Ch 2: New Authority
The sudden turn of events stunned Qin Jin-Nian.
When a loud ‘clang’ rang out, Qin Jin-Nian didn’t hesitate and turned to run!
What was there to wait for if not running? Good Sister had broken free! She didn’t want to slowly seduce him, she was starting to use force!
Wasn’t standing here just waiting to die?
At this moment, even rabbits were Qin Jin-Nian’s grandsons…
In the blink of an eye, he had already jumped to the door…
Although it was the Night of the Blood Moon, all the propaganda was telling him that outside was extremely dangerous, repeatedly urging everyone to keep their doors shut and not go out.
But now Good Sister was about to enter the house, if he didn’t go out, wouldn’t he be eaten?
Watching Qin Jin-Nian smoothly twist the doorknob, about to open the door…
Clang! Clang! Clang! …
“Open the door!”
“Open the door!”
“Open the door!”
A series of window-smashing sounds and roars made Qin Jin-Nian freeze, and then, he subconsciously turned his head back.
And this look made him pause.
The reason was simple…
Because that seemingly ordinary aluminum burglar bar… actually, really stopped Good Sister?
She was constantly smashing outside, but this aluminum burglar bar seemed as solid as a rock, with not even a bit of twisting or deformation occurring.
This?
Qin Jin-Nian’s hand on the doorknob paused, somewhat bewildered.
Could it be that this burglar bar wasn’t made of aluminum? But rather some other advanced Transcendent Being material that looked very similar to aluminum?
But… it shouldn’t be, right? He had been here for three months, often spacing out on the balcony, and had touched this burglar bar. Touching it felt no different from aluminum, and with a little force, it would sway back and forth.
But at this moment, the Good Sister outside… ah, she wasn’t Good Sister anymore, but a Weird Creature.
The terrifyingly disfigured Weird Creature outside could even fly, yet its fist smashing against the burglar bar didn’t even cause it to shake a little?
Was it just scary-looking?
“【You have been subjected to mental corruption. Under the effect of the Authority ‘Dark Eyes’, all mental corruption originating from the dark world will be exempted. You are exempt from this mental corruption…】”
Just as another line of text flashed before his eyes, Qin Jin-Nian suddenly paused, and then began to ponder…
“So, the invasion of Weird Creatures is mainly mental corruption? And not power on the material level? But that’s not right either, normally speaking, a material body can’t stop a mental body, right? After all, the two aren’t in the same dimension. According to common settings… a mental body should be able to easily pass through a material body, right?”
Qin Jin-Nian was stunned for a moment, but quickly didn’t delve any further, instead letting out a long sigh of relief…
Forget it, if I can’t figure it out, I won’t think about it.
In any case, as far as the current situation was concerned, this was a good thing for him.
If Good Sister…pei, the Weird Creature couldn’t get in, then Qin Jin-Nian naturally didn’t need to go out either. He breathed a huge sigh of relief, and released the doorknob.
Then he raised his head to look at that Weird Creature…
The Weird Creature had completely lost its mind, where was there even half a trace of the gentleness and loveliness of the Good Sister from before?
Like a melted wax figure, it was frantically roaring there. Waving its fists, madly bombarding the burglar bar, the loud clanging sounds never stopping… it was just like a crazy bitch who had been dumped and was now hysterical.
The stinky, black-red liquid on its body was also splattering everywhere in the process.
A portion of it, through the two-finger-wide gaps in the burglar bar, directly splashed onto Qin Jin-Nian’s balcony…
“Tsk…”
Qin Jin-Nian saw this and felt somewhat disgusted.
A stinky smell wafted in with the wind, it looked like he would be busy tomorrow, he didn’t know if this stuff was easy to clean, or if it would have…
Before the word ‘poison’ could even pop out of his head, Qin Jin-Nian suddenly froze, and then stared with wide eyes at the black-red liquid that had fallen on the ground…
Because, they actually began to wriggle strangely!
