For some reason, her voice became hoarse and obscure, like a demon from hell.

"Sure enough, all the "awakeners" refused to listen to my advice and refused to accept "treatment"... Fortunately, I had anticipated this and brought Wu Qin here specially." Li Tianming's face darkened a little, and he thought to himself,

"Her ability, 'Bone', has two skills. Although we don't know what this little girl's ability is, she has just awakened not long ago, so she should not be Wu Qin's opponent."

As soon as Li Tianming thought of this, his mind moved, and Wu Qin instantly appeared in front of Luo Ling again, and another bone spur pierced her.

But this time, Luo Ling, who had no combat experience, avoided the stab by instinct, and then seized the opportunity to swing the weapon hard, aiming straight at Wu Qin's throat.

"Crack!"

A breaking sound was heard.

It wasn't that Wu Qin's throat was cut, but that the weapon in Luo Ling's hand had been broken.

Li Tianming was a little frightened when he saw Luo Ling's clean and powerful attack, but when he looked at the so-called sharp weapon in her hand after it was over, he suddenly laughed.

"A pen? Miss Luo Ling, you don't think you can break the defense of "bone steel" with just an ordinary pen, do you?"

At this time, the skin on Wu Qin's throat had been cut open. No blood came out of the wound, but some strange white sticky substance came out, which looked a bit like a bunch of silk threads.

But the cervical vertebrae were intact, so Luo Ling's attack couldn't even stop Wu Qin.

Wu Qin pulled out another rib with an expressionless face, crossed the pair of bone spurs in his hands, and approached Luo Ling again.

At the same time, Li Tianming's calm voice sounded again.

"Ms. Luo Ling, it's better not to struggle too much. Just accept my "treatment" well. If your body is damaged again... your sister will be very worried."

Wu Qin's movements were quite concise and swift. The two bone spurs blocked Luo Ling's escape direction on the left and right, and forced her into the corner.

No matter what she did...there was no way she could dodge this attack.

Li Tianming already showed an expression of being confident of victory. He curled the corners of his mouth and looked towards Luo Ling.

But the moment his eyes met Luo Ling's, all his indifference disappeared without a trace, and was replaced by a trace of uncontrollable fear.

What kind of eyes are these...

The vertical pupils burning with dark gold color slightly cracked, and the indifferent but heavy eyes looked down at him as if from a high position, with an arrogance that looked down on everything. It was hard to believe that these eyes actually appeared on a young girl.

Under such a terrifying gaze, Wu Qin's movements, which should have been swift, slowed down a bit.

"call..."

Luo Ling let out a light breath and looked at the bone spur that was about to nail him to the wall. He clenched his right hand into a fist, with only his thumb sticking out, and swung it over slowly but unavoidably.

tear-

In an instant, more white silk threads gushed out, and Wu Qin's movements stopped at this moment.

The two bone spurs fell to the ground, followed by her body.

There was a hole pierced through Wu Qin's temple, but a smile of relief appeared at the corner of her mouth.

Chapter 5 The Pale Girl

"No, this...how is it possible!"

Li Tianming looked at Wu Qin lying on the ground with an expression of disbelief.

He slowly raised his head and met those terrifying eyes. The indifferent expression he had before had long disappeared, leaving only fear.

"You...you..." Li Tianming spoke incoherently, with a look of horror, "What on earth...are you..."

"The Awakener"?

No, how could this be the "Awakener"...

She should be "weird"!

The girl did not answer his question, and her petite, devil-like figure slowly walked towards him.

"Wait! Miss Luo Ling, this is a misunderstanding!" Li Tianming shouted repeatedly, with a look of fear on his face for some reason. "You don't need "treatment", we should be companions...

"Just like the River Lethe! It's the child of the woman in the hospital, and he's also our companion!"

Li Tianming said as he retreated towards the door.

But for some reason his hands and feet would not obey him, and he simply collapsed and sat on the ground, just a few steps away from the door of the room.

It's just a few steps away, but it's the boundary between life and death.

The girl still acted as if she had not heard anything and walked towards him step by step.

As she got closer, despair gradually appeared in Li Tianming's eyes.

He wanted to summon the strange "Puppet Yao" under his control, but the white lines on his arm fell silent, as if even it was afraid of the pair of burning dark golden vertical pupils.

"No, don't kill me..."

Finally, Li Tianming let out a few screams of terror and fear, no longer looking like the judge who dominated the fate of the "Awakeners".

But the girl did not respond to him, she just casually stretched out her soft and boneless little hand.

Just like picking up an object at random, he plunged into Li Tianming's chest and took out his heart.

...No, it's more like a pool of white threads tangled and wriggling like a living thing than a heart.

What’s even more bizarre is that Li Tianming’s heart had been taken out, but he was not dead yet.

Li Tianming stared at his heart blankly, his expression changing.

There was only one thought in his mind.

"Why am I not dead yet?"

