Free Web NovelThe sound of heavy objects being dragged echoed in the darkness, mixed with the sound of some viscous liquid dripping.
Li Weiyi expressionlessly dragged the corpse by the ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ ankle, pulling it along the empty corridor, and quickly arrived before a dark, gaping hole.
It was a hole similar to the garbage chutes commonly found in old buildings, but the opening was much larger, easily wide enough for a several-hundred-kilogram pig to slide down.
He stopped before the hole, and the experience of being dragged into the depths of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse by an iron hook that night flashed through his mind again. His heart couldn't help but race, and his breathing became somewhat erratic.
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When Li Weiyi woke up that night, he found himself locked in a cage.
It was an iron cage welded from steel bars, somewhat like the cages used for large dogs in dog markets. An adult was imprisoned inside, unable even to turn around.
The cage was covered with black cloth, and it was pitch black inside. The air was filled with an indescribable stench and the smell of mold growth.
After a few seconds of Stunned, he began to scream in panic, enduring the pain of the penetrating wound on his shoulder, and desperately banging on the steel bars of the cage.
Then.
As the cage vibrated, the waterproof cloth covering the outside of the cage slid off.
He saw a spacious area filled with countless cages, stacked together like Tetris blocks.
A faint light, shining from somewhere unknown, illuminated the cages, outlining the deformed figures within.
Li Weiyi looked at the scene before him, his mind blank, only his heart beating faster and faster, pounding against his eardrums.
Just then, he suddenly heard a high-pitched whisper from behind him, as if someone was deliberately pinching their voice.
"You're here too?"
Li Weiyi's pupils contracted slightly, and he abruptly turned around to look behind him, only to see the person who, like him, was imprisoned in an iron cage.
It was an extremely obese person, with all hair shaved off, making it impossible to distinguish gender. Under the faint light, the layers of pale flesh were stacked together like an inflated balloon, almost filling the entire iron cage, glistening with oil.
If it weren't for the fact that it still had a human face, Li Weiyi wouldn't have believed it was human.
Staring at the strange person, Li Weiyi swallowed and suppressed his fear as he asked, "What did you just say? What do you mean?"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a rustling sound from the adjacent cage, and one excessively obese face after another emerged silently from the darkness like ghosts.
Their minds were clearly not normal. Their bulging Eyeballs were dull and vacant, and their facial muscles seemed uncontrollable, showing a variety of expressions, either crying or laughing, excited or curious, disgusted or wary.
They were all saying the same words, repeating them over and over again. Countless voices merged together, as if trying to drive a person mad.
"You're here too?"
"You're here too?"
"..."
The legend is true!
Inside the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, there are indeed urban legend raising humans!
Now I've become one of them!
Li Weiyi broke out in a cold sweat, his thoughts chaotic. He subconsciously retreated, but as soon as he moved, his back hit the cold steel bars.
"You're here too?"
A high-pitched, eerie whisper sounded in his ear, and warm, turbid breath puffed onto the back of his neck. He turned back sharply, his face almost touching the fat, greasy strange face.
"Ah ah—! You, don't come any closer!"
He screamed and fell to the ground.
The fear and intense activity further aggravated his injury, and blood gushed out. Soon his consciousness became blurred, and his whole body felt as if his soul had left him, becoming light and airy.
In a daze, he heard heavy footsteps coming from a distance.
Many huge figures, two or three stories tall, moved slowly in the darkness, very slowly. They performed some inexplicable movements, waving their pale large hands, and shaking their huge, hairy heads.
Those incredibly ugly heads, with outlines like humans, had more pig-like features...
Then, he was grabbed by a pale large hand, passed through the dark space, and thrown heavily onto a dining table.
Bloody pieces of meat, a cold, huge long table, and stone vessels stained dark red with blood.
Four deformed, hideous-faced urban legend sat around, dismembering and tearing apart meat and bone with strange postures and movements, snatching and devouring.
The table was a mess of cups and plates, severed limbs, leftover bones, chunks of meat, and internal organs. Piles of Eyeballs were pickled in black viscous liquid, bobbing up and down.
