I slay demons and monsters in a bizarre city.

Chapter 49 Big-Eyed Loli

"Help! Someone's eating people! Ah..."

The big-eyed little girl's shout was incredibly shrill. She covered her ears with both hands, not looking particularly scared, but rather very excited.

The carriage instantly descended into chaos, filled with the cries of some children.

The sky was overcast, the tram's windows were small, and the overall body was made of steel and aluminum, making it lightweight yet very stable. All the lights inside the tram were out, and it was pitch black, with only people's faces barely visible.

Cannibalism is extremely rare, but with the arrival of the Eternal Night and the Mist, it has become commonplace. Li Changgeng once saw through a car window at home a very strong man whose body had mutated, pinning a weak woman to the ground and eating her bite by bite. It was on a rainy night during a downpour.

"Driver...where is he? Quickly tell...driver to stop...the car! I want to get off!" a middle-aged man shouted in a panic. "That crawling monster went to the roof."

The old man wearing a fisherman's hat shoved the middle-aged man. "Are you fucking stupid? There are no drivers for light rail trams. They have pre-set stops, and the trams run along the tracks!"

The old man took off his fisherman's hat and said, "Everyone, stay calm and don't move around unnecessarily, otherwise the train will derail and that would be a real problem!"

Li Changgeng sat calmly, without moving. The scene on the light rail train was very similar to that of the ghost train. Could it be that he had time-traveled again, and everything before him after leaving KMS Game Company was an illusion?

That big-eyed little girl was obviously faking it; her acting was just terrible.

Why was that old man in the fisherman's hat so calm? It didn't make sense.

The light rail tram only has a middle door for passengers to get on and off freely, and a front door.

Both doors are now completely locked.

The tram on the tracks was like a wild horse, completely out of control.

The middle-aged man clearly had difficulty speaking, his words were slurred and his tongue was almost tied in knots, while the old man in the fisherman's hat spoke without any stuttering and in a very organized manner.

Li Changgeng tilted his head to look outside. The sparks from the friction between the tram wheels and the tracks looked like fireworks, a trail of sparks and lightning...

Is all of this really just a coincidence?

This was Li Changgeng's first time riding the city's light rail, and he encountered something like this. He felt that something was not so simple; there was a pair of eyes watching him, and a dark hand was manipulating him from behind the scenes.

"Brother, I'm so scared!" Without saying a word, the big-eyed little girl threw herself into Li Changgeng's arms, acting coquettishly and holding tightly to his waist.

"What's there to be afraid of! You're not human!" Li Changgeng wasn't afraid at all, and was even worried that the little girl would hurt him.

"You figured that out? How boring!" The big-eyed loli let go of his hand and pointed to the spot above Li Changgeng's head. "That evil spirit is on the train. It will come down and eat people whenever it gets the chance. If the train stops, everyone on the train will die. So we can't let the train stop. I know you have a bronze shrine. You can summon gods, or rather, you can summon monsters."

"listen to me."

The big-eyed loli interrupted Li Changgeng's question. She could tell that Li Changgeng had something to say: "Don't ask yet! Remember to come find me for the game three days from now. I am one of the Four Symbols Gods. I can kill that evil spirit. You, summon the hearse and take these people to the Bridge of Helplessness."

Li Changgeng could only laugh when he heard this; what a load of nonsense about the Four Symbols Gods.

The Ten Pillars of Deity of the Ten Heavenly Stems are so dubious that even Li Changgeng was only half-believing in them. As for the Four Symbols Gods, that's even more absurd.

"If I said I was the Lord of Fengdu City, the King of Hell, would you believe me?" Li Changgeng felt it was unreal. The light rail tram drove further away and rushed into a cloud of black mist.

The light rail train took off, the carriages shaking violently, as if there was an invisible thread pulling the train along in the dark clouds.

The big-eyed loli's watery eyes darted around. "Of course I believe you! But you have to die eighteen times and go through the eighteen levels of hell to undergo tribulation. Then you will become the King of Hell, and no one can kill you."

