Chapter 1016: Chapter 1018: Lao Shiren
“You, what do you want to do? We, we are spiders after all.” The Spider Lady stared at Wen Wen in horror.
“Don’t worry, I won’t take advantage of you.” Wen Wen let go of his hand, adopting a curious attitude, “Could you perform that thing? You know, the one where you crawl around various places.”
Wen Wen rubbed his hands together, somewhat embarrassed, “I’ve been practicing similar abilities all along, but I always feel my movements aren’t standard or scary enough. In this aspect, you’re the experts, so I want to see how you do it.”
The Spider Ladies hesitated a bit. They were aristocratic; crawling around a man lost a bit of elegance…
“I have money, I have Demon Hunting Coins!”
Wen Wen showed his Demon Hunting Coins balance to the Spider Ladies, and their attitude towards him immediately changed.
In an instant, several Spider Ladies displayed fierce postures, rapidly crawling in terrifying ways around the small room, causing the onlookers by the door to feel a chill.
Sifumo suddenly had an epiphany; perhaps it was Wen Wen who triggered that scream a few days ago at Klim…
The Spider Ladies crawled for a full thirty minutes before stopping, drenched in sweat. Wen Wen nodded in satisfaction, paid a hefty fee to the mistress, and left contented.
With this experience, Wen Wen believed he would reach a new realm when climbing walls in the future.
After the farce ended, the night was deepening. Wen Wen returned to his room, pausing briefly at the door of a room where the faint recitation of the Creation Church Scripture was heard.
Initially, they were silent, but when the sixth person arrived, they started whispering the chants.
Such an anomaly, Sifumo naturally noticed too. For some reason, he didn’t take action against them.
During the observation, Wen Wen suddenly furrowed his brow. He saw Miao Xinyi in pajamas, walking down from upstairs, seemingly heading toward the chanting room.
Her eyes were open, but she looked slightly dazed. Wen Wen walked up to her and gently clapped his hands, and she seemed to awaken from a dream, puzzled as to why she was there.
Just then, Lin Zheyuan came over. Wen Wen whispered what he had just seen into his ear. Lin Zheyuan’s heart chilled, and he took his wife back to their room. Probably until this journey ends, Lin Zheyuan wouldn’t leave Miao Xinyi’s side.
After Lin Zheyuan and his wife left, Wen Wen’s expression turned grim. He had sensed an unusual energy wave in Miao Xinyi just now, identical to the wave he noticed when he disrupted the chanting that day.
Perhaps initially, only one person chanted each night, but over time, like a virus infection, the chanters increased one by one.
If Wen Wen hadn’t been there just now, allowing Miao Xinyi to enter that room, perhaps by tomorrow night, she would become one of the chanters.
However, the infection efficiency of this force was extremely low; it took such a long time to infect one person. It was precisely because of its inefficiency that it didn’t attract attention from the crowd.
Now that Wen Wen had noticed it, this thing wouldn’t be able to infect anyone else. Wen Wen circled the entire Mountain Wildflower House, secretly carving more than a dozen micro runes.
These runes could detect the special aura Wen Wen sensed earlier. Once someone, like Miao Xinyi, was inexplicably drawn to this room, the runes would detect it and interrupt them.
In the next two days, Wen Wen kept an eye on this room each night, seeing several weaker Demon Hunters or Spider Ladies walk dazedly toward the room.
However, when they approached the room, they would inexplicably receive a weak electric shock, waking them up immediately, thus staying far away from that room.
Due to frequent electric shocks, a few superpower users of the Assimilation Realm naturally noticed this place, forcing the chanters participating in the assembly to grow increasingly irritable.
Wen Wen, observing in secret, knew that changes were imminent.
A slightly plump man with a crew cut leaned on the stones of the hot spring bath, staring blankly at the ceiling.
His name was Lao Shiren, an ordinary demon hunter. True to his name, he was an honest man through and through.
When he was young, he had many unrealistic fantasies, thinking he could make a name for himself, believing that as long as he lived honestly and worked diligently, he could achieve success.
But after entering society, he realized he was somewhat naive. Leaving aside work aspects, at least his overly honest and clumsy nature made it hard for him to find a girlfriend he liked.
So in the end, he became a scapegoat, marrying a woman who was pregnant before marriage.
The scapegoat’s life was a bit better than expected; his wife felt indebted for playing outside before marriage, so she was quite proper after they settled down.
Although the child wasn’t his, he treated him as his own son, and the child was very filial too.
Under normal circumstances, their family would happily live together.
But unfortunately, even such a life no longer belonged to Lao Shiren.
A passing monster casually slaughtered his wife and daughter, and he could only watch powerlessly.
Rescued from the bloodbath, he awakened his Supernatural Power, vowing not to be a bullied honest man, stepping on the path of monster-slaying for his wife and daughter.
But this path wasn’t easy to walk; though he had the ability, his nature wasn’t suited for it. So after working for half a year, he applied for this trip.
He had already decided that after the trip, he would quit the frontline Demon Hunter job and develop well in the second line. He really didn’t like fighting and killing.
Suddenly, Lao Shiren felt an inexplicable irritation. He quickly climbed out of the bath, dressed, and stood at the sink brushing his teeth, freezing as he brushed.
“Why am I brushing my teeth, it’s already night, where am I going?”
“Oh… right, I am going to chant.”
“But I don’t believe in the Creation Church, why am I chanting, there seems to be something very important, more important than my life.”
“Tonight’s chanting seems to be canceled.”
“Damn Demon Hunters, damn Demon Hunters!”
Lao Shiren ground his teeth furiously, making them creak, staring intently at the mirror, with the foam in his mouth quickly turning red, and then…
His head rolled off his neck.