Free Web NovelThe sound of dripping water faintly reached his ears, his nose tickled from inhaling a lot of dust, and his eyelids felt heavy.
"Damn it, it hurts so much..."
His whole body felt like his bones were falling apart, and his chest burned with pain.
Li Daqiang slowly opened his eyes. His unfocused pupils gradually came into focus, and his eyes gradually adapted to the darkness.
This was a room of over ten square meters, with moldy and blackened dry grass covering the floor, moss growing on the walls, and several large rats not far away. They weren't afraid of people at all, squeaking and gnawing on something in the corner.
He supported his head and sat up, still feeling the world spin.
He remembered that not long ago, he was holding his phone, with the flashlight on, peering into the dry well, and then...
Right! And then his phone illuminated something, a pair of eyes suddenly entering his field of vision from the darkness.
Those eyes were not like the urban legend he had seen before, filled with brutality and evil. They were just empty and listless, like dense fog drifting over a deep, stagnant lake.
Those eyes just watched him quietly, silently, deeply, their intentions unclear, without much emotion, only a hint of curiosity.
That kind of gaze gave him a feeling of inexplicable discomfort, but Li Daqiang couldn't immediately think of an appropriate word to describe it. He could only continue recalling what had just happened.
"I looked into those eyes for a while, and then..."
And then he was attacked!
It seemed to be something like an iron hook, extending silently from the darkness, piercing his calf. Before he could struggle or cry out, he was dragged into the pitch-black cellar.
When he came back to his senses, he immediately cast the Spell passed down from his ancestors, enveloping his whole body in lightning. Following a pig-like scream, he was thrown into the darkness.
At the brink of life and death, people can always unleash astonishing potential.
Li Daqiang felt that what just happened was the best he had performed since learning the Spell. If he could get out alive this time and gather enough materials, he could immediately advance his Spirit Mark!
As he thought, those eyes inexplicably flashed in his mind. They were like a shadow, already imprinted there.
He remembered the animals he saw long ago when visiting the zoo. At that time, the zoo's facilities weren't as good as they are now. The animals were kept in square, dimly lit cages, and when those animals hid in the dark corners, secretly observing human visitors, they had similar eyes.
However, this time, the situation was a little different.
"This time, I am the one locked in the cage, being kept..."
Li Daqiang said it out loud unconsciously, and then his body trembled violently.
He felt he had said the wrong thing.
From the moment he woke up, he felt a pair of eyes, animal eyes, watching him in the dark, hidden very well, not wanting him to know its presence.
But now that he had said it, he had violated some taboo, and the owner of those eyes was angry and was going to come out and kill someone.
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On the other side.
Seeing that Jiang Li had followed him into the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, the burly man immediately invited her to accompany him.
However, Jiang Li's response to him was a very unfriendly smile.
The burly man was stunned for a moment. Before Jiang Li could speak, he said in a deep voice, "I understand, strong people prefer to go alone! Well then, take care, we'll meet again!"
After speaking, he clasped his hands towards Jiang Li, turned around, and ran towards the dark factory buildings.
Jiang Li watched the burly man leave, and only after a long while did she withdraw her gaze. She calmly said to herself, "Never mind, if someone followed me, it would only tie my hands and feet."
After speaking, she scanned her surroundings, recalled a few safer places recorded in the archives concerning the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, chose one of them, and quickly walked forward.
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The South Suburb Slaughterhouse was once the largest integrated pig slaughtering and breeding plant in Hua City and even the seven or eight surrounding cities, covering a vast area.
Besides the three slaughtering and processing factory buildings, there were also seven or eight breeding farms and two small buildings for office and laboratory use.
When the urban legend within the South Suburb Slaughterhouse were being suppressed and the place was sealed, Jiang Li had just joined the Night Watch. Her situation was similar to Lu Yibei's now, still in the probationary phase, so she did not participate in this mission.
Information about the South Suburb Slaughterhouse was also obtained by her from the archives after that.
Therefore, this was her first time entering the interior of the slaughterhouse.
Inside the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, apart from the two small buildings for office and laboratory use, the other buildings were four or five-meter-high blue brick bungalows.
The bungalows had rows of tall windows with iron bars.
Those windows were very small and dark, looking more like ventilation holes or a pair of eyes without light.
On the front of the bungalows, there were no doors except for the windows. Almost every building had only one medium-sized iron door, but now, they were all locked with rusty padlocks.
It made one wonder what secrets this slaughterhouse was hiding.
Passing by those bungalows, Jiang Li noticed that on the blue brick walls, many grammatically incorrect sentences were written, each word and phrase revealing madness and chaos.
This wasn't the first time she had seen this kind of situation. She had seen similar scenes at the locations of many urban legend incidents.