"Crunch—crunch—!"
The sound of chewing muscles and bones conveyed pure and malicious appetite, as if their existence was for endless eating and growth.
The immense fear stemming from the primitive biological instinct tormented Li Weiyi's nerves. Just as he was about to descend into madness, the four urban legend stopped eating and pushed a stone basin in front of him.
The basin was filled with rotten flesh, mixed with indescribable viscous matter.
Li Weiyi stared blankly at the urban legend. They watched him silently, as if waiting for something, with strange smiles on their faces.
At that moment, he suddenly understood the intentions of the urban legend. They wanted to watch him eat that basin of disgusting stuff, taking pleasure in it.
Just like humans feeding their pets...
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"Thump—!"
Li Weiyi threw Li Daqiang's body into the vertical hole. After falling for a long time, a muffled sound faintly came up.
"As agreed, I've delivered the first offering to you."
He said to the dark hole. The next moment, the wound on his shoulder began to throb faintly, followed by a howl from the hole.
That howl was very unpleasant; it was impossible to tell if it was anger, pain, annoyance, or despair, or even if it was human.
Along with the howling, an unusual noise came from the vertically downward hole, as if a lot of flesh and blood were wriggling and crawling. Immediately after, a large hairy face, with huge dull Eyeballs, stared at Li Weiyi for a long time.
It was hard to imagine how such a massive body could crawl through a narrow tunnel.
Li Weiyi frowned, a hint of disgust flashing in his eyes hidden under the brim of his hat, but he quickly forced a smile.
Seeing his smile, the large hairy face slowly retreated back into the darkness, crawling deeper along the tunnel. Li Weiyi's expression also gradually darkened, and a flame of madness flickered in his eyes.
Those inhuman torments and abuses.
That food, mixed with mold and rotten flesh, which could not be called food.
Those terrifying large faces with empty, indifferent eyes and playful, malicious smiles.
They were like parasites, rooted in his memory. The only way to make them disappear was to destroy them.
After the surroundings became completely silent, Li Weiyi took out his mobile phone from his Coat pocket and sent a message to that man.
【The review has started, I have killed the first person. The others might be difficult, when are you coming?】
A moment later, the account using the black sun totem avatar replied briefly.
【Soon.】
The man of unknown origin was someone Li Weiyi met after he miraculously escaped the South Suburb Slaughterhouse.
He claimed he could help him get revenge, revenge against the Monster Story Chat Group, and against the urban legend in the South Suburb Slaughterhouse.
And the power the man showed him was very convincing.
Li Weiyi thought, subconsciously stroking his shoulder wrapped in thick gauze.
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Regarding the matter of infiltrating the South Suburb Slaughterhouse to undergo the Monster Story Chat Group's review, Jiang Li's original attitude was to find a relatively safe place, read a book, zone out, play a few rounds of mahjong on her phone, and just pass the night like that.
However, after seeing that registry that faintly revealed important information not found in the Night Watch's archives, she temporarily changed her mind.
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She wanted to investigate the factors that led to the formation of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse urban legend gathering place, and find the root cause of the problem here.
The Night Watch cannot completely eliminate urban legend gathering places like Shihekou Middle School and the South Suburb Slaughterhouse. Apart from the series of issues involved in building demolition and renovation, there is also a very important reason: they do not know the factors that led to the formation of these urban legend gathering places.
If they could find the factors that led to the formation of these urban legend gathering places, they could deal a heavy blow from the root, like killing the Twilight Woman, preventing them from causing trouble for a long time.
It's just...
Why didn't the agents previously responsible for the investigation find such an important clue as the feed configuration room registry?
Or, if they did find it, why didn't they continue to investigate this clue?
Could it be that Li Xuan was really right, and there is an insider in the Night Watch?
Jiang Li vaguely felt that something was wrong. Perhaps after this matter was over, she should go back and take a good look at who was responsible for the South Suburb Slaughterhouse case a few years ago.
