Dragon Clan: Avoid the College Entrance Examination to Slay the Dragon

Chapter 2 Fighting
The monster rushed towards Gu Yi like a mad beast, fangs bared. It was tall, its exposed muscles extremely rough, and it exuded a sickening stench of decay. Gu Yi stood firm, his eyes calm, the tip of the knife in his hand gleaming coldly in the dim light.

The monster's claws swung, but Gu Yi deftly dodged them, his right hand swinging with his knife. The blade flashed like a silver snake, piercing the monster's throat. The monster roared and tried to retreat, but Gu Yi's speed far surpassed that of an ordinary person. His figure blurred into a shadow. Then the blade pierced deeply into the monster's eye, blood gushing out. The monster let out a shrill scream and fell to its knees, weakly.

As the monster fell to its knees, Gu Yi grabbed the nearest shelf. The metal grid collapsed with a crash. Puffed food packages burst under the weight, and the cheese-flavored crumbs mixed with the blood mist into a pink snow. The monster's struggles beneath the metal grid gradually faded, until finally it was completely silent.

Before he could catch his breath, a second monster rushed in from the broken glass. It was even larger, its eyes gleaming with hunger. Gu Yi quickly dodged it, then stomped his feet hard, using the broken glass to leap out of the store.

In the darkness of the night, Gu Yi panted heavily, his eyes scanning the surroundings. The street outside the shop was thick with dust, and the dim streetlights couldn't illuminate the distant shadows. The air was filled with a sense of decay, as if the whole world was slowly collapsing.

At this moment, Gu Yi discovered another monster. It stood in the shadows not far away, still with the upper body of a human woman, its eyes gleaming with golden light.

"Damn it." Gu Yi clenched the knife in his hand. He only had this one friend in this world.

The second monster suddenly rushed out of the convenience store, twisting its body and spreading its arms, as if it was opening its big mouth to swallow the boy in one bite.

But Gu Yi suddenly retreated, then slammed hard on the lamppost. The reaction force sent him careening into the monster's arms like a cannonball, his elbow striking the monster's sternum.

The sound of bones cracking and the monster's screams of pain were drowned out by the torrential rain. Gu Yi seized the opportunity, holding the knife with the tip pointing upward. The tip of the knife pierced the monster's jaw and exited through the top of its skull. Smelly blood gushed out like a fountain, evaporating into a bloody mist in the rain.

Gu Yi stood up, his body covered in blood, like a devil from hell.

Just as Gu Yi prepared to face the remaining two monsters, the massive one let out a piercing scream, piercing the night air and causing pain in his eardrums. His vision instantly filled with sizzling spots. Seeing this, the two monsters charged at him simultaneously. Gu Yi knew there was no escape, so he prepared to withstand this round of attacks head-on.

At the critical moment, Gu Yi's pupils suddenly turned golden
The sticky downpour stopped.

No, it was raindrops suspended in mid-air, each one reflecting his golden pupils. Sparks from the exploding neon signs solidified into golden dots of light, and the monster's pounce became like the stuttering image of an old projector, as if everything around them had been paused.

Gu Yi felt a surge of unprecedented strength. He leaped upward, the ground cracking silently beneath his feet. The air thickened like mercury, and the turbulence of air created by Gu Yi's leap tore fan-shaped gaps through the condensed rain curtain. The moment the blade sliced ​​into the monster's throat, he saw dark blue marrow slowly seeping from the cracks in the bone, blending with the almost still rainwater to create an eerie emerald hue.

The blade in his hand trembled and made a humming sound like a dragon's roar. It was covered with cracks and was like a candle in the wind.

When the blade finally pierced the monster's neck, the world suddenly returned to life. Golden meteors blazed from the exploding neon tubes, and the monster's roar echoed with the crackling of the blade. Gu Yi looked back at the slate-gray head spinning in the air, a dark red mist of blood gushing from the broken cervical vertebrae. The blood beads stretched into threads of varying lengths in the rain, like the splashes of oil paint by a mad painter.

The last monster was retreating, its scaly claws scratching sparks from the tiles. For the first time, fear rippled through its cloudy pupils. Gu Yi's temples throbbed. A burning impulse raced through his veins. He subconsciously tensed his calf muscles, and the raindrops once again levitated, emitting an amber halo. But this time, it was accompanied by a brain-tearing pain, a snowstorm of memories suddenly exploding on his retina—

Amidst the heavy snow, figures in hazmat suits fled beneath the burning dome. Behind the glass curtain wall, the incubators formed a pale matrix, a firefly-like blue liquid gushing from ruptured pipes. In the red light of the alarm, the ice crystals on the surface of the cryostat suddenly exploded, revealing a huddled figure with the same golden eyes as his.
"No!"

The crimson light in his eyes quickly faded, and time instantly returned to normal. Gu Yi stumbled back, the monster creating ripples in the resuming rainstorm. Gu Yi's pupils momentarily lost focus as he watched the monster's ferocious fangs suddenly pierce through the sticky air, its sharp blue-gray claws, wrapped in a fishy wind, slam into his left shoulder.

The sound of bones breaking and the explosion of the convenience store glass window rang out at the same time. His body smashed through three rows of shelves, instant noodle bowls and aluminum cans of drinks exploded in the air, and the fragments of puffed food packaging bags fluttered like cheap ribbons.

Gu Yi stumbled, holding onto the shelf. A penetrating wound in his left shoulder caused his entire arm to twitch like a spasm. He tore off the bloodied convenience store curtain to wrap around the wound and, amid the wailing of the automatic door alarm, slammed into the rain. The monster was waiting, hunched over on a truck, its exposed muscle tissue glistening like motor oil under the neon lights.

Gu Yi was clutching a half-broken beer bottle as the monster dove from the overturned truck roof. He charged forward against the raging wind, twisting his waist the moment the glass pierced the monster's mouth, using the momentum to swing his two-meter-tall body toward the phone booth. The tempered glass shattered with a bang, and the monster twisted wildly against the sharp metal frame. The boy grabbed the broken telephone cord from the ground and twisted it around the monster's exposed trachea until the stinking blood soaked his sneakers.

The battle was over, and Gu Yi stumbled into the convenience store. The shelves looked like they'd been swept by a tornado, and puffed food packaging floated in the stagnant water. As he sat down against the refrigerator, he caught a glimpse of a reflection in the gap between the curtains on the second floor of a residential building. A pale face, half pressed against the glass, stared at him.

Neon lights began to flicker convulsively. The gaps in the shelves were suddenly filled with rows of mineral water, and the broken glass windows were restored to intact promotional posters. Everything seemed to be twitching non-stop.

Gu Yi was facing the intact glass door when a scream erupted from behind him. His reflection was covered in blood. Behind him, a girl carrying potato chips at the shelf had knocked over her shopping basket. A customer in a suit knocked over a promotional display, and a can of Red Bull rolled past Gu Yi's feet, staining him with red blood.

"Murder, murder!" the clerk screamed and rushed towards the alarm, his nails scraping against the plastic casing. Gu Yi looked down at himself, staining the floor tiles in the real world red.

"This time is much better than last time~" The girl sat on the refrigerator and swung her legs. "Do you need to give you artificial respiration?"

"Don't touch me." Gu Yi said coldly.

The girl suddenly leaned close to his ear, her breath like perpetual snow, "But you were clearly enjoying that feeling just now."

The siren sounds from far to near.

Gu Yi grabbed his schoolbag and rushed into the rain, and the silver bell-like laughter of a girl came from behind him.

(End of this chapter)