Superstition Is Not Advisable—Bullying Anomalies?

The moment the third gray medium system took shape.

The fourth medium clue slowly emerged amid the haze.

This fourth medium was rather special. The moment it appeared, it caused the medium clues to change.

These medium clues resembled structures piled together from tiny twisted strips of flesh, anomalous shadows, or other substances.

They could not be seen with the naked eye.

Only after Chen Yu unleashed the Slaughter Ghost Domain could he barely perceive them.

They were shrouded in a layer of shadow.

After the fourth medium clue appeared, tiny, distorted, pitch-black lines of the indescribable began greedily spreading outward between the clues.

In the end, they intertwined and stuck together.

Once they connected.

All the medium clues became thicker and darker, and the aura they gave off became even more terrifying.

This was clearly the final medium!

As long as this last medium clue fully took shape.

The people from [Apocalypse] would lock onto Chen Yu and immediately make their move.

"Looks like they're about to act. What should I do when the time comes...?"

Chen Yu pondered.

What he was pondering was not how to deal with [Apocalypse], but who he should eat first and who would taste best.

[Apocalypse] had the Anomaly Vaccine.

The Anomaly Vaccine could prevent the anomalies controlled by [Apocalypse]'s Ghost Controllers from being infected in reverse.

So long as he dealt with the Anomaly Vaccine, everything else would fall into place.

[Big brother, what are you planning to do?]

[Those bad guys are hard to deal with, right~ They can't be infected in reverse, so even the Ghost Doll has absolutely no way to handle them.]

[Big brother, have you thought of a good solution?]

[If you can't think of one, then eat me too.]

[But the Ghost Doll has one tiny request!]

[When you eat little old me, can you take a few more bites? Just thinking about big brother biting me, ah, yaya~]

The Ghost Doll's tone carried a hint of obsession, as though she had entered some strange fantasy.

[Use more force. Better yet, bite me hard right in front of big sister, and eat my body completely clean.]

[Let's become one~!]

The more the Ghost Doll spoke, the more excited she became. It was as though some bizarre scene had sent her mind into a climax. Especially when she mentioned doing it in front of big sister, her excited voice even began to tremble.

Ah, it was simply too enticing!

"..."

Chen Yu did not even know how to respond.

It felt like the Ghost Doll had gradually become perverted after getting familiar with him.

Tong Jian's eyes remained completely calm.

Yet, in a rare gesture, she reached out and patted the Ghost Doll on the head. "Not in front of me."

Chen Yu: "..."

Was that the important part?

Neither of these two lolis, one big and one small, was normal.

Chen Yu rubbed his forehead.

"There's no need to keep talking about eating each other. The Anomaly Vaccine is indeed powerful, but I have my own way to make them choose to be infected willingly."

Chen Yu smiled and took out his phone under the Ghost Doll's baffled gaze.

Choose to be infected willingly?

The Ghost Doll was completely confused.

[Ah, big brother has played with my head until it broke.]

The Ghost Doll truly could not understand.

Her doll head was practically tilted ninety degrees.

[Have they gone insane? Why would they give up their advantage and willingly choose to let big brother infect them?]

A trace of confusion also appeared in Tong Jian's indifferent, lifeless beautiful eyes.

She, too, could not understand why those enemies from [Apocalypse] would willingly seek infection.

Chen Yu smiled but did not give them an answer.

He unlocked his screen and tapped into the Anomaly Era Official Forum.

He searched through the bounty listings for a while.

In the end, his gaze settled on an anomalous incident.

[Ghost Underworld Paper Incident. Danger Level: High Risk.]

[Incident Details: At the Yunhe Road intersection, a woman kneeling on the ground and burning Netherworld Paper appears every night at midnight. Once an unlucky person steps on or touches the ashes from the Netherworld Paper, they will sleepwalk there the following night and burn Netherworld Paper with the woman.]

[After the pitiful person targeted by the anomaly burns all the Netherworld Paper, they will begin burning themselves. Their corpse will resemble a funeral paper effigy that was burned halfway before being doused with a basin of water.]

[Warning: Do not step on the ashes of the Netherworld Paper. The ashes are the medium. Once you touch the medium, you will trigger her killing rule.]

[Bounty: Ten million Huaxia currency, 50 kilograms of gold.]

A photograph was attached beneath the bounty for this anomalous incident.

