Free Web NovelUnderground in Hua City.
In a dark, damp sewer pipe, a black and ugly strange fish was cutting through the murky water, muttering incessantly.
"Found it, found it, I finally found someone with Spiritual Energy fluctuations in this damned place! This time it must work, right?"
After several days of observation, the system discovered that, for some reason, the long night that caused the world to change seemed to come later than usual this time, at the point of its "rebirth".
At this point in time, the duration of the night basically remained at a normal ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) level, and urban legend and Psychic were still quite rare existences. It was not easy to find a host with the potential for Spiritual Energy.
Therefore, the direction it had been trying before was completely wrong. In this situation, it should start with humans who already had Spiritual Energy fluctuations. Compared to ordinary people, they would have a much higher acceptance of mysterious things.
So, after several more days of searching, it finally found the existence of a Spiritual Energy fluctuation.
"Splash—!"
Its tail fin broke the surface of the water. The system gave a magnificent flick of its tail in the sewage, turned a corner, and a faint glimmer of light immediately appeared ahead.
It sped up towards the direction the light was coming from, and soon leaped out of a sewage pipe by the riverbank, welcoming the glorious sunlight.
And then...
It saw the woman lying on the riverbank, covered in blood, on the verge of death.
"Tsk tsk, dying? Good death!" the system muttered to itself, swimming along the riverbank towards the woman.
Having finally found a human with Spiritual Energy fluctuations, the system naturally hoped that she could become its next host.
Based on its many experiences selecting hosts, the possibility of reaching a contract with it and becoming a host is relatively high when a person is severely injured or critically ill and dying, has been shamelessly humiliated by a love rival, or after family or loved ones have been brutally murdered by evil forces, and the potential for growth is also relatively high.
Although hoping for something bad to happen to potential hosts or their families is somewhat uncouth, the system was quite hopeful about encountering such hosts. Anyway, it would help solve the misfortunes that befell them one by one later.
The system's method of judgment based on this was repeatedly successful, except for one mishap with Gu Qianqian. By accident, a tragedy that should have been quite heavy turned into a gourmet comedy.
To this day, the system still remembers the first time it met Gu Qianqian, who was wandering the streets, crying like a pear blossom in the rain, calling out for her uncle and brother.
It had thought that Gu Qianqian's wish was to find her missing family and that this would become the belief supporting her growth in the future, but it only learned later that Gu Qianqian was crying that day because she was hungry.
Alas, that girl Gu Qianqian... the system sighed in its heart, a sudden wave of melancholy washing over it.
Moving forward, seeing that it was about to reach the woman, the system used its innate skill, hid its form, and then transmitted its voice and image into the woman's mind.
"Ding—!"
"Hello, your 【Super Beautiful Girl Demon Slayer System】 has successfully connected. Do you want to start loading? 【Yes/No】"
Hearing the voice in her ear and seeing the classic semi-transparent light blue panel suddenly appear before her eyes, the dying woman's body stiffened, and a strange light appeared in her originally dim eyes.
Sys... system? the woman thought, filled with surprise and uncertainty.
"Hello, I am here." The system replied professionally with its synthesized mechanical voice, "Is there anything I can help you with?"
Really? Is there really a system in the world? This is probably a urban legend, right! the woman thought.
System, "..." You're so damn smart!
"Hello, I am not the urban legend you think I am. I am a system condensed by the will of the Great World to eliminate factors that destroy the world, such as Disasters. I have now detected that you meet the loading conditions. Do you want to start loading? 【Yes/No】"
Although the system didn't know what the will of the Great World was, at this moment, in order to gain the woman's trust, it could only make things up.
That voice just now seemed to... say "Disaster"? The woman's eyes widened, her pupils contracting violently.
System, "..."
No, how do you know the name "Disaster"?
At this point in time, the Disaster shouldn't even have been born yet!
As if receiving some strong stimulus, the originally dying woman, as if experiencing a final burst of energy, struggled to sit up, her face filled with terror, and asked tremblingly, "Did you just say the word Disaster?"
"Hello, yes, this system is the will of the Great World to eliminate factors that destroy the world, such as Disasters..." the system repeated stiffly, but before it could finish speaking, the woman suddenly lost control, clutching her head with both hands and screaming.
"Ah—! Disaster, it's the Disaster, the Disaster is here again! I'm going to die, I'm going to die!"
System, "..." Damn it! What do you mean "here again"? Don't scare me!
As the system was thinking, it suddenly felt the woman's heart rate spike to an abnormal frequency, her pupils began to dilate, her blood pressure began to drop, and her vital signs rapidly faded.
"Warning! Your vital signs are abnormal. Please load the system immediately and let me repair your body."
To prevent the woman from dying, she must first load the system. Without signing a contract with a host, even though the system had many ways to save her, it couldn't test them out.
"Warning! Detecting you..."
"Gah—!"
The woman suddenly let out a strange whimper, her muscles tensed, her pupils shrunk to the size of a grain of rice, her hands gripped the pebbles on the riverbank tightly, and then she kicked her legs and died.
Cause of death, cardiac arrest.
