Chapter 17 Door
All the sounds were mixed together, the frantic thoughts and the last sanity of the fox demon were clashing and tearing each other apart. Yu Sheng heard Hu Li's painful whimpering in his ear, but in his mind there were more crazy and chaotic sounds roaring - the fox demon's appetite that was on the verge of getting out of control, the heart-wrenching hunger, the temptation of chaos and darkness, and... the shouts urging him to escape.
Yu Sheng took a deep breath, crouched down and rushed towards a gap between the fox and the monster, but he did not run away as Hu Li urged him to. Instead, he picked up a broken bluestone slab from the ground, held it and rushed towards the monster's side.
Of course he knew that he probably couldn't beat the monster, but he knew even more clearly that it was impossible to run away from here with human strength alone. In addition, there were ruins everywhere blocking the way, and the only open exit leading to the outside of the ruined temple was completely blocked by the monster's huge body. In this situation, if he ran away recklessly, he would probably die faster.
It would be better to charge in headfirst. Although he could not win by fighting, since he was not afraid of death, he would have a chance to gain some results before he died. And if he could distract the monster by chance, maybe Hu Li would have a chance to break free from the terrible bondage. She was still struggling to maintain her sanity. If she could really break free, she might even have a chance to fight back...
All these thoughts passed through his mind in a flash. Yu Sheng knew that his thinking was not thorough, but he could not care too much. With no other choice, he could only be ruthless. This body once again burst out with a huge force that even confused himself, and smashed the heavy bluestone slab at the bloody monster like a cannonball.
The next second, he had no time to confirm the "results" of his attack. A huge warning emerged from the bottom of his heart. Yu Sheng "saw" the monster's counterattack one second in advance and leaped to the side suddenly.
A black shadow like a steel whip hit the place where he had just stood. It was a snake tail that suddenly split out from the monster's body. In an instant, earth and rocks flew everywhere, and the solid bluestone and broken bricks and tiles were all turned into dust. Yu Sheng felt a powerful impact in the air, and the broken stones hit him like bullets, and even made a sound like metal hitting stone.
Yu Sheng didn't care about the pain in his body. After landing, he rolled quickly to avoid the pursuit of the snake's tail. At the same time, he glanced in the direction of Hu Li.
The silver-white demon fox struggled violently among countless pitch-black spikes and bone fragments. The dark blue spiritual fire burning near the fox's tail flickered violently, as if it would explode out of control in the next second.
But she was still trapped - the things that bound her seemed to be tailor-made for her, and Yu Sheng's interference had no effect at all.
In fact, Yu Sheng could tell at a glance that this fox girl was countless times stronger than himself, but she had no chance to fight back in front of the monster. There was obviously a very obvious... "restraint" between her and the monster.
But at the beginning, in the open space outside the dilapidated temple, she rushed over without hesitation and wanted to "save" herself - although the rescue failed in the end, she really wanted to help at that time.
Memories flashed through his mind, and Yu Sheng gritted his teeth, wanting to rush forward again and try to see if he could use the old method of exchanging his life for some more parts from the monster.
He didn't know where his extra strength and recovery ability came from, but he remembered that before these changes first appeared, he bit a piece of flesh from the monster.
He was not sure whether there was any connection between the two things, but there was no other way at the moment, and he was not afraid of death, so he might as well try all the bold guesses in his mind.
"Don't worry about me!" At this moment, Hu Li's voice came again, "It can't kill... me, you, run!"
"It's okay, it can't kill me," Yu Sheng spat out a mouthful of blood foam, which was the injury he got when the rubble in the air hit his chin. He turned his head to look at the silver-white demon fox with a happy smile on his face, "I may die later, but don't worry, I will come back to find you."
Hu Li's struggling movement paused for a moment, and he seemed to be confused for a moment.
Yu Sheng did not explain anything, but just walked towards the monster. His steps were brisk and the smile on his face became more and more obvious.
There was a kind of joy in that smile, as if one was attending a banquet.
"Don't you like to persuade people to eat?" He looked at the bloody beast in front of him and muttered to himself, "Okay, I'm here to eat!"
He leaped into the air and pounced on the feasting table like a hungry wolf.
The dozens of eyes on the flesh and blood monster's body trembled violently. For the first time, a hint of hesitation and...cowardice seemed to emerge in those chaotic and frenzied eyes.
