Chapter 164: David, You

Bullets flew back like a storm of rain, and when the firing ceased, only one remained standing.

The rest?

Had been reduced to pulp.

The standing cultist's legs trembled; his firearm had fallen to the ground, and the grenade hidden in his sleeve tumbled out with it.

Jiali glanced at him, and he was instantly paralyzed, levitating toward Louis.

"I don't enjoy torture. If you won't cooperate, I'll just have these little cuties crawl inside you—I'm sure your fat will be quite welcoming to them."

Louis asked politely, but his words were anything but polite.

Especially the floating creatures—tiny lip-sucking worms with three-part mouths, wildly agitated, dense as clumps of wriggling noodles—made the threat even more terrifying.

"So, could you please answer my questions honestly?"

Gulp.

The cultist opened his mouth, speaking with difficulty: "Y-yes, yes, I—I'll tell you everything."

"Good. I like honest friends. Tell me: who are you? Why are you here? Who's behind you? What do you intend to do?"

"W-we are from the Minel Sect. Our sect is based in Aifanwu Village. We seek to summon the great demon Minel. This time, one of our sacrificial providers went missing. After consulting the great demon, He gave us guidance."

"Then, then we came."

Louis frowned. It was the same cult Jeff mentioned—but how did they get here so fast?

And it seems they truly have a demon behind them—Minel… I've never heard of it.

"W-we were supposed to come tomorrow, but last night the great demon Minel suddenly gave us orders to come today, saying the killer would be at this location and at a school. This morning we hesitated, but ultimately chose this place."

Louis furrowed his brow. This demon must have some ability—it could roughly track his position. Or perhaps it tracked Jiali or Haley's location instead.

Suddenly, an absurd thought flashed through Louis's mind: two locations, yet they chose this one—could this be David's fault?

Forgive him for thinking it—he was just used to it.

But probably not. After all, it was just a passing thought; it wasn't fair to blame David.

Wait—Aifanwu Village?

Louis instantly seized the keyword. The driver of the car he took when arriving in Karabasas City was from Aifanwu Village.

So the sect's territory must be nearby—that's why they arrived so quickly.

I should make a detour and eliminate this demon.

Louis's eyes gleamed with malice.

At that moment, the faint wail of an ambulance drifted up from below—hospital personnel had arrived.

"Jiali, let's go."

At that moment, David helped the business partner over. "David, thank you, David… I'm sorry for dragging you into this. I shouldn't have been greedy and suggested that idea."

"It's over. We don't need to blame each other," David said generously.

The business partner looked at Louis and Jiali, then at David. "Who are these two?"

David smiled but said nothing.

The business partner nodded, secretly envious. Perhaps because of the near-death experience, he suddenly missed his son.

I wonder how he's doing at school. This time, I won't leave—I'll go see him.

At that moment.

Multiple, overlapping phone rings sounded at once.

?

Louis glanced at the caller—it was Haley. He answered, and immediately, a chorus of screams erupted from the other end: "Louis, hurry to the school! There's a monster here, here!"

Bang!

After a loud crash,

the call was disconnected.

Simultaneously, the business partner was shouting his son's name—something had happened.

What is this? Why is one disaster after another piling up?

Louis didn't move immediately. He glanced at David, who was also stunned, lost in thought.

"Is your son's school Hellington High?"

The business partner nodded instantly. "Yes, yes, that's right! Can you help me save my son? He said there's a monster—everyone in the school is dead!"

David stood there with his mouth open, unsure what to say—how could he possibly be connected to this?

Louis confirmed this and took a deep breath, a faint smile appearing on his face. "Uncle David, having you around is truly a blessing. Perfect."

David closed his eyes, refusing to speak.

"Fine. I'll go now—if he's still alive."

Louis agreed. It was a simple favor.

Monster? Let's see what kind of monster this is.

At that moment, a group of doctors and nurses in white uniforms rushed up. Louis handed the situation over to the Bureau official, told him to include the Hellington incident in his report, then left with Jiali, David, and the business partner.

