Chapter 267: Two Hundred Sixty-Three: The Beast of Chaos

Two Hundred Sixty-Three: The Beast of Chaos

Lin Ling walked toward Fang Mu holding the nail and hammer, saying with a smile, "Just kidding. I will tell you carefully how to use them."

Fang Mu subconsciously took half a step back, but he quickly realized that such a display seemed too composed, fearing it might cause the other party dissatisfaction, so he forced his muscles to tense up and stopped retreating, bracing himself as he watched Lin Ling walk toward him.

At a distance of about one step away from him, Lin Ling stopped, raised the nail, pointed the tip at his heart, and raised the hammer, looking as if he might strike down at any moment; Fang Mu was so nervous that his limbs couldn't help but tremble.

As if he hadn't noticed, Lin Ling said slowly, "The method to use them is also very simple; just aim at the body and hammer it in."

"... Who do you want me to chisel with this? The Toad God?" Fang Mu's expression changed drastically. He was an ordinary person who might not even be able to beat a stray dog; asking him to attack a sinister deity—wasn't this sending him to his death?

Lin Ling smiled slightly, put away his dangerous posture, handed the nail and hammer to Fang Mu, and said softly, "Not necessarily, you could also chisel yourself."

Fang Mu's lips twitched. This boss was truly abnormal. Looking at the nail and hammer in his hand, he asked sullenly, "What is the use of this nail and hammer?"

Hearing this, Lin Ling did not answer him immediately, but instead said, "Do you want to know the origin of this nail and hammer?"

"Please, enlighten me." Fang Mu nodded.

Lin Ling sat back down on the recliner and recounted: "Once there was a... strange beast called Chaos. It had eyes but could not see, ears but could not hear, a nose but could not breathe, and a mouth but could not speak or taste, yet it possessed intelligence like a human. It had two neighbors, one living on the southern sea and one on the northern sea. The two neighbors often came to visit it, and it liked these two neighbors very much, often entertaining them warmly."

As time went on, both neighbors were very grateful to Chaos for its warm hospitality, and at the same time felt embarrassed, because every time they could eat, drink, and play well, while Chaos, as the host, could not enjoy the same pleasures with them. So the two neighbors discussed whether they should help it and make it become like them.

To let its eyes open and see all things in the world; its nose breathe and smell fragrant scents; its ears hear and listen to the sounds of all things in the world; its mouth speak and taste, express moods, and enjoy delicious food.

No sooner said than done, so they forged a nail and a hammer and opened one aperture on Chaos every day. As a result, after seven days, Chaos died."

Lin Ling's story ended here; the plot was jumpy, bizarre, and strange, exceeding the scope of human logical thinking and understanding.

Fang Mu trembled all over, feeling that the nail and hammer in his hand had become exceptionally heavy. "Could it be that this nail and hammer..."

"That's right." Lin Ling smiled slightly, "They were left behind by those two good neighbors of Chaos."

"So... this pair of nail and hammer can kill a god?" Fang Mu's breathing was heavy, his eyes shining, feeling as if he had obtained a divine weapon.

Lin Ling blinked, noncommittal, "As long as you can chisel it in."

Fang Mu quickly regained his composure, feeling that his previous thought was a bit silly. This nail and hammer might indeed have divine and strange power, but he was just an ordinary person. Let alone using this divine artifact to attack the Toad God, he didn't even have the opportunity or courage to face the Toad God. If the Toad God were present, he would likely be easily eliminated by the other party before even seeing the other party's shadow.

Therefore, this nail and hammer were definitely not meant for dealing with the Toad God...

Thinking of what Lin Ling had said in a joking tone earlier, "You could also chisel yourself," Fang Mu shuddered, a bad premonition welling up in his heart.

"That will be 500 yuan, please." When Fang Mu's gaze turned to Lin Ling, he saw the other party smiling at him and saying.

Fang Mu felt as if he had had a dream, but the weight and texture of the nail and hammer in his hand let him know that he had experienced a strange encounter.

