My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 11: Pupa
In the dead silent Lijing Square, everyone stared blankly at the object hanging upside down below the billboard - it appeared so abruptly, just like the alien ovary suddenly appearing in a horror movie, hanging in the sky.

One second ago, people’s attention was focused on the blue arc and green wing;
The next second, they saw a strange object falling from the sky, hanging upside down motionless under the billboard, and tying up the five gangsters.

At this moment, the giant LED screens on all sides are reflecting this horrifying scene.

Under everyone's gaze, the pitch-black "chrysalis" slowly opened, revealing a human figure inside: wearing a black swallowtail windbreaker, an angular mask on his face, and holding a gray book in his hands; his entire body was surrounded by pitch-black restraints, like black waves rippling in the air, slowly rotating around him.

Lan Hu would probably never have imagined that the person under the mask of the "Pupa Man" in front of him... was actually Ji Minghuan, who had left his Buddhist life. To be precise, this was a game character that Ji Minghuan had created in the real world using his supernatural powers. He was Lan Hu's younger brother - "Gu Wenyu".

As the giant chrysalis disintegrated, the restraining bands that had once formed it now drifted like tentacles in the air behind him. The scene looked particularly eerie, as if he were hanging upside down, lying on a black curtain that opened and closed, quietly flipping through the pages of "The Outsider" in his hands.

At this moment, a belated scream erupted from the crowd of onlookers.

"Oh, your screams are so passionate..." The pupa man was hanging upside down under the billboard, with a restraint connected to his back and the other end hanging on the top of the billboard.

He lowered his eyes and flipped through the book The Outsider in his hand, teasing jokingly, "I know how much you like me."

"I'll say it again, get this man out of here, or I'll detonate the bomb on the hostage!" Green Wing roared in unbearable pain, raising his hand and pointing at the foreign object hanging upside down in the air.

"I said... he is not one of ours." Blue Arc emphasized again.

"Then who is he!" Green Wing's forehead bulged with veins. He raised his head and yelled at the insect pupa man, "No matter who you are, get out of here immediately, or I will detonate the bomb immediately! Not only the hostages, but half of Lijing Square will be flattened by the explosion!"

However, after these strong words were spoken, they were met with deathly silence.

Through the mask, the pupa man looked at Green Wing motionlessly.

He closed the book and said calmly, "Be patient, Mr. Green Wing. If you have the guts to detonate it, then go ahead... But you wouldn't be so foolish as to do that, would you? After all, even if you're a bit clueless, you should have realized this: If the hostage dies, you'll lose your leverage in the standoff. Who would be worse off then, either of us?"

"you……"

Green Wing was choked. The words of the Pupa Man hit the mark exactly what he was thinking - he could use hostages to threaten decent people like Blue Arc, but it was obvious that the weirdo hanging upside down under the billboard was not a decent person: he didn't care about the life and death of the hostages from the beginning, so Green Wing's method lost its meaning.

Lan Qi lowered his voice and asked his teammates through the built-in headset, "Who is this person? Do you know him?"

"No." The woman was stunned for a moment, "We haven't met."

"I'm warning you, let go of my men!" Green Wing spread his wings, ready to strike, "Otherwise I will kill you."

"Let go?" The pupa man paused, "Okay, as you wish."

As soon as he finished speaking, the restraints wrapped around the five gangsters suddenly tightened, breaking their necks. Five heads fell neatly from mid-air, landing on the ground with a clear "pop" sound. Then, blood spurted out from the broken necks of the five corpses like a fountain.

Beneath the blood-red fountain of five headless corpses, five hostages knelt on the ground, their faces filled with astonishment. With rags stuffed in their mouths, they couldn't make a sound, but their heads were already sprayed red, and a pool of blood lay beneath them.

Green Wing was dumbfounded, his face gloomy to the extreme.

"I just let it go as you requested, Mr. Green Wing...even though it was just the 'head'. Why do you look unhappy?"

The man in the pupa form flipped through the pages of the book without even looking up, while using the pitch-black restraints to lift up the heads of the gangsters, bringing them in front of the five hostages and placing them on the ground in front of them.

Then, he used the restraints to untie the hemp ropes on the hostages' hands, tied the guns in the gangsters' hands, and handed them to the hostages.

Each person had a gun, and the distribution was very fair.

The hostages stared blankly at the head lying in front of them, and then stared blankly at the gun that was held in front of them by the restraints.

Before they could come to their senses, amid the rustling sound of fingers rubbing against the pages of the book, the pupa man spoke nonchalantly, "They just put guns to the back of your heads. Don't you have any resentment? Now it's your turn. Hmm..."

Having said that, he turned to the next page and stared at the words on the page intently, with a slight smile on his lips under the mask. "Things change, it's only fair."

The next moment, one of the hostages, a teenager in school uniform, belatedly screamed.

Blue Arc frowned, but did not act rashly.

