Slaying God: I, the insane and witty god

Shila-

The voice was sharp and piercing, as if scraping directly against one's eardrums, causing the entire dark interrogation room to tremble.

Shi Wenxuan sprang up from his chair instantly, his muscles tense, and shouted sharply, "Who goes there!"

In the darkness, no one answered.

Only the sound of metal being dragged, slow and steady, grew closer and closer, as if it were right outside the door.

"boom!"

With a muffled thud, Lin Qiye kicked the metal table, using the force to slide backward several meters before his back slammed firmly against the wall.

Wu Hen's movements were almost synchronized with his; he lowered his body and silently slipped into the shadows under the table like a raccoon.

The two reacted so quickly that Shi Wenxuan's eyelids twitched.

"Emergency power!" he growled into his headset.

Before the words were even finished, with a "snap," the stark white emergency light came on, dispelling some of the darkness.

The corridor outside the interrogation room was deserted.

The ear-piercing dragging sound stopped abruptly, as if it had never happened.

"Alert! Pipe rupture in Sector B3, maintenance robot activated unexpectedly."

"Repeating, the maintenance robot has been activated unexpectedly, not an intrusion!" The broadcast suddenly broke the silence.

Shi Wenxuan's face turned ashen as he cursed into his earpiece, "What the hell! Why didn't you report this sooner or later!"

He lowered his hand, exhaled a long breath, and looked at Lin Qiye and Wu Hen, who had already sat back down, his face full of embarrassment.

“An accident,” he explained dryly.

Lin Qiye twitched the corner of his mouth, said nothing, but his eyes clearly said: The security at your branch is not very good.

Wu Hen was much more direct: "Captain Shi, if there's nothing else, we'd like to go to the scene and take a look."

“…Okay.” Shi Wenxuan felt his face burning. He grabbed the car keys from the table.

"Everyone, follow me to the Li Family Manor."

Half an hour later, at the Li Family Manor.

The overwhelming stench of blood mingled with the earthy smell after the rain, creating a nauseating odor.

As soon as the Nightfall Squad got out of the car, Baili Pangpang covered his nose.

"Holy crap! This smell is incredible! How many people have died here?"

Cao Yuan's expression was equally grave. He glanced at the horrific scene unfolding inside the villa.

He said in a deep voice, "It's even more exaggerated than some of the battlefields we've cleared in the Middle East."

Inside the villa's hall, the night watchmen's surveyors came and went, each with a lingering look of horror and solemnity on their faces.

Shi Wenxuan led Lin Qiye and Wu Hen inside and headed straight for the person in charge of the site.

"So, what did you find?"

The person in charge shook his head in defeat: "Team Leader Shi, it won't work."

"The scene was too chaotic. Apart from... apart from the traces left by the Nightfall Squad, there was no sign of any other intruders."

“We tried everything we could, as if the killer were a ghost that appeared out of nowhere.”

"A ghost?" Lin Qiye chuckled and looked around.

The hall was a mess, with an overturned champagne tower and shattered glass.

There were also large pools of dark red blood congealed on the high-end carpet.

Each corpse retained the terror of its last moments before death, its posture contorted, its eyes wide open in death.

An Qingyu was squatting beside a corpse that had been cut in half at the waist, gently tracing the smooth cut with her gloved fingertips.

"This incision is made from top to bottom, a single, fatal blow."

He stood up and looked at an inconspicuous crack in the ceiling. "The attack came from the air."

Hearing this, Jiang Er, who was standing behind him, couldn't help but shudder and subconsciously moved a little closer to An Qingyu.

"Flying... 'mysterious'?"

"A bunch of useless trash." Wu Hen's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly echoed throughout the entire hall.

All the Night's Watch scouts stopped what they were doing and stared at him, their eyes filled with anger and confusion.

Shi Wenxuan's expression also turned somewhat unpleasant: "Mr. Wu, what do you mean by this?"

"What I mean is, you're wasting your time here."

Wu Hen's gaze swept over everyone, finally landing on Lin Qiye.

"Seven Nights, stop wasting time with them, let's handle this ourselves."

Lin Qiye nodded, took two steps forward, and stood in the center of the hall.

"Everyone, retreat outside the villa." His voice was calm, yet carried an unquestionable tone of command.

"Why should I?" a young surveyor stood up defiantly.

"This is our crime scene!"

Lin Qiye didn't even look at him, but simply said, "By order of Commander Zuo,"

"From now on, this place is under the control of Nightfall."

"Either get out, or I'll ask you to leave."

The invisible pressure silenced the young surveyor instantly.

Shi Wenxuan gritted his teeth, but finally waved his hand: "Everyone, retreat!"

Soon, only a few members of the Nightfall Squad remained in the huge villa hall.

Baili Pangpang curiously leaned over: "Qiye, Wuhen, what are you doing? You're being so mysterious."

Lin Qiye did not answer; he slowly closed his eyes.

Wu Hen then explained to Baili Pangpang, "Watch closely, this is how professionals investigate cases."

The next second, Lin Qiye's eyes snapped open!

His originally jet-black pupils had now transformed into two bottomless black vortexes.

It seemed capable of swallowing all light and time.