"Interested? I'll take you to die once! It'll be incredibly exciting and fun too."

The light rail tram slowly changed color, and the air on the train seemed to freeze. The tram was no longer the same as before; it had turned into a hearse, the same hearse that Li Changgeng had seen in the Buddhist hall of Black Sea City University.

Chaos, utter chaos, Li Changgeng had once again entered that state of confusion and uncertainty.

The tram had entered the black fog, no longer flying through the air, but plummeting downwards... Li Changgeng sneered, "Even if you want me to die, you don't need to take all these people with you. I don't believe your nonsense."

"I'll kill you right now!"

Card number 14 in the bronze shrine came to life, and a golden revolver appeared in Li Changgeng's hand. This big-eyed loli was clearly a monster, but she had either transformed or used an invisibility spell.

Bah!Bah!
The golden revolver spewed out two fiery serpents, and two Soul-Suppressing Nail bullets were fired.

After firing the shot, Li Changgeng regretted it a little. This big-eyed little girl looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old. Firing the shot before fully understanding the situation was far too hasty.

It's very possible that a good girl could be hurt by mistake.

The afterimage of the big-eyed loli floated in the air, moving faster than a bullet – that was just too outrageous.

The old man in the fisherman's hat looked at Li Changgeng with a gleam in his eyes, "Kid, you hit me!"

With a thud, the old man clutched his chest and died.

The man who had been shouting the loudest at the beginning had his head down; he had been shot in the head!
That's considered him dead!
"Very good! I didn't expect you to have a gun." The big-eyed loli appeared in front of Li Changgeng.

"Don't feel guilty. They are all wandering ghosts who are going to the Bridge of Helplessness to find Granny Meng. So what if they died?"

The thick black fog dissipated, the dilapidated tram slowly descended, the wind was as cold as a knife, the trees were purple, the stone bridge was black, and countless wronged souls in the dark green water reached out their hands one after another to pray for salvation.

"Help me, help me... help me!"

"help me!"

"I'm innocent! I'm innocent..."

The wronged souls were missing limbs; some had only half a head left, some had severed hands and feet, and some even had their internal organs spilling out of their abdomens...

"This place looks familiar, doesn't it?" The big-eyed little girl pointed, and the dilapidated car swerved sharply and crashed onto the stone bridge.

To be precise, it's the Bridge of Helplessness!

Li Changgeng saw a stone tablet standing by the bridge with three strangely written bluish-purple characters: Naihe Bridge.

No wonder this place feels so familiar.

“You came here last time. There was a masked swordsman who led you here, remember? You'd better put your gun away quickly, or Meng Po might kill you with her cane! That old woman is a very nice person, but she has a bit of a temper.”

"You think they're human? Actually, they're the wronged souls who died unjustly in Black Sea City. I usually come to collect them at 3, 6, and 9 o'clock every day, and also at midnight!"

bang bang...

The dilapidated train opened its doors, and the big-eyed little girl pulled Li Changgeng off the train, while the old train looked straight down into the churning, turbulent water below the bridge and was quickly swept away by the rushing current.

A large, steaming iron pot was simmering soup, with firewood burning beneath it, its flames glowing a brilliant blue.

The slightly hunched old woman, leaning on a cane with one hand, was throwing something into the pot. It was too far away for Li Changgeng to see clearly what she was throwing…

"Grandma, look who's here! Our hearse, the living can't see it. I brought Li Changgeng with me!" The big-eyed little girl skipped around, as if this were her home.

Couldn't he see anyone alive? Li Changgeng's heart skipped a beat. Was he dead?
A jujube tree visibly grew from half a meter tall to three meters tall. The egg-sized, rosy jujubes emitted a refreshing and intoxicating fragrance. Taiyi Zhenren gave Nezha the fire jujubes, and Nezha transformed into a three-headed, six-armed being.

"These are jujubes, eat them, they'll prolong your life." The big-eyed little girl picked a jujube and took a bite.

(End of this chapter)