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Chapter 960: 775: Seems to Be Looking for Someone_2

Chapter 960: Chapter 775: Seems to Be Looking for Someone_2

“Is that the monster from the low-rank script?” Luo Kai’s gaze flickered slightly.

“Do you know the Level 1 Trial script ‘Green-Faced Fangs’?” Ji Xiaoxia asked him.

Luo Kai knew of it but couldn’t remember the storyline.

So he directly opened the Player’s Handbook to search for it.

Ji Xiaoxia continued, “That particular script was a bit strange. I had already passed the Level 1 Trial long ago, yet I entered it again. Later, the Script Space was undergoing maintenance at that time, and I always thought it was a system bug caused by the maintenance that led me into the wrong script.”

At this point, Luo Kai had already skimmed through the storyline of ‘Green-Faced Fangs.’

Players just entering the Script Space start at “Level 0,” during which a Newbie Protection is in place—they will not die no matter what they do.

However, ‘Green-Faced Fangs’ is a relatively difficult script in the Level 1 Trial.

Because it involves an Abyss Creature.

Notably,

he remembered that Xu Shuo’s Level 1 Trial script was also this one.

“The monster in ‘Green-Faced Fangs,’ you’re referring to the final boss, ‘Green-Faced Fangs,’ right?”

As Luo Kai spoke, he projected his system interface and moved it before Ji Xiaoxia, showing her the screen.

On it was a chibi-style distorted monster.

The monster’s form was indescribable; it resembled a stitched-together monstrosity, with random, grotesquely growing tentacles, mouths torn open everywhere, pulsating organs, and clusters of scarlet eyes atop its head.

In short, Green-Faced Fangs wasn’t remotely “green-faced.”

And the chibi style?

That was because any real depiction of the monster posted on the forums would be automatically censored by Script Space, and Luo Kai was too lazy to search through other people’s footage.

Ji Xiaoxia looked at the monster that seemed strangely familiar.

Her expression turned peculiar. “The monster form of Green-Faced Fangs indeed looks like this, but… it also has an unpolluted state.”

Luo Kai rubbed his chin and said, “I know. The script’s backstory is about a deity protecting the village being corrupted into a monster and then wreaking havoc on the village. By day, it’s human; by night, it turns into a monster.”

Ji Xiaoxia nodded and added, “What I saw in the alley was its daytime form.”

She paused as she got to this point.

Then added another sentence.

“Of course, it was just a blurry shadow.”

“Then how did you determine…”

Luo Kai was about to ask how she confirmed that the shadow was indeed the monster from ‘Green-Faced Fangs.’

But at that moment.

He felt a chilling surge from behind him.

Spinning around abruptly, he saw a greenish-black small silhouette flash at the mouth of the alley. Though its form was fuzzy and barely humanoid, he instinctively knew it was watching him.

“Uncle Dai, I’m hungry…”

A chilling, echoing child’s voice crept out from the alley.

At the same time.

Ji Xiaoxia’s soft, eerie voice also drifted over, “See? Just like this…”

Luo Kai stared into the alley, hearing the voice but refusing to turn around. Instead, he pulled out a piece of blood-colored talisman paper and slapped it onto the top of her head, all while keeping his focus on the green silhouette in the alley.

Behind him, Shao Dandan’s startled gasp rang out.

The blood talisman stuck to Ji Xiaoxia directly transformed into crimson ropes, binding her tightly as wisps of black mist seeped from her body.

Shao Dandan quickly caught the collapsing Ji Xiaoxia.

The girl’s eyes glazed with red haze, and under her pale skin, faint black bubbles seemed to rise, as though emerging from her flesh. A sinister, bone-chilling aura radiated from her, startling Shao Dandan.

This can’t be real… The Ji Xiaoxia she had been staying with all along—could she have already been corrupted?

Had she been accompanying some eerie creature the whole time, thinking good fortune would follow?

This wasn’t good fortune—it was a damn nightmare!

“Take her away.”

Luo Kai’s voice, with a cigarette in his mouth, was low and muffled.

Shao Dandan froze for a moment. “But she said she couldn’t leave, that the thing inside the alley would stop her. I also noticed that whenever she tried to leave, the Abyss’s aura in the alley intensified.”

Luo Kai chuckled coldly. “That’s just a delusion created by exploiting your fear. If it could come out anytime, it would have done so. No way it would stay holed up in the alley—it’s common knowledge Abyss corruption doesn’t play by the rules.”

