Chapter 046 Three Sentences Fill the World-weary Villain with Hope (XI)

The sound of the door behind me being pushed open became increasingly sharp and piercing, and was followed by a chill that quietly struck me, freezing me to the bone.

The hands on the door in front of them also moved, and their long, curved nails slowly scratched the door panels, like a beast's subtle warm-up and test before launching an attack.

This was what Chen Yunli saw, but in Chen Wenjian's vision, the rotten eye in front of him just blinked its eyelashes lightly.

It thought for a moment, then leaned close to Chen Yunli's ear and told him what it had seen.

Prepare to attack and blink, what they saw this time was so different?

Chen Yunli was suspicious, but before he could think, he was startled by the gentle breeze that brushed across the back of his neck, causing his scalp to tingle. He turned around and was kicked.

His action was entirely out of self-defense instinct. He had no other thoughts when he kicked out. He just prayed that the kick would hit the target, or even better, that the target would be kicked away, no matter what monster touched him from behind.

The result was just as he hoped, and his kick hit the target. At the same time, he finally saw the whole picture of the thing hidden in the bedroom.

It was a paper figure painted with rouge and powder, its paper body wrapped in an exquisite dress, but it did not have the charming eyes and graceful figure of a young woman at all. It only had a cheap and crudely made feeling, and a creepy and weird look that was neither human nor inhuman.

The soles of the leather shoes distributed by the library were thick and hard, making it easy to exert force. Chen Yunli kicked the paper mannequin in the abdomen, causing its body to bend backwards. The upper and lower parts of the body were almost folded together, and it flew back to the bedroom. It fell heavily on the floor, causing dust to fly, and also hit the dressing table, shaking the mirror to fall to the ground and shattering it into pieces.

A flash of light appeared on the paper man, then he sank into the mirror fragments and stopped moving.

"hiss……"

Because he had exerted too much force, Chen Yunli felt a dull pain in his leg muscles and knee bones, but he only took a deep breath before turning around to deal with the sudden attack...

To be precise, they are human hands, legs, and heads.

It was the first time that Chen Yunli faced human body parts that were still alive and kicking after being dismembered. Their skin was pale, and they were as thin as skin and bones. They rushed towards him with their fangs and claws bared like living creatures.

He dodged the nails that were scratching at his eyes and raised his arms to block the kicking legs. The head rolled to his feet, opened its bloody mouth and bit his calf, but he kicked it away with his quick eyes and legs.

This should be an organ from the same male body. Although thin, it is extremely dexterous and powerful.

It was also the first time that Chen Yunli realized that human bones were so hard. Just by being kicked, his arms felt numb as if they were being pricked by thousands of needles.

The worst thing was that he smelled a fragrant scent from these human body parts, the same smell as that on the straw mat and white cloth. It was conceivable that they were the corpses that had been placed in this room.

Thinking of the rooms outside that had not been opened yet... he was already numb.

He was almost scratched on the face by the nails again. Chen Yunli dodged in a panic and rolled to the side of the straw mat. He swept his long legs and kicked away the legs that were rushing towards him.

"Chen Wenjian, aren't you a demon? Save me!"

Chen Wenjian squatted on his shoulder with a bewildered look on his face: "How, how can I help?"

From its perspective, Chen Yunli's self-rescue was a one-man show from beginning to end, a battle of wits and courage with the air. All it saw was the eye, which was about to rot into minced meat, blinking continuously. It didn't approach, and even actively moved away from Chen Yunli who approached, which made it difficult for it to act rashly.

And how would it attack? Would it go up and pound that eye like sticky rice?

Chen Yunli punched the person flying towards him on the head, knocking him away. At the same time, he realized that their perspectives were not synchronized. The previous times, his ability to solidify reality by "gaze" was passively triggered and completed almost instantly, which was completely different from the current situation.

Is it because the evil god of Masheng Alley is more powerful than the giant python in the library, or is it because...

Chen Yunli pursed his lips, stepped on the instep of the person who jumped in front of him with one foot, and stepped on the base of the thigh with the other foot, flattening it as if controlling an upright skateboard, using all his strength and balance to hold it steadily, and using it to deal with several other parts of the human body.

