1TWITF[C Chapter 32

Chapter 32

Lu Yanli was in his room, using the computer to search for information.

No, it couldn’t be wrong…

The pattern he saw was exactly the same as the tattoos on several of the people who had exploded in the park.

However, those people quickly committed mass suicide with bombs, and he didn’t bother to learn much about it, only vaguely knowing that it was a religion making sacrifices to the god in their hearts.

He wondered if those people would still be there tomorrow.

He quickly found a lot of information about that religion online. Lu Yanli quickly erased the pattern he had drawn, to avoid attracting “misfortune,” and gave himself a mental suggestion to try not to think about the pattern.

That’s right, he learned from An Xingyu that his world also had such a religion – the Omniscient God Sect. They believed in an all-powerful and all-knowing god, and believed that under the god’s leadership, they could wash away their sins and successfully reach the paradise where the god resided.

And the religion he found through his search… was also the Omniscient God Sect.

Those people from another world, their world in their memories was the same as the world before the mutation in his world. People believed in science, not ghosts and gods.

Lu Yanli had hypnotized at least dozens of task-takers, confirming that they all came from the same place and had the same basic understanding of that world. However, that place was different from his world. Perhaps due to the mutation, the celebrities and locations of the two worlds had nothing in common, and many major events had not occurred.

Over the years, he had been trying to find common ground between the two worlds, trying to figure out why his world had mutated, but that world had not, instead constantly sending ordinary people to do some inexplicable tasks. Whenever those people entered, this world returned to “normal.” If the task-takers died, they would reappear in this world in another form.

It was as if something was using the humans of two worlds to play an exchange game.

Was it his hallucination, or was there something wrong with the whole world?

Was he crazy, or was the world crazy?

Were there really two worlds? Or was it just his memory playing tricks?

Lu Yanli had repeatedly sought answers. He had also believed in gods and hypnotized himself, but nothing worked. He had to face this strange, broken world.

But he had not given up.

As long as there was a chance, he would contact those task-takers to get more information from them. The discovery of the Omniscient God Sect was undoubtedly a major breakthrough in his years of research!

Someone outside the window let out a piercing scream. Lu Yanli saw a red shadow on the glass window reflected in the computer screen. The shadow’s face was pale, its eyes were gouged out, and its empty sockets were staring straight into the room.

At the same time, he heard the sound of knocking on the glass window.

The next moment, an icy, bone-chilling hand grabbed his ankle!

Lu Yanli stood up and walked to the living room to pour himself a cup of tea. As he stood up, the hand suddenly disappeared as if everything just now was an illusion.

The red figure outside the window stared at him fixedly for a long time and then disappeared.

Lu Yanli lowered his head slightly and looked at his ankle.

There was a charred handprint there.

*

In a room in another world, a fair-skinned teenager finished his prayer with his eyes closed, then opened his eyes and reported the details of his mission this time completely.

Thank God, thank the almighty and omniscient God for blessing him. Without the protection of the Omniscient God, he might not be alive now.

Although the other party had now died in the mission, An Xingyu firmly believed that he had returned to the embrace of God. He would forever exist in the God’s kingdom, which was full of happiness and peace and free from birth, old age, sickness, and death.

“God, please bless me.”

An Xingyu recited the prayer one last time before opening his book and starting to review.

After returning from his first mission, he was sick for a long time because of too much psychological pressure. Since then, he had applied to study at home. The teacher was afraid of accidents and had to approve it. Since then, except for going to school once a week to listen to classes on weak subjects and take occasional exams, he spent the rest of his time studying at home.

But all the teachers, classmates, and even his parents didn’t know what terrible things he was doing in private.

In the evening, An Xingyu’s father came home.

An Xingyu’s father, named An Ru, was a policeman who often received various cases and had to go on business trips from time to time. Opportunities to get off work on time and come home for dinner were very rare.

While eating, the three of them couldn’t help but chat.

An Xingyu’s father, An Ru, used to be very strict with his child, but since that incident happened, he had never suppressed his child’s studies again. On the contrary, An Xingyu took the initiative to study until very late every day, and his grades also rose sharply.

“It’s okay, Mom, didn’t we also see this news during the day?” An Xingyu didn’t show any resistance, “Dad, did you handle this case today?”

“Yes.” An Ru sighed and shook his head, “In recent years, I don’t know what’s going on, these kinds of cases are happening more and more.”

Because of the pressure, the white hair on the top of his head was increasing, and his brows were tightly furrowed.

“Dad, you’ve worked hard.” An Xingyu said in a serious manner.

An Ru stared at his son for a while, and finally couldn’t help but pat the other person’s shoulder with his big hand. The family of three looked at each other and couldn’t help but laugh.

