Chapter 33: I’m™ Not Human Anymore!
The crimson light before him began to dissipate, and reality shattered like bubbles under sunlight, revealing the darkness and desolation hidden beneath the mask of reality.
Amidst severe dizziness and pain, Luxianbei felt his body growing cold, as if falling into an endless dark cold pond, continuously descending.
In the midst of the surging dark currents of the cold pond, something was peeling away from him, or rather, abandoning him.
He sank deeper, and then he felt many blurry and twisted figures approaching him, radiating curious concern, greedy urgency, or gloomy coldness. Then, as if sensing something, they quickly scattered and fled.
“You’re about to d*e.” A voice said to him, sounding like a girl.
Hearing that voice, Luxianbei felt as if he had grasped the last straw of hope, and his emotions became urgent.
“About to… does that mean I’m not fully dead yet? Then I think I can still be saved!”
“No saving, your soul is already exhausted.” The voice said coldly.
“But I don’t want to d*e! No, I can’t d*e! I still…”
“Ha! Why can’t you d*e? Everyone can d*e!” the voice said, tinged with disdain. “Some people delude themselves into thinking the world can’t function without them, but actually, without them, tomorrow will still be a beautiful day.”
“Human life has limits; the more life and d*ath you witness, the more you come to realize this. d*ath is destined for everyone.”
“Then can I not be human anymore?! As long as I can live!”
“Although I don’t know who you are, you must be some big shot, right? Please save me! I can accept selling my soul or whatever, just don’t sell my virginity because I’ve never had a girlfriend. I want to save my first time for true love.”
“Really, I really want to live. Please give me a chance, big shot!”
“……” The voice was silent for a few seconds, as if feeling ashamed of Luxianbei’s thick skin.
Shouldn’t a normal person panic and cry for mercy after realizing they’re about to d*e? How did he end up bargaining!?
So annoying! I came to guide him down a less clear path, and now I suddenly don’t want to save him?
“If all else fails, I can give you my virginity. Then we can try dating afterward, you know, get on the car first and pay later!”
“Shut up! Get lost!” the mysterious voice roared.
The next moment, Luxianbei was engulfed by light, as if a force was tugging at his body. He felt himself rapidly surfacing, passing through the “dark cold pond,” breaking through the water’s surface, and returning to reality.
“Swallow the witch’s egg, and you will live.”
Like a hallucination, the ethereal voice penetrated Luxianbei’s ears, and he suddenly woke up, gasping for air, accompanied by a rising chest, mixed with fragments of his internal organs’ plasma, gushing from a huge penetrating wound in his chest.
He struggled to stand and looked toward the bizarre stone egg flickering with crimson light in the distance.
“Hurry! You only have a minute; they’re coming!”
The mysterious voice rang in his ears again. “They?” Were those the hairs?
In the next moment, he suddenly felt something targeting him, as if a gaze came from the dark shadows, from the distant sky, from every inch of space he could see, carrying strong malice, stirring up repression and trembling from the depths of his soul.
In an instant, Luxianbei realized that “they” were far more terrifying than any hair, and without the chance to think more, he gritted his teeth and staggered toward the stone egg not far away.
He couldn’t be caught by “them!”
I don’t want to d*e!
To live, I…
“I™ Am Not Human Anymore!”
With his last ounce of strength, Luxianbei shouted, grabbing the witch’s egg and frantically stuffing it into his mouth.
The next moment, his vision turned into a raging sea of bl**d, where countless human-shaped silhouettes emerged, extending sharp-clawed arms, tearing at his body with bitter resentment.
As those bl**d-congealed hands scraped by, his body rapidly withered and decayed, skin peeling off, flesh rotting, soon leaving only a skeleton, a heart that had almost stopped beating, and a pair of eyes filled with pain and bl**d.
Immediately afterwards, even the bones collapsed with a crisp sound.
The witch’s egg floated before his heart, and in an instant, it cracked open, transforming into bl**d-red rock needles the size of fingers, each end carved with a feminine face.
They emitted a bl**d-colored glow, permeating strong negative emotional energy—anger, brutality, sadness, suspicion…
The rock needles stabbed into his heart from different directions, vibrating restlessly as if trying to crush it.
The pain of physical destruction nearly shattered Luxianbei’s consciousness. Just before falling into a coma, he seemed to hear an ancient voice murmuring in his ear.
