Chapter 5: Brother, you smell so good (Please follow!)

"What the hell?"

In his astonishment, Ji Jue's heart tightened, and he couldn't help but feel nervous.

A thief?

That would be too rare!

After all, his house is so poor that if a thief came, he might have to shed two bags of tears before going out. If he had a little conscience, he might press two hundred yuan on the table before leaving, telling the child to study hard and work hard.

Beishan District is located on the outskirts of Yacheng. If you want high-end, there is nothing; if you want dirty, messy, and poor, it has never lost. Illegal immigrants, gangs, smuggling, and even homicide... It is chaotic, and the number of homicide cases has ranked first in all districts of Yacheng for years. The ranking is so stable that even the Viceroy would call him an old man when he comes!

And Ji Jue's old house, calling it weathered is a compliment. It leaks rain on cloudy days, leaks wind in summer, leaks water during the day, leaks electricity at night, and has a whole body of problems that have never been good. Even if you look at it with your heels, it doesn't look like a rich family. So after so many years, even if he occasionally encountered petty thieves twice, everyone would come in, look at the empty house, and say "sorry" sympathetically before turning around and leaving.

Ji Jue bent down, pulled half a steel bar from under the bed, carefully stepped on the creaking floor, went downstairs, and looked left and right, feeling more guilty than the thief.

But apart from the damaged door handle and a line of footprints passing through the living room and entering the kitchen, he didn't see anything at all.

"Hey! Come out! Brother, you've come to the wrong place, my house has no money!"

There is nothing here except a fragile college student who can eat, sleep, and be lazier than you!

Ji Jue poked his head in. In the kitchen, there was only the refrigerator with both doors pulled open, exposing the leftovers that made him cry, and the lamp behind the door was flickering, dying just like the thirty-something-year-old refrigerator itself.

Ji Jue was struck by lightning!

Tears were about to fall.

It's fine if the thief doesn't leave empty-handed, but how could he even steal the half plate of white-cut chicken he brought back from Lu Ma's the day before yesterday?! He was planning to add a dish for his birthday in two days!

"Inhuman, damn it!"

He looked at the black fingerprints left on the plate, and couldn't help but curse again, but looking at the empty kitchen and the window open to the street, how could he not know that the thief had long since run away, and couldn't help but hate it.

If he had known that the purpose of the evil forces was the white-cut chicken in his refrigerator, he would have picked up the steel bar to fight the thief long ago, and wouldn't have been so terrified for so long!

As a result, his refrigerator was broken!

And the moment he touched the refrigerator door, in the humming sound of the motor like an old cow, an unexpected voice rang out: "Watch your back."

At that moment, Ji Jue turned his head abruptly.

In the fishy wind rushing towards him, he saw a pair of scarlet eyes.

Looking at him.

Hungry...

Right above the door of the kitchen entrance, in the crevice between the ceiling and the wall, a strange, hunched figure like a spider was squirming, chewing on the last remaining bones.

The sharp teeth were like blades, chilling to the bone.

And the moment he saw the face of the figure, Ji Jue couldn't help but scream.

"You... you are that old man from yesterday!!!"

Isn't it?

He remembered that old face clearly!

It was clearly the old man who pedaled the tricycle and didn't want to live to hit him, almost causing him to go through the process of transmigrating to another world... The situation was too chaotic at the time, and no one found out when he slipped away. Ji Jue didn't take it to heart, but he didn't expect him to dare to break into his house!

It's just that the appearance looked too weird compared to yesterday.

It highlights being human-like.

Don't know what medicine he took wrong.

"Good, you dare to come again! You're determined to eat me, right?!" Ji Jue was furious: "If you don't pay, don't think about leaving today! Get down from my wall!"

The old man followed suit.

Very obedient.

The moment Ji Jue told him to get down from the wall, he had already—flown! Pounced! Over!

Too fast.

It was just like the moment a spider or a mantis catches its prey. The foul-smelling wind swallowed Ji Jue in an instant. Ji Jue subconsciously retreated, blocking the refrigerator door in front of him. The next moment, he saw that the thick door of his refrigerator, which was useless except for being big and stupid, was torn open by the old man's sharp five fingers, and the sharp nails grazed his face, leaving a cut.

In the panic, Ji Jue kicked out, but couldn't move him. Instead, he was shocked back a few steps, hurriedly bypassed the dining table, and ran to the kitchen door while the old man was pulling his hand out.

Just like that, watching the old thing tear his refrigerator door into pieces.

The strange old man, hunched like an ape, curled up on the wreckage of the refrigerator, fumbling for things inside, and even picked up the porcelain plate he had just dropped and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it crunchily.

The scarlet eyeballs were full of chaos.

"Eat, eat, eat... so hungry..."

The corners of his mouth torn by the porcelain plate opened and closed, blood flowed out, and was licked back by a long tongue. The old man raised his head and looked straight at Ji Jue, drooling: "Fragrant, you are so fragrant..."

"Okay, stop talking, one party is in trouble, eight parties support, right?"

Ji Jue didn't hesitate, took out the forty-eight yuan and nineteen cents of pocket money he had left, slapped it on the table: "Old man, that's all the money, take it for morning tea... I recommend that shop north of Liupu Street, the siu mai is cheap and the quantity..."

Boom!

The dining table was also torn apart by the roaring and screaming old man, along with the kitchen cabinet behind where Ji Jue had just stood, and broken pots and bowls fell all over the floor, echoing with a sound that broke Ji Jue's heart.