Lost in thought, Jiang Li had unknowingly left the feed mixing room. When she came back to her senses, she was already in front of the office building of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse.
In the darkness, the pitch-black tall building stood like a lonely gravekeeper, and its dark, deep windows were its eyes.
Jiang Li stared at the building, her gaze slightly focused. She walked up the steps to the main entrance and lightly struck the closed door lock with the tip of her knife. The lock broke into two pieces with a clang.
If the information in the feed mixing room's registration book could be ignored or concealed, then something more important than the registration book might be hidden deep within the office building's archives and work logs. Perhaps there would be even more crucial things there.
Thinking this, Jiang Li walked towards the inside of the building. After only a few steps, she suddenly felt something was wrong, stopped, and took a few steps back.
"Is it my imagination?"
She felt that from the moment she stepped into the building, she was being watched by a pair of eyes.
Those eyes followed her steps, slowly turning their head, moving little by little, like a shadow.
Upon realizing this, Jiang Li immediately expanded her Spiritual Energy to the maximum extent, and her expression turned serious.
Her Spiritual Energy was interfered with by a slow-flowing, yet highly concentrated, foul Spiritual Energy. Her Spiritual Energy, which could originally cover most of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, could only extend about ten meters away.
This meant that she had been targeted by one or more high-level urban legend, but for some reason, they hadn't shown themselves yet.
This made her a little unhappy.
She wasn't afraid of urban legend that confronted her head-on. Winning was good; if she lost, well, those urban legend were strong, and at worst, she would die.
She hated those sneaky urban legend the most.
Smiling at her from behind when she looked in the mirror, with their rotten lips split open.
When she closed her eyes and lowered her head to wash her hair, two dirty hands would extend and hover above her head, ready to move, with strands of hair brushing against her face.
When she was sleeping, it would secretly touch her foot sticking out from the bed, and finally, when she suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, she would find it sleeping next to her, staring at her with two bloody holes and giggle...
"Tsk—!"
Jiang Li lightly spat to express her displeasure. Then, holding her knife in one hand and resting it on her shoulder, she swaggered towards the depths of the building. Coupled with her appearance, she looked like a delinquent girl going out to fight someone.
She walked through the first-floor corridor without entering the rooms on either side. Following the guide map she saw at the entrance before coming in, she headed towards the third floor where the archives were located.
When she reached the second floor and saw the scene there, she suddenly stopped. freewёbnoνel.com
The corridor on the second floor was covered in large amounts of dark red stains, looking very dirty, as if someone had dragged struggling living beings through it. Looking closely, there were also many handprints and footprints mixed in, on the floor, walls, windows, and security doors, everywhere.
Was it left by the urban legend that attacked the slaughterhouse staff back then? Jiang Li tilted her head, withdrew her gaze, and continued walking upstairs.
The moment she stepped onto the stairs leading to the third floor, the tightly closed security doors in the second-floor corridor suddenly opened silently. Figures in uniform walked out of those rooms that had been closed for who knows how long.
They didn't go upstairs but lingered in the corridor. From a distance, it looked like a re-enactment of the busy scene at the South Suburb Slaughterhouse from yesterday.
Perhaps it was her imagination, but Jiang Li felt that the corridor on the third floor was much longer than the one on the second floor.
The walls on both sides of the corridor were painted white, and every few meters, she could see a rusty iron door. There were yellowed seals on the doors, seemingly quite old.
The office and laboratory building had been sealed for many years, so presumably, no one should have entered for a long time. But strangely, there was very little dust inside, as if someone came in to clean every so often.
According to the markings on the guide map at the main entrance, the third floor was all for storing documents, and these documents naturally included various specimens needed for scientific research.
In fact, storing text archives doesn't require much space at all. Seventy to eighty percent of the rooms on the entire third floor were used to store specimens. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
Through the windows in the corridor, one could vaguely see that the pitch-black rooms were filled with shelves, and these shelves, which should have been emptied long ago, were filled with jars and bottles.
