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The huge impact brought huge pain.

My soul seemed to have been smashed into pieces, and my consciousness became unclear.

After breaking through the boundaries of my body once, my soul seemed to hit something, was squeezed, and was squeezed out of the object bit by bit. The soul itself changes, something grows out of the body and pierces the skin.

I should have no skin now, only pure soul left. But the stinging and tearing feeling was so clear.

When I came back to my senses and all the pain disappeared, a spontaneous feeling of joy filled my consciousness.

Something was liberated.

But what followed was an instinct that made me shudder.

I want to destroy, I want to kill... It seems like there is a voice constantly echoing in my mind, ordering me to do something.

Bang!

There was a heavy sound, and I didn't know what kind of heavy object fell to the ground.

Never a bag of rice, a barrel of oil, or even a body. Something heavier...a lion, an elephant, a dinosaur...I can't name it.

The ground seemed to shake.

I also heard screaming.

Screams of fear, shouts at the top of one's lungs, and horrified roars from those who were carried away.

Something hit me. It didn't hurt or itch, just a feeling of being touched.

I finally opened my eyes and saw the sky close at hand.

The sky above the city is gray. It must have been a bad day, with haze, dark clouds...or something else.

The tops of skyscrapers are like the tips of giant swords, piercing the sky.

Above the clouds, lightning seemed to pass by and then disappear immediately.

Without the sun, there is no sunshine. The whole world is dimly lit, and I don't know where the light source is.

I suddenly realized that what was covering the sky was not dark clouds, haze or mist, but the Yin Qi belonging to ghosts.

The Yin Qi that filled the whole world almost turned into another kind of sky, making people unable to see the light of day.

This is where?

I was stunned.

The huge head bowed.

With just one movement, the wind pressure brought up pressed the tiny human under his feet to the ground, unable to move.

Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of the skyscraper next to me. On the glass curtain wall is the ferocious figure of a monster.

It has one horn, scales, and lies on all fours, with a soft belly covered in long hair. The monster's face looks like a horse or a dragon.

Kirin!

This term came to my mind.

The legendary mythical beast.

But this monster is somewhat different from the legendary Kirin. Its four legs are not hooves, but fleshy claws similar to those of cats. Its eyes are also very strange, like fish eyes, without eyelids.

But who knows what the real Qilin looks like?

No, this is not what I should be thinking about now.

How did this monster appear? Where is this?

I recalled that I was originally looking at Qingye's file, and saw the temple priest taking out the Kirin's scales. Did I enter the dreamland because of this, and dream about the unicorn?

I feel incredible.

What a unicorn. How could it be in a modern city?

The people running for their lives were like ants, too small for Qilin.

Qilin's nose spurted white breath.

I felt a red coating on my retinas. The desire to kill emerged again, covering his reason.

Qilin started running. Every step caused the earth to shake. The surrounding skyscrapers were shaking.

The people on the ground were trampled into the cement floor by the meat pads, forming one after another inconspicuous potholes.

Swinging claws tore through the glass walls of skyscrapers.

In an instant, the collapsed houses turned into rubble, burying more people beneath them.

I heard the monster roar.

On the ground, the screams of those people were drowned out. It seemed like there was only one long roar left in the world.

Anger, anxiety, bloodthirsty...all kinds of negative emotions washed over my consciousness over and over again.

This monster only wants to destroy.

In its mind, the murmuring voice was repeating, urging it to continue killing.

what happened?

What is it...

The monster's movements suddenly stopped, shook its head, and looked behind it.

Behind it is the corner of the city it just destroyed.

I suddenly realized that this monster probably appeared out of thin air.

The ruins of the city extend from the soles of the monster's feet to where my dream began.

There were screams from other places, but they were not destroyed.

A monster falling from the sky?

No, it's not that.

In the yin energy that permeates the world, I saw a little bit of unique yin energy through the monster's eyes.

That's a ghost.

He stood at the starting point of the monster, looking down at something. He also leaned down and reached out to grab something.

Collapsed roads and buildings blocked the monster's view.

But I felt the monster's anger.

It roared again.

The ghost raised its head.

That face——

I was startled, but before I could react, the monster spread out its limbs and ran towards the ghost.

The ghost picked up something on the ground and backed away quickly.

Such two inhuman things chasing each other in a modern city will lead to a catastrophe!

Roads collapsed, houses were destroyed, and countless people died. My eyes and ears cannot catch it.

But this scene makes me feel inexplicably familiar.

When and where have I seen something like this...more than once...

It’s definitely not movies or TV, but I have seen such real scenes with my own eyes.

Before I had time to search through my memory, the monster had already swooped down to catch the ghost.

The distance between the two things shortened to less than ten meters.

I saw clearly what the ghost looked like and what he was holding in his hand.

In the blink of an eye, Yin Qi spurted out from the ghost.

A huge amount of Yin Qi condensed in front of him with a roaring sound that broke through the air. A giant with three heads and six arms appeared out of thin air, stood in front of the monster, and collided with the monster's horn.

It collapsed with one blow.

The Yin Qi dissipated and the ghost disappeared.

The monster lingered angrily, looking for traces of the ghost.

Its claws dug into the ground, dug out underground pipes, and even dug out a subway that passed through this place.

Such a city should be considered a first- and second-tier city.

There are people taking refuge in the subway. None of them were spared.

The monster's target was not them, but it crushed them into powder in the process.

It roared into the sky and ran through the city, looking for traces of the ghost.

The entire city was almost flattened.

To my surprise, no one came to stop it.

There is no army, no armed forces.

It seems like this is just an empty shell of a city.

There were some vehicles speeding on the road, all escaping out of the city. There are some lights in the city, but they are not brightly lit.

This city is very weird. There are modern cities everywhere with a large population but no atmosphere of life.

From another perspective, it seems that the people here have already anticipated the monster that is about to appear out of thin air, and have begun to evacuate first.

Or maybe this place itself is just a transit station...

The monster's movements suddenly stopped.

It's sharper than me.

Turning around, it flew in the other direction.

The yin energy belonging to the ghost disappeared in a flash.

The city was completely destroyed. But I still recognized the location using some ruins as coordinates.

That's where the monster appears.

The ghost appeared there again carrying something.

The monster pounced and brought down its front paws hard.

The ground was filled with dust, but it was empty again.

etc!

I suddenly felt something.

The monster felt it too, roaring and spinning in circles, its claws digging deeper.

A big hole was dug in the ground.

The city became quiet at some point, leaving only monsters digging holes here.

As the monster moved, the surrounding air began to change.

The monster roared again.

The claws fell, not into the hard or soft rocky soil, but as if they penetrated under the water.

It used force and tore open the thing under its claws.

At the same time, something sharp grazed its claws.

It made a deafening cry in pain and subconsciously withdrew its claws.

On that claw, a small piece of scale disappeared, leaving a small wound.

Under the claws, the ground rippled.

I felt a huge pulling force from it, my soul was pulled again, and I felt the tearing pain.