Chapter 92: Change
Xin Junmao’s figure disappeared from sight, the Gluttonous Daughter became even more berserk, Its roar instantly made the entire underground tremble, the close-range bellowing caused Yu Lianyun and He Jia’an to feel brain shock, blood flowed from their seven orifices, their vision went black, and they immediately collapsed.
The Gluttonous Daughter spat out thick blood paste from Its body, like a Venus flytrap, enveloping the nun within.
Just as the two halves of blood were about to close together, a burst of white light suddenly erupted, the body parts of the Gluttonous Daughter that had split off to devour and strangle the nun were shattered into four or five pieces by the power contained in the white light.
The entire underground space produced even stronger tremors from the fierce collision of the two forces, reaching from underground straight to the ground.
Another earthquake, another earthquake!?
What exactly are those people hiding!?
At this moment, the people of Cuizhu City not only felt stronger shaking, but also heard the roar of that unknown beast filled with gluttonous desire, it vented wildly from the cracks leading underground, sewer well openings, household drains, and even water tap outlets, the sound shrill, causing dread.
If only one person heard it, it might be a hallucination, but when a group of people heard it, an entire city heard it, that would be an undeniable and uncoverable truth.
There must be some maddeningly terrifying creature under Cuizhu City, its power can shake the earth, its voice can pierce souls, its existence makes those who know the truth dare not publicly announce its existence.
Compared to most people, those citizens who had just experienced the explosion scene at the Imperial Tall Building had not only long recognized the truth beneath the peaceful world, but had also witnessed with their own eyes those horrifying beasts escaping from the tall building, they were absolutely not ordinary animals, those crouching, abhorrent, ferocious monsters clearly fit the products from every mad artist’s brush, deformed, twisted, and filled with cold-blooded chaos.
Could they be pitiful freaks from taboo research?
Could they be evil beasts from outer space?
Or perhaps, they were originally part of Earth, but humans deliberately forgot them after becoming the dominant force on this planet.
No matter which one, those weird products that originally only lived in artistic works and literary realms had vividly appeared before them, they existed, and were even more terrifying and chaotic than described and imagined.
They emerged from the ruins of the collapsed tall building, some bathed in flames, some unafraid of fire, they came out from smoke and death, bringing death and blood to this city.
In less than a moment, humanoid monsters like caged beasts and winged membrane creatures assaulted this city, they were berserk, powerful, and extremely hungry, devouring humans in the city, gnawing and destroying everything in the city.
Of course, if it were just that collapsed building being a demon’s lair, it wouldn’t instantly cause massive panic, but what was terrifying was that the people living in Cuizhu City suddenly discovered that after hearing that roar from the underground abyss, the bodies, spirits, and souls of those around them seemed to resonate with it, their flesh responded to the instinct in their bloodline, their spirits collapsed into madness, their souls decayed, no longer human…
Some citizens turned into monsters!
Screams, explosions, tearing and biting sounds enveloped this once prosperous isolated city, death, blood, and terror forged this city’s unique carnival, the humans in the city fell into despair.
Until a group of men in black from an unknown force appeared in the city, they suppressed the bloodthirsty creatures with extremely efficient and skilled actions, more elegant than soldiers wantonly expending ammunition and gunfire, more orderly than scattered civilian organizations.
Facing a group of well-trained organization members who seemed extremely familiar with these things, the city survivors who witnessed all this gradually believed in this collapsing real world after their shock.
Monsters exist, human forces dealing with these monsters in the shadows also exist, those “legends” circulating on the internet and in idle gossip are not entirely fabricated.
The shaking lasted a full ten-plus minutes, the men in black took a whole night to suppress and clear out the monsters.
When night dispersed and light returned, the newborn sun shone on this wounded land, yet no one in the city felt any joy of survival, because only those who experienced that terrifying night could understand what they would face after surviving.
Facing the life-and-death separations of friends and family?
Facing the grief and anger of losing their homeland?
These all are, but most importantly, how to pick up the shattered courage to face this real world.
“Come quickly, there are survivors here!” A Mystic Investigator assisting in city search and rescue discovered vital signs under the ruins, he couldn’t help shouting.
A group of people nearby busy with rescue heard him and immediately rushed over to help one after another.