Then, in Qin Jin-Nian’s astonished gaze, after a burst of wriggling, they actually turned into strangely shaped…
Black-red bugs.
The moment he saw the bugs, Qin Jin-Nian felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up!
“No, it can’t be…”
Qin Jin-Nian’s whole body stiffened.
He considered himself to be relatively brave.
Especially after transmigrating and reshaping his worldview… he felt that he could calmly face any demons or monsters.
But if it was bugs…
He felt his whole body go rigid.
Especially since these bugs had scarlet compound eyes and long antennae, looking extremely like cockroaches.
And what was even more deadly was…
The next moment, these bugs that had been born from the scarlet bodily fluids, after shaking their heads a few times, suddenly locked onto Qin Jin-Nian.
“No, no, don’t, don’t do this…”
Qin Jin-Nian’s face was deathly pale, shaking his head, his body stiffly retreating…
The next moment, the bugs suddenly scurried up.
Their speed was also extremely like cockroaches.
Coming straight for Qin Jin-Nian at the door!
“Fuck!”
Qin Jin-Nian only felt his whole body go numb, and after exclaiming ‘fuck’ in a lost voice, he abruptly turned his head, grabbed the doorknob and twisted it downwards with force, wanting to run out.
But this exertion immediately dumbfounded him.
He had forgotten that he had just locked the door!
But now, where was there time to open the door?
The bugs were about to crawl over!
He frantically turned his head back, and immediately saw that these bugs were extremely fast, already close, more than a dozen bugs, with just a few more steps, were about to crawl onto his feet.
And to let these bugs crawl onto his body…
“Going to die, going to die, going to die!…”
Qin Jin-Nian was going crazy.
And at this critical juncture.
Qin Jin-Nian suddenly remembered that he seemed to be a person with superpowers now?
“Shadow Control!!!”
He shouted in panic!
But at this critical moment, his brain was almost blank, and he didn’t issue any specific commands at all.
But unexpectedly, at the instant he shouted it out, the shadows under his feet, like a mass of thorns, exploded open!
A dozen three-dimensional tentacles suddenly protruded from the two-dimensional world, accurately and extremely quickly, only pouncing towards these bugs.
The bugs seemed to sense something, and in the process, they actually paused, jumped, and detoured, wanting to avoid these shadow tentacles.
But the shadow tentacles seemed to have locked onto them, no matter how they dodged, they could actually surround them with extreme agility.
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In just the blink of an eye, the more than a dozen shadow tentacles that had shot out actually bound all of these Weird Creatures bugs, not missing a single one, and wrapped them in mid-air!
‘Squeak squeak squeak’! …
Sharp bug cries rang out.
Qin Jin-Nian was panting heavily with a deathly pale face, supporting himself on the doorframe. He felt his heart pounding like thunder, his hands and feet numb and weak…
Even the Flesh Mountain outside, and the Weird Creature still smashing the window now, and even the Weird Creatures all over the city… didn’t cause Qin Jin-Nian as much of a shadow as facing these bugs!
He spent quite a while before slowly recovering, and then stared blankly at the bugs that were wrapped up by the shadows.
First time using Shadow Control, but… unexpectedly easy to use!
The command he had given just now when his mind was blank, this shadow, could actually complete it so perfectly… without letting any bug crawl onto him…
Thinking like this, he subconsciously looked towards the balcony again.
Immediately afterwards, his expression suddenly changed drastically.
Because, the Weird Creature outside was still smashing the window!
Even more liquid was splattering onto the balcony, and wriggling, transforming there…
Qin Jin-Nian’s face was ashen!
This time the number was two or three times more than before!
“Quick, kill them! Kill them!”
Suddenly, Qin Jin-Nian remembered something, and hurriedly issued a command in a flustered manner.
The bugs that had been caught were still alive, they had to be killed before he could feel at ease.
And with Qin Jin-Nian’s panicked voice, the shadow tentacles waving around him actually suddenly contracted with force.
