Blood Water

A blood-red room, blood-red lighting, a blood-red bathtub.

"That old hag died so quickly. It seems I've attracted a big one this time, haha, there's hope, there's hope. I wonder what the outside world has become, they've probably almost forgotten about me."

A voice slowly emerged from the blood-filled bathtub, echoing throughout the room.

It was the same handsome foreign man from before. This time, not only his head was visible, but his body also gradually floated up from the bloody water. However, his body was still forming, with his heart, stomach, and intestines slowly assembling from strands of blood.

In a short while, the foreign man had a body, but his limbs had not yet formed. However, looking at the man's expression, he seemed quite satisfied.

"Even though I've waited so long, I really don't want to wait another day. Thinking of those little kids outside, their soft skin, their sweet blood. Haha, I need to be fast, I need to be quick."

The man lay in the bathtub, laughing wildly and without restraint. Then, a portion of the blood from his body slowly flowed down the bathtub and seeped into the floor.

Zhang Chen had initially thought that dealing with whatever was in the villa might be a bit tricky, but with Jia Xin as a helper, it shouldn't be a big problem.

However, it now seemed that even their own self-preservation might be an issue, so Zhang Chen began planning to leave the place. But they would have to wait until Jia Xin recovered before they could discuss it.

Jia Xin, who had walked to the second floor, called Zhang Chen to Shen Qiutian's room. The door was not closed, and Shen Qiutian was lying quietly on the bed, showing no apparent abnormalities.

"Zhang Chen, put me next to her."

Zhang Chen placed Jia Xin beside Shen Qiutian's bed. Jia Xin pressed the pulse on her left wrist with two fingers, then directly pulled out a silver needle from the back of her neck.

"This is..." Zhang Chen was about to speak.

"Later," Jia Xin interrupted him, and then the two of them left the room, closed the door, and returned to Jia Xin's room.

Jia Xin's injuries were severe. The medicinal power was repairing her wounds, but the previous tearing seemed to have worsened. After returning to the room, Jia Xin sat down on the floor, took out silver needles, and sealed several acupoints on her front.

"Do me a favor and insert a few thin needles into my back." After speaking, Jia Xin produced several silver needles from somewhere and handed them to Zhang Chen.

"This... I haven't studied acupuncture!" Zhang Chen was taken aback.

"I'll tell you where to put them. The first one, below the spinous process of the fifth thoracic vertebra, two finger-widths to the left and right, insert one-third of the way."

Zhang Chen fumbled with the silver needle, and with Jia Xin's detailed instructions, finally inserted the first needle.

"Okay, the second one, between the spinous processes of the first and second thoracic vertebrae, four finger-widths to the left and right, insert halfway."

With the experience from the first needle, Zhang Chen quickly inserted the second one.

In this way, under Jia Xin's guidance, a total of 31 needles were inserted into his back, allowing Zhang Chen to practice the acupuncture technique quite proficiently.

"Thanks, Zhang Chen. You can go back and rest. My injuries will heal after today. We can discuss the house tomorrow." Jia Xin seemed to need to do something that others couldn't see, so she dismissed Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen nodded and returned to his room. He thought about the silver needle in Shen Qiutian's neck.

"Earlier, as soon as I entered the mirror world, Jia Xin went out to look for ghosts. Could she have gone to Shen Qiutian's room? Can this mirror world directly affect the real world?"

Zhang Chen was very fortunate that he had decisively killed the ballet ghost. If his deduction was correct, Wang Yizhi and the others might be in danger.

Jia Xin, sitting alone in the room, still felt a lingering fear recalling her solo actions in the mirror world.

At that time, she had been tightly held by Shen Qiutian, completely falling into the trap set by the ballet ghost behind her, almost facing a certain death situation.

But at that moment, with a "try it and see" mentality, she shouted at Shen Qiutian, "Qiutian!" This was because she remembered what her master had taught her: humans, though fragile, possess strong obsessions and cannot be completely controlled by monsters. As long as one can trigger the obsession in a person's heart, they can be brought back to their senses.

As Shen Qiutian's classmate for three years, Jia Xin knew very well that this girl's obsession was Jia Xin himself.

After that shout, Shen Qiutian's originally white eyes slowly revealed pupils, and the hands tightly holding Jia Xin gradually loosened. However, the attack from behind had already arrived.

The normally indifferent Jia Xin actually threw Shen Qiutian away, leaving herself no time to dodge, resulting in her waist being pierced and even her kidneys being injured. This was also the main reason why she couldn't fight the ghost afterward.

Not wanting Qiutian to see all this, nor to be harmed again, she moved her fingers, and a silver needle directly pierced Shen Qiutian's neck, who was lying on the bed, rendering her unconscious.

She then endured several attacks that were impossible to detect before escaping Shen Qiutian's bedroom. The silver needle in her hand had directly passed through the ghost without causing any damage.

"This time, I really have to thank Zhang Chen from Yufang Middle School. I don't know how he could see these invisible attacks and even block them consecutively. It seems I really overestimated myself; Master was right."

"And there's also Qiutian, this girl. Let's hope she can safely get through this ordeal."

Jia Xin sighed and stopped thinking. Then, she continuously formed hand seals, and the silver needles on her body began to be expelled from her body one by one. Her wounds also began to heal at an inhuman speed.

Night fell.