When people are in the midst of a urban legend incident and their minds are on the verge of collapse, they always try to express and vent their inner negative emotions.
There are many ways people on the verge of madness express themselves. It could be music, drawings, handicrafts, but the most common is text.
In their view, it was as if doing this would allow them to escape the nightmare.
But in reality, doing this is harmful. This kind of thing is one of the important mediums that make people believe in the existence of urban legend! Jiang Li thought.
Among the urban legend incidents she had handled, a large portion of the urban legend that had originally disappeared were reawakened because someone came into contact with these products of madness and believed in the existence of those urban legend.
Tonight, the moonlight was dim and yellow, casting an eerie glow on the concrete ground. Following the information seen in the archives, Jiang Li quickly found the feed mixing room at the South Suburb Slaughterhouse.
According to the records in the archives, this was the place with the lowest residual Spiritual Energy fluctuations among all the buildings, which also meant it was likely the safest place.
It was a courtyard with high walls, with weeds growing wildly in the corners.
The dark red paint on the main gate had peeled off, indicating that no one had been here for a long time.
Jiang Li came to the main gate and tentatively pushed it. The door actually opened with a 'creak', and the lock, violently broken, hit the ground with a 'thud'.
A messy courtyard came into view, and facing it was a blue brick house with its door ajar. A faint light flickered through the gap in the door.
Who opened the lock? Was it one of the people undergoing assessment? Or did someone come here before we did?
Jiang Li was thinking when she suddenly thought of the person who hadn't shown up. She couldn't help but frown, and then her gaze turned cold. Clenching her fist, as silver light flashed and silver armor enveloped her hands, a long saber appeared in her hand, much longer than her height.
She held the long saber, controlled her steps, and quietly approached the blue brick house, looking inside through the gap in the door.
After entering through the main door of the blue brick house, there was a very small outer room containing a twisted and deformed metal table and a dilapidated wooden chair lying on the ground, appearing desolate and eerie.
A dirty notebook had slipped onto the ground. It was yellowed and curled at the edges, and the word "Registration" could be faintly seen on the cover.
Besides this, there was nothing else.
Diagonally opposite the main door was another iron door. Going inside should lead to the mixing room. The faintly visible light was coming from behind that iron door.
Upon entering the room, Jiang Li did not rush to explore what was hidden behind the iron door. Instead, while extending her Spiritual Sense to be wary of the surrounding Spiritual Energy fluctuations, she walked to the twisted and deformed metal table, bent down, picked up the registration book from the ground, and began flipping through it.
June 7th, Li XX, Special Growth Concentrate Feed 2.1t
June 8th, Li XX, Special Growth Concentrate Feed 2.3t, Nutritional Powder 450kg
June 9th...
The content recorded in the registration book was normal for the first dozen pages, but there were large blank areas between August and September.
Jiang Li flipped forward a few more pages. Registration only resumed when the date in the registration book reached the end of September.
September 25th, Wang XX, Special Growth Concentrate Feed 2.1t, Meat 100kg, Nutritional Powder 300kg
Meat? Jiang Li frowned slightly.
Although pigs are omnivores and will eat meat, why would someone specifically feed them this kind of thing? From a cost calculation perspective, doing so would likely be a loss.
Moreover...
What kind of meat is it referring to? Why isn't it specified?
Human flesh? Jiang Li, who had encountered too many urban legend incidents, immediately had this thought, but soon, she dismissed the idea herself.
Leaving aside the cost of obtaining human flesh, the Night Watch archives from that period in her memory did not show any cases of large-scale disappearances of people or bodies.
If it's not human flesh, then what could it be?
100kg of meat per day is probably not enough to distribute evenly among every pig, but rather to specific ones.
What exactly is the South Suburb Slaughterhouse up to? Why isn't it detailed in the Night Watch archives?
Jiang Li thought, continuing to flip through the pages. For a long period afterward, "meat" constituted a significant part of the feed composition.
It wasn't until the registration date reached the end of November that large blank areas appeared in the registration book again.
End of November... She stared at the blanks for a moment, suddenly remembering something.
That murder case at the South Suburb Slaughterhouse seemed to have happened at the end of November?
She patiently flipped through a few more pages. When the registration book was no longer blank, she was slightly taken aback.
She saw that the book was smeared with dark red scribbles. The scribbles were twisted and strange shapes, like drawings made casually by a child, but upon careful examination, it was still possible to discern that they were little figures.
Jiang Li's gaze deepened, and she was about to continue reading. Just then, a faint Spiritual Energy fluctuation entered the range of her Spiritual Sense.
She suddenly raised her head and looked in the direction from which the Spiritual Energy fluctuation came, her gaze falling on the iron door from which the faint light emanated. Immediately after, she heard a muffled sound from behind the door.
