Chapter 27

Chapter 27: A World Full of Monsters
“Huh? Let you go? What are you talking about? We’re all friends…”
In the narrow alley, some voices sounded desperate, while others sounded cheerful.
The girls’ voices were all pleasant to hear, but sometimes, beautiful voices could also weave an extraordinary nightmare.
“What face do you have to cry? Why don’t you shamelessly go after Lin, the senior? Why should we hit you?”
“It wasn’t me…”
“It’s not my fault that he kept messaging me. I’ve already blocked him…”
“Still talking back, hit her mouth…”
“……”
Xiao Xiao stood on the second-floor platform, not deliberately looking, yet could still hear their chirping laughter, hear that group of girls becoming increasingly excited, occasionally bursting into fits of giggles.
Below, seven or eight swaying heads of various colors surrounded a small white dress in the middle, kicking and striking, a kind of joyful atmosphere blooming around them.
Yet at the center of this joy was a flower of despair, breeding endless pain and fear.
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On the other side, in the coffee shop at that moment, the woman wearing sunglasses also seemed to have her memories stirred by what she had just witnessed, staring blankly out the window at the blurred street scene.
“You are…”
A hesitant voice beside her broke the silence. She turned her head and saw a woman wearing a coffee shop employee uniform.
The woman was staring at her intently, examining her carefully. After a long moment, she finally confirmed it and exclaimed with pleasant surprise:
“Oh, it really is you, Zhang Xiao?”
The woman in sunglasses held her coffee motionless, staring at her.
“You’re wearing sunglasses, I didn’t even recognize you…”
The coffee shop employee waved her hands somewhat exaggeratedly and laughed, “It’s me! I’m Zhao Qian, you don’t recognize me anymore?”
“We used to hang out together all the time in high school…”
“……”
She approached with genuine joy on her face as she spoke, but suddenly stopped.
Only when she got closer did she notice that the woman in sunglasses wasn’t holding the coffee motionless—her arm was trembling slightly, and the coffee in the cup was rippling in waves.
“This…”
The clerk’s smile became somewhat awkward, and she rubbed her hands together saying, “Well, I’m sorry about that…”
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In the narrow, dark alley, Xiao Xiao stood on the second-floor platform, looking down at the group of girls below, as if observing this twisted world.
Everything that unfolded below even sent a chill down his spine.
I never thought I would accept the fact that this entire world is full of monsters, but sometimes I still get scared.
Young people have so many creative ideas. They have plenty of energy to ponder useless yet interesting things, such as ways to make people suffer more, or feel more despair.
“Go away, go away…”
Nono’s cries, amid a crowd of excited voices, sounded so helpless.
Xiao Xiao could hear her despair, and could even sense something slowly breeding within that despair: “Why, why are you all treating me like this……”
“Why do you all have to bully me……”
“I’ll beat you, I’ll beat you, I’ll have the dogs bite you to death……”
“……”
Listening to her anguished cries, Xiao Xiao suddenly understood why this girl who liked to wear white dresses kept three such ferocious hunting dogs.
What might be just a small matter to adults is the complete collapse of the entire world for a girl…
He crouched on the second-floor platform, watching as those girls giggled and dragged Nono, whose clothes were in complete disarray, toward a pile of dog feces. Some laughed from the side while others held up their phones, trying to capture close-up shots.
Nono’s fierce struggle only seemed to excite them more. Perhaps they harbored some heroic fantasy in their hearts, feeling a greater sense of accomplishment when bullying those who would resist and struggle.
He silently closed his eyes and concentrated, imagining the sensation from before when dealing with the Suffocation Nest, when he had summoned three vicious dogs to his side.
His eyes snapped open: “Summon!”
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The girl in the white dress was being dragged toward the excrement, with people constantly taking the opportunity to kick her as they passed.
The girl who kicked her was a chubby one. Nono still remembered that she used to be a target of bullying too, once having blue ink splashed all over her body and crying huddled in the corner of the bathroom.
But later, she gradually became familiar with these people, especially the girl with the ponytail, and so she joined their group.
She seemed to enjoy participating in the beating of herself, excited and afraid of not being able to get in on it.
She struggled desperately, but rainlike fists and feet fell upon her body.
They were all young girls, but their fists could be just as hard.
In that moment, despair filled her heart, and she couldn’t even hear her own screams, only countless inexplicable thoughts constantly emerging from her mind.
