105: Chapter 105 The Strange Monster
They had blocked all possible escape routes from the old house, and the distance was now less than ten meters.
Lin Fan raised an eyebrow in confusion.
Who would be targeting his home?
He didn't recall offending anyone recently.
Or had he?
Forget it, it didn't matter right now.
Lin Fan wanted to see exactly who was outside.
"Void Walk."
He muttered under his breath, activating the system skill.
A notification for the activation of Void Walk appeared before his eyes.
His perception shifted to a bird's-eye view, looking down at everything around the house from high above.
It was the same as before.
He could see the streets and buildings, but he couldn't see any living beings.
This was the skill's only flaw, preventing it from being a top-tier scouting ability.
However, its advantage was absolute concealment; no one could detect it, making it useful enough.
After looking around.
Lin Fan selected the exit at the other end of the Void Gate... right above his own house.
Once the location was selected, his vision returned to normal, and he was back in the room.
A moment later.
The space in front of Lin Fan distorted slightly.
A crack tore through reality, revealing the familiar white passage.
"Let's go out and see who's being so sneaky."
Lin Fan whispered to himself and stepped into the white space.
At the same time, he summoned the omniscient mask and the undying robe.
Other parts of Baiyun City were illuminated by streetlights throughout the night.
Only the outskirts became exceptionally dark once night fell.
As soon as one stepped out of the house, their vision would be swallowed by heavy darkness, resulting in extremely low visibility.
The space above Lin Fan's house suddenly distorted and tore open as the other exit of Void Walk slowly unfurled.
No one but himself could see this spatial gate, let alone the pure white void beyond it.
Lin Fan stepped out silently.
He had already changed into the undying robe, with the pure white mask covering his face.
His form blended perfectly into the shadows around the building; if one wasn't paying close attention, they would overlook him entirely.
Stepping out of the white space, his gaze swept across and landed precisely on the five figures he had sensed earlier.
The five shadows slowly approached in the darkness.
As Lin Fan watched them, his confusion only deepened.
He couldn't sense any energy fluctuations from these things.
They didn't seem human, yet they were definitely not magical beasts.
If not for the nearly boiling murderous intent surging from them.
Lin Fan wouldn't have been able to detect anything unusual before they reached his doorstep.
Behind the mask, his eyes pierced the darkness, quietly observing the five monsters.
Their bodies were covered in thick, ape-like fur, and their arms were exceptionally long.
Even standing upright, their fingertips could touch the ground. Sharp, slender claws extended from their fingers, looking like hard wooden spikes.
The contours of their faces were similar to humans, but their expressions were extremely distorted, as if frozen forever in a moment of intense agony.
Their eyes were pitch black.
Only their crimson pupils emitted a faint glow, staring fixedly at the building before them... Lin Fan's home.
Looking at these half-human, half-beast monsters, Lin Fan felt an extreme sense of strangeness.
Their body shapes were very close to those of humans.
The physique of one of them was even identical to that of the fat man who had forced his father to hand over Emily because of his parents' debts.
Yet those long arms and the fur-covered bodies clearly indicated that they were not human.
But he was certain these weren't magical beasts either.
"What on earth are these things?"
Lin Fan whispered to himself.
He spread out his perception and scanned the surroundings, but found nothing else suspicious.
In the distant alleys and nearby houses, he could sense the presence of some ordinary people, which was perfectly normal for the outskirts.
Other than that, there were no other mages or traces of powerful magical beasts.
Lin Fan retracted his perception and looked back at the five figures approaching his door.
He secretly hoped these things could communicate, intending to capture them first and then interrogate them.
Once the thought formed, he moved.
Whoosh...
Under the cover of night, the undying robe was nearly invisible.
Like a shadow in the dark night, Lin Fan flashed in front of the nearest monster in an instant.
His sudden appearance without warning gave the monster a start.
Sensing someone's sudden appearance, a fierce light flared in the monster's eyes. Its murderous intent surged, and it immediately launched a fierce attack.
Its long arms lashed out at Lin Fan like ropes.
Sharp claws glinted with a cold light, intending to tear him apart.
Lin Fan's expression remained unchanged as he casually raised his left hand.
He grabbed both of the monster's arms, applied force with his palm, and gripped them tightly, locking them in place.
"Crack..."
The crisp sound of bones breaking echoed in the darkness.
The bones in the monster's arms were instantly crushed under Lin Fan's immense strength.
Blood spurted out.
Broken bone shards pierced through the flesh, protruding outside.
What was shocking was that even though its arms had been crushed.
The monster didn't even let out a scream. Instead, it struggled frantically, trying to break free from Lin Fan's grip.
This only worsened the injury to its already shattered arms.
Beneath the mask, Lin Fan raised an eyebrow slightly.
This thing not only felt no pain.
But its strength had actually reached the level of an ordinary-rank magical beast!
But such strength was utterly laughable before him.
He was merely surprised; judging solely by its appearance, one couldn't tell at all that this monster possessed such power.
Seeing it couldn't break free, the monster lunged at Lin Fan.
Its large mouth opened, revealing a set of brownish-yellow fangs like those of a shark.
Lin Fan had no doubt that these teeth could bite through steel.
In the next moment.
He raised his right hand and slapped the monster across the face.
"Slap!"
The monster was sent flying through the air by the force of the slap.
Blood mixed with broken teeth sprayed from its mouth.
But Lin Fan was still holding its arms.
It didn't fly far before being yanked back and slammed heavily onto the ground.
"What are you things, and why are you here?"
Lin Fan looked down at it, his voice cold and filled with killing intent.
The monster didn't answer.
As soon as it scrambled up, it lunged at Lin Fan's feet, biting frantically with its remaining teeth.
Lin Fan was speechless; this thing was simply beyond reason.
"Bang!"
He kicked out like lightning, hitting the monster square in the face.
This time, it wasn't as simple as broken teeth; the entire face was kicked into a bloody pulp.
Yet even so, it still struggled, trying to attack.
Lin Fan: "..."
He was completely certain now.
These monsters not only lacked a sense of pain but were also entirely impossible to communicate with.
Since interrogation was pointless, Lin Fan didn't intend to spare their lives.
"Crack!"
He dragged the monster in front of him and brought down another heavy palm strike.
"Crunch!"
Its neck was broken instantly.
The monster's body stiffened and went completely still.
After the kill, the system didn't pop up any notifications for hunting a magical beast.
This proved once again that these things were not magical beasts at all.
Lin Fan silently stored the corpse into his Storage Ring.
His figure flashed as he rushed toward the remaining four.
One palm strike for each, clean and efficient.
He didn't want to make any noise and disturb his parents.
And since these monsters remained silent the whole time, it saved him quite a bit of trouble.
It wasn't until he was dealing with the fifth one that Lin Fan noticed something unusual.
This one's physique was exactly the same as that fat man's.
As soon as it saw Lin Fan.
Its crimson pupils suddenly lit up.