Chapter 1 The Effect

The slap worked immediately. The strange man didn't utter a sound, and fell straight to the ground, motionless.

The chubby man, his nerves still on edge, gasped. The man's features on the ground seemed to slowly melt like wax, finally revealing a strange face hidden underneath.

It was another man, but much younger, probably only around sixteen or seventeen. Waxy liquid kept flowing from the man's body, and the training uniform he was wearing was loose and ill-fitting.

Jiang Cheng walked forward, crouched beside the man, and felt for his breath. Fortunately, he had only fainted. A moment later, he tore open the man's training uniform, and sure enough, underneath the black uniform was a blue and white striped hospital gown, made of very ordinary material, and quite old.

Jiang Cheng had seen similar hospital gowns not long ago, on Shao Tong.

The situation was already very clear. This person was a new generation of Crimson member imprisoned here. The fact that he could take off the training uniform proved that he had some skills, but it was a pity that he met Wu.

The man's right cheek was swollen, and it looked like he wouldn't wake up for a while.

What really caught Jiang Cheng's attention was the man's right arm. It... it could no longer be described as an arm. If he had to define it, Jiang Cheng thought it looked more like a fleshy tentacle.

The tentacle was much longer than the normal left arm, and based on previous encounters, this tentacle could also be freely extended and retracted, using its amazing power to strangle opponents.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Cheng pried open the man's mouth. A scarlet tongue drooped down, the tongue was very thin, and the front end was forked, like a snake's tongue.

The chubby man couldn't help but click his tongue at this scene. This was no longer a person, but a monster.

Jiang Cheng stood up and looked in the direction of the crying, where the fog was thick, bringing a strong sense of unease, but all of this dissipated after the black figure walked over.

Wu walked step by step towards the alley where the crying was coming from, like a wall forcibly squeezing back the unease. Following behind Wu, the chubby man felt completely safe.

As they entered the alley, they quickly found the source of the crying. It was a little girl wearing a hospital gown, with two pigtails.

The girl was squatting alone in the corner with her back to them, covering her face and crying. The crying echoed strangely in the narrow alley, and it was even a little creepy after listening for a long time.

Unlike the man before, the girl had a piece of cloth sewn on the right arm of her hospital gown, with a large "one" written on it in red crayon.

Knowing that Wu was there, the chubby man didn't have so many concerns, and asked daringly, "Child, why are you crying?"

"Waaah..." Hearing someone respond to her, the girl cried even more sadly, "Brother, I lost my doll, I can't find it... Waaah..."

"If you can't find it, don't look for it. How about brother buys you another one?" The chubby man thought about comforting the girl first, he had a bad feeling if she continued to cry like this.

"No, I want my doll, my doll is unique." The girl still didn't turn around, but cried even harder.

The chubby man swallowed and had to continue playing the bridge of communication, "Okay, okay, then tell brother, where did you lose your doll...?"

To everyone's surprise, the girl suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed to the top diagonally above, "There, it went there to play! But it can't find its way home."

Following the direction of the girl's finger, it was the top of the concrete wall on the left side of the alley. The wall here was unusually high, as high as six or seven meters, and a tattered doll was hanging on the top of the wall.

"Brother, please help me pick up the doll, I want my doll." The girl stopped crying for the time being, and her pleading tone made it hard to refuse.

The chubby man looked up at the doll. Even if he stood on the doctor, he wouldn't be able to reach that height. Fortunately, Wu made a move, and Wu summoned the Hungry Ghost with a thought.

The temperature around them dropped instantly as the Hungry Ghost appeared, and its huge size brought a full sense of oppression. The Hungry Ghost reached out to grab the doll.

But the next second, a terrifying scene appeared. Just as the Hungry Ghost was about to touch the doll, a huge axe split out from the mist behind the wall and struck the Hungry Ghost hard.

As the fog was dispersed a little, a huge figure comparable to the Hungry Ghost emerged from behind the wall. It was a huge doll that had never been seen before, tattered all over, with rough stitching marks at the connections of its arms and joints, and holding a large axe in its hand.

The scariest thing was that the giant doll's face and body were splattered with blood. The chubby man had sharp eyes, and he saw a large pocket hanging around the doll's waist. Blood kept dripping from the pocket, and an arm drooped out from the side of the pocket, waving weakly with the doll's movements.

A corpse...

It must be the corpses of those who sneaked in before!

"Hehe..." The girl let out a triumphant smile, "Thank you, brother, my doll has been found, but my doll says it also wants fun dolls, so... please stay and be its dolls, okay?"

The giant doll seemed to have the upper hand, but the Hungry Ghost was not a vegetarian either. After taking the opponent's axe head-on, its fighting power was not greatly affected. The two giant figures began to fight. The Hungry Ghost raised its arm and slapped the doll. The doll's axe seemed to be embedded in the Hungry Ghost's body and could not be pulled out, so the doll simply abandoned the axe, and the two of them took turns punching each other across the wall.

After only a few moves, the girl couldn't laugh anymore, because the doll's fist basically had no effect on the thick-skinned Hungry Ghost, and the Hungry Ghost's fist almost knocked out the doll's button eyes.

"Drip—"

The chubby man was watching the fun when something suddenly dripped on his shoulder. He touched it with his hand, it was wet, very sticky, and had a very peculiar rancid smell.

As the chubby man suddenly raised his head, the scene above him instantly made his back feel cold. After the mist was cleared away, there was actually a huge spider web very high above his head.

Several shriveled corpses were hanging on the spider web, their mouths wide open, and their deaths were very frightening.

And the sticky liquid on his shoulder was dripping from the mouth of a strange guy, a guy with a bloated body, but unusually long limbs. That guy was hovering about seven or eight meters above his head, hanging from the spider web by a spider silk, disgusting mucus was flowing from his grinning mouth, and a pair of small eyes, almost only a slit, were staring at him, revealing a greedy light.