Alone and Infinite.

Chapter 503 The Mysterious Ogan (Combined)

The runes on the heavy wooden door shimmered with a faint light, enveloping the entire tavern.

At the same time, the same runes lit up on the doors of every shop and household along the street, clearly a unified preventative measure taken by the Church of Divine Word.

They are not very protective, but most of them have early warning functions.

At this moment, apart from the runes on the gate, there was no other light source in the entire town.

A faint sense of unease crept in from the boundless darkness, and a thin mist quietly drifted through the streets.

The laughter from inside the wooden door gradually faded away. Perhaps it was because he had refused her "special hospitality," but more likely it was because of the "outsider" Collins had mentioned that she had developed inappropriate thoughts.

For example, what about 'courtesy' that doesn't even exist in your own room?
Since ancient times, if there were no enmity, most conspiracies would be nothing more than 'murder for money', with desire filling people's hearts.

From the moment the door closed until now, only two or three seconds have passed.

Aowu angrily lunged forward to smash open the wooden door, his eyes also radiating murderous intent.

But a pair of hands pressed down on the two little ones' heads.

"Xiao Tian!"

A very loud shout suddenly came from the second floor of the tavern.

"Woof!"

Aowu and Heitan were stunned, then overjoyed. How could they have forgotten about the third brother!
The tavern was filled with a tremendous cacophony of noise. The sound of tables and chairs overturning led to bottles smashing, mingling with the shouts and screams of the tavern owner and waitresses, creating an exceptionally chaotic scene.

Just seconds later, accompanied by a sharp scream, the wooden door was pushed open from the inside.

Xiaotian stood upright, placed its front paws on the door latch, tilted its head, stuck out its tongue, and looked at the big boss and the two older brothers outside the door with great excitement.

Its tail swung like an electric fan, and the waitress and the tavern owner, who happened to be lying nearby, were whipped back and forth by the thick tail, making sounds like pigs being slaughtered.

"Well done, third brother!"

Aowu and Heitan rushed in, showering Xiaotian with compliments like they were free, making Xiaotian grin from ear to ear.

Li Xia rubbed its head and nodded at Awoo.

The little dragon raised its claws, and the two people who had been pretending to be unconscious opened their eyes in confusion, only to find themselves floating up and flying rapidly toward the door.

They were immediately terrified and could no longer care about anything else, pleading loudly. When they got outside, they were even more frightened as they looked at the increasingly thick fog outside.

As the door gradually closed, their fear finally broke down, and the tall, burly shop owner cried and cursed the waitress for coming up with such a terrible idea.

The waitress, on the other hand, sharply berated the tavern owner as a 'good-for-nothing' in every sense of the word.

Li Xia coldly watched the two of them fighting like dogs, then waved his hand again. The shop owner's body seemed to be pulled by something, and he instantly flew back into the tavern.

The tavern's heavy doors slammed shut in an instant, leaving only the waitress's desperate screams, which grew ever more shrill and piercing.

Li Xia walked up to the tavern owner, pulled up a chair and sat down. Before he could even speak, the already distraught tavern owner cried out:

"Spare me! It was that damned woman's idea. She said you were an outsider and that even if you died, the Church of the Holy Word wouldn't know."

That way, all the luggage you leave in the room will be ours.

She said you're a wealthy outsider who will make us a fortune!
Please, don't throw me out!

Outsiders will not be detected by the Church of the Word of God.
Li Xia raised an eyebrow. It really was a case of murder for money, but only because he guessed that he would be 'giving a gift' in the room, he took action directly. And the poison was truly poisonous.

Perhaps it was Li Xia's silence that made the shop owner even more frightened. Before Li Xia could ask anything, he blurted out everything, trembling as if pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

To Li Xia and the two children's surprise, the root of all this was the four coins used to pay for the meal!
“Jenny said you casually gave ten times the meal fee, so you're probably a fugitive from out of town.”

They robbed a large amount of valuables, but dared not spend them freely, which is why they hid in a tavern like ours.

Li Xia and Heitan exchanged a glance, both somewhat puzzled.

Both Li Xia and Heitan were certain that the silver coins were indeed inscribed with 1 quail.

They couldn't possibly have missed such a basic mistake.

Only after they asked more detailed questions under the shop owner's fearful and puzzled gaze did he raise his head, somewhat speechless.

It turns out that the currency unit in this world is called the Kwaling, which is divided into three types: copper Kwaling, silver Kwaling, and gold Kwaling.

