Twisted Dreams-Chapter 73 - 45: Our Lord Death God Walks with You
Li Yang had a smile on his lips:
"It would be better if there were more people like him."
The old Daoist continuously provided Li Yang with Spiritual Power, even if it was just a little. But the quantity in the future would be substantial.
Even if the old Daoist was under close observation by the authorities, or even dissected, no one would find Li Yang.
The outside was in chaos, and Li Yang himself was the biggest beneficiary.
Li Yang sighed slightly:
"This is the true way of hiding in plain sight!
It’s just a pity that spending Soul Power to create an Extraordinary Creature is too much for me to bear.
Chen Yuqi should be close to Tier Two as well.
When she reaches Tier Two, she can use the Power of Faith to strengthen my soul."
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Green Grass Sanatorium, underground laboratory.
Lilith sat cross-legged on the sofa, with the respectful owner of the Green Grass Sanatorium, an old man well past seventy, standing in front of her.
The old man’s body had long been failing, and it was only with the help of the God Creation Organization that he lived this long.
Lilith murmured to herself:
"I didn’t expect the South Sea authorities to resolve the [Freak Attacks Sheriff Incident] so quickly."
She chuckled lightly:
"That’s fine. When I play this trump card, people will die in the South Sea, and the public will be furious, right?"
The old man chuckled:
"Naturally, at that time, the public will demand justice from the South Sea Public Security Bureau and ask to disclose the beginning and end of these mysterious events.
At that time, pressure will be exerted on the South Sea Public Security Bureau from above.
Heh heh, the South Sea Public Security Bureau will take out their frustration on that other genetic experiment organization."
Lilith rested her head on her hand:
"Then let’s release that failed experiment.
Let me think about where it would be suitable to drive it.
You’re from Xia Country, do you have any good suggestions?"
The old man thought for a moment and replied:
"The old city district, the rabble living in the sewers there love to make trouble."
Lilith’s lips curled into a smirk:
"Then the old city district it is."
...
South Sea, old city district.
After earning some money from the Seven Commandments Association, Ma Tao started to live comfortably.
He lived in the top-floor apartment and bought the floor below as well, although it was just a down payment.
The top floor was specially used for maintaining the operation of the Seven Commandments Association’s network streaming software, recently bought a lot of machines, and the living space was too small.
For convenience, the downstairs room became a living area.
This month, Ma Tao also got a girlfriend, whom he met while being a game addict at the Hunter Internet Cafe a few years ago.
His girlfriend was the campus beauty of the Air Art Performance Department at the South Sea Aerospace University.
After graduation, she worked as a stewardess at South Sea Airlines.
Despite how Ma Tao looked, his girlfriend Wu Siyu had relentlessly pursued him since college.
Sometimes Ma Tao didn’t know why someone like him had a campus beauty chasing after him.
He didn’t want to hold her back, and after joining the Seven Commandments Association and becoming a puppet Sect Leader, he was even more afraid of implicating others.
The title of Sect Leader of the Seven Commandments Association sounded nice, but it was also very dangerous.
But when a beautiful woman who has chased you for five years and been delayed by you for five years stood at your door, crying and saying she had nowhere to go, what would you do?
She didn’t even mind your house being dirty, messy, and poor.
Ultimately, Ma Tao softened in that cold rainy night and let Wu Siyu in to take shelter.
That shelter turned into a month, making her half a girlfriend.
Ma Tao never let Wu Siyu go upstairs to the second floor because it held all his secrets.
There he maintained the online backend for the Seven Commandments Association and worshiped a statue of the Death God.
At midnight, Ma Tao routinely worshipped the Death God statue on the second floor.
The Death God statue was sold by the upper level of the Seven Commandments Association, and it was expensive.
In fact, there were only two people in the upper level of the Seven Commandments Association, Chen Yuqi and Zhang Shi’ai.
Even Ma Tao, in name only the Sect Leader, had to pay to buy a statue.
After lighting two sticks of incense, Ma Tao came downstairs.
Wu Siyu held up a bowl of tangyuan, smiling:
"Tired? Come have a midnight snack."
Ma Tao sat on the bench:
"Aren’t you curious about what I’ve been busy with every day?"
Wu Siyu shook her head:
"I know you’re busy with big things!
I won’t ask about it."
Ma Tao was taken aback, looking at Wu Siyu warily:
"What do you think I’m busy with?"
At this moment, there was a knock on the door.
"I’ll get it!"
Wu Siyu ran to the door.
Ma Tao suddenly called out:
"Look through the peephole and see who it is outside."
