Starting with dissecting ghost stories

Wang Xinran's feelings are very complicated right now.

On one hand, she felt upset because her long-awaited date had been inexplicably ruined, and on the other hand, she was also worried about her younger brother's condition.

She had absolutely no idea why her younger brother had suddenly become so neurotic... This was basically beyond the rebellious phase.

"It's alright," Shen Xing smiled and comforted her, "My sister is like that too."

"How could that be? Xiao Yuan is so obedient. Seeing her makes me wish I had a little sister."

"It's an act."

To calm Wang Xinran down, Shen Xing directly began to reveal Shen Yuan's misdeeds, and the absurd contrast successfully drew Wang Xinran's attention back.

Complaining about her younger siblings' rebellious behavior seemed to give Wang Xinran more in common with Shen Xing, and her mood gradually improved.

They walked in the park, and it wasn't until Wang Xinran's mood improved that Shen Xing began to ask her some questions about Wang Lei.

Wang Lei seemed to have always been quite normal. Although he was going through puberty and was very rebellious towards his parents, he was relatively obedient to Wang Xinran.

Because when he misbehaved, Wang Xinran would really beat him.

At this point in the conversation, Wang Xinran's eyes dimmed slightly. After hesitating for a moment, she finally spoke:

"He's been spoiled by his parents. Since he was born, he's basically never been beaten or scolded. Whenever we argue or fight, his parents always side with him."

"But that's normal." Wang Xinran smiled and said, "After all, he's still quite young, and my parents' attitude towards me has been much better lately."

"By the way, Shen Xing, did Xiao Yuan fight with you when she was little?" Wang Xinran asked curiously.

"I've never been in a fight," Shen Xing shook his head. "Mainly because we're not familiar with each other."

"Aren't we family members familiar with each other? Hahaha!" Wang Xinran was amused by Shen Xing's words and laughed so hard she almost fell over.

Strictly speaking, we weren't particularly close.

When Shen Yuan was little, she was quite attached to me. But when she was five or six years old, I went to university in another city and could only come back to see her during winter and summer vacations.

At first, when her adoptive father took her back to his hometown to hunt, Shen Yuan would insist on going. However, after being refused several times, she started to act up, and her relationship with Shen Xing deteriorated rapidly. Eventually, they reached a point where they would treat each other coldly whenever they met.

Especially after graduating from university, Shen Xing was recruited by Lu Lingyun to work in the provincial department after passing the exam, which made him even busier. If he didn't have to go home every year, Shen Xing would have forgotten that he had a younger sister.

Shen Xing did not take Wang Xinran for a tandem bicycle ride. Instead, he treated her to a meal in return before parting ways.

Having gathered most of the information, and most importantly, Shen Xing was indeed in unbearable pain.

After seeing Wang Xinran off in a taxi, Shen Xing went to a quiet spot in the park, sat on a stone bench, and took off his shoes and socks.

With his control, the muscles in the soles of his feet writhed, squeezing out several silver round-headed nails, which landed on the concrete floor with a crisp sound.

Apart from a little blood on the thumbtack, there wasn't much blood seeping from Shen Xing's feet. He sat for a while to recover before putting his shoes and socks back on and wrapping up the thumbtacks that had fallen to the ground with tissues.

He considered many methods that would cause less harm but more pain, but they all had some drawbacks.

A method that hurts enough is too easy to be noticed, and the idea of ​​keeping a round-headed nail in one's pocket and pricking one's palm when one wants to be awake was also rejected by Shen Xing.

He didn't know if he was aware of when he needed to be sober.

Therefore, he chose the safest method—driving the round-headed nail directly into the sole of his foot.

In this way, as long as you keep walking and standing, you can stay awake at any time.

The downside is that it really hurts; it's torture every moment.

Shen Xing put the wrapped round-headed nails into his pocket. Only then did he see a familiar figure walking towards him in the night.

Wang Lei?

Shen Xing stopped and waited for the other person to walk up to him.

The nails were removed too early.

"Have you been following us the whole time?" Shen Xing asked Wang Lei with a smile. "Why didn't you just come with us?"

"Brother Shen Xing," Wang Lei looked up at Shen Xing and slowly asked, "Why did you stick nails into your feet?"

Did you see that?

Shen Xing frowned slightly.

He didn't realize that Wang Lei had been following them the whole time. When they were getting the nails, Shen Xing deliberately chose a quiet, secluded place.

He should have waited until he got home to remove the nail; it was a bit careless of him... But enduring it all the way in the taxi was too unbearable, and even Shen Xing was unwilling to continue torturing himself like this.

"Stay alert." Shen Xing's words were concise, revealing little. He looked at Wang Lei and asked with a smile, "And you? Why have you been following me? Is there something you want to say?"

When they first met that evening, Shen Xing deliberately made a good impression by showing that he was willing to listen, because he could tell that the other person did indeed have something they wanted to tell him at the beginning.

No, it should be said that Wang Lei wanted to confirm something from himself.

Shen Xing's gentle attitude brought tears to Wang Lei's eyes.

For the past two weeks, the only normal person among them, the older sister, has refused to believe or even listen to the truth she tells.

But Shen Xingge in front of him treated him gently and was willing to listen to him.

This greatly alleviated the loneliness he felt from fighting alone.

"Brother Shen Xing, this world has rotted away... You may not be able to see it, but I can..."

Shi Lei began to speak, recounting everything he had seen and heard since two weeks prior, as if pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

Shen Xing listened quietly, nodding in agreement from time to time.

What Shi Lei saw and heard was largely consistent with his previous speculations.

The black, honeycomb-like anomaly had eroded his brain and disrupted his perception of the world.

But this also gave him a unique ability—he could recognize anomalies at a glance.

However, in his eyes, those abnormal creatures were the real "humans".

After Wang Lei finished speaking, Shen Xing remained silent for a long time. Finally, Wang Lei, panting, asked, "Brother Shen Xing... you don't believe me either?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Xing looked at Wang Lei in front of him.

His body was tense, his emotions were agitated, and his right hand was twitching nervously. The abnormality was seriously affecting the boy's mind and body.

I want him to schedule a brain CT scan.

However... this would allow the doctors to see the condition of Wang Lei's brain, which would be a bit troublesome...

If he were to dissect the brain himself and clear out the abnormality, Wang Lei would surely die.

"I believe you..." Shen Xing nodded, then tentatively asked, "But with so many monsters, what do you plan to do?"

Hearing Shen Xing's words, Wang Lei felt a glimmer of hope.

"Kill them all."

Wang Lei no longer concealed his hatred and anger, and almost gritted his teeth as he spoke.

"Kill all those disgusting people! Find the mastermind, find the person behind all this!"

"Kill him!"