kvmb Chapter 294 Xu Hui's Darkening
Chapter 294 Xu Hui's Darkening
Waiting for news? Again, waiting for news! Xu Yun's heart sank into an icy abyss. She saw the barely perceptible evasion in the policeman's eyes and understood.
The name of the Chen family is itself an invisible barrier. Justice? Fairness? In the face of power and money, they are as fragile as a sheet of paper.
She returned to her cold home, dejected, to find her mother's leftover dinner, now cold, still on the table.
The cheap calendar hanging on the wall was frozen on the day my mother had the accident. The air still seemed to carry the faint smell of cooking oil and cheap ointment that had been on my mother.
An overwhelming grief engulfed her like a tidal wave, followed by a hatred even more turbulent and dark! This hatred grew wildly like vines, coiling around her heart, suffocating her, and burning away every inch of her reason like the fires of hell!
"Chen Ya... Zhang Hao... Wang Lei... Chen family..."
"School……"
"police……"
"this world……"
She repeated these names over and over again. Why? Why did this kind and hardworking mother have to suffer such an undeserved calamity? Why can the evildoers go unpunished? Why can't anyone help her? Why can't she even get the final justice?
"Mom... I'm so sorry... I'm the one who ruined you..." She hugged her mother's cold pillow, crying uncontrollably. Despair, like the deepest, coldest pool, completely swallowed her.
She could see no light; all that lay ahead was endless darkness and the raging desire for revenge!
Just as Xu Yun's mind was on the verge of collapse, completely consumed by overwhelming hatred and despair, a cold, strangely seductive voice, like the whisper of a venomous snake, resounded directly in her chaotic mind:
"Is it painful? Is it despairing? Is it infuriating? Watching loved ones die because of injustice, watching enemies go unpunished, watching the world shut its doors to you... What a disgusting reality."
Xu Yun suddenly looked up, her vision blurred by tears, and saw that the room was empty. But the voice was crystal clear.
"What a weak creature you are, only able to wail in despair like an ant. Do you want power? Power enough to tear apart this hypocritical order, power enough to make those perpetrators taste ten times, a hundred times, the pain you suffer?"
The voice was seductive, like the whisper of a devil.
"Who?! Who are you?!" Xu Yun looked around in terror, her voice hoarse.
"Who I am is not important. What is important is that I can feel the pure, sweet darkness and hatred in your heart... What intoxicating negative energy! The world owes you, why not take it back yourself? Use a power they cannot understand or resist to drag them into the same abyss as you?"
Revenge! Revenge with my own hands! This thought spread like wildfire, instantly igniting Xu Yun's dying soul! She was no longer afraid of the source of the voice; only a mad flame remained in her eyes!
"I want it! I want power! I want them dead! I want everyone who killed my mother to pay the price!" Xu Yun roared at the empty room, her voice filled with twisted hatred.
"As you wish, a pitiful and pathetic soul..."
That cold voice seemed to carry a hint of satisfied laughter.
The next second, an indescribable, bone-chilling, and highly corrosive dark energy, like a black tide, surged out of nowhere and instantly enveloped Xu Yun!
She felt as if her body had been plunged into a pool of strong acid, every cell being torn apart and reshaped! The intense pain caused her to let out a shrill scream, her body twisting and swelling uncontrollably!
Her skin turned bluish-black and rough, like a hard rock shell; her nails grew wildly, becoming like black daggers, gleaming with a cold, eerie light; her spine pierced her skin, extending into a tail covered with hideous bone spurs; her head became deformed and terrifying, with protruding fangs, and her once beautiful eyes turned into two holes burning with eerie green flames! A violent, bloodthirsty, and destructive power surged wildly within her!
She was no longer human. She had become a rock lizard monster twisted by hatred and dark forces!
"Roar—!!!" A non-human roar came from her deformed throat, making the glass of the rented room vibrate.
"From now on, you can switch between being a monster and a human. Good luck."
Slu's consciousness was withdrawn, as if he had simply tossed a seed aside, leaving it to take root and sprout in the soil of despair, blooming into a flower of destruction.
