On the rooftop of the Koway Building, Bing He stood atop the spire, the howling cold wind against his face serving to blow away some of his anxiety.
The residual disaster-level aura here was negligible, as if that disaster-level entity had only momentarily released its presence, doing nothing else.
"It couldn't be like that. Every action of a disaster-level entity has its meaning. What exactly does he want to do..."
Bing He fell into thought, utterly perplexed as to why that entity had suddenly released its aura here.
Suddenly, Bing He lost his footing and slid down the spire, narrowly avoiding the sharp tip piercing his groin.
But he had no time to consider this. He gripped the spire with one hand, looking in a certain direction, his face etched with undisguised horror.
"Disaster-level... no, beyond that!"
"Damn it, why does such a thing exist!"
He hurriedly jumped down from the top of the tower and said to his still bewildered assistants, "Follow me, something big is about to happen!"
Then, without waiting for his assistants, Bing He leaped off the building.
Ice formed a slide beneath his feet, propelling him forward at an incredible speed. His target was the residential area where Liao Jiaxin resided.
"I damn well knew that where disaster-level power appears, it wouldn't be that simple!"
"I know why that entity revealed its aura. It was a warning, a warning that something major was about to occur here!"
Bing He finally, in his own mind, understood the meaning behind Wen Wen's display of power.
"Looking at it this way, that entity seems to hold goodwill towards us..."
"That's right. If it's a disaster-level entity that descended into reality a long time ago and hasn't caused any casualties yet, that itself is goodwill."
In the short time it took him to jump off the building, Bing He had already conjured a complete narrative about Wen Wen's intentions.
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At Villa Number Seven in the Jiusan Residential Area, a seven or eight-year-old boy was pressed against the window, his eyes filled with anticipation.
His name was Zhou Nuo. His mother was very strict with him. Whenever he wanted to go out and play, she would scold him, so he rarely had the chance to go out.
His greatest pastime was staring at the villa opposite their house.
The Aunt Chen who lived opposite was a former minor celebrity. In little Zhou Nuo's eyes, she was the second most beautiful person; the first was his mother.
At his age, he didn't have any inappropriate thoughts; it was purely admiration.
Suddenly, Zhou Nuo rubbed his eyes, thinking he was seeing things.
On the window of the villa opposite, two red bloody handprints suddenly appeared. Then, more red handprints appeared, as if someone with blood-soaked hands was frantically clawing at it.
"Mom, Mom, come quickly and see, what's wrong with Aunt Chen's house?"
His mother didn't answer him, and Zhou Nuo didn't pay it any mind, continuing to look at Aunt Chen's house.
Suddenly, the window, covered in bloody handprints, shattered. Then, Aunt Chen crawled out of the window!
That's right, crawled out. She had grown eight long, hairy legs like a spider from her back, and her body was attached to strange things, allowing her to crawl freely on the wall.
Zhou Nuo was so scared his hair stood on end. He was never exposed to horror movies at home, let alone such a terrifying sight.
Aunt Chen rapidly climbed to the rooftop and let out a strange roar towards the sky.
Accompanying her roar, Zhou Nuo noticed dark green powdered substances floating in the air, making the sky appear more somber.
The ground was gradually changing color, and something seemed to be churning within it. The originally black soil turned into an unknown dark green substance, and the hard concrete ground was covered with a layer of dark green, sticky, web-like material.
Zhou Nuo was too terrified to speak. At that moment, Aunt Chen noticed Zhou Nuo's presence. On her forehead, eight scarlet compound eyes had grown!
Then, she began to crawl towards Zhou Nuo's house!
Zhou Nuo burst into tears, terrified. The monster was coming to eat him.
However, as she jumped off the villa, a thick, strangely patterned arm reached out from inside the villa and dragged her back in. Following that, terrifying fighting sounds erupted from the villa.
Zhou Nuo, crying, ran towards the kitchen, wanting to tell his mother that something terrible had happened.
But what struck him as strange was that whenever he cried, his mother would always come out to comfort him immediately, and his sister and father would react differently.
But this time, there was no sound, as if he was the only person in this vast villa.
Looking up on the way, he was so frightened that he collapsed to his knees. He saw a pair of swaying feet.
It was his father.
The ceiling and the chandelier had been fused together by a substance resembling bloody flesh, and attached to it was his father's upper body. Only his legs remained, struggling and swaying powerlessly.
An ominous premonition arose in Zhou Nuo's heart. He ran and crawled towards the kitchen, peeking inside from the doorway, but dared not go further.
Because, even with his peripheral vision, he saw those strange fleshy tentacles!
He didn't want to see what happened next.
Zhou Nuo ran back to his room and hid in the wardrobe, afraid to make a sound, hoping no one would find him.
After more than half an hour, the entire villa remained silent, but Zhou Nuo knew that unspeakably horrifying things were quietly unfolding within it.
Suddenly, his room door was pushed open, and Zhou Nuo's heart skipped a beat.
"Nuo Nuo, Nuo Nuo, where are you? Mom is worried to death."
Hearing this voice, Zhou Nuo immediately felt relieved. It was his mother's voice. It was good that his mother was still safe.
He peeked through a gap in the wardrobe. Outside stood a gaunt woman holding a cleaver.
The woman's expression was one of terror, as if her sanity had been shattered by fear, but she still mustered the courage to search for her son.
So, Zhou Nuo opened the wardrobe door and whispered, "Mom, come quickly. There are monsters outside. Let's hide together and be quiet."
Upon seeing Zhou Nuo, unharmed, the woman's composure broke. Tears streamed down her face as she lunged towards Zhou Nuo, hugging him tightly. Together, they hid in the wardrobe.
They did not choose to flee, for they knew there were even more terrifying things outside, and compared to them, this villa was actually safer.
"Mom, where were you just now? Nuo Nuo was so scared," Zhou Nuo asked softly.
The woman lovingly picked Zhou Nuo up, tears streaming down her face. "Mom just went out to buy groceries. I will never leave you again. There are monsters everywhere outside. We'll hide here and wait for rescue."
"Okay, Mom. We'll be together forever and never separate again."
Zhou Nuo tilted his head and looked at his mother, smiling. Dark green mucus flowed from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, as if twisted, malevolent substances were writhing within his brain.
The woman then noticed that the wardrobe behind Zhou Nuo had already transformed into a fleshy substance.
This meant her son was no longer her son.
And her act of desperately searching for her son was, in fact, walking into a trap...
The woman's despairing scream echoed from the wardrobe, then gradually subsided.
The villa of Aunt Chen across the street had become a spider's lair, with more than ten spiders, bearing human body parts, patrolling aimlessly.
And in Zhou Nuo's home, warm lights flickered back on...
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