Evil God’s Human Agent

Su Cheng waited anxiously in the corridor.

Not far away, the door of apartment 1316 was closed.

The paint on the door panel was mottled and peeled off, and the numbers on the brass door plate looked particularly eye-catching in the dark.

Too quiet.

It was too quiet.

The cold air was filled with a strong smell of blood, and the rust-like smell lingered in his nose, bringing a strong sense of uneasiness. His heart pounded in his chest cavity as if it could smash ribs.

What was going on inside?

Su Cheng wasn't clear about it.

He only knew that the moment Wen Jianyan opened the door, his figure was swept away by some invisible force and disappeared from his sight in the blink of an eye. The next second, the door slammed shut, covering every sound and movement behind it.

One second before the door closed, the last thing he heard was the sound of flesh being pierced.

Afterward, he could only fall into a long wait.

Su Cheng stood in the corridor not far away, frowning and upset, turning his head to look at the closed door of 1316 from time to time.

From the beginning until now, nothing happened.

No sound was heard, nor was there any signal; except for the increasingly thick smell of blood in the air, the rest was completely quiet.

The young man who was dragged into the room was like a stone sinking into the sea, disappearing without a trace.

Was that liar still alive?

He had no idea.

Su Cheng still remembered that before entering 1316, Wen Jianyan told him that if he went in for more than five minutes, there was no need to wait any longer; just leave.

Although he didn't explain why, Su Cheng knew that this meant the other party should have died by the time.

Su Cheng couldn't help lowering his head again and glancing at the phone.

Four minutes have passed.

However, there was still a dead silence in 1316, as if a stone was pressing on his chest, making him almost out of breath.

In the live broadcast hall of "Antai Community", the blood-red 20-minute countdown suspended on the top was still moving, and the number on it was steadily decreasing as time went by.

All of the viewers looked up from time to time, anticipating the possible changes in the instance after the countdown ended.

Finally, the countdown went to zero.

[Ding!]

At that moment, the mechanical sound of the system sounded in the ears of all the anchors:

[The instance "Antai Community" has been alienated successfully! The difficulty has increased! A new team battle mode will be unlocked soon: Non-confrontational faction battle.]

"???"

Su Cheng's eyes widened slightly.

Wasn't the hunting mission given by Granny Wen to everyone because of alienation? How come there was more?

And what the hell was a non-confrontational faction battle?!

He kind of broke down.

The other anchors who were still fighting stopped involuntarily.

They were also taken aback.

Wait a minute, did that mean they were just starting a team battle now? …Then what was the scuffle they just had with the camp of evil spirit believers from Dark Fire?

[The anchor can spend points to ask for help from designated targets outside the instance, and the system will draw a 20% commission.]

[The respondents will be in the same faction as those who seek help.]

[When all the members are here, an upgraded version of the map will be released. New identity card content will be issued to all the anchors, and random faction assignments will be made.]

[Faction-based victory rules: the faction, which would complete their main line task first will be the winner.]

[All the winners will survive, and all the losers will be wiped out.]

After listening to all the rules, Su Cheng's heart skipped a beat.

Wiped out?!

This was completely different from the last hunting battle. Fighting for one's life had become the only option under such harsh system rules. As long as a faction fails, all the anchors in it would be punished together…

The winner lives, and the loser dies.

Even just listening to it made people's hearts skip a beat.

Su Cheng lowered his head and opened the Nightmare app on his phone.

A new faction selection screen had appeared in it.

The red side was the Bodhisattva faction, and the black side was the evil spirit faction.

However, this time, the number of people on the red side and the black side was all 0, so the anchor himself could not actively choose a side and could only wait for the system to randomly assign them.

"Rumble—"

There was a faint rumble coming from the depths of the wall, the scarlet lights overhead flickered slightly, and the ground seemed to be shaking invisibly.

Su Cheng felt dizzy and had to hold onto the wall to stabilize his figure.

The brief vibration disappeared, and Su Cheng raised his head and subconsciously looked in the direction of 1316.

In the next second, he couldn't help but gasp.

The door panel was covered with talismans with red letters and a yellow background. The thick and cold chains hung on both sides of the door panel, and the locks' heads were tilted to one side, as if they had been pried open by someone.

This was clearly… how it looked in the outside world!

However, the light above his head was still a terrible scarlet color, and the walls were still twisted and weird, clearly looking like when he was in the Bagua mirror.

Was this… the upgraded version of the new map?

The world outside the mirror was basically completely controlled by Granny Wen and her paper figurines. They entered the world inside the mirror to escape from the pursuit. If the inside and outside of the mirror really merge into one world, then…

Su Cheng shivered, lowered his head, and opened the help interface.

There were two options for asking for help: one was to ask for help from a designated person, and the other was to ask for help from idle anchors indiscriminately. Su Cheng gritted his teeth and issued a detailed request for help.

