29: Chapter 29: My teeth are all broken! I'm starting to doubt my existence!

Wang Zheng finally said something sensible, "Hey, stop arguing. That guy is crazy. If we don't hit him hard, he's going to wear us all down to death."

"He's just cold-blooded!"

He Li's voice grew even sharper, "Do you think you can just hit people arbitrarily because you think you're strong? This is team combat right now. Do you understand what a team is?"

"Also, I'm just telling the truth. Don't call me a goody-two-shoes; I just feel it shouldn't be like this."

She wiped away her tears, "Liu Chuang turning out like this isn't something he could decide; he's being controlled!"

But her words were interrupted by a soft, tender child's voice.

"Big Sister."

The little girl was still standing under the porch, holding that filthy toy bear in her arms, tilting her head as she looked at He Li.

Her smile was just as sweet as before, and her voice just as crisp, "Don't be angry with him anymore. Here, why don't you come play with me instead?"

She threw the toy bear over.

The bear traced an arc through the air, still neither high nor fast, looking entirely ordinary.

He Li instinctively reached out her hand to catch it.

But the toy bear, just like before, flew past her fingertips and landed not far from her feet.

The little girl smiled sweetly, "Big Sister, you didn't catch it either, oh."

"I… No, I…"

He Li's pupils suddenly contracted.

Then she felt something being sucked out of her body.

It didn't hurt, but it made her feel a terror originating from the very essence of her soul!

Her thighs lost sensation, followed by her calves, knees, toes...

She looked down and discovered in terror that her entire body was collapsing bit by bit...

It was as if her bones were being pulled away from her body.

This scene was bizarre to the extreme. In Jiang Xiaohong and the others' field of vision, they saw He Li bit by bit… melting!

She began to scream, desperately reaching her hands out toward the surrounding people, "Save me… Save me!!"

No one saved her.

Instead, everyone simultaneously stepped back a few paces.

Then they watched with wide eyes as her body went limp bit by bit.

Reluctantly hunching her waist, He Li crawled two steps toward Jiang Xiaohong's direction, but her body quickly lost strength.

Her lower body had completely collapsed, like a deflated balloon.

Then came her spine, and then her upper body, her entire body gradually transforming into a limp mass of flesh...

The entire process took less than five seconds.

Terror finally crushed her last shred of reason.

Her scream cut off in her throat, but a few seconds later, He Li collapsed on the ground, completely turning into a lump of flesh that was still breathing and still shedding tears...

"This…"

Everyone looked at this scene, feeling a chill run through their entire bodies.

Holding her blade, Shen Qinghan stared intently at the little girl, seemingly waiting for an opportunity for a fatal strike.

Jiang Xiaohong's palms were full of sweat.

Thinking of how he had boasted at the very beginning, talking about slaying the female ghost and heading straight for the core of the ghost domain...

Now he regretted it, with only a single thought in his head: Is it still too late for me to take back those words?

"Lin Ye, how about we still…"

Su Tang grabbed Lin Ye's arm, just wanting to say something, when Lin Ye suddenly moved.

He took a step forward, bypassed the crowd, and walked toward the villa's front door.

"Lin Ye!!"

Su Tang hurriedly crossed forward two steps from the back of the formation, trying to stop him, "What are you doing! That little girl isn't human; Gao Yan went over earlier and was instantly killed! You can't also…"

Lin Ye didn't look back, only saying indifferently, "Wait for me."

After speaking, he continued walking forward, his pace neither fast nor slow.

Wang Zheng locked his gaze onto Lin Ye's back, then quickly swept a glance toward Jiang Xiaohong's direction.

The latter's face was ashen without uttering a word, and in the end, he didn't take a step forward either.

Everyone was watching Lin Ye.

Some gazes were filled with worry, some with suspicion, and some with sour, unconvinced defiance.

But not a single person followed.

Approaching the villa's front door, the drop of dark golden essence blood inside Lin Ye's body twitched slightly.

An invisible, weighty aura rippled outward in all directions with him at the center!

It was as if a gust of warm wind suddenly blew across the waist of the mountain.

The residual grievance fluctuations on Liu Chuang's body were smoothed away first. Following closely after, the withered vines tangled on the porch stopped swaying stealthily, and the distorted air slowly restored its original order.

Lu Wanqing covered her temples, looked at Lin Ye's back, opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything out.

That little girl abruptly turned her head, staring straight at Lin Ye.

The innocent smile on her face vanished, replaced by astonishment and an indescribable cautiousness.

She tilted her head, as if trying to recognize something from Lin Ye.

Lin Ye squatted down in front of the little girl, looking directly into her pitch-black and bright round eyes, then smiled slightly, "Do you really like playing games?"

The child's voice answered softly, "I like it."

"Then Older Brother will play with you, alright?"

The little girl nodded hard, smiling crisply, "Alright… But if you lose, I'm going to eat Older Brother, oh~"

"Fine."

Lin Ye extended a hand, palm facing up, "Come on."

Maintaining her sweet smile, the little girl threw the toy bear in her hand toward Lin Ye.

Lin Ye reached out his hand to catch it, opening his fingers and clenching them, but the bear still slid past his fingertips, dropping to the ground with a soft pat.

"This isn't fair! This bear changes its path; who can catch this?"

Zhou Peng's scalp went numb; she was obviously cheating!

"Aiya, I lost."

Lin Ye's tone held some regret.

The little girl's eyes lit up.

Her pupils stretched from perfect circles into narrow vertical slits, and the blackness at the bottom of her eyes grew denser and denser, until finally her entire pair of eyes turned into two bottomless black holes.

She opened her mouth, the corners splitting all the way to her earlobes, revealing a mouthful of dense, fine, sharp teeth, writhing in the darkness like a bottomless mountain of needles.

"Older Brother, then I'm coming, oh~~"

She kicked fiercely against the ground, causing the stone bricks to crack with a crack sound, her small body carrying a stench-filled wind as she lunged into Lin Ye's arms, biting down without hesitation toward Lin Ye's right forearm.

Her bloody, gaping mouth was enough to swallow half an adult's skull.

Crack!!

However, the scene of Lin Ye's arm being torn into pieces that she had imagined did not appear.

Instead, a sharp pain washed over her.

"Ah!"

Lowering her head to look, a few of her teeth had shattered!

It was as if she had bitten onto solid steel.

The scene went quiet for two seconds. The little girl blinked her eyes and bit down once more, unwilling to admit defeat.

Crack!

Several more sharp teeth shattered, and white debris splattered out from her mouth, clattering down onto the stone bricks.

(°ー°〃)

She was dumbfounded, dizzily doubting her ghost-life.

Most of her originally dense, sharp teeth had broken off, leaving only a few broken stubs lingering forlornly on her gums.

As for Lin Ye's arm, other than a few ragged holes bitten into his jacket sleeve, his skin was completely undamaged.

The little girl slowly raised her face, and within her gaze, the innocence that had filled the scene moments ago vanished completely in an instant.

Replacing it was an essential fury that made everyone who saw it stand on end!

Yet Lin Ye smiled at her.

"Alright, next, it's Older Brother's turn, oh…"