Hysteria

"Brother... Brother...!"

"Finally... found... found..."

The colossal being could still only emit unclear, strange sounds, but all of its searching tentacles came to a halt.

Then, the smallest of the tentacles slowly and cautiously reached toward the direction of the voice.

Luo Wei smiled and opened his palm, making contact with that black tentacle.

At the moment of contact, the enormous creature became even more excited.

The small tendrils on its body kept swaying back and forth, like a puppy's tail, as if expressing its current joy.

"Disgustingly hideous..."

A voice full of revulsion came from the other end of the old mansion.

Evelyn, seemingly unwilling to look at the tentacled monster for even a moment longer, turned away her eyes and fixed her complicated gaze on Luo Wei.

The anger from before had been replaced by disgust, and she raised her eyebrows as if asking:

'How can you even communicate with her?'

Luo Wei didn't look at her, instead continuing to monitor Helena's condition.

[Pollution Level: 100]

[Distorted, Clamorous Unnameable Being]

Since starting this game, Luo Wei had never seen an Abnormal Creature with full pollution level.

In his previous impressions, such fully transformed creatures should represent absolute fear and chaos, representing the unnameable - merely touching them would drive someone completely insane.

However, Helena now was like a gentle giant.

She had withdrawn those threatening tentacles, curled up in a ball, quietly enjoying Luo Wei's gentle touch.

"Good girl, Helena~"

Luo Wei smiled as he stroked Helena's body, not knowing when he had started to no longer feel any disgust toward these previously repulsive tentacles.

Perhaps it should start with that time in the basement.

He had seen that pitiful girl hidden beneath the horrifying form, both insecure and mad, like a walking contradiction.

She too yearned for happiness...

Just like a restless puppy locked up at home, the moment you open the door and it jumps at you, you just need to stroke its forehead and embrace it gently - it will calm down, its eyes filled with nothing but your image.

At this moment, Helena seemed to sense Luo Wei's emotions, all her tentacles swaying back and forth, making sounds that seemed strange at first but were actually quite docile.

Evelyn, coldly observing the two, showed an expression of irritation and resentment.

"You can be so gentle with this disgusting, hideous monster, yet you only have deception for me!"

The blood-colored scythe appeared in her hand once again, and her blood-colored shadow vanished instantly, appearing ghost-like next to Luo Wei the next second.

"Go reunite with your monster sister in hell!!"

The fierce killing intent made Luo Wei's hair flutter, but he only calmly gazed at the hysterical woman before him.

"Bang!"

A tremendous sound echoed repeatedly throughout the old mansion.

That tentacle, so thick it would take two arms to embrace, struck Evelyn's body heavily, sending her flying like a kite with cut strings.

Her body made cracking sounds at that instant, as if every bone had shattered simultaneously.

Luo Wei's gaze followed her as Evelyn's body slammed heavily into the wall, creating a terrifying deep crater.

After falling to the ground, she struggled to support herself, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"You..."

"You all..."

She tried several times to stand up, but due to her severe injuries, she fell back down pathetically each time.

Luo Wei gripped his revolver, newly loaded with [Mithril Bullets], and slowly walked toward Evelyn's position.

Those gray-white eyes had disappeared; she raised her head in anger, her dark green eyes fixed intently on the approaching Luo Wei.

"Teacher, are you disappointed? In me."

Luo Wei raised his gun.

"Disappointed! Of course I'm disappointed!" Evelyn stared at him coldly, "I saved you! Have you forgotten? What that monster did to you before? Is this how you repay your teacher??"

Luo Wei shook his head and laughed.

"I almost forgot, I haven't confronted you about this yet this time."

"What?" Luo Wei's strange words immediately confused Evelyn.

"What are you talking about?"

Luo Wei gazed deeply at that struggling figure, smiling bitterly.

"You're disappointed, but am I not disappointed too?"

"At that time, it was probably the darkest moment of my life, and you happened to appear right then."

"Those gentle eyes, that soft embrace..."

Luo Wei smiled bitterly, "I thought I was dreaming, to have such a wonderful teacher who would genuinely help her student..."

As he continued smiling, all emotion gradually faded from his face.

"What a pity, it was all fake."

Faced with Luo Wei's profound gaze, Evelyn struggled for a moment.

"You... you knew everything?"

"Whether I knew or not, what difference does it make?" Luo Wei looked at her, "It was wrong from the beginning, only the ending is right."

The exposed cylinder of the revolver showed the [Mithril Bullets] gleaming with a mysterious silver light.

"Wait... wait, Little Wei!"

Evelyn's tone suddenly became urgent, because she knew that in her current state, she could barely withstand even such minor damage.

Though she might not die, who knew what situation she would wake up to next time - with that horrifying monster helping him, whatever awaited her probably wouldn't be good...

"Teacher admits I initially had some... some not-so-good intentions..."

"But, but teacher never wanted to hurt Little Wei!!"

"I just hoped..."

She hesitated, not knowing how to continue her defense.

"Just hoped to turn me into your Vampire Slave, completely under your control and domination, right?" Luo Wei finished for her.

Evelyn jerked her head up again.

"You knew about this too?"

"How did you know??"

Luo Wei curved his lips into a smile but said nothing, "Care to guess?"

Seeing that mocking smile, Evelyn, who had just been holding onto a glimmer of hope and trying to buy time with sweet words, realized all was lost.

Her briefly softened expression once again filled with resentment.

"You won't let me go? Will you, Luo Wei?"

Luo Wei silently looked at her and nodded.

"I'm afraid not."

"What are you going to do to me?" she asked.

"Why, of course~" Luo Wei looked at her body with a playful expression, "I'll return the favor in kind~"

Seeing her beautiful face fill with panic, Luo Wei chuckled, "Teacher, haven't you been searching for a Vampire Servant? I'll fulfill your wish - soon you'll experience that feeling of domination, except... this time..."

"You'll be the one being dominated!"

"You wish!!" She opened her angry eyes, her whole body trembling violently, somehow unleashing another burst of blood-colored energy.

"Brother! Be careful!!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Helena's anxious voice, finally able to form clear words, mixed with the gunshots.

The blood-colored energy quickly pierced through Luo Wei's body, but because Evelyn was already at her limit, it didn't achieve the effect she desired.

She coldly stared at Luo Wei as he slowly slumped down, finally collapsing back to the ground, exhausted.

Evelyn closed her eyes.

Meanwhile, Luo Wei, clutching the numerous bleeding wounds on his chest, gently dropped the now-empty revolver.

"Bro...ther!"

"Are you... okay...!"

Black tentacles carefully wrapped around Luo Wei's body, trying to lift him up so he wouldn't lie on the ground.

Luo Wei wanted to wave his hand and tell her he was fine, but his body was too weak to even raise his arm.

With difficulty, he pulled open his collar - his chest looked like it had been hit by a fragmentation grenade on a battlefield, covered in countless wounds of various sizes, and the bleeding wouldn't stop.

"Teacher... wanted to kill me even at the cost of her life..."

He smiled bitterly with resignation, never expecting that just as he had resolved the misunderstanding with Helena, he gained another new enemy who harbored deep resentment towards him...

With injuries like these on his body, in the past, he definitely wouldn't have survived and would have simply waited for a reset.

But this time.

As Luo Wei's vision gradually blurred, in these final moments of his life, he softly called out in his heart.

"Anomalous Species Containment Facility."

"Contain."