[Would you like to seek help from the designated target?]

"Yes."

The balance of 10,000 points was quickly deducted from his account.

Su Cheng waited anxiously, and soon, the system's cold voice sounded from beside his ears: [Ding! The person who you asked for help has accepted your invitation!]

On the side of the open space, a familiar figure appeared out of thin air.

Ji Guan fell on the cold and hard ground with a slightly distorted expression, cursing with a grim expression: "D@mn, it hurts!"

Su Cheng was both surprised and delighted: "You agreed to my invitation!"

Ji Guan patted the dust off his buttocks and stood up: "Of course! You have asked for help, isn't it because you surely need my help!"

He didn't join Wen Jianyan and the others this time, mainly because the number of people in a team was limited for different anchor levels. A free D-level anchor without a guild could only form a team of two at most, and if they were in the same guild, they could form a three-person team. For Su Cheng, as an anchor who was likely to be targeted by the Oracle, it was too dangerous to enter the instance alone, so this time Ji Guan entered the instance alone, while Wen Jianyan and Su Cheng teamed up to enter it.

"I entered a level C instance this time. Compared with the previous Fukang Hospital, the difficulty was not the slightest bit worse… Anyway, I survived and earned a lot of points. I should be able to upgrade soon."

Ji Guan sighed and said naggingly: "I didn't expect to receive your call for help as soon as I came out. I knew that Wen Jianyan shouldn't be well-behaved. He must have changed the difficulty of the instance again, right?"

"Speaking of…"

He turned his head and looked around, but he didn't see the familiar figure, so he couldn't help showing a puzzled expression:

"Where's he?"

Su Cheng pointed to 1316 with the closed door beside him: "Inside."

Ji Guan looked in the direction Su Cheng was pointing, and after seeing the room covered with charms, he couldn't help but gasp: "D@mn it, is it so bad?"

He rolled up his sleeves: "That's why you called me here! Is Wen Jianyan in danger? Let's go—"

Su Cheng stopped Ji Guan: "Wait, wait…"

Next, Su Cheng briefly explained what had happened before. Although his description was very concise, Ji Guan was still terrified: "Wait, why does your instance sound so difficult? What is the level? "

Su Cheng was also taken aback: "Didn't you get the notification when you came in?"

Ji Guan looked blank: "…No."

Su Cheng blinked, and slowly spit out two words: "B-"

Ji Guan: "..."

After a few seconds of silence, he said in a trance, "…Huh?"

What…

Which level?!

At this moment, the mechanical system voice sounded again:

[Ding, all the people have entered the instance, and the content of the identity card is being issued…]

[A faction has been assigned to all the anchors.]

Hearing this, Su Cheng lowered his head and opened the Nightmare app. The moment he saw the faction he was randomly assigned to, his pupils couldn't help but shrink.

[Congratulations on entering the red faction.]

[The main line task has been updated: refine the tenth soul-locking altar and completely suppress the evil spirits.]

Red side?!

That is, Granny Wen's camp? What, how could this be?!

Su Cheng opened the system store in a panic, but he couldn't find any items that would allow him to switch sides.

As a supporter, Ji Guan was also assigned to the red side, just like him.

Although he hadn't recovered from the explosive news just now, he still noticed the overly serious expression on Su Cheng's face and subconsciously asked, "What's wrong?"

Su Cheng raised his head slowly: "We…we were assigned to the red side, not the black side."

Ji Guan didn't know much about the forces in the current instance, so he had a dazed expression on his face:

"So what's wrong with that?"

Su Cheng took a deep breath, raised his hand to wipe his face, gritted his teeth, and said, "Wen Jianyan's identity card is that of an evil spirit believer."

A true, iron-willed member of the black faction!!!

***

On the other side, the other anchors in the instance cautiously dispersed to prevent getting too close to people who were not from their own faction.

The reminder that the faction battle had started sounded in everyone's ears.

They opened the Nightmare app one after another, quickly glanced at their new identity cards, and then finally turned their attention to the faction member chart.

All the anchors were startled.

[Number of people on the red side: 23]

[Number of people on the black side: 1]

If there was only one person in the evil spirit faction, then their previous guess was completely wrong… it meant there was only one evil spirit believer from beginning to end!

After a brief moment of stupefaction, Wang Hanyu's expression darkened instantly:

"F*ck, I see what's going on."

He looked at the other red anchors beside him and gritted his teeth fiercely: "That Dark Fire anchor has played tricks on all of us!"

In the "Antai Community" live broadcast hall.

[Good guy, this is the first time I've seen a faction with only one member!]

[Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, now the other anchors have finally come to their senses, all the members are going to go after him, that's great!]

