Gurgle.
Chen Tan couldn't help but swallow.
"How...how is this possible??" he rasped, "Without a heart, his head cut off, yet he can still move?"
"Where did his costume come from? Didn't we not put it on him?!"
"I don't know!!!" Li Xiuchun, completely overwhelmed by fear, spoke incoherently, "When he crawled out from underground, he was already wearing this costume... It's the one we draped over him when we buried him last night!
"He's a ghost... He's really a ghost!!
"A ghost coming to claim our lives!"
"Bullshit! There are no ghosts in this world!"
The scene before him was too eerie, Chen Tan's legs were somewhat weakened by fear, but he finally summoned up his courage, picked up a table knife from the ground, and stabbed towards Chen Yifei's face!
He had killed Chen Yifei twice, so he could kill him again!
Whatever was inside him, besides looking scary, it didn't seem as terrifying as the disasters rumored outside. This gave Chen Tan quite a bit of courage.
The sharp table knife sliced through the air, but just as it was about to touch Chen Yifei, it suddenly halted in mid-air.
Chen Tan was startled. He strained with all his might to push the knife forward, but it wouldn't move an inch, as if an invisible giant hand was gripping the blade, holding it firmly in mid-air.
"Heehee."
An eerie chuckle sounded from behind Chen Yifei.
The next moment, the table knife in Chen Tan's hand disappeared into thin air, replaced by a slender red piece of paper.
Chen Yifei, with dilated pupils, had chewed and swallowed the axe and kitchen knife in his mouth. He stared straight at Chen Tan, stepped forward slowly, mechanically and raspy repeating the same sentence:
"Dad, I'm hungry."
Just three simple words, but they made Chen Tan's scalp tingle!
He didn't doubt for a moment that the next instant, Chen Yifei would grab his head and stuff it into his mouth, chewing and biting... His bones wouldn't be harder than an axe and a kitchen knife!
"Run!! Go find the enforcers!!"
Chen Tan turned and sprinted towards the door!
Chen Tan knew that the situation before him was beyond their ability to handle... The only way to survive now was to seek help from the enforcers. Those powerful enforcers must have a way to deal with disasters!
As for how the enforcers would judge them for intentional murder and organ theft afterward, that was another matter.
Anyway, imprisonment was better than losing one's life.
Li Xiuchun, who was crouching and shivering, was also brought back to her senses by this shout. She scrambled towards the closed door.
Taking advantage of Chen Yifei's attention being on Chen Tan, she successfully reached the door and stretched out her hand towards the doorknob...
Only to grab nothing.
Li Xiuchun blankly lowered her head and realized that the doorknob had disappeared... No, not just the doorknob, the whole door had turned into an image on red paper, transforming from three-dimensional to two-dimensional.
She couldn't open a door painted on paper.
"Heeheehee..."
Dense voices stacked up from all directions, as if the room was now filled with countless invisible figures... They were watching the two, with mischievousness in their crimson eyes.
Red pieces of paper fluttered around Li Xiuchun. In her trance, she saw countless eerie faces,
She kept screaming and backing away, with only pure fear remaining in her eyes.
Finally, her eyes rolled back, and her whole body collapsed onto the ground, unconscious...
[Audience Expectation -1]
[Current Expectation: 16%]
At the same time, Chen Tan felt his feet lose support, and he fell heavily to the ground. Turning around in confusion, he found that the entire ground had turned red, undulating like waves.
Staring blankly at the approaching Chen Yifei in red, as if realizing something, he screamed in terror:
"It's true... What the enforcers said is true!"
"You are the disaster!"
"You are the disaster that usurped Yifei's body!"
Upon hearing these words, Chen Yifei in red halted his steps.
The corners of his crimson mouth curled up slightly, and he placed a pale finger against his lips, making a "silence" gesture.
"Shh——"
Just as the endless red paper was about to engulf Chen Tan, two bursts of glass breaking sounded from the side!
"Disaster traces found at 128 Cold Frost Street!! Destruction level assessed at four! Request immediate enforcer backup!!"
Two figures wearing black and red uniforms broke through the window. One of them swept his gaze across the room and spoke quickly.
"Received, backup is on the way, please try to hold it off!" A serious voice came from the walkie-talkie on one of the enforcers' waists.
One of the enforcers gave a bitter smile, "A level-four disaster, how can we possibly hold it off?"
Seeing the two enforcers suddenly intrude, the invisible audience let out a slight exclamation, as if they had found a more interesting toy.
Chen Yifei in red flicked his hand, and the fallen Chen Tan fainted instantly, with blood flowing from his seven orifices, gradually staining the ground beneath him...
"Keep your distance! Preserving your lives is crucial!"
One of the enforcers quickly retreated, drawing a gun from his waist and firing continuously!
Bang bang bang——
Brass bullets pierced through the void, but before reaching Chen Yifei in red, they turned into tiny red paper pieces and dispersed in the air.
Chen Yifei in red gently raised his hand, and countless paper pieces emerged from the wide sleeves of his theatrical robe, wrapping around the two enforcers like snakes.
The paper pieces wrapping around the two of them suddenly twisted, like twisted hemp, and then fell heavily onto the ground.
[Audience Expectation -1]
[Current Expectation: 15%]
Chen Yifei in red's body gradually swelled, and his theatrical robe was forcibly stretched, as if there were faces about to break out from under his skin, with chaotic whispers filling the space.
Within just a few seconds, he became a monster with red paper tentacles fluttering all over his body. Pairs of crimson pupils opened on the paper, and there was no trace of Chen Yifei left.
It violently broke through the paper door, rushed into an empty street, and the misty rain hit it without making any sound.
It chose a direction at random and flew off as a crimson blur!
Almost simultaneously, a black figure pierced through the dark clouds, swiftly following behind.
"Target disaster detected," Han Meng said calmly.
"...Is it 'World-Ending' level?" A worried voice came from the walkie-talkie.
"From its aura, it's at most level five. It seems that a disaster did descend last night, but the pointer misjudged its energy intensity."
"Level five is also quite dangerous! Be careful, Meng!"
Han Meng didn't respond. He followed the crimson blur to the wilderness at the edge of Sector Three and then crashed down like a cannonball!
Boom——!!
The black meteor created an invisible shockwave in the wilderness!
The shattered sand and gravel splashed in all directions, forcing the crimson blur to stop. The dense red paper tentacles swayed in the wind, and all the pupils simultaneously gazed towards the dusty area.
A figure lowered his head to light a thick cigarette, stepped out slowly, and the four silver stripes on the hem of his black trench coat faintly lit up.
A breeze-like domain invisibly unfolded, enveloping the red paper monster within.
"I am Han Meng, the Chief Enforcer of Sector Three in the Aurora Realm."
He held a cigarette in one hand and took a black pistol from his waist with the other, pulling down the safety with his thumb. The sand and gravel in the domain slightly trembled, and a faint murderous intent suddenly locked onto the red paper monster!
He lightly opened his lips, and his words seemed to carry the rhythm of some rule,
"I uphold the justice of human civilization..."
"And sentence you to death."