66: Chapter 66 Pandora's Box

Chen Mo narrowed his eyes and gripped the bone-scraping knife in his hand.

He first placed his wife on the sofa to the side, then leaned his body against the floor-to-ceiling window.

Through the glass, everything in the courtyard was normal.

The swing and the seesaw were not rocking on their own.

However, the meowing grew increasingly piercing.

Chen Mo pushed open the floor-to-ceiling window and stepped onto the soft lawn.

He twitched his nose and smelled a disgusting, fishy stench.

He followed the source of the smell, approaching step by step.

After walking about a dozen steps, he turned slightly.

Chen Mo stopped.

Standing in front of the doghouse, the smell seemed to be drifting out from inside it.

The closer he got to the dark doghouse entrance, the stronger the smell became.

It was as if Chen Mo had sliced an onion; the smell made tears well up in his eyes.

A bad premonition emerged in his heart.

"Could it be... has Sadi been killed by a ghost, or eaten?"

"Could the person killed at 3:15 tonight be the dog?"

Sadi was also an object that Chen Mo needed to protect. If the dog died, then Chen Mo's S-rank rating would be gone.

Swallowing hard, Chen Mo held his knife and slowly approached the doghouse.

He put his fingers in his mouth and gave a soft whistle.

Inside the previously pitch-black doghouse, a pair of glowing eyes suddenly appeared.

A golden-furred paw reached out first, followed by a very handsome dog head.

"Not dead? Holy..."

Seeing Sadi walk out unharmed, the huge stone pressing on Chen Mo's heart finally fell.

However, before Chen Mo's mood could improve.

Sadi opened its mouth.

Then, a meow came from the dog's mouth!

Inside the dog's mouth, a pair of emerald green eyes appeared at the same time.

Chen Mo saw clearly what that thing was.

A cat's head was hiding in Sadi's throat, staring fixedly at Chen Mo.

Then, following its will, Sadi was forced to close its mouth.

It was like a layer of meat shield, firmly protecting the black cat.

A flash of green light crossed its pupils, and blood flowed from Sadi's eye sockets, its eyes turning crimson.

Its teeth became extremely sharp, just like the teeth of a chainsaw.

Accompanied by a meow, it lunged fiercely at Chen Mo!

Flicking his fingers, he used the Villa fence and the Villa as points to quickly create invisible steel wires.

After the dog rushed over, it was immediately tripped by the invisible wires.

Chen Mo leaped up, moving quickly on the invisible steel wires, rotating 360 degrees in mid-air.

He landed behind the dog.

At this moment, Sadi also broke free from the restraints of the wires, turned its head, and lunged at Chen Mo once again.

"How should I deal with this? The ghost cat is inside Sadi's body."

"If I use the knife to pierce the dog's head directly, I should be able to kill the ghost cat in one blow, but the dog will die too."

Chen Mo felt it was quite tricky.

"I need to find a way to make the dog open its mouth."

Just as Sadi was about to rush over, Chen Mo pulled out a half-gnawed bone from the doghouse.

Accompanied by a few tongue-clicking sounds to tease the dog.

Sadi's attention was successfully diverted, focused entirely on the bone.

It displayed the silly expression typical of a goofy dog, stuck out its tongue, leaped in place, and wanted to bite the bone Chen Mo threw.

It was at this moment!

The mouth opened, revealing the cat's head hiding inside.

Chen Mo's two fingers crossed and flashed, and a black card stood between them.

He aimed at the ghost cat's head and shot it out at high speed.

The black card turned into a pitch-black afterimage in the air, killing it in one blow, precisely inserting into the ghost cat's forehead.

"Meow! —"

A shrill cat cry exploded in the dark night.

The ghost cat turned into black smoke and escaped from Sadi's mouth, fleeing rapidly along the fence surrounding the Villa.

"It's useless, you can't escape."

Chen Mo raised his arm and snapped his fingers lightly.

Magician class passive skill 1: Fire Walk.

His body turned into brilliant fireworks and disappeared on the spot.

The ghost cat moved very fast, able to escape 10 meters in 1 second.

But Chen Mo was faster.

A dazzling flame appeared in front of the ghost cat, and then the flowing flames scattered in the air transformed into Chen Mo's figure.

Gripping the bone-scraping knife, he pierced the ghost cat's skull in mid-air with one strike.

Without even letting out a wail, it turned into white mist and dissipated.

Chen Mo stood on one foot on the 3cm-wide fence, but before 1 second had passed, he was forcibly pushed down.

Because Chen Mo had just tried to turn his head to look at the scene outside the Villa.

The system did not allow Chen Mo to obtain information from the outside world, so he was blocked by an invisible force.

Sadi ran over quickly, biting its tail, sticking out its tongue, and licked off the grass leaves stuck to Chen Mo's face.

"Damn it, you'd better brush your teeth before licking me, you have bad breath."

Chen Mo pinched his nose, showing an expression of disgust.

Upon hearing this, the dog immediately looked dull, sat on the ground, and didn't even want to wag its tail.

"Tonight is truly a sleepless night," Chen Mo said, climbing up from the ground.

"Although a Magician consumes less stamina when fighting at night compared to other classes, if the supernatural occurrences continue all night..."

"I really can't handle it," Chen Mo complained.

"Stamina is at 300 remaining; I need to get some good rest."

Chen Mo was just about to move back into the house.

The dog beside him suddenly bared its teeth and growled, barking incessantly at the second-floor bedroom.

Purple light lit up in Chen Mo's pupils, piercing directly through the outer wall of the Villa, seeing the scene in the second-floor corridor.

Then, he saw his wife in white clothes, holding a shotgun in her hand.

She was walking slowly to the bedroom door.

Her palm gripped the doorknob, pulled the door open, and unlocked the safety.

She raised the gun, aiming the pitch-black muzzle at the two children sleeping soundly on the bed.

"Damn!"

[Many Children Many Blessings: MP-100]

Chen Mo snapped his fingers again, his body turned into brilliant fireworks, and he instantly moved onto the outer wall of the Villa.

[Skill Card: Bob Who Loves Climbing Walls] activated.

His feet stepped on the wall, and he ran down a few steps.

He tumbled into the bedroom in one go.

His fingers flashed, throwing out a black card.

Before his wife could pull the trigger, the card pierced through the gun barrel at high speed, slicing the barrel completely in half from the middle.

Just before the spinning black card in the air was about to slit his wife's throat.

Chen Mo activated Recall, and the black card hovered in mid-air, remaining 1 cm in front of his wife's nose bridge.

Then it shot back in reverse into Chen Mo's hand.

"Anna, what are you doing?!"

Chen Mo walked quickly to the bed, using his body to shield the two children behind him.

At this moment, his wife's hair was disheveled, the messy strands covering her face.

His wife did not answer; instead, from within those hair strands that looked like water weeds, a cold, treacherous laugh emerged.

"Hehe, Sam, just as expected, you have finally become a Magician!"

"You kept saying that magic is like Pandora's Box; once opened, one will fall into the abyss."

"However... human beings, as a species, ultimately cannot resist temptation!"

"Enjoy it, enjoy this moment of tranquility. Your becoming a Magician has instead made me look forward to it even more."

"Looking forward to the appearance of that man!"