“There are those of Zhongshan. A girl wears green, where she sees drought, the red earth stretches for a thousand miles…”
What does that mean? Can’t you speak human language? I don’t understand! Luxianbei thought.
The next moment, his eyes ignited, bursting forth with a fierce and barbaric power, charging toward the witch’s egg.
The two forces clashed, producing a high-frequency shriek that humans could not hear. During their mutual conflict, the scarlet energy of the witch’s egg gradually fell to a disadvantage but was not extinguished; instead, it lay dormant, achieving a subtle balance with that fierce and barbaric power.
The cracked witch’s egg re-consolidated, forming the shape of half an egg, the other half having already merged with his heart, with firelight flowing through the rocky grooves on its surface.
Seconds of silence followed.
Soon, the heart began to beat again, emitting a thunderous sound.
Along with the beating, a lava-like liquid gushed from the heart, instantly igniting the surging sea of bl**d around, which under the blaze of flames condensed into dazzling threads, tracing complex outlines in the air, reforming into a human shape, and red regrew flesh and bl**d.
……
In the underground boiler room.
A tiny girl, completely unclothed, curled up like a fetus, floated in mid-air.
Firelight flickered beneath her snow-white skin, and her slender, weak limbs seemed to contain terrifying power. Her fiery red hair flowed down from her glowing back, gently swaying without wind.
A dark shadow emerged from the void, swirling around her for a moment, producing a sigh like an illusion before dissipating.
The girl slowly fell from mid-air, awakening from a state of confusion, opening her eyes.
In an instant, as if some ferocious beast had awakened, a terrifying spirit energy fluctuation suddenly spread from her petite body, radiating outwards in all directions.
As her long hair fell, when the tips touched the ground, the terrifying temperature instantly vaporized and dried the accumulated bl**d on the pavement, as wisps of white smoke drifted from the cracks in the concrete.
“Gul-dong—gul-dong—!”
The water stored in the steam boiler began to boil, violently crashing against the metal shell, producing a drum-like sound.
The fire sprinkler heads on the ceiling were activated, and the water gushing out vaporized before it could even fall.
In the darkness, the thick dark hair fled in panic, but its escape speed was far slower than the spread of high temperature, and in an instant, it was ignited, releasing an unbearable charred smell.
In no time, flames erupted from every corner of the underground boiler room.
……
The black hair fled in confusion.
The man trapped within the black hair suddenly awakened under the assault of high temperatures, opening his eyes with a fierce and resentful glint.
He knelt on the ground, growling through gritted teeth.
“d*mn rabbit, if I don’t take revenge for this…”
Before he could finish, a fierce and brutal spirit energy fluctuation surged, making him instantly feel as if the spirit energy within him was being assimilated, igniting and causing him to freeze.
“What is… going on? This kind of spirit energy fluctuation…”
The man was completely bewildered, momentarily forgetting to escape.
Mr. Rabbit’s witch’s egg was located with his help, and he was very aware of the power sleeping within that witch’s egg.
Even if Mr. Rabbit had successfully obtained it at this moment, the energy emitted should have been bloody, cold, and brutal, and the intensity wouldn’t be this high!
But…
What is this scorching spirit energy fluctuation, resembling a volcanic eruption, carrying a breath of destruction?
Could it be that while I was imprisoned, another urban legend came and took out that damned rabbit?
Is this black eating black eating black eating black?
Before the man could understand what went wrong during Mr. Rabbit’s advancement that induced such an anomaly, the hair around him suddenly exploded, and the flames containing spirit energy impacted his body, instantly leaving it charred.
A surge of pain shot through his body, bringing him to his senses, and he immediately turned to escape.
Behind him, a loud explosion erupted, and faint sounds of a girl’s manic laughter could be heard. Although the laughter was ethereal and melodious, akin to a ballad, it sent chills down the man’s spine.
“Hahaha—! Burn it all! Let the fire consume everything!”
What the hell? What’s happening?! Never mind, just run!
Flames spread behind him as panic surged, and the man directly abandoned his body, letting the swarms of cicadas within him fly out, scattering to find any escape routes and openings.
……
Minutes later.
Not far from the Flower Language Sunshine Resort Hotel.
On a sewage well cover, three to five scorching cicadas crawled out from the gaps in the cover.
Their green bean-sized compound eyes reflected the blazing resort hotel, seeming startled, quivering for a moment before not hesitating any longer, accompanied by the sound of rustling cicada song, they took flight and quickly disappeared into the night.
