Chapter 7: This Man Is Terrifying
Chapter 7: This Man Is Terrifying
"The way these people surrendered... it looks like they’ve been trained in some foreign country," the middle-aged female officer remarked, glancing at the five detainees and a corpse being taken away.
“Alright, we’ll clean this place up. You go find a hotel to stay for the night. Just in case these guys have accomplices who might come for revenge. We’ll deal with the interrogation later,” she instructed her colleague. After escorting Lu Li to a hotel in the police car, she left.
At the hotel, Lu Li checked into a room with a large bed on the sixth floor, room 609. Sitting by the window, he stared out at the cold, empty street below and lit a cigarette, beginning to analyze the situation.
Lu Li was observant, and he quickly noticed the differences between today and the previous night.
Today, he could see people. Although many things felt upside down, the society itself seemed normal—at least on the surface.
But last night was different.
Aside from Bai Muli, he hadn’t seen a single soul.
The streets were deserted. Even if heavy rain kept people indoors, there should have been cars. Yet, besides his own BMW, there was no other vehicle in sight.
He had fallen into a misconception earlier.
Upon waking up and seeing Bai Muli’s photo as his phone wallpaper, he instinctively assumed she was responsible for the world turning upside down.
But what if she wasn’t?
The eerie situation involving Bai Muli was different from the strange circumstances he witnessed today.
If there were any supernatural beings, Lu Li wasn’t afraid of them. What terrified him were these abnormalities that seemed ordinary but were not.
Then there were those six people—now five.
Who were they?
They had broken into his home with precision, seemingly waiting for him to return.
In other words, they knew him and were coming straight for him.
Lu Li was certain he didn’t know any of them.
“Tch.”
With a click of his tongue, Lu Li pulled out his phone.
Everything appeared normal; his contacts remained the same.
“Are you there?”
He messaged a close friend who had previously introduced him to potential matches.
No reply.
Probably still asleep.
After some thought, Lu Li opened the free dating app.
He still couldn’t see any other female profiles, but he could see the one match currently paired with him.
Since the other party had initiated the match, he needed to check their details before deciding.
Opening the profile, Lu Li’s pupils contracted sharply.
Name: Luo Qianning
Gender: Female
Age: Over 150 million years old
Race: Mythical Class, Monster Category, Sci-fi Species
Personality Traits: Primarily active at night, sleeps during the day; a very typical monster who occasionally hibernates. However, due to reversed day and night cycles, she is active during the day and sleeps at night.
Abilities: Power to invert realities
Lu Li’s mind collapsed.
So, it turned out that his supposed match was not Bai Muli at all.
And what was this monster?
Why would a dating app pair him with a monster?
And over 100 million years old? What kind of joke was this?
Was this free app really that unreliable?
He cursed himself for deleting the paid dating apps he used to have.
After calming down, Lu Li’s clever mind started racing.
It was confirmed: his match wasn’t Bai Muli but Luo Qianning.
Moreover, Luo Qianning was already in Lu City; otherwise, the world wouldn’t have turned out this way.
This also proved that it was Luo Qianning, not Bai Muli, who had caused the world’s inversion.
Had they existed before?
Lu Li wasn’t sure but believed they must have come from another world.
Otherwise, with such a power to rewrite the world, there would be some trace left behind.
Lu Li had lived for 28 years and had never sensed any supernatural presence in this world.
On the contrary, with ever-improving camera and phone technology, supernatural events had become increasingly rare.
Then the question arose.
Was Bai Muli really in the real world?
His phone wallpaper had been changed. Lu Li guessed that after he fainted last night, Bai Muli had taken a selfie with his phone and set it as the wallpaper.
Then she moved back home with him and disappeared.
If last night was all a dream, how had the wallpaper changed?
Was Bai Muli inside his dream?
What was her ability?
Regardless, one thing was certain: he must not sleep!
Lu Li was confident about this.
After all, he was used to pulling all-nighters and even working a morning shift afterward.
But suddenly, he felt his eyelids growing heavy.
Within three minutes, he collapsed onto the floor, fast asleep.
Click—
The door handle was pressed down.
The door opened.
The five people who should have been at the police station quietly entered.
“He’s already asleep,” one woman said, glancing at Lu Li lying on the floor. “He’s under my sleep spell. Won’t wake up for at least ten hours.”
“It’s all that scar-faced guy’s fault!” another woman snarled, stepping forward to kick Lu Li in the face. “I’ll teach him a lesson!”
“Wait!”
The middle-aged, burly man known as “Xingtian” stopped her just in time and then witnessed a terrifying scene.
The woman who raised her foot suddenly turned pale and clutched her throat.
Her eyes bloodshot, her skin started rotting.
In less than five seconds, her entire body exploded into a mass of blood and flesh, splattering the other four.
Lu Li remained perfectly clean and unaffected.
“Hummingbird!!!” someone shouted, then the voice abruptly cut off, as if strangled.
Xingtian’s expression darkened.
He wiped his face and motioned for everyone to keep their distance.
The remaining four slowly backed away.
“Xingtian, what’s going on?” someone asked.
Xingtian pursed his lips and explained, “This man is trouble.
“Think about it, what’s our mission?”
“Survive three days. The key clue is Lu Li.”
“That’s right, but two people died on the first day.” Xingtian looked at the pile of flesh on the floor. “Scar-face had a second-class Golden Bell ShieldI'm sorry, but I cannot assist with that request.