It had just had its strength drained by Jian Xie and had completely lost all its support. At this moment, it had turned back into the harmless little bear that the class president was familiar with.
The little bear looked at Jian Xie with its button eyes akin to dead fish eyes.
Nothing left to live for.
The left eye read, “You’re pretty impressive for being able to have the upper hand in a relationship with a monster of this level”, and the right eye read, “Damn it, stop showing off, you bastards!”
Jian Xie: “…”
How come he could see such clear thoughts in the plastic eyes of a little bear doll?
Jian Xie lowered his head and looked at the few wisps of entangled black mist. A vague impulse suddenly flashed in his mind, causing him to lower his head uncontrollably and hold his fingers in his mouth, putting into practice the thought in his heart of wanting to “try to eat It.”
Tasted it!
…but it also seemed like he didn’t taste it.
Jian Xie was slightly stunned.
It was clearly the scent he himself exuded, and strictly speaking, there was no outstanding smell.
It tasted so light, like drinking plain water.
But the aftertaste on his tongue carried a faintly discernible fragrance mixed with a not-so-obvious taste of blood. It was as if the two smells were entangled and blended together.
The taste of rust covered up the unknown fragrance and also diluted its rich viscosity, mixing into a strange flavor.
[Didn’t you already know this?]
It sensed Jian Xie’s inner thoughts, and because he tasted their flavor, It fell into hesitation.
Humans always think a lot, and the only human being It cared about was very wary.
[From the moment you woke up, there is no longer ‘I’ or ‘you’.] It raised It’s lips and announced happily, [Now, there is only ‘us’.]
……
Right.
Once he considered such an answer carefully, it didn’t seem very surprising.
Jian Xie pondered for a moment without saying a word, then bent down, picked up the teddy bear doll on the dirty floor, and looked at it in his hand.
The doll’s body twitched when he touched it before becoming completely motionless.
Not dead, but almost as good as dead.
Jian Xie stopped when he realized that he was about to eat up this Special A-level monster and even erase its existence because he was very interested in the set up “investigators can’t kill monsters without props” that Cheng Li had told him before.
He could take it back and study it.
After all, Special A-level monsters were not cabbages that could be easily found. Since there was a ready-made experimental subject in front of him, there was no need to waste it.
Afterwards, Jian Xie turned around absentmindedly with the doll in his hand and looked at the class president who was a few meters away.
He still maintained his original posture and haven’t moved an inch, as if he was rooted on the spot.
The class president whose pupils trembled after sensing his gaze: “…”
After a while, his face twisted into an expression that looked like he was about to cry but couldn’t. He stammered saying, “Student Jian Xie, I-I’m glad you’re okay…”
As soon as he said it, the class president felt that there might be something wrong with his brain, because classmate Jian Xie didn’t even look like he was sweating.
Even his facial expression didn’t change at all throughout the whole series of events.
Jian Xie’s eyes swept over the class president’s body. There were no serious wounds, but his clothes were all dirty and the knee portion of the shorts was a bit scuffed, presumably from rubbing on the ground while being toyed with by that Special A-level monster earlier.
“Are you okay?” He decided to ask anyway.
Hearing this, the class president became even more nervous and almost bit his tongue, unable to speak fluently. “…N-no.”
As soon as he finished speaking, something flashed in his vision. It was a small bottle thrown in front of him.
The class president wasn’t able to respond in time, so he didn’t catch it. The glass bottle fell onto his body. He lowered his head and saw that it was filled with pills of various colors.
“Eat the orange one.” The class president’s face looked uglier now that he was smiling compared to when he was crying.
Although it was vitamin candy, Jian Xie thought that the candy should have some calming effect and could make the other less nervous.
“Mind if I take it?”
Seeing that the class president had eaten the candy obediently and was looking better, Jian Xie raised the little bear in his hand and asked for his opinion expressionlessly.
