After that eerie sound appeared, Luo Wei was immediately startled.
Almost instinctively, as if triggered, a crimson blade materialized in his palm.
Luo Wei concentrated his blood magic while vigilantly scanning his surroundings.
The room remained bright and spacious, yet still empty.
The mysterious sound that had appeared earlier, like an illusion, never rang out again.
But Luo Wei was absolutely certain that it wasn't an illusion!
He had truly heard some kind of viscous, writhing, bizarre sound coming from within the room.
Refusing to accept this, Luo Wei searched through Ophelia's room, but the space was visible at a glance with nowhere to hide anything.
He even suspected there might be a secret chamber, but after knocking on every wall, he found no hollow spaces.
This bizarre situation caused Luo Wei's heart rate to gradually increase.
What exactly was Ophelia up to?
Finally, Luo Wei took one last deep look at the room.
Without looking back, he pushed open the large door.
Inside the manor at night, everything remained deathly quiet.
Luo Wei gazed outside the manor, where bright moonlight fell upon the vast wheat fields as a gentle breeze rustled the wheat ears.
It should have been a serene and beautiful scene, but after what had just happened, everything seemed to be shifting toward something sinister.
Luo Wei pushed open the manor's main gate, deciding to go for a walk.
But at that moment, an expressionless maid suddenly appeared before him.
"Damn!"
Luo Wei cursed reflexively.
"Mr. Luo Wei, Her Highness instructed that you should not go outside."
This was the first time he had heard any of the manor's maids speak.
The voice was low, hoarse, inhuman.
"Where's Ophelia? Where did she go?" Luo Wei immediately asked.
The maid gave no response.
"What about the others? Don't you all usually live in this manor?" Luo Wei asked again.
Still no response.
Faced with this unresponsive maid, Luo Wei stopped bothering with her.
Instead, he simply pushed open the gate.
A cold wind gusted in.
Luo Wei started walking directly toward the path through the fields.
"Mr. Luo Wei, Her Highness instructed that you should not go outside."
The maid's figure appeared ghost-like before him again, attempting to block his exit.
"I've had too much to drink and need to take a leak. You're going to control that too?" Luo Wei glanced at her, his body enhanced with agility, immediately increasing his pace.
The maid stiffly followed behind him.
When he sped up, she sped up too.
Like a persistent ghost.
"You're really sick!" Luo Wei channeled his blood magic and turned around with a slash.
The blood light curved like a crescent moon.
With a crack, the maid's head fell to the ground.
Luo Wei blinked in surprise - the maid had been so fast, yet had no actual combat ability? Didn't even try to dodge?
However, what surprised him more was yet to come...
"Mr. Luo Wei, Her Highness instructed that you should not go outside..."
The severed head on the ground, its mouth opening and closing, continued to mechanically repeat the same phrase.
And that headless "corpse" just stood there before him, refusing to fall.
"Please do not go outside..."
"Do not go outside..."
The head on the ground struggled to turn toward Luo Wei's direction, but even then, showed no obvious expression.
Luo Wei felt his scalp tingle at the sight before him.
Everything since Ophelia's departure had been bizarre...
No, Luo Wei felt it should be counted from when they first arrived at the manor - this place that perfectly recreated the original scene had been strange from the very beginning.
He kept moving, running quickly toward the wheat fields.
He wanted to see exactly what lay beyond the manor!
After all, he had lives to spare! Better to die knowing than to die in ignorance!
The wheat fields under the night sky remained empty, with only the whisper of the breeze.
Luo Wei nervously walked forward, trying to determine his location.
But the night was too dark, and in the distance ahead, the seemingly endless wheat fields stretched beyond sight.
Moreover...
The "rules'" promised punishment hadn't appeared.
There were no twisted monsters lurking in the wheat field, no murderous maids or servants suddenly appearing.
There was nothing...
Yet his heartbeat involuntarily grew faster and faster...
Some great figure once said: Humanity's oldest and strongest emotion is fear of the unknown...
That was his situation now - he had no idea what he would face next...