It was said that the man who took this photograph became the next person burning paper there the following day.

This photograph had been recorded at the cost of his life.

In the photograph.

At the center of the empty, pitch-black intersection.

A woman in deep red clothing sat in the middle. Her hair reached her waist, her face was deathly pale, and her eyes were vacant.

Perhaps because the photo had been taken from too far away, it was not very clear.

The woman's body was slightly twisted, making her look unlike a living person.

Burning paper in the middle of the road in the dead of night—perhaps the city inspectors were asleep. With no one to control her, she had become lawless.

There was no paper in the brazier before her, yet roaring flames burned within it.

It was both startling and hair-raising.

When the photo had been taken, the woman was tossing the Netherworld Paper in her hands into the brazier.

There were more than a thousand comments below, all talking about how dangerous this anomalous incident was.

It was said that three Ghost Controllers had already become charred paper effigies.

"The Yunhe Road intersection, right?"

"You're the one!"

Ghost Underworld Paper, a level-seven anomaly.

It could both break the deadlock and provide him with a hearty meal. Chen Yu smiled happily.

Seeing that Tong Jian had eaten almost enough, Chen Yu stood up and said to her, "Tongtong, come on. Let's go play with fire."

[Play with fire? I like playing with fire with you, big brother!]

[It would be best if one fire burned this entire Linjiang City to ashes!]

[Don't you agree, big sister? This exciting little doll is about to split apart!]

The Ghost Doll was unusually excited.

She laughed too wildly, and with a tearing sound, the crooked stitches on her mouth actually split open.

Tong Jian patted the chattering Ghost Doll, and the Ghost Doll obediently shut her mouth.

Then, she silently followed Chen Yu.

By the time they reached the Yunhe Road intersection, it was nearly eleven at night.

The intersection was empty at the moment, as passing vehicles had all taken detours.

The authorities had sealed off the anomalous incident, afraid that it would cause public panic.

So the public did not know there was an anomaly here.

The authorities' excuse was that road construction was underway in this area.

Chen Yu checked the time on his phone, then looked at the middle of the empty intersection. There were obvious traces of fire there.

So this was the place.

"It's only eleven. We came early. Ghost Underworld Paper won't appear until midnight."

Since there was nothing to do, Chen Yu sat on the edge of a nearby landscaped strip. Tong Jian also sat beside him without a word, and they waited together.

As time slowly passed.

"Th-this is the place, right?"

"That's right... We're here..."

"What do we do? What should I do? Am I going to die?"

"You'll definitely be fine. We'll help you."

Several trembling voices sounded first. Then, three girls walked over from nearby.

They were all young, looking like middle school girls—innocent and cute.

However, they all looked somewhat panicked. Their bodies trembled, and they hesitated for a long time before daring to take even one step.

Chen Yu looked puzzled.

What were several girls doing here in the middle of the night?

Just then, the trembling girls seemed to notice Chen Yu.

"Ah! A g-ghost!"

Their nerves were stretched taut. The moment they saw Chen Yu, they screamed in fright and turned to run.

[Hehe, don't be afraid. My big brother isn't a ghost.]

A childish little girl's voice stopped them.

Hearing someone on Chen Yu's side speak like a human, they suppressed their fear. Then they turned back and glanced over. "A person?"

[That's right. My big brother is human. I'm the anomaly!] The Ghost Doll's strange laughter frightened them badly once more.

Tong Jian immediately pressed her back down.

Chen Yu nodded and could not be bothered to talk with them further.

He merely offered a casual reminder. "Go home. This isn't a place you should be."

"Uh..."

One of the girls looked the most terrified. Her body shook uncontrollably, and her lips were pale and cracked, as though she had been frightened badly.

The other two girls, their eyes brimming with tears, explained the whole situation to Chen Yu.

Perhaps encountering a grown man here late at night gave them an inexplicable sense of security. The girls began talking more.

The three girls were Chen Yueting, He Zhen, and Han Lan.

It turned out that He Zhen, the girl standing in the middle, had passed by this place and accidentally stepped on some paper ashes, causing the anomaly to target her.

During the day, she had already noticed something unusual. She constantly felt that a gloomy woman was whispering in her ear, telling her to fall asleep quickly.

At midnight, she was supposed to remember to go burn Netherworld Paper together with her.

