"Gurgle, gurgle!"
Inside a Residential Building in Moon Creek Town, black liquid could be seen flowing from beneath door cracks everywhere. The neighbors, who normally visited one another and made the place lively, were now deathly silent. The air was thick with the stench of rot and decay.
From the slightly open door of the last apartment on the top floor came faint sounds of flesh tearing and bones breaking.
On the wall just inside the pitch-black room hung a family portrait symbolizing the happiness of a family of four. At that moment, a splash of black, viscous fluid landed on it, perfectly obscuring all four faces.
An ugly, armless man knelt on the floor, using his human mouth to end the lives of the four family members infected with Black Consumption Disease one by one. Yet after biting them to death, he did not stop. He seemed somewhat crazed, chewing and swallowing every bit of the family's blackened flesh and blood.
The one eating people here was Zhang Chen. As he bit to death each town resident tormented by Black Consumption Disease, he had long forgotten what he himself looked like and was nearing madness. He crushed their limbs between his teeth and swallowed them into his body, ensuring that every resident died completely and would suffer no more.
At first, he ate very slowly. Consuming even one corpse took twenty minutes.
However, as Zhang Chen devoured the town residents alive one after another, his soul as a ghost underwent constant distortion during this vile process. The growth of negative emotions reopened the potential of his supposedly fixed soul, and a quality related to "eating" was continuously being implanted into the roots of Zhang Chen's soul.
As time passed, Zhang Chen's feeding speed grew faster and faster.
Logically, with