Chosen One, how did I end up as the villain?

Turn the page, and you'll find yourself in another world.

"Why do I suddenly feel a bit cold?" the guard said.

"Yeah, it's pretty creepy!"

Just then, an extremely shrill voice rang out from behind.

"quack"

It sounded like the cry of a night raven, but much more rugged.

Smoke billowed, and something seemed to be moving in the darkness.

What was that sound?

The guards were immediately terrified and their faces changed drastically; they all shrank back in fear.

Qin Huaiyu frowned, but the next moment, he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

It was almost an instinctive, subconscious tilt of my head.

A strong wind howled, as if something sharp and fierce had passed by.

"hiss"

Qin Huaiyu gasped, a sharp pain shooting through his neck.

Without thinking, he bent his arm and struck behind him with his elbow.

A muffled thud.

It feels like hitting a solid object.

Forehead?

He quickly turned around and saw thick smoke rising and falling, as if something had been there, but as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but blurry grass and trees.

Qin Huaiyu touched the stinging spot on his neck, then removed it, his hand revealing a glaring bright red stain.

"Blood, blood, sir, you're bleeding!" a guard exclaimed in terror.

Upon hearing this, everyone hurriedly looked over and saw several gruesome wounds on Qin Huaiyu's neck.

And blood was still gushing out.

It looked as if it had been scratched by sharp claws.

The two women nearby looked particularly solemn upon seeing this.

"There's something in this smoke!" Chu Yanxi said.

"Very fast!"

As Qin Huaiyu spoke, a wave of fear washed over him. If he hadn't instinctively turned his head away, his neck would probably have been pierced and he would be dead by now.

With my current physical condition, ordinary weapons are simply not enough to cause me any harm, which shows that this is no ordinary weapon.

"Hurry, it can hide in the smoke, we can't stay here!"

The guards were already terrified. Upon hearing this, they didn't hesitate for a second and ran off to the northeast.

Tian Dafu and Pu Liugang were the fastest runners, charging ahead recklessly, ignoring even the tree branches tearing their clothes and scratching their skin, only focused on escaping.

Fang Lie was pulled between two guards. He was still as crazy as ever, showing no signs of nervousness, and was shaking a tree branch up and down in his hand.

"Whoosh, whoosh," the weeds were being scraped and scraped.

The deep, dark forest seemed like a dark abyss, swallowing everything.

The flickering flames were extinguished.

The sound of hurried footsteps was amplified.

Horror, fear, and chilling cold spread rapidly like a virus.

Qin Huaiyu was the last to arrive; he knew that the thing hadn't gone far.

Recall the scene that just happened.

Even though I was in the middle, there were people all around me.

Moreover, he did not leak any nightmare power and was no different from others.

That thing bypassed them all and chose to kill me, the one who was the hardest to approach...

It seems they have a goal in mind!

But what exactly is it? It has a physical form, yet it can hide in the smoke, and its speed is surprisingly fast.

Just then, smoke suddenly appeared and drifted, like ripples on water, layer upon layer.

"not good!"

Qin Huaiyu thought to himself that his divine sense was blocked, his perception was slowed, and he could not hear any unusual sounds.

We can't even determine the location.

But that unease grew stronger, almost imminent.

"Damn it, let's go for it!"

Qin Huaiyu gritted his teeth and had no choice but to take a desperate gamble. Nightmare power surged around him, and a dark golden halo rose from his body.

Almost simultaneously, a strong gust of wind howled from the side, and a sharp claw, gleaming with cold light, tore through the golden halo.

Qin Huaiyu reacted extremely quickly, suddenly turning to the side.

Claws tore through the clothes as they brushed past.

A dark golden halo flashed, breaking through the smoke for a moment.

Qin Huaiyu's eyes swept across the room, and his pupils dilated instantly.

That is...

He saw a corner of the thing.

Are those flowers?

Flowers the color of smoke, blackish-gray, and not just one, floating in mid-air, yet there seemed to be pupils in the middle.

Wait, what's with these claws?

A cross-species combination, plants and animals?

But time gave him no time to think. The thing seemed to have intelligence; its claws missed their mark, and it moved sideways again.

Its sharpness, like a blade slicing through the air, produced a buzzing sound, demonstrating its power.

So fast!

Caught off guard, Qin Huaiyu raised his arm to block.

"Bang"

The space trembled, smoke billowed, and the claws, unable to penetrate, withdrew, and the thing vanished once more.

All of this happened so fast, almost in a matter of moments.

...You cancelled it?

Qin Huaiyu was puzzled and uncertain, his eyes scanning his surroundings.

The two women noticed something amiss and quickly stopped in their tracks.

Yun Suyan turned around and immediately noticed the tear in Qin Huaiyu's clothes. She quickly said:

"Little brother, how are you?"

"fine!"

Qin Huaiyu raised an eyebrow and said:

"That thing is not simple; it's very cunning. It retreats if it fails to strike once."

"It was you both times."

Chu Yanxi frowned and said:

"Its target is very clear, it was obviously planned, and the smoke in this place was probably premeditated as well."

Qin Huaiyu nodded. He had initially believed that the smoke was a natural phenomenon, but the appearance of that thing made that explanation seem far-fetched.

"Did you see what that thing actually looked like?" Chu Yanxi asked next.

"I couldn't see the whole thing clearly, but I saw flowers floating in the air, and the color was like smoke. Do you know of anything like that?" Qin Huaiyu asked, also wanting to know the origin of that thing.

"flower?"

Both women were taken aback upon hearing this.

"It's a plant, but your wound?" Chu Yanxi was puzzled. In her memory, there were plants that had developed intelligence and entered the category of cultivation or mutation, but this claw-like creature was clearly an animal.