Time Ghoul

Time Ghoul

Another scarlet, mocking message appeared on Chen Yu's phone.

[You have been targeted by the Most Powerful Time Ghoul.]

[Oh my, my dear Old Baby. To encounter It... I really don't know whether to call you lucky or unlucky. As an ordinary human, before the Time Ghoul, you are probably no better off than an ant before a tiger.]

[Strange, strange. Why would the Time Ghoul appear here? It is one of the High-Dimensional Top Ghouls.]

[Control It? What a joke. You should think about how to die with a little dignity instead. This really is an unfair game, isn't it? How delightful.]

[The moment you lock eyes with the Time Ghoul, It begins plundering your time. Your time shall belong to the Time Ghoul.]

Click!

A crisp ticking sound rang out in Chen Yu's mind.

The clock within his left eyeball twitched.

Click!

Another crisp sound rang out.

The clock twitched again!

As the time in his eyeball ticked away,

Chen Yu felt some of his bodily functions rapidly slipping away.

His skin began to wither at a terrifying pace. Nasolabial folds, crow's feet, wrinkles, age spots, and white hair appeared across his head and face.

Chen Yu felt that with every tick of time, his lifespan was being stripped away!

If he continued weakening at this rate, Chen Yu would become a completely white-haired old man within two minutes.

And time had not stopped.

"What the hell is this... What's happening to me..."

Chen Yu cried out, only to discover that his voice had already turned hoarse, like that of an elderly man whose body was about to decay.

[The Anomaly Era would like to remind you that beta tester Chen Yu is currently having his time plundered by the Time Ghoul.]

[For every second the clock hand moves, time plundered: three years!]

[It seems you will be meeting your end very soon. Let me make the most of your remaining time and walk you through the process, introducing the rules of the game~]

[Ghouls cannot be killed.]

[Only ghouls can fight ghouls.]

[Mortals can control ghouls, but they must pay with their lifespan and bodies. So, in a sense, it would be more accurate to say that humans worship ghouls.]

[Of course, the Time Ghoul is not an existence that mortals are qualified to worship. You may go in peace.]

"Fuck! What kind of joke is this? I haven't lived enough yet!"

Chen Yu was dumbfounded. He was only twenty, in the prime of his youth, yet this eyeball had just stolen his time?

The Blood Pupil had no intention of understanding Chen Yu's anger. It continued stripping away his time, second by second.

At that most perilous moment,

Grrr...

A fierce wave of hunger suddenly surged up from Chen Yu's stomach.

Looking at the scarlet, eerie Blood Pupil in the mirror, Chen Yu inexplicably began salivating. Craving flooded his mind, and the hunger in his belly grew even more violent.

It was as though... a wolf that had starved for three days had spotted a fresh, juicy slab of meat!

Chen Yu had now become a white-haired old man. In a few more seconds, he would likely be on his way to the afterlife.

He could not worry about anything else anymore. If this continued, he would die!

Rather than starve to death, he might as well enjoy himself before dying!

The next moment,

he reached out and smashed his fist brutally into the mirror!

Crack!

The mirror shattered into a web of cracks!

Ignoring the blood streaming from his hand, Chen Yu thrust it into the mirror, dug the eerie eyeball out of his reflection's socket, and impatiently stuffed it into his mouth.

Crunch, crunch.

Chen Yu bit down again and again.

In an instant, endless darkness enveloped Chen Yu. All he could see was blackness!

Countless terrifying, bizarre figures, like specks of starlight in a pitch-black universe, rapidly closed in on Chen Yu.

The starlight filling the sky finally merged into one, forming a distorted clock!

Darkness.

Terror.

Distortion.

Endless panic washed over Chen Yu's soul, splitting his head with pain!

[Buzz!]

[????????]

[Friend, what did I just see?!]

[You actually ate a ghoul. I simply cannot believe what I just witnessed.]

[I told you to try controlling It, not to eat It!]

[You are truly bold beyond measure, but what does that change?]

[How could a frail human possibly withstand the power of the Time Ghoul? Next, when you explode, you will paint every corner of this bathroom. Perhaps the toilet should thank you for adding some color to it.]

Chen Yu glanced at the snide words.

A cold sensation was gradually spreading throughout his body.

It was as though he had fallen into an ice cellar. Chen Yu trembled all over, and it felt as if even his bones were about to freeze and crack.

A full ten minutes later,

Chen Yu finally felt a little warmth return to his body, as though someone had pulled him out of icy water.

His heartbeat regained its strength.

[Incredible! Incredible!! Unimaginable!]

[What exactly are you? You ate the Time Ghoul alive and remained completely unharmed?!]

[This is an outcome that was never anticipated... Could your existence itself be a bug in the game?]

[But fortunately, this bug will soon be erased.]

[Because you are already over eighty years old. Your remaining years are reserved for you to bid farewell to this world.]

His phone rang, and scarlet words appeared on the screen again.

Only this time, the shock in those words practically spilled out of the screen.

It was the first time it had ever encountered someone eating a ghoul.

However, Chen Yu had no time to look at the prompts on his phone.

When Chen Yu regained consciousness, a message appeared on the phone screen—

[Level-three ghoul: Time Ghost Eye. Potential rating: ten stars.]

[Devouring successful!]

[Time Ghost Eye description: Can deprive targets of their time through "seeing"!]

After the voice faded,

countless veins bulged across Chen Yu's body like bluish-black little snakes, winding and crawling over every inch of him.

Chen Yu's head felt as though it were splitting apart. His body felt as if someone were tearing and gnawing at it, nearly pushing him to collapse!

The pain reached into the depths of his soul! It was unbearable.

Fortunately, the agony lasted only a few dozen seconds before vanishing.

The next moment!

A clear current flowed through Chen Yu's entire body.

Every pore on his body opened at that moment.

Everything before his eyes first twisted strangely, then gradually became clear.

In the blink of an eye, his eyeball filled with blood vessels, like tiny living snakes madly claiming territory.

In less than a few seconds, a Ghost Pupil appeared in Chen Yu's right eye!

What shocked Chen Yu, however, was that the Time Ghost Eye in his right eye had been acquired by devouring a ghoul, so he could control it!

He hurriedly rotated his right eyeball!

Tick!

Previously, the Time Ghost Eye in the mirror had ticked clockwise, signifying that time was being plundered.

But now, the Time Ghost Eye in Chen Yu's right eye rotated counterclockwise, signifying that time was reversing!

(End of Chapter)