Bai Yulao: The Night Watcher's Debt to the King of Hell

The eyeball embedded in the crack in the wall moved with extreme stiffness.

Click!

The sound wasn't loud, but it felt like someone was pressing against Su Wantang's eardrum and snapping a piece of cartilage.

As that deep sigh subsided, the musty smell in the underground vault instantly changed.

A foul stench, a mixture of formaldehyde, aged blood clots, and the scent of rotting flowers, was so intense it felt as if someone had forcibly poured a jar of 600-year-old corpse oil into her nostrils.

Su Wantang felt a churning in her stomach and almost vomited on the spot.

The once dry ground began to seep out a viscous black liquid, and the dense, unevenly deep "Zhang Hansheng" marks on the walls seemed to be living wounds, slowly cracking open and flowing out dark, foul blood.

Blood droplets trickled down the wall, converging into countless twisted black lines, as if the blood vessels of the entire building had been severed.

Hiss--

A tooth-grinding scraping sound came from all directions.

That wasn't the sound of the wind; it was the sound of countless sharp fingernails frantically scratching at the concrete floor.

Su Wantang suddenly raised her flashlight, the beam of light trembling violently as it swept across the surroundings.

Wherever the beam of light touched, her pupils instantly dilated to their maximum size.

Ceiling, floor gaps, vents... countless grayish-white things are surging out like a tide.

These are not ordinary spiders. Each one is the size of a washbasin, and its eight legs are actually pale, withered human finger bones with wet black hairs wrapped around the joints. Each step it takes makes a dull "thump, thump" sound.

What suffocated Su Wantang the most were their torsos!

They were swollen, translucent, grayish-white sarcomas.

Through that murky membrane, you could clearly see shrunken human faces wrapped inside—some were crying, some were laughing, and some had their features melted away, leaving only a gaping black mouth that was screaming silently.

"Hehe...police officer sister..."

"It smells so good...my new clothes..."

Those whispers entered Su Wantang's ears, not just heard by her ears, but exploded directly in her brain!

It was the voices of hundreds of men, women, and children overlapping, carrying a chilling excitement.

"Senior sister! Don't look! These are 'Corpse Puppet Spiders'! Don't look into their eyes!"

Lin Shoumo's voice was like a thunderclap, abruptly pulling Su Wantang back from that strange hypnotic state.

He kicked a spider that was lunging at Su Wantang's feet away.

puff!

The monster exploded in mid-air, leaving no flesh or blood, but instead turning into a cloud of damp, cold black smoke. Upon landing, it transformed into a half-charred piece of ghost money, still emitting bluish smoke.

"These things are malevolent spirits that this building has nurtured! Physical attacks are useless!"

Su Wantang bit her tongue, the sharp pain bringing her back to her senses. She raised the gun in her hand, her fingers stiff with extreme fear.

"Even if it's useless... we have to fight!"

boom!

Sparks flew from the muzzle, the bullet tore through the darkness, and struck the foremost giant spider with pinpoint accuracy.

Su Wantang naturally believed that any carbon-based life form was powerless in the face of absolute physical rules, based on her nearly thirty years of experience!

However, what happened in that instant became Su Wantang's biggest nightmare tonight.

The spider did not fester after being hit; instead, the "woman's face" on its back suddenly split open, from the corner of its mouth all the way to its ear, revealing a dense array of sharp, serrated teeth.

It made a sound.

It was a high-frequency, sharp hissing sound, like fingernails scraping against a blackboard, or like countless steel needles piercing Su Wantang's brain at the same time.

"Ouch, that hurts... Why don't you try it too?"

Su Wantang felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, and the world began to spin.

In that instant, she seemed to lose all control of her body; a hot stream of blood gushed from her nose.

What was even more terrifying was the cold; an extremely chilling aura crept up her spine, as if someone had stuffed ice cubes into the back of her head.

Her consciousness began to blur, and double images appeared before her eyes—she saw countless spiders smiling at her, the corners of their human-shaped mouths all wildly upturned.

"Lin... Shou... Mo..."

She only managed to utter those few words before darkness engulfed her completely like a tidal wave.

In her final moments before collapsing, she felt a cold hand support her waist, but the hand was colder than the spiders.

……

Lin Shoumo looked at Su Wantang, who had collapsed into his arms, and his eyes instantly turned cold. He sighed softly.

"I was going to give you a quick death, but unfortunately, you insisted on courting death."

He looked up at the overwhelming, gray-white tide.

The monsters seemed to sense some kind of threat, and their movements became hesitant, but their greedy instincts still drove them to pounce and bite forward frantically.

Lin Shoumo's expression changed.

Those usually carefree eyes were now unfathomable, pitch black, without a trace of white, like two ancient wells that swallowed up light.

He slowly raised his right hand, revealing a small, ancient, and obscure stone in his palm.

As he moved, the stone emitted a ghostly light. The moment it appeared, space began to distort, and even the beam of the flashlight that had fallen to the ground was attracted, as if it had been "eaten"!

A silence more terrifying than death descended.

It wasn't that there was no sound, but rather that all sound had been forcibly erased by some supreme force.

Lin Shoumo didn't chant any incantation, nor did he make any unnecessary movements. He simply faced the void, facing those twisted desires and resentments, and softly uttered two words:

"go back!"

boom!

It was an extremely heavy feeling.

The spiders that had been lunging forward with their claws outstretched suddenly seemed to bear an immense burden, their bodies abruptly halting in mid-air, and then—

Click, click, click...

The chilling sound of bones cracking rang out one after another.

They didn't explode, nor did they bleed. Under Lin Shoumo's gaze, their twisted limbs and swollen faces began to wither and collapse rapidly.

It was as if time was accelerated, and that flesh, resentment, and bones underwent a thousand years of weathering in a single second.

They turned to ash.

It wasn't ashes, but rather an extremely fine, lifeless grayish-white dust.

rustling...

With a gust of wind, hundreds of ferocious monsters instantly turned into dust, not even having time to scream before returning to the earth.

The enormous eyeball in the crack in the wall trembled violently, as if it had seen something absolutely unforgivable. It tried desperately to shrink back into the wall, but found itself unable to move.

Lin Shoumo glanced at it indifferently with his dark eyes.

Without any movement, the wall containing the eyeball instantly collapsed, turning the eyeball and the wall itself into a flat, mottled surface, as if it had always been a painting, not a living eye.

After doing all this, the darkness in Lin Shoumo's eyes quickly faded, replaced by a deathly pale face.

A wisp of smoke rose from the small stone, and it fell to the ground.

Blood dripped from the corner of his mouth onto the ground, making a sizzling, corrosive sound.

"This time... we've suffered a huge loss..."

He swayed twice, his body seemingly stripped of its spine, and fell straight down into the dust beside Su Wantang, kicking up a cloud of white smoke.

The underground vault fell silent once more.

The monster was gone, leaving only Lin Shoumo's bloodstains. The stench was gone, leaving behind a thick layer of dust, so clean it was unsettling…

Beneath the operating table, the black leather notebook lay quietly in the dust, the small gold lettering on the cover gleaming faintly in the darkness: "Records of the Experiment on Blissful Immortality"!