On a dark and windy night, murder and arson occurred——
There is one thing Yuan Yuanyuan has to say with pride. Due to her miserable life of being hunted, she has acquired the talent of shapeshifting without any instruction, and she is even very good at it.
In the remote alley, the smell of blood was strong; even such a heavy rain could not completely wash away the smell.
"Gulp...Gulp..."
A very strange sound came from the dark alley, like someone moaning or swallowing something.
A tall figure stood in the alley. He was nearly three meters tall and looked like a small mountain. A tall bone protruded from his back, like some kind of armor.
This man looked really weird, not like a normal person at all. He was bent over, squatting on the ground, doing no one knew what he was doing, his head was up and down, and he made "gurgling" sounds from time to time.
The rain was getting heavier, everything was hazy and there was a layer of fog.
There were few people in this alley during the day, let alone on a rainy night. No one knew where this person came from, and no one knew what he was doing.
The alley was very quiet, with only one or two "gurgles" occasionally heard.
Just as this strange man was squatting on the ground, concentrating on doing something, a voice suddenly rang out from behind the rain curtain, "Big guy, get up."
The sound came suddenly and completely unexpectedly, like an accident in the rain, a wrong note played in a song.
The big guy squatting on the ground paused, then slowly turned his head. He looked towards the exit of the alley, where stood a figure, tall and thin, looking misty in the rain, like a silhouette in an old movie.
The moment the big guy turned his head, a string of red droplets fell from the corners of his mouth, like a string of beads that had broken off the string, slowly dripping onto his chest...
The black figure just stood there, saying only one sentence, and then there was no more movement. The big man squatting on the ground was obviously a little confused. He stood up and walked to the black figure, wanting to see what was going on.
But the moment I got closer, the black figure suddenly disappeared, like an illusion.
At the same time, a figure had already come behind the big guy, and was now squatting down, picking up a girl and covering her mouth...
Yuan Yuanyuan was almost scared to death. As soon as she rushed over, she smelled the strong smell of blood and thought the person was dead. But when the big guy turned his head, she realized that there was a girl hiding deep in the alley. She didn't know if she was scared or cold, but she was huddled there and shivering.
She saw the No. 4 Middle School uniform on the girl at a glance and immediately felt relieved. She rushed over, picked up the person who was curled up on the ground, and covered her mouth to prevent her from shouting.
As for the pool of blood and flesh on the ground... Yuan Yuanyuan didn't know who was the unlucky one.
Yuan Yuanyuan hugged the girl and wanted to leave quickly, but she didn't expect that the big guy might look stupid, but he had a sharp intuition. After he found that the shadow disappeared, he turned around and yelled at the back, bumping into Yuan Yuanyuan who was holding Xiaoying and trying to escape.
The big guy shouted at Yuan Yuanyuan, then ran over with big strides. Yuan Yuanyuan saw that she could not run away, so at the critical moment, she instantly exploded her demonic power.
——Suddenly, several bright red things like willow twigs emerged from under her windbreaker. Each twig was very long and tough. These twig-like things grasped the ground tightly like tentacles, and then swung upwards suddenly, and Yuan Yuanyuan and Xiaoying were thrown into the air.
A black figure spun 180 degrees in mid-air, turned a circle in the air, and then suddenly landed on the ground and grabbed the neck of the big guy on the ground.
Then, a snow-white knife stabbed into the big guy's head from top to bottom.
“Ahhhhh——!” Xiaoying, who had been protected in Yuan Yuanyuan’s arms, finally couldn’t hold back and screamed. Yuan Yuanyuan couldn’t raise her hands to cover her mouth, so she could only hold her in her arms with one hand.
Yuan Yuanyuan listened to Xiaoying's screams in her arms and gritted her teeth. She pulled out the knife with her hand and ran out of the alley without caring about Xiaoying.
No one knew what happened to the big guy, and Yuan Yuanyuan did not dare to look back. She could only hold Xiaoying and walk through the streets and alleys, trying hard to suppress her evil spirit.
It rained heavily that day and the road was long, as if it had no end. Yuan Yuanyuan didn't know how long she had been running. She only knew that her head was dizzy and she had turned countless turns.
Just keep running... keep running...
Xiaoying was shaking all the time. Yuan Yuanyuan heard her crying softly. Warm liquid dripped onto her neck, but she thought it was not rain.
The two of them were like criminals on the run... Of course, this might just be Yuan Yuanyuan's feeling. The girl wouldn't necessarily think that the two of them were in cahoots with this person of unknown origin.
Yuan Yuanyuan ran for an unknown amount of time before she finally stopped. She sniffed the air and felt that the information left by the two people had almost disappeared.
"Where do you live?" Xiaoying suddenly heard the man holding her ask in the darkness.
