National Guardian's Gone and We're Done

Chapter 50: Chapter 50: Her Majesty the Queen, Yongdeng City Has Been Attacked by a Large Number of Evil Spirits

From the cracks in the walls, the patterns on the ceiling, and the gaps between the floorboards,

a chilling stream of water began to quietly emerge.

It gathered silently, slithering like invisible snakes and gradually forming shallow puddles inside the room.

Inside the room,

the young couple was engrossed in a TV show, completely unaware of the strange phenomenon unfolding around them.

They sat on the sofa, their eyes glued to the television screen, which was playing a special interview with Xiao Cangqing.

The woman’s eyes sparkled with adoration for her idol. She playfully shook her boyfriend’s arm and asked softly, ”If I said I really liked Xiao Cangqing, would you get jealous?”

Her boyfriend smiled dotingly, reached out to gently tap her nose, and said in a gentle voice, ”Of course I’d be jealous, but what can I do? I’m your boyfriend, after all. Besides, we’re going to get married someday.”

Hearing this, the woman’s smile grew even brighter. She replied playfully, ”You’re so sweet. But don’t worry, even if Xiao Cangqing married me, I’d still save a spot for you at home.”

Just then, her foot accidentally touched the water on the floor.

The water was bone-chillingly cold, a cold that seemed to seep through her skin and pierce right into her marrow.

The briefest contact sent a frigid chill shooting from the sole of her foot to the top of her head, and she couldn’t help but shiver.

She snatched her foot back in alarm and looked up at her boyfriend. ”When did the house get so flooded? Did we leave a faucet on?”

Her voice trembled, clearly frightened by the sudden cold.

Her boyfriend’s brow furrowed. He shook his head. ”No, it’s not a faucet. Look, the walls, the ceiling, the floor—they’re all seeping water. If it were a faucet, the water wouldn’t be coming from all these places.”

He stood up, wanting to see what was going on.

The moment his feet touched the water, an irresistible coldness surged through him.

The soles of his feet felt like they were being pierced by countless needles of ice, the pain unbearable.

To the man’s horror, his legs began to swell at an alarming rate, turning a deathly shade of bluish-gray.

He tried to pull his legs out of the water, but they had already lost all feeling, as if they were no longer a part of his body.

Just then, a sharp fish hook suddenly dropped from the ceiling, sinking directly into the flesh of his cheek.

The hook was incredibly sharp, instantly snagging on his cheekbone.

”Help me! Please, help me!”

He howled in agony as blood flowed from the wound, dripping onto the surface of the water and quickly staining the chilling pools red.

The woman watched in terror, curled up on the sofa and trembling all over.

Tears streamed down her face. She looked helplessly at her boyfriend and said, ”But I can’t touch the water on the floor... I... How can I save you? I... I can’t get myself killed, too!”

Despair flickered in the man’s eyes. He struggled with all his might, trying to break free from the freezing water.

He couldn’t believe that the girlfriend who had shared so much laughter and so many tears with him would say something like that at a time like this.

”But you... you can at least pull me out.”

The man’s voice was a ragged whisper, as if squeezed from the very last of his strength.

But his girlfriend’s reaction was like a sharp knife plunging deep into his heart.

”I’m scared! I’m really scared! Don’t make me do it!”

The woman suddenly lost control, covering her ears, shutting her eyes tightly, and screaming, trying to escape the horrifying reality.

Just then, a RATTLE and a CLATTER erupted.

From the ceiling, a dense rain of fish hooks poured down, mercilessly snagging the man’s chin, the crown of his head, his limbs, his back...

His body, firmly secured by these cold hooks, was brutally dragged out of the chilling water.

The intense pain nearly caused the man to pass out. He could feel his skin and flesh being gradually peeled away by the tearing hooks, every struggle accompanied by the sound of ripping gore.

He watched in despair as the chilling water spread rapidly,

while his girlfriend remained like a statue with her eyes shut and ears covered, as if none of this had anything to do with her.

At that moment, the last shred of hope in his heart was completely extinguished.

With a sickening RIP, the fish hooks suddenly went taut, and the man’s body was torn to pieces in a spasm of excruciating pain.

