Chapter 246: Breached
The death of one blood race flesh worm summoned the other blood race wandering around various places on campus.
Those stinking bugs who liked crude imitations sensed the death of their companion and also captured He Jia’an’s whereabouts. They twisted their skin bags and quickly rushed toward He Jia’an’s location.
Soon, strange rustling sounds came from all directions. There were too many, the sounds too chaotic. He Jia’an could no longer rely on the sounds to distinguish where it might be safer and could only pick a direction at random to escape.
On the way escaping, He Jia’an heard loud noises one after another like those produced when a balloon explodes, continuously echoing and resounding in this deathly silent campus. Although he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he had already guessed that it was countless blood race wickedly expanding their bodies, finally bursting their skin bags. They shed their cumbersome shells and chased him, this resisting prey, in their most primitive and wild form.
When He Jia’an burst into the second floor of the side stairs of the administration building, he saw pools of viscous and foul-smelling blood-colored slurry on the corridor, and a broken human skin forced open and soaked lifelessly in it. The empty eye sockets on the human skin’s face exposed the fear and despair of the deceased before death.
Noticing that those blood-colored slurries were moving unnaturally, He Jia’an ignored it and continued climbing the stairs upward, not daring to look back. The next second, he heard the sound of raging torrents and surging waves from behind him, which was also the roar of the god of death urging his life.
Rushing to the top floor, He Jia’an headed straight for the principal’s office location, while the group of blood race behind him stopped at the floor’s entrance. They stood there strangely like that, staring at the fleeing He Jia’an with the part full of biological eggs. Several blood race flesh worms gathered together, combining into a strangely beautiful form, like a blooming giant domineering flower.
“They aren’t chasing anymore? It seems they also fear the Thousand Illusions Moon.” He Jia’an conjectured in his heart.
The Thousand Illusions Moon was the seemingly “most greedy” abnormal god he had seen so far. It always wanted to swallow a fatty in one bite, fantasizing to devour a whole world at once. Its greed was visible madness, and its bottomless desire was evident. Such an abnormal god would naturally devour even its own believers without hesitation, turning them into its nutrients to become bigger.
He Jia’an slowed his steps and stopped at the door of the principal’s office. He heard wails coming from inside the house, feeling as if he was standing at a place separated from hell by only one door.
Taking a deep breath, He Jia’an made a decision in his heart. He raised one foot and kicked out fiercely, instantly kicking the sturdy principal’s office door panel into the room.
The moment the door was kicked, He Jia’an rushed unhesitatingly toward the direction where the blood race flesh worms were.
Behind him was terrifying mountain collapse and ground crack. Cracks were rapidly extending under his feet. An inflated protoplasmic body full of bubbles was wriggling its body and crashing out of the principal’s office. Part of its body split off and casually transformed into any ferocious thing, attempting to grab the little thing that disturbed its peaceful sleep habitat.
The blood race flesh worms seemed to have long seen through He Jia’an’s filthy intentions, but they showed no influence from any emotions. When they saw He Jia’an rushing toward them, they quickly reacted. Several blood race flesh worms merged into a huge flesh mountain monster, then charged head-on toward He Jia’an.
Seeing this, He Jia’an, with cold sweat beading on his forehead, still charged forward, as if planning to fight to the death.
Just as the splitter behind him and the blood race flesh worms in front were about to squash him in the middle into a meat pie, He Jia’an suddenly kicked the ground sideways with his left foot. His whole body flew obliquely toward outside the corridor, jumping out of the building.
The blood race flesh worms charged one after another into the soft and massive body of the splitter. Soon, several more miserably dead vengeful souls were added to the splitter’s swollen and twisted body. They shrieked madly inside the Thousand Illusions Moon splitter’s body, squeezing each other in the flowing bloated body, doomed to die a hundred deaths without any way out…
The splitter devoured several blood race flesh worms, but as if it had suffered no hindrance at all, its speed chasing He Jia’an did not slow down even a bit. When He Jia’an chose to jump off the building to escape, it also closely followed by splitting off part of its body to chase.
