Chapter 148 A familiar decision

Made from corpse oil, the mask, which was created by a curse master, was a mixture of strong resentment and curse power. It invaded the brain through the user’s face and penetrated into the body like fungus-like tentacles, thus controlling the will of some girls in the dormitory building who had experienced facial masking.

Afterwards, in an unknown place, the “mask” stored in a dark cupboard secretly absorbed power, emerged from the corner, gathered and merged, swallowed the living people in the room, and finally transformed into a ghost with a human face and a snake body.

The female-faced snake crawled out of Li Huishan’s room and headed to the second floor, where there were more people and the smell of flesh and blood was the strongest. It greedily and cruelly stared at the shivering people hiding in the room, tempting and toying with what it saw as its prey.

If no one stops it, with its long-hungry appetite, at least a dozen or even dozens of lives will be lost in the monster’s belly that night.

In addition, although it is in a newborn state, lacks keen spiritual perception and does not have powerful supernatural powers, its huge body is definitely thick-skinned and tough, and ordinary pistol and rifle bullets cannot hurt its vital parts. This means that this monster is definitely not something that ordinary police officers can fight against.

However, this time it hit a wall.

Cen Dongsheng stretched out one hand at lightning speed and grabbed the tail of the female-faced snake. Then he spread his legs and squatted slightly in a horse stance; the muscles in his arms expanded rapidly.

With a sudden burst of force, a pair of casual shoes stepped straight into the concrete road, leaving spider-web-like depressions along the edges.

The ghost was suddenly faced with this powerful force, and its snake body swayed uncontrollably to one side, its head smashing the dormitory wall, and its tongue, which almost licked its prey, left a wet mark in the air.

The female-faced snake turned its head and stared at the young man behind it. The frozen expression on its pale and huge face suddenly became vivid and resentful like a haunted painting, and a human-like roar was released from its throat, twisting like a jungle python.

For a moment, the dust in the corridor was shaken off, and the earth-shaking sound spread throughout the dormitory building.

But facing the huge ghost’s struggle that was heavier than a thousand pounds, Cen Dongsheng just smiled slightly, his feet were rooted and motionless, he first used the strength of his upper arms to tightly clamp the tail under his armpits, like a diamond shackle, making it impossible for it to break free; then, he began to rotate from his shoulders to his waist, slightly shifting his center of gravity, and used his core strength to drive his entire body to begin dragging the giant snake with unstoppable force.

While the female-faced snake was being pulled backwards, it was also desperately crawling forward. In the power contest between the man and the ghost, cracks spread across the wall like tree branches.

This wrestling match lasts only a short time; soon the balance is broken, and the chips accumulated on both sides of the scale are never equal.

Under the clothes, the strong muscles on Cen Dongsheng’s back were tense, forming firm lines as if they were carved by a knife or an axe. The joints and tendons from top to bottom were combined into a tight whole. The process of the man exerting force was like pulling a bowstring.

In this way, just by twisting the body and swinging the arms, a huge centrifugal force can be generated to lift the female-faced snake up and throw it towards the wall next to it.

Another merciless smash, the whole building shook violently as if it was experiencing an earthquake.

The female-faced snake was hit so hard that it saw stars. Its ghost-like head shook violently twice before slowly rising up.

As a result, they happened to see the door of a dormitory pop open. Several girls with mops and brooms wanted to rush out to save people, but when they saw the horrible and hideous appearance of the monster in the corridor, they immediately shrank back while screaming.

Song Yutang heard their shouting.

“monster!”

“Oh, no, I think I recognize this face…”

“Is it senior Li Huishan?”

They seemed to recognize the front face of this monster.

As for Cen Dongsheng, he didn’t care much when he saw someone witness the monster with their own eyes.

There are always ordinary people who like to commit suicide. This cannot be avoided. We can only work hard to deal with it afterwards. If we don’t have this time, then… we can only pretend that nothing happened.

“Remember what I said, the rest is up to you.”

Cen Dongsheng turned his head and gave Song Yutang an instruction. When he saw her nod, he exerted force in his arms again, this time using both hands, and pulled the tail as hard as if he was using a battle rope in the gym.

