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“The child raised by you?” The boy in F’s arms was Fu Tian. F, who had the ability to predict the future came here before Han Fei did.
“The fact that you have that question means that your power is not as scary as I thought.” Han Fei stood in the middle of the road. He didn’t care about how many people there were. “When I figured out certain things, you responded. Perhaps you can only see the trail of destiny and the details of certain crucial moments, but you can’t accurately predict everything that will happen in the future.” After Han Fei saw the game’s easter egg, the path of destiny had changed. F needed to respond to it, which was why they encountered each other in this old neighborhood.
“The things I can see with my eyes are the future. Everything is predestined.” F wore the mask. No one could see his expression, but his tone was very firm.
“Why do you say so? Is it because the 99 futures you saw in the past had become realities?” Han Fei glanced at his arms and the 99 wounds. “Don’t believe in your talent too much. The future you saw might be someone else’s deliberate choice.”
Han Fei walked forward with the red threads bound around his fingers. The players felt like they were facing an evil boss.
“Stop moving forward! We’re all players. We shouldn’t fight among ourselves!” Thousand Nights moved forward. He was F’s right-hand man and he was the best fighter after F. When they fought with No. 11’s bliss, Han Fei had already noticed Thousand Night’s body was different from normal. He seemed to have received some transformation from F. When Thousand Nights was threatened, tattoos would surface on his body. They seemed to be carved there by F using the black blade.
“I never wanted to be your enemy but you have me cornered.” Han Fei walked out of the darkness. Wherever he passed, all the streetlights went out. The light was twisted by curses. It represented the most extreme evil and danger.
“The black blade is mine, and the kid is mine, even these players should stand behind me. You’ve stolen so many things from me. Do you think you can replace me?” Han Fei was like a rational madman.
“How did you change so much over one day?” Thousand Nights was shocked. He knew F had done something to target Han Fei. However, he thought F had overacted. But now he realized he was too naïve. If there was a fight, he might not last for even a minute.
“The first ray of dawn is coming. Are you sure you want to fight me at this moment?” F handed the child to another player. He held the black butcher’s knife in his hand.
“Can’t you tell the future? You should already know the answer to that question.” Han Fei kept moving forward. He was alone, but he seemed to carry all the darkness. The darkness churned like the sea.
F frowned. As Han Fei approached, the black blade trembled and called like children seeing their father return.
“Our real enemy is the theme park, but if you insist on an internal strife, I can satisfy you too.” F held the black blade that was going out of control and stabbed it through his palm. His blood leaked into the black blade. The calls became wails. The blade expanded, and a blood-red eye opened on the blade!
The wails from the hilt were suppressed. After the blade consumed F’s fresh blood, it seemed to have its darkest seal unlocked. The chilliest presence radiated from it. The black knife’s blade was a ghost!
“No wonder it can hurt and consume other ghosts.” Han Fei saw this but didn’t stop. After the evil ghost on the black blade appeared, his speculation was confirmed. The black blade was a composite. The blade was a murderous ghost, while the hilt was a coagulation of many individual consciousnesses. Singular consciousness was weak but once they gathered together, nothing could fully consume them.
“The ghost on the blade hates me very much, but the voices, which called me, come from the hilt.” Han Fei came to meet the mother and son, but since he ran into F, he didn’t mind dealing with him earlier than anticipated. F would only get stronger with the passage of time. Time was on his side since he could predict the future.
“I have no idea what you have done to Mad Laughter that he wants to kill you that much. But, no matter, there are endless people with the surname Fu in the city. I’ll only kill you and leave the rest to him.” The wounds on Han Fei’s arms started to bleed. Other than the paper craftsman, everyone with the surname Fu in the city had once killed him. Now, he intended to take revenge.
Neither party was willing to back off. The curses and the black blade collided. The Yin energy around was sucked dry. This strange scenario had attracted other things.
The ground trembled. All the players could feel it. The moonlight above them was obscured.
An extremely cold presence wrapped around everyone’s heart. They lifted their head, and a giant face peeked out from behind the apartment. Beside the apartment where Fu Tian stayed, there stood a ragdoll about three stories tall. The doll had appeared silently. She wore a dress covered in dirt. Her face was cut through. Her singular eye’s thread was severed, and it dangled beside her mouth. Her tongue could easily lick it.
“The Malice is here!” Thousand Nights reminded the players. They had encountered this thing before.
“Malice?” Han Fei studied the monster. Malice was the ghost that couldn’t be controlled by the theme park. They had humanity’s purest sin. They were very scary.
“Han Fei!” Lee Guo Er ran out of the car. “We should temporarily retreat. Even the theme park can’t kill them at night. We can’t fight it.”
“These Malice have no inner consciousness. They are like a coagulation of negative emotions. Is that how original ghosts are born? From extreme despair?” Endless resentment gathered together. They consumed and supported each other to form this strange creature.
“There are many different kinds of Malice and every one of them looks different. They might be the things closest to the first-generation ghosts, but they shouldn’t be the ghosts you’re looking for.” Lee Guo Er was very worried about Han Fei. “We better stay away from it before it’s too late.”