When Jiang Li clearly saw the specimens preserved in those jars and bottles, she was slightly startled.
The glass jars filled with orange-red liquid not only contained pig organ specimens, but also many human organ specimens. Even more bizarrely, some of the twisted and deformed specimens were stitched together from human and pig organs.
Jiang Li extended her Spiritual Energy into those rooms, sweeping over each specimen. After confirming that there were no Spiritual Energy fluctuations on the specimens, she continued forward.
However, she soon stopped, pausing in front of a rusty metal door.
That large door was welded shut with steel bars and had several extra locks deliberately added. The locks were also engraved with solidified sealing Spells.
On the wall next to the large door, a shaky metal sign hung, bearing the large characters "Pig King Specimen Exhibition Room."
Jiang Li stared at the large door, her gaze deepening.
She vaguely felt Spiritual Energy fluctuations behind that large door...
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Meanwhile, on the other side, Zhang Dexian, who was in the breeding farm, was engaged in a bitter battle.
His strategy after entering the South Suburb Slaughterhouse was completely opposite to Jiang Li's. The moment he set foot on this evil land, he went straight for the breeding farm, where the evil aura was strongest.
In his opinion, to catch the king first, you must catch the king. As long as he took down the most powerful Strange Tale right at the start, the rest of the night would be easy.
However.
He had somewhat underestimated the number of urban legend in the South Suburb Slaughterhouse and also somewhat overestimated his own strength.
He broke into the breeding farm, stumbled upon a group of urban legend moving something, took off his Coat and charged in to fight. After nearly half an hour, he successfully cornered himself and was in a desperate situation.
"Hoo— hoo—!"
In the corner of the breeding farm, Zhang Dexian leaned his back against the hard, cold wall, panting heavily, his muscular, bare chest rising and falling with his breaths.
On his thick arms, the copper rings that had originally glowed faintly had all dimmed, covered in large and small nicks.
In front of him, a group of figures wearing breeding farm work uniforms glared menacingly.
Some of them looked like humans, but their skeletons were deformed, their body hair had all fallen out, and their bodies were covered in foul black mucus. The mucus seemed to be alive, wriggling beneath their tattered uniforms, and in their hands, they tightly gripped rusty iron hooks or slaughtering knives full of nicks.
In the darkness, pair after pair of blood-red eyes watched Zhang Dexian, emitting strange low growls.
Although they were only D-level to C-level lower-tier urban legend, their sheer numbers were overwhelming, hundreds, even thousands.
"Caw—!"
Suddenly, a piercing shriek echoed through the breeding farm. Amidst the shriek, those ghostly things closed in, and a foul stench assaulted him.
Zhang Dexian also seemed ready to accept the end of his fate. He straightened his back, clenched his fists, and shouted at those urban legend.
"Come on! You sons of bitches! A true martial artist charges forward even into eternal night!"
"Secret Technique: Fearless Lion!"
Just as Zhang Dexian roared, mobilizing the little Spiritual Energy remaining in his body, the wall behind him was suddenly smashed open.
With a muffled "Bang!" a slender figure rushed in amidst the falling dust, shouting "Miao Miao Jiang, I'm here to save you! Ahhh!" while wielding a kitchen knife. In the chaos, she actually sliced off the heads of several urban legend.
Lu Yibei had rushed over after hearing the sounds of fighting here. When she smashed through the wall and broke in, she was stunned to see Zhang Dexian, with his bulging, shiny muscles, like a bodybuilder champion coated in olive oil.
What the heck? What's going on? How is this different from the script I envisioned?
Her original script was perfect.
Miao Miao Jiang, who was possibly Jiang Li, encountered enemies and was in danger. She would descend from the sky, decisively defeat all the urban legend, and be the hero saving the beauty.
Miao Miao Jiang, who was possibly Jiang Li, would be safe, her favorability would increase, Lu Yibei would gain a beautiful COSER, and potentially gain the favor of her direct superior.
It should have been like this! But what is this in front of her now? Which part of the process went wrong? Lu Yibei wondered.
