HLnovel Chapter 716 Great! I am the demon!
Chapter 716 Great! I am the demon!
Chapter 716 Great! I am the demon! (4000 words)
The little girl in the painted door turned her head, and her eerie face startled the two of them.
Her face was stitched together from three faces, with the forehead being the skin of an old woman, its folds inlaid with soot.
His face, from his eyes to the bridge of his nose, resembled that of a middle-aged man, with stubble growing out of his pores.
Below the lips, there is a baby with pink, toothless gums, and a trace of saliva.
The features of three people were crudely pieced together on the same face, like a failed live suture surgery.
Her grin was like three faces sliced apart by space, making it hard to describe.
"Waaah, Director Lin, I'm scared." Chen Ying hugged herself, trembling.
Lin Xiaohe looked at her bloodied neck and said, "Why don't you go look in the mirror?"
None of the three people present were normal.
As for image, let's not criticize each other, since the eldest brother won't say anything negative about the second brother.
“Guests,” the girl said, but with the vibrating voice of a middle-aged man, “it’s almost midnight, do you have your keys?”
Lin Xiaohe took a half step back, while simultaneously scanning the surrounding area within a 20-meter radius with her consciousness.
There were no heat signals from other creatures, no other demons, and even the stone path beneath our feet showed no gravity feedback.
This place is like a two-dimensional texture set on three iron plates.
"What key?" Chen Ying asked.
Her hand had already touched the silver scalpel at her waist.
Despite the fear, I still had to fight when the time came.
The little girl tilted her head, and the eyes on her three faces moved in different directions.
"The key to open the door. Believe me, you don't want to be locked inside. After midnight, all doors will grow teeth."
After she finished speaking, her tears started to flow down her head like a block of ice cream.
The paint from the three faces mixed together, eventually forming a pool of black water that seeped into the cracks in the stone slabs.
The door-shaped pattern left by chalk remains on the wall, and the chalk dust is still faintly glowing.
Lin Xiaohe glanced at her watch: "There are still four minutes until midnight."
"go!"
Lin Xiaohe didn't run to the end of the alley as usual: "This little girl isn't an enemy; she's probably an NPC explaining the rules. The keywords are [door], [key], and [locked inside]. This instance is called 'Hunger House,' and its core is [Don't lock the door], but [locking the door] isn't necessarily an active action; it could also be a passive state!"
"Chen Ying, check if you have anything on you that could be interpreted as a 'lock'."
Chen Ying paused for a moment, then quickly flipped up her collar, cuffs, and belt buckle.
The library uniforms had no clasps, only buttons and ties, but Lin Xiaohe noticed something was wrong.
"On the leather sheath of the silver scalpel at your waist, there's a brass snap. The snap clicks when it engages. It's a locking sound."
"Throw away the scabbard."
Without hesitation, Chen Ying threw away the scalpel sheath: "Director Lin, should we throw away the scalpel too? There are contaminants on it. Without the sheath, I'm afraid it will get contaminated."
Lin Xiaohe: "No need for now."
The alleyway was extremely quiet.
At the end of the alley, the door without a handle, within the chalk lines, began to sprout teeth.
One-centimeter-long, milky-white, baby-like newborn teeth emerged in rows from the wood grain of the door panel, making a wet, teeth-grinding "creaking" sound.
There was a clear, sticky substance hanging between the teeth.
It's midnight!
Lin Xiaohe grabbed Chen Ying by the collar and rushed toward the door.
"Wow...that's exciting!" Chen Ying exclaimed. Forgive her; her naive mind is prone to overreacting.
Lin Xiaohe remained unmoved.
The first level of this dungeon is not difficult.
If teeth were to grow all over the door frame, Lin Xiaohe and her companion would be trapped in this tiny space with only two houses and a dead-end alley, starving to death.
Actually, all you need to do is overcome your fear and open the door.
When Lin Xiaohe rushed to the door, her teeth had grown to half the height of the door frame, resembling a beast's mouth closing.
She stretched out her right hand and plunged it hard into the center of the gap where her teeth were most concentrated.
The excruciating pain exploded instantly.
The teeth pierced through Lin Xiaohe's skin and muscles, and even gnawed at her metacarpal bones, but Lin Xiaohe sensed that once the teeth bit into something, it would stop growing.
