Desperate Roar: Bloody Battle with Malevolent Ghosts

[Day Thirty-Four. You discover the dense fleshy tumors on the highway are gone, leaving only a sticky, foul-smelling residue.

You find some hairs among the residue, seemingly having nurtured something extraordinary.

In the afternoon, at a highway fork, you choose the direction towards Lincheng.

But soon, a massive pit appears on the road ahead, from which faint crying sounds can be heard. You choose to take a detour.

Some ghostly energy seeps out and follows you as you leave.]

[Day Thirty-Five. Night.

You see a giant, ancient black castle in the mountains.

The castle gate is open, and a carriage made of bones slowly emerges.

A man and a woman are sitting in the carriage.

The man wears a crown and holds a wilting rose in his hand.

He is filthy and foul-smelling, his face a bloody mess with worms wriggling ceaselessly.

The woman wears a formal dress, sexy and alluring, with delicate features and skin as white as snow. She is constantly kissing the man.

Worms crawl in and out of her mouth.

A terrifying wave of ghostly energy washes over you, seeping into your body.

Your cultivation skyrockets, and your Invincible Body actually breaks through to the Fifth Tier!

The Fifth Tier Invincible Body undergoes a mutation, and three small figures appear within you. They are connected to your bloodline, and when you suffer a fatal blow, they can die in your stead.

The beings in the carriage do not notice you spying from a distance. You hatch a bold plan.

You quietly leave with the Little Monk and Shen Yingning.

After putting some distance between you, you have the Ghost Infant take the cursed "Missing Face Notice" and pursue the carriage.

As it gets close to the carriage, the Ghost Infant transforms into bone fragments.

However, the curses from over thirty "Missing Face Notices" are successfully unleashed.

You hear a strange burst of laughter.]

"Another Hell Fairy Tale?"

Jiang Qiao mused, but couldn't find any similar stories.

The Snow White he encountered last time was well-known, so he recognized it immediately.

If it were some obscure story, he really wouldn't have figured it out.

Still, releasing the curse of the "Missing Face Notice" on this Hell Fairy Tale was indeed a similar approach to dealing with the Braided Girl.

He just didn't know if it would be effective.

[Day Thirty-Six. You arrive at the Lincheng Shelter Camp and see bodies being buried everywhere.

Thanks to your intelligence, the Evolvers did not breach the Lincheng Shelter Camp, but the camp paid a heavy price.

The former administrator, Ma Baoguo, is missing, and the current administrator is named Sun Xiaochuan.

He tells you the shelter camp is in dire straits and can barely afford food.

You ignore him and instead take a large number of Evolver corpses from the city.]

[Day Thirty-Seven. You discover an Evolver squad, and you can't be bothered to act.

Shen Yingning and the Little Monk cooperate, one using semi-transparent tentacles for control, the other spraying wildly with an enchanted shotgun.

You find the Little Monk's "Buddha's Light Shotgun" quite cool and give him a thumbs-up.

You find a "New Human" business card on one of the Evolvers.]

[Day Thirty-Eight. You encounter another group of Evolvers on a mountain path. They are carrying a coffin, inside which sits a pale old man.

Shen Yingning recognizes him with surprise and tells you his name is Zhu Yuandong. Before the Supernatural Revival, he was the husband of a wealthy woman.

You ambush the group.

When the old man enters the toxic zone, the Lightning Prayer Beads, Explosive Wooden Fish, Namo Gatling, and Shoulder-mounted Primordial Lord Rocket Launcher are all unleashed upon him.

They suffer heavy casualties instantly.

You seize the opportunity to attack.

The old man is very strong, but under the planned encirclement, he quickly falls into a disadvantage.

Finally, he is defeated and killed.

You find his identification, which reads "North District Deputy Manager."

In addition, there is a golden box.

You have the Ghost Infant open it from 500 meters away, successfully obtaining a Vermillion Fruit, but the Ghost Infant unluckily gets cursed.

You believe that more debts are not a burden, and more lice are not a nuisance.

With no turning back, you have the Ghost Infant stick a "Missing Face Notice" on itself and lie down outside the black castle, away from the group.]

You and your teammates are on your way back to Bin City.]

Damn.

Jiang Qiao found this amusing.

This box had a tracking curse, and now the curse was on the Ghost Infant, which had run off to that Hell Fairy Tale castle.

If an Evolver really went looking for it, it would be quite entertaining.

What's more, the Ghost Infant was also tagged with a "Missing Face Notice."

If an Evolver wasn't careful, some unlucky soul would fall victim.

Even he himself, had fallen victim when the Mad Scientist was around back then.

[Day Thirty-Nine. You swallowed the Vermillion Fruit, and your "Dual Pupils" began to transform, advancing towards the Third Tier.]

[...]

[Day Forty-Two. In the evening, you and your team, covered in dust from your journey, returned to the new address of the Bin City Shelter Camp, a small town more than fifty kilometers away from Bin City.

The atmosphere in the town was tense at this time.

Because news had arrived in the morning that Malevolent Ghosts from Bin City were fleeing in large numbers.

