"Hello, young man."
The elegant woman clearly froze for a moment at Fu Qian's sudden greeting, then let out a giggle.
Her eyes had a strange, dazed look, like a crouching beast.
Ever since the five of them had entered, she had been staring at them like that.
With blood gurgling in her mouth, Fu Qian had no doubt she might lunge at someone and take a bite at any moment.
Fortunately, after answering Fu Qian, her gaze grew a little clearer, as if she had remembered that she was human.
She could still talk. There was hope!
It seemed she hadn't completely lost her mind.
Fu Qian had judged correctly. His interest grew, and he decided to continue with his plan to draw her attention.
"Ma'am, you're beautiful. Would you be interested in getting up close and personal?"
Worried that some boring pick-up line wouldn't get her attention, he chose to get straight to the point.
Hehe!
The beautiful woman covered her mouth with one hand. Her pupils slowly turned as she let out a delicate laugh.
"That's a very rude question, but you're full of life, and you look delicious."
"But are you sure you'd still like me if I looked like this?"
The elegant woman leaned back slightly, revealing her swollen belly. She gently stroked it with one hand, her gaze soft.
"It's fine. I like kids."
Fu Qian's expression didn't change in the slightest.
"Is that so? Wonderful..."
The beautiful woman's smile grew increasingly sweet.
"I like them too... especially young ones."
He won't let us do anything, but he's gone off to flirt?
And with the evil being he was talking about?
The four people in the distance were dumbstruck, their sanity and decency taking a merciless beating from the scene before them.
In that short time, the bloody shards dripping from the elegant woman's face had stained her chest red.
The contrast of red and white made her even more alluring.
Yet Fu Qian acted as if he didn't see a thing, his gaze still tender and his words still vulgar and lewd.
This kid can't be allowed to live!
Watching this, Buzz Cut Man couldn't help muttering to himself, feeling the urge to crack his knuckles.
He was so perverted at such a young age. Given time, he'd surely become a menace.
This guy really had come prepared. He knew far too much that we didn't.
Captain was a little more level-headed. He knew Fu Qian was buying them time, but he still couldn't keep his thoughts from churning.
Still, despite his agitation, Captain immediately pulled out his Great Killer Weapon.
"Cover me!"
He shouted under his breath, took aim, and began charging it.
With Fu Qian keeping the target distracted, locking on couldn't have been easier.
The elegant woman had even been led into turning her back to them!
If this didn't work, he might as well bash his head against the wall.
As the lightning flickered and gathered wildly, Captain grew more and more tense.
At last, with the other three guarding him, the lightning in Captain's hands swelled to its limit.
The next moment, endless bolts of lightning engulfed the elegant woman.
Sitting just across a table from her, Fu Qian felt as if his eyes were about to go blind.
The elegant woman's body was like a stalk of rice in a gale, collapsing at the slightest touch.
From skin to bone, she was annihilated, reduced to ash.
Only then did a mass of gray shadow begin to struggle violently at her abdomen.
Layer upon layer of barriers appeared and shattered in an instant. Finally, it exploded soundlessly into a cloud of black mist, which slowly dissipated.
Was she dead?
The magnificent Lightning Railgun fell silent.
The four Night Watchers all let out a long breath.
Captain had reached his limit. He nearly collapsed to his knees.
It was clear that controlling the thing took a tremendous amount of strength.
"Check the surrounding area—"
He struggled to his feet, but before Captain could finish speaking, a hand pierced through his chest.
Everyone froze, staring at the Old Man behind Captain in disbelief.
The Old Man gave a strange smile. The next moment, Bone Blades jutted from his withered hand, completely ending Captain's life.
[The Evil God's Progeny has descended. Containment failed]
It still didn't die?
Back in the Warehouse, Fu Qian had come to understand just how hard it was to deal with an evil god.
After the elegant woman had been reduced to ash, he hadn't received a mission-completion notice, which had already made him suspicious.
Unfortunately, the Old Man had moved too quickly.
Now that he thought about it, could the thing still possess someone else and complete its descent, even after the body it had descended into was destroyed?
Impossible!
If it were truly immortal and could possess anyone at will, it could have slaughtered everyone one after another. Why, then, had it reacted so strongly to the Lightning Railgun?
But the Old Man had indeed been possessed. Was there something special about him?
That notebook!
Fu Qian's eyes lit up as he thought of something.
He remembered the Old Man saying that he'd found the notebook nearby, and the ritual's coded text had come from it too.
In a sense, it made perfect sense that the notebook was connected to the brother who wanted to descend.
Considering the Old Man had kept it close to his body, it was entirely possible that the thing had used it to possess him and return to life.
But if that was what had happened, things were even more complicated.
[Sanity Value -1, entering Containment Scene]
Frowning, Fu Qian chose to enter again.
Once more, he played the expert, leading everyone underground before going up to flirt and giving Captain the chance to unleash his ultimate weapon.
This time, though, after Captain fired, Fu Qian didn't stay to watch the evil god's destruction. He immediately withdrew.
The instant the shadow struggled and vanished in the lightning, Fu Qian unhesitatingly fired five Air Bullets at the Great Killer Weapon in Captain's hands.
As everyone stared in horrified disbelief, the lightning beam—which hadn't yet stopped—reacted at once.
After a violent shudder, the beam exploded from its source, and blue-white lightning instantly engulfed the entire hall.
The terrifying impact flung Fu Qian away without the slightest suspense.
A moment later, the lightning died down. Fu Qian picked himself up and saw several others lying on the ground as well.
The Old Man, who had been closest and was the weakest, had been reduced to a charred lump.
Captain and Buzz Cut Man were also on their last legs.
The only one still standing was White Porcelain Woman Su Gao.
She was leaning on her knife, looking at him with a complicated expression.
Her entire body was covered in the same glass-like cracks, and she looked ready to fall apart at any moment.
A truly gruesome sight!
...It still wasn't over?
Covered in wounds himself, Fu Qian still hadn't received a containment-success notice.
He narrowed his eyes and swept the area. Not far from the Old Man's corpse, he spotted a notebook shining brightly, its pages even turning on their own.
It had fallen out?
Fu Qian's heart stirred. Seeing the crimson light on the notebook seem to come alive, he grabbed it and clutched it in his hand.
The next moment, pain shot through his palm.
Almost instantly, a cold, sinister presence enveloped him.
Fu Qian felt his thoughts rapidly filling with a frenzied desire to kill as his reason swiftly faded.
Just as he'd expected, the thing wanted to possess him through the notebook.
No wonder it was an evil god. Its vitality was truly astounding.
Praising it even as he spoke, Fu Qian raised his right hand.
He felt around beneath his ribs until he found a cut.
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