If you let them bite on something, the feeding behavior itself will pause the locking process.
"Chen Ying! Pull the door open through your teeth! With all your might!"
Chen Ying lunged forward, grabbing the soft, not yet fully calcified new teeth on the edge of the door with both hands, letting out a low growl as her muscles bulged!
"The door is open!"
The world behind the door was a downward, spiral staircase, and the walls were covered with dried cured meat.
"My goodness, it's a human leg!" Chen Ying felt like vomiting.
She endured the fact that she and her companions had become mutants, and after looking at them for a while, she could even see a hint of cuteness in their mutilated bodies.
But she couldn't accept such a disgusting and blatant scene.
For no particular reason, it's just pure double standards.
These cured meats were cut from the thigh, threaded through the Achilles tendon with iron hooks, and hung upside down on the wall, the fat translucent under the yellow light of the steam lamp.
Lin Xiaohe and the other person fell into the stairwell, and the door behind them slammed shut.
The teeth retracted into the door panel, as if they had never been there.
Chen Ying gasped for breath, looking down at Lin Xiaohe's hand.
The three fingers of that right hand had been gnawed down to bone, with the palmar tendon exposed.
Her own hands were also covered in blood and gore.
"Someone's coming." Lin Xiaohe used her left hand to tear off the fragments of the three severed fingers, revealing fresh bone fragments.
In the basement, the sound of doors closing one after another could be heard, followed by deep, heavy breathing and low curses.
"Damn it! Why was I chosen to enter the Space of Destiny? I didn't want to come in at all! I don't want to become some kind of hero, I just want to go home and be an ordinary person."
"Shut up! You're already in here! Face reality. Fortunately, this instance isn't too difficult. Maybe we can all survive."
"Ha! Don't be ridiculous, that alleyway was just a warm-up. What's truly terrifying is the ancient being about to awaken! And this instance is a newborn... Don't think, don't ask, don't listen, don't look, it's everywhere, it will blind our perception..."
As Lin Xiaohe and her companion came down the stairs, they saw a young man dressed in library clothes huddled in a corner, trembling and covering his head.
The entire underground space is extremely spacious and can accommodate thousands of people.
Dozens of groups of people dispersed to various locations, remaining vigilant towards each other. Lin Xiaohe and her companion followed the main flow, remaining silent, and instead found a secluded corner to crouch down.
Not far from the man in the library, a nun held a crucifix in one hand and placed the other on his head, saying in a slightly divine voice, "Poor child, God will protect you. God will guide us in the darkness and give us the power to fight against the demons."
"Good child, tell me your name."
“Bit Love Bridge”.
“Alright, Bit. Fear comes from the unknown, fear comes from the darkness, fear comes from hearsay. Perhaps, what frightens you is nothing more than rumors deliberately spread by the Otherworldly Demons, just to crush our will to resist.”
Bit nuzzled the nun's hand, but hugged himself tighter: "No! Everyone who enters the library knows this! And I... just have a hero father, a hero mother, and a hero brother. They told me that the awakening of the ancient beings is accelerating."
His trembling spread like a virus throughout the entire underground space.
Several groups of people in the corner suddenly stood up, trying to get closer to Bitt, but were stopped by the nun's gaze.
The nun's eyes were indifferent, but her voice was gentle, like a spring breeze: "So it comes from our most trusted and beloved family members. Then this news is very likely true. Bit, tell us what you know. God loves the world, and the world loves God. Under God's watchful eye, we are brothers and sisters who can trust one another."
“Bit, you are not alone.”
Bit was sweating profusely, his heart pounding like a drum, each breath feeling like swallowing razor blades, his voice trembling uncontrollably.
“Sister… I’m not entirely sure what happened. But the night before last, my parents and brother were urgently summoned… My brother came back briefly, looking very grave. He told me that the ancient beings suddenly accelerated, and a high-level team of heroes, after entering the Destiny Space, went from a C-rank instance to an A-rank!”
"This is abnormal! Only an ancient being that suddenly awakens to its complete form could cause this."
The nun paused, then asked calmly, "And then? What happened to that high-level hero team?"
Bit: "The entire army was wiped out! The captain came back with his last breath, handed over the logbook, and died without saying a word."
"My brother said that there was more than one high-level hero team that encountered the same situation tonight, at least three!"
