I slay demons and monsters in a bizarre city.

Chapter 12 Killing Yesi

The afterglow of the setting sun dyed the white clouds, and the fiery red clouds were unsettling. It had been a long time since we had seen a sunset. After the eternal night fell, the inexplicable fog was maddening, and terrifying monsters were hidden in the fog.

Li Changgeng looked up at the plaque of Black Sea City University. It was black with white characters, and it exuded a chilling and terrifying aura, like a large tombstone! It used to have black with gold characters, but perhaps due to the mist, the characters had been eroded and changed color.

There are many students coming and going at the school gate. There are many young people here, and the yang energy is strong, which can ward off evil spirits.

The fog was thick, and visibility was decreasing at a visible rate. In contrast, the scarlet moon hanging in the starry sky was particularly striking. Perhaps due to the red moonlight, the fog also appeared blood-red. The college students chatted and laughed, and couples hugged and cuddled, seemingly unaffected by the eternal night.

Walking into the campus and returning to his familiar school, Li Chenggeng was filled with emotion. Time flies, and life is like a song. Time really passes quickly.

Xia Mengmeng is a student at the Buddhist Academy of Black Sea City University, so finding her shouldn't be difficult.

The Buddhist Academy is a very special academy of Black Sea City University. It is said that many inexplicable strange things happened when Black Sea City University was being built, and there were even some terrifying and rumored supernatural events. The most common rumor is that there is a very spiritual white snake under Black Sea City University, while others say that it is not a white snake at all, but a white dragon.

The white dragon was coiled in the magnificent underground palace. Li Changgeng thought this was unreliable. How could there be a palace underground?

Later, a magnificent Buddhist academy was built, which "suppressed" the giant white snake. Anyway, Li Changgeng studied at Black Sea City University for four years and never saw a white snake, let alone a large white worm.

"Hello, classmate. Why is the west gate of the Buddhist Academy locked?" Li Changgeng paced around the gate. The west gate used to be the main gate of the Buddhist Academy, and many people used to pass through it. Now, not only was it locked by countless chains, but there were also countless padlocks of various sizes and shapes hanging on the chains. Strangely, these padlocks were all open and not locked.

"You're not from this school, are you?" A pure-looking female student with big, innocent eyes looked Li Changgeng up and down while holding a copy of "The Book of the Dead." "Some time ago, something happened at the Buddhist Academy. A fire broke out inexplicably and killed many people, but one person survived unharmed."

"The west gate of the Buddhist academy leads to the Western Paradise. If you are seeking enlightenment, you should head east when the purple aura comes from the east. If you are seeking Buddhahood, you should head west when you hear Amitabha. Later, an enlightened monk sealed the west gate."

"The one who survived, she's a freak!"

Li Changgeng wasn't interested in such bizarre gossip. The students at the Buddhist Academy were all a little eccentric. "Excuse me, which classroom is Xia Mengmeng in?"

The innocent-looking schoolgirl licked her thick lips, her eyes filled with panic. "You, you're looking for Xia Mengmeng? She's praying in the Buddhist hall. I advise you not to go looking for her."

"Thank you!" Li Changgeng watched the big-eyed, innocent-looking student girl run off in a slightly flustered manner. Her hot pants accentuated her round, peach-shaped buttocks. Indeed, alluring buttocks are a dime a dozen, but interesting souls are one in a million. This saying really makes sense. It's a bit strange for a Buddhist academy student to be reading the Book of the Dead; her soul is truly fascinating.

The Buddhist academy's prayer hall was extremely quiet, eerily so.

When Li Changgeng was studying at Black Sea City University, he never came here. He always felt depressed. He couldn't stand the eyes of the Buddha statue, even though Li Changgeng had never done anything immoral.

Thinking of Xia Mengmeng's face, Li Changgeng inexplicably thought of the octopus girl from Ghost Train. The Buddhist hall was large, dimly lit by candlelight, and supported by several golden stone pillars with carved dragons in the middle, obstructing the view. Li Changgeng noticed that there seemed to be someone in the side hall on the right side of the Buddhist hall.

“I knew you would come looking for me.”

Li Changgeng was so startled that his soul almost left his body, and he nearly screamed. The crucial point was that the voice came from behind him, and there had been no sound beforehand—nothing moves without a sound. "Xia Mengmeng, you scared me! You, what happened to you?" Li Changgeng turned around and, relying on his memories of university and the terrifying impression of the ghost train at sea, recognized the pale-faced, bloodshot-red beauty before him as Xia Mengmeng. The Xia Mengmeng of the past was cute and lively; now she looked as cold as ice, emanating a chilling aura.

Xia Mengmeng was wearing a white dress, her face was deathly pale, so white it was frightening. Her eyes were not normal at all, they were cold and fierce, like the eyes of a python.

"Xia Mengmeng, do you still remember me? Li Changgeng, our university basketball team's number one three-point shooter!" Li Changgeng was genuinely worried about the mental state of this pretty junior. He wondered if she would spit out a forked snake tongue when she opened her mouth. Could Xia Mengmeng be a white giant snake in human form?

"Let's offer incense first; it's never a bad thing to be polite," Xia Mengmeng said expressionlessly, her voice mechanical and cold.

Li Changgeng picked up three incense sticks and entered the temple. It seemed harmless to pay homage to the Buddha, but he couldn't light the three incense sticks on the butter lamp no matter how many times he tried.

Li Changgeng smiled awkwardly and continued trying to hold the incense over the flickering flame of the butter lamp. "Is the incense damp?"

Xia Mengmeng remained aloof. She picked up the lotus lantern beside her and said, "Try this!"

Li Changgeng was a little flustered when he couldn't light the incense. Was this a bad omen? The key point was that he saw Xia Mengmeng light the same incense very easily, sticking it into the incense burner with her left hand. Normally, a person's right hand is used to hold knives or other weapons, so when offering incense and praying for blessings, the left hand is used.

It still didn't work; the lotus lanterns still wouldn't light. Li Changgeng's face was very pale, turning white and then purple. What was going on?

Xia Mengmeng took the three incense sticks from Li Changgeng and lit them effortlessly with a lotus lamp.

Li Changgeng pursed his lips. It was probably because the incense was damp. Xia Mengmeng lit it, but he had just dried it out with fire earlier. It was just a coincidence.

"Is Buddha unhappy?" Li Changgeng said devoutly. He suspected that the Xia Mengmeng in front of him might not be the Xia Mengmeng he knew before. Perhaps he had come to a fake Black Sea City University.

"No." Xia Mengmeng clasped her hands together and bowed towards the golden Buddha statue. "You don't need to offer incense to Buddha! Buddha doesn't want to accept it, can't accept it, and dares not accept it!"

"All my spiritual cultivation is a gift from Buddha!"

"I will risk my life to protect this Buddhist temple and the Buddha's relics from being devoured by evil spirits."

Li Changgeng wanted to leave this place, even if it meant walking at night. He was worried that Xia Mengmeng's soul and spirit might have been possessed by the legendary white giant snake, and that it might devour him.

"I'm all done, I'll be going now."

Xia Mengmeng's ghostly figure blocked Li Changgeng's path. "Where are you going? If you dare take another step, I'll strangle you!"

(End of this chapter)