[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-becoming-a-god-through-horror":3,"chapter-becoming-a-god-through-horror-becoming-a-god-through-horror-chapter-217":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Becoming a God Through Horror",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2273760,4441,"Chapter 217: Eyes Beyond the Mountain, Tragic","becoming-a-god-through-horror-chapter-217",217,"\u003Cp>Within the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wearing blue pants, the mutant who refused to eat the meat was shoved aside; the mutant leader, nearly two meters tall and covered in thick fat, peered through the hole and saw Louis approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face immediately twisted into a cruel grin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another portion of food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time for a snack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Get ready.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hoarse, slightly stuttering voice rang out, utterly devoid of mercy; several mutants hurled the leg aside, grabbed axes and the guns left behind by the soldiers, and slithered down through the holes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They can use guns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being mutated and deformed doesn’t mean they can’t use guns—in fact, firearms were designed for efficiency and convenience, even considering use by children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, how did child soldiers come to be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So using them is actually very simple—anyone with the intelligence of a child can operate them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These holes, meanwhile, were dug over years by them to improve hunting and concealment; with these passages, they could appear and vanish at will, making them impossible to guard against.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many travelers were killed this way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the mountain, Louis halted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The feeling of being watched changed—it had doubled!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was still behind him; the other came from a spot on the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slightly narrowed his eyes and released a vast torrent of Primordial Spirit energy, tracing the direction of the surveillance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the Primordial Spirit’s perception, walls and solid matter were as if nonexistent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the advantage of the Primordial Spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quickly, under the Primordial Spirit’s sensing, Louis located the sources of the two watching presences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him was a surveillance camera!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of him was a deformed mutant, eyes skewed, mouth stuffed with strands of meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Desert, surveillance, mutants…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, it’s “Eyes Beyond the Mountain”!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Understanding flashed in Louis’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a bloody horror film as famous as “Wrong Turn,” but unlike “Wrong Turn,” it only had two installments before vanishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its plot roughly involved the United States conducting nuclear tests in desert wastelands, but a village existed there—perhaps due to unsatisfactory compensation, or perhaps no compensation at all, a forced eviction; either way, the villagers refused to leave and became holdouts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The U.S. military was ruthless enough to simply ignore them and detonate the nuclear test.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the villagers mutated under nuclear contamination, and their descendants mutated even further; the film depicted these mutants hunting passing travelers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the second film, a group of new recruits arrived to carry out a mission, various accidents occurred, and most of them died—though that wasn’t the point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The point was the ending: another surveillance camera, connected to a military base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The experiment was still ongoing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The villagers were live test subjects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A standard American bloody horror film, but the final twist added a deeper, more unsettling terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis’s gaze flickered—if so, the camera behind him must belong to the military; good thing he’d been cautious and altered his appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, exposure would’ve been a serious problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing this was “Eyes Beyond the Mountain,” Louis had no intention of leaving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nuclear toxins here hadn’t been cleaned up yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the mutants?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These mutants weren’t as terrifying as the deformed ones in “Wrong Turn”—or rather, they were more realistic; their only advantages were terrain and numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these meant nothing against Louis!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis swiftly climbed the mountain and soon found a hole behind a thicket on the cliffside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a protruding part behind him, a figure wielding an axe rose up, its head emerging; in the sunlight, its shadow engulfed Louis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mutant grinned excitedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fresh meat again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How many days will this meat last?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One, two, three…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget counting—it’ll definitely last many days; finally, no more of those weird, scarce meals!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gah-gah-gah-gah!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Letting out a shrill, unnatural laugh, the axe swung down with precision and force toward Louis’s skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CLANG!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Metal met metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The axe struck one inch from the back of Louis’s skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t move an inch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aow! Aow?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mutant shrieked like a monkey in shock; as he prepared to swing again, the axe inexplicably flipped, slicing straight into his own neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SPLAT!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His head tumbled to the ground, rolling down the cliffside, leaving a vivid red streak on the yellow rock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis still didn’t turn around—he was measuring distance with his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm, this spot’s perfect—out of range of those cameras.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned his head, looking at the unlucky fool who had been killed by the recoil of his own Wan Huan Yi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tsk. Indeed, their physical strength isn’t nearly as terrifying as those in ‘Wrong Turn.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis’s mind shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The headless corpse was placed over the hole; blood dripped through it, flowing downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary people use fishing rods to catch fish; those who aren’t ordinary have far more tricks—like now, using a corpse as bait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sss, never fished before—I almost forgot. Fishing guys always say you need to chum the water.