In slang, when people talk about amounts, "kua ling" is usually used to refer to copper coins, while "da kua ling" is used to refer to silver coins, and "ju kua ling" is used to refer to gold coins.

"Well, there's nothing we can do about it."

Awoo spread out his paws:
"The hall can help us understand the languages ​​of the world today, but it is closer to the concept of Mandarin. It does not usually involve dialects and slang with different pronunciations and usages."

Such flaws and oversights are difficult to overlook.

Meanwhile, Black Charcoal had already quietly taken out his notebook and started taking notes:
"The world should be careful with slang next time, as it could be a weakness."

"Boss—"

Aowu gestured towards the trembling shop owner, asking with its eyes for a solution: kill or let go?
After a moment's thought, Li Xia asked Hei Tan, "Can illusion magic be used?"

As Kurotan stepped forward, his cat-like eyes instantly transformed into the slowly rotating Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

"This is."

The shop owner's expression went blank, and soon saliva started flowing from his mouth. His eyes rolled back, and he collapsed to the ground.

Black Charcoal shook its head and meowed in confusion.

This is getting interesting. Black Charcoal's illusion had just caused a violent fluctuation in his mind, turning him into this kind of idiot, half-vegetable.

But this is for the best. If we were to kill him rashly, Collins might come knocking again. Now that he's a semi-vegetative idiot, if we give him a simple life support device, he can at least live for a month or two without causing any trouble.

Before Li Xia could speak, Aowu had already led its second and third brothers over, moved the tavern owner to the storeroom, and familiarly took out a small box and patted it on his stomach.

The life support equipment has been installed.

The shouting and cursing outside the door continued, but the location kept shifting, accompanied by loud banging on the door.

Jenny, the waitress, was frantically banging on the doors of nearby rooms, pleading and yelling for someone to open the doors and let her in.

But no matter what she did, the doors remained unmoved, and some even shouted insults at her.

It seems that even outside, monsters don't appear immediately. Or are the so-called monsters just figments of our imagination?

Li Xia sat in a chair with a dim oil lamp behind him. Half of his face was illuminated by the light, while the other half was hidden in darkness.

My fingers tapped lightly on the table, and I felt as if the city was hiding some secret, just like the fog that shrouded the outside world.

The truth is gradually emerging, making it increasingly interesting.
Suddenly, Li Xia raised her head, and the three little ones huddled together also turned around sharply, looking in the same direction as Li Xia.

Something's coming!

Li Xia leaped upwards, and with a few nimble flips, he had already arrived at the room by the window on the second floor.

He pressed himself against the window, peering out through the slightly blurry glass. Along the bottom edge of the window were neatly arranged dragon heads, cat heads, and dog heads, all looking out with a mixture of nervousness and anticipation.

The fog that permeated the entire city grew even thicker, and the fog seemed to have a life of its own, churning and boiling on the streets.

Li Xia stared at the grayish-white mist, feeling as if it were searching for cracks in every building. It was simply blocked by the runes on the doors, unable to find a way through.

But what caught Li Xia's attention even more was the indistinct dark figure hidden behind the fog.

"coming."

Li Xia unconsciously lowered her voice.

The three children unconsciously held their breath in the atmosphere and peered out from the windowsill with their eyes fixed on the scene.

"Boom!"

The ground trembled, dust pattered down from the eaves, and a grotesque foot, seemingly twisted together from many roots and tumors, trod on the street.

The ground trembled violently, and then a chilling monster emerged from the mist.

It roughly retains a human shape, but it's like an abstraction of a human form, with every limb and every part growing in places that cause discomfort.

"What the hell is this?! It's ugly in a refreshingly unique way!"

Awoo couldn't understand how such a bizarre creature could exist; it wasn't beautiful at all!
Li Xia remained silent, his hawk-like gaze fixed on the street corner through the windowpane.

After banging on the door to no avail, Jenny tried to escape, but her obese body greatly limited her mobility.

Not to mention that banging on doors and yelling before was also a strenuous activity.

So, panting, she walked to the street corner a few dozen meters away and could no longer walk. At that moment, driven by fear, she stuck her head into the entrance of the roadside sewer, but her lower body could not be squeezed in no matter what she did.

Its short, fat legs were kicking and stomping frantically, a movement that was extremely attractive to the monster.

The abstract monster bent its several-meter-tall body, and its extremely 'intelligent' eyes finally managed to focus on the fat buttocks in front of it.