At night, you secretly cultivated a plant using the pit of the Vermillion Fruit, with the nutrient coming from the corpses of Evolvers obtained in Lincheng. You had the Little Monk perform blessings on it every day.]

[Day Forty-Three. At noon, news arrived from the front lines: all the Malevolent Ghosts in Bin City had disappeared.

In the afternoon, Ancheng, overcoming numerous difficulties, organized a massive team of Awakeners and successfully transported a large batch of combat support supplies.

Thanks to your technical assistance, a large number of weapons had been undergoing intensive modifications for the past half month and now filled several warehouses.

At night, you used stealth and returned to Bin City for an adventure, lurking outside the North City District.]

[Day Forty-Four. At dawn, you witnessed the smog in the North City District disappear. Faintly, you seemed to see a festive procession with gongs and drums.

You sensed wisps of ghostly energy emanating from the procession.

At night, you returned to the Shelter Camp. Your Mad Scientist had been upgraded to the Fourth Tier.]

[Day Forty-Five. You saw a rain of paper money falling from the sky in the distance, but it did not reach the vicinity of the Shelter Camp.

The number of Awakeners at the Shelter Camp had already surpassed a thousand. You had them divide into multiple small teams to closely monitor the area around Bin City for the appearance of any Evolvers.]

[Day Forty-Six. Using the flower you cultivated with the Vermillion Fruit, it bore a strange fruit that looked like a skull.

After swallowing it, your Lightning Thunder Fist broke through to the Fifth Tier.

Inside your body, within that spherical lightning, a damaged Thunder Spirit was gestating, and your connection with lightning deepened.]

[Day Forty-Seven. At dawn, a patch of sky resembling a sea of fire suddenly appeared in the distance. Even from over fifty kilometers away, you could see the immense malevolent aura rising from the direction of Bin City.

It seemed that you were far enough from Bin City to avoid being impacted.

However, you still frowned, daring not to relax your vigilance.]

[Day Forty-Eight. Everything was normal. The malevolent aura continued to surge in the distance.]

[Day Forty-Nine. Still no movement.]

[...]

[Day Fifty-Five. Early in the morning, you received a report that the sky in the direction of Bin City had darkened.

You observed from afar and saw a door faintly appearing in the sky.

The door had ancient patterns and exuded a mysterious aura.

You realized it was the gate of the castle you had seen in the mountains!]

[Day Fifty-Six. Terrifying screams echoed.

In the distance, the black sky and the sea of fire overlapped, and you saw two terrifying Malevolent Ghosts confronting each other.

One was wearing an old floral shirt with braids on both the front and back of its head.

The other was wearing a black cloak, beneath which was a blood-red skull mask.

However, the man and woman from the carriage last time were not seen.

Soon, the two Malevolent Ghosts engaged in combat.]

[Day Fifty-Seven. The Braided Girl killed the Black Cloak, and foul-smelling ghost blood splattered across the sky.

However, she was also severely wounded.

After the Black Cloak died, a damaged Ghost Infant fell from its hand.

The Braided Girl suddenly turned her gaze towards you.

You inwardly cursed your bad luck.

She let out a howl and charged directly at you.

With nowhere to run, you could only fight back!]

This is a battle for Tier 5!

The Braided Girl is heavily injured, and you've just entered Tier 5.

You are evenly matched and fight as one.

But you know that the living cannot outlast malevolent ghosts.

You start to fall behind.

One of your Golden Men shatters, sacrificing itself for you.

You grit your teeth and shake the Fate Dice!

Result: 2!

RUMBLE! Another one of your Golden Men shatters.

You refuse to accept this and shake it again!

Result: 4.

Not enough!

Not enough!!

The dice spin like mad.

Another one of your Golden Men shatters.

You've lost all your sacrifices, and the Braided Girl's injuries begin to heal.

With lingering resentment, you shake the dice one last time.

If you lose, you die here!

The dice spin and spin, time stretching on.

Your injuries worsen, and you slowly lose the ability to resist.

The features on your face begin to melt away; you've been cursed.

A braid whips towards you.

You can't dodge. You watch it fall with a face full of unwillingness and despair.

However, the next moment, a figure rushes forward.

The Little Monk riding a black cat instantly blocks your path.

The braid silently splits them in two.

They don't even have time to glance back at you.

The braid shows a slight pause.

The next moment, translucent tentacles wrap around the braid, shattering it instantly. Shen Yingning, standing below, bleeds from all seven orifices.

The braid shows a second slight pause.

Tears stream from your eyes.

Two breaths, that's all.

But the Fate Dice finally stops.

Result: 6!

Your eyes sting, and your Dual Pupils complete their metamorphosis!

Within your pupils, a grayness spills out, quickly spreading and infecting the surroundings.

Filled with rage and grief, you look at the Braided Girl.

The Thunder Spirit within your body appears in your hand, following the grayness!

"Die for me!"

Amidst your roar, lightning engulfs the area.

But there is no sound.

You kill the Braided Girl.

You are dead.

[Simulation ended]

[Host survived for 57 days, cooldown time: 114 minutes]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Talent "Share with Those Who See" (SSR). It will be automatically used in the next simulation.]