Chapter 173: Night Demon
Kong Mo had been here, no one survived, Yu Lianyun finally discovered Song Lu’s dead “corpse” in the bedroom where Song Lu lived, just like the others, all stripped of their own skin bag, empty inside.
Yu Lianyun paused slightly, then tried to inspect all the corpses in the villa. Although she had been working as a Mystic Investigator for many years, she had not lost her forensic doctor skills. Moreover, because she had seen and inspected many bizarre corpses, and often exchanged insights with the specialized anomaly autopsy officers in the Mysterious Group, her skills were much stronger than her former self.
After a careful inspection, Yu Lianyun made a discovery.
Song Lu’s corpse was slightly different from the other corpses. The other corpses had traces of massive bleeding, but Song Lu did not, and Song Lu’s body organs were hollowed out very completely and cleanly, which had far exceeded the realm of human capability. It was as if the part of Song Lu’s true dermal layer and below had been completely wrapped in a plastic bag of extremely high precision beforehand, and then a huge incision was made behind Song Lu to completely remove the plastic bag containing the body fluids, bones, and organs.
And even more eerie was that the incision sections of these corpses were cut open from the inside, not from the outside.
A swaying wind chime sound quietly rang out in the darkness. Yu Lianyun and the other Mystic Investigators who came to capture or expel were all startled by this sudden eerie sound. They were searching around for the source of the sound when they saw a large swath of black shadow flash outside the window, covering the bright moonlight.
“What is that thing!?” one Mystic Investigator couldn’t help but exclaim in a low voice.
Everyone failed to see the complete appearance of that black shadow, only knowing that it was roughly a slender humanoid creature with a pair of huge bat wings, four pairs of sharp claws, and a slender tail with a hook, the tip of the tail reflecting a chilling gleam under the moonlight.
Immediately after, the Mystic Investigators investigating inside the villa heard several screams from outside the room. In no time, everyone saw another black shadow flash across the sky, and at the same time, they saw the human whose neck was wrapped by the black tail being dragged into the sky like a powerless balloon. That monster carried their teammate flying toward the moon, to an unknown destination.
At this moment, Yu Lianyun recalled the terror legend circulating in the western regions: in the black night, a kind of black winged monster would grab humans who were not asleep. It would wrap the human’s neck with its tail, the barbs on the tail could pierce through the hardest armor humans could make, tear the skin, and suck the human’s spinal marrow. Its pleasurable voice surpassed the celestial music of wind chimes, but it would bring frenzied fear to the prey, ultimately throwing the prey whose spinal marrow had been completely sucked out but not yet dead into the most terrifying place humans could imagine, quietly waiting for death.
“Is this thing a Night Demon?” Yu Lianyun gritted her teeth. She looked back at Song Lu, who had become a skin bag. She didn’t think that the Night Demon appearing at this moment had nothing to do with the corpses here and the Abnormal God Kong Mo.
These Night Demons circling in the sky around the villa, lurking menacingly at the unsleeping people in the room, were undoubtedly the kin servants of Kong Mo.
Yu Lianyun and the others walking into here was equivalent to stepping into a trap.
But how did those people know about their action?
Yu Lianyun vigilantly scanned the people around her. The first thing she could think of was that there was a traitor in their team, and they had leaked the action information to the enemy in advance.
However, Yu Lianyun quickly dismissed this idea, because this was a temporary action, and no one knew what their action was until ten minutes before arriving here.
This eerie situation, Yu Lianyun had personally experienced before, just two years ago in Cuizhu City.
Yes, this was another trap, and a serial grand scheme, relying on the manner of wounding the enemy by a thousand at the price of damaging oneself by eight hundred to strike revenge, even at all costs to perish together with the Mystic Investigators.
Rather than saying they wanted to target the Mysterious Group, it was better to say they wanted to target her.
Since entering the field, Yu Lianyun, who had expelled a large number of abnormal kinds and Abnormal Gods, had not only shone brightly in the investigator world, but was even more notorious in the eyes of those abnormal organizations.
The members of those abnormal organizations didn’t know what power existed behind Yu Lianyun, but they knew that if they let her continue acting, she would eventually come for them.
Yu Lianyun suddenly understood. Of course, she wouldn’t naively think that sacrificing herself would make those Night Demons and those guys hiding in the darkness spare the others. Those murderous madmen would never reason with people.
But how should this current situation end?
As long as no Abnormal God appeared, Yu Lianyun was confident she could escape alive on her own, but she couldn’t abandon her current teammates to death; she had to save every one she could, best if they all survived.
While pondering, a bizarre Night Demon broke through the window like a flung-open long umbrella. It crawled like a prostrate umbrella lizard, its indistinct appearance had two pairs of asymmetrical large and small eyes emitting goose-yellow light, and its mouth emitted a trembling wind chime sound.
Looking at that crouching detestable winged black beast, everyone’s facial expression turned pale. Listening to that wind chime sound close at hand, it was as if the gloomy dark side deep in everyone’s heart was infinitely amplified, various negative emotions inexplicably surged into the mind, like the itch and numbness of a snake tongue brushing over the body, making everyone frenzied and flustered as a result.
Veins on Yu Lianyun’s temple throbbed, her facial expression wine-red. Compared to the others who had already fallen into painful madness, she had a certain resistance to this due to her knowledge of even more insane worlds, and had not completely lost her reason. She glared at that Night Demon that had actively broken into the mansion, drew her gun and shot, but heard the sound of stray bullets ricocheting. Even specially made bullets surprisingly could not penetrate the armor on this Night Demon’s body surface at all.
And Yu Lianyun’s behavior undoubtedly enraged that intruding Night Demon. It suddenly lunged ferociously toward Yu Lianyun, its tail sweeping wildly, knocking away all the others it flew past.
Yu Lianyun gritted her teeth and stood in place. She knew deeply that if she wanted to kill the demon in front of her tonight, facing danger, she could not evade, because only by forcing it with death, when death was imminent, would the “blessing” entwined on her protect her.
That approaching giant mouth was coming, Yu Lianyun stood stiffly in place, her eyes wide open. She saw that under the giant mouth were hidden ever-changing teeth and long tongue; they would thrust in together to tear her pitiful self into fragments, without a shred of “mercy” for swallowing alive.
Suddenly, a ink line shot out from her shadow under the moonlight, sweeping forward. In less than a moment, the Night Demon’s body passed through Yu Lianyun and crashed into the wall at the end of the room, dragging out a trail of ink-like bloodstains. Complex and dense organs fell to the ground, along with that bowl-sized brain scattering down together.
Yu Lianyun stood between the Night Demon corpse split in half, woodenly looking back at that wriggling fresh brain, her voice hoarse as she said: “Human… human brain? These Night Demons, could they be transformed from them?”