The female noodle snake, which was already a little dizzy, was swung around again, and the process was smooth, just like a skilled ramen chef tossing noodles up and down.

The giant woman’s head hit the ceiling and then the ground, and the corridor floor shook violently like a high-speed subway car.

After repeating this several times, Cen Dongsheng was sure that this guy would be dizzy for a while, so he stepped forward.

The shadow, like a flying arrow, swooshed across half of the corridor and pushed the body of the female-faced snake into a ball like a rolled-up carpet; then with a “Hey” sound, the whole body was lifted up and thrown hard – the curled-up giant ghost broke through the window and wall at the end of the corridor and fell out of the window.

Cen Dongsheng then jumped down from the gap.

……

Although Song Yutang nodded in agreement just now, she had no idea what would happen next.

I see… Mr. Cen’s goal was to throw the female-faced snake out of the building and keep the battlefield away from ordinary people. He achieved this in the simplest and most brutal way.

She couldn’t help but admire his determination; in addition, the overwhelming power gap between humans and ghosts was equally jaw-dropping. Such a huge and scary monster was completely manipulated by Cen Dongsheng in the battle.

Song Yutang walked to the center of the corridor, looking at the cracked walls around her and the ceiling with big holes in it, and fell into distress for a moment.

She said she wanted to appease ordinary people…but how should she do it? She really had no idea.

But since I have been ordered and I have agreed to it, I can’t just do nothing.

The girl scratched her ponytail in annoyance. She gritted her teeth and began to knock on dormitory doors one by one to confirm whether the people inside were safe…

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Cen Dongsheng took a big step and leaped towards the moonlight, drawing a beautiful arc in the air before falling down and standing firmly on the soft grass.
The human-faced snake curled up and fell on the grass not far away.

It was like a snake that had just woken up from hibernation, crawling slowly and sluggishly, which showed that the monster had lost most of its ability to resist.

It is not very adapted to its huge body, probably because it was caught by itself right after it was born. If it had eaten some blood, it might have performed better.

Although once you meet him, the ending is always certain.

He heard the sirens of police cars nearby and the crowd watching near the dormitory building was noisy and surging.

The series of noises attracted the attention of everyone in the school. It was destined to be a sleepless night that made some people excited and some people uneasy.

Cen Dongsheng threw the female-faced snake towards the window like throwing a frisbee – it happened to be on the side facing the artificial lake, which was relatively sparsely populated.

But someone will soon notice the movement and it needs to be resolved as soon as possible.

While thinking, Cen Dongsheng walked towards the female-faced snake lying there.

As for the origin of this monster, he recalled a story about gods and ghosts that was circulated in ancient times and also appeared in the novels and textbooks of modern writers.

The protagonist of the story is a classic character in strange stories – a scholar who was taking an exam. He stopped to rest in an abandoned garden. At night, he saw a beautiful woman’s face on the wall, greeting him. The scholar was very happy and agreed. But the next day, a monk told him that how could a beautiful woman appear in the middle of the night and lie on the wall? She was actually a demon who would eat anyone whose name was called.

This is the legend of the “beautiful snake”.

A man-eating monster with a woman’s head and a snake’s body, which can speak human language and confuse people… I’m afraid it’s a kind of ghost. Cen Dongsheng stepped on the seven inches below the python’s body of the female-faced snake and raised his fist.

He poured his strength into it, and the moment he swung his fist downward, a sharp sound of wind was heard.

The young man’s fist was like a hydraulic pile driver, and the ferocious impact penetrated the female-faced snake and made the ground beneath it dent.

Once, twice, three times——

As fierce and efficient as ever, the most brutal method of exorcising ghosts.

Amidst the shrill wails, the ghost’s body quickly collapsed, and the asphalt-like liquid scattered all over the ground, splitting into several wriggling pools of liquid, which tried to escape under the cover of night.

It was not until this time that Cen Dongsheng began to use his true Qi.

Normally, he consumes his true Qi to increase his own strength; but since he does not have the ability to cause large-scale destruction, he can choose to let the pure true Qi break out of his body when necessary, as a trump card.

However, this move has a limited range and consumes a lot of energy, so you have to seize the opportunity, such as right now –

The ghost’s body had collapsed, and what remained was only some Yin Qi that was unable to condense into shape. When it met the naturally restrained True Qi, it was like being sprinkled with accelerant and suddenly burst into flames.