He Jia’an did not choose to jump off the building out of despair. His leap actually landed on the street lamp not far from the top-floor corridor.
As early as the last time he came to Kisaragi High School in the Inner World, he had noticed the special feature of this administration building at Kisaragi High School. The school’s administration building had five floors, designed in a square colonnade style with the center empty, but the central emptiness was only for spaces above the third floor. The first floor was multimedia classrooms and club activity rooms, the second floor was the library, and the third floor was an open-air botanical garden, with slender tall street lamps standing around the botanical garden.
Landing on the street lamp, He Jia’an looked down and saw large patches of shadows covering his body. Countless piercing and resentful strange cries came from above his head. He slightly loosened his grip on the pole and slid down at high speed, all the way slipping to the botanical garden on the third floor.
Boom rumble!
A large mass of huge viscous substance emitting green oil glow closely followed and fell, smashing heavily into the pond in the botanical garden. The splashing waves were over two feet high.
The strong air wave made He Jia’an feel pushed on the back by the air. He had just landed and hadn’t run far before being blown away.
He tumbled wretchedly onto the corridor outside the botanical garden. His head collided with the ground and wall, leaving him dizzy and disoriented. He forcibly endured the dizziness and pain to stand up again, but before he could take a step away, he keenly felt intense danger approaching.
He Jia’an instinctively dodged to the side. A sharp blade flashed past his eyes, almost slicing down along his body. If his feet hadn’t moved fast enough, his forefoot would have been cut open.
“He-kun…” A hoarse voice appeared on the left. He Jia’an turned his head to look. It was a skinless flesh person dragging the tachi that had just made the slashing strike, walking toward him. The other trembled forward while dripping blood all over.
Even though this form was flesh and blood blurred, terrifyingly twisted and hard to recognize, He Jia’an still recognized this walking dead as Matsumoto Gin.
“Matsumoto…” After a slight astonishment, He Jia’an quickly calmed down. He glanced at the huge green-glowing viscous mass madly devouring plants in the botanical garden and said seriously, “Matsumoto, listen to me. If you still have any reason left, when you see It, you should think that instead of dealing with me, it’s better to kill this guy.
I will eventually die, and you are also dying. In the last moment of our lives fading, can you use it to do something meaningful for humans?”
He Jia’an’s words seemed to touch Matsumoto Gin. He twitched and turned his head, looking toward the huge body rapidly expanding in the botanical garden.
The moment Matsumoto Gin turned his head to look at the splitter, He Jia’an turned and ran.
But Matsumoto Gin did not chase. He just stared blankly at the splitter. Soon, the splitter noticed its existence.
Matsumoto Gin raised the tachi high, but the splitter crashed toward him like a high-speed truck…
Circling around, He Jia’an ran back to the principal’s office again. The corridor floor was damaged. He almost stepped on the edges and corners to cross over. Upon arriving in the room, he quickly lifted the blanket in the center of the office. A huge advent ritual magic array suddenly appeared before his eyes.
Rustle…
Rustling sounds came from the surroundings. Countless flesh worms hidden in the darkness crawled out with tentacle-like flesh tubes on top. The Thousand Illusions Moon splitter, having finished a big meal, also sniffed He Jia’an’s scent again and climbed up to the floor, returning to the principal’s office.
He Jia’an was surrounded by them. He closed his eyes tightly, took out the red envelope from his pocket and quickly slapped it on the ground. In an instant, dazzling bright red light bloomed. A scorching heat wave and strong shock wave surged out, exploding outward from He Jia’an as the center, bringing a powerful force that annihilated all filth, darkness, and evil.
All the evil spirits attempting to attack He Jia’an, those dark and twisted blood race flesh worms, and the Thousand Illusions Moon splitter all rapidly decomposed under the light’s illumination.
After the red light, there were no more threats around He Jia’an. The surroundings were all scorched black marks, while he was in a clean circle.
He Jia’an tremblingly raised his arms and slowly opened his eyes, looking at the now completely black New Year’s red envelope, as if seeing the end of his own life. His vision was once again covered by a fresh red mist, and he felt unnatural fanatical gazes focusing on him.
“What… will happen to me…”
