I created a foundation

Looking at that small white ball, in the dim light, it emits a faint light of life.

Those eyes, which had always been as empty as a stagnant well, finally reflected a little concrete light.

Chapter 167: Inhuman Things

The night is as dark as ink, swallowing up the noise and sin of the city, and silently brewing new, unknown strangeness.

Moonlight filtered through the narrow gaps in the apartment building, through the dusty windows, and cast a pale spot of light on the cold concrete floor.

Shoko Toyokawa fell asleep.

She didn't even make it back to her room, curled up on the cold, worn sofa and fell asleep. Exhaustion washed over her like a tide, not even a wave of struggle rising. She was still wearing her faded school uniform, her arms unconsciously folded across her chest, as if she were still seeking a shred of protection in her sleep.

There were only two voices left in the entire room.

One was the snoring of the man lying on the floor not far away, which was as heavy and rough as an old bellows. Each snoring was accompanied by a strong smell of alcohol, polluting this small space.

The other came from the brand new wire rabbit hutch in the corner.

"Crack...knock..."

The subtle, crisp chewing sounds echoed methodically. That was the snow-white little creature diligently gnawing on the feed Xiangzi had prepared for it.

This voice is like a tiny and holy flower blooming in this swamp of decay and despair, fragile, yet persistently proving the existence of life.

It blended with the sickening snoring, creating a strange balance.

Xiangzi's brows relaxed slightly in his sleep.

Perhaps, even in the depths of her unconscious, the subtle chewing sound brought her some peace.

Time passes minute by minute.

Sudden.

"Click..."

The chewing sound stopped.

The interruption came so abruptly, like a taut string being cut in an instant.

Dead silence.

A deeper and purer silence than before enveloped the entire room. Even the man's snoring seemed to be muffled in this dead silence.

In the rabbit cage in the corner, the small, snow-white shadow lay motionless.

It slowly raised its head.

In the darkness, its eyes, which should have been as gentle as rubies, suddenly lit up with two needle-tip-sized, unnatural scarlet lights.

It was not a radiance that any normal creature would have. It was a cold light that seemed to come from the abyss, condensed from pure malice.

It moved.

It stretched its soft body in an extremely human posture.

Then, it yawned.

It was this ordinary action that completely shattered all the warmth and cuteness in an instant.

Its mouth split open.

It's not the small three-lobed mouth of a normal rabbit.

The corners of its mouth stretched out to the sides, madly and silently, at a terrifying angle that completely defied its biological structure.

One inch.

Two inches.

The crack went all the way to the base of the ear!

That small, cute face was completely distorted into an indescribable symbol of horror by this huge, clown-like, weird crack that appeared out of nowhere.

And in that bottomless crack, there was no pink mouth and cute front teeth.

Instead, there were rows and circles of densely packed, knife-sharp, pale teeth like those of a deep-sea shark.

The teeth were tiny and densely packed together, and when they opened and closed slightly, a grinding sound made their teeth ache. One could even see that several teeth were falling out at a speed visible to the naked eye, while new, sharper teeth instantly grew out from the bloody gums to replace them.

Never worn out, never satisfied.

This is not a harmless rabbit at all.

This is clearly a living flesh-crushing machine covered in pure white skin that never stops!

[SCP-016-Gluttonous Rabbit].

Its eyes, flashing with scarlet light, glanced indifferently at Xiangzi who was sleeping soundly not far away.

There was no emotion in that look, as if he was looking at a piece of furniture that had nothing to do with him.

Then, its gaze slowly moved and fell on the feet of the man lying on the ground, reeking of alcohol.

There, piled with eight empty beer cans and several glass bottles.

The gluttonous rabbit's gaze lingered on the pile of garbage for a few seconds.

From its throat came a barely audible gurgling sound, with a hint of longing.

It seems that these cold, lifeless industrial creations have a stronger attraction to it than warm flesh and blood.

It moved.

It just used its front paws to casually and lightly push the cheap wire cage door that Xiangzi had fastened himself.

"Squeak-"

A harsh sound of metal twisting was heard.

The thin wire that served as the door bolt was easily bent outward like a soft noodle, twisting into an exaggerated arc.

To this little monster, this cage made by humans, which Xiangzi thought was enough to provide it with a safe home, was nothing more than a ridiculous and fragile decoration.

It walked out of the gap that it had easily destroyed with elegant and calm steps.

Its movements were silent, and its four small paws landed on the cold concrete floor without making any sound, like a white ghost wandering in the midnight.

It walked straight to the pile of empty bottles.

It lowered its head, moved closer to a green beer bottle, and sniffed the remaining smell of inferior alcohol at the bottle mouth.

Then, in the darkness where no one was watching, it opened a terrifying gaping hole that could swallow everything.

"Crack!"

There was a loud bang so crisp that it made your scalp tingle.

With one bite, it bit off the entire mouth of the hard glass bottle, including the neck.

The fragments of glass were instantly crushed and shattered between its terrifying, constantly regenerating sharp teeth.

“Crackle…Crackle…Crackle…”

The teeth-grinding chewing sound echoed clearly in the silent room...

With an expressionless face, it swallowed the glass fragments that were big enough to cut the throat of any creature, as if it were chewing the most delicious grass.

In just a few seconds, it had eaten up an entire glass bottle, leaving only a pool of shiny glass powder mixed with wine on the ground.

It licked its lips contentedly, as if it had only eaten an appetizer.

Its gaze fell on the flattened beer can next to it.

Without hesitation, it bent down and opened its mouth.

"Crack! Crunch! Crack!"

This time, it was the sound of metal being violently crushed.

The aluminum can is as fragile as a piece of thin paper in front of its teeth, and is easily torn, curled, crushed, and then swallowed into its stomach.

One, two, three...

It eats at an incredibly fast and frighteningly efficient rate.

In just a minute or two, the pile of empty bottles and cans that were originally scattered on the ground were cleaned up by it.

As if they never existed.

After eating all the "main courses", the gluttonous rabbit still seemed unsatisfied.

It slowly turned around and walked silently back to the wire cage that it had destroyed.

Its scarlet eyes stared coldly at the crude creation made of cheap metal.

The next second, it lowered its head, opened its mouth, and bit the wire mesh of the cage.

"Boom!"

There was a crisp sound as the metal wire was forcibly bitten off.

Then came the terrifying, crazy chewing sounds.

"Crack—crack—crack—"

It actually started to gnaw on the cage that had imprisoned it not long ago!

The hard, galvanized iron wires were bitten, chewed and swallowed one by one under its sharp teeth.

The entire rabbit cage disappeared and disintegrated rapidly under its gnawing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The creation that Xiangzi bought with his hard-earned money and a glimmer of illusory hope and comfort, which symbolizes "home" and "harbor", is being wiped out from this world in the most thorough and cruel way by the object it protects.

Less than five minutes.

The entire wire cage, along with the small plastic feeding trough and water cup, disappeared.

On the ground, there were only a few torn old newspapers spread on the bottom of the cage, and a small handful of rabbit feed that Xiangzi had carefully selected and had not touched.

The gluttonous rabbit's gaze fell on the handful of feed.

It sniffed, as if it smelled the plant scent that was tasteless to it.