“There’s not much time to dawn. Get back to the car. I’ll go fight for the kid.” Han Fei wasn’t discussing it with Lee Guo Er. He charged toward F.
“Han Fei!” When Lee Guo Er shouted his name, all the players heard it too. Some of them felt the name was very familiar.
“Don’t stay together! Spread out!” Thousand Nights directed the players to deal with Malice. Han Fei and F stayed close to the sleeping boy. Their location was where the Yin energy was the thickest. Malice was attracted to it. The giant body trundled forwards. Her dress dragged on the ground. The dress was made from different clothes, and they gave off a horrible smell.
“Hehe…” The dangling eyeball swung about. The doll attacked F, who had the strongest Yin energy. Her arms were written with horrible insults. This toy must have been abandoned many times in the past. Her life was a story of abandonment. F could predict the future, but his luck was worse than Han Fei. With so many targets to go around, the ragdoll had chosen him. If he attacked Han Fei, he would be grabbed by the doll, and the player hugging Fu Tian would be attacked too. Without much hesitation, F cut at the ragdoll’s giant palm. The blade which had drunk F’s blood became a giant demon. The presence of the monster was not weaker than Xu Qin. However, the demon needed to consume F’s blood before it was willing to help. To protect the boy behind him, F made his choice. After the black blade cut Malice, he grabbed the hilt, that wanted to escape from him, and turned to flee. “Move!”
The ragdoll’s giant palm hovered one meter above F. Several seconds later, the palm was torn apart. Inside the palm wasn’t cotton but rotten bodies!
The demon tore through the ragdoll’s left arm. It danced among the dead bodies. When it was about to go out of control, its lower body that was encased in the hilt glowed with a rare white light. The light pinned the demon to the hilt.
The demon growled. It wanted to retreat, but the doll that lost her left arm naturally wouldn’t let it go like that.
“Hehe…” The chilling giggle echoed. The ragdoll’s only eye spun away. The threads on her body started to pop. The ragdoll appeared to contain something very scary inside.
“Dumbass! Come back!” F shouted at the demon, but it was already too late. Blood capillaries shot out of the ragdoll’s body. It was an indiscriminate attack. In an instant, the capillaries latched onto the nearby buildings, forming a red cage. The demon from the blade was heavily injured. It was punctured through by many capillaries. But the injuries didn’t slow it down. If anything, they made it angrier. The demon gorged on the capillaries. It could digest anything. The more it ate, the stronger it was. If their enemy was only the ragdoll, F wouldn’t stop the demon, but the problem was he still had to face Han Fei.
“I’ve already killed her 99 times. How can she still survive? How can she retain her memory?” The gaze under F’s mask was cold. He could sacrifice 1/5 of his blood to protect a boy, but he would kill a person 99 times for his goal. Due to this childhood experience, F was a complicated character, and he was not pure evil or good. However, in Han Fei’s eyes, he had to die.
“I know your power is very unique, and I might not be able to kill you, but if you don’t hand over that black blade to me, I’ll do my best to kill that boy!” The curse burned in his eyes. It was hard to tell if he was bluffing or not. The black blade was F’s only way to kill ghosts. Surrendering it meant that he would be powerless. However, if he didn’t do that, the boy might be killed by curses!
Han Fei was not kidding. He had many ways to kill the boy. F wouldn’t be able to protect him.
“You sure are cruel.” F’s voice came from the mask. He had about the same stamina as Han Fei. They appeared to have the same level and properties. However, F had sacrificed his blood to summon the demon, so he was weaker.
“The choice is yours.” Han Fei moved closer to F. F hadn’t summoned the demon back yet. His bloody hands could barely hold onto the black blade anymore. If this continued, he might lose the boy and the blade. The eyes under the mask were filled with blood. At that moment, he looked like that demon. “Han Fei, your fate has been decided. I will wait for you in my future.”
F made the decision. He abandoned the player carrying the boy and ran away on his own.
“F?!” The player was Worm. This was the second time he was abandoned by F. The disappointment was clear on his face. When Worm came to his senses, Han Fei had already stopped behind him. He heard Han Fei earlier. Han Fei wanted to kill the boy. After a moment’s hesitation, Worm pushed the boy behind him. He pulled out a knife to guard the boy.
“Do you want to fight me?” Han Fei only chuckled. “Protect the boy and don’t run anywhere. I won’t hurt you.” The devil’s voice came from the mask. It carried an indescribable power. Worm thought he had heard wrongly. “You won’t kill us?”
“That’s my child. Why would I hurt him?”
Han Fei turned to look at the ragdoll who was attacking the other players. He took out Xiao Jia’s phone and glanced at the ticking time. “It’s almost dawn. If this ragdoll stays, we can try it out.”
“Try what out?” Worm carried the boy, but he didn’t dare to get too close to Han Fei.
“Something I’ve been meaning to do.” Endless curses crawled on Han Fei. It made the smile on his mask look especially cruel. “Try to kill it.”
