27: Chapter 27 Death Arrives. Red Mist Clears the Way!

Dead silence.

At the edge of the Black Sea, a pair of giant pupils resembling blood-red moons slowly hovered to a stop.

There was no killing intent, no roaring.

Merely the action of "gazing" seemed to drain everything between heaven and earth—sound, light, temperature… and even the ability to think.

A piercing, chilling cold suddenly swept over their entire bodies, making even breathing an unbearable torture.

"Cl… cl-cl-cl…"

Su Xixi's knuckles gripping her blade turned ghastly pale, trembling uncontrollably.

This was not fear; it was an instinctive wail from their bodies after their life levels were crushed.

An Mumu, who was usually carefree, now had a face as pale as paper and lips trembling violently, yet she could not force out a single syllable.

For the first time, she learned that ultimate terror could render a person voiceless.

"Gl… glug…"

Wang Qiang's legs went soft, and he collapsed straight into the sand.

The sole remaining cannon fodder lackey by his side rolled his eyes back, literally scared into sudden cardiac arrest before falling straight over!

Lin Qing's mind went blank.

But a man's survival instinct forcefully snapped this layer of coercion!

"Run!"

"Return to Building 0!"

Lin Qing's hoarse roar awakened the three women's nearly paralyzed nerves.

Protecting the Crowd's golden light surged violently, forcefully carving out a ten-meter vacuum within that terrifying coercion!

Su Xixi and An Mumu gasped heavily for breath.

Lin Qing grabbed the dazed Su Mengmeng tightly and sprinted at full speed toward Building 0 a thousand meters away!

"Stay close to me!"

Su Xixi carried her blade to guard the rear.

An Mumu was even more fierce, casually grabbing the scared-unconscious cannon fodder to use as a human shield.

Wang Qiang scrambled to his feet, crying tears and snot intermingled, desperately squeezing into the circle of golden light.

Once outside Lin Qing's ten-meter range, he would definitely die in a second!

Having just run a hundred-odd meters—

Boom!

The Black Sea behind them churned violently.

A massive shadow that blotted out the sky slowly rose, directly blocking the pale sun in the sky.

The sky completely darkened.

At the edge of the beach near the dormitory building, malevolent ghosts and oddities that sensed the aura of living humans had just popped up, and their movements collectively froze.

The next second, these brainless ghostly things actually let out silent screams, frantically burrowing into the sand!

A blind, wandering translucent specter panicked and crashed straight into An Mumu's back.

"Get lost!"

Without even turning her head, An Mumu swung her club backward in a full circle and smashed it down.

Bang—borrowing the enhancement of Touch Void, the specter's soul was scattered on the spot.

A trace of faint light dropped.

Quick-handed and clear-eyed, Lin Qing snatched up the cold parchment scroll, stuffing it directly into his backpack without even looking.

At a critical juncture like this, who cares about loot? Saving one's life was paramount!

Five hundred meters! Three hundred meters!

The hundred-meter-tall giant tree outline of Building 0 was close at hand.

Even catching sight of those few eerie windows outside Building 0 made them feel exceptionally cordial at this moment.

However—

Boom!

An irresistible gravitational pull violently dragged from behind.

Lin Qing staggered and looked back, his blood freezing instantly.

A giant tentacle composed of pure darkness and writhing mucus had already risen to a thousand meters!

On the tentacle's epidermis, dense crimson eyeballs constantly opened and closed.

With the momentum of Mount Tai crushing down and carrying the power to shatter everything, it was smashing straight down toward them!

It was over.

There was simply no way to run!

"Lin Qing! You run!"

Su Xixi slammed on the brakes and spun around.

She opened her arms, using her petite body to block Lin Qing tightly behind her.

Holding her short blade horizontally, only resolute madness remained in the depths of her eyes.

"If you want to touch him, step over my dead body first!"

She was actually going to use her own life to trade for Lin Qing's nonexistent zero-point-one-second chance of survival!

Looking at the doomsday shadow pressing down overhead, An Mumu also stopped her steps.

She suddenly laughed, tears swirling in her eyes.

"Damn it… This lady hasn't even tasted what a man is like yet!"

She gritted her teeth and raised her wooden club, standing shoulder to shoulder with Su Xixi to face death, "Let's keep each other company on the road to the netherworld!"

Su Mengmeng didn't say a word, yet she firmly stood in front of Lin Qing.

Right at the instant when the tentacle was about to crush everything—

Building 0.

That silent giant building, at the position on the right side of the Ninth Floor.

A window constructed of ancient stone bricks and vermilion wood lit up without any warning.

No.

It wasn't the window that lit up.

Rather, behind the window, within that profound darkness, something… had been awakened.

Hum—

A wisp of blood-red mist drifted out along the window crack.

At first, it was just a trace, but the moment it left the window, it surged violently!

The viscous red mist resembled a living blood-red long river, carrying ultimate chill and nobility as it soared against the heavens, shooting straight into the thousand-meter-high sky!

The giant tentacle pressing down from overhead suddenly stiffened.

At the edge of the Black Sea, those high-and-mighty blood-moon giant pupils violently constricted for the first time!

Apprehension, fury, and even a hint of disgust.

The giant pupils' gaze directly bypassed Lin Qing and his group of ants, staring fixedly at that sky-reaching red mist.

Two terrifying coercions collided silently in midair.

A few seconds later.

That sky-blotting tentacle, exuding extreme reluctance, slowly retreated backward.

The churning Black Sea subsided accordingly.

The blood-moon giant pupils took a deep look at the ancient window of Room 9014, and with a shift of their gaze, actually lingered on Lin Qing for a second.

Afterward, they completely vanished into the darkness.

The world-destroying coercion receded like a tide, and the pale sunlight spilled down once again.

"Hoo… hoo…"

Lin Qing and the others went soft in the legs, collapsing in unison before the main door of Building 0, their clothes long since soaked through with cold sweat.

Surviving a catastrophe.

Lin Qing forced himself to sit up and looked back.

The Black Sea and the beach returned to dead silence, as if everything just now was merely an illusion.

He raised his head, locking his gaze onto that ancient window on the Ninth Floor that had stopped overflowing with red mist.

Room 9014, that eerie room.

Yesterday, merely leaking a trace of coercion caused Yang Yating's eyes to bleed and faint.

Just now, she actually made a move to save him?

Why?

What could she possibly want from me? My little physique isn't even enough to fill the gap between her teeth!

"Lin Qing…"

Su Xixi's voice was still trembling, her hands still tightly gripping her blade, unable to walk out of the madness of protectiveness from just now.

Lin Qing didn't speak; he reached out and ruffled her hair dampened by sweat.

"It's fine now. Our lives are saved."

The moment his words fell—

On his retinas, lines of dazzling blood-red prompts popped up without warning.

[Warning: Your Touch Void trait has attracted the attention of the Lord of the Black Sea!]

[Prompt: You have obtained the "Shelter" of the Lord of Yin Xi!]

[Warning: The "Shelter" stems from unknown karma. You need to repay the karmic debt generated by the "Shelter" as soon as possible!]

[Debt repayment method: Unknown.]

Lin Qing's pupils shrank abruptly.

Eating soft rice all the way to a ghostly entity's head? This karmic debt… I'm afraid I'll have to pay with my life!