Free Web NovelOne hour ago.
Underground at Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel.
In the vast, dark space, faint light emanated from an unseen source, and the air was filled with a damp, decaying smell.
The massive electric steam boilers had long ceased operation, slumbering in the shadows like giant coffins, with eerie noises occasionally echoing, making one feel as if terrifying monsters were imprisoned within those cylindrical metal boilers.
This was where the boiler room and sewage treatment plant of the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel were located.
In the darkness, Lu Yibei mumbled timidly.
“These high-end resort hotels are really black-hearted. They claim to be hot spring hotels, but all the water is heated! And they hide the boiler room so deep underground. Tsk, I really want to report them...”
The man, “...” None of your business! You’re quite righteous!
“...If I report them, there should be a reward, right?”
In the darkness, the man’s mouth twitched imperceptibly.
He was about to die, yet he was still thinking about a reward. What on earth was in this person’s head?
“You know, with such poor hygiene, if you bathe in water heated here, will you get skin diseases? Oh, right, among your Weird tale, are there any that mutated into Weird tale because of skin diseases, like sewer mermaids or something?”
“No!”
“Ah, what a pity!” Lu Yibei sighed, “By the way, what kind of Strange Tale are you? A Deformed Breed? A Malevolent Spirit Breed? Don’t tell me you’re a Witch Seed?”
The man frowned and growled impatiently, “Damn it! Are you really not afraid of death?”
“I am!” Lu Yibei said weakly, “I’m scared to death!”
How could he not be afraid after seeing such a scene?
In fact, even now, he could still hear the incessant cicada chirps mixed with the sounds of chewing flesh.
...
A few minutes ago.
The man who broke into the resort hotel was intercepted by Night Watch members stationed there.
Just as Lu Yibei thought he had found a savior and a fierce battle was about to erupt, the bloody scene instantly extinguished the spark of hope that had just ignited in his heart.
Those Night Watch members rushed forward, and the next moment, a dense chirping of cicadas echoed. Their steps halted about two or three meters from the man, their bodies seemingly frozen.
Cicada chirps, filled with madness and intense malice, began to emanate from within the man’s body, gradually intensifying.
Immediately after, the hideous scars on his body were torn open by something, releasing a putrid stench.
Cicadas, stained red with blood, crawled out from the cracks in his flesh. His body rapidly shriveled, until finally, only a skeleton and skin remained.
Those blood-stained cicadas flapped their wings, accompanied by dense, noisy, mind-numbing sounds, and like a dark red cloud of cicadas, they surged towards the Night Watch members.
The cicada swarm brutally poured into their bodies through their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses. Amidst painful screams, their living bodies exploded into sprays of blood mist, leaving only skeletons in an instant.
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Lu Yibei’s temples throbbed violently, and his stomach spasmed uncontrollably.
After rabbit meat and frozen food, cicada pupae were also crossed off his food list.
Witnessing such a scene, it was unsettling and terrifying, but...
“But, the more scared I am, the more I want to talk! I’m desperate too! Anyway, you won’t kill me for now, so talking a bit more can make me feel less flustered. You’ve been carrying me around, isn’t it boring? Come on, let’s chat!”
“Shut up! If you say another word, I’ll cut out your tongue and stuff it up your ass! I’ll pull out all your teeth and embed them in your face!”
Chat my ass! Do you even know what kind of situation you’re in right now?
The man initially thought that taking Lu Yibei from that person’s hands and bringing him here would be an easy task, but he didn’t expect it to be such a chore!
This guy was really too annoying!
After a shout, silence lasted less than a minute.
“I... actually know a little bit of ventriloquism.”
In the darkness, Lu Yibei’s voice came faintly.
When his facial injuries were at their worst, Lu Yibei couldn’t even open his mouth. He once thought he would never have the chance to speak again, so for long-term planning, he had indeed studied ventriloquism for a period.
The man, “...”
The veins on his forehead immediately bulged, and with a “bang!”, he threw Lu Yibei onto the stone cover of the sewage tank.
His back slammed violently against the concrete slab, like being struck by a large hammer. Lu Yibei let out a muffled groan, feeling as if all his bones were about to fall apart.
Revenge! Naked revenge! All I did was talk a little too much!
