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Chapter 962: 776: Script Space Has Upgraded Again_2

Chapter 962: Chapter 776: Script Space Has Upgraded Again_2

Luo Kai spoke as he casually slashed a grotesque monster with his sword, tossing its remnants into the house for the little girl to see before it was consumed by flames.

Gazing at the burning creature on the ground, the little girl’s pitch-black pupils momentarily flashed crimson. She then lifted her head to look at Luo Kai.

After a brief moment of eye contact between the two.

The little girl said softly with an eerie tone, “Qing isn’t a monster, you know. Uncle Dai said, whatever you want Qing to be, Qing will be.”

As she spoke, an ominous aura of dark energy began to rise from the little girl’s body. Bubble-like protrusions swelled on her skin, while her pitch-black pupils gradually glinted with a sinister scarlet hue.

Witnessing this.

Luo Kai immediately reacted, “Wait! My mistake!”

He burst into the house, the flames in his hand surging dramatically and instantly incinerated the almost-extinguished monster into ashes.

At the same moment, the little girl, now covered with writhing black tendrils, leaned her face close to him, tilting her head and meeting his gaze with her own.

On the sweet and innocent face from moments ago.

Another mouth was now tearing open.

“Hungry…”

“So hungry…”

“Want to eat…”

The mouth that still retained its human form opened and closed, spewing a guttural and raspy childlike voice, while her scarlet pupils glared coldly, mechanical like lifeless camera lenses, fixed on Luo Kai.

Beads of sweat rolled down Luo Kai’s forehead. “Calm down. You’re not a monster. Qing should be a sweet little girl.”

As he spoke, Luo Kai prepared to fight.

However, the Abyss Fiend’s self-awareness was far more developed than Luo Kai had anticipated.

Just as his sword was about to strike.

The girl, who was transforming into a monstrous being, suddenly retreated. Her face’s rows of jagged teeth quickly vanished, and the bubble-like protrusions on her skin, along with the growing tendrils, rapidly retracted.

She reverted back to the pitiful, dirty, cute appearance of an innocent little girl.

Her wide, blinking eyes.

Appeared genuinely innocent.

Then those eyes shifted toward the sword in Luo Kai’s hand.

Luo Kai let out a helpless sigh and released his Patterned Han Sword, letting it fly off on its own to block the unending wave of monsters outside.

“The Uncle Dai you mentioned earlier, he’s the current village chief of Qingliu Village, right?” Luo Kai said, retreating toward the window.

“Mm-hmm,” Qing nodded obediently.

“But the person you’re really looking for isn’t ‘Uncle Dai’ from your village, is it? It’s someone else, isn’t it?” Luo Kai continued.

“I’m really not sure…,” Qing tilted her head. “I accidentally wandered over here. On the way, I didn’t even know what I ran into. I just felt it was terribly dark. If not for Uncle Dai’s scent drawing me here, I might’ve gotten lost.”

Luo Kai crossed his arms, “Alright, let’s assume it was unintentional. So after you arrived here, what exactly did you do?”

“I didn’t do anything,” Qing replied sweetly.

“What about the people who were inside this house before?” Luo Kai stared at her.

“How should I know? By the time I came out, there was nothing left here, the sky had turned very dark. Then I noticed a faint familiar scent outside and walked toward it,” Qing said, pointing to the alley with an aggrieved look.

“Then why didn’t you leave?”

“I’ve never been here before, and I’m scared… It feels safer to stay inside,” she muttered.

“…”

The little girl displayed hints of unease.

An emotional reaction that seemed to suggest cautious behavior upon arriving in unfamiliar territory.

Luo Kai looked at her blankly. “So you just wanted people outside to come in?”

Qing nodded matter-of-factly.

She dared not go out.

But she wanted to talk to people.

So inviting them in seemed fine, right?

Totally reasonable!

Thus, Ji Xiaoxia found herself unable to leave the alleyway because of Qing’s actions.

After all, if the other party left.

She wouldn’t be able to ask her questions.

Yet for ordinary humans, situations like this meant being consumed by the Abyss darkness—having their consciousness corrupted without even realizing it.

Luo Kai suddenly felt at a loss for words.

