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Luo Kai was shocked last night, and having been busy with the investigation for almost the entire day, he hadn't slept at all. He felt quite tired now but thought that he needed to deal with that matter as soon as possible.

After all, this could be the first supernatural event affecting the present world since the changes.

And it was a place they had once ventured into.

After hanging up the phone, Luo Kai entered the Script Space to use some Psychic Power Items to restore his condition before he headed to the hotel lobby to wait.

Before long, the familiar silver-gray sedan drove up.

Luo Kai opened the door, got into the front passenger seat, and the car quickly drove off.

"The village had an incident yesterday, but the officials clamped down on the information immediately. With the mountains so high and the roads so long, no one else has noticed anything wrong with the village yet," said Luo Kai as he tore open a chocolate's wrapper.

"There must be villagers who go out to work," Xu Shuo glanced at the navigation system.

"Definitely, but I suppose the officials will have follow-up arrangements. Anyway, this matter won't be made public," Luo Kai said, chewing on the chocolate.

The village was so small on the map it wasn't marked, including the area within the red elevated bridge, the whole area was referred to as Yuhua Dam.

They had been there once before, and this time they knew their way around. However, as they were about to turn from the national highway to the village road, there were roadblocks ahead.

Those stopping the vehicles were dressed as traffic police.

"The road ahead has collapsed and cannot be passed, where are you headed?" A person approached and asked as the car window was rolled down.

"We're going to Caotang Village ahead. We're friends of Old Mr. Zhang's son. He bought some things for the old man and asked us to bring them over, and we're also there to check on the elder's health," Xu Shuo smiled and said, "If we can't get through here, is there another way around?"

"Oh, this is the only road that leads there, but it collapsed a couple of days ago. It will probably take a while before the road is fixed," said the officer.

"What to do then? Old Mr. Zhang's son hasn't heard from him in years, and his work really keeps him tied down. It was a special request to us to help check on the situation," Xu Shuo expressed his concern.

"There's nothing that can be done, this route is impassable. You should come back in a few days," said the officer, shifting his gaze away.

"Alright."

Xu Shuo sighed, backed the car out of the village road, and quickly left along the way they had come, while the few traffic officers watched their car disappear.

Luo Kai stopped looking back, clicked his tongue and said, "The officials are incredibly fast."

It was staggering that such a remote village had suffered an incident and yet it had been detected immediately and placed under lockdown.

And they had actually sealed off the entire stretch of the village road.

Once you entered the village road, in reality, there was still a long distance to the actual village, and similarly, several other village roads led to it.

"There's been quite a stir near the elevated bridge recently. Maybe others have come to inspect the situation as well, and just happened to encounter it," Xu Shuo said as he parked the car by the roadside and started studying the navigation.

"This road is sealed, and the others are probably sealed too; we'll have to walk over the mountains," Luo Kai said.

"Mhm."

After studying the map, Xu Shuo drove around in a large circle and eventually parked the car deep in a thicket, off the road.

This direction was closer to the village.

As soon as they got out of the car, Luo Kai couldn't wait to pull out his cigarettes and light one.

Xu Shuo organized the items in the car, then took out some tools, got out, and pried off both the front and back license plates, finally walking a bit further away to bury them in the ground.

Luo Kai: "…"

This guy is infuriatingly cautious!

It was already sunset, the afterglow fell upon the desolate mountains and ridges, the silence between heaven and earth adding to the desolation. The breeze swept through, revealing only glimpses of the car hidden in the bushes.

Dressed like average climbers, they carried sticks in their hands, making their way on foot over the mountains on a desolate path.

But just after crossing a few mountains and standing on an open mountainside to look far into the distance, they could faintly make out several armed police patrols arranged around a basin.

"It's tight as a drum," Luo Kai sighed, "We can only try again later in the evening."

From this distance, they couldn't investigate exactly what happened in the village, and the cover of night would make infiltration easier.

According to Luo Kai, his script had collapsed without warning and the system's explanation was an unstable Subspace barrier.

A recently extracted first-level script's space unstable?

Even a newbie wouldn't believe that!

Luo Kai was quick-witted. He thought of the script's origin, where, not long ago, an Abyss Rift had opened up.

So close in proximity, right when a script appeared, it might have been influenced by something.

Thus, Xu Shuo spent an entire day utilizing his connections in the real world to inquire and finally gained a faint idea of what had happened.

Everyone in the entire village died an unnatural death!

Luo Kai solemnly lit a cigarette.

Xu Shuo glanced at the gradually darkening sky and took out his phone to send Xu Xi a message.

After all, he had mentioned that he would return for dinner that night, but with the urgency of the situation, he had no choice but to cancel on Xu Xi. He had been sulking over a couple of dishes at noon, which should be enough for her to continue eating into the evening.

If that didn't work out, she could order takeout.

The reason Xu Shuo gave was overtime at work.

[Okay.]

Then Xu Xi replied with those two dry words.

Xu Shuo stared at the phone for a while, then turned off the signal and put it in his pocket.

The two of them waited halfway up the mountain for almost over two hours until the early June skies were completely dark, and distant lights from the basin area began to glow faintly.

In this desolate and silent wilderness, those faint lights looked as if they were being swallowed by the Abyss.

"Tch." Luo Kai suddenly scoffed.

Xu Shuo looked over there.

In the pitch-black night, there seemed to be something floating in the faint light. Although desolate during the day, it could still be considered picturesque.

However, when night consumed the mountains, the basin surrounded by them instantly resembled the gaping mouth of a ferocious beast, waiting for its prey to leap into it.

A foreboding and cold aura spread through the area.

Neither of them immediately went over but observed from where they were for a while longer. When they didn't see anything unusual happening there, they finally began to descend the mountain.

...

Even before they got close to the village, a foul stench of decay reached them.

It was like the musty odor from an underground sewer, or the putrid smell of food left out too long and turned rancid; this kind of smell could make one dizzy and uncomfortable after prolonged exposure.

There were people standing guard around the village, and the authorities had actually put up an electricity grid around it, although it wasn't high.

"Do you think, our world could start evolving towards the supernatural?"

Crouching in the bushes, Luo Kai looked towards the grid and whispered, "The script I extracted originally was a simple one, but the deaths inside were tragic. I suspect it has mutated."

"How did they die?" Xu Shuo asked opportunistically.

"The victim was trafficked here, but there was no sign of pregnancy for two years, so she was often abused and beaten. She could only sleep on the kitchen floor at night," said Luo Kai. "Then, one night, realizing an outsider was trying to force her, she struggled and was strangled to death by the assailant. No one in the village has found out who it was that night."

"Where did she die?" Xu Shuo asked again.

"There."

Luo Kai pointed him in a direction, but it was too dark to see the specifics due to the night and obstructive houses.

Xu Shuo focused on that place, where the light from the searchlights spread around, clearly illuminating most of the buildings and silhouettes of people.

As he watched that spot, suddenly, he felt a gaze coming from the opposite side.
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The next moment, accompanied by an immediate chilly shudder that covered his entire body, it felt like a reflex caused by some disgusting thing staring at him.

Xu Shuo inwardly cursed a bad feeling.

Because he remembered his title; although it was never specifically stated whether the title had any effect in the real world, it was connected with the Abyss!

If this village's mutation really was caused by the Abyss—

"Boom!"

In an instant, the house obscured by the shadows exploded without warning, and the deafening noise was incredibly terrifying in the night!

Among the dim light, wood shavings flew in all directions, accompanied by a huge shadow that swelled up!

...