"[Black Eyes]...Rewind!"

hum-

An invisible wave emanated from Lin Qiye and instantly enveloped the entire manor.

Time begins to flow backward!

Baili Pangpang and the others felt a blur before their eyes, as if all the colors in the world had been stripped away, turning into rapidly receding black and white light and shadow.

The bloodstains on the wall seemed to writhe as if they were alive, rapidly shrinking back into the corpses lying on the ground.

The twisted corpses, their limbs beginning to move in the opposite direction, rose one by one from the ground.

The fear on his face faded, replaced by a fake smile as he ate and drank.

The shattered glass was put back together, the overturned champagne tower stood upright, and the chaotic scene was restored to the luxury and extravagance of the party's opening.

The whole process took only a few seconds.

The atmosphere, however, shifted from the previous bloody and solemn tone to an eerie and oppressive one.

The scene that flashed back in time stopped at 8:50 p.m. last night.

"Huh? This is..." Baili Pangpang pointed to a corner of the picture.

In the retrospective black and white light and shadow, two clear drag marks stretched from the second floor all the way to the corner of the hall, at the end of the marks...

Two furtive figures were dragging an unconscious fat man.

The two figures were Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan, while the one being dragged along was Li Jianbai.

Lin Qiye and Wu Hen couldn't help but twitch their lips as they watched this comical scene.

"You two," Wu Hen said expressionlessly.

"Couldn't you have used a more professional method to get rid of them? Like carrying them?"

Baili Pangpang's face flushed red: "Damn! You saw that? That thing is so heavy, it's easy to drag!"

Lin Qiye shook his head helplessly, then his eyes turned cold, and he said in a deep voice, "They're here!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the scene flashed back in time, showing the party at its most lively moment.

suddenly!

boom--! ! !

With a loud bang, the entire ceiling of the villa suddenly burst open from the middle without warning!

Countless pebbles and the remains of crystal chandeliers fell like a torrential rain.

The terrified screams of the guests still seemed to echo in my ears.

Amidst the billowing dust, a colossal black shadow, not belonging to any human being, descended from the sky!

Boom! ! !

The dark shadow crashed heavily onto the white marble floor in the center of the hall, startling the entire scene!

As the smoke cleared, a terrifying silhouette emerged.

That was... a monster.

Beneath its feet, a huge footprint, half a foot deep, was clearly imprinted on the floor.

The footprint only showed three thick toes!

At this moment, Lin Qiye forcibly froze the scene.

He stared intently at the inhuman figure, his breath catching in his throat for a moment.

What is this?

"Quickly look at the trajectory of those people!" Wu Hen suddenly shouted.

In the still image, dozens of black and white trails representing the guests' escape spread out from the monster with the three-finger footprint.

But all these trajectories came to an abrupt end halfway through.

Instead, a black lightning bolt of extreme speed appeared.

Centered on the three-finger footprint, it swept across the entire hall in an instant, precisely cutting off every escape route.

The walls cracked wildly as the black lightning flashed, and blood, like spilled ink, spread madly in the black and white world.

The whole process took less than a second.

A one-sided, predictable massacre.

Lin Qiye's pupils contracted sharply, and a rare chill rose from the deepest part of his heart.

He had encountered countless "mysteries," and had even personally slain a false god.

But this thing in front of me... its killing method is pure, efficient, and full of absolute power.

It's not fighting, it's harvesting.

"call……"

Lin Qiye exhaled a long breath and deactivated the [Black Pupil] effect.

The scene before my eyes instantly shifted from the bizarre reversal of black and white to the bloody, deathly reality.

The Nightfall Squad members all looked extremely grim.

“Monster…that’s a monster…” Jiang Er’s voice trembled.

"Three toes, possessing crushing power and speed, and... most likely from the sky."

An Qingyu analyzed the situation calmly, but his clenched fists betrayed his inner turmoil.

"Damn it," Baili Pangpang spat.

"I hate unreasonable guys the most!"

All eyes were on Lin Qiye and Wu Hen.

The two didn't speak, but walked side by side to the center of the hall, which was the place where the monster had fallen in the flashback scene.

The white marble floor was intact, with nothing on it except for dried bloodstains.

There is no such thing as a "three-finger footprint".

"The traces have been erased?" Cao Yuan frowned.

"No, perhaps it never left a mark on 'reality' in the first place."

Wu Hen slowly squatted down, gently stroking the floor with his fingers. "Its existence may lie somewhere between dimensions..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Qiye, who had been staring at the ground, suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse.

"and many more……"

He also squatted down, staring intently at a point on the ground.

Others immediately gathered around.

"What's wrong, Qiye? Did you find something?"

Under Lin Qiye's gaze, the smooth and clean area...

On the white marble floor that should have been bare, right at the edge of the three-finger footprints from the flashback footage...

A drop of viscous liquid, blacker than ink, is seeping out of thin air.

It's like a black, malignant tumor, growing from beneath the skin of reality.

It was forced out and is slowly wriggling and growing larger at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was as if... the thing that left the footprints hadn't gone far at all.

A part of it remains here.

Or rather, it is "looking" at them from the other end of the footprints.

The entire villa hall was deathly silent.

In the midst of this deathly silence, an extremely faint sound suddenly rang out.

Tick.