Flame Spear, Fear Emerges

... In the 'inner' world, An Hei stared palely at the scenery before him.

Here is a small hill.

The small hill that appeared countless times in his dreams was covered with bones and exposed coffins, all rotten and decayed from long exposure to the sun and rain. A few black crows occasionally circled overhead, cawing.

This place is also known as a mass grave, mostly found in remote rural areas. By the end of the last century, these mass graves had gradually decreased, but they did not all disappear. The world is inherently two-sided; there is the decadent urban life, and there are also these desolate and neglected places.

Twenty-five years ago, an unmarried pregnant woman chose to end her life here after ten months of pregnancy.

She hanged herself from that crooked old locust tree. The villagers quickly discovered the poor woman's body. To everyone's surprise, the fetus in her womb did not perish with its mother but survived.

The baby was subsequently adopted by the village chief, but his story was only just beginning.

Stillborn baby! jinx! Bane of the mother!

Such comments accompanied the child's growth, and many adults and children in the village openly or secretly bullied this orphan. However, the village chief who adopted him treated him like his own son, Meticulous Care of him. Perhaps this was the only moment of warmth the child ever experienced in his life.

When he was four years old, an accident occurred. The village chief, who treated him like his own son, died in a flash flood, all to save a family of four who were trapped on a shallow beach.

The family was rescued, but the village chief died. At the village chief's funeral, the family showed no gratitude whatsoever, only mocking the village chief and accusing him of failing in his duties, preventing them from salvaging their belongings in time. They even turned their anger towards the child.

"You bastard, your own father doesn't even know who you are, you brought death to your mother and even caused the death of the old village chief, you're a complete scourge!"

He finally lost his temper when the middle-aged woman, who weighed over 200 pounds and looked like a fat pig, pointed at his nose and started yelling at him.

That night, the family of four that the village chief had risked his life for died.

No one knows who did it. The police investigated for a whole month, but the case ultimately came to nothing. The only suspect was a 4-year-old child.

No one would doubt that a four-year-old child could kill four adults.

Eventually, the child was taken away by the police, and the villagers gradually forgot about him.

But the An Hei cannot be forgotten.

He'll never forget it!

Because he was that child, and the mass grave and the old locust tree before him, along with the pregnant female corpse on the old locust tree, brought back memories of everything from the past.

"The 'inner' world is indeed a terrifying place, it has even dug out these deep-seated memories..." An Hei muttered to himself. If an ordinary person saw this scene, they would probably be scared out of their wits, but he still had that indifferent expression.

"If you think I can rely on just these things, you're underestimating me!" An Hei shook his head.

Just then, a bloody arm suddenly emerged from the soil of the mass grave.

Soon, the second and third arms stretched out, and after the fourth arm was extended, the An Hei complexion finally changed.

After four arms suddenly emerged from the mass grave, the soil bulged up, revealing four corpses crawling out. The clothes on these four bodies were almost completely rotten, and their bodies were covered with deep wounds that exposed bone. The four corpses had bluish-purple faces, and their eyes looked as if they had been filled with white paste. Although they were lifeless, they were filled with resentment.

"Hmph, I didn't expect even the four of you to be brought to reality by this 'here' world. Do you want to take my life?" An Hei sneered, flipped his hand, and a pistol appeared. He raised his hand and fired.

Bang!

The bullet shattered the head of a corpse, but the corpse did not fall to the ground. Instead, it continued to walk into the An Hei, and the shattered head returned to normal within seconds.

However, no matter how An Hei fired, the four corpses would regenerate, and at this moment they were less than 5 meters away from An Hei.

Just then, An Hei felt a cold arm grab his neck. He turned his head slightly and saw a pale face.

It was the female corpse hanging from the old locust tree.

She had somehow gotten behind the An Hei, her face no more than a finger's width away from mine.

"Good child, Mommy misses you so much!" The female corpse uttered a string of human words, but it sounded like a ghostly wail, sending chills down one's spine.

His An Hei expression remained unchanged.

"Unfortunately, I don't want you!" With a backhand shot, the woman's head was blown apart.

At this moment, the An Hei Pistol was also out of bullets.

He tossed the pistol aside, chanted an An Hei, and flicked his hands, sending out a spark that erected a wall of fire over ten meters long in front of him.

This is the magic Skill Book he bought in Shadow Street. It seems he has made good progress in his training and can now easily cast some spells.

Having temporarily blocked the four corpses, An Hei turned back to deal with the pregnant female corpse, who was none other than his mother.

That last shot had shattered the woman's head into dust, but she clearly possessed the common trait of monsters from the 'inner' world: immortality.

