TL: Tojo
Editor: NaoNazo
Chapter 62
“Where’s my painting? Where’s my painting?”
A burst of roaring shouts shattered the quiet night.
Bai Jingtian, who was reading a book, was so frightened by the sound that she shivered uncontrollably. The book in her hand fell to the ground in her shock.
She picked up the book with lingering fear, her hands still trembling. Before she could proactively check if something significant had happened outside, her room’s door was forcefully kicked open with a loud “bang.”
Bai Jingtian was startled.
Wang Junhe, who had always been refined and neatly dressed, now looked like a madman. His hair was disheveled, his expression slightly ferocious, and his eyes were bloodshot, staring at the stunned Bai Jingtian with a look of madness.
Bai Jingtian, originally sitting on a chair, felt her heart sink and her legs go weak the moment Wang Junhe entered. She slumped to the ground in a moment of fright.
It wasn’t Wang Junhe’s terrifying expression that frightened her.
But something else entirely!
Wang Junhe was holding an axe in his hand!
Wang Junhe’s fingers gripped the axe tightly, making a cracking sound. His eyes resembled a vengeful ghost emerging from hell, terrifyingly bloodshot. His entire eyeballs protruded outward, almost bulging out of their sockets.
“Did you steal my painting?” Wang Junhe, gripping the axe, rushed forward urgently.
Bai Jingtian screamed in fear, attempting to crawl away on the ground to escape. However, Wang Junhe, swift and decisive, grabbed Bai Jingtian by the collar without hesitation, lifting her entirely from the ground. He then tightly clasped her throat.
Bai Jingtian was like a lamb awaiting slaughter, her head dizzy from Wang Junhe’s shaking and her breathing becoming difficult due to her throat being constricted.
Her body began to uncontrollably tremble, and her lips quivered. Due to difficulty in breathing, her tongue protruded, rendering her unable to utter a single word.
Desperately, she tried to pry Wang Junhe’s fingers off her throat, frantically slapping at them.
However, her actions further infuriated the already deranged Wang Junhe. With red eyes, he threw her to the ground and stomped directly on Bai Jingtian’s abdomen. Bai Jingtian immediately let out a painful groan.
“Where is my painting? Did you steal my painting?” Wang Junhe continued his fierce questioning, showing no mercy in the force he applied with his foot.
Bai Jingtian cried and groaned, clutching her abdomen, rolling in pain. “I don’t know, it wasn’t me! It wasn’t me!”
But at this moment, Wang Junhe still maintained that reckless appearance, deeply ensnared in madness. His movements became even swifter, his expression increasingly ferocious, and his neck twisted, producing a crunching sound akin to bones shattering.
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Bai Jingtian kept wriggling on the floor, attempting to get up numerous times, only to be forcefully kicked back each time by Wang Junhe, rendering her efforts futile.
Finally, Bai Jingtian’s repeated attempts to escape infuriated Wang Junhe. He tilted his head, emitting an eerie laughter, then lifted his axe, eyes red with rage, and swung it down without a second thought.
Blood splattered on the ground.
Have you heard of Pandora? She was the first woman created by the gods to punish humanity, endowed with seductive beauty, the ability to enchant men, and the skill of speech.
Zeus handed Pandora a jar filled with scourges, disasters, and pain, instructing her to take it to the mortal world.
Pandora was nothing but the amplified seed of human desires.
So…
What are your desires?
Su Jingyan was princess-carried by the man. He blinked, pointing a finger in the direction of the door. “Yichen, it seems like there’s someone over there.”
Lu Yichen remained unfazed, confidently carrying Su Jingyan forward. “Hmm, just a couple of clowns.”
Still, two clowns with impure intentions towards his beloved.
Lu Yichen’s eyes glinted, and he tightened his grip on Su Jingyan’s hand.
Huh.
Zhou Shengwu was full of excitement, and his hand holding the key was slightly trembling due to the exhilaration.
Qibo Zhi was also eagerly watching his every move with excitement.
With a “clatter,” the chain directly fell to the ground, and the expressions of the two became unpredictable for a moment.
Qibo Zhi couldn’t contain himself any longer, taking a step forward and forcefully pushing the door open.
However, the moment the door swung open, the surroundings underwent a sudden change. Before the two could see clearly what was inside, a strong wind, like a tornado, rushed out from within.
Qibo Zhi and Zhou Shengwu were completely unprepared. Their entire bodies were lifted by a sudden “boom,” their feet leaving the ground. Due to the loss of weight, they even somersaulted in the air, their faces distorted by the wind. Immediately following was a muffled “thud,” as they were forcefully thrown to the ground.
It was the sound of bones breaking.
Both of them, their features twisted in pain, rolled on the ground together. Their eyes met with an unmistakable fear, as if they had seen something horrifying and terrible. Their bodies also shook uncontrollably.
“Boom—Boom—”
The night, which was still adorned with the moon, underwent a tremendous change in an instant. The entire world was shrouded in a layer of darkness.