"Go ahead, to the community next to the train station." Xiaoying's voice was shaking as she spoke.
Yuan Yuanyuan of course knew where Xiaoying's home was. After all, they were neighbors. She just asked and pretended that they didn't know each other.
Her mind was still blank and she was acting entirely on instinct until she saw the familiar neighborhood and the faint light coming out of the window. Then she suddenly came to her senses.
"Let's go back." Xiaoying heard the person who was holding her say. She had been held by that person and dared not move. She couldn't even see the person's face clearly.
She only heard the man's voice, a very clear male voice, with a faint sense of magnetism, and he spoke very softly.
Xiaoying sniffed and looked around, only to find that she was already downstairs in the community.
She was in a daze, looking at the light coming out of her window, and had no idea what day it was.
When she finally came to her senses and looked behind her, she found that the place was empty.
…
Yuan Yuanyuan climbed in through the window and sat down on the windowsill.
She sat there for a long time without saying a word, only the sound of shallow breathing and a slight tremor in her breath.
After a long time, there were chaotic footsteps in the corridor. Yuan Yuanyuan walked slowly to the coffee table, picked up her cell phone and made a call. "Hello? Auntie, it's me, Yuanyuan. Xiaoying is back. You don't have to look for her anymore. Um... don't worry..."
After hanging up the phone, Yuan Yuanyuan looked around with a slightly dazed look in her eyes. She slowly got up, walked into the bathroom, took off her clothes and threw them into the tub, stripped herself naked, filled a tub with hot water, stood in the tub, and rinsed herself from head to toe several times.
There was a clanging sound of footsteps coming from the corridor, and Yuan Yuanyuan heard a burst of crying that was close to a breakdown. She slowly washed her hair, then walked out of the bathtub, picked up the towel and wiped the water droplets off her body.
"Where have you been! You dead child!" The neighbor's mother's voice came with tears, followed by Xiaoying's heart-wrenching cry. Yuan Yuanyuan ignored them all. She sniffed her body and made sure that there was no strong evil spirit emanating from her, then she slowly walked out of the bathroom.
She mopped the floor and wiped the water stains on the windowsill. Then she washed the dress, spun it in the washing machine, ironed it, and hid it at the bottom of the suitcase.
As a half-demon, Yuan Yuanyuan can suppress her demonic aura in a short period of time if she wants to. According to past experience, no one should know that person is her.
She hoped that group of people wouldn't find her tomorrow. She had finally found such a safe place.
She didn't know when her round face returned to its original appearance. She rubbed her face, took a deep breath, and returned to the bedroom. The bedside lamp was still on, warm and peaceful.
She fell on the bed, stared at the ceiling for a long time, fumbled for the switch of the bedside light, and turned it off.
The bedroom was plunged into darkness.
…
Three days later.
"Yuanyuan, you'd better be careful recently. The old monster living in the circle building was killed recently." Sister Xue said.
"Which old monster? There are so many old monsters." Yuan Yuanyuan said while chewing bread.
"You probably don't know him. He was a killer in his early years. He escaped because he couldn't make it outside. He looked very fierce. No one knew what his prototype was before. Only after he died did we find out that he was a big gecko..." Sister Xue said as she walked. She suddenly seemed to remember something and turned around to ask, "By the way, I still don't know what your prototype is."
Yuan Yuanyuan stood there, letting Sister Xue guess for a long time, "Is it a rabbit?"
"…You love dried fish so much, could you be a cat?"
"It's not that I like dried fish, it's just that Gatorade's dried fish is on sale recently, so I stocked up on so much dried fish." Yuan Yuanyuan let Sister Xue guess many times, but in the end, no one guessed right.
After Sister Xue left, Yuan Yuanyuan closed the door and felt her heart still beating. She thought about the windbreaker at the bottom of the suitcase and wondered whether she should find a place to burn it.
"Sister Yuan!" The door was knocked again, and Xiaoying's voice came from outside. Her voice had returned to normal and sounded quite energetic, "Do you want hot pot stickers? My mother made a lot of them."
"Eat." Yuan Yuanyuan opened the door, took a plate of hot pot stickers from Xiaoying, picked up one and stuffed it into her mouth.
The weather was fine, and the air seemed quite clean after several days of rain.
Yuan Yuanyuan returned to the bedroom, turned on the light, and checked her phone. At this moment, the comic app suddenly sent her a message - the comic "Yao Ji" that you are following has been updated!
She lay on the bed, picked up a bag of Gatorade dried fish, ate while opening the app, and watched the latest episode.
The moment she opened the latest chapter, she suddenly frowned and looked at the black and red color filling the screen.
——On the screen, a person in a black windbreaker was running in the rain, holding someone in his arms. The whole picture was dark in color, with a hazy tone.