Because from Qing’s perspective.

Her reasoning truly was innocent.

But damn it, she was still a monster!

Luo Kai irritably combed his fingers through his hair, sitting on the windowsill. He pulled out his phone from his pocket, attempting to contact the outside world, only to find the screen still reading “No Signal” as usual.

At this moment, Qing leaned closer behind him.

She curiously inspected the phone screen, “Big brother, what are you doing?”

“Trying to contact the person you’re looking for.”

“Huh? You know where he is?”

Qing’s eyes lit up instantly.

Luo Kai paused, then opened the Player’s Handbook, directly using the player channels to ping Xu Shuo.

Yet, as always, there was no response.

Unfazed, Luo Kai shifted focus to the Player Square, browsing forum posts. He soon discovered numerous new messages reporting the collapse of Subspace.

According to the earliest posts.

These events seemed to have begun just one or two hours ago.

Recently.

Forum discussions were mostly centered on worlds consumed by the Abyss.

But now, mere days later.

The Subspace was undergoing a similar downfall.

Especially the older Subspace zones populated long-term by Abyss Creatures—almost half had disintegrated, forcing countless players to be ejected from their scripts during gameplay.

Unsurprisingly, the forums were flooded with complaints.

“Not a good sign,” Luo Kai muttered.

Their world, originally just an Authentic World, began facing Abyss corruption less than half a year ago. Now, with less than a year remaining, it was rapidly transforming into an Abyss Battlefield.

Since Luo Kai joined Script Space up until now, there hadn’t been such major occurrences.

Even the system was undergoing repairs recently!

Just as Luo Kai pondered this.

Suddenly.

A notification popped up on his screen.

[Script Space is under maintenance and upgrading. All features are temporarily unavailable. Maintenance duration: 24 hours. Please be patient.]

He was forcibly logged out of Player Square.

Luo Kai: “…”

Ah, the familiar maintenance cycle.

Frustrated, Luo Kai shut the Player’s Handbook.

He glanced down at the curious little girl peering at him from the side.

She was now at a safe distance from the Abyss Rift, seemingly lowering her guard toward him.

Luo Kai pulled out a glass bottle.

The moment the bottle appeared, Qing immediately backed away, staring at him nervously.

“Don’t worry, I just need to deal with this Abyss Rift.”

“D-deal with it?” Qing fixated on him.

“Even if you’re not a monster, staying here causes harm to our world. I doubt Uncle Dai would want this either. So you have two options: return to where you came from, or let me handle this Rift.”

“No way!”

“Then I won’t tell you where the person you’re looking for is,” Luo Kai threatened coldly.

Hearing this, Qing froze.

She hesitated, mulling over the enticing scent she’d detected. Reluctantly, her gaze flickered between the comforting yet irresistibly alluring black Rift.

Ultimately…

Qing swallowed hard.

And begrudgingly stepped aside.

Seeing this, Luo Kai’s brow twitched violently.

So what exactly did that guy possess?

That even a creature of this scale would abandon Abyssal power for him.

Truly incomprehensible…

Shaking his head internally, Luo Kai didn’t hesitate. He pressed the glass bottle firmly against the rift in the wall.

BANG!

The bottle’s opening was only five centimeters wide, unable to contain the half-meter-long rift.

But the Abyss darkness poured from the Rift straight into the bottle.

At the same time.

The monsters outside grew frenzied, causing the entire alley to tremble violently. Bone-cracking sounds echoed throughout the space as though crushing it completely.

The Patterned Han Sword continued slashing rapidly near the window, holding back the advancing monsters.

Yet inside, thick dark matter seeped from the walls like flowing blood, rushing toward Luo Kai.

The alley’s monsters vanished.

In their place, a massive black entity formed from viscous darkness, filling the entire twenty-square-meter room like a writhing gelatin, surging toward Luo Kai.

The Patterned Han Sword flew back in an instant!

Luo Kai stood firm, one hand still pressing against the glass bottle, the other gripping the ruby-adorned sword handle.

Ready to face the incoming threat.

But in the next moment.

The obedient Qing beside him suddenly opened her abyssal, gaping mouth!

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