Wang Yizhi and Dai Xu had long since fallen asleep. However, in the corner of the dark room, a "drip, drip" sound of dripping water began to echo.

Red blood first seeped out drop by drop from the cracks in the ceiling, falling onto the floor, gradually forming a pool of bright red blood.

The blood seemed to have a life of its own, slowly wriggling towards the bed where the two were sleeping. Just as the blood was about to reach the edge of the bed, the wardrobe was opened, and a small red insect flew towards the blood at extreme speed, appearing extremely excited.

The blood seemed to sense the approach of the Blood Beetle and began to wriggle towards the corner in a panic, but it was no match for the speed of the Blood Beetle's flight.

Inside Zhang Chen's room.

Zhang Chen, who was fast asleep, felt the Blood Beetle in his left arm suddenly become agitated, scurrying around in his arm. This also woke Zhang Chen up.

"Yizhi!" Seeing the Blood Beetle's restlessness, Zhang Chen's first thought was of Wang Yizhi. He casually grabbed a pair of shorts and put them on his feet before heading directly to Wang Yizhi's dormitory. He used his telekinesis to directly open the locked door and, without thinking too much, rushed in.

Using the faint moonlight in the room, Zhang Chen first used his telekinesis to sense the physical conditions of Wang Yizhi and Dai Xu. Finding that they were merely sleeping normally, he felt greatly relieved.

Zhang Chen then saw a large pool of blood motionless in the corner of the wall. From this blood, Zhang Chen felt the same sensation the house had given him when he first entered the villa. Moreover, another Blood Beetle Zhang Chen had placed in Wang Yizhi's bedroom was now within this blood.

However, something Zhang Chen hadn't expected happened: the Blood Beetle on his arm flew out on its own. This was the first time such a thing had occurred.

The Blood Beetle plunged headfirst into the blood, and before long, the entire large pool of blood was consumed. What remained on the ground were five Blood Beetles, and their red carapaces seemed even more vibrant than before.

All five Blood Beetles could establish a connection with Zhang Chen. Three immediately flew into Zhang Chen's left arm, while the remaining two were left behind in the room by Zhang Chen, just in case.

Seeing that Wang Yizhi and Dai Xu were not woken up, Zhang Chen felt somewhat fortunate, as it saved him a lot of unnecessary explanations.

Returning to his room, Zhang Chen could clearly feel that the Blood Beetles had not only reproduced more than three but had also become much stronger. Yet, Zhang Chen couldn't feel happy at all.

The pool of blood in Wang Yizhi's bedroom seemed to be only a very small part separated from the main body, yet it allowed the Blood Beetles to reproduce and grow stronger after feeding. The last time a low-level vengeful ghost was devoured by the Blood Beetles, only one was reproduced, and its abilities remained unchanged. This time, just a small part of the main body caused such a change in the Blood Beetles; what exactly was this thing's main body?

"Tomorrow, I must discuss with Jia Xin. We can't stay in this place for long. I imagine that terrifying entity is likely still under some kind of restriction, otherwise, we would all probably be dead by now."

"Could it be that everything was planned a year ago, using us as a catalyst to bring this great entity back into the world? But why us, and where is the breakthrough point?"

"Not good," Zhang Chen suddenly interrupted his thoughts and immediately sent out three Blood Beetles to check the rooms on the second floor.

"I don't know if it will be too late. I was so worried about Wang Yizhi earlier that I forgot about everyone else."

In Gong Yuanwu's room on the second floor, on the right side

While Zhang Chen was dealing with the strange blood in Wang Yizhi's bedroom, a large mass of blood had also gathered in the corner of Gong Yuanwu's room. However, this guy wasn't as lucky.

The blood wriggled and slowly crawled along the edge of the bed onto Gong Yuanwu's body, then slowly moved towards his head.

However, this sturdy young man from the middle school seemed to sense the presence of something foreign on his body. He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the large mass of red blood in front of him.

"Nngh! Nngh!" The man was about to shout loudly when the blood, like a slime, directly sealed his mouth. Then, this living mass of blood separated into two thin strands that followed the contours of Gong Yuanwu's cheeks and drilled into his ear canals.

Gong Yuanwu's eyes were wide open, bloodshot, staring intently at the mass of blood before him, seemingly enduring immense pain as his entire body twitched uncontrollably.

After a while, a yellow liquid flowed out of Gong Yuanwu's nostrils, and transparent, viscous liquid overflowed from his eyes. The man slumped down as if dead.

Ten minutes later, all the red blood had entered Gong Yuanwu's head. The previously deceased Gong Yuanwu suddenly sat up from the bed, went to the bathroom, and washed the foreign substance from his face.

The 'Gong Yuanwu' returned to the bed, a slight smile on his lips, and sat motionlessly by the bedside, as if plotting something.

At this moment, Zhang Chen's Blood Beetles flew to Gong Yuanwu's room. After staying outside for a while and seemingly finding nothing, they left...

ps: Today is a very important day for this book, and also a very important day for me, Afat.

First, the book will be featured in a category channel's strong recommendation this afternoon, which is crucial for its success. Second, today is my maternal grandmother's 80th birthday, and the family will be going out early. Regardless, the daily update of two chapters, each over 3000 words, will not change. Afat hopes that everyone who has recommendation votes will cast them for me, and those who can support me, I hope everyone will give me a little. I will continue to write the book well, so that everyone can read it comfortably and with excitement.