He looked at the hand reaching for his throat with its fingers spread out, trying to fix it into a reality that Chen Wenjian could also see. But the moment he thought about turning it into reality, he felt a wave of rejection, disgust, and a vague fear in his heart.

Because of this, his attempt failed, and Chen Wenjian could only see the ordinary "truth".

So, it turned out that his ability didn't activate because of his subconscious rejection?

Speaking of which, he is indeed more afraid of Chinese horror than Cthulhu.

The bright red and green lights, the morgue where there should be bodies but no bodies, the embroidered shoes that suddenly appeared from the crack of the door, the pale hands resting on the door panel...

These factors combined were enough to drive Chen Yunli's blood pressure through the roof. He'd only managed to withstand the initial onslaught thanks to his extensive gaming experience, and with the subsequent distractions of paper figurines and frantic human body parts, his adrenaline kept him going until now.

If these things were fixed on the side of reality, Chen Wenjian might be able to help, but now he can still comfort himself that they are illusions. If the illusions become true, the horror atmosphere will surely increase exponentially, and his psychological pressure will become extremely terrifying, which may even be a shadow that will haunt him for the rest of his life.

He didn't want to dream about this kind of thing every night after returning to the real world. Forget it, just let it be physically destroyed.

Isn't it about playing with horror elements? Coincidentally, he just knows how to destroy them.

Chen Yunli's "gaze" is enough to turn what he sees into reality, which comes from his thoughts - he sees it this way, hopes it this way, and therefore the world is like this.

By the same token, as long as he firmly believes that something in his memory can eliminate the resurrected corpses, the transformed paper figures, and the eerie atmosphere, the world in his eyes will also develop in the same way.

"System! I'm requesting off-site assistance!" Chen Yunli shouted in his heart, "Give me a peach wood sword, a stack of yellow talismans, and a bottle of cinnabar!"

"Auditor, these things don't exist in this world."

"Do paper figures wearing cheongsams and embroidered shoes exist in that world?"

“…”

"If my subjective will can affect the true nature of the world, then these things are also my imagination. I think, therefore they are."

Well-reasoned and convincing.

After the system agreed, Chen Yunli's hands and right pocket sank. Suddenly, he had a peach wood sword in his left hand, an exorcism talisman in his right hand, and a jar of excellent cinnabar in his pocket. He just needed to wear a Taoist robe and a hat to look like the classic exorcist in film and television dramas.

How does that sentence go?

The truth is only on the edge of the sword, a peach wood sword is still a sword!

"It's been a comfortable game, isn't it?" Chen Yunli made a sword flower, "Now it's my turn!"

He jumped away from the struggling man's legs, and before it could react, Chen Yunli used his toes to push it upwards, and the peach wood sword chopped down fiercely, hitting its kneecap heavily.

The solid wooden sword struck the dry bones, and both sides made a "crackling" sound. The sword body was intact, and the edge of the blade shone with golden light, like thousands of sharp blades, chopping the human leg inward and bending it concave, leaving only a layer of skin connected, and it fell to the ground without any movement.

The sound of whistling wind was heard in his ears. Chen Yunli stood still and swung his sword to the side. The sword tip hit the person's fingernails from bottom to top, directly flipping five fingernails off the flesh and bones, and they fell to the ground with a clang.

At the same time, he slashed downwards with the sword, and there was a sound like popping beans on his hand. His finger bones broke into pieces, and they collapsed on the ground into twisted rotten skin like a glove.

Chen Yunli hit the head and the other two limbs hard one by one, making them unable to move, and then put exorcism talismans on them one by one and drew circles around them with cinnabar.

If the system had not sternly refused, he would have wanted to ask for a few portions of the inkwell, black dog blood, glutinous rice, etc. used to seal evil spirits, and bury them to death.

The sharp blade passed through the air. Chen Yunli turned the sword and looked at the scattered human body parts and the face of the dead man with its eyes open. He was not frightened at all and said "relieved" in his heart.

As his mood changed, the rotten eyes in front of Chen Wenjian gradually faded away, replaced by the original old-style houses, human body parts trapped by strange objects in the corners, and folded paper figures in the bedroom.

It suddenly realized: "So they are the ones who attacked you. Although strange, they are also common, so they are not difficult to deal with."