If only those three dogs could be with her, she could let them out to bite people.
They looked fierce, and it was precisely because she was afraid that she had bought these three dogs in the first place, hoping to find a sense of security from them.
However, this was ultimately just her own delusion. She did keep three very fierce dogs, but how could she possibly carry them around all the time?
She had raised three such vicious dogs herself, yet now she was still being dragged around like a dog, forced in front of dog feces.
Behind the phone camera was an excited face.
Would they really post what she looks like right now? What would she do after this?
Perhaps……
……death?
The thought flashed through her mind like lightning, instantly striking the darkest corner of her spiritual world.
So, the first time the thought of death crossed her mind, the feeling was not panic, but relief.
“Whimper……”
But at that very moment, Nono, whose body and mind had completely fallen into despair, suddenly heard a fierce and bloodthirsty growl.
At first she thought she had fallen into an illusion, but immediately after, the people around her clearly heard it too. The hand dragging her loosened slightly, and as they turned their heads, they felt their scalps go numb.
They saw that at the entrance of the alley, three large and muscular vicious dogs had appeared at some point.
With eyes glowing faintly red, body crouched low, tusks bared, murky saliva dripping continuously from the corners of its mouth, it crept forward slowly, as if dragging thick darkness into the alley.
“Is this a dream of mine?”
Through the shadowy figures, Nono caught sight of those three hunting dogs she had once placed such high hopes in.
As if suddenly seeing light in the darkest despair, she summoned every ounce of strength in her body and shouted loudly: “Ghost, Earl, haha… bite them…”
“Woof…”
Before her voice completely faded, three vicious dogs had already ferociously rushed into the alley.
Just as her voice hit the ground, three vicious dogs that came from nowhere suddenly lunged forward fiercely.
The girls surrounding the area were in a panic, and before they could even react, they saw a face lunging toward their own, with a pair of dark red eyes like those from a nightmare, filled with savage ferocity.
And at this moment, Xiao Xiao stood quietly on the second-floor platform, watching this scene intently.
The dog was summoned by him, and the order was also given by him.
It was just that the order he gave was: “Bite them viciously…”
These brave girls, who had even seemed quite fierce moments before, instantly let out piercing screams and scrambled over each other to run toward the other end of the alley, leaving behind phones and fashionable flip-flops scattered all over the ground.
But those three ferocious dogs, without hesitation, lunged at them from behind, their sharp fangs tearing viciously into their tender skin.
At this moment, they had already revealed their most terrifying appearance from when Xiao Xiao had previously fallen into panic.
Their robust and gnarled bodies, sharp and ferocious fangs, and an almost tangible aura of terror that could be seen with the naked eye, caused the air around them to twist and distort subtly.
Like a nightmare.
For a considerable period of time in the past, they were among the most horrifying monsters in nightmares for Xiao Xiao.
After buying them, they became docile, cute, and even very honest, causing Xiao Xiao to once push the nightmarish images to the back of his mind.
But their terrifying side was completely revealed at this moment.
They bit and tore at each other with unbridled frenzy, like crazed beasts that had completely lost their minds, with glaring blood and flesh splattering across the narrow alley.
Xiao Xiao wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but he even felt that the terrifying aura emanating from them was continuously intensifying, becoming increasingly twisted, and the surrounding air seemed to grow viscous.
“Hum…”
Just as Xiao Xiao was uncertain whether this was a hallucination, he unexpectedly sensed a subtle vibration.
It was that card face he had kept in his shirt pocket that seemed to have been affected by something, and it actually transmitted some mysterious information directly into his phone.
He took out his phone and saw a message with no sender and no beginning or end:
[Item Name: Three Adorable Hunting Dogs]
[Detected that pain substance is increasing, proceed with enhancement: Yes/No]
[Enhancement Cost: 90 Points]
【Enhancement Cost: 80 Points】
【……】
“The points required for enhancement are actually decreasing continuously?”
“What is the reason for this?”
“The elevation of pain substance… pain substance, it seems to refer to some kind of element within the bodies of mutated creatures? Why is it elevating at this moment?”
“……”
Xiao Xiao was encountering such a situation for the first time, and his heart was momentarily taken aback.
“What a pity…”
At this very moment, a voice suddenly sounded from behind him: “This was originally an excellent opportunity to harvest pain substance…”