Having completed her transformation, Xu Yun—or rather, the Rock Lizard Monster—looked down at her claws covered in scales and bone spikes, then at the twisted, terrifying monster in the mirror. There was no fear, only a cold, exhilarating sense of power and an overwhelming hatred!
“Power…this is power…” Her voice was hoarse and broken, like sandpaper rubbing together, “You high and mighty…your end…has come!”
The revenge has begun!
In the following days, Z City No. 1 Middle School was gripped by a strange panic.
First, there was Zhang Hao, who went to smoke alone in the grove behind the school gymnasium after school and never came out again. The next morning, a cleaner found him deep in the woods. His death was extremely gruesome—his body had been torn to pieces by some enormous force, his internal organs scattered all over the ground, as if he had been devoured by a large beast.
There were no signs of struggle at the scene, only large patches of dried, blackened blood and a few bluish-black, hard scales that did not belong to any known creature.
Next was Chen Ya. She came from a wealthy family and enjoyed spending weekends taking photos at a newly opened trendy cafe in the city center. That weekend afternoon, while she was taking a selfie alone on the cafe's terrace, the sturdy tempered glass railing suddenly shattered without warning!
Zhang Ya screamed as she fell from the terrace, which was more than ten meters high, and died instantly. Strangely, the cafe's security camera only captured her taking a selfie before the railing "spontaneously" collapsed, without any signs of external force. Subsequent investigation revealed clear marks at the joints of the broken metal railing, as if it had been instantly severed by a tremendous biting force.
Finally, there's Wang Lei. His disappearance was even more bizarre. He was playing basketball at the court near his upscale residential area one evening, and simply went to the sidelines to get some water, and vanished without a trace.
His basketball friends all said he was right there on the sidelines, then vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving his phone on a bench. Two days later, his body was found at the entrance to a city sewer system several kilometers from the basketball court. The body was bloated from being submerged, and the fatal wound was a massive, penetrating laceration in his chest; his heart was missing.
Within a week, three students with powerful backgrounds died mysteriously one after another! And the manner of their deaths was more bloody and bizarre than the last, clearly not the work of humans! Panic spread like a plague through the city's No. 1 High School, the students were filled with fear, and all sorts of terrifying rumors were rampant.
The parents' anger and fear reached their peak. In particular, the parents of Zhang Hao, Chen Ya, and Wang Lei could not accept that their promising children had died so mysteriously and tragically.
Overwhelmed by grief and anger, and fear of the unknown monster, they turned their anger towards the school and the city government!
Under the immense blow of losing his beloved daughter, Chen Ya's father lost his mind. He used his influence, in league with Zhang Ya and Wang Lei's families, and mobilized every available connection and network to exert relentless pressure on Z City!
"My daughter was murdered! Her death was completely unexplained! What is the government doing?"
"The killer is definitely not human! It's a monster! A man-eating monster! The government must give us an explanation!"
"Has the security situation in Z City deteriorated to this extent? They can't even protect our children?!"
"Investigate! We must investigate! We must find that monster, even if it means digging three feet into the ground! I want it to pay for my son's life!"
He used almost all the political energy he had accumulated over half a lifetime—crying, cursing, threatening, and manipulating the media. The pain and anger of losing his child drove him to madness and paranoia. The Zhang and Wang families followed suit, and the immense social pressure and overwhelming public opinion left the Z municipal government in a state of utter chaos.
Forced by circumstances and in order to quell public anger and panic, the top officials of the Z City government made a decision after an emergency meeting—to send a formal letter of authorization to the professional "Knights Association"!
They requested that they dispatch experienced Kamen Riders to investigate these three bizarre, bloody, and clearly superhuman deaths!
The letter of authorization was strongly worded, emphasizing the heinous nature of the case, the immense public panic it caused, and the immense pressure exerted by the victim's family's prominent background. It demanded that the Knights Association investigate the truth as quickly as possible, identify and eliminate or capture the "strange person" lurking in Z City, and provide an explanation to the victim's family and all citizens!