If the night, still retaining a hint of moonlight, could barely allow people to see their surroundings, then, after the disappearance of the moon, the world instantly plunged into endless darkness. Even all the lanterns that were originally burning around them were also extinguished simultaneously.
Suddenly, lightning flashed in the sky without any warning, followed by earth-shattering thunder.
Strangely, there was no rain around.
The lightning seemed as if someone had split the skyopen with an axe, tearing apart a massive crack.
What terrified the two, however, was far from just this.
In the fleeting moment when lightning broke through, they could clearly see that the surroundings were filled with countless hovering ghosts on the ground.
There were thousands, countless in number.
Each one looked bloody; some clutching severed limbs, some devoid of skin, and others reduced to charred skeletons…
All of them wore expressionless faces, as if shrouded in layers of thick shadows.
As soon as the lightning vanished, they could no longer see the surrounding environment, and the ghosts disappeared along with it.
Once the lightning tore through again, the densely packed soul forms reappeared around them.
There were so many soul forms that they lay on the ground, and with a slight lift of their heads, they could see countless ghostly figures closely watching them with eerie and mournful gazes.
“Boom—Boom—”
Thunder roared once more.
“Ahhhh!”
“Ahhhh!”
The two, no longer able to control their fear, shouted loudly.
Su Jingyan couldn’t see anything; he felt as if his eyes were covered with a black cloth. He wasn’t particularly uneasy, just instinctively clinging tightly to the man’s neck.
Lu Yichen reached back to hold him even tighter, and the hand supporting Su Jingyan’s back gently caressed him as if offering comfort.
Su Jingyan quickly sensed that something was amiss and soon saw the walking corpses, ghostly figures, around them.
His eyelashes trembled slightly, but perhaps because Lu Yichen was holding him, he didn’t feel scared. There was even a hint of curiosity.
But an astonishing scene unfolded: the moment Lu Yichen and Su Jingyan walked out of the courtyard, the previously tightly packed ghostly figures miraculously cleared a path, as if instinctively making way for the two,afraid of blocking their path.
Qibo Zhi and Zhou Shengwu, lying on the ground, couldn’t see anything. They could only sense that the ghosts seemed to be restless, actively closing in on them slowly.
Zhou Shengwu still harbored a sense of luck, thinking that these ghosts were not tangible and couldn’t touch him.
But in the next moment, he was dumbfounded.
A pair of hands as cold as ice suddenly gripped his ankle.
Zhou Shengwu was startled, and as he turned around while lying on the ground, he saw a female ghost with a face covered in blood. Only the whites of her eyes remained, and her disheveled hair framed her face. She firmly grabbed his ankle, and a sinister grin spread across her face as she opened her mouth.
In her pitch-black mouth, even in the illumination of the lightning, one could faintly see numerous worms slowly wriggling inside.
“Ugh.” Witnessing this, Zhou Shengwu couldn’t help but retch, vomiting stomach acid onto the ground.
It was unclear whether his reaction angered the horrifying female ghost, but her face, which was somewhat normal a moment ago, suddenly split open. Starting from the center of her hair, her facial skin directly cracked and then peeled off.
She pulled Zhou Shengwu’s leg, got up from the ground, and began dragging him to the side.
“No!” Zhou Shengwu roared, fingers digging into the ground, using all his strength, attempting to struggle.
Not far away, Qibo Zhi’s fate seemed to be no better.
Zhou Shengwu, covered in cold sweat, veins bulging, his nerves stretched taut. His fingers were scratched bloody as he helplessly watched Qi Bozhi ahead being grabbed by several ghosts, limbs suspended in the air, and then pulled in different directions.
No matter how Qibo Zhi struggled, it was in vain.
In the end, he was torn apart, turning into a pool of blood.
Su Jingyan leaned his head against Lu Yichen’s chest, hearing someone screaming in agony. He then asked, “Yichen, is someone shouting for help?”
The man smiled, kissed his nose, his expression as tender as ever, filled with love and compassion. “No.”
Before the man finished speaking, Zhou Shengwu had his mouth covered by another ghost nearby, whose strength seemed enough to crush him into a pulp.
Zhou Shengwu whimpered in despair, tears streaming from his eyes.
“Help! Help! Can someone save me!”
After hearing the man’s explanation, Su Jingyan nodded, blinked, and then asked, “So where do we go now?”
Lu Yichen looked ahead and said, “Let’s explore the surroundings.”
Su Jingyan raised an eyebrow in question.
The man added, “Find another place for us to stay.”
Su Jingyan got excited, his face lit up. “I want to live by the river!”
Lu Yichen, with a face full of indulgence, nodded helplessly. “Alright.”
With you, anywhere is home.
Them being lovey-dovey while murders happen in the background 😭 Pop off I guess
Wdym there’s people dying in the background? The MC and ML are having a cute moment 🤭🙃