I'm Just a Passing Wild...

Chapter 2: I'm Just a Passing Wild...

Lu Yuanming squeezed into the elevator, his mind filled with the scene of two souls being pulled into Building C Tower.

This was completely different from what he knew.

In Year 2028, although countless ghosts and curses ran rampant, those killed by these entities would fall into the Dark Matter World. At least, Lu Yuanming had never heard from Alfred or Tang Zhean about souls being devoured.

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However, Tang Zhean had indeed mentioned that the number of deaths above did not match the number of souls falling into the Dark Matter World. But this was basically because there wasn't enough dark matter coverage around when those people died. Without dark matter, souls would quickly annihilate after death, making it impossible for them to fall into the Dark Matter World...

(Speaking of which, it's June Year 2024 now. At this point in time, it seems only the secret base in New York, USA, has enough dark matter, right? I did hear Alfred mention back then that only in that laboratory could souls be materialized and then fall into the Dark Matter World. Moreover, the USA was still researching soul immortality at this point in time, and those aging tycoons also started injecting capital around this time... So why can souls be condensed in CQ now?)

Lu Yuanming's thoughts were in a mess. The current situation was completely different from what he knew. Both Alfred and Tang Zhean's earliest known timeline for the global appearance of curses and ghosts was Year 2027.

As Lu Yuanming pondered these doubts, the elevator reached the first floor. The people in the elevator began to rush out of Building A, and Lu Yuanming followed the crowd towards Building C Tower.

Crowds always liked to join in the excitement. This time, so many police cars had entered the residential area, followed by the setting up of a cordon, the cutting off of all power to the entire building (as the citizens believed), and then a group of police officers rushing into the building. This must be a major event.

When Lu Yuanming arrived at the main road of the residential area, he saw at least one to two hundred people gathered outside the cordon. At least one-third of them were holding up their phones to film. The police officers outside Building C were constantly preventing them from getting closer or filming, especially forbidding them from filming the two people who were about to jump off the building. At the same time, Lu Yuanming also saw that more than half of the police officers were looking upstairs with concern. Several of them were constantly speaking into their walkie-talkies, but clearly, the walkie-talkies had no response.

Lu Yuanming gradually approached Building C with the flow of people. The surrounding crowd did not dare to cross the cordon casually, only looking inside from outside the cordon. These people were still discussing what kind of major event it was. Some said it was drug dealers, some said a murderer had appeared, and some said a group of people were going to jump off the building collectively.

Lu Yuanming also stood in the crowd. He looked at the group of police officers at the entrance of Building C. As his attention focused, it was as if a magnifying glass appeared before his eyes. He could easily see the faces, clothing, expressions of these police officers, and even the walkie-talkies in their hands and the fingerprints on their palms. Moreover, as his attention focused, everything around him began to slow down.

(...My sense of time from my soul state has been preserved, and my senses such as vision and hearing have been greatly enhanced... It's just a pity that the soul cannot act on matter. Uh, that's not right either. If the soul cannot act on matter, then what are these curses and ghosts?)

Lu Yuanming's heart was filled with doubt. He watched the police officers closest to Building C, and the sounds in his ears gradually isolated the surrounding noise. He heard what these police officers were saying.

"...Cave two, cave three, cave four, cave five, this is Cave, this is Cave, please respond if you hear me, please respond if you hear me!"

The police officer standing closest to Building C was a middle-aged man with graying hair. He was speaking anxiously into his walkie-talkie, but there was no response from the walkie-talkie, only static.

At this moment, a police officer behind the middle-aged police officer said, "Captain Wang, the experts say they'll be here in three minutes, they're almost at the entrance of the residential area."

"Bullshit experts! Weren't the people who went in just now experts too!? They even said the domain had just begun to unfold, and this was the best time to break through the ghosts. And what happened? All four teams that went in went silent! A total of twenty people! Three experts went in with twenty people, where are they!?"

The middle-aged police officer named Captain Wang roared in a suppressed voice. As he spoke, he glanced at the citizens outside the cordon, muttering something under his breath. He immediately said to the police officer next to him, "There are too many people, find a way to evacuate them all. We don't know the situation inside, what if the danger affects the people outside!?"

The police officers next to him all looked troubled. One police officer asked, "But Captain Wang, the cordon has already been set up, and all these onlookers are outside the cordon. Moreover, some of them live in this building, their homes are here, and there's no way to evacuate them."

Captain Wang was also extremely distressed. He kept rubbing his hair and constantly speaking into his walkie-talkie, but there was still no response.

Lu Yuanming clearly heard all of this, especially after hearing the word "experts," which gave him more conjectures.

Clearly, these police officers should already know that supernatural events exist, which means this is definitely not the first curse and ghost incident. They also mentioned the existence of experts, which means government agencies are very familiar with supernatural events, hence the existence of so-called experts.