A vague roar came from its huge mouth, and then several tentacle-like "snake tails" with black scales split out from its flesh and blood body and stabbed towards Yu Sheng in the air.
Yu Sheng felt like his body was pierced through with fatal wounds, he didn't know exactly how many points. He felt his life beginning to slip away, the warm blood was taking away the vitality in his body.
But that indescribable... "appetite" had already surged up from the bottom of his heart. He ignored the pain in his body, ignored all the resistance and uneasiness about death, and hugged the snake tail that pierced his abdomen, grinned, and lowered his head to bite it -
The monster let out a strange and sharp howl, and swung its snake tail violently, as if trying to shake off a deadly poisonous insect clinging to its body.
However, Yu Sheng held on to the tail tightly and refused to let go no matter how hard the snake swung. He was knocked to the ground by the snake's tail and a rotten wall next to him was knocked over. His strong body was not injured in the fatal collision, but instead made him more awake in the pain.
At this moment, the snake's tail rose high again and swung towards a large collapsed hole in the wall of the ruined temple.
A strange golden light suddenly flashed across the edge of my vision.
Yu Sheng raised his head with difficulty amid the whistling wind in his ears, and saw that the golden light was approaching him rapidly. Before he had time to carefully identify what it was, he subconsciously raised his hand to block it.
His hand grasped something - a handle.
Yu Sheng: “……?”
A slight creaking sound mixed with the whistling wind, and Yu Sheng suddenly imagined a door in his mind—an ordinary door that led to somewhere, to...
As soon as a place subconsciously came to his mind, the door was opened by him.
The next second, Yu Sheng and the snake tail covered with black scales fell into the door in an instant, and then with a sharp creaking sound, the door slammed shut.
The snake tail of the flesh and blood monster was directly cut off by the gate that suddenly appeared and disappeared. A chaotic howl that was enough to drive the listener crazy echoed in the valley. The trauma seemed to make it mad. It roared and rampaged in the ruins of the broken temple, and madly bit everything in its sight, even its own body. Then, after an unknown amount of time, it slowly calmed down, and its body once again turned into a dark and illusory shadow, melting into the night bit by bit.
The pitch-black spikes and bone fragments disappeared silently, and the wounded silver-white fox fell to the ground, motionless, as if dead.
After a few minutes, Hu Li finally opened her eyes slowly. She looked around blankly, and her golden-red eyes seemed to have completely lost their "human" spirit.
After a long while, her eyes finally focused on a certain place in the ruins.
Those were the steps where she and her "benefactor" had sat before.
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She dragged the huge body of the fox demon and moved slowly over. She saw the plastic bags and leftover leaves scattered under the steps, so she lowered her head and swallowed all of those things into her stomach while making a whimpering sound.
But she was still hungry.
The bewitching voice was like an lingering demon, persuading her at the depths of her hunger.
"Eat, you know where else you can fill your stomach...
"You buried them in the woods...
"Bones, flesh, and blood...
"Go, eat, you won't be hungry anymore..."
The fox lowered its head and whimpered as if crying, then curled up under the steps, slowly stretched out its neck, gnawed on the broken bricks and tiles beside it, and dug up the soil and rotten wood under the ruins, slowly stuffed them into its mouth, and gnawed them again and again.
"I'm not hungry... I'm not hungry... Someone gave me food... He will be back soon with more food... I'm not hungry..."
She kept on chewing like this until she gradually passed out, just as she had done for many years.
The feeling of falling awakened Yu Sheng from his daze. He still had the "feeling" of holding the door handle in his hand, but the next second, he realized that he had crossed a certain line.
He opened his eyes wide in surprise and saw himself lying on the side of the road. In his sight were the familiar street lights, electric poles and the low, old houses on Wutong Road.
The old outer wall and gate of No. 66 Wutong Road were not far ahead, standing in the dim morning light.
He turned his head with difficulty again, and saw the shadow of a big door gradually dissipating. Deep in the shadow, he could vaguely see the valley shrouded in the night, the ruins of the dilapidated temple, and...
A white fox was struggling to move in the ruins.
Yu Sheng tried to reach out to the white fox.
The last remaining shadow dissipated before his fingertips could touch it.
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