Chapter 14: My Brother Is Not Human (14)

Inside the pitch-black, cramped basement, a square altar had been constructed. Upon it rested a black stone statue over two meters tall.

The statue possessed the body of a beast and the head of a human, emanating a suffocatingly dense aura of malevolence.

All over its pitch-black stone surface grew bulging, fleshy lumps, strikingly reminiscent of a toad’s back. Its face looked like a waterlogged, rotting human head swollen into a round sphere, with two eyeballs dangling precariously outside their sockets, their gaze greedy and malicious.

Sang Yu’s expression turned stern. She could clearly see the lumps on the statue’s body heaving slightly.

This stone statue…

Was alive!

“Lord Evil God, the sacrifice… your sacrifice has arrived! We will perform the offering for you immediately!” the adoptive parents’ voices gasped in excitement.

Sang Yu glanced sideways at her adoptive parents and said in a deep voice, “So… all those orphans you adopted were sacrifices for this stone statue?”

Perhaps convinced that Sang Yu was about to die, her adoptive parents chuckled triumphantly, “Of course. It is their honor that those useless wretches could become sacrifices for Lord Evil God.”

“Why must every sacrifice’s birthday fall on November 28th?” Sang Yu asked, tilting her head.

“Because that day is the day of Lord Evil God’s birth!”

The gaze of the adoptive parents grew increasingly greedy. They sneered coldly, “On the 28th of every month, we must offer a sacrifice to Lord Evil God. And you… are the sacrifice Lord Evil God is most pleased with. As long as we offer your soul to Lord Evil God tonight on your 18th birthday, we will gain endless wealth, power, and life…”

“Sang Yu, Mom and Dad’s good daughter, for the sake of your parents’ happiness, go ahead and die!”

The black tentacles tightened around Sang Yu’s body, dragging her toward the altar.

Having learned the complete truth, the viewers in the livestream comment section spat out curses left and right.

[Fuck, these two utter beasts! Even though I already knew those orphans were all murdered, I didn’t expect they adopted them just to use them as sacrifices!]

[How is there even a thing like an Evil God? It’s never appeared in horror games before!]

[Oh come on, what kind of Evil God is this? It looks like a mutated toad!]

[I strongly suspect some pervert screwed a toad, birthed this mutated product, and then these idiots took it for an Evil God to worship!]

[The comment above spoke the absolute truth!]

[Stop discussing the toad! I’m more worried about how the newbie is going to survive!]

[There’s only three hours left before the quest ends. Based on the human heads inside those dolls, we can guess that the victimized orphans had their heads chopped off during the sacrifice. So the newbie just needs to hold out for three hours without dying after having her head chopped off, and she can successfully clear the quest!]

[The comment above makes total sense!]

[I actually wasted a whole minute reading the words of that massive idiot above.]

The black tentacles had already crawled onto Sang Yu’s fair neck. With just a flex of force, they could easily snap her neck in two.

A lazy smile played on the corners of Sang Yu’s lips as she said indifferently, “What a shame. I feel like I’m young and beautiful, so using my life to trade for the lives of two old geezers like Mom and Dad is way too much of a loss.”

She raised her hand, gave a gentle tug, and the tentacle bound around her neck snapped instantly.

A look of shock flashed across the hideous faces of the adoptive parents.

“You… how did you do that?!”

In their eyes, Sang Yu was just an ordinary human being. How could she so effortlessly tear apart tentacles condensed from evil energy?

Sang Yu didn’t answer. The curve of her mouth deepened slightly.

Facing the panicked adoptive parents, she squatted down.

Her long, slender fingers brushed against the torn necks of her adoptive parents as she smiled sweetly, “Do Mom and Dad want to give it a try? Don’t worry, I act very fast. You’ll kick the bucket before you even have time to feel the pain~”

The bodies of the adoptive parents trembled, their expressions growing increasingly terrified.

The look they gave Sang Yu was as if they were beholding the very Evil God they worshipped.

Just as Sang Yu was preparing to snap her adoptive parents’ necks, a thick, slimy purple-red tongue suddenly pierced straight through her body from behind.

“The Evil God! Lord Evil God has manifested!”

A crimson light burst forth in the eyes of the adoptive parents as they stared at the stone statue with fanatical faces.

Sang Yu lowered her eyes to look at her pierced chest, bright red blood trailing down the wound and staining her top red.

The System chimed in, “Host, don’t worry. This physical body of yours was just a container to begin with. It can be repaired at any time.”

Sang Yu frowned, “Even though it’s a container, it really hurts when getting injured!”

How long had it been since she last felt genuine pain? That black-purple tongue squirmed within Sang Yu’s wound, secreting a brownish slime that possessed extreme corrosive properties.

The wound on Sang Yu’s body grew larger and larger. She felt her soul being yanked, seemingly about to detach from this physical shell.

The eyeballs of the black stone statue shot out a bizarre light, growing ever more greedy.

It couldn’t wait to devour Sang Yu’s soul.

Finally, Sang Yu’s soul was yanked clean out of her body.

Her physical body collapsed slowly onto the ground.

The livestream comment section fell dead silent.

[The newbie… is really dead this time.]

[This is the true horror game: bloody, cruel, and hopeless. Staying alive here is a luxury.]

[Even though the newbie was kinda dumb, out of respect for the dead, I won’t insult her for being dumb anymore.]

[Uh… did none of you notice one thing?]

[Notice what?]

[When a player in a solo quest dies, the livestream ends immediately. But right now the stream is still running normally, so…]

[No way, no way! The newbie is already stone-cold, could she still be alive?]

The livestream viewers instantly fell into shock. They stared dead at Sang Yu’s corpse on the screen, attempting to discern whether she was dead or alive.

However, in the very next second, everyone was dumbfounded.

Because Sang Yu… was genuinely dead!

However…

Her soul had manifested inside the horror stream!

[HOLY FUCK FUCK FUCK… Woke up to see a player turn into a ghost entity after dying!]

[Rubbing eyes, pinching legs, biting tongue—confirming it’s not a hallucination.]

[Am I the only one who noticed that the newbie looks even prettier after turning into a ghost entity?]

[It’d be such a waste not to catch such a beautiful ghost sister to warm the bed!]

[Fantasizing about everything will only ruin you.]

After detaching from her body, Sang Yu only felt refreshed all over.

Having been used to being a lonely wandering ghost, this current state felt the most comfortable to her.

“Alright, time to settle the score properly.”

Sang Yu’s eyes narrowed, her voice hollow and ethereal.

The stone statue had originally intended to devour Sang Yu’s soul, but seeing her soul overflowing with terrifying ghostly energy, it immediately uttered a miserable screech.

Its tongue snapped inch by inch, dropping onto the ground and dissolving into puddles of bloody water.

A rancid stench filled the entire basement.

Sang Yu wore a look of utter disgust, “Nasty creature. Looking at you for one more second feels like a pollution to my eyes.”

The stone statue tried to flee, but a ghostly hand materializing out of thin air suddenly clamped onto its head.

Sharp ghost claws pierced through the stone statue’s skull. Its body twisted into a writhing mass, struggling frantically to break free.

“Sp… spare me…”

The stone statue’s voice was dry and raspy, sounding like two stone slabs grinding together.

“I can’t do that~ You’re way too ugly. If I let you out, what if you pollute other people’s eyes?”

Sang Yu’s smile was pure and harmless, but the depths of her eyes were dead cold.

CRACK—

The ghost hand squeezed with violent force, instantly shattering the stone statue’s skull into pieces.