The business partner knew his son's school location best, so he led the way. His eyes were red as he floored the accelerator; the car swerved wildly.

Had Jiali not used telekinesis to nudge aside vehicles about to collide, he would have crashed long ago.

At that speed, they reached the school in only ten minutes.

This was an ordinary public high school, yet chaos now reigned: students ran in all directions, while a group of students in football uniforms relentlessly attacked them. Some teachers had even begun biting students directly.

Blood and screams echoed through the school. The main gates were locked—no one could escape. At this moment, the school had become a hell.

When Louis and the others arrived, this was the scene before them.

One student after another was pinned down and savagely bitten by others. Screaming, they desperately tried to squeeze through the gaps in the fence—but those parallelogram-shaped openings were far too small for a human to pass through.

In the end, they could only scream until they fell silent, their blood spreading across the ground, staining it red.

Bang!!

A surge of powerful telekinesis twisted the entire iron fence into a twisted mass of scrap metal, flinging dozens of frenzied students away like bowling pins.

Just as Louis and the others prepared to enter,

Click-click-click…

Click-click-click…

The students on the ground, previously torn apart and dead, suddenly stirred again!

Seeing these risen students, Louis paled. Was this a zombie outbreak?

"Uncle David, get back in the car. Stay far away."

"Got it."

David didn't hesitate—he dragged the business partner away, even though the man struggled and wanted to rush in.

Louis and Jiali used telekinesis to force their way inside, then raised a wall of earth to ensure no student escaped.

Louis swiftly searched the entire school and finally spotted students near the classroom building.

But then, something horrifying occurred.

A female teacher's head sprouted several short, thick tentacles beneath it, crawling grotesquely along the ground. The head smiled, as if still conscious, then climbed onto her own corpse. The tentacles retracted, and her entire body moved again.

Suddenly,

her head snapped toward Louis and Jiali, her expression twisted and sinister, eyes blazing with malice. Jiali flinched and instinctively unleashed telekinesis.

Bang!

She crushed it into pulp.

Looking at the severed, multi-sectioned tentacle corpse, Louis felt relieved. "Not zombies—some kind of parasitic organism. Good."

If this were truly a zombie outbreak, Louis wouldn't be thinking about finding elites or refining magic treasures—he'd be planning how to build a shelter.

At that moment,

a scream erupted from the classroom building.

Louis and Jiali exchanged glances and headed toward the building.

Inside the classroom building,

a male student stared at two women, hesitating. He couldn't tell which one was the mother organism.

Not long ago, the school had been overrun. A unique, never-before-seen parasite came to life upon contact with water, assimilating its host and spreading through touch to infect others. In mere moments, the entire school was parasitized.

He and his friends discovered the creatures feared Happy Powder and decided to use it to destroy the mother organism—perhaps saving the school.

But now, he had only one tube of Happy Powder left—and couldn't tell which woman was the mother.

Of course, the one drenched and completely naked seemed more suspicious.

But as he thought this and stepped back, the girl behind him lunged forward, trying to grab him.

"What?!"

He never imagined both of them were infected!

At that moment,

the door burst open. Louis and Jiali entered. Jiali flicked her hand, flinging the girl away and saving the boy, Casey.

"Oh, thank goodness—no, run! They're both monsters! They'll parasit—"

Before he could finish, the girl he'd suspected began transforming—her human form swelling instantly into a massive, meat-gray monster.

Her body was covered in blue veins like twisted snakes. Beneath her were several giant, octopus-like tentacles, but more numerous still were countless thin, whip-like appendages bristling with barbs. Her gaping maw was packed with dense, razor-sharp teeth.

Even a great white shark's teeth looked childish by comparison.

This creature clearly had formidable combat power.

It glared menacingly at Louis and Jiali, completely ignoring Casey beside them—clearly, it could tell who the real threat was, which further proved its intelligence was not low.

Yet at this moment, Louis felt puzzled.

That giant liposuction worm earlier was understandable—it probably grew so large by feeding on fat and was in fact hollow inside.

But what about this one?

Could a person turn directly into the size of an elephant?

(End of Chapter)