"Ah this..." The system was stunned, revealing its form from the void. It jumped onto the woman's body, frantically trying to perform CPR while cursing, "Fuck, fuck, fuck! What the hell is this!"
"If you're going to die, just die, but before you die, at least explain clearly, where did the Disaster come from at this point in time?"
"Shouldn't she still be properly managed by her father? How did she become a Disaster!"
"..."
Five minutes later.
The system finally confirmed that the woman was indeed dead. It awkwardly waddled its black and ugly body off her, lay on the riverbank, looked up at the sky, like a dead fish.
"At a time like this, I really want a cigarette to calm down..." the system sighed weakly.
As soon as the words fell, a light clinking sound of glass colliding suddenly entered its ears.
"Bang—Bang—Bang—!"
Along with the light sounds, a crystal container filled with dark red flesh and blood rolled out from the woman's embrace, fell onto a rock on the riverbank, and shattered.
The system steadied itself and looked towards the sound. The moment it saw the mass of dark red flesh and blood, its chubby body jolted as if electrocuted. Its fish body trembled, and it jumped back abruptly, crying out in surprise.
"Damn! Profane flesh and blood!"
Amidst its cry of surprise, the mass of dark red flesh and blood suddenly shot up and flew straight towards it.
"!!!"
It's over, it's over!
It must not be touched by that thing, otherwise, this time, before it even started, it would have to end again!
If the whole world was full of people with systems, it would be strange if this world didn't end!
The system was scrambling away, while secretly thinking badly.
Just then, it suddenly noticed that the mass of dark red flesh and blood, after catching up to it, did not replicate its Power as it had expected, but hovered above its head.
And then...
A few seconds later, the mass of dark red flesh and blood suddenly plummeted, plunging headfirst into the soil of the riverbank.
"..."
It, it didn't replicate my Power?
The system was stunned, cautiously approaching. Seeing the fist-sized, bottomless pit left by the mass of dark red flesh and blood on the riverbank, it fell into deep thought.
It drilled into the ground?
How could this be?
Could it be... that beneath this land, there is some kind of urban legend Power that is even better than mine? the system thought, its mood gradually becoming heavy.
----
Inside the emergency department of the outpatient clinic at Hua City Central Hospital, the attending Doctor, Cheng Zhiyu, was examining an emergency patient.
A seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy lay on the examination bed, his expression pained, constantly emitting painful groans.
"It hurts so much, Doctor, my head hurts so much, it feels like it's not even my head anymore..."
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The boy's name was Lin Weimin, and he was a university student.
At this moment, his face was pale and greenish, his slightly constricted pupils were full of the anxiety and fear common in emergency patients, there were no obvious external injuries on his body, and his hands were gripping the edge of the examination bed, the joints of his fingers turning pale from excessive force.
The Doctor asked him several questions in a row, but he seemed not to hear, only calling out in pain to himself.
Cheng Zhiyu initially observed Lin Wei's symptoms. Seeing his pale complexion, obvious pupil contraction, shallow and slow breathing, and slightly unclear consciousness, he thought it resembled symptoms of a concussion.
But this was only his initial judgment.
The brain is the most complex part of the human body structure. For situations like the boy's suspected concussion, a judgment cannot be made easily. One of the fastest and most convenient ways to know the specific situation is to perform a cranial CT scan.
Cheng Zhiyu completed the order for the cranial CT scan and looked at the other three boys of similar age who were with the boy, asking, "What is your relationship with him?"
"We are all students from Hua City Normal University, classmates of Lin Weimin," one of them said.
"We are also roommates in the same dorm," another person added.
"Okay," Cheng Zhiyu nodded. "Then two of you take him to the CT room to get a scan, and one person stay here to tell me the situation in detail."
The patient was gasping in pain and had not responded to the questions asked earlier, clearly showing signs of confusion and inability to communicate well. Information about his specific injury could only be obtained from the people with him.
One of the boys looked at the other two, then at the Doctor, and volunteered, "I'll stay and talk to the Doctor? I was with him all last night."
"Mm."
The other two boys responded in unison and, together with the nurse, lifted Lin Weimin onto a mobile stretcher bed and sent him to the CT room.
Cheng Zhiyu looked at the boy who stayed behind and asked, "You just said you've been with him from last night until now. Do you know how he got injured?"
"He, he wasn't injured," the boy said.
"Doctor, it's like this. We went to the internet cafe near the school gate last night and stayed up all night. When we came out this morning, he told me his head hurt and said his head felt light, like it was about to fly away."
"Wait a moment, when you left the internet cafe, did he hit his head?"
"Absolutely not!" the boy said with certainty. "When he first came out of the internet cafe, he was very energetic and even wanted to pull me back in for another two hours."
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The boy smiled awkwardly and continued, "Oh, at first I thought he was just a bit dizzy from staying up all night. Since we didn't eat breakfast, I went back to school with him to rest."
"At noon, I woke up and was about to go to the cafeteria to eat when I found him curled up in bed, groaning in pain. When I asked, I found out that his head had been hurting more and more since he returned to the dorm in the morning, and it finally hurt him so much he woke up."
