The blood flowing down had nearly reached his ankles. He Li immediately turned and fired a shot at the window.
*Bang!*
The expected shattering of glass did not occur. Instead, several bullets shot out, embedding themselves in the flowing blood, being slowly enveloped and then disappearing.
“What’s wrong?” Bai Fei’s voice came from the doorway.
He Li leaped backward, exiting the room. The blood inside the room did not flow out but piled up like jelly, quickly rising to the level of the bed.
He Li said gravely, “Brother Fei, suppose…”
“Yeah, it’s like being inside some kind of creature’s stomach.”
He Li abruptly turned to look at Bai Fei, then checked his communication earpiece, suspecting that Bai Fei had heard every word he had just said.
Bai Fei pulled He Li back, saying, “I noticed earlier that this wasn’t a murder scene, but more like a place for processing corpses. Moreover, the blood hasn’t coagulated. It’s more like mucus than blood.”
“So, I guess those people weren’t dismembered, but digested. That’s why there’s blood everywhere, and the bones and hair, which are harder to digest, are scattered all around.”
“The basins of blood and flesh the police took away were the undigested remains…”
“Alright, Brother Fei, stop talking. I feel a bit sick,” He Li interrupted Bai Fei.
At this moment, Jin Fang spoke, “Let’s go. If we don’t leave now, you’ll both end up as things in a basin.”
He Li froze. That’s right, why were they standing here watching and not leaving?
“Brother Fei, let’s go!”
“Huh? Go? Oh… okay, let’s go.”
The two of them went to the first-floor hall and then quickly retreated, stepping over the bloody footprints and returning outside the yard.
They stared blankly at the villa before them, as if a phantom image of a hundred-zhang demon lord was looking down at them from behind it.
“Brother Fei! He Li! Are you alright!?”
“Brother Fei! He Li!”
Min Liang’s anxious shouts came through the communication earpiece.
“We’re fine.” He Li activated his earpiece, then asked, “Did… uh… Brother Fei’s communication get cut off earlier?”
“Yes, your communications were interrupted for 13 minutes.”
Min Liang’s answer filled them with dread. This meant that from the moment they entered the villa, their communications had been out of order.
What was most chilling was that they hadn’t even realized it and hadn’t thought about their communications at all.
Thinking back to the details of their inspection inside the villa.
They stood frozen, exchanging glances, seeing fear in each other’s eyes.
In fact, they had wandered around the villa like headless flies for 13 minutes, with no thought of the outside world, no intention of reporting what they saw or thought to Min Liang via the communicator.
Yet, they could communicate freely with each other, as if they were in the same space, with only the two of them present, oblivious to the outside world and its people.
This was the most terrifying part. The door was right there, and they could freely exit, but they didn’t think to leave. Instead, they stared blankly as the blood in the room accumulated and rose.
If Jin Fang hadn’t reminded them, they might truly have ended up in a basin.
Bai Fei reacted, “I’ll transmit the information back and have Min Liang analyze it. You rest for a bit.”
“Okay.” He Li nodded, retreated about 20 meters, and sat down on the ground.
“Hoo…”
He Li let out a long breath. His spine was still chilling, and he felt a lingering fear. Thinking back to what had just happened, if Jin Fang hadn’t reminded him, he could have really ended up in a basin.
He Li glanced at Bai Fei, who was reporting the situation to the villa with his glasses and watch, then looked at Jin Fang and asked in a low voice, “What exactly was that?”
Jin Fang shook his head and said, “I don’t know either. It could be a bizarre space that interferes with the mind, or perhaps it was truly inside the belly of a high-level demon. But what’s certain is that it… acted with impunity.”
Acted with impunity?
He Li looked at the villa again, his expression solemn, and asked, “Was it targeting me?”
Jin Fang looked at He Li with interest and asked, “Why do you think that?”
He Li shook his head. “It’s hard for me not to think that. Not to mention before we came to this world, in the year and a half since I entered the mental hospital and worked at the bookstore, the Spirit Management Association’s missions had never encountered any bizarre events. And after I joined the Spirit Management Association, the Jie Sheng Hua was undiscovered in Shi Gong Guan for 20 years, yet my very first mission encountered this.
“Yanzi Hutong is a collective mission, so let’s not mention it.
“So what about this time?”
He Li narrowed his eyes and said coldly, “I’ve participated in three missions in total, and two of them involved dangerous bizarre demons. Is my luck really that ‘good’?”
Jin Fang glanced at Bai Fei and asked, “You suspect them?”
He Li shook his head. “I don’t know. While not ruling out that possibility, I’m more suspicious of that person or organization lurking in the shadows, watching me.”
Jin Fang shrugged. “That’s why I disagreed with you joining them. You were fine before, weren’t you? So what if you were being monitored? We could put on a show for them, treat it like playing with monkeys. If they’re unhappy, we can kill them. We’re in the light, they’re in the dark.”
“And now? Knowing that danger is following you, but not knowing what it is, you can only passively take a beating. So, Xiao Yue didn’t have good intentions.”
He Li rolled his eyes. How did it get back to Xiao Yue? The first half of the sentence made sense, but the latter half completely changed the tone.
He Li paused and said, “Regardless, all we can do now is play dumb and prepare to deal with the coming crisis. If it’s really targeting me, we need to find them.”
Jin Fang narrowed his eyes and asked, “And then?”
He Li looked at Jin Fang and let out a snort, chuckling lightly. “Kill them!”
“Heh heh… That’s more like it.”
Jin Fang patted He Li’s shoulder and said with a smile, “If no one bothers us, we’ll live our lives peacefully. If someone bothers us, then… we’ll kill them all.”
As his words fell,
Jin Fang straightened up and turned to face the villa 20 meters away, saying, “Curious about my abilities?”
He Li: “Yes, I’m looking forward to it.”
Jin Fang nodded, raised his right hand towards the villa, and five black chains slowly extended from the tips of his fingers. The chains, like swimming snakes, probed towards the villa in the air.
Then,
With a soft *bang*.
The five chains split into dozens more, and in an instant, hundreds of chains firmly bound the villa.
The sound of chains rubbing against each other reached He Li’s ears. He didn’t understand what this ability was. Were they just chains? No, it shouldn’t be that simple.
The next moment, the chains contracted sharply, piercing through the villa’s structure and gradually shrinking into a sphere formed by chains.
Jin Fang controlled the chains, pulling the chain sphere out of the villa. Then, the chain sphere slowly shrank in the air, and by the time it reached Jin Fang’s hand, it was only the size of a fist.
Jin Fang held up the chain sphere and offered it to He Li.
The chains slowly retracted back into Jin Fang’s fingertips, revealing a blood sphere the size of a baby’s fist.
He Li stared blankly at the blood sphere in Jin Fang’s hand, blinking, “And then?”
Jin Fang pointed at He Li’s hand, and a small claw knife appeared in He Li’s hand.
He Li instinctively gripped the claw knife, and in an instant, he understood Jin Fang’s ability.
Manifestation Type: Claw Knife. Ability: Direct Kill Lock Chain.
He Li raised his hand and lightly drew the tip of the claw knife across the blood sphere. The moment the blood sphere broke, it shriveled and turned into a pile of black ash.
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