Broken, does he not like siu mai?

Ji Jue crawled out of the kitchen, his mind empty: Siu mai is not eaten, pickled powder is also good!

But no matter how empty his mind was, Ji Jue understood that this old man didn't want to eat siu mai, dumplings, rice noodle rolls, small steamed buns, or claypot rice... He wanted to eat him!!!

When the fishy wind rushed towards him again, Ji Jue gritted his teeth, gripped the steel bar in his hand, and swung it out with all his might, towards the old man's forehead!

No longer caring about respecting the old and loving the young!

A loud noise erupted.

The steel bar flew out of his hand, rebounded, just like hitting a cement pier with all his might.

The steel bar, which was enough to smash several old men's skulls, only left a cut on his forehead, but two cracks like knife cuts were scratched on Ji Jue's arm.

Blood flowed out, splashing.

Falling on the old man's face, it was swept away by his long tongue, like drinking fine wine, making the old thing tremble with excitement and scream.

"Fragrant! Fragrant! You are so fragrant!!!"

"I can go to your mother's fragrant party!"

Staggering backwards, Ji Jue grabbed the water bottle and cup on the cabinet and smashed them wildly, turning and running wildly towards the door.

After briefly tasting Ji Jue's blood, the old man, who was in a state of ecstatic excitement, chased after him on all fours, trembling with excitement.

But unexpectedly, when passing the stairs, Ji Jue's movements stopped suddenly.

He reached out, grabbed the fancy stair railing he had repaired a few days ago, pulled the sharp iron branch out of the cement he had barely patched, and turned to slash at his face!

In an instant, the iron branch went into the eye socket, the old man stumbled, and then, Ji Jue kicked him, kicking him out of the door, like a rolling gourd, falling into the muddy yard.

Before he could crawl up from the rolling, Ji Jue jumped up and stepped on his neck with all his strength and weight!

Click!

The sound of breaking was like thunder, ringing in Ji Jue's ears, so clear.

He hadn't had time to breathe a sigh of relief.

He heard the harsh scream from under his feet.

Like the dying wail of some beast, and like a hungry roar and shout.

The old man with half a railing embedded in his eye socket kept squirming and tearing, even overturning the electric scooter next to him.

Even though his neck was already broken, the distorted face was still terrifyingly scarlet.

Crazy mouth open, wanting to bite.

The only thing Ji Jue could do was to use all his strength, holding the railing tightly, pressing the old man's head to the ground, but he was almost unable to suppress it.

The strength was too great!

He felt that what he was suppressing was not an old thing that looked like it was dying, but some monster wearing human skin. Once he let go, he would be torn to pieces in an instant.

He could feel the thick, nauseating stench from the old thing's eyes, ears, and mouth, and even his body, and even the faint scarlet light.

The fatal injury didn't seem to matter at all.

He was still alive and kicking!

Even, the broken cervical spine was quickly reconnecting... ignoring the iron branch piercing the eye socket, moving forward little by little...

It's just that, as if for a moment, the old thing's strength suddenly loosened a lot, but then immediately became even more violent. In the constant biting, only viscous blood sprayed out of his mouth, falling on Ji Jue's hand.

So cold.

【Detected external active aberrant spiritual quality, do you want to absorb it?】

From his soul and consciousness, the information from the watch suddenly rose and emerged, making Ji Jue overjoyed. Fearing that the watch wouldn't understand, he shouted with all his strength:

"Yes! Yes! Yes! YES! YES!! YES!!!"

Before the words fell.

Even, at the very moment he didn't even have time to show a smile, a crisp sound came from the watch—tick!

Then, faint light emerged from the dial, extending along Ji Jue's palm and five fingers, outlining a complex matrix totem, like a circuit, falling into his fingertips, extending downwards along the iron branch.

It was as if in an instant, flesh and blood were no longer flesh and blood, and his palm was no longer a palm, but had undergone a transformation, forming some kind of tool that even Ji Jue couldn't control.

Along the crack above the eye socket, it pierced into the old ghost's skull!

Then—the sound of invisible machine wheels turning, the terrifying gravitational force like a black hole spread, and the siphon sufficient to suppress all aberrant spiritual quality began!

The harsh scream stopped abruptly.

Replacing it was the sound of boiling, like a kettle roaring on the stove, and thick blood light sprayed out from the old ghost's eye socket, following the matrix, and disappeared into the watch.

The old thing that was twitching and convulsing began to wither rapidly.

Only the viscous blood color kept squirming, struggling, like crazy insects, being dragged out of his body and sucked dry by the watch in one breath!

The numbers on the dial climbed wildly, and in an instant, reached the level of 59.

In just a few seconds, it was almost catching up to the spiritual quality reserve that Ji Jue had accumulated for many years before!

And the old thing that kept twitching finally lay on the ground, unable to move, no, more like... returned to its original form. After losing that strange power, it was dying.

In the eyes full of chaos and hunger, a trace of clarity appeared.

As if waking up from a long nightmare, he stared blankly at everything in front of him, bewildered and confused, for a long time, as if remembering something, his lips opened and closed, as if reading a name.

Turbid tears slowly slid from the corners of his eyes.

Falling into the mud.

Just like that, it gradually collapsed and turned into ashes.

Except for a tattered set of clothes, it was never seen again.

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