But how was this possible?

It's currently Year 2024, and there are still at least three years before the large-scale appearance of curses and ghosts...

Just as Lu Yuanming was puzzled, his eyes suddenly widened. He saw many thin threads extending from Building C Tower. The first to be affected were the police officers standing at the entrance of the building. These threads directly attached to their heads. The police officers immediately stared blankly, then walked stiffly into the building. Next were other police officers. In about ten seconds, all these police officers were ensnared by the threads and walked into the building.

That wasn't all. These threads extended outwards. The dozens of citizens closest to the cordon were also entangled by these threads. They directly pulled open the cordon and walked in, following behind the police officers into Building C Tower without looking back.

At this time, the citizens also noticed something was wrong. This was Z Country. While there might be onlookers, and perhaps people who dared to confront the police, there weren't many who dared to be so brazen in front of so many police officers and pull open a cordon to enter a murder scene. Suddenly, dozens of people walked into the cordon on their own. A significant portion of them were not alone; their family or friends were outside. Seeing them suddenly walk towards Building C Tower, their family and friends began to shout or tried to grab them. However, they continued forward as if nothing was happening, without looking back or showing any expression. This was truly terrifying.

The crowd present immediately erupted in an uproar. Over a hundred people fled outwards, while some called out to their relatives, but they were still unable to stop these people from entering Building C Tower.

Watching the chaotic scene, Lu Yuanming immediately followed behind these people, also adopting a stiff gait, and walked towards Building C Tower.

Thus, Lu Yuanming entered the building amidst the crowd. At this moment, Building C Tower was pitch black, all the lights having long since been extinguished. As soon as he entered the lobby, Lu Yuanming immediately smelled a strong scent of blood. By the light from outside the building, he saw three people lying inside the first-floor lobby: a person in a police uniform and two ordinary citizens. All three were covered in blood, and the ground was also stained with it. The three bodies were motionless, clearly dead.

As soon as they entered the lobby, everyone entangled by the threads immediately woke up. Dozens of citizens ran out of the lobby crying, while over a dozen police officers cautiously guarded the surroundings. Some of the police officers even drew their pistols.

"Wait, don't run towards any doors!!"

A voice echoed from the depths of the lobby. A blood-soaked police officer, leaning against the wall, crawled out and shouted hoarsely. However, the dozens of citizens were already terrified. They had never encountered such a supernatural and bizarre event in their lives; at most, it was something from novels or horror movies. Encountering it now, they had lost all reason. As the police officer shouted, three citizens had already rushed out of the main door of the lobby.

But before they could cheer, they found their bodies rapidly falling. At this moment, everyone suddenly realized that the door... no, it was clearly the window in the stairwell. They were scrambling to climb out of the windows to jump. The first three citizens to rush out fell directly down, and another two, rushing too eagerly, also flew out. Everyone could only hear their tragic screams, followed by faint thuds as they hit the ground. These five people fell silent.

"It's over... Don't go near any doors or windows!!" the blood-soaked police officer roared mournfully.

All the citizens quickly retreated back into the lobby. They were clamoring, shouting, asking questions, or burying their heads in their hands and weeping. The scene was chaotic for a time. Captain Wang ran towards the blood-soaked police officer, shouting as he ran, "Old Li, where are the others? The experts?"

The blood-soaked police officer immediately shouted again, "Don't come over, I'm bait!!"

Captain Wang paused for a moment, then suddenly slipped and fell to the ground. At this moment, he also saw the threads. The blood-soaked police officer was covered in threads, which extended straight into the darkness of the stairwell. As he got closer, the threads also wrapped around his calf. Immediately, a strong force struck, and the threads began to drag him into the darkness.

"No, Captain Wang, no, kill yourself, hurry and kill yourself!!" the blood-soaked police officer roared mournfully again.

Just as Captain Wang was about to be dragged into the dark stairwell, a giant arm suddenly reached out and stopped the threads. Everyone then saw a young man wearing an Ultraman mask standing beside Captain Wang. Behind him, a nearly three-meter-tall golden-red armored figure materialized out of thin air. It was this armored figure that stopped the threads.

"Who, who are you!?"

Several police officers shouted at once. Two of them even aimed their pistols at the young man and the armored figure.

"I'm just a passing wild..."

Lu Yuanming said with a deliberately hoarse voice, but before he could finish, two young men among the police officers, and several men among the citizens, shouted loudly.

"Stand User! He's a Stand User!!"

"...Ultraman..."

Lu Yuanming mumbled with his mouth agape. Then, he ignored them. The nearly three-meter-tall figure suddenly exerted force, and its immense strength tightened the threads. Then, everyone heard a cracking sound, and over a dozen human skulls rolled out from the dark stairwell.

Then, something was being dragged out from the depths of the dark stairwell by the threads...