8: Chapter 8 Kill!

The sounds of turning off the light and turning on the light rang out successively, lasting only a brief moment with an interval of less than half a second.

But Chu Xuan had already seen it clearly.

Illuminated by the phone's light, Chen Qing, who had been slumped on the ground, suddenly opened his eyes. However, it was no longer Chen Qing's appearance, but had turned into a terrifying monster that looked as if its whole body had been skinned!

This monster had a massive body, a whole circle larger than the original Chen Qing. The shorts that originally appeared quite loose were now stretched taut, and the fruit knife stabbed into its abdomen looked just like a toothpick...

Its entire body was bloody and mangled, its eye sockets were pitch-black, its mouth protruded forward, and the dense, sharp teeth in its mouth emitted a chilling, piercing light in the dark night.

At the very moment the light was turned off, the monster had already pounced toward Chu Xuan to the side like a cheetah. While still in mid-air, its neck had bizarrely elongated, biting straight toward Chu Xuan's neck.

A strong crisis of death filled his mind, and Chu Xuan only felt a wave of scalp-numbing terror.

And at the very next instant, the light inside the dormitory suddenly recovered.

While still in mid-air, the monster was dragged into a blurry afterimage, reappearing at the spot where it had just fallen and sitting down, changing back into Chen Qing's appearance once again.

It seemed as if everything just now was merely an illusion.

Cold sweat broke out on Chu Xuan's spine. During that very moment just now, he almost thought he was dead for sure. Fortunately, Tang Zheng listened to his words, and the interval between turning on and turning off the light was only a split second, which allowed him to escape disaster.

"It really is a monster!!" Tang Zheng was both shocked and angry, immediately rushing over to kick Chen Qing over, swinging an iron stool and smashing down angrily and continuously.

"Let me do it!"

Seeing that although Tang Zheng was furiously beating Chen Qing, he wasn't hitting the vital spots, Chu Xuan pounced forward, pulled out the fruit knife from Chen Qing's abdomen, and unhesitatingly stabbed it into the other party's throat without the slightest obstruction.

Squelch! Squelch! Squelch!

As fresh blood splattered, Chu Xuan's adrenaline soared, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably, but the movements in his hands did not pause in the slightest as he continued to stab toward the heart.

The first knife seemed to be stuck by the sternum, so Chu Xuan quickly adjusted the angle, pierced straight in along the gaps of the ribs, twisted it fiercely a few times, and then followed up with several more consecutive stabs.

Thinking that in movies and television dramas, some monsters required destroying the brain to be completely killed, Chu Xuan aimed the blade at Chen Qing's eye socket and stabbed it in fiercely. In an instant, more than half of the blade sank into it.

Chu Xuan did not stop, stabbing into the other eye as well, repeatedly poking and stabbing left and right. The tip of the knife even snapped due to using too much force.

Chu Xuan couldn't help recalling the skull model he had seen during class in the past.

A person's eyes and brain are not directly connected, but are separated by a layer of the sphenoid bone!

Where is the thinnest part of the skull?

The moment this question popped up, the answer had already flashed through Chu Xuan's mind.

——The temples, where the thickness of the skull is only 1 to 2 millimeters!

In a split second, the fruit knife had pierced into the temple. Acting like he had gone mad, accompanied by the in-and-out movement of the fruit knife, red and white fluids splashed everywhere, and the ground had long been stained with a large expanse of blood red.

"Chu Xuan! Chu Xuan!"

Tang Zheng pulled Chu Xuan back, "Calm down, he is already dead!"

"No! That's not right!"

Chu Xuan's voice trembled, his eyes showing panic, staring fixedly at the completely unrecognizable Chen Qing. Half of his head had almost been poked to pieces by the fruit knife, looking extremely terrifying.

However, Chen Qing had not turned back into the monster's appearance!

Chu Xuan hurriedly picked up his phone. On that blood-stained screen, the time was already 2:59, and the chat page was constantly jumping with messages sent by [Tang Zheng]:

[Did you kill Chen Qing?]

[My injuries are too severe, I am going to die soon, and there aren't many hints I can give you anymore.]

[What a pity, I spent all my efforts to successfully establish a connection with your past self, thinking I could change everything, but unfortunately, it still fell short at the end.]