After moving away debris and stone slabs, what appeared before everyone was not a tearfully joyful scene, but a man and a woman completely naked, fused back-to-back as one, impaled upside down under the ruins, their tongues and eyes gouged out, the breastbone broken open in the chest cavity deformed into huge bones replacing their legs for movement, the heart beating intensely at the gaping chest opening, they lived on in this horrifying way, roaring at the people plunged into fear.
“She… Captain She, Investigator B Zhao Jing…” A Mystic Investigator recognized their identities from those two gradually dissolving and twisting faces, his eyes filled with grief and indignation and fear, he roared, “To hell with the Inverted Sanctuary!”
With the assistance of other arriving Mystic Investigators, She Zi’an and Zhao Jing, who had turned into twisted aberrations, were killed and incinerated on the spot.
For the entire following month, the whole Cuizhu City was filled with lingering corpse stench and tar smell…
A once prosperous city was reduced to ashes, a drastic change spread from that city to the whole world.
The people who once lived on that city’s land were dispersed and resettled to other cities, they had to continue living in another city with deathly silent souls and shattered minds, while that city was designated a human forbidden zone.
The once covered truths were dug up one by one, those forces hidden in the shadows preserving countless homes and real peace surfaced, they stepped before the world, telling people those horrifying truths.
“…I once thought there would be a day when we could no longer hide the facts, just didn’t expect it to come so soon.” The Mysterious Group Group Leader stood under the global live stream spotlight, his face showing no worry or sadness, he just calmly, as if composed, narrated the Mysterious Group’s duties and missions, explaining their organization’s every arduous mission action.
Everything he said was as unreal as a novel, yet no one dared stand up to refute, because the truth of what happened in Cuizhu City had already been selectively released through major media to public platforms, everyone had seen with their own eyes the terrifying events of that night.
“Group Leader Wei Chengye, what will your next actions be?” After a silence, a media person finally took the lead to inquire.
Wei Chengye looked at the media person’s camera, slowly opening with the most serious and sincere expression: “The human world is under extreme danger threat, humanity’s survival status faces unprecedented challenges. From this moment, our Mysterious Group also welcomes other like-minded organizations confronting and preventing anomaly events to strive together with us to save this precarious human world, we must…”
This global press conference held by Wei Chengye became the turning point of this era, transitioning from the “hypocritical” peaceful era to the “real” anomaly era, humans from ignoring and avoiding the anomalies in this world, to actively discovering and exploring them, attempting to overcome fear and strike at them, this was an unimaginable change in human history.
The whole world underwent unimaginable changes due to the existence of anomaly things, whether changes in human social systems, human lifestyles, or humans themselves, everyone was caught in this torrent of drastic change, no one could stay aloof…
Two years passed in a flash.
In the back garden of Liuhua Port Mental Sanatorium, on a bench, a smooth round bald head was always hunched, uglily gazing at the sky at a 45-degree angle, he held a cigarette in his mouth but never lit it, until saliva and teeth made the whole cigarette unusable, he would wastefully tear the cigarette butt to shreds and throw them in the trash, then take a new one from the cigarette pack, repeating endlessly.
“Captain He.” A spirited woman in a black trench coat called from behind him.
Hearing this, He Jia’an slightly turned his face, glanced at the woman walking toward him, and smiled, calling her name: “Captain Yu Lianyun, how do you have time to visit me again?”
Two years had not left traces of time on Yu Lianyun’s appearance, she seemed even younger, just her eyes had become much sharper, she smiled with hands in pockets, sat next to He Jia’an, and said: “Just happened to be on a mission here, stopped by to see you.”
Saying this, Yu Lianyun took out a pack of new cigarettes from her pocket, from the exquisite packaging of the cigarette pack and the “special supply” marking, even non-smokers could tell this pack of cigarettes was extraordinary, let alone He Jia’an this cigarette addict.
He Jia’an’s eyes lit up instantly, excitedly saying: “Damn, Xiao Yu, you got it, where from? For me?”
“Swiped from a friend, knew you like it, saved it for you, perfect timing now that I’m visiting, brought it over.” Yu Lianyun laughed.
He Jia’an immediately laughed and snatched the cigarettes, then admired them like a treasure, sniffing hard through the plastic packaging, as if he could smell the taste inside.