After dinner, An Xingyu didn’t go straight to his room, but instead asked his father for details about the case.

After completing the mission, he quickly returned home from the station, so naturally he wouldn’t pay much attention to others. An Ru still had a bloody smell on him, so he must have gone to the scene of the crime and perhaps also organized the files at the police station.

An Xingyu often asked him about the details of such cases, and An Ru was already used to it, sometimes telling him some things he could say. This time, he sighed and still didn’t say anything, telling his son to go back to study.

This case happened at the station, the place with the largest flow of people. It was already late at night at the time, and the old-fashioned green train carriages that hadn’t been eliminated at the station had fewer passengers. The last carriage was even empty. But when the conductor checked them one by one, he found that the door of the last carriage was closed, and the glass window was blurry and unclear.

He found the key and opened the door from the outside. What came into view was a scene that was enough to shock everyone. Twelve people died in the carriage!

What made the other police officers shudder the most was that their methods of death were different, but without exception, they were so cruel that they were outrageous.

Among them, the organs in the bellies of four people were emptied and filled with straw, strangely without any bloodstains. A male corpse had his belly cut open, with blood splattered everywhere; two female corpses had their hands cut off; another male corpse was scalded all over…

An Ru’s eyes were very complicated.

He had believed in materialism and atheism for decades, but the cases he had handled in recent years were more bizarre than the last. Especially the scene he saw today made it difficult for him to maintain his faith.

Could this really be done by humans?

If An Ru didn’t say anything, An Xingyu wouldn’t ask. He returned to his room to memorize words, his mood calm.

An Ru stared at his back, feeling a pang of heartache.

His son, because of that incident, had changed from his original cheerful appearance to his current lifeless appearance in less than a year.

Those damned… cultists!

*

The next day, Lu Yanli got up and drew back the curtains.

That thread fell down on ordinary people with thick liquid, and soon, it wrapped around the person’s neck as if it had a life of its own, gradually tightening.

“Ah—no, it hurts! Mom…”

The balloon string wrapped around a little girl, and her neck was immediately tightened. The little girl cried and called for her mother, but her mother just smiled and watched, clapping her hands.

Soon, the little girl’s neck was cut off by the thin thread, turning into a new human head balloon.

Lu Yanli dodged those inexplicable balloons along the way and came to the park again.

The buildings in the park had been restored, as if the explosion that day was his hallucination. Groups of people in red and white robes gathered in the park.

With his eyesight, Lu Yanli sharply discovered that the person at the head had a red tattoo on the side of his ear.

There was another one, her tattoo was on the back of her hand.

A man’s tattoo was on his elbow, inadvertently revealed when he raised his arm.

How strange… the pattern they formed should belong to the Taoist Yin-Yang fish, so why were the tattoos on their bodies inverted crosses belonging to Western occultism?

That was… an inverted cross and an inverted heptagram pattern.

Lu Yanli made a brief report to his superiors at the company. The other party was busy entangled with his lover and readily agreed to his request for leave.

The moment Lu Yanli stepped out of the company gate, several human head balloons floating in the sky suddenly exploded with a pop.

Lu Yanli looked back again, and the building behind him became clean and tidy. On the street, all the people who were committing suicide, crying, screaming, and laughing wildly… disappeared, and they walked normally on the road like ordinary people.

Sure enough… the task-takers were here again.

He wondered what it was for this time.

*

“This mission is too weird, we’re actually playing a horror game.”

“Aren’t all missions weird?”

“That’s what I’m saying, but I really don’t want to eat incense ash, okay? Incense ash mixed with rice is disgusting just thinking about it.”

“Yeah, Brother Chu, do you have any ideas?”

In a black four-wheeled car, four people were having a heated discussion, or rather, three of them were chattering incessantly.

So, in other words, this mission was too difficult and not many people could complete it, so there was no need for ordinary executors to fill the numbers.

Chu Xiu looked at the increasingly dark road ahead and the gradually gloomy sky, and said faintly, “Perhaps this time we should be careful of the passersby in the mission requirements.”

Who can say that they are really “passersby”?

“Also, the mission doesn’t state that it must be two passersby. The written requirement is to gather six people, so if one of us dies, we must add another one.”

In this way, the probability of finding a ghost will only be greater!

The other three people in the car shuddered at their own imagination and immediately discussed it in a lively manner, deciding that when choosing passersby, they must choose real humans. If a ghost pretended to be a human and ran in to participate, that would be a real dead end.

Moreover… he recalled the file that [High-rise Building About to Collapse] sent him in his mind.

What did the other party mean by saying that some NPCs had realized the existence of outsiders?