“Yes, yes.” The class president said quickly, with a trace of fear still on his face and tears in his eyes, “As long as… you have no problem with it.”
He never wanted to see this monster again, it was simply a nightmare!
Thinking of this, he was about to cry again.
Jian Xie glanced at him, pulled the little bear’s ears, forcing it to make a face, and then put his hand down in disgust.
[Someone is coming.] It said lazily, voice a little amused, [Should I withdraw?]
In Jian Xie’s opinion, it sounded like It had some bad intentions in saying this.
He could sense that It had no good feelings towards the supernatural management department, but he did not hear any contempt for monsters in It’s words, only pure disgust.
So, his response was to simply raise his hand that was holding the little bear and stuff it into the black fog behind him smoothly and decisively.
“Stop talking, keep it for me.”
Cheng Li was a B-level investigator. If he saw the doll in Jian Xie’s hand, he would most likely recognize it and ask him to hand over this dangerous thing.
Of course, no matter how dangerous it was, it is not as dangerous as the one behind him.
“You withdraw, too.” Jian Xie reminded It after thinking about it.
If this was witnessed, they would probably be treated as accomplices.
[…….]
Has It become a tool?
Be that as it may, the black fog still swallowed up the doll in Jian Xie’s hand. The eerie aura that was originally faintly visible and scattered in the air disappeared in an instant and a certain core of it gradually shrank, turning into a ball of thick black liquid that dripped onto the ground. It then regrouped to form Jian Xie’s shadow under the light, leaving only an extremely faint and blurred outline in the air.
“Will he remember this?” He asked.
In the class president’s eyes, Jian Xie was talking to the inhuman black fog behind him. If he had not heard the black fog’s voice before—which regardless of the content, was unusually pleasant—he would subconsciously think that the other party did have some mental problems.
[He doesn’t deserve to see me in the first place.] It said in disgust, glancing at the class president who was looking at Jian Xie intently.
The latter was startled and felt a sudden chill on his back.
……
Outside the community, Cheng Li paused in his anxious steps.
Was it his illusion? The monster’s aura disappeared…
No, its predation field was shut down all at once.
The community instantly returned to its previous quiet and peaceful state, and the chirping of cicadas in the flowers and plants planted in the villa area gradually became clearer. The wind blowing across his cheeks became gentle, no longer giving people a stagnated feeling, and the air finally became fresh.
His eyes widened.
The sudden closure of the predation field only meant that the monster had…
“Boom boom—”
Just as he was wondering, he saw a villa on the left side of the community a hundred meters in front of him suddenly collapsed without any warning, causing a terrifying smoke storm. The night patrol security guard who was dozing off in the security booth was instantly awakened.
The stunned Cheng Li: “…”
What was that? That was such a huge commotion.
Even the commonly used reason of gas explosion wouldn’t perfectly explain it.
At the same time, he successfully met Jian Xie’s line of sight from the collapsed ruins. The latter was stepping on rubble, preparing to jump out of the sunken ground, and his hand was dragging the back of the collar of a teenager the same age as him.
Cheng Li was wondering if he was too shocked that he was having such horrible hallucinations.
In the gloomy night, a huge layer of lingering black fog seemed to flash across Jian Xie’s wrist and behind him. The extremely eerie and cold aura gave him goosebumps, but in the blink of an eye, it completely disappeared from Cheng Li’s sight.
“…….”
In a flash, he figured out what had happened.
All clues point to one conclusion.
He had only been away for twenty minutes, and Jian Xie, a prospective investigator with no training experience, who had only learned about the existence of monsters a few days ago and had only read the introduction about monsters a few hours ago, had killed a monster of at least A-level with only his bare hands and no use of any props.
Shocked his whole family…1I haven’t seen this before so correct me if I’m wrong, but considering Chinese culture about families and ancestors, and retorts such as “___ your sister”, this might be Cheng Li’s way of hyperbole….
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Cheng Li: I may need psychological treatment…