At this moment, a cold and icy reminder sound suddenly rang in Ji Minghuan's ears.

[Warning: Character Anchor Deviation: 0% → 30% (When the deviation exceeds 70%, there is a certain probability that the character will enter a rampage state)] [Situational Tip: The character you are currently playing is classified as a "gray character." Your methods should be more "peaceful," otherwise you will not be able to gain the trust of "decent characters."]

"Oh no... Oh my god, how can I tear these scumbags' heads off? This way, my story can't be adapted into a pornographic cartoon. Everyone needs a role model that's not so R18." The pupa man raised his hand to his forehead and sighed softly. "But it's never too late to mend the fence after the sheep have been lost. Every evildoer deserves a chance to atone for his sins, right?"

As he spoke, he used the restraints to lift up the heads that had fallen into the pool of blood one by one, and then placed them back on top of the mutilated bodies. He used the restraints to tie a circle around their necks and tied the straps into a knot. It looked as if... the heads had never left the bodies of the bandits.

"Yes, that's it... It's as good as new."

The pupa man nodded, looking quite pleased with himself.

The square was silent, and people looked at him with even more fear.

[Warning: Character Anchor Point Deviation: 30% → 40% (When the deviation exceeds "70%", there is a certain probability that the character will enter a rampage state)]

"Never mind...it doesn't matter. Life is bound to have a few blemishes, little flaws." The pupa man shook his head, flipping through the pages as he spoke nonchalantly. "You know, just like the most popular shonen manga are hot-blooded ones, and the most popular animated films are Hayao Miyazaki's movies. So it's bad if there are some scenes that are not suitable for children. After all, I'm hoping that my biography will appear in elementary and middle school textbooks in the future."

After saying that, he glanced sideways at the screaming boy among the hostages, raised his right index finger, and pointed it at one of the gangsters hanging in the air. "Kid, that was all the holographic projection effects just now. In fact, their heads are still hanging on their necks. Um... If you don't believe me, just look."

Before he could finish his words, the restraints loosened slightly, and a head fell from mid-air, landing in a pool of blood. Bright red liquid splashed at the boy's feet, staining his shoes red.

Then, an extremely suppressed scream rang out from the hostages again, completely awakening the others from their dazed state, and they also started screaming.

For a moment they didn't know whether they were rescued or fell into the hands of a pervert whose methods were even more bizarre and unpredictable.

[Warning: Character Anchor Point Deviation: 40% → 42% (When the deviation exceeds "70%", the character may enter a rampage state)]

"It was purely an accident..."

The pupa man raised his eyebrows, covered his ears with his hands to make their screams less harsh, and closed the book with his other hand.

"Who... are you?" In the silence, Blue Hu stared at him and asked almost word by word.

"Actually, I also want to ask, who am I... Objectively speaking, I'm not a decent person, but I'm not a villain either. Well, then who am I?"

The pupa man hanging upside down under the street light muttered to himself as he raised his right hand. The restraints extended and grabbed the bloody head that fell to the ground. Then they quickly retracted and brought the gangster's head back into his palm.

A row of police cars were parked not far away, and the alternating red and blue police lights reflected on his mask, flickering, like a ghost.

The restraints flowed up along his right hand like a tide, wrapping and covering the bloody head in his hand layer by layer in an orderly manner, making it look like a black "ball", which should feel good to hit.

Under the gazes of millions of people, Ji Minghuan lowered his eyes beneath the mask. He patted the black ball and said nonchalantly, "I'm just a... 'gray character.' I don't want to be a good guy, nor a villain. Strictly speaking, I don't want to be defined by others. No matter what, believe me, Blue Arc, we will become good friends in the future."

Blue Arc whispered, "You killed those gangsters."

The pupa man asked back, "Are you happy just because the hostages died?"

"Killing is killing, and you must face the law."

The pupa man shook his head and sighed, "How boring! I believe this isn't what you really think. You're just saying it under the pressure of the camera... Let's talk alone, Blue Arc. Let me hear your true thoughts."

As soon as he finished speaking, he slightly grasped the "ball" with his five fingers and threw it towards the blue arc.

Lan Arc caught the black ball, and the restraints attached to it slowly faded away and were retracted to the surface of the insect pupa man's body, so the ball turned back into a hideous, bloody human head.

He held the gangster's head in his hands, and the dripping blood stained his metal gloves red.

"Then Mr. Blue Arc, whether you are willing to come to the meeting is up to you..."

After saying that, the pupa man flipped through "The Outsider" while waving his restraints at Blue Arc, as if waving goodbye.

Immediately afterwards, his figure was pulled upwards by the restraints, as if his entire body was completely free from the restraints of gravity. Relying on the restraints, he leaped and shuttled through the neon lights, as fast as a paper man blown away by the strong wind. In just a few seconds, he disappeared from the broken neon lights and escaped into the thick night.

(End of this chapter)