"That's true for you, but for me, they're inner demons that I have to overcome on my own. Otherwise, they'll keep appearing, and I'll have to rely on others for protection every time. What a shame."

Chen Yunli put away the remaining cinnabar and yellow talismans, picked up his sword and walked into the bedroom.

After confirming the invincible nature of these equipment, although he was still cautious, he became much braver. The change in the scene that Chen Wenjian saw was the best proof of this.

Chen Yunli avoided the mirror fragments on the ground, picked up the paper man and unfolded it to look at it carefully. He found that although the paper man was made crudely and scary, with makeup and wearing a skirt, it was a man. Upon closer inspection, the face of the man was quite... similar to that of the human head outside.

If the corpse in this room is a complete version of those limbs, then what does this paper man mean?

Also, where was his torso?

When Chen Yunli thought of this, he suddenly stood up and looked at the study opposite, and then his pupils shook.

Although the door was still closed, the lock had disappeared at some point.

"Where's the lock on the door?" Chen Wenjian also noticed something was wrong. His tail swung and circled around Chen Yunli's neck, quietly growing longer. "The thing inside...won't get out?"

Chen Yunli frowned and tightened his grip on the peach wood sword.

As his mood wavered and his attention shifted, the scene before Chen Wenjian's eyes changed again - this time it didn't change directly into another appearance, but the two scenes overlapped and intertwined.

One layer is what Chen Yunli sees, and the other layer is the "true nature" of the world.

The latter also changed. The eye exploded into a pile of minced meat, and most of the maggots that came out of the eye died in the minced meat and blood mud. Only a small part was still crawling stubbornly towards Chen Yunli... in the opposite direction.

I don’t know if it’s Chen Wenjian’s illusion, but he always feels that the atmosphere of the “true appearance” of the world is not right. It’s not weird or disgusting, but an indescribable feeling, like fear and tension.

And it's not that they make people scared and nervous, but they themselves are scared and nervous.

Chen Wenjian's eyes flickered, and the next second, the fur on his back exploded. The sudden murderous aura aroused his ferocity. He roared reflexively and swung a claw towards the place where the murderous aura burst out.

"Meow!--"

Chen Wenjian did not move, his body shape did not change, but the shadow behind him grew rapidly in an instant, almost filling the entire room.

The moment the claws fell, the huge shadow beast claws also scratched the vital points of an object at the same time.

It was a human torso, which swam out from under the bed like a snake or insect. It was silent at first, and even Chen Yunli did not notice its existence. However, Chen Wenjian noticed it a second before launching the attack, and he grabbed its chest with a claw and broke it in half.

Five sharp claws left deep scratches on the ground. The torso turned into twisted flesh and blood under Chen Wenjian's claws, and it could be said that it had no ability to fight back.

Before Chen Yunli could come to his senses, the battle was over.

"...As expected, if I had just manifested those things, it wouldn't have been so troublesome. You could have solved it with just a slap."

"Do you regret it?" Chen Wenjian licked his clean paws, and the shadow behind him gradually shrank. "It took so much effort."

"No." Chen Yunli swung the sword. "The truth lies only on the sword. I like the feeling of holding the 'truth' in my hands."

It is more cost-effective to have the power to kill everyone than to be protected by others.

Chen Wenjian curved his round cat pupils. One of the two images in his eyes was fading away, and the only remaining maggots inside were deader than dead.

It says, "What you like is right."

Chen Yunli rubbed its head with a smile.

After confirming that the evil god in the house was dead, Chen Yunli achieved his goal for tonight - confirming his worldview.

He didn't plan to explore other rooms, not because he was afraid, but because it was getting late. If he didn't go back to sleep, he might not be able to get up for work the next morning.

Chen Wenjian has an excellent ability to recognize roads. Chen Yunli followed its instructions and started his return journey, walking to the dark alley at the beginning.

The exit was right in front of me. When I passed the street light, the light suddenly dimmed, but it didn't flicker again.

But next to the shadow behind Chen Yunli, a fork had quietly appeared.

It looked like a person wearing a straight long skirt, with the toes of her shoes pointed straight down, her neck tilted up to the sky, and her hands hanging down in the air, moving as he did.