I’ve been cooped up in the hospital for almost two years, accumulating a pile of things to talk about. Now that I’m about to die, am I not allowed to vent a little?
As Lu Yibei was thinking, he suddenly felt a chill, as if something was staring at him.
“Rustle, rustle—!”
Faint rustling sounds came from the darkness, and wisps of pitch black extended from the cracks in the sewage tank’s stone cover, like flowing black water.
Borrowing the faint light, Lu Yibei barely made out their appearance. The things making those eerie sounds in the darkness were all hair!
Those strands gathered together, twisting into arm-thick ropes, snaking like venomous snakes, crawling over and wrapping around his limbs, binding him tightly to the stone cover of the sewage tank.
A dry, coarse sensation came from his skin, making Lu Yibei’s scalp tingle.
“No, big brother, can you please not tie me up with this stuff! I beg you! It’s really awkward, and I won’t run, I can’t run anyway, can I?”
“Shut up! Do you have a choice?” The man growled, his eyes glinting fiercely.
Lu Yibei shrank his neck, “...” He shouldn’t have expected these Weird tale to have humanitarian spirit for prisoners.
Seeing Lu Yibei quiet down, the man snorted coldly, tore open a scar on his body with his bare hands, pulled out a palm-sized iron box from inside, opened the iron box, and took out a crystal bottle.
The crystal bottle contained some kind of shallow white gel-like liquid, about half full, emitting a faint glow.
The man’s fingertips exerted a slight force, and the crystal bottle shattered with a “pop,” turning into powder, which then ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) dissipated into the air.
That mass of shallow white gel-like liquid floated in front of him. As soon as it touched the air, it seemed to sense the breath of freedom, emitting piercing screams and wriggling frantically, with distorted human faces appearing on its surface.
These were source spirits, a total of three servings of source spirits.
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Whether for enhancing strength or for casting a Spell, it was more than enough.
“Pfft—!” The man rubbed his index finger and thumb together, and a wisp of blood-colored flame immediately rose from his fingertips. He sent the flame under the wriggling source spirits to scorch them, while chanting an incantation that Lu Yibei couldn’t understand at all, his hands rapidly forming complex seals.
Soon, the screaming stopped.
Turning into silence.
The source spirits were pulled by some force, constantly stretching, outlining bizarre Spells in mid-air.
The dense Spells combined somewhat resembled a sun totem, but they gave off no warmth or hope.
Seeing the Spell gradually taking shape, a cold smile appeared on the man’s lips, and he thought, this way, when that Mr. Rabbit comes here to complete the witchs egg feeding ritual, I can pluck the fruits of victory, right?
He had never intended for Mr. Rabbit to succeed.
The reward of ten source spirits was not enough to satisfy him, even with the twenty source spirits Mr. Rabbit promised to pay after the deed was done, it still wasn’t enough!
However, with just a little effort, by capturing a newly formed Witch Seed Strange Tale and refining it slightly, he could obtain over two hundred source spirits!
The man’s sinister and treacherous smile appeared on his face in the glow of the source spirits. Lu Yibei saw it and couldn’t help but ponder to himself.
What’s going on? Something seems a little off! Is this a double-cross in the making?
Time passed bit by bit, a few minutes later.
The Spell used to imprison Mr. Rabbit was ready, its light gradually faded, slowly disappearing into the darkness along with the man’s back. The moment the Spell’s light completely vanished, a sudden change occurred.
Dazzling crimson light instantly enveloped the entire underground boiler room.
It was as if the spiritual energy of the entire space was solidified in this dazzling light, and the man’s figure instantly froze in place.
The hair wrapped around Lu Yibei suddenly became frantic, rustling and wriggling. Immediately after, the stone cover beneath him trembled violently, as if something was about to burst out of the sewage tank.
Feeling the surrounding spiritual energy turn into a quagmire, sealing his body, and the spiritual energy within him slowly being drained, the man’s face changed dramatically.
“Damn it! That Mr. Rabbit actually dared...”
The man never expected Mr. Rabbit to dare risk offending the Eclipse Society, expend a large amount of source spirits, and set up a Spell, attempting to refine him.