[Please be sure to remember what I am going to tell you next!]

[From the moment you walk out of the dormitory door, do not trust anyone anymore. Taking the opportunity of daylight, find a way to go to the roof of the dormitory building at the fastest speed and jump down directly. Do not hesitate; only this way will you have a chance to escape with your life!]

[In addition, there is a girl named Qin Qing in the dormitory building. If you meet her before leaving, tell her that the ritual node is in Room 1104, and then help me pass a message to her: Do not stubbornly pursue the truth; only by surviving is there hope.]

[If you successfully escape, then... in the days ahead, do your utmost to survive, even if it means resorting to any means!]

[This world has already become distorted and crazy. Beneath the bustling metropolis, Strange Creatures are hidden among the crowd, killing and drinking blood, plunging the living into misery...]

[This is a game of the world, a collision of rules, a competition for spirituality! When the order of human civilization completely collapses, global turmoil and murderous intent are everywhere; no one can stay out of it...]

[That's it, a large amount of my spirituality has been lost, and I can no longer give you more hints. Finally, one more piece of advice to you...]

[Never trust anyone!]

Glancing over it hurriedly, Chu Xuan had no time to read carefully at all. His fingertips danced rapidly on the phone screen: [I have already killed Chen Qing, but why didn't he turn into the monster's appearance?]

[Tang Zheng: What? That's impossible!]

[Tang Zheng: Not good, one of my messages just failed to send! The monster's vitality is tenacious, and its fatal weakness lies in a specific area of the brain. If it's just ordinary physical means, only decapitation can ensure truly killing the monster.]

[Tang Zheng: Such a critical matter actually failed to send for me; this must be the intervention of the rules! I should have realized it sooner...]

Dammit!

Chu Xuan secretly cried out that it was bad, and hurriedly picked up the fruit knife again.

At the same time!

Chen Qing, who was already unrecognizable and seemingly had lost all breath, suddenly curved the corners of his blood-stained mouth into a bizarre arc.

The next second.

The dark night descended abruptly!

...

Everything in his vision completely disappeared, replaced by a deathly silence of darkness. The familiar sense of fear swept over his entire body like a tide once again.

Chu Xuan felt like he had fallen into an ice cave.

He knew that the monster had appeared again!

"What's going on..."

Tang Zheng's exclamation had just started when it abruptly stopped.

"Munch, munch..."

In the silent darkness, the hair-raising chewing sound rang out once again, making Chu Xuan's scalp go numb as he hurriedly retreated.

Tang Zheng was dead?

Eaten?!

Chu Xuan's mind buzzed, his whole body trembling. Subconsciously, he wanted to grip the fruit knife in his hand tightly, but he found that his right hand had already lost sensation, so he hurriedly raised his left hand to feel around.

As a result, he grabbed nothing!

Chu Xuan was greatly alarmed. Reaching further up, he quickly felt a sticky and slick area on his right shoulder, along with a massive gush of fresh blood.

Unexpectedly, his entire arm had been severed cleanly at the shoulder at some unknown time!

Only until this moment did Chu Xuan feel an unspeakable, intense pain, and the prompt from the System had also appeared.

[You have suffered severe damage, health points - 5.]

[You are in a continuous bleeding state, current state health points - 1 per minute.]

[Current health points: 35.]

Chu Xuan clenched his teeth hard, still unable to help letting out a low groan of pain. The instinct for survival made him stagger toward the direction of the door in his memory.

Trying to open the door.

Failed!

Continuously turning the light on and off.

Still failed!

In the darkness, waves of weakness washed over him. Chu Xuan weakly slid down along the door, his head dizzy and muddled, while the sounds of chewing and muffled swallowing continued to reach his ears.

Chu Xuan's consciousness became somewhat blurred.

Intense pain and coldness enshrouded him, his head dizzy and heavy.

Shortly after, footsteps sounded, followed by a bizarre laughter of "Hee hee hee".

A chill gripped Chu Xuan's heart.

Immediately following that, he felt a huge mouth begin to devour his chest and abdomen. The pain was heart-rending and lung-splitting, but he couldn't struggle, and didn't even have the strength to scream.

——

[You have suffered fatal damage.]

[Your health points have been cleared.]

[You are dead.]