Chapter 75 – In Full View of Everyone, I’ve Come to Kill!

The woman’s laughter sounded especially chilling in the dark. For a moment, no one said another word.

“This isn’t really a courage test, is it? But this is way too scary…” Fang Li was suddenly afraid. Without a sound, she took a step back and pressed herself against the wall.

“Whether it’s a test or not… perhaps we’ll know the answer very soon…” The woman’s voice abruptly cut off.

At the same time, several muffled thuds rang out from within the crowd.

In that eerie silence and darkness, someone raised a hand and touched the warm liquid that had splattered onto their face.

Someone else turned on their phone screen. The instant they saw what was lying at their feet, they flung the phone away and screamed while staggering back in a frenzy, “Murder! Blood! There’s blood!”

The fallen phone landed right beside the corpse, its pale light illuminating the dead man’s face, and the extra hole in his neck. Blood was continuously gushing out of it, quickly forming a pool on the floor.

The person who had taken out the phone still remembered that this man had been an applicant standing beside him earlier. He had tried to strike up a conversation, but the other man had seemed rather quiet and withdrawn.

“There’s a body here too!”

“Ah!”

After an extremely brief silence, the crowd erupted into screams. Everyone desperately surged toward the door, and the conference room descended into utter chaos.

When the young man first heard the screams, a scornful look had appeared on his face. But after seeing a corpse with his own eyes, his expression instantly twisted with terror. He turned and sprinted madly toward the door.

“Don’t block the way!” he snarled, viciously shoving aside the girl who happened to be in his path.

But the instant he neared the doorway, he suddenly felt something burrow into his body. Then, amid a burst of searing pain and his own screams, he was violently dragged back into the darkness.

The next moment, he heard the woman’s voice above him. “Who are you?”

She definitely wasn’t asking him… because the young man heard a trace of surprise and gravity in her tone.

As his eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness, he vaguely saw the thing wrapped around him. It was a strand of Black Thread.

The other end of the Black Thread was burrowing into his body, making him scream again and again in extreme terror.

“A Mutant? Hmph. Did you come here to die?” the woman said next.

In his despair, the young man felt as if he had grasped a thread of hope. He desperately turned his head, hoping to see that “Mutant.”

“Whoever you are, save me!” he tried to shout. And in the now-empty space where the crowd had fled, among those several corpses, he saw a figure. The figure’s appearance slowly became clear before his nearly unfocused eyes.

“Great, he’s coming closer… Save me, save me!”

Fang Li huddled at the base of the wall, trembling uncontrollably. Silently, she hugged her head and crouched down.

People kept crashing into her. All she could hear were the crowd’s terrified screams.

Outside the door, Qin Zelong listened to the cries and the sound of people pounding against the door. He immediately raised his head, a trace of astonishment appearing on his face.

“How could this be?”

Those people shouldn’t have had any chance to pound on the door…

“Let us out! Ah!”

“Someone’s killing people! Let us out!”

Watching the door shake nonstop, Qin Zelong froze on the spot.

At that moment, the young man finally saw the figure clearly.

“Save me… How is it him?!” The young man’s pupils abruptly contracted.

He remembered how the young man had told him just moments ago, “People are going to die.” And now, that same young man was holding a weapon about a foot long. Though the weapon gave off no gleam at all, the blood dripping from it was painfully bright to the boy’s eyes.

“He killed someone… But why?” The boy’s gaze followed the young man to the corpse behind him. “Huh? Black Thread? Same as what’s on me…”

“Save me!” The boy never managed to shout those words. His eyes flew wide, and in the next instant, the flesh around his eye sockets shriveled away, leaving only a pair of eyeballs still filled with despair and pleading, staring at Su Lifeng…

Amid the crowd’s screams, Su Lifeng stood in the darkness, silently watching the girl who had just drained a person dry.

She had to be Qin Moyun… She looked to be about twenty, with permed curls and carefully done makeup. Just from her face, it was hard to imagine she was the same person who had let out that chilling laugh a moment ago.

But now a withered corpse lay at her feet, and countless strands of Black Thread were emerging from her body. After retracting from the boy’s body, the Black Thread danced behind her.

And the look in her eyes…

“Xenospecies,” Su Lifeng said.

A Xenospecies whose behavioral patterns were already very close to a human’s…

“F-class, maybe… No, it seems higher than that.” From Qin Moyun, Su Lifeng sensed an extremely dangerous aura. Although the instant the lights went out, he had relied on memory to rush at the Xenospecies hidden among the crowd and dealt with them at once, it now seemed that had done nothing to improve his situation.

Whoosh!

Under the mounting pressure, the Bone Wings on Su Lifeng’s back suddenly spread open.

Qin Moyun watched him with indifference, then kicked the corpse at her feet aside.

By now, quite a few people had noticed the two of them… In the dark, they could only barely make out their silhouettes.

Those blood-red Bone Wings and the dancing Black Thread made everyone who saw them instantly widen their eyes.

As that corpse landed in front of them, an even more intense panic was instantly ignited.

“M-Monsters!!”

“Get out of here!” Su Lifeng shouted without shifting his gaze.

Fang Li finally came back to her senses. She had seen Su Lifeng too.

Although she couldn’t make out his face, she knew that shout had come from him.

“Go!”

At Su Lifeng’s second furious roar, the crowd snapped back to reality, and the pounding on the door instantly became much more frantic. But because the crowd was packed in so tightly, there was almost no room to ram the door. The only ones who could even slap at it were those squeezed right up against the entrance…

Qin Moyun reacted at the same time.

The Black Thread behind her shot violently toward the crowd at the door, only to be severed by a flash of cold light with a sharp whoosh.

Moving at incredible speed, Su Lifeng streaked forward with a blur of red light and blocked the path between her and the crowd. Qin Moyun turned her head, and the severed Black Thread returned to its original state. “Who are you?”

“Are you asking for my name?” Su Lifeng lowered the hand holding the scalpel, then lifted the military spike and said in a low voice, “My name is… I’m here to kill.”

Whoosh!

Su Lifeng charged straight at her.

At that moment, outside the door, Qin Zelong abruptly raised his head.

He reached toward the lock. But just then, a voice came from behind him.

“What do you think you’re doing?”

Qin Zelong shuddered all over and turned back. “I…”