In the room filled with blood and corpses, only Xi Renjie remained standing alone.
He stood there, stunned for a moment, then quickly ran out the door, enduring the pain. In the misty haze, he saw the figure in red had already moved far away, almost indistinct. Several shadow centipedes scurried after him, turning into tiny black dots and disappearing.
Who was he?
Xi Renjie's mind was filled with this question.
It was a face he had never seen, cold and stern, and seemingly younger than him... Judging from the attire and the words "Even an enforcer is no match," he was definitely not sent by the Aurora City.
Could he be from outside the Aurora Realm?
But why did he save me? And how did he lure those centipedes away?
As Xi Renjie pondered, several black shadows swiftly emerged from the surrounding rooftops, one, two, three... eleven, twelve... a total of thirteen shadow centipedes ignored Xi Renjie on the ground and chased after the figure in red from all directions.
...
Chen Yifei looked around and, seeing no one, stabbed himself in the abdomen three times.
The injury and pain transformed into strength, making Chen Yifei's speed increase drastically. This allowed him to barely distance himself from the swarming shadow centipedes. Fortunately, the bloodstains on his wound were almost the same color as his red theatrical robe, and if one didn't look closely, it would be hard to notice.
To ensure that all the nearby shadow centipedes were lured away without being caught, Chen Yifei had pushed his speed to the extreme.
As the crimson figure swept across the rooftops, a whistling wind blew past the edge of the street.
Several fleeing figures simultaneously stopped.
"Did you see something pass just now?"
"It seemed like it was red?"
"I didn't see anything... Are you all seeing things?"
"Forget it, let's just escape first!!"
As they spoke, they were about to continue moving forward when the thick mist suddenly surged, and a dense mass of black shadows crawled out from it!
Seeing the shadow centipedes charging towards them, the few were almost terrified to the point of collapsing. Their legs gave out, and they knelt on the ground in unison. Just as they closed their eyes tightly, screaming and preparing to meet their demise, the shadows passed directly over them and moved away.
The few opened their eyes, still shaken, not realizing what had happened. The shadows beside them twisted violently!
Several centipedes crawled out of the shadows almost touching their faces, hissing and chasing after the distant figure. In their frantic escape, they didn't realize when these creatures had hidden among them.
The same scene was unfolding on the surrounding streets. The blazing torches' light could almost make the shadow centipedes on three nearby streets see Chen Yifei's path simultaneously. Along this rush, he conservatively estimated that he had attracted over thirty disasters.
As for whether there were any surviving disasters on the other streets, Chen Yifei couldn't care. He wasn't a god or a savior. Saving so many people was already the limit of his ability.
The crimson shadow raced towards the edge of the neighborhood. Chen Yifei searched for the path he had rehearsed earlier in his memory and quickly locked his gaze on a warehouse three to four stories high in the wilderness.
Chen Yifei rushed to the door of the warehouse, opened it with a key, and entered with a flash.
After a brief silence, a dense swarm of shadow centipedes followed him into the wilderness. They circled around the warehouse for a moment, then flooded in through the door.
The warehouse was dark without any lights. These shadows crawled into every corner, searching for traces of Chen Yifei, but found nothing. Just as they were about to leave, the heavy door slowly closed...
Cluster,
Cluster,
Cluster——!
In the darkness, a faint glimmer of light illuminated half of Chen Yifei's smiling face.
All the shadow centipedes crawling inside the warehouse turned to look simultaneously!
The light illuminated Chen Yifei's face and also cast a rice-grain-sized reflection in the gasoline and wine mixture flowing at his feet. A dense swarm of meat chickens screamed and charged towards him, while Chen Yifei leisurely took out cooking wine from a plastic bag, unscrewed the cap, and then gulped it down onto the ground...
"Nobody's here to see, and nobody will disturb us..."
In the flickering light of the flame, Chen Yifei's smile grew brighter. He licked his lips and said,
"Let's see if you're roasted first... or if I'm burned to death?"
The lighter in his hand spun lightly and landed on the ground.
[Audience Expectation +5]
Boom——!!
The raging flames instantly seemed like a red carpet spreading across the warehouse, illuminating every corner. Dozens of meat chickens screamed sharply under the scorching flames, as if they would flip the roof!
Chen Yifei's body was also licked by the flames, and his skin visibly turned charred. However, he seemed oblivious to the pain, holding ginger and garlic in one hand and a scallion in the other, crashing into the swarm of chickens like headless flies!
The entire warehouse was like an oil pan, and a rich meat aroma began to spread. In this human hell, many disasters screamed in pain, while the only figure in red was increasingly excited!
Fragrant...
So fragrant!!
Chen Yifei rushed to the most evenly roasted chicken and tore off its leg. He first bit into the charred scallion and then fiercely took a bite of the chicken. The intoxicating aroma washed over his body!
[Audience Expectation +1]
[Current Expectation: 68%]
Chen Yifei's hands were burned beyond recognition, but it didn't affect his eating at all. With the vigorous vitality brought by the [Blood Robe], he braved the high temperature and move swiftly through the roasted chickens like an elegant diner at a fiery feast.
[Audience Expectation +1]
[Audience Expectation +1]
[Audience Expectation...]
Pairs of crimson eyes emerged again from behind Chen Yifei. They were shadows sitting on nothingness, very similar to the frantically fleeing shadow centipedes in the warehouse... The only difference was that the shadows behind Chen Yifei were human, while they were insects.
The moment the audience's gaze appeared, the frantically moving shadow centipedes suddenly trembled. They looked towards this direction in terror, and their bodies, licked by the flames, didn't move any further.
They gave up resisting, gave up struggling, and quietly curled up among the raging flames, allowing their bodies to be burned into fragrant, roasted meat...
"So fragrant... so fragrant!!"
Chen Yifei,move swiftly through the roasted chickens, had that eerie red glow emerging in his eyes again. He laughed and tore into these quiescent chickens, his body surface completely charred by the flames...
With a black body and crimson eyes, from a distance, he seemed to have become one of the audience.
In the burning warehouse,
Countless eerie sounds emerged from the holes of these roasted chickens, overlapping and seeming to chant the name of some existence.
"The Crimson Overlord of Ghost-Ridicule Abyss;"
"The Shapeless King Who Mocks Fate."
"The Crimson Overlord of Ghost-Ridicule Abyss... The Shapeless King Who Mocks Fate... The Crimson Overlord of Ghost-Ridicule Abyss..."