly opened.
Inhaling even a bit of it caused his health bar to drop slightly.
The system interface even displayed an abnormal status: “Poisoned.”
“Cough, cough…”
Lee Sin coughed violently, his face turning pale.
He shook off the remains of the squashed cockroach from his fist and took a moment to recover:
“As expected…”
“You brainless creature followed me down!”
Looking at the enormous chunk of meat that nearly filled half the cavity, Lee Sin smiled.
Now was the most critical moment in his battle with the meat chunk.
However, theoretically, this should be his final moment before death—the literary equivalent of a character reminiscing about their life before their final scene.
After all, just as Giorno had feared…
There was nothing in this underground cavity, so there was nothing to help him attract the monster’s attention.
With only Lee Sin able to move, any attempt to escape or climb to the surface would result in the monster devouring him.
If he remained still, he would suffocate in the toxic, ancient air of the underground cavity long before he could be trapped with the meat chunk.
Therefore…
Lee Sin moved.
He walked unhurriedly to the wall, climbed up the rock face, and headed for the near-vertical tunnel the meat chunk had just created, connecting the surface and the underground.
To take the shortest route and return to the surface quickly, Lee Sin stayed close to the grotesque, twisted body of the meat chunk.
At this moment, he was only a few centimeters away from the monstrous flesh.
But the meat chunk ignored him.
“Hahaha.”
“In the end, you’re just a brainless creature.”
As Lee Sin slowly climbed the nearly vertical tunnel, he chuckled and talked to himself:
“I didn’t lure you into this underground cavity to perish with you.”
“Though there’s nothing in this underground cavity to attract your attention, it doesn’t mean there’s nothing deeper underground…”
As if to confirm Lee Sin’s words…
The meat chunk completely ignored Lee Sin sneaking away from behind and instead focused entirely on digging into the ground.
It was burrowing, digging further into the depths of the Earth.
“One meter… five meters… ten meters… twenty meters… thirty meters…”
The meat chunk finally found what it sought.
It crashed through the ceiling of an underground magma chamber, breaking the seal containing the fiery demon.
With the ceiling of the magma chamber breached, the pressure balance was instantly disrupted.
Just like an old-fashioned popcorn maker reaching critical pressure under heat, the searing magma found its release point and surged violently from the opening at the top.
Boom!
The long-silent underground world suddenly echoed with a muffled explosion.
The molten lava, with temperatures exceeding a thousand degrees, engulfed the meat chunk and continued to surge upward along the tunnel it had created.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle~
From below Lee Sin, in the lava-filled tunnel, came a sound reminiscent of roasting meat.
The meat chunk’s vitality was indeed formidable.
Even now, Lee Sin didn’t fully understand—
He had been running for his life and hadn’t really attacked it, so he naturally didn’t know:
This monster’s life force had no limit; it was essentially indestructible.
But Lee Sin did know:
The meat chunk’s ability was not “invulnerability,” but “super-regeneration.”
This meant its body could be damaged but would quickly heal.
A few bullets would hit it, and it would immediately repair its damaged body.
So what if, instead of a few bullets, there were thousands, tens of thousands of relentless “bullets” that never ceased?
The endless molten lava beneath the Earth was such “relentless bullets.”
At this moment, Lee Sin could sense:
The meat chunk’s defenseless body was rapidly charring and wilting under the intense heat of the lava.
Yet, relying on its terrifying vitality, its body was regenerating fresh flesh at an astonishing rate.
The charred flesh was washed away by the scorching lava, while new flesh continued to wilt under the relentless heat.
The damage from the high temperature was immense, and the energy it absorbed was primarily used for body repair.
Thus, the meat chunk’s boundless life force and the Earth’s endless heat engaged in a tug-of-war, an eternal battle with no clear winner.
“It’s still not dead?!”
Lee Sin was slightly surprised.
His original plan was to use the immense damage from the lava to completely annihilate this monster.
But he hadn’t anticipated that the meat chunk’s vitality would far exceed his expectations.
However, regardless…
The meat chunk was ultimately trapped—it was trapped in the endless sea of lava.
Its body continuously regenerated and charred in the magma, leading it deeper and deeper into the molten sea.
The meat chunk itself seemed quite pleased.
It showed no awareness of the immense, eternal damage it was enduring; instead, it was entirely captivated by the surging magma.
Every “wave” of the lava was an irresistible prey for the meat chunk.
The constantly surging and rolling subterranean lava waves mesmerized the mindless meat chunk, drawing it deeper into the hotter, more lava-filled depths.
“It can survive in lava…”
“What a complete monster!”
After witnessing the meat chunk’s true level of vitality, Lee Sin couldn’t help but sigh in lingering fear:
Upon reflection, he had almost overreached and doomed both himself and Mother Earth.
Fortunately, luck was part of his strength.
And Lee Sin seemed to have a decent share of this strength:
“Fortunately… fortunately, the damage from the lava was significant enough to force it to use all the energy it absorbed for healing.”
“Otherwise, sending it into the underground magma chamber would not only fail to kill it but also provide it with ‘food.’”
“Very well!”
“Since you can’t die…”
Lee Sin took one last look at the rising “water level” of the lava sea below:
“Enjoy this eternal fiery prison!”
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