Chapter 57 (Part 3)
The moment Xia Muqing pushed open the iron door, the fishy wind blowing in her face made her eyes go dark.
The light was dim, and she blinked hard, using the setting sun outside the small window to look at the scene behind the iron gate.
It was a huge warehouse, filled with rows of shelves. There were many cardboard boxes on the front shelves, but the shelves at the back were in a mess. Boxes were scattered on the ground, and the contents had rolled out and piled up into a small mountain in the corner.
Xia Muqing pinched her nose and carefully leaned over to take a look.
——Those piles of bones were actually rotten bones!
Tiny bones, only half a meter in size, and a lot of scattered fur mixed with scattered wall dust.
The bones inside had turned black, with pinholes and cut marks on them, while the bones outside were still fresh, stained with dried blood and a little bit of minced meat, and emitting a disgusting stench.
Xia Muqing covered her mouth and nose, frowning tightly.
"If I'm not mistaken, these are the corpses of mysterious beasts?"
She stepped back and rummaged through the cartons on the shelf, discovering numerous specimen bottles. Various mysterious beasts were frozen in the moment of death, all skin and bones, their large, round eyes glaring intently at the humans outside, their gazes revealing endless resentment and malice.
The bottle contains a turquoise solution with a luminous property, emitting a faint light in the dark.
The carton was not packed tightly, so countless faint lights leaked out from the gaps, flickering in all directions of the warehouse, surrounding Xia Muqing.
“…Gudong.”
Xia Muqing swallowed subconsciously.
She finally understood Sister Wenxue's indignation when she mentioned the poaching gangs. Seeing the mysterious beasts being brutally tortured and dying with their eyes wide open, her heart felt like it was being pressed down by a huge rock, weighing down heavily, making it almost impossible to breathe.
"These bad guys deserve to go to hell!"
Xia Muqing cursed in her heart, and at the same time, she became even more worried. Where are Xiaofeng and Xiaojin now? Have they been killed by poachers?
She quickened her pace, about to cross the warehouse and exit through the closed door opposite. Halfway through, Xia Muqing suddenly stopped and raised her hand in surprise.
The little caterpillar crawled out from her sleeve, waving its tentacles in pain, its face looking extremely ugly.
"Ah, ah, ah!"
Xia Muqing: "Xiao Zi, what's wrong?"
The little caterpillar trembled and tried to hold her fingers tightly.
Intermittent telepathic communication entered Xia Muqing's heart. She was slightly stunned: "You mean, you sensed a strong emotional fluctuation here?"
But, there shouldn't be anyone in the warehouse?
Xia Muqing looked around, her eyes sweeping over the remains of countless mysterious beasts. A flash of lightning flashed in her mind and she suddenly woke up.
Could it be the lingering pain and resentment of these dead mysterious beasts before their death?
"Wait, Xiao Zi, don't absorb it!"
Before she finished her words, the caterpillar's antennae suddenly drooped, slipping away from her fingertips. Its round body, as if lifted by an invisible force, floated limply into the air.
"Ah, ah, ah!"
Like the cry of a child, it echoed slowly in the silent warehouse, and after a moment it turned into a rumbling echo, as if countless twisted ghosts in the corner opened their mouths and echoed in the shrill screams.
“Aaaaaa! Aaaaaaa!!”
The little caterpillar twisted in pain, its antennae tightly wrapped around its head, and it rolled back and forth in the air.
The characteristic of 'emotional sensing' became a detection radar and amplifier. The remaining profound energy surged from the pieces of corpses, like tiny specks of blood-red light, quickly gathering around the little caterpillar!
A string of equally painful telepathic messages mixed with countless noises also rang in Xia Muqing's ears, making her ears buzz, her eardrums congested, and her head almost exploded.
[It hurts, it hurts! It hurts—!!]
Humanity! Humanity! Humanity!!!
…
Outside the warehouse.
The men in black raised their heads in surprise, watching as a thick, gloomy cloud gradually enveloped the factory under the setting sun.
It was not an ordinary cloud, but an extremely black one with wrinkles all over it, like a flowing thick slurry. It expanded rapidly with the factory as the center, and covered the entire old factory area in the blink of an eye.
A bleak wind blew from under the clouds, and the whistling sound was as miserable as the scream of an old crow, circling around.
The man in black raised his hand to cover his forehead and squinted his eyes for a moment: "What's going on? Didn't the weather forecast say it would rain today?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of red light suddenly flashed from the depths of the thick clouds!
A strong, blinding, blood-red light flashed by, and the sea of clouds churned in a rumble of thunder. Before one of the men in black could react, he felt a chill on his neck, as if it had been wet by rain.
He raised his hand and wiped it, then looked down in surprise.
——His hands were stained with cold blood, which was exactly the same as the red light in the sky, exuding an ominous aura.
The man in black opened his mouth, but before he could utter a single word, he collapsed. The others nearby turned their heads in horror, and a moment later, they too clutched their heads in agony, writhing on the ground.
“Ah! It hurts!”
“What the hell is going on!! Aaaaaaa——!”
Thick clouds rolled in, and red light seemed to penetrate into their ears and deep into their heads, transforming into bloodthirsty marrow worms that gnawed at their brains alive!
[It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts!!]
[Hate! I hate, hate, hate—!!]
[Human, human, enemy, enemy, enemy...! !]
Countless voices rang out from all directions, all unconscious, filled with strong emotions of hatred, obsession, and destructive instinct.