Hearing this, Shao Dandan suddenly snapped out of it.

Yeah!

Abyss corruption was utterly unreasonable!

It wasn’t something but a force beyond control.

But earlier, she actually believed that nonsense?

Shao Dandan shuddered, then quickly picked up Ji Xiaoxia and bolted.

As Ji Xiaoxia was carried out of the alley mouth, the endless blackness within began surging more violently. The little girl’s childish voice echoed again.

“Where are you going… together…”

The sound was crisp and sweet. If not for the persistent undertone of eerie malice, it might have sounded like an adorable little girl.

Confronted with such a seemingly cute little girl.

Luo Kai summoned his Lifebound Weapon.

The ruby he had been gripping since arriving extended into a Patterned Han Sword.

The sword, different from earlier, now bore beautiful red veins along its silver blade, resembling intricate networks of pulsating blood vessels.

Meanwhile, in the alley.

The greenish-black small figure began edging closer.

Its movements seemed like small steps yet spanned vast distances instantly, flickering toward the alley’s entrance.

At the edge of the alley, two pale little hands gripped the wall’s ledge, exerting light pressure, as if pulling itself upwards from the pitch-black Abyss.

A smudged, dirt-streaked face emerged under the dim streetlights.

The murky yellow glow of the streetlamps illuminated her.

The little girl, with pitch-black eyes and tousled double buns, had a few strands of black hair falling over her exceptionally pale face.

Standing at the alley’s mouth, Luo Kai unexpectedly locked eyes with the little girl.

“Eh? Big brother, I think I made a mistake, sorry…”

The initially eerie and unsettling voice lifted slightly in tone, tinged with apparent surprise and doubt. After that, the little girl slowly pulled her head back.

As she receded into the alley.

Her entire form shifted back into a greenish-black shadow.

The shadow drifted farther away.

Luo Kai: “…”

For a fleeting moment, Luo Kai’s face displayed disbelief.

When he came to his senses, he noticed he had instinctively stepped into the alley, his sneakers dipping into the darkness.

Luo Kai glanced down and showed no intention of pulling his foot back. Instead, he called out toward the pitch-black alley, “Wait!”

As his words fell.

The greenish-black figure actually stopped.

Shock registered more vividly in Luo Kai’s eyes.

“You…”

He cautiously tried asking, “Are you looking for someone?”

The greenish-black shadow didn’t respond. Instead, the darkness within the alley abruptly surged, lapping upward from his shoe like an overpowering tide.

Luo Kai squinted, and the Patterned Han Sword in his hand activated, deploying a fiery red barrier around him to repel the encroaching dark tide.

But in the next instant, Luo Kai found himself fully enveloped by the alley.

Looking up,

the walls of the alley on both sides became vividly clear. As everyone knew, in old city districts, window sills were often cluttered with clothes, mops, potted plants, and miscellaneous junk.

Except now, dozens of black humanoid monsters hung from those windowsills.

Thick, sticky black substances dripped from them. The monsters’ attire faintly resembled clothing styles, but their gaping mouths were packed densely with sharp teeth.

Judging by their appearance, they were likely the residents of the area.

Abyss Creatures.

Typically, they were entities corrupted and transformed.

Here, “entities” didn’t just refer to living beings; it could encompass everything.

However, living beings underwent corruption more quickly.

Once Luo Kai entered the alley, the monsters became agitated, emitting sharp, incomprehensible screeches as they sprang powerfully downward!

Whoosh—

With a single slash, Luo Kai unleashed fiery blood-red flames that swept through the narrow alley, setting the space ablaze.

The plunging monsters disintegrated before they could even reach the center of the inferno.

Frowning, Luo Kai scanned his surroundings warily.

Then, in a certain spot, he caught sight of the greenish-black figure again.

It stood inside a seventh-floor room of the building on the right, though its projection seemed to transcend Phase Space, appearing parallel to an obscure void in his field of vision.

Luo Kai immediately leapt up, perching on the windowsill to peer inside.

The pale-faced little girl stood near a wall. She seemed to notice his approach and turned to look at him.

Luo Kai stared at her cautiously.

But in the next moment,

the little girl shifted sideways by a step.

What she had been obscuring on the wall behind her became visible—

a dark fissure roughly thirty centimeters wide, endlessly oozing blackness.

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