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As the door closed, the bedroom fell into a deathly silence.

The curtains were drawn tightly shut, and dust particles, like a gray mist, floated in the dim light.

A strong, pungent smell of Chinese medicine mixed with a strange stench permeated the small room.

Li Jiajia lay sprawled on the bed.

She rolled her bloodshot eyes, looking Fang Cheng up and down.

When she was being choked, she instinctively sensed that the man in front of her possessed an extremely terrifying power.

The other party is definitely not someone to be trifled with.

If we confront them head-on, I'm afraid I'll suffer a loss. I need to find another way to probe their strength.

A multitude of thoughts flashed through her mind, then her eyes darted around, and a smile crept onto her lips:
"Handsome guy...you're so naughty."

A rough male voice came from her mouth, but she deliberately used a seductive tone, drawing out the last syllable.

She kept twisting her body, striking a seductive pose on the bed.

"You left a young, unmarried woman alone in the room... what exactly are you trying to do?"

His voice was hoarse and unpleasant, his face was covered in black slime, and he was wearing a dirty set of pajamas.

The strong sense of incongruity turned this clumsy seduction into an absurd farce.

Fang Cheng stood still, his expression calm.

He didn't even blink, his gaze indifferent, as if he were looking at a pile of foul-smelling garbage.

After a brief silence, he suddenly asked:
"Are you from another world?"

Upon hearing this, Li Jiajia abruptly stopped twisting her body.

Fang Cheng took another half step forward, looking down into her eyes, and continued to ask:
"You know the Holy Lord?"

Upon hearing this, Li Jiajia, who was on the bed, shuddered violently.

The playful expression on his face vanished instantly, and the smile that had been spreading across his lips disappeared completely.

Seeing her unusual reaction, Fang Cheng already knew what was going on.

The way Li Jiajia had gone berserk, biting people and spitting black water, gave him a strong sense of familiarity.

In the recent special investigation team exam, he participated in a "phantom training" in the interrogation room to test his character.

In that so-called illusion, he had witnessed similar bizarre phenomena and even fought a life-or-death battle with those mysterious shadowy figures.

They are elusive and can silently burrow into the bodies of living people, stealing the host's sanity and turning normal people into monsters that frantically bite their own kind.

Li Jiajia's symptoms were exactly the same as those of the parasites.

The only difference is that the parasite inside her retains more rationality and can still communicate normally.

When the exam ended, Fang Cheng was busy exchanging experiences with Ma Donghe and didn't have time to carefully investigate the doubts.

But looking back, he always felt something was off.

Because that world is just too real.

The sensation of the falling black rain and the stench emanating from the monster's mouth left an unforgettable impression on him.

More importantly, Fang Cheng had absolute confidence in his mental resilience.

With his extraordinary mental attribute of 70 points, the possibility of a mere illusion array used by a special search team for testing completely blocking out all his memories in the real world and creating a complete sense of immersion for him is extremely slim.

Unless... it's not an illusion at all, but a real world with sound laws.

Therefore, Fang Cheng had always harbored a bold suspicion in his heart.

The actual situation at the time was likely that his consciousness had traveled to another world and possessed the body of a boy with the same name.

Today, I came to Ningyue's house and saw Li Jiajia, who was possessed by some kind of evil spirit.

Fang Cheng suddenly felt enlightened.

The so-called illusion used by the special investigation team to test the candidates may actually be a real, otherworldly realm!
"Who exactly are you? How do you know about the Holy Lord?"

Li Jiajia suddenly sat up straight, staring intently at Fang Cheng.

The previous frivolous and affected tone vanished completely, replaced by undisguised shock in her voice.

"You don't need to know who I am."

Fang Cheng put his hands in his pockets, his mind churning, but his tone was as calm as if he were chatting with an old friend:

"I'm just asking you, you bunch of shady characters, why didn't you stay put over there? What are you doing here?"

Li Jiajia's eye muscles twitched twice, and a fierce glint instantly appeared in her eyes.

Stop playing tricks!

She opened her mouth, revealing teeth stained with black grime, and threatened menacingly:
"Since you've heard of the Holy Lord's name, you should know how powerful we are."

"Kid, I advise you to mind your own business and get out of here. I've already set my sights on this body. Even Jesus couldn't save it, I'm telling you!"

"have a finger in the pie?"

Fang Cheng chuckled, a hint of mockery creeping into his gaze:
"You scurried around like rats in the sewers in that world, and now you've come to my territory to run wild, and you dare tell me to get lost?"

"Your territory? Haha!"

Li Jiajia seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world, and let out a rough, strange laugh:

"That's utterly audacious! You're just a mortal with no supernatural powers or extraordinary abilities, relying solely on your strength? Who do you think you are?"