The Seven Commandments Association’s network streaming platform was illegal, and he was very cautious.
He was afraid of being suddenly taken away for questioning.
Wu Siyu stood by the door, seemingly understanding yet not, and responded with an ’oh’.
She looked through the peephole and said, confused:
"Huh? There’s no one there."
Ma Tao furrowed his brow.
’Thump, thump, thump.’
The knocking sound echoed again.
Wu Siyu covered her mouth and backed away, her face filled with terror:
"There’s still no one outside, could it be a ghost!"
Ma Tao got up and quickly went upstairs, turned on the computer, and checked the hidden camera at the door.
His expression gradually changed.
From tension to doubt, from doubt to shock, then to complete horror!
Outside the door, there was a monster!
The thing looked like a human.
Its body was long and slender, completely naked, without hair, and the ashen skin full of wrinkles.
It had no eyes and no ears.
No wonder all they could hear was the knocking but see no person.
It turned out that the monster was crawling, and it was lightly knocking on the door with its head!
"This, this... I just converted to the faith, and I’m already encountering a supernatural event?"
Ma Tao thought about escaping from the top floor, but suddenly his steps halted:
"Siyu, Siyu..."
Ma Tao hurried downstairs.
At this moment, the monster outside seemed to be enraged, and the banging became violent.
Wu Siyu covered her mouth and kept retreating, already paralyzed with fear.
"Boom!"
The door was completely smashed!
The monster charged into the house!
Wu Siyu was so frightened she couldn’t even think to dodge.
In desperation, Ma Tao grabbed the phone beside him and threw it out.
The phone didn’t hit the monster, it fell into the bedroom.
The monster heard the sound and roared into the bedroom.
The monster’s voice was like a sound forcefully squeezed out of its throat.
Ma Tao grabbed Wu Siyu’s hand:
"Run!"
He wanted to take Wu Siyu to run, but the monster heard the noise and swiftly lunged towards the doorway.
Ma Tao, holding Wu Siyu, dodged and rolled under the dining table.
He clamped Wu Siyu’s mouth shut.
Ma Tao discovered that the monster was blind, it could only identify its prey through sound.
The monster aimlessly turned its head, its ears pressed to the ground, and then its head looked in the direction of the dining table, stepping closer step by step.
Ma Tao inwardly thought:
"It’s over."
Suddenly, Wu Siyu opened Ma Tao’s hand and sprang out from under the dining table, catching Ma Tao off guard.
She flashed a sweet smile to Ma Tao under the dining table:
"You’re a hero, you’ve secretly saved many people, and I want to secretly save you once too."
Ma Tao was stunned.
Someone had said this to him before, that was a few years ago when he established a mutual aid website for depression.
He had saved many depressed patients who wanted to commit suicide and brought sunshine to many others suffering from depression.
A girl had also said the same exact words.
But he had heard such words too many times, never taking them to heart.
Was Wu Siyu that girl?
Why didn’t she tell him?!
The monster let out a roar and pounced towards Wu Siyu.
Ma Tao’s eyes widened in rage as he flipped the table:
"Damn it, come at me!"
It was too late, he could already see the monster’s claws reach Wu Siyu.
It felt like time was slowing down.
The motion of the monster’s claws piercing into Wu Siyu’s brain was slowing down.
Wu Siyu’s smile was slowing down, vaguely seeing a tear.
He himself was slowing down, only his thoughts were racing.
At this moment, the monster was uncontrollably grabbed by something and thrown to the side.
Time and thoughts returned to normal.
That’s how it is when people are in extreme fear.
Ma Tao suddenly hugged Wu Siyu, watching in horror at the scene in front of him.
A few people appeared so abruptly.
They were dressed in white raincoats, wearing white rubber boots, white baseball caps, and masks.
Those people were dressed oddly, very powerful, and they grappled with the monster, rubbing it down.
The monster struck one of them away, yet the rest all pounced on it.
In less than a few minutes, the monster’s head was twisted off by the figures in white.
They expertly cleaned up the monster’s corpse.
Ma Tao was horrified to find that one of the figures in white had been stabbed through the stomach but continued to work as if nothing had happened.
Cleaners don’t have pain perception and can use the Power of Death to heal their bodies.
"Th-thank you, w-who are you..."
After the ordeal, Ma Tao could barely speak.
The cleaners didn’t speak, only packed up the monster’s corpse and left in an orderly manner.
The last cleaner turned around, made a special gesture to Ma Tao:
"Sect Leader Ma, my lord Death God is watching over you, protecting you, the great deity walks with us!"