Bit's words were like a thunderbolt, blasting everyone off balance!
That's a high-level team of heroes, people who have entered the Destiny Space at least three or four times.
Even they were all wiped out, what are we newbies supposed to do? We're sure to die without a burial place.
Ahhh.
Why am I so unlucky? Why did I have to be chosen? Why did it have to happen at this time?
Seeing that the morale of the army had already collapsed before the arrival of the alien demons, the nun stood up and shouted sternly, "Calm down, all of you!"
But nobody listened to her.
What does a person do when they know they are about to die?
The answer is, they can do anything.
Those evil thoughts and desires buried in one's heart, stimulated by death, will erupt like volcanic lava, devouring one's reason and morality.
A beggar-like man grabbed the weeping noblewoman beside him and forcefully pressed her down, cursing, "You filthy bitch! I'll teach you to be high and mighty, I'll teach you to always look at me like I'm a vermin!"
The noblewoman screamed, but the difference in physical strength between men and women was too great. The more she struggled, the more it aroused the beggar's evil intentions.
Just as chaos erupted in the underground space, the nun raised a crucifix: "In the name of God, I have transformed the evil. Poor lost sheep, God will lead you home!"
A beam of white light aimed at the beggar and enveloped him at an extremely fast speed.
"what!"
Almost in the blink of an eye, the beggar let out a painful wail and then turned into a skeleton in the divine light.
The nun retrieved the cross and bowed her head in prayer: "Amen."
The sudden turn of events startled the entire underground space.
After a while, prayers began to be heard one after another.
Amen...
The noblewoman was terrified and scrambled to the nun's side.
She and Bit clung tightly to Mother Hen like little chicks.
Chen Ying whispered, "Director Lin, does that beggar have the aura of a demon? I didn't sense it."
Lin Xiaohe: "Because he is not a demon, he has not been corrupted."
Chen Ying raised an eyebrow, looking at the nun who seemed to radiate divine light: "It seems the church's attacks aren't just targeting the demons. Among those they've labeled as contaminants, are there any who have been wrongly accused?"
Lin Xiaohe: "Your little brain is finally starting to work."
"Haha. You know, it's within the system."
The Westerners' methods and schemes seem like child's play to the people of the East.
Chen Ying didn't care whether the nun was a good person or not; what she cared about was the legendary ancient being who had awakened: "Director Lin, the Otherworldly Demons are so terrifying, can we defeat them?"
"do not know."
After all, the body is not one's own body, and the mind is not one's own mind.
So, it's hard to say.
Chen Ying was panicking. Even Director Lin lacked confidence. What could she do?
On the other side, the nun was leading a group of people in prayer.
She used the nail of her right thumb to scratch open the palm of her left hand, and the blood dripped onto the ground, drawing a cross.
Her prayer was completely different from the prayers of the Western Church on Blue Star.
"O gods of darkness, devour our prayers, but forgive our flesh and blood, accept our memories as a means of lodging, and grant us your shadow as a wall."
"We pray thus, we stand thus, we escape thus, Amen!"
As the last syllable fell, the bright red cross resembled a giant beast opening its maw, devouring everyone, including the nun.
Thick fog filled the underground space.
The giant beast's gaping maw gradually merged with the mist.
Chen Ying said expressionlessly, "It's over, Director Lin, it's just the two of us left."
Who would have thought that the nun's prayer was actually a form of invisibility?!
Lin Xiaohe scratched her head, realizing things were indeed not looking good: "Let's meet the challenge head-on, and deal with the consequences as they come. Let's face this legendary ancient being!"
The air grew colder and damper, wisps of black mist drifted by, and the howling wind sounded like the whispers of demons.
Everything seemed to be proclaiming the imminent arrival of an ancient being.
Lin Xiaohe and her companion prepared for battle.
Suddenly, the wind stopped, and the fog stopped.
A familiar voice exploded in Lin Xiaohe's mind: "Xiaohe, I've finally found you! Waaaaah!"
"Xinbao?!"
"It's me! It's me! Xiao He, save me! I'm stuck, I can't get my body out."
Lin Xiaohe...
Good heavens, it turns out the Otherworldly Demon was actually myself!
"Xinbao, how can I help you?"
Xinbao: "If I tear this dungeon apart, create a hole, I can get out a little bit."
(End of this chapter)