Chapter 253: Mom
According to the recorded seal method, the investigators were all prepared, each holding a seal prop, then standing in strict specific positions.
He Jia’an held the most crucial and important “scales” and stood in front of the northwest window on the seventeenth floor of an office building. After hearing the preparatory voices of the other investigators waiting for orders through the headphones by his ear, he temporarily turned off the headphones, turned his head, and calmly said to the female high school student standing behind him: “Go take shelter with everyone. It might become very dangerous here afterward…”
“Hey, uncle.” Misaki Naomi slightly lowered her head, raised her eyes, her gaze flowing, her small nose rapidly turning red. “Can’t I stay with you?”
“No.” He Jia’an shook his head.
“We clearly agreed to stay together afterward.” Misaki Naomi forced a smile.
“Please, carrying around an urn of my ashes everywhere is very terrifying.” He Jia’an also wanted to smile back, but the muscles on his face had become stiff due to the corrosion of the demonic blade, so he could only express his emotions with a more exaggerated voice.
Misaki Naomi lowered her head and said: “Then I’ll go.”
“Be careful.” He Jia’an nodded. He believed Misaki Naomi was not a willful girl.
Only after seeing Misaki Naomi disappear at the stairwell entrance did He Jia’an restart the communication function of the headphones and say in a deep voice: “Sorry to keep you all waiting. Let’s begin.”
Everyone unhesitatingly began to recite and chant a certain incantation. As the chanting continued, a deep blue light bloomed from the prop in each person’s hand. This light gradually enveloped and devoured the people holding the props. Soon, the light on each person connected the people in other positions to each other, finally forming a uniquely eerie pattern.
Life merged into the cold deep blue light, souls seemed to peel away from their flesh and mortal bodies, and an invisible bleeding flesh tumor appeared above each person’s head, visible only to those on the verge of death.
That must be an organ of some blasphemous evil creature, and also the final belonging of their souls.
Although this eerie and terrifying scene made He Jia’an and the others feel uneasy, no one retreated and they unhesitatingly continued chanting those obscure, strangely pronounced incantations.
Just as they had answered Drake half an hour ago: “For humanity, even if they ultimately fall into eternal damnation, they will stand up.”
This had nothing to do with goodness. From the moment they became investigators, goodness had lost its meaning.
Nor was it entirely about upholding justice for all humanity. If it were just justice, they investigators would hardly survive one bizarre event after another that transcended human limits.
Perhaps deep in the genes of every biological race hides the instinct to let the race reproduce…
This might be the true power that allowed them to remain investigators until death.
The blood-colored flood crawling above the sky and the wails of ten thousand ghosts reacted to the eerie blue light that suddenly appeared on the ground. It instinctively sensed a threat attempting to harm It, and before the pattern could fully form, it immediately rushed down toward the ground like a green waterfall hanging from the sky, intending to submerge and devour everything on the ground.
Sigh… da…
At the same time, a hundred-meter tall building on the ground rapidly cracked, squeezing out a crouching abhorrent terrifying giant beast.
The people hiding in the underground air-raid shelter did not know what kind of shocking and bizarre terrifying scene was happening outside at this moment, but when they heard that strange roar as if from the abyss and netherworld, they felt that every dark corner hid a pair of demonic eyes ready to devour people. The wails of ten thousand ghosts even penetrated hundreds of meters underground, shaking their skin and internal organs, as if something inside their bodies wanted to escape the skin bag.
Those mixed demonic sounds that made people want to escape just by hearing them continued for a long time, causing despair. Even infants who cried instinctively fell silent as if temporarily forgetting to wail, merely staring with eyes wide, showing expressions of terror that they could absolutely not express at their age.
The underground insects and rats were like their life switches being toggled by the sound; soon after hearing it, they flipped over and died one after another, as if voluntarily abandoning life. For those great terrors, perhaps only shedding life could allow escape from the disaster.
On the ground, the incarnations of blessing continued persecuting humans who had not escaped in time as if sensing no disaster, acting as they pleased. Even when the green waterfalls from the sky engulfed them, they remained expressionless.
They had no concept of death at all, at most only a temporary halt. As long as given enough power and time, they would eventually return.
As long as fear and malice still existed in this world, they would not perish.
The green torrent raged endlessly through Taomuki City, darting everywhere. A huge merman with glowing yellow double pupils stood in the green waves roaring toward the sky, its voice shaking the earth into trembling and weeping. The green flood was controlled by an invisible mysterious power, and then a massive wave surged from the seaside of the city, counter-rolling the green flood back into the sky.
At this moment, a huge mysterious pattern connected by blue light appeared in the center of the city. The pattern formed a giant net that bound toward the Thousand Illusions Moon’s continuously falling fluid body, completely enveloping it and squeezing it back into the massive hole in the red thunder dark clouds.
It was as if behind the Thousand Illusions Moon, in another dimension’s different space, a huge fisherman was hauling in his net, taking away all his catch.
However… this fish was still too big…
The billions of crying souls inside the Thousand Illusions Moon’s body merely let out an even more shrill roar. A sound wave instantly spread out, tearing a gap in the blood and effort of the dozen investigators who had used taboo power, like dripping blood as Its fluid-like body flowed down from the gap.
The sensation of being driven back to the original world in that instant seemed to touch some emotion that the Thousand Illusions Moon should not have. The green fluid flowing down gradually formed a ferociously snarling woman’s face, the mouth trembling and mumbling like a babbling infant, and only moments later did it produce a sound, along with the billions of vengeful souls in its body roaring: “Chil… chil… dren…”
On the street below a high-rise at one of the blue light sources, Misaki Naomi knelt on the ground, staring blankly up at that resentful and hateful face, holding a mobile phone connected to a phone call to her ear, allowing the disfigured woman that suddenly appeared from the darkness behind to crawl toward her like a beast.
“It… seems like a mother.” Misaki Naomi murmured in her mouth, then was pounced on by that swift figure.
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At this moment, Boss Lin, leisurely resting in the forest cabin, slowly opened his eyes, gazed outside the window, and suddenly smiled: “I almost forgot about you, mama…”
