It's okay for me to bully my wife for the sake of the young master's dignity, right?

Chapter 123 [052] Pure Black Fear

The black fog seeped into the mine along with the sand, and Qin Jiandan and others who did not have time to take the elevator encountered a major crisis.

“Black Mist! Mom! I’m going to die! Everyone is going to die!!”

Ding Ling's knees were weak and her legs went limp, so she sat down behind Vale and cried.

When Vale and the Cowboys were fighting, they were fearless, but when they encountered the black fog, they looked panicked. The dog-eared girl's teeth chattered uncontrollably when she spoke:

"Is this really black fog? Could it be just dirty sand...sand..."

As if to taunt Vale, the black mist swirled and dripped into the center of the mine, rising up and changing shape repeatedly, and for a moment it seemed to create Vale's upright shadow.

"Ahhh!" Vale subconsciously raised his submachine gun and fired, but the bullet passed through the black fog and caused extremely limited damage.

"It's useless!" Tom Chen, who was also near the elevator lever, shouted, "The black fog is a living aggregation of phlogiston ash. They will constantly extract phlogiston ash from the air to repair themselves~ Meow!"

Chen Tom secretly blamed Master Tie Xin: This old bald donkey insisted on forcing the young master to swear an oath on the black fog, and really attracted the black fog, right? Why didn't she understand such a simple truth as "If you seek death, you will die"!
Young Master, you mentioned "Black Mist" too many times, didn't you? And you even lied to Black Mist when you swore, saying that you and Valei were just "friends"! If you two hadn't done it, I would be a bronze man!

In the face of the black fog, Master Tie Xin still half-closed her eyes and practiced Qigong to heal her wounds. Qin Jiandan, who was nearby, was originally defending against Master Tie Xin's sudden attack, but now he had to divide his attention and keep a close eye on the black fog:
"There's an elevator behind us! Don't panic, don't run around! An orderly evacuation is still possible!"

A Ku, who was standing on Qin Jiandan's shoulder, did not say anything. She watched over Master Tie Xin on behalf of Qin Jiandan and decided that if the master attacked, she would block the opponent's sword even at the cost of her own life.

Everyone calls him Young Master... Young Master is Mr. Wang’s friend, I must not let Young Master die!
"Swish, swish, swish—"

The black fog seemed to be singing a song, sometimes like quicksand nearby, sometimes like camel bells in the distance. The sound was low and plaintive, almost inaudible amid the shaking of the mine, but it could reach my brain directly.

This is a mental attack! Qin Jiandan immediately used the Steel Armor Breathing Technique to defend himself.

Except for Qin Jiandan, a horrifying mirage instantly emerged in everyone's mind. That was the scene they feared the most.

Ding Ling cried, "Mom!" Valei shook his head desperately, telling himself that Sheriff Mu Yue was fine.

In his hallucination, Chen Tom saw Xu Jierui taking charge of the fire tongs group, tying himself to a wooden stake, and sending out four angry-eyed Fu Rui-controlled male coppers...

Nun Tie Xin frowned slightly, wondering what she saw during the mental attack. Could it be an extremely discordant scene of humans and animals achieving great harmony?

Little Ah Ku was not affected by the hallucination at all. The things she feared the most had already happened in reality, and the most precious things had been lost. When she recalled them again, she could only shed tears.

"This is an illusion!" Although she didn't understand the principle, Ah Ku tried her best to help everyone in the Night Dragon Society. She shouted until her shrill voice was completely hoarse:

"Wake up quickly! Follow the young master's instructions! Take the elevator to the platform, and then escape from the shaft!"

Chen Tom suddenly woke up. He was a ruthless man. In order to stop being disturbed by the hallucinations, he used his cat-like sharp nails to poke into the recent wound on his chest, which was caused by Master Tie Xin's sword.

"Hmmmmmm - now you're much more sober! Just listen to the young master's orders, meow!"

In fact, it was A Ku who said that we should take the elevator. Although he perfectly expressed the young master's intention, it came from the mouth of a rat that Chen Tom hated. Chen Tom felt a little resistant psychologically, but he didn't dare to show it.

"Ahhhh! This isn't me! This isn't me!"

The fat man who carried water purification tablets with him was the first to lose control under the mental attack. His eyes rolled back, he dropped his weapon, waved his arms wildly, and ran away from the elevator.

"return!"

Qin Jiandan ordered sternly but it was too late. The black mist aggregate stretched out a sharp blade like an iron wire and pierced the fat brother's heart at super high speed!

"Puff, puff..."

The pierced heart began to beat violently. The fat boy had a strange expression on his face, and black blood was flowing from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

"Haha..." The dying man laughed strangely, and the strange laugh soon turned into indescribable fear.

The fat boy's body was shattered from the inside, and the blood that burst out also turned into black mist! The new black mist enveloped the victim, and because it had consumed fresh flesh and blood, it was even larger than the black mist that remained in the center of the mine!

"It's over! We're all going to die! Wuuwuwu——"

Ding Ling was still crying. Vale was upset with her, so he grabbed her rabbit ears and forced her to stand up, and then slapped her twice, and Ding Ling finally stopped crying.

"Gege... ga ga ga..."

After the fat boy was wrapped in the black mist, his broken body barely retained its human form, but strange noises kept coming from inside. Bones were bent and crushed, muscles and tendons were rearranged, and the black mist began to feed deeply, acting as the victim's exoskeleton while chewing and squeezing out the last bit of nutrition.