She straightened her back, raised her chin, and looked smug.
"When the Holy Lord descends, all the living people in your world will become our nourishment."

"Since you know a little about the inside story, kneel down and kowtow now, and I might spare your body, or I might even take pity on you and use your body as my vessel in this world."

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Cheng raised an eyebrow slightly:
"So your plan was to invade this world?"

Li Jiajia was taken aback by these words and suddenly realized that she had misspoke.

"You're trying to trick me?!"

She gritted her teeth in exasperation:

"How dare a mortal like you comprehend the Holy Lord's grand plans! Since you don't want to live, don't blame me for being ruthless. You must die here today!"

Fang Cheng remained calm and unconcerned, saying:

"Just you alone?"

After several attempts to test him, his suspicions were further confirmed.

The thing that parasitizes Li Jiajia's body may very well have come from that world where black rain falls.

In addition, it is not difficult to see from the words spoken by the evil creature that there must be some unknown connection between that world and the world we are in now.

"Do you think you can take me down just because you're strong?"

Seeing Fang Cheng's contemptuous attitude, Li Jiajia felt a surge of anger and sneered repeatedly.

“I’m not on the same level as those low-level cannon fodder you encountered before.”

As she spoke, a series of crackling sounds suddenly emanated from her entire body.

His eyes, which had previously shown some white, were instantly filled with a deep black.

Even the pupils disappeared, leaving only two bottomless black holes.

At the same time, the skin on her face and hands lost its color at a visible speed, turning as pale as a dead person.

Veins, like tiny black snakes, bulged from under the skin, spreading down the neck to the cheeks.

"hehe--"

Li Jiajia let out a strange laugh, her voice hoarse like a venomous snake spitting its tongue.

He flicked his ten fingers outwards.

At the fingertips, three-inch-long, sharp, jet-black nails emerged forcefully from the skin and flesh.

"If you won't listen to reason, you'll have to suffer the consequences!"

Her pure black eyes were fixed on the man in front of her, and she cursed viciously:

"I'm going to tear open your skin and rip out your heart and liver to eat with my drinks!"

Fang Cheng maintained his hands in his pockets, glancing sideways with disdain.

His gaze was as indifferent as if he were looking at a menacing reptile.

Snapped!
Li Jiajia pushed off with both legs and, using the elasticity of the mattress, leaped into the air in an instant.

She crawled on all fours, like a mutated giant spider, rapidly climbing up the wall.

In the blink of an eye, she was hanging upside down from the ceiling.

A foul-smelling, eerie wind swept through the cramped bedroom.

Li Jiajia's figure moved so fast it was blurry, bouncing back and forth between the four walls and the ceiling, leaving several black afterimages in her wake, surrounding Fang Cheng in the center.

Suddenly, a piercing shriek came from above.

Li Jiajia, headfirst and feet first, used gravity to slam down from the ceiling.

Ten jet-black claws whistled through the air as they pierced straight into Fang Cheng's face.

But with Fang Cheng's agility of 81 points, this seemingly swift and tricky pounce was as slow as a slow-motion scene in a movie.

Just as the black fingernails were about to poke his face, he finally raised his left hand, facing the oncoming stench, and slowly reached it upwards.

Five slender fingers easily pierced through the myriad claw shadows and grabbed Li Jiajia's right wrist.

The thumb and forefinger are wedged into the joint gap, and then pulled downwards while the wrist is flipped in the opposite direction.

"Kara!"

Li Jiajia's right arm joint dislocated instantly, and the violent momentum of her entire body was directly neutralized by this skillful force.

Fang Cheng tossed his right hand away as if it were trash.

Li Jiajia tumbled in mid-air before crashing heavily back onto the mattress.

crunch--

The entire bed frame suddenly shook violently, almost falling apart.

As soon as Li Jiajia touched the bed, she sprang up as if she had a spring in her body.

She let out a beastly roar, undeterred, and launched another attack.

The dislocated right arm seemed perfectly fine, and I couldn't feel any pain at all.

This time, she lowered her center of gravity, gliding rapidly along the ground, her sharp claws creating two gusts of wind as they slashed straight at Fang Cheng's calves and lower body.

Fang Cheng stood still, without moving a single step.

Just as those ghostly claws were about to touch his trouser leg, his right hand dropped down like lightning.

The palm landed precisely on Li Jiajia's spine.

The force was extremely light, yet it precisely severed the pivot point of her power.

Immediately afterwards, Fang Cheng reached behind her and hooked his arm around her neck.

Using the momentum of her forward momentum, he drew an arc in the air and slammed her hard onto the bed again.

boom!
Dust billowed up from the bedsheets.

After being controlled and thrown back twice in a row, Li Jiajia completely descended into madness.

She spewed out a mouthful of foul-smelling black viscous liquid, leaped off the bed, and frantically waved her hands.