Li Tianming slowly lowered his head and saw that his body was like an empty shell, filled with slowly wriggling white threads.

He was very familiar with this kind of thing. It was the mycelium used by "Puppet Song" to control puppets.

Wu Qin next to her has this kind of hyphae all over her body. If Luo Ling is successfully "treated", her flesh and blood will also be replaced by this kind of hyphae.

And now...the Puppet Rumor mycelium appeared in his own body.

There is only one possibility.

Li Tianming's expression gradually showed disbelief and madness.

"No...this is impossible..."

He could feel the memories in his mind fading like the tide, and all the memories about the "Awakener" and "weirdness" slowly dissipated at this moment.

This means... these memories were implanted into his mind by others using "Puppet Rumor".

What Li Tianming thought was "treatment" and redemption was nothing more than ridiculous behavior of being manipulated by others like a puppet.

He was just another puppet.

The 49th puppet in the strange sequence, the puppet of "Puppet Song".

...No human has ever been able to deal with the "weird".

After realizing this, Li Tianming's only brain that belonged to him gradually withered and died.

Finally, his expression froze at the most desperate moment.

Perhaps it was Li Tianming's overly loud voice that made Luo Ling come to her senses a little.

She only felt that she fell into a semi-comatose state, and when she woke up, she saw Li Tianming in front of her, pissing and running.

At the same time, Luo Ling saw her own hand out of the corner of her eye. When she raised it, she couldn't help but be surprised.

"Is this... my hand?"

The originally delicate palm was almost covered with bluish scales, and sharp claws like blades protruded from the fingertips. The claws on the thumb still had some crushed brain matter.

Although the temple is the most vulnerable part of the skull, it is difficult to penetrate even with an electric drill thanks to the "bone steel".

But to Luo Ling, who possessed extraordinary strength and such sharp claws, it was like paper.

Luo Ling turned her head and looked at the mirror on the dressing table. She was so frightened at first glance that she smashed the mirror.

With a crisp sound, the mirror fragments all over the ground reflected a figure like an evil spirit.

"Is this... me?"

Luo Ling suddenly became a little scared, but something even more frightening happened afterwards.

She looked in fear at the girl in the mirror who calmly picked up the white heart and slowly... began to eat it.

"What am I eating?"

Luo Ling looked at the sticky white mycelium on her hand that she had eaten half of, and suddenly had a disgusting urge.

But for some reason, a terrible impulse dominated her. Even though Luo Ling tried hard to stop her actions, she could not resist the temptation brought by this impulse.

This urge is called "hunger".

A hunger like never before.

“Smells so good…”

So hungry...

Luo Ling started eating with tears in her eyes, but it seemed like she could never finish that small ball of mycelium.

More and more hyphae were continuously extracted from the bodies of the living Li Tianming and the dead Wu Qin, and gathered in the palm of Luo Ling.

Luo Ling slowly half-knelt on the ground, looking at the mirror fragments all over the floor in horror.

The evil ghost in the mirror greedily devoured the mycelium in her hand. Her hair continued to grow and gradually turned into a white color similar to the mycelium. Even her skin color turned pale, to a morbid and terrifying degree, and her body seemed to have become a lot smaller.

"Don't eat...Don't eat..."

The scattered pale long hair almost covered the entire room and continued to spread outward.

Only when all the mycelium was devoured did all this horror finally stop.

The long pale hair on the ground seemed to have burped contentedly, gradually shortening to Luo Ling's ankles.

Luo Ling, who had finally recovered from the hunger caused by being dominated, stood up and looked blankly at the two corpses in front of him.

"I... killed someone?"

Li Tianming's fear and Wu Qin's relief remained frozen on their faces for a long time.

There was no doubt that they were all dead.

kill.

For an ordinary high school student, it seems a little out of reach.

But when it appeared in Luo Ling's hands, she felt a little...confused for some reason.

She looked at herself in the broken mirror on the ground again, but she only saw a white-haired girl with delicate features and pale skin.

The girl's delicate appearance was pitiful, her lips that were only slightly bloody, and her dull pink pupils, both looked like she had been ill for a long time.

Although Luo Ling could still see some of his former appearance, the difference in temperament was too great.

Is this you?

or...

Luo Ling thought of the "Puppet Ballad" that Li Tianming had always mentioned, and her whole body trembled slightly.

Could it be that I have turned into some strange existence, into... "Puppet Rumor"?

In addition, Luo Ling discovered that his broken arm had grown back, while the broken arm that was originally fixed by the "bone spur" on the ground had disappeared.

Is this also because of the "Puppet Rumor"?

Just when Luo Ling was still thinking blankly, there was a knock on the door, and Su Wan's worried voice came.

"Doctor Li, Xiao Ling...how are you guys doing?"

Chapter 6 Sorrow

elder sister!

Luo Ling's breathing suddenly stopped. She looked around the room and her heart instantly rose to her throat.

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