The Moment to Witness a Miracle

Late at night, in the old city's shantytown.

After making sure his mother was fast asleep, Su Bai quietly locked his door and sat cross-legged on the battered wooden bed.

He took the bloodstained school uniform out of his backpack and placed it in front of him.

"System, all the materials are ready. Begin creation!"

Su Bai said silently in his heart.

[Beep! Command confirmed.]

[Urban Legend Creation System activated.]

[Extracting divine kingdom materials...]

The next second, Su Bai's consciousness was abruptly pulled into his divine kingdom.

A gray-black sky hung over a deathly silent wasteland.

Suffocating black fog of dark matter filled the air.

At the center of the wasteland, in front of the dilapidated teaching building, the corpses of 120 mutated giant rats were piled as high as a mountain.

More than thirty gray orbs of resentment circled above the corpses.

[Step one: scene fusion.]

The system's voice echoed through the void.

As the command was issued, the bloodstained school uniform suddenly flew into the air and transformed into a beam of dazzling red light that slammed into the abandoned teaching building.

Rumble-

The entire teaching building began to shake violently.

Vast patches of dark red blood began to seep through the walls where the plaster had peeled away.

From the broken windows came the faint, hair-raising sound of recitation and a woman's weeping.

At that moment, the teaching building, once nothing more than a ruin, seemed to come alive, becoming a living nest of horror.

[Step two: flesh reconstruction.]

The mountain of giant rat corpses burst apart in an instant, filling the sky with chunks of flesh and blood.

Drawn by some invisible force, the chunks began to gather, compress, and reshape themselves in front of the teaching building's entrance.

Because the materials were rat corpses, the reconstruction process was extraordinarily bizarre and twisted.

Bones lengthened, fur fell away, and flesh wove itself together in a frenzy.

Su Bai stared tensely at the roiling mass of flesh.

"System, are you sure the female ghost made from rat corpses won't have a rat's head? That would be way too low-class, and not scary enough."

[Please rest assured, host. The system will extract the life essence from the flesh for reconstruction. Her appearance will be replicated from the original owner of the resentment remaining in the 'bloodstained school uniform.']

Sure enough, the mass of flesh gradually elongated and became a tall human figure.

[Step three: resentment infusion and rule imprinting.]

The gray orbs of resentment in the air, along with the "hanged ghost's obsession" Su Bai had devoured earlier, poured into the figure's body all at once.

Hum-

A beam of dazzling red light shot into the sky, dyeing all the black fog in the divine kingdom dark red.

When the red light faded.

A woman in a bright red school uniform stood silently in front of the teaching building.

Her back was turned to Su Bai.

Her long, jet-black hair hung down to her waist, concealing most of her body.

Thick blood dripped continuously from her red school uniform.

The surrounding air plunged to freezing, and an aura of despair-inducing terror spread outward in every direction from her.

[Beep! Creation successful!]

[Congratulations, host. You have obtained a first-tier ghost story dependent: Midnight Female Ghost in Red.]

[Dependent panel generated.]

Su Bai eagerly opened the panel.

[Name]: Midnight Red-Clad (unnamed)

[Level]: First tier (equivalent to a second-tier human awakener, but with the enhancement of the divine kingdom's rules, her killing power rivals the peak of the third tier)

[Core rules]:

1. Death Gaze: When the midnight bell rings (the host may ring the bell at any time within the divine kingdom's domain), anyone who hears her sing must never turn around. Anyone who does will have their neck twisted instantly and their soul devoured.

2. Resentment Possession: She can transform into a red shadow and possess any enemy whose fear value exceeds 50%, controlling them to make them kill one another.

[Ways to break the trap and survive (blind spots)]:

If someone calls out the name she bore in life while she is singing, she will become dazed for three seconds.

If someone closes their eyes and takes thirteen steps backward before she attacks, they can temporarily escape her lock-on.

[Growth requirements]: Devour fear, resentment, and the flesh of powerful humans.

Su Bai sucked in a sharp breath as he looked at the panel.

This is insanely overpowered!

How is this a dependent? She's practically a rule-based killing machine!

Ordinary divine kingdom dependents, like Gu Chengfeng's berserkers, relied on strength, defense, and weapons to fight their enemies head-on.

But the female ghost in red didn't play by the laws of physics at all.

As long as you triggered the "turning around" rule, even a heavy-armored warrior with maxed-out defense would drop dead on the spot!

"System, what's with these ways to survive? Ghost stories have weaknesses too?" Su Bai had noticed [Ways to break the trap and survive] on the panel.