The human form gradually receded, and the black mist fell to the ground on all fours. Its body was close to that of a lizard, but its face had grown a long wolf-like mouth full of fangs, and it burned with an ominous pure black along with the rest of its body.

"Be careful! It's evolving into a Yin Beast! It's going to attack!"

Although Chen Tom was afraid, he could only pretend to be a hero in front of his younger brothers and the young master. He stood in front of Vale to block them.

It was the first time that Qin Jiandan observed the black fog eating people at such a close distance. It would be a lie to say that he was not afraid at all.

Phlogiston ash is very common in Ringstone City. Excessive contact will cause phlogiston disease, which will cause scars on the skin and then cause the person to weaken and die.

But overall it's not that scary, it's basically just toxic waste, and sometimes it can be recycled. The ancient knife making method of the Falling Cherry Group and the extraction of black and red dyes in the clothing store all use phlogiston ash.

The "living phlogiston ash" preying on the endless desert was another matter entirely. The phlogiston ash was supposed to be tiny red and black crystals, but the "black fog" completely obscured the red, always showing a terrifying, ravenous pure black.

No matter how small the black mist is, it will immediately multiply after eating a person, wrapping the victim inside and turning it into a zombie-like creature.

Unlike the slow-moving zombies in horror movies, the Black Mist Zombies are extremely fast and have no human form. As their victims are devoured from the inside, they turn into increasingly strange hybrid beasts, hence their names “Yin Beasts” by the company.

This evil beast with a wolf's mouth, a lizard's body and a scorpion's tail suddenly leaped towards Chen Tom and attacked!
Qin Jiandan could no longer monitor Master Tie Xin. Two seconds ago, A Ku had guessed Qin Jiandan's thoughts. The dwarf rat man jumped off Qin Jiandan's shoulder, bravely climbed up the trouser leg of Master Tie Xin next to him, and stood on the old nun's shoulders instead.

Master Tie Xin half closed her eyes and practiced internal energy to heal her wounds. She did not comment on this behavior, which meant she tacitly approved of A Ku's existence!

If Master Tiexin wanted to attack Qin Jiandan and the others, Ah Ku would definitely fall off her shoulders, and then Ah Ku could warn them. And Ah Ku felt that since Master Tiexin allowed him to stand, it meant that the relationship had eased, and the black fog was the bigger enemy at the moment.

Qin Jiandan was about to remind Ah Ku when Ah Ku jumped down by himself and stood on Master Tie Xin's shoulder. Qin Jiandan was pleasantly surprised:
Could it be that Ah Ku can read minds? There are things that can only be done by a super small body!
Master Tie Xin was not considered for the time being. Qin Jiandan leaped in front of Chen Tom and blocked the attack of the Yin Beast for him!

"Kakaka-"

The wolf fangs of the Yin Beast left white marks on the tempered right arm. Qin Jiandan was in mid-air with nowhere to gain leverage, so he simply stepped on Chen Tom's shoulder with his left foot and kicked the Yin Beast's lizard belly with his right foot!

"Oh!"

The Yin Beast flew backwards without any howl, hit the wall of the cave and fell down but quickly got up again.

Qin Jiandan fell to the ground. Although the cat hair on Chen Tom's shoulder was stepped on and dirty, he was still eager to kneel down and kowtow to the young master.

"Thank you for the rescue, young master! Otherwise, I would have met my end in death!"

The Yin Beast was born in the black fog and was constantly emitting black fog. If the wolf fangs bit him, the black fog would go into the wound and eat Chen Tom from the inside. Chen Tom didn't want to end up like the fat little brother before.

"I'll cover you, you guys take the plane... Shit! Take the elevator first!"

Qin Jiandan was also a little nervous. He was afraid that the Yin Beast would shoot out iron wire blades from its body, bypass his defense and hurt the people behind him, repeating the scene of his fat brother being eaten.

Fortunately, although the black fog will multiply after eating people, it also needs to allocate energy to digest the victim and serve as an exoskeleton for the internal flesh and blood. After evolving from a "black fog" without a host to a "yin beast" with a host, the usage rate of the iron wire blade has greatly decreased.

The wolf-mouthed lizard approached slowly, waving its scorpion tail behind it, and its entire body was wrapped in thick black mist.

In the center of the mine on the other side, the hostless black fog that appeared first was also not idle. It floated quickly and patrolled terrifyingly above the bodies of the cowboy group.

Qin Jiandan's spiritual fire burned most of the enemies to charcoal, leaving them without the life energy that the black fog liked, but some were shot to death by Vale, and some were killed instantly by Qin Jiandan's double wind in their ears.

The black fog split itself into two, and with a sweet tremor, it pounced on the two fresh corpses.

After a terrible sound of bones breaking and flesh twisting, two strange-looking beasts appeared in the mine.

"Here... again!" Ding Ling's tears were refilled. Without even looking at her, Vale slapped Ding Ling's "mother" back.

Master Tie Xin finished her healing and opened her eyes which had been half closed.

"Grandma." A Ku, who was standing on the nun's shoulder, advised immediately despite his hoarse voice:

"When my grandfather's grandfather was still living in the sewer, a Buddhist layperson brought him food. I heard that a true Bodhisattva is one who protects life and saves people. The situation is dangerous now, can't you help everyone?"

(End of this chapter)