At the time, she had not taken it seriously.

But later, the feeling grew stronger and stronger. At night, that anomalous voice was like a fuse that could ignite at any moment.

She finally realized that something was wrong.

Because her home was nearby, she knew that although the authorities claimed road construction was happening here, there actually was none.

Instead, she had heard that quite a few people had died here.

Those people had most likely died after stepping on the paper ashes as well.

So she immediately told her two best friends about it.

Her two friends came up with a plan. They found a master late that night, and following the master's advice, they brought He Zhen here to offer incense and beg for forgiveness.

After He Zhen's friend finished speaking, Chen Yu looked at He Zhen and asked, "You stepped on the paper ashes?"

"Yes, so I'm waiting for the red-clothed woman who burns paper to appear at midnight. Then I'll offer her incense and kowtow... The master said that would save my life..."

He Zhen nodded. They had actually arrived a long time ago, but they had been too frightened to approach the intersection, so they had waited from a distance.

Chen Yu understood and said nothing more.

He only found it amusing.

That so-called master was simply getting people killed.

Anomalies were not ghosts. They did not care about that feudal superstition.

Coming here in the middle of the night would only make them die faster.

"Big brother, why are you here?"

He Zhen asked softly.

The man before her was cool and handsome, making her momentarily forget her own predicament.

"Me? I'm waiting too."

Chen Yu smiled as he answered.

The three girls' expressions changed slightly!

It seemed He Zhen was not the only unlucky one!

Hearing Chen Yu say that he was waiting too.

It seemed that he had been targeted as well.

Then, the three girls also sat on the landscaped strip and stared at the center of the intersection ahead.

Their backs chilled with tension, and they could not sit still.

Time slowly passed.

The fear on the three girls' faces grew increasingly obvious, and the air was filled with a grim, murderous chill.

Tong Jian remained expressionless. Her eyes held only Chen Yu.

Meanwhile, a faint smile hung on Chen Yu's lips.

Not only was he not afraid, he looked like a student waiting for the cafeteria bell to ring for lunch.

Beep, beep, beep.

A ringtone came from Chen Yu's phone.

He had set an alarm beforehand.

The alarm rang.

It was midnight.

The empty intersection was deathly silent, its pitch-black darkness evoking discomfort and revulsion.

The air around them began to grow cold and heavy.

The only sound was the rustling of leaves stirred by the cold wind.

Yet it sounded exactly like some indescribable thing groaning, whispering, and mocking your soul beside your ear.

A flicker of flame appeared in the darkness not far away.

From the sky beneath the hanging cold moon, a faint, barely visible ray of icy light fell.

At the deserted intersection, abandoned to the night wind, a woman in red had appeared in a corner at some unknown moment.

Her head was lowered, her long hair hanging down in disarray.

Her face could not be seen.

A brazier sat before her.

She held a stack of spirit money in her hand.

Suddenly, as though she sensed something.

She slightly turned her head, revealing through the gaps in her hair a deathly pale, strange, stiff, and terrifying paper-mask face.

Its eye sockets had been scribbled crookedly in black pencil, like a child's drawing.

Its eyeballs were dotted in with an eerie green brush.

Its mouth, painted bright red, curled open into an arc.

The three girls were completely stunned by the sight.

Their earlier promise to listen to the master and offer incense and kowtow was instantly wiped clean by terror.

Their bodies trembled, and they could not utter a single word for a long while.

But at that moment.

He Zhen rose from the ground like a puppet on strings, straightening in a posture no human could achieve. Then, with her eyes closed, as though asleep and sleepwalking, she staggered like a walking corpse toward the center of the intersection.

"Zhenzhen! Stop!"

"Don't go over there yet..."

Seeing He Zhen suddenly get up and walk toward the intersection, the other two girls panicked and hurried to pull her back.

But He Zhen displayed strength completely unlike her usual self.

No matter how they pulled, they could not stop He Zhen!

Even when they tore her clothes open and her undergarments were completely exposed, she did not stop moving forward.

It was as though the center of the intersection was everything to her.

The two girls completely panicked. One of them even began to cry in desperation.

They hurriedly turned pleading eyes toward Chen Yu.

They hoped Chen Yu could help them.

But in the next moment, Chen Yu's actions extinguished every last spark of hope in their hearts.

Chen Yu made no move to stop He Zhen.