Like a mad shrew, she began scratching and clawing at Fang Cheng relentlessly.

Fang Cheng frowned slightly and turned his head slightly to avoid the splashing black water.

He then turned to the side, took a half step forward with his right leg, and blocked Li Jiajia's center of gravity.

With his left hand, he cut between her wildly flailing arms and precisely pinched a large tendon at the back of her neck.

His fingers curled slightly.

Li Jiajia felt as if all her strength had been drained away in an instant, and her body immediately went limp.

Fang Cheng flicked his wrist and threw her back onto the nearly broken single bed for the third time.

The bedroom fell silent for a moment.

"Hu-hu-"

Li Jiajia lay on the bed sheet, panting heavily.

A look of undisguised shock finally surfaced in those pure black eyes.

She stared intently at the man in front of her.

Fang Cheng remained standing quietly in place, his breathing rhythm perfectly steady.

What terrified Li Jiajia the most was that the man's right hand remained firmly in his pocket the entire time.

He didn't even need to use half his strength; he easily deflected all of his attacks with just one hand.

Faced with overwhelming power, his own ferocious explosive force after transformation seemed as laughable as a toddler learning to walk.

This human is terrifying; he's more like a monster than a monster itself!

Li Jiajia swallowed hard, a strong sense of fear rising in her heart.

She let out a piercing scream, her foot kicking a large hole in the mattress, and her body shot out like a cannonball.

It seemed like she was going to fight to the death, but in mid-air, her waist twisted strangely, abruptly changing direction.

Then, she rushed toward the closed window.

As long as you break the glass and escape outside, you can save this body!

Li Jiajia thought anxiously to herself.

Just when she was less than half a meter away from the window.

A sonic boom suddenly rang out in the air.

hula-

Li Jiajia felt a blur before her eyes as her long hair was swept back.

It was as if a hurricane had suddenly swept through the room.

Immediately afterwards, the light ahead was completely blocked by a tall figure.

Fang Cheng had somehow crossed half the room and stood like an insurmountable wall in front of the window.

"you……"

Li Jiajia's pupils suddenly contracted, and she exclaimed in horror.

While suspended in mid-air, she had no time to react.

"Have you made enough of a scene?"

Fang Cheng's tone was icy, and his right hand shot out fiercely:
"It's time for you to show your true colors."

With five fingers like iron hooks and eagle claws, it gripped Li Jiajia's skull, forcibly suspending her in mid-air.

Immediately afterwards, a ball of golden flame burst forth from Fang Cheng's palm.

boom!
The firelight instantly illuminated the dimly lit bedroom.

Strangely, the intense flames did not ignite Li Jiajia's hair or scorch her skin.

Instead, it burrowed directly into her scalp and seeped deep into her flesh, like a living thing.

"what--"

Li Jiajia let out a heart-wrenching scream, gripping Fang Cheng's arm tightly with both hands and struggling frantically.

"What the hell is this?! It hurts! Let go of me!"

The high temperature did not damage the mortal body, but it was fiercely scorching the evil soul that possessed it.

The black blood vessels on Li Jiajia's face twisted violently, and her pure black eyeballs began to shrink uncontrollably, revealing the whites of her eyes again.

She began to plead desperately:
"Stop burning it... I'll leave! I'll leave right now! Please, spare me—"

Fang Cheng remained completely unmoved.

His eyes were bright, and golden flames seemed to flicker and leap in his pupils.

The flames on his palms did not weaken; instead, they burned even more fiercely, crackling and popping.

In extreme pain, Li Jiajia's mouth was stretched to its widest point in exaggerated pain.

A twisted, struggling black shadow, accompanied by a shrill wail, was forcibly squeezed out of her mouth.

The moment the shadowy figure detached from its physical body, it transformed into the shape of a venomous snake, dragging its mangled body as it tried to slip through the crack in the door.

"Can you escape?"

Fang Cheng snorted coldly.

He then released his left hand, leaving the unconscious Li Jiajia slumped on the floor.

next second.

Fang Cheng finally pulled his right hand out of his pocket.

He clenched his fist tightly.

The accumulated internal energy surged out like a flood, instantly converging in the right arm along the meridians.

A muffled rumble of thunder could be faintly heard in the air.

Fang Cheng pushed off the ground with his left foot, twisted his waist and thrust his hips, and threw a punch at the dark figure in mid-air.

Boom!

The violent fist wind, carrying scalding true energy, transformed into a roaring fire dragon, opening its flaming maw.

It swallowed the fleeing black shadow in an instant.

"what--"

Accompanied by an extremely terrified scream.

The dark figure struggled violently in mid-air for half a second before being completely incinerated by the domineering true energy.

Finally, it turned into a wisp of foul-smelling black smoke and completely dissipated in the room. (End of Chapter)