Between shock and anger, he was about to cast a Spell to break free from control, when at that moment, a loud bang came from the direction of the sewage tank.
“Bang—!”
Lu Yibei noticed the hair wrapped around his body receding, his mind in a fog. Before he could get up, the stone cover of the sewage tank beneath him suddenly exploded, and a strong airflow instantly sent him flying.
Foul sewage splashed everywhere, and long hair, enveloped in crimson light, rose like a giant dragon from the sewage tank, following the spiritual energy fluctuations, attacking the confined man. Before he could cast his Spell, it wrapped around his body inch by inch, sealing his mouth and nose.
Those grotesque hairs, created by Spells using the deceased’s temple hair as a guide, were set up by Mr. Rabbit to target the man and the incoming An Qing and Jiang Li. Once they sensed spiritual energy fluctuations, they would launch a fierce attack.
Lu Yibei had no spiritual energy fluctuations on him, so he didn’t attract the hair’s attention, only getting tossed around.
When he had somewhat recovered, he leaned against the wall and stood up. Looking back, he could no longer see the man’s figure; only a giant cocoon woven from hair remained in his sight.
Those hairs, like a swarm of snakes, constantly wriggled and tightened, making rustling sounds. More hair crawled in the shadows, covering everything, making his scalp tingle.
“What the hell, is this the legendary double-cross of a double-cross? I can’t stay in this place!”
Lu Yibei mumbled softly as he recalled the route he had secretly memorized on the way in, then turned and ran out of the boiler room.
...
“Hoo—hoo—!”
Enveloped in a crimson glow, Lu Yibei ran wildly. Just then, an ethereal singing voice, like a whisper carried on the wind, or an echo from the depths of his soul, began to resonate in his ears.
“...Lend me, lend me a pair of wise eyes~♪
Let me see this chaos clearly, plainly, truly~♪”
Lu Yibei, “...”
Damn it! Here it comes again!
Last time he was drawn by this song, he had terrible luck and met Mr. Rabbit. He definitely wouldn’t go near it this time!
However, his mouth said no, but his body was very honest.
He was drawn by the singing, and his legs, uncontrollably, began to move towards the direction of the song.
Walking through the narrow, dim alleyway, the singing ahead grew clearer. Soon, his vision suddenly opened up, and a wide open space came into view.
Above the open space, a fresh corpse hung suspended. Directly beneath the corpse was a stone platform, and the intricate crimson Spells, which almost covered the entire boiler room, extended from all directions and converged beneath the stone platform.
The strange stone egg that Lu Yibei had once seen in a hallucination was precisely placed on the stone platform.
“Plop—!”
Blood dripped from the air, falling precisely onto the stone egg. The distorted female faces on the stone egg instantly lit up with crimson light, emitting faint whispers inaudible to human ears. These whispers intertwined, turning into a song that drilled into Lu Yibei’s mind.
At the same time, the exact same sound echoed from the depths of Lu Yibei’s soul.
The two songs, whispering and chanting in turn, gradually formed a strange yet harmonious resonance. Driven by this resonance, Lu Yibei, like a walking corpse, slowly walked towards the stone egg.
Greedy light appeared in his scarlet eyes, and his dry, cracked lips moved, uttering a nearly delirious murmur, “Mine, that’s mine...”
Faint spiritual energy fluctuations began to emerge from his body, gradually intensifying.
Immediately after, eerie rustling sounds came from the darkness. The hairs, sensing the spiritual energy fluctuations on him, quickly surged towards him.
The singing echoed in his mind, and Lu Yibei, in a daze, gradually approached the stone egg.
Just as he reached out, and his fingertips were about to touch the stone egg, a sharp burning pain shot through his eyes, as if warning him of something, and he suddenly woke up.
“Damn it!”
Seeing his fingertips less than a centimeter from the stone egg, Lu Yibei’s pupils slightly contracted, and he cursed under his breath, quickly backing away.
This thing was too evil!
Even if he could ascend to heaven after getting it, he didn’t want it!
Time to leave, time to leave! Don’t want any more trouble later!
Lu Yibei thought, then suddenly turned. The next moment, a wisp of black hair quietly wrapped around his ankle, strand by strand, silently creeping and climbing upwards.
Then...
It suddenly pierced his chest.
