Your Home Exploded
Bang—!!
Accompanied by a sudden miserable scream, a black shadow rapidly streaked across the chaotic Cabaret, like a cannonball sweeping past the crowd, knocking away several tables and chairs in succession!
"Fuck!! What just flew past!"
"It looked like a person???"
"What??"
"..."
The originally extremely noisy crowd was now entirely attracted by the miserable scream and the black shadow that had knocked over the tables and chairs. Everyone looked blankly towards that spot, not knowing what had happened.
[At 14:22 in the afternoon, a clap of thunder flashed across the sky above the Cabaret]
Amidst the mess of tables and chairs on the ground, a burly figure covered in blood stared with wide eyes, looking blankly at the ceiling above. His expression was terrified, his face deathly pale, and he had already stopped breathing. A bloody knife wound pierced through his body, looking shocking under the illumination of the pale lightning.
The dim dance hall, the suddenly flashing thunder, the messy tables and chairs, the miserably dead corpse... As this scene fell into the eyes of all the guests, their breathing stopped.
At the same time, at the end of the path where this corpse had been sent flying backward, a figure stood with his back to the pale lightning outside the window, casting a huge demon-like shadow flickering within the Cabaret!
Scarlet blood blurred Li Ruohong's face. His features were ferocious and fierce. In his hand at this moment, a chilling Short Blade was constantly dripping blood, having already silently spread into a pool of blood beneath him...
Boom—!!!
As the suddenly flashing lightning faded, the Cabaret plunged into pitch-black darkness again. The deafening sound of thunder seemed to tear their eardrums apart.
At this moment, everyone finally returned to their senses. Ear-piercing screams wildly echoed within the Cabaret. Everyone fell into deep terror. The scene from just now was branded into their minds like a hot iron. Even if everything fell into darkness again, they could still imagine Li Ruohong's ferocious bloody face!!
And at this moment, in the darkness, Li Ruohong blankly looked down at his own palm...
Where's the wrench??
When did the original wrench turn into a knife?
How did that bodyguard fly out just now... It felt like I didn't use any force at all?!
Also, what the hell are they shrieking about??
[Audience Expectation Value +3]
Li Ruohong had a look of complete bewilderment, utterly clueless about what had happened. As the lightning outside the window flashed continuously again, the scene of the crowd fleeing the Cabaret in terror was reflected before his eyes.
"Blood... Blood!! There's blood everywhere!! The floorboards are seeping blood downwards!!"
Someone shouted, and everyone abruptly looked up, only to see that the Cabaret's floorboards had at some point been soaked in fresh blood. It continuously dripped downwards, like blood clots that had dried up between the floorboards for who knows how long, now washed by the rainwater and successively dripping down the walls and the gaps in the floorboards onto everyone's cheeks.
Pale lightning flashed behind them, fresh blood seeped from the floorboards. The Cabaret, which had been a place of extravagant indulgence just a few minutes ago, now looked like an Asura purgatory!
"That person's corpse from just now also disappeared! Only a pool of blood stains and minced meat are left!"
"How could this happen..."
"It eats people... This place eats people!!"
Many figures fled madly towards the door. At this moment, someone discovered that the corpse that had originally fallen in the ruins had bizarrely disappeared during the interval of the flashing lightning... It was as if it had been devoured by something invisible. Only a pool of blood stains and tiny pieces of minced meat remained, still proving that there had indeed been a corpse here just now.
Screams mixed with lightning, echoing piercingly within the Cabaret. As the environment briefly plunged into pitch-black and lit up again in the lightning, a figure draped in a brown coat was already sitting like a ghost in an Unregarded corner.
Clink—
Ice cubes gently clinked against the glass. Amidst the flickering of pitch-black and pale white, Chen Ling unhurriedly looked up and downed the liquor in his glass.
"The effect seems alright..."
Lightning flashed continuously outside the window, like spotlights on a Stage being turned on and off in succession. Fresh blood trickled down along the scenery bit by bit, maximizing the atmosphere under the changing lights. The Role holding the Prop "Short Blade" stood blankly on the Stage, looking at the audience fleeing in all directions below, completely unaware that he was already in the middle of a performance.
And Chen Ling, who had personally directed all this, casually placed the empty wine glass back on the table, picked up the lighter beside it, and with a gentle flick, the flame little by little swallowed the sticky note recording "The Script".
The dilemma for Jian Changsheng and the others was being suspected and monitored by the Police Officers and [Floating Life Painting]. With Chen Ling's current abilities, he naturally couldn't resolve all enemies through force. So his only method was to personally "package" a more eye-catching "Dusk Society Stronghold" again!
This way, even if he couldn't completely clear the Casino's suspicion, he could greatly reduce the Red Dust Main City's monitoring intensity on the Casino and confuse the public... The muddier the waters in the Red Dust Main City became, the more advantageous it would be for the Dusk Society.
Of course, Chen Ling didn't expect to completely divert [Floating Life Painting]'s suspicion with just this performance. This could at most be considered an opening act, an opportunity for the Great World Cabaret to enter [Floating Life Painting]'s line of sight... As long as [Floating Life Painting] started paying attention here, everything would be easy to handle.
Chen Ling couldn't clear the suspicion for the Casino, but he had a hundred ways to create suspicion for the Cabaret!
Orange flames accompanied by embers drifted in the pool of blood. Chen Ling walked step by step toward the second-floor stairs in the darkness. A tear from his fingertips at his chin, and his figure turned into a tiny afterimage, completely disappearing into the shadows.
"Murder... Murder!!"
"Quick, call the police!!"
"Blood... There's blood everywhere!"
"..."
A torrential downpour drenched the streets. A large number of figures swarmed out from the Great World Cabaret. They shouted in terror, their faces pale as they ran in all directions, as if they had seen a ghost.
Hearing the noisy sounds outside, residents living nearby also opened their windows one after another, blankly watching the fleeing crowd below. Although they didn't know what had happened, amidst these hair-raising shouts, an inexplicable sense of unease began to permeate the street...
At the Casino entrance, those Plainclothes Officers who were still bitterly monitoring in the rainy weather saw the chaotic scene in the distance, and doubt surfaced in their eyes.
An officer disguised as a rickshaw puller silently pulled his cart and approached the direction where the crowd was fleeing from.
"Brother, what happened over there?"
"Blood... The Cabaret... The Cabaret's floorboards are seeping blood!" A pale-faced young man spoke incoherently. "And, and someone killed someone, stabbed a person and sent them flying over ten meters with one knife. In the blink of an eye! The corpse was gone!!"
"What did you say???"
Meanwhile.
At the entrance of the Jinghong Theater.
Hearing the noisy commotion coming from outside, Kong Baosheng cautiously poked his head out from the door, keeping as much distance as possible from those two drowned rat "Door Gods", while also curiously looking at the fleeing crowd and the Great World Cabaret that was bleeding outward from its entrance.
Kong Baosheng froze for a moment, scratched his head, and then said to the two equally sluggish "Door Gods":
"Drowned rats, your home exploded?"