Fang Mu wanted to look back at the forest he had walked out of, but found that there was no way back; that forest was gone, and he had returned to that dark and deep cave, with the croaking of toads echoing from near and far all around.

Thinking of the method of using the nail and hammer, and thinking that it was to be chiseled into his own Seven Orifices, Fang Mu immediately felt a chill, but he gritted his teeth and thought: "If... if I really am the father of Fang Jianhua and Fang Jingjing, if I returned to the past for some reason in the future, then this means I won't die next, at least not die here, die at this time, so even if I really chisel into my own Seven Orifices, I will be fine, right?"

Fang Mu raised the nail and hammer, pointed the nail head at his eye, thought for a moment, and then turned it to his left ear.

In the darkness, a sound of increasingly rapid breathing came.

Clang!

Following the sound of a metallic collision, the sound of flesh being pierced rang out at the same time, followed immediately by a heart-wrenching wail that resounded throughout the entire dark cave...

After Fang Mu left, the three employees of the Forest Cabin were still unsatisfied with the story Lin Ling told. The woman in white, Chen Xiaolin, asked Lin Ling curiously, "Boss, does the story of the monster Chaos you just told have a sequel?"

"It does." Lin Ling, who was leisurely drinking tea, took a sip and nodded gently.

"May I ask what happened afterwards?" Chen Xiaolin asked curiously. Although she had already died as a human, her curious nature as a journalist had persisted.

Lin Ling looked sentimental and said, "What else could happen? Having killed their friendly neighbor and friend with their own hands, they went mad."

Chen Xiaolin was stunned upon hearing this, not expecting that deities could be so fragile; they went mad just because of that?

While Chen Xiaolin was muttering to herself, the employee in black, Li Duojin, was flipping through a strange book in the shop titled "Divine Classic of Strange Spirits". Lin Laoban had said that if they were interested, they could read the books on the corner shelf of the shop. He vaguely remembered seeing an introduction to the monster "Chaos" in this book.

After flipping through it for a long while, he finally found the text describing the monster Chaos: West of Kunlun there is a beast, its shape is like a dog, long hair and four legs, like a bear but without claws, has eyes but cannot see, cannot move, has two ears but cannot hear, knows when someone comes, has a belly but no five internal organs, has intestines, straight and not revolving, food passes straight through. If a person has virtue, it will resist and collide with them; if a person has evil virtue, it will lean on them. Heaven made it so, named Chaos.

The approximate meaning translated is: In the west of Kunlun Mountain, there is a monster. Its appearance is like a dog, with hair and four legs, and also like a bear but without claws. It has eyes but cannot see, and cannot move away; it has a pair of ears but cannot hear, and knows when someone comes; it has a belly but no five internal organs; it has intestines but they are straight and do not revolve, and food passes straight through. If it encounters a person with noble character, it will resist and collide with them; if it encounters a person with corrupt character, it will approach them and let them be ordered around. It is Heaven that made it so, named Chaos.

"A monster that cannot distinguish between good and evil, chaotic and unbearable, turning black and white upside down." Li Duojin muttered to himself, "Then aren't the two deities who were treated kindly by Chaos... not good?"

He flipped through a few more books on the shelf and found that this monster Chaos had quite a background, actually bearing the title of one of the Four Great Fierce Beasts.

One of the old manuscripts he flipped through specifically stated Chaos's abilities. While reading, Li Duojin couldn't help but glance at Lin Laoban, because he recognized that this was the boss's handwriting.

He saw it written in common language on the manuscript: Chaos is the reverse of all things positive, the inversion of the beautiful, the root of confusion, the manifestation of turbidity. Since Shu and Hu accidentally chiseled it to death, Shu and Hu were forced to bear its karma, and thus went mad.

What is Shu and Hu?

Shu and Hu, dwelling in the southern and northern seas, govern time and space. After bearing the karma of Chaos, the two became turbid, blurred and unclear, time and space entangled, all things returning to one, one becoming all things, transcending and becoming liberated. Now the name is widely spread—The Transcender of All Things.