Only to hear a series of crisp ‘pā pā pā’ sounds, the bugs transformed from this stinky black-red liquid were directly crushed in the shadow tentacles.
Fortunately, no disgusting green, blue, or black juices splattered out… because it seemed to have been blocked by the materialized shadow tentacles.
The whole process… was so easy that Qin Jin-Nian was a little dazed.
But the next moment, the second wave of liquid-transformed bugs quickly crawled in from the balcony.
Qin Jin-Nian’s face changed wildly.
“Catch them!”
He subconsciously wanted to retreat, but found that he had already been forced to the door, unable to advance or retreat. Not having time to think too much, he shouted again.
And this time, the number of bugs was two or three times more than the last time, a full thirty or forty.
All of them swarming in at once…
Please imagine the scene of thirty or forty thumb-sized cockroaches running towards you at the same time.
His trypophobia was directly triggered.
Qin Jin-Nian could barely stand, if he wasn’t supporting himself on the wall, he would probably have collapsed to the ground at this moment.
And with Qin Jin-Nian’s command being issued, the shadow tentacles also suddenly swirled, in the process, the corpses of the previous wave of bugs, pattered and fell all over the ground… but they didn’t turn back into the previous liquid.
Then, after the shadows rotated for an instant, they transformed into black tentacles almost the same number as the bugs, and at the instant these bugs had just run over, they burst out.
Now he was about three meters away from the balcony, and these tentacles directly extended to three meters away, accurately and quickly, locking onto every single bug.
A moment later, they were all entangled, all caught.
This time, Qin Jin-Nian was a little calmer than before, so he saw very clearly how the shadows were flexibly catching these bugs…
As if they had really come alive.
After the bugs were caught by the shadow tentacles, they were still struggling, making sharp ‘squeak’ sounds.
“Kill them!”
Qin Jin-Nian gritted his teeth and shouted decisively again.
Immediately, the shadow tentacles once again strangled with force, and a series of ‘pā pā pā’ sounds rang out…
Seeing that the second wave of bugs had also turned into corpses.
Qin Jin-Nian finally calmed down a little more…
Fortunately, fortunately there was Shadow Control.
Otherwise…
The consequences would have been unimaginable!
Thinking with his ass, he knew that these bugs crawling onto him would definitely not just be as simple as disgusting…
And this Shadow Superpower also seemed to be easier to operate than he had imagined.
For example, the first time he gave an order, he just shouted ‘Shadow Control’… but this shadow, as if knowing what he most desired in his heart, directly transformed into shadow tentacles, and grabbed these bugs…
And afterwards, he only gave simple orders, yet these shadows could completely follow his will, differentiating into a sufficient number of tentacles, controlling all of these bugs…
Very intelligent.
But soon, his slightly relaxed mind became tense again.
Qin Jin-Nian turned his head, and seeing the Weird Creature outside still smashing the window relentlessly, his face turned green and white for a while…
I only let you eat ‘shut door soup’ for a little while, was it really necessary to be so relentless?
And at this moment, suddenly, a sharp stinging sensation suddenly erupted from the depths of his brain. At the same time, it was accompanied by a burst of dizziness.
Qin Jin-Nian staggered, and supported himself on the doorframe again.
The next moment, his expression suddenly changed drastically.
“Crap, Shadow Control consumes mental strength, my mental strength is too weak…”
Thinking of something, he hurriedly looked outside the balcony…
The Weird Creature was still smashing wildly, even more black-red bodily fluids were still splattering into the window.
The third wave was coming!
What to do?
Qin Jin-Nian was completely panicked.
He didn’t want to be covered in these bugs in a moment…
Just imagining this scene made Qin Jin-Nian feel his bladder tingle a little.
And at this moment, a line of text just happened to flash across the corner of his eye.
“【Killed a dark life, awakened the Primary Authority ‘Shadow Devour’.】”
‘Shadow Devour’?
A new Authority?
Qin Jin-Nian was stunned, and then subconsciously, looked towards the panel…