Chapter 308 - Shengxin

"Dammit, Yueji..." Chuan Shengxin sighed as he held onto his c.h.e.s.t. "You scared me. What are you doing there? Why are the lights off earlier? Are you conserving electricity? What's up with you? I can still pay for the bills of things we use. No need to keep the house dark."

He kept on talking, but Bai Yueji only stared at him with the same expression he thought he saw on Chuan Fangfen's face. Their eyes were wide, and they were grinning strangely. It was as if they were losing their mind… or their teeth. Her dark eyes only stared straight at Chuan Shengxin's face, and it caused the husband to feel uncomfortable. He then walked up to her and reached out.

Chuan Shengxin spoke, "Yueji…? Are you listening to me?"

When he walked to her, her gaze only followed the level of his eyes. Even if he was standing right in front of her, the wife only looked up at his face. She didn't do any other action than stare at him… her eyes not even blinking. Chuan Shengxin frowned at the wife and touched her face. "Yueji? What is happening to you?

"Did my sister came here again? What did she say?" He felt grave, his heart starting to pound in his c.h.e.s.t. Something was very wrong with his wife. "Yueji, did she hurt you? Baby, tell me… what did she…?"

As if noticing strange things now that the lights were turned on, Chuan Shengxin caught a glimpse of a strange picture at the corner of his eye. When he turned to take a look in the mirror, he didn't know how his body actually stayed unmoving after seeing the view.

What was before him wasn't his wife. It was some kind of swamp monster with white skin coated with mucus and long flowing seaweed hair. The body was so long that it was actually trying its best to bend down and keep its head at a lower level as if imitating the height of his wife. The fingers were even long and slender, the creature only having four of them that were strange jointed. 

The swamp monster, just like what he thought his wife was doing, was staring at him with its huge wide eyes and plastered grin. Unlike his wife, the creature's mouth had leaves dangling from the lips.

"Shengxin..." The husband shuddered when the thing called his name. Then, it slowly turned to the mirror.

"F.u.c.k!" Chuan Shengxin pulled himself away, sending himself to the floor. When he fell down, the lights went off again. He quickly tried to navigate the dark, but a shadow cast on his vision. The swamp creature actually got on top of him, with the head blocking his face upside down.

"Shengxin, Shengxin… Shengxin!" The voice that came out of it sounded like his wife's voice, but it started to distort into a low howl. Even if Chuan Shengxin tried to get it off of him, the four-fingered hand grabbed his face and tried to pry his mouth open.

Chuan Shengxin tried to reach his back and pull it off, but his grip kept on sliding because of the mucus. In the end, he tried to slam it against the closed door, but it quickly moved out of the way. The full force was received by Chuan Shengxin's body; he even cried out in pain. He broke through the door, but his left shoulder radiated with pain. When he crashed to the floor, the creature grabbed onto his ankle and pulled him back inside the room.

A hissing sound came from the head that would rotate upside down as it tried to latch itself on the man. Chuan Shengxin didn't know how he could even keep up with fighting such a thing. He kept on thrashing without screaming as the creature still wanted him to open his mouth.

"Shengxin! Shengxin!" The creature continued to call out as if it was playing him. Its hands grabbed at him, but it never really held onto him. As it laughed while pleading for his name, the swamp creature waited for him to get exhausted before grabbing onto his ankle. The hands then descended to his legs, to the knee, and finally to the t.h.i.g.h. It then started shrieking.

"Shengxin!" Even though all the loud noises disoriented him, along with the fear in his system; a loud voice broke through. Chuan Shengxin knew that it was his wife calling out to him for real—it was not a sound that came from this horrifying creature.

Bang! Something broke down from afar, and the creature hissed with hostility. Chuan Shengxin didn't know what exactly he saw, but there was a woman that ran inside. The woman's torso, however, was twice as normal! 

The woman, donned in a nurse outfit, grabbed onto the head of the creature. One of the four-fingered hands mercilessly swatted down at the nurse, but the woman's c.h.e.s.t actually opened in a mouth!

As soon as the hand landed, the mouth chomped down! 

Inhuman noises came from the swamp creature as one of its hands got bitten. It didn't help that the woman still grabbed onto the creature's head through the hair. A syringe shot out of the nurse's wrist, and she stabbed the needle towards the creature's head. However, the creature broke its own arm to escape.

It pulled back its head with force, letting the nurse tear off a patch of its hair. The syringe barely missed the creature's head and the nurse's hand. The nurse only stood in a stance as the creature jumped up and broke through the ceiling of the ensuite. After it vanished, the nurse followed suit as well.

"Shengxin!" Bai Yueji screamed as she saw the broken door. She ran inside and saw her husband squirming on the wet floor, her shoes making splashes since shower water flooded the room. She then came to pull him up and embrace him. "Oh, my God, Shengxin! Shengxin!"

"Y-Yueji…" Chuan Shengxin actually forgot to rein in his tears as he couldn't help but cry from the terror.

Liu Xiaodan only stopped at the front of the ensuite, casting a gaze at the father. He then looked up at the broken ceiling and felt that the thing was not yet done. "Mrs. Chuan, stay here with him. We'll chase it out, if not kill it here. Don't be alarmed."

The transcendent turned away and left Old Doctor to watch over the two. If that thing lunged back at them, he should at least be able to buy a few seconds for Liu Xiaodan to come.

Liu Xiaodan actually hurried since Chuan Nayi went straight to the second floor where Chuan Fangfen should be. She called out for the teen's name almost successively before barging into a room. Chuan Nayi paused in her steps as she saw Chuan Fangfen face down on the floor. However, her limbs were sprawled as if she was already lifeless. Since the twists weren't that bad, it seemed that the teen was still alive.

"Fangfen?" Chuan Nayi chose to step inside to check up on the teen. "Fangfen?"

The head started to rise, but her body didn't follow. Chuan Nayi froze as the swamp creature stared at her like she's the next target.