They transformed into faint rays of light, moving back and forth under the thick clouds, like meteors whistling through the factory, through the old warehouse, through the piles of bones and shelves filled with specimen jars - casting a gray-black, rapidly expanding figure above the warehouse.
“Crack.”
Seeing the men in black falling one after another, the koi fish slapped the combination lock with its tail, and a golden light flashed on the tip of its tail.
Disorder, start!
The combination lock that the man in black had been fiddling with for a long time but couldn't fix was suddenly unlocked silently with a "click".
The little koi quickly pushed open the locked door and escaped from the box.
It did the same thing and helped the hurricane dog unlock the combination lock. The little hurricane dog, which had been injected with a lot of drugs, stubbornly stood up, carried the koi fish on its back, and ran towards the factory warehouse.
Master, it should be there...
“Click, click.”
A strange shattering sound was heard in the sky.
It was like a black bottle breaking, with fragments peeling off layer by layer, or like a cocoon splitting open, with a faint light lingering in the cracks, and a pair of scarlet eyes full of resentment flashed by.
…
"What's going on in the west of the city? Why is it getting dark so quickly?"
"That's strange. Did you hear any sound in the wind? Like something crying?"
"Hiss, it's weird, my head hurts a bit..."
In S City, many residents noticed the unusual situation on the outskirts of the city and began to discuss it.
At the same time, Sister Wenxue, who was working with the security department to find Xia Muqing's whereabouts, lowered her head and looked at the flashing red warning light on her mobile phone, her eyes widened in panic.
"Abnormal fluctuations detected in the west of the city!"
"Such a strong fluctuation, the energy value has reached 80,000... No, 95,000, 108,000... and it's still soaring!"
"Is it a completed divine skill? Which beast master is angry?"
"No, it's a completely unfamiliar energy fluctuation with a very strange aura. I suspect it's the invasion of the Dark Beast King!!"
The instrument on her hand beeped and the red warning light kept flashing. Sister Wenxue looked up blankly, looking at the thick clouds over the west of the city, and hugged her head in despair.
What is going on?
They had just lost Xia Muqing and were extremely anxious when a strange dark beast king appeared over there—
"...Wait a minute," Wenxuejie suddenly realized, "Divine skills? The prototype of divine skills?"
Her thoughts raced, her eyes grew brighter, and she gathered herself.
It may not be an invasion of unknown mysterious beasts, but it may be that the Gale Hound broke out in battle and used more powerful skills.
In other words, Xia Muqing is probably at the center of the storm right now!
"Teacher, hurry up, let's go to the west of the city!"
…
“Squeak—”
The rusty iron door of the factory was pushed open, and a snow-white figure came in from the gap in the door and moved quickly between the tall shelves.
The Swift Dog's steps were still a little weak. The power of the potion in its body had not dissipated yet. Now, every time it used a bit of its mysterious power, it felt like its body was being cut by a knife.
But its fangs were clenched, its eyes were red, and its steps did not slow down at all as it quickly approached the center of the factory.
Finally, they found the unconscious Xia Muqing behind a row of tall shelves.
“Ouch…”
The Swift Dog lowered its head and nudged Xia Muqing's head with its wet nose. Its furry head pressed against her forehead, and it whimpered and licked her palm.
The little koi also jumped off the back of the Swift Dog and rushed to Xia Muqing, grumbling in worry.
It spit out a long string of bubbles, and the wet water light exploded on the girl's fair cheeks, wetting the loose hair on her forehead.
A few minutes later, Xia Muqing's long eyelashes fluttered a few times and she finally opened her eyes.
"...Xiaofeng, Xiaojin?"
She covered her aching head, took a deep breath, and gradually regained consciousness.
"Oh no, Xiao Zi!"
Recalling what had just happened, Xia Muqing ignored the severe pain in her head and immediately got up from the ground, looking up nervously at the sky.
Just at this moment, a flash of red light exploded!
The strong fluctuation of mysterious power turned into a vortex in the sky, and the strong wind almost blew the roof high into the sky. The dome of the old warehouse was finally unable to withstand such force. The bricks and tiles cracked, collapsed into pieces, and fell from the sky with a crash!
Dust and sand flew into the sky.
Xia Muqing hurriedly raised her arms above her head to protect the two mysterious beasts. When the dust settled, she covered her mouth and coughed forcefully a few times, squinting her eyes and looking up at the sky.
The dim light of dusk sprinkled through the broken parts, like a silk thread hanging high in the air. Through the broken roof, Xia Muqing finally saw the thick clouds above her head, as well as the huge cocoon wrapped in layers of inky clouds.
"Xiao Zi!"
“Crack, crack…”
The cocoon shattered faster and faster, and a slender leg emerged from the broken part, followed by long tentacles, a thin abdomen, and a snow-white head that looked like a withered bone...
The wet butterfly wings were a strange black color, and they quickly dried up when blown by the wind. When they stretched out, they covered half of the roof.
The veins were like dried-up blood vessels, the lines were like dark ghosts, and the white spots were like distorted faces. As the butterfly wings fluttered in the wind, they emitted a mournful sound like thousands of ghosts crying together.
“Aa ...
[Death... I hate...]
Looking at the strange huge butterfly in the sky, Xia Muqing felt her heartbeat stop for a moment and her breathing almost stopped.
"Grievous...Soul Butterfly?"
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