The shrill curse stabbed into my eardrums like a sharp blade.
The old man was also shot by someone downstairs. He tumbled and fell, then was dragged by his leg and thrown into the burning house.
The continuous screams were like the sounds from the depths of hell.
“... My dear daughter!”
A blood - smeared hand suddenly grabbed my ankle. I quickly looked down and saw a middle - aged woman with a bleeding head desperately looking up at me. She said miserably, “Run quickly!! Run as far as you can! Don't get caught!”
In her eyes, reddened by the flames, I saw my own reflection!!
A huge single eye spanned across my forehead. Its pitch - black pupil stared coldly at the woman on the ground. Then I heard my own voice laughing coldly, “Hehe... Mother always puts me first in everything... Where can I run to now?”
The woman pointed difficultly at the back mountain, which was illuminated red by the flames. “Run to the back mountain. Someone will pick you up...”
“But, Mother, I'm so hungry... I can't run anymore.”
Suddenly, a surge of hatred and hunger welled up in my heart. My hand slowly reached for the woman's neck. I effortlessly lifted her from the ground, opened my mouth and bit hard into her throat. The woman didn't even have time to scream before she died.
“Catch her!”
“The monster is eating people again!!”
“Burn her to death!!”
...
The chaotic footsteps accompanied by the shouts of countless people came from the darkness. A group of armed soldiers suddenly surrounded me.
Si Jiangchen, dressed in an iron - gray uniform, stood coldly among the soldiers. His eyes, reflected by the fire, were like those of a fierce demon king walking out of a temple.
“Everyone from the Du family, whether human or ghost, will be completely annihilated!”
At this moment, the tenderness in his eyes when we got married was gone. All that remained was cold disgust.
“... Hoo... Hoo.”
The hunger and anger in my chest didn't diminish even a bit after I ate that woman. I dropped the drained body and pounced on more flesh and blood.
Blood filled my throat, and I could only let out beast - like roars.
The soldiers with guns opened fire on me one after another. Countless bullets and iron sands embedded in my flesh, but I didn't feel any pain, only a craving for blood.
In an instant, I rushed into the crowd. I reached out to grab a body and was about to bring my mouth close when unexpectedly a big hand reached out from the side. It grabbed my head and lifted me into the air.
The faint smell of cigarettes made me come to my senses slightly. Through my fingers, I could see Si Jiangchen squinting his eyes. He very skillfully drew a corpse - suppressing talisman in the air and slapped it on my chest. The talisman instantly engulfed me like the boundless karmic fire of hell...
“... He... Xiao He!!”
Amid the intense pain, I seemed to hear someone calling my name. Then a palm slapped hard on the Baihui acupoint on my head. Immediately, I woke up as if I had been suddenly enlightened.
There was no grand and joyous wedding in front of me, nor was there a village ablaze with fire... I was still standing in front of the pale hospital bed. The wound on Yang Fan's head, who was in a coma, showed no change.
Du Peilin stood seriously on the opposite side of the hospital bed, pinching the magic formula.
“On high, the Great Star changes without cease. It drives away evil spirits and binds demons, protecting life and the soul. With wisdom and purity, the mind is at peace. The three souls are forever firm, and the soul will never be lost. The Great Lord Laozi, quickly follow the order!”
He was chanting the Mind - Purifying Mantra!
“I... I was trapped in an illusion...” I looked at him with difficulty, knowing that I had fallen into the trap of the One - Eyed Buddha Mother.
“You're possessed!”
Du Peilin's voice was unusually low. “Look at what you've done!”
He turned over his palm and showed a split talisman with two clear tooth marks on it.
“Ah!”
I didn't expect that everything in the illusion would be brought into the real world. The bite I took on the woman in the illusion actually landed firmly on Du Peilin's hand!
“Miss Du, you were about to bite Xiao Fan just now. It was this gentleman who blocked you!”
Uncle Yang's voice behind me was trembling violently. I slowly turned my head and saw the two old people huddled in the corner, looking at me in horror.
“Miss... Miss Du.”
The young lawyer who brought Uncle Yang and the others here, although still standing upright with some effort, was as pale as a sheet. “Assistant Manager Ji said that we should follow your instructions here. If you need any help, just tell me!”
I never expected the One - Eyed Buddha Mother to be so powerful. She not only occupied Yang Fan's body but also turned the whole hospital ward into her domain.
“Lead them out! Go outside the door!”
I pointed at the closed ward door.
When I came in just now, the two security guards outside seemed normal. It should be safe in the corridor just a door away.
“... Heheh...”
Suddenly, Yang Fan on the hospital bed grinned. He slowly opened his eyes and sat up. The torn skin on his nose made his two eyeballs show more white. “Du Xinghe, thank you for waking me up...”
He stared at me sinisterly with eyes that were not human at all. “Originally, I could only separate some of my consciousness to mark and suck people's souls one by one. But now...”
He slowly lifted the quilt on his body and stood up.
“Shh...”
The young lawyer and Uncle Yang's couple behind me simultaneously gasped in fear.
I saw that the belt of the hospital gown Yang Fan was originally wearing came loose as he moved. The blue - and - white top opened, revealing his bare chest. Countless wide - open eyes appeared on his skin, all glaring at me viciously!!
“Don't go...”
Yang Fan stuck out his tongue and licked his dry lips. “Eating the two of you cultivators will nourish me much more than eating two ordinary people!”
“Go!”
I didn't bother listening to his nonsense. I raised my hand, formed a sword finger, and stabbed at the eye on his forehead again. At the same time, I shouted to the young lawyer and Uncle Yang and the others, “Go downstairs directly and wait for me when you get out of the door!”
The young lawyer, as an employee of Cold Fir Capital, truly had first - class psychological quality. No matter whether he had ever seen such a terrifying scene or not, he immediately rushed to the door and pulled it open.
“Ah!!” The moment the door opened, the young lawyer couldn't help screaming.
Outside the door was not the hospital corridor but an endless sea of fire. Faintly, the screams and curses of humans could be heard in the flames.
“Du Xinghe, it's not my fault!”
Yang Fan's smile widened. The hideous wound between his eyes finally opened completely just like in my illusion. His two normal eyeballs “gurgled” and rolled into the wound. “Your evil thoughts have become the nourishment for my illusion... It's really rare!! It can even continue from the illusion to the real world...”