Chapter 2: Cavity Person

【Weird Name: ______】

The cursor flickered in the void, awaiting its "god" to bestow a name.

Chu Che thought of the young man's heart that should have been his, but was violently taken away.

【Weird Name: Cavity Person】

A character input made the editor interface tremble slightly.

Next comes the Core within the Core—Murder Rule.

Chu Che's first thought was to set a simple and elegant Murder Rule: once a target is locked, there is no escape.

However, the editor's cold prompt quickly dispelled his unrealistic notion.

【Warning: Editor's initial 'Karma' is 100, unable to set large‑scale, high‑concept Murder Rules.】

【Please lower the rule's intensity, or add trigger restrictions.】

Indeed.

It's the same as playing a game; beginning with a clean slate and trying to cast a banned spell to wipe the entire map in an instant is nothing but a fool's dream.

Chu Che was not discouraged; the gaze behind his lenses burned even hotter.

Constraints sometimes give rise to more perfect art.

Since it can't be achieved in one go, he'll change the approach.

What he wants is not just the outcome, but also the process.

What he wants is a meticulously staged, wonderful revenge drama.

Chu Che's fingers danced rapidly in the void, and line after line of rules tinged with a chilling dread were finalized one by one.

【Murder Rule Stage One: Fear Erosion】

【After locking a target, the Cavity Person will lurk around it. It can slightly interfere with physics, creating inexplicable strange sounds and object displacement. It can affect the target's mind, causing palpitations, auditory and visual hallucinations, and continuously weakening its intellect.】

【Murder Rule Stage Two: Manifestation】

【When the target's fear resistance (san value) drops to zero, at the instant its mental defenses verge on collapse, the Cavity Person will breach the barrier between the void and the physical world, revealing its true form before the target.】

【Murder Rule Stage Three: Cardiac Shock】

【After manifesting, the Cavity Person will swiftly chase the target; once it catches up, it will touch the target's chest with an illusory hand, "stealing" the heart's "life". The target's heart will cease beating instantly and become completely necrotic. A forensic report will state: acute heart failure.】

The three‑stage rule progresses layer by layer, from mind to body, pushing the prey step by step toward the abyss of death.

Chu Che looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction.

This is far more interesting than a simple, brute‑force direct kill...

【Rule setting complete, evaluating Murder Rule......】

【Evaluation complete! The current Murder Rule requires 100 'Karma'.】

【Generating Weird Cavity Person......】

【Initializing...... 1%......】

A teal progress bar slowly advanced at the bottom of the editor interface.

Chu Che nudged his glasses; the lenses reflected the cold metallic glint of the morgue cabinet.

He gave one last glance at the drawer labeled "B4", turned, and left without taking a single cloud.

He opened the heavy iron door of the morgue, walked out, and casually used a disinfectant wipe to meticulously clean the door handle and each of his fingers.

All traces were erased completely clean.

As for the surveillance?

He wasn't worried.

The hospital, for its "business", naturally cannot have good surveillance.

Next, he only needs to go home, brew a cup of hot tea, and then, using the editor's built‑in "God View" feature, leisurely enjoy the revenge premiere tailor‑made for the Cavity Person.

His first work, his first Apostle, will harvest its prey, bringing him the initial accumulation of "Karma".

Inside the morgue, the suffocating silence returned.

Only the faint hum of the refrigeration equipment echoed in the air.

In the icy darkness, time lost its meaning.

It was unclear how long had passed.

Within drawer "B4", above the young corpse, a vague black shadow slowly coalesced into shape.

"I... where is this?"

Zhou Xiaosheng "opened" his eyes.

But what he saw was not the ceiling, but the top cover of a metal drawer.

The perspective was strange.

He lowered his head.

Then, he saw "himself".

A pale, swollen face, eyes tightly shut, brows unable to relax, as if lingering with pre‑death resentment.

The tightly sutured wound on the chest resembled an ugly centipede crawling on the skin.

"......"

Zhou Xiaosheng was stunned.

I'm dead? But why can I see my own corpse?

Out‑of‑body experience?

Countless chaotic thoughts exploded in his "mind".

Immediately after, a wave of seemingly innate information forcefully poured into his consciousness.

Cavity Person

Murder Rule: Fear Corrosion, Manifestation, Cardiac Shock......

He instantly understood his current situation.

He died.

Then, he became a ghost.

A...... ghost that possesses the Murder Rule, called "Cavity Person".

So after death, people really do become monsters......

He tried to move his "body".

There was no tactile sensation, no weight, only a light, floating void that seemed ready to disperse at any moment.

He easily passed through the metal drawer and hovered in midair.

Using the dim light, he saw his current form reflected on the shiny wall.

A semi‑transparent humanoid outline, the face still as it was before death, but the eyes hollow and lifeless.

The most shocking sight was his chest.

There, a bottomless void, from whose edges black resentment drifted out in thin strands.

His heart was gone.

Boom!

The gate of memory thundered open at that moment.

The cold lights of the operating room.

The chief surgeon Liu Guodong's hypocritical face.

The last words he heard before the anesthetic took effect.

"Move faster, Manager Li is still waiting over there!"

And...... his mother, who had suffered all her life.

He seemed able to see the world collapse in an instant when his mother received the news of his death.

The day he was admitted to university, his mother, under the old locust tree at the village entrance, smiled with a face full of wrinkles.

When he received his first scholarship, he bought his mother new clothes; she scolded him for spending frivolously, yet turned around and bragged to anyone she met.

He said that once he graduated and found a good job, he would bring his mother to the big city to enjoy a comfortable life.

He said......

Everything he said turned to bubbles.

—On what grounds?

Just because that so‑called "Manager Li" is rich and powerful?

Just because Zhou Xiaosheng is a powerless, penniless student?

So his life can be trampled at will? His heart can be taken away like a commodity?

A sky‑high hatred erupted like a volcano, instantly filling his entire consciousness!

On that plain, optimistic face, a grimace of ferocity and resentment appeared for the first time.

He wants revenge!

He wants those people to pay blood‑for‑blood!

A name, magnified to the extreme within his grudge.

Liu Guodong!

The executioner who personally slit his chest and took his heart!

It's him!

I will kill him!

When that thought arose, a strange resonance formed a link between him and some distant existence.

He could "sense" Liu Guodong's location.

Like a hound that smells blood.

He knows his "Murder Rule".

He will make Liu Guodong collapse piece by piece in endless fear and remorse.

He will let Liu Guodong also taste that helpless despair of watching one's life slip away.

"Liu...... Guo...... Dong......"

A hoarse, resentful, inhuman whisper echoed in the empty morgue.

The figure of the Cavity Person turned into a wisp of black smoke, effortlessly piercing the heavy wall.