“Tsk tsk, but giving it to me is a bit wasteful.” He Jia’an licked his lips and said, putting the new cigarettes securely in his clothes pocket.
Yu Lianyun chuckled and shook her head, then looked at the nearby pavilion, asking: “How’s the recovery lately?”
“Same as always.” He Jia’an’s tone was casual, seeming somewhat indifferent, biting the cigarette filter as he spoke.
“Still seeing hallucinations, and eyes?”
“Rather than calling it hallucinations… it’s more like visual sharing, together with some huge guy…” He Jia’an scratched his sweating bald head, trying to mask the fear in his eyes with a relaxed tone, he tapped his head, “After reading that book, my brain underwent irreversible physiological changes, sometimes can’t tell if it’s human or monster, occasionally even hallucinate scenes from another dimension.”
Yu Lianyun listened feeling a bit uncomfortable, comforting him: “Being alive is good, anyway no need to fight life and death anymore.”
“True, and there’s a decent monthly subsidy.” He Jia’an smiled, then asked, “That Book of Sand still not found?”
“Confirmed as mysterious disappearance.” Yu Lianyun shook her head, “These two years we’ve been tracking, but no more news.”
“That nun?”
“Still can’t find her.”
“Mm, maybe she took it.”
“Best if so, better than it falling into others’ hands.”
He Jia’an chuckled, then asked about Yu Lianyun’s recent situation: “How about you now?”
“Every mission on hand is thorny.” Yu Lianyun rubbed her brow, sighing, “This target’s a university student…”
Magic City streets, light rain drizzling…
A beautiful woman in a qipao paced in an alley that existed centuries ago, swaying her graceful body like raindrops that always refused to slide off leaves, alluring and playful.
Behind her, a righteous-faced man matched her pace, walking behind holding a black umbrella for her, shielding her from wind and rain.
Passing a rainy alley, the qipao woman suddenly stopped, she heard faint wails, slowly walked to the discarded cardboard box by the trash can, extended jade fingers to gently push aside the pink fabric emitting sour stench.
Looking at the tabby cat lying in the box with a toothpick stabbed in its chest, the qipao woman suddenly raised her seductive red lips, laughing: “What to do? I’m suddenly hungry.”
“You just ate yesterday, Miss Zhao.” The man holding the umbrella for her said somewhat helplessly, “Besides, get the situation straight, I’m your master now.”
Miss Zhao chuckled lightly, fingers gently stroking the dying cat’s face, “In today’s world, aren’t pets the real masters? Now the master is hungry, food to mouth, why not stuff the food in my mouth?”
Hearing her words, the man laughed: “Yeah, but we neuter little masters too, want the same treatment?”
“Mm… no need for that.” Miss Zhao glanced up seductively, seductively licked her red lips, smiling sweetly, “But could try injections.”
The man swallowed, then showed a pained expression, hissed, quickly took out the hot Bloodstone Comb from his pocket, said helplessly to the comb: “I’m not that easily tempted.”
Miss Zhao sneered, looked at the little kitten gradually going silent, flicked her finger lightly, the toothpick stabbed in the kitten’s chest was flung out whole, then placed her finger on the kitten’s chest.
Only to see her onion-white finger flow with a burst of white light, the white light illuminating the finger skin translucent, a string of red bloodshot flowed to the fingertip, finally emerging from the finger, falling into the kitten’s wound.
In less than a moment, the kitten that should have died suddenly awoke and stood, meowing affectionately at Miss Zhao and Xin Junmao, then jumped out of the box, rubbing nonstop at Miss Zhao and Xin Junmao’s feet.
“You adopting it?” Xin Junmao asked puzzled.
“Emergency ingredients only.” Miss Zhao roughly grabbed the kitten by the scruff, tossed the innocent-faced kitten into Xin Junmao’s arms, then strode proudly toward the dark depths of the rainy alley, her scarlet long tongue extended from her mouth, brushing aside a strand of black hair falling before her eyes, “Hey, no problem letting me have dessert now, right?”
Xin Junmao looked at the figure deep in the alley, heard shrill cat cries and some pervert’s excited laughter, didn’t refuse, just calmly instructed: “Eat clean.”
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