She quickly got up again, but her appearance was even more terrifying.

"You've hurt my mother so much by treating me like this!" the female corpse screamed, lunging forward. In the An Hei, you could see the sharp claws on her fingers.

"Flame Spear!"

The An Hei fingers were shaped like guns, a gesture often used by children during play, and of course, it couldn't hurt anyone. But at this moment, a burst of fire erupted from the An Hei fingers.

The next second, a spark as fast as lightning shot out, like a real bullet, and struck the female corpse, exploding into a fist-sized ball of fire.

"A C-rank magical skill, Flame Spear, a magical skill that can be cast without chanting a spell. It costs 80,000 points to exchange for. It is indeed a very useful skill!" An Hei muttered to himself, seemingly quite pleased with his choice.

So far, although the 'inner' world has unearthed some of his inner memories and secrets, it is clear that these will not change his An Hei state of mind.

Ultimately, An Hei isn't afraid of any of that!

Whether it was the four corpses or his own birth mother, An Hei held an extremely indifferent attitude. Although the four people were killed by An Hei when he was only four years old, and although the female corpse was his birth mother, none of this could stir up the slightest ripple in An Hei's heart.

Under the C-rank skill Flame Spear, the female corpse was blasted to pieces. Although she could quickly regenerate, the An Hei Flame Spear's firing rate was not slow.

While it seemed that An Hei had taken the initiative, he himself knew that this was just a warm-up.

The real danger has yet to come.

A thunderous roar erupted, and everything in sight vanished.

The mass grave, the corpses, all vanished without a trace. The surroundings returned to their desolate state. An Hei breathed a sigh of relief. If those five corpses had continued to entangle him, he would have been in considerable trouble. At the very least, the magic power he used to maintain the 'Flame Spear' was starting to give out.

But before he could exhale, he felt a sharp pain in his left arm.

Looking down, An Hei's pupils constricted. A mouth had appeared on his left arm at some point. As soon as the mouth opened, his flesh was torn open. Strangely, no blood flowed from the gaping wound; instead, countless maggots crawled out. Then the mouth slowly opened wider.

The mouth opened wider and wider, and then a hand emerged from it.

Almost instantly, An Hei made a decision. He flipped his right hand, revealing a gleaming dagger. With a single slash, his left arm fell to the ground.

The severed arm was quickly covered with maggots, but the gaping mouth remained open, and the hand slowly extended, followed by the arm.

Despite severing his own arm, An Hei didn't even flinch; his eyes were fixed on the arm on the ground, where the anomaly had occurred.

Soon, a human head emerged from that enormous mouth.

"Incredible! The 'inside' world has really brought 'it' to reality. This is going to be troublesome!" An Hei stared intently at the person crawling out of the arm.

His An Hei complexion had turned somewhat pale due to blood loss from the severed arm.

This was a man with a distorted face and disproportionate limbs; his left arm was short and thick, while his right arm was long and thin. He gripped a large fire axe in his right hand; the axe body was thick and rusty, but the blade gleamed coldly.

As soon as the strange man appeared, An Hei took out a golden silk pouch.

This was clearly something he had prepared long ago, called a 'Spirit Beast Bag,' which many reincarnators in Shadow Street sell. This kind of spirit bag with an internal space has a similar function to a storage space, except that it stores living creatures. Reincarnators often capture some rare birds and beasts in the mission space, and they use this 'Spirit Beast Bag' to bring them out of the mission world.

An Hei used a special method to open the 'Spirit Beast Bag', and immediately a large flock of black crows flew out of the 'Spirit Beast Bag', cawing incessantly.

After the crows flew away, the deformed man wielding the Sharp Axe seemed frightened and dared not approach. After cawing at the An Hei for a while, he picked up his axe and left.

An Hei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, now is not the time to relax. The appearance of this deformed Axe Man means that his most hidden spiritual world has been brought to reality by the 'inner' world.

That would be the worst thing. An Hei believed that if the real fear in his mind were to become reality, then even Li Wei, who possessed S1-level combat power, would only have one way out: death.

Fortunately, An Hei had anticipated all of this and had prepared countermeasures in advance.

Crow!

This was the only thing the 'Axe Man' feared! Even An Hei didn't know the specific reason why the other party was afraid of crows; he only hoped that Li Wei and the others could escape the 'Axe Man's' pursuit under the protection of these crows.

With a wave of his An Hei hand, the flock of crows scattered and flew away, disappearing into the mist. Only then did An Hei's head loll to the side, and he collapsed to the ground, unconscious.