"Thump, thump, thump--!" The muffled sound sounded like someone was hitting the wall.
“Who’s there? Come out!”
Jiang Li roared, but there was no response. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
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Her eyes turned cold, and she walked towards the iron door, holding her long saber.
Jiang Li was different from Lu Yibei; in her opinion, avoiding danger when encountered was a good solution, but not the best one.
The best solution was to directly eliminate the source of the danger; only then would the safety gained be long-lasting safety.
As soon as she arrived in front of the iron door, she smelled a familiar stench, the kind of stench formed by animal carcasses decaying for a long time in a confined space, mixed with the smell of dust and mold.
Not long ago, she had smelled a similar odor in the auditorium of Shihekou Middle School.
However, unlike last time, this time the stench was mixed with the smell of incense.
She controlled her Spiritual Energy to cover her nose and mouth, stepped back two paces, and slowly pushed open the iron door with her long saber.
Behind the iron door was a warehouse used to store feed. The large warehouse was empty, with thick dust on the ground and scattered footprints. In the center of the warehouse, a brazier and an offering table stood alone.
The paper money in the brazier had just finished burning and was still sparking. A pair of red candles on the offering table flickered, and the melted wax dripped onto the table like two lines of bloody tears.
Jiang Li held her saber and looked around. It was quiet all around, and she couldn't tell where those muffled sounds had come from earlier.
The only thing worth noting was a pile of white bones in one corner of the room.
Jiang Li walked over and carefully examined them, finding that the bones belonged to poultry, livestock, small mammals, and even reptiles, but none were human.
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23:56, in the low, desolate mountains backing the South Suburb Slaughterhouse.
A figure wearing a black robe with a comical skull badge on the chest stood on a twisted tree branch, looking down from afar, its furry ears occasionally trembling slightly.
This was precisely the Cat-Eared Girl from the Monster Story Chat Group.
“Rustle—Rustle—!”
Accompanied by the sound of tree branches and leaves, the tall, thin man climbed up the tree clumsily and sat beside the Cat-Eared Girl.
“Cat, how’s the situation?”
“Zhang Dexian has already exchanged blows with the urban legend in the slaughterhouse. The outcome is undecided.”
“Genius Mahjong Girl seems to have discovered something and is studying it.”
“Li Daqiang is still trapped in the underground breeding farm. He’s not dead yet, but I think he’ll be soon if no one saves him.”
“Li Weiyi is somewhere unknown. If Void’s intelligence is correct, he must have been inside for a long time already.”
Seeing the Cat-Eared Girl stop, the tall, thin man tilted his head. “What about Wang Bu Liu Xing?”
“Don’t mention her! Just hearing her name makes me angry!” The Cat-Eared Girl said angrily. “Why is Wang Bu Liu Xing so troublesome? Everyone else went in, but she just had to be different.” free𝑤ebnovel.com
“Huh? What did she do now?” The man smiled and asked with interest, but his playful eyes seemed to already know something.
As the group leader of the Monster Story Chat Group’s Hua City branch, the Cat-Eared Girl was once unanimously considered by other group members to be the most difficult member to deal with.
These days, watching her get so angry with Wang Bu Liu Xing that she almost smoked had become the most amusing pastime for other members after meals.
The Cat-Eared Girl glanced at the man, frowning. “She’s live-streaming using Li Daqiang’s phone and hasn’t entered the slaughterhouse yet.”
“Huh? There’s such a thing?” The tall, thin man pretended to be surprised.
After two seconds of silence, the tall, thin man, under the Cat-Eared Girl’s disdainful gaze, took out his phone, found Li Daqiang’s live stream, and skillfully typed in, “Streamer, show your legs?”
However, before he could click send, a furry paw shattered the phone screen.
“At a time like this, you still have the mood to be horny?”
“Does being horny need to depend on the time? Doesn’t it just happen when the feeling comes?”
“You...” The Cat-Eared Girl glared fiercely at the tall, thin man. “Wang Bu Liu Xing is doing this, and I’m almost dying of anxiety. What if she gets targeted by the Night Watch?”
“She won’t,” the man said sheepishly, putting away his phone. “First, who watches this kind of live stream seriously?”
“Second, the live stream only has video, no Spiritual Energy fluctuations. Do you think everyone is like Void, who can detect Spiritual Energy fluctuations through the virtual network?”
“Third, she’s very smart. She hasn’t shown her face at all. At most, she only showed her mouth.”
“Tsk!” The Cat-Eared Girl spat. “Then why are you still watching?”
“But, ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) her chest is really... you know? Just occasionally glancing over it is enough.”
The Cat-Eared Girl squinted at the man and said quietly, “I suddenly feel that online real-name registration is imminent!”