"I felt something was wrong, so I called the other two roommates and asked them to come to the dorm and help me take Lin Weimin over. When we first left the dorm, he could still talk to us, but on the way, he got worse and worse, and then he became like that just now."
"..."
Listening to this, perhaps we should consider a brain hemorrhage. Cheng Zhiyu thought after hearing the boy's description.
Many young people who die suddenly after staying up all night suffer from this condition.
As he was thinking, the boy paused and carefully asked, "Doctor, Lin Weimin isn't going to die, is he?"
"That depends on the scan resul..." Cheng Zhiyu was halfway through his sentence when a new file appeared on the computer in front of him. He clicked it open and his eyes widened instantly.
By this year, it had been his tenth year working in the emergency department. During this time, he had seen all sorts of strange patients, some who broke ribs from sneezing, some who developed acute sepsis from athlete's foot, and even one who claimed he accidentally fell and sat on his pet hamster, lodging it in his anus.
But, after so many years, it was the first time he had seen another head growing inside a person's head.
Looking at the CT scan showing two skulls, one large and one small, overlapping, Cheng Zhiyu fell into contemplation.
This is too weird! What the hell, this must be some kind of black night disease, right?
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At the same time, Hua City Second People's Hospital, Orthopedics Department.
"Doctor, Doctor, please help me, I feel like my leg isn't my own leg anymore!" a middle-aged man shouted in pain.
The Doctor sitting opposite the patient saw how much pain he was in and, although sympathetic, had not yet seen the affected limb and dared not make a hasty judgment. He could only comfort him, "Don't worry, bear with it a little longer, let me look at your leg first."
As the Doctor spoke and was about to reach out to roll up the patient's pant leg, the patient screamed in terror, "No, you can't, you can't touch my leg, as soon as you touch it, this leg will, will no longer be my leg!"
The Doctor smiled wryly, turned to the intern behind him, and said, "Xiao Liu, help me hold him down, I need to see his leg."
Many patients talk nonsense when in pain. For their health, you can't let them have their way at this time.
However, the moment the intern held the patient down and rolled up his pant leg, the Doctor gasped.
On the patient's instep, three tender toes, like those of a newborn infant, were wriggling non-stop like some kind of parasite...
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At seven minutes past three in the afternoon, at the Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration.
An Qing leaned back in her chair, eyes closed, one hand rubbing her brow, her face full of fatigue.
Since around four o'clock yesterday morning, she had been in the Night Watch's dissection room. Initially, she was just dissecting animal carcasses that Jiang Li had sent from the old mine area of the cement factory. In the morning, before she could even rest for a moment, she received several more corpses of black night disease patients, and only now did she get a moment to breathe.
"Just kill me already, even Zhou Bapi wouldn't exploit his long-term workers like this..." An Qing complained weakly.
"Pop." A light sound came from the desk.
An Qing opened her eyes, looked at the files on the desk, and then looked at Jiang Li, who looked a bit haggard on the other side of the desk, and sighed silently.
"More new corpses have been sent over?"
"Mm." Jiang Li nodded slightly.
An Qing sat up straight and quickly flipped through the files on the desk. "Good heavens, two more corpses?"
"I remember, these are the tenth and eleventh cases of black night disease patients with similar symptoms since we found that Eclipse Society member's body, right?"
"No." Jiang Li gently shook her head. "If you count the plants and animals and the teaching building from last night, and the abandoned factory and scenic area with abnormalities discovered this morning, it's already the one hundred and seventeenth case."
Although Jiang Li and a group of Special Operations Team members had sealed off the area around the old mine of the cement factory in the shortest possible time last night.
However, that strange situation had quietly spread throughout Hua City.
It was like a chronic infectious disease with an unknown pathogen, an unknown transmission route, but an extremely high fatality rate.
"..."
If this situation is not brought under control, it might develop into a Calamity level urban legend incident, right?
Uh... a chronic Calamity level urban legend incident?
Besides the X Tai Sui incident, have there been any other precedents before?
An Qing's expression was serious as she was silent for a few seconds, then she tilted her head and asked, "After you reported the situation, what did the people above say?"
"The Superintendent received the news and has already transferred some detection-type and treatment-type Psychic. They will arrive in Hua City earliest tonight, latest tomorrow morning. Before that..."
As Jiang Li spoke, she looked at the files on the desk and raised an eyebrow at An Qing.
"Shall we deal with these corpses first, and then archive them?"
An Qing, "..."
See?
This Miss is Hua City Night Watch's Jiang Bapi, Miss Jiang.
Thinking this, An Qing stood up and stretched. Under her white coat, her fitted white shirt was taut, outlining a proud curve.
"Oh, Jiang Bapi, after Li Xuan and Bai Kai take over tonight, shall we go relax a bit together?"
"..." Jiang Li hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, two hours."
"Two hours it is. I suddenly feel like playing mahjong. Shall we set up a Girlfriend card game?"
Jiang Li rolled her eyes at An Qing, looking disgusted, and said, "If we're resting, let's do something healthy?"
An Qing, "?"
Something's not right! Who was it who taught me how to play mahjong before?