The raging flames spread across the dark oil surface.

The woman’s head changes first, her expression constantly switches between coldness and pain, symbolizing the struggle in pain;

Then, the huge head with loose black hair suddenly deflated like a balloon pricked by a needle.

It was not shortened, but rather became limp. The head, which was originally nearly spherical, now became a flat surface, like a pool of soft insects.

Cen Dongsheng quickly refined the Yin Qi, but he was still not satisfied.
It is still some distance away from awakening its superpowers, and a ghost of this level can only be considered a snack.

But he was not disappointed.

If nothing unexpected happens, this thing is just a “pawn” driven by someone, and there is a real evil force behind it. It was him (her) who made the corpse oil mask, spread it among girls, and planted the female-faced snake as a backup.

The head of the female-faced snake was the best evidence. If he guessed correctly, this face belonged to a girl named Li Huishan. She was just an ordinary person, but was exploited and cruelly transformed into a monster by spell. During the whole process, the culprit never showed up.

Cen Dongsheng looked at the group of soft-bodied worms, which followed their instinct and crawled towards the dormitory building again. He smiled slightly.

……

Song Yutang noticed Cen Dongsheng’s figure jumping back through the gap and hurriedly followed him.

By now, someone had already bravely come out of the dormitory and noticed them walking side by side. There might be gossip later, but she didn’t care about such trivial matters.

“Follow that thing.”

Song Yutang narrowed his eyes and followed the direction that Cen Dongsheng pointed. He saw a bizarre-looking mollusk several inches long. It was crawling with all its might, and its speed was surprisingly not slow.

Following them all the way to the fourth floor, they walked into a dormitory with a collapsed door and no one inside.

There was only a piece of tattered clothes on the ground, stained with suspicious muddy traces like asphalt; and wrapped in the clothes was an empty body.

The mollusk crawled into the clothes and burrowed into the skin, then remained motionless as if it had returned to its nest.

The insect body and the skin gradually merged into one; or rather, they were originally one, but were forced apart by some evil curse.

So, what was left on the ground in the end was a corpse with an indescribable appearance:

Most of the body was deflated, with only some tissue remaining in the head that had been transformed from a soft worm. It was bulging, but compared with a normal person’s head, it still looked like a burst balloon, and the facial features were deformed as if they had been flattened.

There is no visible damage on the surface or blood or flesh, but the shape alone is eerie.

How could such a good person become like this?
“This is……”

“It’s the senior you mentioned, Li Huishan.”

Song Yutang felt uncomfortable and looked away.

“I just asked other people in the building. Those who were possessed seem to be unconscious at the moment, but they are not dead.”

“Well, that’s good news. If they’re luckier, maybe they can go back to a normal life in the future.”

“Then, Senior…”

“She’s dead. Can you tell? All the flesh, blood, organs and bones in her body have been eaten away. Only a piece of human skin is left.”

“…”

Song Yutang took a deep breath and never mentioned it again.

……

The dust has settled.

It took less than two minutes from the time Cen Dongsheng took action to the time he exorcised the female-faced snake. At that time, the police had just arrived downstairs, and both the murderer and the victim had stopped moving.

He didn’t need to worry about the rest. Even when he was an executive, he didn’t need to worry about the “aftermath”. The follow-up work was nothing more than writing or “making up” a reasonable report.

What’s more, he is now the first consultant of the fledgling organization Super Working Committee. He is in a high position and has great power, so naturally there are others who will handle small matters for him.

Overall, breaking into the girls’ dormitory that night was a trivial matter for Cen Dongsheng. He delayed it for a few minutes in order to train Song Yutang. However, there seemed to be a deeper conspiracy behind this matter, which aroused his interest.

But for Song Yutang, the meaning of the matter is completely different.

She realized that the new world she had accidentally stepped into was a forest full of dangers and murderous intent. In the forest, jackals, tigers and leopards were staring at her greedily and coldly. She had no power to resist and was just a trembling little white rabbit who had strayed into the forest.

There is no escape anymore.

Her only choice is –

Hug your thighs.

(End of this chapter)