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How dare such a lowly thing as him arrogantly define the end of life?

A frog at the bottom of a well can't know how vast the Sky is.

"You! You're just like me!" the lowly monster uttered a piercing curse before its death, "You won't die a good death either!"

The higher monster's forked arms ruthlessly crushed the last bits of the lower monster's skull; in an instant, the sound vanished, and the Sky fell silent.

The high-level monster hovered high in the air, gazing silently into the void. After a long while, she spoke as if in reply:

"Yes, I know."

She won't have a good death either.

That was the backlash of her arrogance in treating a living being as a tool; she was no better than that piece of trash.

She stood silently in the Sky, then fell heavily downwards, crashing into a huge crater.

The power was fading from her body; one second she was tearing her own kind apart, the next she could barely lift her arms.

No curses are needed.

She was going to die anyway.

Because she broke the contract.

The world has two sides: Inner World inhabited by monsters and an Surface World inhabited by humans. The two worlds overlap but are incompatible. An invisible barrier separates the two worlds, preventing monsters from breaking through the boundary to enter the Surface World. However, in extremely rare cases, they can descend by using the bodies of humans to fulfill the wishes of dying humans.

Sometimes, the wishes of a dying person can break through the barrier and enter the Inner World, where they can be heard by a monster whose soul is highly in sync with that person's. The monster then descends upon the person by receiving the wish, and at the same time, receives the person's memories.

But that's not enough. At this point, only a small part of the monster's true form has come to the Surface World along with its consciousness. The majority of its true form is still in the Inner World. Only by fulfilling humanity's wishes can it break free from the human body and truly descend.

For example, the low-level monster "Writer" possesses a complete form in the Surface World.

The Nurse failed to fulfill the host's wish; she did not complete it.

Her host was tricked by doctors at the same hospital into becoming a donor for the young master of the wealthy Zhou Family. Her internal organs were emptied out, and she woke up on the operating table, cursing the doctor who was cutting open her stomach, cursing everyone in the Zhou Family, and demanding that the doctor and everyone in the Zhou Family pay with their lives.

The doctor died, the Zhou Family died, but their wish remained unfulfilled.

There are still members of the Zhou Family who are alive, but their whereabouts are unknown.

The monster wasn't in a hurry; she had plenty of time to fulfill her wish, had she not impulsively captured a human child.

She is about to die, unable to fulfill her wish, yet she forcibly dragged her true form out of the Inner World. She cannot stay in this world and will soon be killed by the rules.

The enormous monster lay prostrate in the pit. She stared blankly for a moment, then calmly accepted her impending death. There was only one thing she regretted: she hadn't been able to fulfill her host's wish, and also...

She propped herself up on her slender arms and staggered toward one direction. After a few steps, she collapsed. The enormous monster had never been so weak. She paused for a moment, then struggled to her feet again. She continued walking, stumbling along, her massive body weaving through the city's skyscrapers. After one more fall, she never got up again.

She leaned against a blue skyscraper, an aura of decay flowing uncontrollably from her body. Everything around her was decaying; the once-preserved exterior of the skyscraper was now mottled and blackened by corrosion. She "looked" ahead, "looking" at the unreachable distance.

Is that all?

Is it impossible to say goodbye?

Ah, that's really funny.

Why would a monster like her think someone needed her to say goodbye?

That's enough for now.

She looked up at the Sky, feeling an emptiness in her chest, as if her human heart was still affecting her, causing her pain and coldness because it had been pierced.

Her body was disintegrating; the fall of a high-level monster was not much different from the death of a human, both accompanied by pain.

That child will die too, won't he?

Will that child also be in so much pain?

"You're here." The cold voice seemed to blow through an empty valley, gently touching the heart of the dying monster. The monster slowly lowered its head, and a human the size of a grain of rice stood in front of it, holding an even smaller grain of rice, looking up at it and speaking. In that instant, the monster was enveloped by a strong emotion.

It's that interesting human.

It's... that child.

The monster was once attracted to a human, but later she became more interested in others, an ordinary, uninteresting child, who is now appearing before her.

How can I describe her feelings?

The monster thought, "She really does want to see that child again."

The monster "looked" at the child, her vision blurring. Only then did she realize that the child lying in her kind's arms was sleeping peacefully with her eyes closed. Her small body was curled up like an infant's, her skin intact, even her clothes were brand new, and her exposed hands and feet were as smooth and white as lotus roots...

"She..." The monster was startled, "She..."

"She's healed," the human stated calmly.