It mumbled incomprehensible babbling and reached out to grab Jenny's lower body.

This action is like triggering a switch.

"what!!!!"

An unusually high-pitched and piercing scream came from Jenny's mouth as she was pulled out, but the monster seemed not to hear it.

He held Jenny close to his eyes and examined her carefully. To the astonishment of the three little ones, he suddenly and slowly moved Jenny toward his lower body.

Even Li Xia's eyes twitched, but she still forced herself to continue her analysis.

Does this represent some kind of bestiality, that is, the most instinctive and primal desire?

Before he could finish his analysis, the monster's twisted lower body suddenly opened to both sides, and a head shot out like a bullet, biting Jenny hard.

Jenny's scream turned into a painful scream as she desperately punched the head she was biting.

But its head seemed to feel nothing, it just held Jenny tightly in its jaws.

Li Xia's pupils contracted. Even though the surface of the head was covered with thick pus, he could still recognize it.

This is the drunkard who died in a fight in the tavern; his unusually prominent, huge, bulbous nose and the large black spot on his right cheek are still there.

"Boss! (Meow!)"

Awoo lowered his voice, sounding slightly hurried:

"This—isn't this the drunkard who died this afternoon?"

Black Charcoal nodded vigorously beside him; the two of them, along with Li Xia, had witnessed the fight in the tavern.

"Ah."

Li Xia's gaze was fixed on the head, which also had only one head. Connecting the head to the monster's abdominal cavity was a long, centipede-like thing.

Upon closer inspection, the long worm was not a centipede at all, but rather a spine covered in bloody mucus, with its waving legs being tiny roots growing from the spine.

Jenny's screams grew fainter and fainter, and her hammering hand finally came down weakly.

Her obese body deflated like a punctured balloon, and the monster finally released its grip, seemingly unsatisfied.

Disdainfully, he tossed aside the shriveled human skin, letting it drift to the ground in the wind.

The spine trembled, causing the head to retract, and the monster's open abdominal cavity closed again. It raised its head and stared blankly for a while, looking slightly bewildered.

Turning around, I stepped back into the mist, which quickly filled the gaps I had left behind, drifting gently.

It was as if nothing had happened.

Li Xia breathed a sigh of relief, and then he noticed another detail.

Even though this monster was enormous, standing several meters tall, and its very presence caused the ground to tremble when it walked, it was still a formidable creature.

But the brick floor remained unchanged; even the bricks that were already cracked lay intact in their original spots.

The three little ones also breathed a sigh of relief, and Aowu wiped away non-existent sweat with his dragon claws.

Black Charcoal's fur stood on end, making it look like a black fur ball, while Howling Sky tucked its tail between its legs.

They are not afraid of conventional monsters; they even dared to charge against the Dragon Strike General and the Star God, whose strength far surpassed theirs in the past.

But looking at such a monster made me a little uneasy; it was so eerie that it made me overlook its actual strength.

"Does that mean that every person who dies in this city turns into one of those monsters?"

I misunderstood Collins; I thought he was a bad seed. Now it seems I almost misunderstood a loyal and righteous person!

"If it were me, I'd be worried too if someone died in the city!"

It kept whining to itself to relieve the creepy feeling in its heart, but suddenly its smile froze.

Because the black cat's ears had suddenly turned into airplane ears, the cat lay on the ground with its mouth open and its fur standing on end.

He kept making low growls from his throat.

"No, second brother, what's wrong with you? Why are you breathing on me?"

Awoo asked, puzzled, then suddenly frowned and raised a dragon claw:
"Hiss—since people who die in this city can potentially turn into monsters, what about that fat girl—"

It suddenly froze, looking at Li Xia who had already gripped the hilt of the sword at his waist, and then at Heitan and Xiaotian, who were in an attack stance.

Having already guessed what was going on, the dragon's whiskers drooped, and it stiffly turned its head little by little.

Behind it, Jenny's shriveled human skin had somehow become firmly stuck to the window, her flat face bearing an eerie smile.

The lips, now just skin and bones, trembled in the wind, emitting a shrill sound:
"Four quatrains are all I need. If I add one more, I can..."

Xiao Long felt all the blood rush to his head at that moment.

"Boss!! Help! Help! Help!"

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1. Monthly pass 2. Recommendation vote

The plot is not very coherent and is difficult to separate into chapters, so it's been combined into one.
(End of this chapter)