“Don’t change the subject, I haven’t finished the most important point!”
As he spoke, the tall, thin man looked in the direction of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse and curled his lips. “The most important point is that, under Void’s arrangement, the Night Watch and ordinary people can’t see her live stream at all.”
“You mean...”
“Exactly. Her live stream is now full of urban legend and lone Psychic,” the tall, thin man nodded. “Just like that urban legend live radio station I was optimistic about last time.”
“Wait...” The Cat-Eared Girl suddenly held up a hand to interrupt. “How do you know all this? Oh, I understand. Void has already handled Wang Bu Liu Xing’s situation, that’s why he sent you over, right?”
“You acted quite well just now, didn’t you? Is it fun watching me make a fool of myself?”
Seeing the Cat-Eared Girl reveal her sharp claws, the man twitched his mouth. “Uh, don’t scratch...”
Before he could finish speaking, a flash of cold light was followed by blood spurting from his face like a fountain.
“Ah! How many times have I told you, don’t scratch my face! Anywhere else is fine, why do you...”
“Anywhere else is really fine?” The Cat-Eared Girl’s gaze swept back and forth over the tall, thin man’s body, then gradually moved downwards.
The tall, thin man instantly covered his crotch with a “swish” and said weakly, “You should just scratch my face...”
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Lu Yibei didn’t realize Li Daqiang’s live stream was still on until three minutes after she picked up his phone.
She put the phone in her pocket, and it kept vibrating. Annoyed, she took it out to look and found it was private messages from the live streaming platform’s backend.
She originally wanted to close the live stream, but she hadn’t had much contact with this kind of thing. After fiddling for a few minutes, she actually registered as a streamer.
She swore she wasn’t a live streaming software idiot. She clearly clicked the options according to the normal process, but somehow, it ended up being account registration.
This was definitely not her problem, but the live streaming software’s problem!
Of course, registering a streamer account didn’t mean she had to start streaming. It wasn’t until she fiddled for a few more minutes and saw Li Daqiang’s live streaming backend income details that she changed her mind.
Perhaps because the phone captured the bizarre eyes in the darkness, followed by the live stream screen going black, the program effect was maximized, and Li Daqiang received an unusually large number of gifts today.
Lu Yibei looked at the dozens of income details, pondered for two seconds, switched the interface, and returned to the live stream.
She originally didn’t want to do this kind of thing, but the audience in the live stream were giving too much!
“Hello, esteemed viewers! I’m Li Daqiang’s friend!”
“He just encountered a bit of danger and was seriously injured, so he probably can’t stream for everyone today.”
“But it’s okay, if he can’t stream, I can continue to take everyone to experience the unique customs and urban legend of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse. My live stream room number is 6324, welcome everyone to support!”
Lu Yibei had wanted to try live streaming and filming videos for a long time. The account was ready, and the equipment only needed to be requested from Du Sixian.
It was just that her body temperature couldn’t be controlled before, which indirectly led to uncontrolled live streaming costs, so it hadn’t been possible.
Now...
Lu Yibei quietly closed Li Daqiang’s live stream and started her own live stream—《Obedient Soft Girl, Breaks with a Touch · Online Spirit Exploration》.
Then, seeing that it was almost midnight, she held up her phone and walked towards the South Suburb Slaughterhouse.
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A moment later.
From a distance, the Cat-Eared Girl saw Lu Yibei, put down her phone, tied pseudo-Divine Travel Armor Horses to her legs, and quickly ran laps in the open space behind the South Suburb Slaughterhouse gate, her expression becoming complicated.
“Damn it! What is she doing?”
“Uh...” The tall, thin man pointed at the phone in his hand. “She’s exploiting a BUG.”
“Huh?” The Cat-Eared Girl tilted her head.
The man rubbed his forehead. “Doesn’t the rule say that after entering the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, you have to move forward at least a hundred steps? So...”
The Cat-Eared Girl suddenly realized and roared, “Damn it, she plans to run a hundred steps at the entrance and then not go further in, right?!”
“People watch this kind of live stream too?”
“You know, appearance determines perspective,” the tall, thin man shrugged. “Esteemed viewers have an unusually high tolerance for beautiful girls.”
“Didn’t she not show her face?”
“You can imagine based on her figure! And she talks so nicely, everyone loves it here!”
The Cat-Eared Girl, “...”
She silently took out her phone from her upper pocket and sent a message to Lu Yibei.
One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats: @Wang Bu Liu Xing Dear group member, please do not exploit rule loopholes. This is a warning. After three warnings, the review will be deemed a failure.
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In the distance.
After receiving the message.
Lu Yibei, “...” It’s like a game company, clearly creating the BUG themselves, yet not allowing players to use it legitimately?
Damn it! That’s really disgusting!