Instead of using the [Sewing Box], there was something that just happened to be perfect for her: Green Peach from Green Forest Exclusion Zone, a manifestation of human supernatural abilities. It was most gentle when used on fellow humans, and could even repair the body for ordinary people. Used to save her fellow humans, was the Forbidden Fruit forbidden? No, what was forbidden was always the user's greed.

"I see." The monster didn't delve too deeply; she was dying, and knowing that her child had been healed was enough for her.

She can rest assured now.

The monster felt relieved because a human child had been healed.

Monsters can only hear the wishes of humans who make prayers when their souls are in perfect harmony. An ordinary Nurse in a hospital, upon realizing she has been deceived, lets out the most vicious scream. She wants everyone who killed her to pay with their lives, their entire families to be implicated, and she vows revenge for every wrong done to her. Yet, there is a soft spot in her heart, and she is easily fooled by a doctor's simple words, "Come with me to see a patient who can't afford treatment."

Even monsters have a soft spot in their hearts, and can be touched by the intimacy of a human child.

With her biggest worry resolved, the monster felt relieved and peacefully faced death.

"Thanks."

Her voice became ethereal and dreamlike.

Do you have any candy?

ask

The sound came from below.

The monster didn't hear her clearly, and her hearing was also becoming blurry. She lowered her head with difficulty, and the human looked up at her and asked, "Nurse Ding, do you have any more candy?"

Monster: "... No."

The human said, "Then we'll leave it at that."

"... puff."

Laughter spilled from the monster's mouth. Suddenly, she felt much better. She remembered the days she spent with humans in the hospital, and how clumsy humans were at handling interpersonal relationships after waking up from amnesia. Pfft, even now, humans still say some inexplicable things.

The monster stopped laughing as she noticed the human staring at her. Her face was expressionless, and an unfathomable aura surrounded the human.

She wasn't like usual.

She doesn't even look very human.

The monster's heart trembled. Seeing that the human's gaze had passed her and was directed towards the Sky above, her dark eyes slowly turned blood-red. The blood-red color increased, and finally, her eyes turned completely blood red, much like the Blood Moon that appears only once every three years sinking into her eye sockets.

A heavy, oppressive force, like a mountain pressing down, suddenly spread out, invisibly expanding, causing even the souls of the higher monsters to scream in terror.

Suddenly, a crack appeared in the gloomy sky. Unlike the tricks of low-level monster Writer, the Sky truly split open, revealing the dark world behind it. A familiar aura wafted from the crack—it was...

"Go home," the human said.

monster. "..."

She forcibly dragged her original body out of the Inner World. She failed to fulfill the host's wish, and staying in the Surface World would only result in her being erased by the rules. If she went back, if she went back to her own world...

The monster fell silent; the world beyond the rift was beckoning her, and her enormous body gradually became ethereal.

She snapped out of her reverie and looked at the "human."

"So it's you."

The higher monsters bowed their heads deeply, a gesture of submission.

The Sky has always been the domain of that supreme being.

They have lost the Sky for three hundred years.

I see.

It's impossible for a human to be that strong; it turns out he's not human.

What is He doing here?

What does the Sky they lost do in the Surface World?

The higher monster dared not presume to know, and she bowed her head. As she showed her submission, a Blood Moon symbol emerged on her arm and was deeply imprinted.

The higher monster noticed the symbol of human power appearing on its arm, a hint of surprise in its eyes. So that's how it is; human power comes from...

The little girl woke up and saw the monster. The monster instinctively hid, concealing its wretched appearance. The monster's form grew fainter and fainter, and a second before disappearing, the little girl broke free from the monster's embrace and rushed into its arms. The monster was startled. The little girl's close contact with it made it lose itself. It must have been because of something. The child below looked up at the monster with a pleading expression.

Don't push me away.

My God...

Human infants possess their own gods.

After a long moment of stunned silence, the monster moved her arm and embraced her only follower.

The Sky closed, the monster and her followers vanished, and the fear and malice released by the monster were also sucked away by the rift, plunging the entire city into an unspeakable silence.

The captain of the Ability Control Bureau saw a crack appear in the Sky, and the only surviving monster disappeared behind the crack.

Her endurance reached its limit; her confused mind made her dizzy, and she coughed up a mouthful of bitter water.

The Sky returned to its gloomy state, and in the decaying land, Ye Jiang's blood-red eyes slowly returned to normal. In an instant, she felt extremely weak, and she stood with her head down, maintaining a single posture.