[There are no absolutely invincible rules in the world. Every ghost story develops corresponding ways to survive when it is born, based on its obsession.]

[That is also part of a ghost story's appeal. Give enemies a glimmer of hope and let them struggle in despair, and the fear value they produce will double.]

[Of course, on an ever-changing battlefield, enemies will find it hard to stay calm enough to experiment. The more panicked they become, the faster they will die.]

Su Bai nodded in complete agreement.

Indeed, if a group of people heard a woman singing behind them in the pitch-black wasteland, their first reaction would definitely be to turn around and look.

That one look would be fatal.

"Let's give her a name." Su Bai rubbed his chin.

"Since you came from Red Star Middle School, I'll call you... Chu Renmei? No, that's too much of a crossover."

"I'll call you Hongdou. Red beans grow in the southern lands, and you were born in the wasteland. It suits you."

As soon as Su Bai finished speaking.

The female ghost in red, who had kept her back to him all this time, suddenly turned her head slightly.

Although she didn't turn all the way around, Su Bai could sense that she seemed quite pleased with the name.

[Beep! Naming successful. The female ghost in red's loyalty has been locked at absolute obedience.]

Su Bai let out a long breath.

With Hongdou, he finally had the means to flip the table in this brutal game of gods.

"Gu Chengfeng, are your ten thousand berserkers ready to hear a song?"

Su Bai left his divine kingdom, lay down on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.

It was the most peacefully he had slept since transmigrating.

Early the next morning.

Su Bai was woken by Lin Que's relentless barrage of calls.

"Brother Bai! Something huge happened! Check the school forum, quick!"

On the other end of the phone, Lin Que's voice was trembling.

Su Bai rubbed his eyes, opened his phone, and went to Linhai No. 3 Middle School's internal forum.

The first pinned post on the homepage had already been pushed up to a bright red "Trending" label.

Its title was extraordinarily brazen:

"Su Bai of senior year class seven, with your ten-square-meter wasteland divine kingdom, do you dare face the judgment of my ten thousand berserkers?"

Posted by: Gu Chengfeng.

The post's contents were highly inflammatory and insulting.

Gu Chengfeng described in detail how Su Bai had "torn up the contract and spouted arrogant nonsense" at Awakening Square the day before, and heaped ridicule on Su Bai's divine kingdom as the shame of the whole school.

Finally, he issued a direct challenge:

"In the municipal mock divine war seven days from now, I will apply to the school for a 'full-connection battle' between my divine kingdom and Su Bai's!"

"I'll show everyone that trash should know its place. Su Bai, if you're a man, accept this divine war. If you don't dare, then kneel obediently at the school gate and sign that mining district contract!"

The post had already received more than ten thousand comments.

Almost every one of them cheered Gu Chengfeng on while taking a shot at Su Bai.

"Young Master Gu is so domineering! Trash who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth should just be crushed to death!"

"A full-connection battle? That's a fight to the death. Young Master Gu is going to completely smash Su Bai's divine kingdom."

"Does Su Bai dare accept? His ten square kilometers of lousy land would probably collapse under a single berserker's foot."

"He'd have to have water in his brain to accept. I bet fifty cents Su Bai won't dare come to school today."

Su Bai looked at the comments, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

A full-connection battle?

It was one of the most brutal modes of divine kingdom warfare.

The passages between the two divine kingdoms would be opened completely, allowing their dependents to pour into each other's divine kingdoms without restriction.

Once one side's divine kingdom core was destroyed, its divine kingdom would collapse completely. At best, the host would become an idiot; at worst, they would die on the spot.

Gu Chengfeng wanted his life.

"Brother Bai, whatever you do, don't be impulsive!" On the other end of the phone, Lin Que was so anxious he was nearly in tears. "I asked around. Gu Chengfeng's dad sent him a batch of second-tier enchanted weapons overnight, and his berserkers' combat power has doubled! What are you going to fight them with?"

"Teacher Qin saw the post too. She's at the academic affairs office arguing on your behalf, trying to get the connection battle canceled. Whatever you do, don't come to school today. Hide for a few days first!"

Su Bai sat up in bed and stretched.

"Hide? Why should I hide?"

"Fatty, help me reply to the post."

Lin Que was stunned. "Reply... reply with what?"

Su Bai looked at the sun rising outside the window, his gaze cold.

"Tell him I accept the mock battle in seven days."

"And remind him to bring more people. I'm afraid ten thousand berserkers won't be enough to kill."