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis’s fingers traced a faint line in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>PUFF!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mutant’s two arms instantly tore apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They fell into the hole; soon, the sound of them striking the rock faded away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given how fast those bastards hunted travelers, they’d find those arms soon enough—no rush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis sat calmly on a rock like a seasoned angler, quietly absorbing the nuclear toxins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His earlier feeling was correct—this place held the most nuclear toxins, and beyond the mountain, there seemed to be more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After draining this spot, I’ll go check that direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he channeled the Poison Body Technique, vast amounts of nuclear toxins were drawn in, gradually dispersing and integrating within his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hammering every muscle, every fiber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Infusing them into every corner of his flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis’s body had already been cleansed by two types of toxins: the icy poison of Crystal Lake and the deathly miasma of the graveyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had strengthened his body and granted him some resistance to cold and darkness attributes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This nuclear toxin, however, felt to Louis like… a supreme tonic!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The speed of his body’s strengthening had increased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His physical condition had already improved by about one-tenth—don’t underestimate that tenth; after all, there’s still plenty of nuclear toxin here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excellent stuff. Excellent stuff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looks like I must go to Nihon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Louis channeled the Poison Body Technique, he thought this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nuclear toxins had thoroughly swept through his entire body; now, even without any protection, he was immune to ordinary radiation. He believed that once he absorbed enough, he’d become completely immune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The threat of nuclear bombs was now partially lifted for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis rubbed his chin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good. One step closer to becoming someone who doesn’t eat beef.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled his scattered thoughts back and glanced at the human fishing rod. “Strange—so long and no bite. Don’t those fishermen get bored?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis’s brow twitched. “Here they come.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fat mutant stared at the two severed arms, his face contorting in rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the five mutants behind him moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each one slithered into the hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Climb-climb-climb—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis’s lips curled slightly upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap-tap-tap—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A burst of bullets sprayed from behind the shrubs on the steep slope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis shook his head. “Not even coming up through this Kong Dong? These fish are truly dishonest.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh! Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the bullets turned around and were returned in kind!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of bullets struck the mutated beings, reducing them instantly to puddles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gunfire erupted violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The assault rifles fired with exceptional power, and in such concentrated volleys—anyone else would have been beaten to death by these creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too bad, Louis was no ordinary man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the bullets were returned in kind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aaaahhh!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid screams and gurgles, the mutated beings were about to meet their end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis stood up, and with a thought, his powerful Yin Shen power severed their necks, granting these unwilling flesh-eating monsters a swift death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hand suddenly burst out from the “fishing rod” Kong Dong before Louis, and a burly man emerged, swinging a heavy cleaver with brutal speed toward Louis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clang!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis extended one finger and blocked the powerful strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cleaver bounced back instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It neatly separated his upper body from his lower body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Splat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the upper half of the mutated being writhing and struggling at his feet, trying to crawl over and bite him, Louis raised an eyebrow and tilted his ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was this thing saying?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s all your fault… all your fault…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You turned us into this…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bang… bang… bang…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No food… no water…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My skin hurts… I’m vomiting blood… Mom’s dead…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everyone is in so much pain…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You turned us like this—so we’re going to eat you, aaaaah!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thrust both hands forward, his eyes blazing crimson with boundless hatred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Splat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He crushed its skull underfoot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis watched coldly the pitiful yet hateful creature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nuclear testing, huh~”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was probably the American government’s filth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their refusal to be human, they were consistently, unchangingly inhuman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis calmed his mind and continued absorbing the surrounding nuclear poison. After draining this area, he entered through the Kong Dong to absorb the remaining nuclear poison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the way, he saw the scattered limbs and spare “food.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them were two or three soldiers still alive, struggling to break free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They shouted for help when they saw Louis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Help! Help!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis ignored them, silently absorbing the poison. Once all the poison was drained, he exited through the Kong Dong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gazing at the endless desert, Louis walked toward the desert ahead of the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, a scattered abandoned village remained, still holding traces of poison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1601,"2026-06-19T23:34:31.517Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","90fac98b0265137b775606fdba40c57e3f920aaa0dac9cc5678580066fe432b6","becoming-a-god-through-horror-chapter-218","becoming-a-god-through-horror-chapter-216",253,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbecoming-a-god-through-horror-cover.jpg"]