Blood, shredded meat, and broken bones rained down from the ceiling like a fountain, staining the already cold water an even deeper red.

When the woman finally summoned the courage to open her eyes again,

her boyfriend was gone, leaving behind nothing but a bloody mess.

She stared at the scene before her, her heart filled with endless grief and despair as tears gushed out like a bursting dam.

However, before she could even begin to cry out in grief, more fish hooks descended.

They mercilessly snagged the woman’s body and hoisted her into the air.

The woman struggled, but her strength was pitifully insignificant against the pull of the hooks.

In the end, she was killed in the exact same way.

This horrifying scene was not limited to just this one household.

Every resident in the entire building met the same fate.

Their homes were flooded with the same chilling water, and then their lives were taken by the merciless fish hooks.

...

Meanwhile, on the streets of Yongdeng City, night had fallen, but the sky above the city was alight with countless fireworks.

They shone as brightly as the Milky Way, illuminating the entire night sky.

It was a city that never sleeps, a sight not seen in a long time, as citizens poured into the streets to celebrate the final resolution of the Great Jing Empire’s Demon Cave.

However, amid this festive atmosphere, one citizen noticed something strange.

He had just finished setting off the fireworks in his hand when he suddenly saw a figure standing deep in an alley.

Curious, he walked toward the alley, wanting to get a closer look.

Deep in the dim alley, a figure stood silently.

Its posture was bizarre, with both hands held high.

The back of its left hand was pressed against its left eye, and the back of its right hand was pressed against its right eye.

Driven by curiosity, the citizen involuntarily drew closer to the figure.

When he finally got a clear look at the person’s face, he was horrified.

He saw that in the palm of the person’s left and right hands, there were round eyeballs, staring coldly at him.

When the person lowered their hands to reveal a terrifying smile, the citizen realized with a jolt,

that this person’s face was covered in a dense mass of teeth, arranged in overlapping patterns like the head of a sunflower!

The citizen suffered from trypophobia. At this sight, his heart began to race, and his legs felt as heavy as lead, making it almost impossible to move.

He recognized that this person couldn’t be human; it was an Evil Spirit.

Xiao Cangqing had just announced that the Evil Spirits were dealt with. Why was there still one that had escaped?

However, the citizen had no time to think.

The thing with eyes on its hands began to walk slowly toward him with an unnatural gait.

Its eye-covered hands reached out slowly, eventually pulling the citizen into a tight embrace.

Within seconds, its teeth began to tear into the citizen’s body like a ravenous wolf, consuming him until he was reduced to a pool of blood and gore.

...

「Royal City」

The entire city was cheering and celebrating Xiao Cangqing’s return.

Both sides of the wide avenues were packed with the people of the Royal City, waving banners and shouting at the top of their lungs, ”Welcome back, National Guardian War God Xiao Cangqing!”

Some of the more emotional citizens were weeping with gratitude for the peace and hope Xiao Cangqing had brought to the Great Jing Empire.

Watching the scene unfold, Xiao Cangqing felt some of the long-suppressed emotions in his heart finally find release.

After he had merged with the rotten man,

not only had he obtained immense power, but he had also received some information about the Evil Spirits.

He learned how humanity had gone from initial panic to the flourishing development of Martial Arts,

and then to the birth of King-level experts who could stand against the Evil Spirits.

However, the Evil Spirits were also constantly evolving, and even the seal on the Demon Cave could not halt their progress.

Xiao Cangqing understood that it wasn’t that he was too weak, but that the Evil Spirits evolved too quickly.

Especially since some Evil Spirits had developed human-like intelligence, their evolution had proceeded at an astonishing speed.

’Maybe this isn’t a bad thing. After gaining the power of an Evil Spirit, my own strength has undergone a world-shaking transformation.’

Xiao Cangqing comforted himself as he watched the cheering crowds.

At that moment, the Queen of the Great Jing Empire, Ji Shengyue, was also watching Xiao Cangqing with a smile.

Suddenly, an assistant hurried over and whispered a report in her ear, ”Her Majesty the Queen, Yongdeng City has been attacked by a large number of Evil Spirits.”

”Preliminary estimates put the death toll at over two hundred and thirty thousand!”

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