Raven's Second Evolution!

In a rented room.

Wine bottles and cigarette butts were scattered all over the floor. A black-haired girl sat on the ground, covered in injuries, her eyes like stagnant water.

Inside the room, a man was smashing things and yelling at the girl.

"You've got the same rotten disposition as that bitch, you ungrateful thing! I raised you, and you're supposed to make money to support me! What's wrong with that?!"

"You actually called the cops on me, your own father! You're so filial!"

As the man spoke, he pulled out his belt. "If I'd known, I shouldn't have kept you!"

Snap!

The belt struck the girl's body, but she remained unyielding and silent.

Seeing this, the man's anger flared even more, and he increased the force of his blows!

"Cat got your tongue?!"

"You were quite talkative in front of the police earlier, weren't you? Speak up!"

Snap!

"I told you to speak!"

The man swung his belt again, but just then, a large bird suddenly smashed through the glass and flew into the room!

Crack!

"Damn it... what kind of stupid bird is this!"

The man swung his belt at the bird, but the bird suddenly spoke human words: "You're still this pathetic, Du Chun."

"Living like a dog, groveling outside, only daring to throw tantrums at home."

Hearing the bird's words, the man froze.

The bird's voice was a woman's voice, one he was very familiar with – it was his ex-wife's voice!

Not only the voice, but even the tone and the content were exactly like his ex-wife's!

"Bitch, is that... you again!"

"You won't even rest in peace after death!"

Seeing the man gnashing his teeth, the bird shifted its form and suddenly transformed into a middle-aged woman.

However, the middle-aged woman's eyes were extremely strange; she had no whites, and her eyes were entirely black.

"You always said that as long as I died, you could live better, that it was all my fault."

"So now, I've granted your wish. Why have you ended up living like this?"

"Why?"

"Because you're just throwing a fit of impotent rage. You're making excuses for your cowardice, taking all your anger out on me, blaming me for everything, saying all the things you don't dare to say to those people to me."

"Heh, how pathetic."

"You..."

The man stumbled backward, his heart pounding as he looked at the bizarre woman before him. "Who... who are you? A ghost?"

Watching the man retreat, the woman revealed a chilling smile.

She turned her head to look at the black-haired girl. "You're in a lot of pain, aren't you?"

The girl dazedly looked up. "Are you... here to take me, Mother?"

The woman smiled and stroked her head. "Yes. That man is so annoying. Shall we kill him?"

"Kill... him?"

The girl murmured to herself.

"Yes, kill him."

As the woman spoke, she suddenly vanished from her sight, transforming into a sharp knife that fell to the ground.

The girl dazedly picked up the knife from the ground, then looked at the man before her.

The man stumbled backward and fell to the ground. "Wait, wait... Du Ying, no, Ying'er, I'm your father!"

"You can't, you can't... can't!"

The girl trembled as she walked up to the man. She gripped the knife handle with both hands and then violently stabbed down!

Gurgle!

"Aaaah—!!"

Night fell, dark clouds obscured the moon, and rain poured down.

The girl walked blankly on the street, like a walking corpse.

Her hands and clothes were stained with blood, and the rain soaked her clothes and hair.

A Raven followed behind her. She looked at the girl's eyes, which showed no emotional fluctuation.

"Where are you going?"

Hearing the Raven's voice, the girl turned her head dazedly.

"You are... Mother."

Mother?

The Raven spread its wings. Of course, it wasn't the girl's mother.

The form it had previously taken, and the voice it had emitted, were all read from that man's memories.

This was a secret hidden deep within that man's heart.

This was the Raven's newly acquired ability. It could steal secrets from people's hearts and imitate things from people's memories.

Whether it was a person or an object, it could imitate them perfectly.

In addition, it could hear faint murmurs originating from the shadows.

The thing the girl before it feared most was the man from just now, and the thing he loved most was the woman the Raven had transformed into earlier.

The girl dazedly knelt down. "Can you... eat me?"

The Raven blinked. Its pure black eyes seemed to have understood something. "Is living painful for you?"

"Alright, then give me your body."

As it spoke, the Raven suddenly lowered its head and bit into the girl's shadow.

Immediately, the girl's shadow was sucked into the Raven's abdomen, and the girl lost consciousness as a result.

In the blink of an eye, the girl's body dissipated.

The Raven, however, gained all of the girl's memories.

And a permanent body.

The Raven's form began to twist, and in a flash, it transformed into the girl's appearance.

This was a transformation without time limits. It could maintain this form forever.

After transforming into the girl, the Raven suddenly tilted its head to the side.

"Humans... are such complex creatures."

This girl was named Du Ying, a high school student. Her mother had passed away from illness when she was eleven.

Her father had a history of domestic violence. After her mother was gone, she became the target of his abuse.

Her father smoked and drank all day. In the last two years, he had also picked up gambling. Because he owed gambling debts, he had no choice but to force the girl to sell her body to earn money.

The girl resisted but to no avail. In the end, she chose to report him to the police.

However, because a powerful figure was involved in the matter, it was dropped.

After becoming the girl, the strongest emotion the Raven received was hatred.

"Want revenge?"

"Alright, I'll help you."

With that, the Raven-girl's hands suddenly grew deep green scales.

Her ten fingers transformed into sharp claws. She lightly scratched the wall, and the stone split open as easily as tofu.

How powerful was the Mimic's ability?

It could imitate any known lifeform.

Whether it was a Fishman or anything else, as long as it had a sufficient understanding of the lifeform it was imitating, it could perfectly replicate its abilities.

Like the Fishman, the Invisible Man, the Queen Bee, the Wall Breaker, it could replicate their abilities.

The Raven followed the directional cues from the memories to find a secluded alley.

There were several burly men in the alley. They looked at the girl. "Yo, you're so proactive this time."

"Everything takes time, you'll get used to it eventually."

"Go on in, the guest is already waiting inside."

The girl silently walked past the men. She raised her claws, and a flash of blood bloomed. A bloodline appeared on the necks of the men.

Pfft, pfft, pfft!!

Several heads fell.

The men didn't even realize what was happening when they died, their heads already separated from their bodies.