Luo Wei used blood magic to slash through the increasingly dense wheat field as he made his way deeper.
Walking on and on...
Just when he thought he must be reaching the field's boundary.
He looked up in shock.
A massive black manor appeared in his view ahead.
One window was even lit - his room...
Wait, if the manor was ahead, then what was behind him?
Luo Wei whirled around.
In the bright moonlight, endless wheat fields stretched out before him, bathed in cold radiance.
Had he come back to the start?
Was he walking in circles!?
Luo Wei couldn't help but shudder.
This kind of situation had never happened before, not even when he was investigating strange cases in his first life cycle...
Luo Wei could only steel himself and continue walking toward the manor.
At the entrance, the decapitated maid had vanished.
He slowly approached the main door, through which he could see the pitch-black hall inside through the half-open entrance.
Though everything seemed the same as before, for some reason, he felt an inexplicable unease.
He had the feeling something bad was about to happen.
Because he had violated the "rules."
Luo Wei clenched his wrist, feeling the rapid flow of blood within, pushing his blood magic to its absolute limit under the pumping of that Blood Core.
The Crimson Blade in his hand instantly grew larger, with bloody mist surrounding him.
This was all his power could manage now.
Luo Wei took a deep breath and stepped back into the manor's darkness.
The moment his foot touched the ground.
That bizarre writhing sound echoed once again through the quiet, spacious hall.
Luo Wei smiled coldly - since he wasn't afraid of losing his life anymore, there was nothing left to fear.
Holding the Crimson Blade, he followed the direction of the sound.
As he ventured deeper, the writhing sounds in the manor resumed, closer this time, as if right beside him.
Luo Wei froze, stopping in his tracks as his gaze fell on the nearby wall.
"Splash..."
"Gurgle..."
That spine-chilling writhing sound seemed to be happening right before his eyes?
Soon, the continuous writhing sounds answered him.
From where Luo Wei stood, front and back, left and right, the walls, ceiling, every room - they all simultaneously erupted with the same sound.
It was everywhere, like maggots clinging to bones.
Instinctively, Luo Wei's hand lightly touched the wall.
Smooth, cold, nothing unusual.
But in his heart arose an indescribable suspicion - he felt that the wall was alive...
He felt that at this moment, the manor was like a twisting monster about to awaken and devour him.
Finally, it had come to this...
Luo Wei once again opened his panel, and to resolve his doubts, he could only choose to exchange for that item...
[1. Eye of Insight: Accessory (★★★★) Greatly increases Insight when worn, enhancing perception of mysterious phenomena]
A small accessory appeared in his palm - an exquisite glass craft piece in the shape of an eyeball brooch.
At the same time, a special description appeared.
[Sometimes, seeing the truth isn't a good thing, investigator.]
Luo Wei certainly knew what too high "Insight" would bring - in this world filled with nameless things, sometimes seeing too much, knowing too much, would lead to irreversible horrific consequences...
"Insight" was exactly that kind of thing - it could help you investigate mysterious phenomena and improve your talent for learning supernatural powers, but more often...
It was also an engine of total destruction.
Luo Wei lowered his head and gently pinned on the brooch.
[Conducting Insight check...]
As he raised his head again.
At that instant.
A horrifying scene that made his hair stand on end, his body tremble, and was beyond description appeared before his eyes.
This was a twisted world. The walls before him appeared to be built from minced flesh mixed with blood. Every structure within the manor was covered in filthy tumors that resembled a mixture of internal organs and rotting flesh, like a living hell constructed from endless layers of meat!
And they were all pulsating slowly!
Like a human heart, beating again and again. With each beat, those bloody masses would writhe and grow dense networks of what looked like blood vessels or lymphatic tissue. These spread like intertwining roots, like mold spreading everywhere, quickly filling every corner of Luo Wei's vision, even gradually climbing up his trouser legs.
They're alive! They're all alive!!!
ALIVE!!!!
Luo Wei's wide-open eyes were filled with bloodshot.
He began to laugh maniacally.
He had gone insane.
[Your Sanity has been depleted]
[Unable to continue game, forcing reload...]
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