[But isn't that anchor on the black side already finished?! Under the current rules, it is impossible for him to win unless he completes black's main line mission ahead of schedule, and even if he does complete it ahead of schedule, his two teammates will all die here with the red team… This is simply unsolvable.]

[Woo-hoo, no way, my dog liar! I'm still waiting to see him form a fraud gang!]

While Su Cheng and Ji Guan were exchanging information with each other, there were messy footsteps at the end of the corridor, not far away.

...Not good!

Su Cheng's heart contracted.

In the next second, a voice that sounded as if someone was gritting their teeth came from that direction: "Quick! It's him! He is the sole accomplice of that scammer!"

Su Cheng opened the backpack reflexively—no, all the concealment robes are used up!

Immediately afterward, his whole body was knocked down by an invisible force, and he fell heavily onto the wall. His shoulder blades collided with the hard wall, causing dull pain.

Su Cheng clenched his teeth subconsciously, and a bloody smell rose in his mouth.

Although Ji Guan didn't know what had happened to them before, he jumped out in a hurry: "Wait, wait! We are also on the red team! Aren't we teammates!"

Since there was only one person on the black side, that was Wen Jianyan, the rest of the anchors should all be on the red side.

They were outnumbered now, it was best to let the other party think that they were in the same camp…

However, before Ji Guan could say anything more, his body was firmly imprisoned by some kind of invisible rope. He was punched hard in the abdomen and fell to the ground with a distorted expression.

"Of course, I know you are on the red side."

Wang Hanyu shook his hands, turned around, and kicked Su Cheng hard in the stomach.

Su Cheng's face crumpled painfully, and he curled up like a shrimp.

Seeing this, Wang Hanyu showed a particularly happy smile on his face: "After all, there is only one person on the black side, isn't it?"

He raised his foot and viciously crushed Su Cheng's knuckles with the hard sole of his shoes, and the knuckles made a rattling sound under the vicious crushing.

"Aaaaaaahhhhh!"

Su Cheng screamed, his face pale.

"But, as ex-teammates, you guys must know where that guy is, right?"

Wang Hanyu bent down, grabbed Su Cheng's hair, and forcefully pulled his upper body: "If you tell me where he is, I'll spare your life, how about it?"

On the side, Ji Guan noticed that something was wrong.

He covered his stomach and coughed twice, then stopped with some difficulty: "Wait… You guys should also know this, right? This is a non-confrontational faction battle. If you want to win, you just need to complete the main task—"

"Complete the main task?"

Gao Chengxin on the side suddenly spoke.

He sneered, and under the dark red light, his already fierce eyebrows and eyes looked even more terrifying at this moment: "Of course, this is also a way, but under the current situation, it's a bit too difficult, isn't it?"

Gao Chengxin stepped forward and said unhurriedly: "Even if it is a non-confrontational faction battle, it can be solved in the way of the confrontational faction book—if all the black team members are wiped out, the red team can still win."

"After all, the black side has only one person now. This is much easier than completing the main task."

Wang Hanyu raised his hand and slammed the back of Su Cheng's head against the wall:

"Tell me, where is that liar?"

"...have no idea."

Su Cheng gritted his teeth, and his voice was squeezed out from between his teeth with difficulty.

His forehead was already bleeding, and the warm and viscous scarlet liquid slowly dripped down, completely pasting his right eyelashes together: "We separated a long time ago."

"You are loyal."

Wang Hanyu pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose: "I've already talked to several other teams. The reason why that guy had been able to play us around was all because of your help."

"You both are already level C anchors; do you still not understand? In the Nightmare, loyalty is meaningless…"

Wang Hanyu let go of his hand, allowing the opponent's body to fall limply at his feet. Then he opened the system store and said condescendingly:

"It doesn't matter, anyway; you will tell the truth soon."

An anchor not far away showed a hesitant expression on his face:

"Wait, I don't think he is lying. After all, he is also a member of the red team now. If we lose, he will also die…"

"So what?"

Wang Hanyu said, "He'll have to pay the price for tricking us."

There was a sinister smile on the corner of his mouth, and a dagger gleaming with cold light appeared in the palm of the other hand. The edge of the dagger was covered with barbs, and it looked extremely sharp.

He weighed the dagger in his hand, then bent down and pressed it against the other party's cheek.

The flat skin opened little by little, and scarlet blood oozed out.

Su Cheng raised his eyes and looked at him fixedly; his lips opened and closed, and he uttered two short words:

"The tower."

"…What?" Wang Hanyu was taken aback and frowned slightly.

"Upright."

One of Su Cheng's eyes was smeared with blood, and he said slowly, "Destruction and crisis are about to happen. A huge disaster is approaching, the irreparable is coming, everything about you will collapse and disintegrate from the depths, and all the bad things you have done will come back to you."

Wang Hanyu: "..."

His expression became a little gloomy.

Su Cheng smiled, showing his blood-stained teeth: "It's just a free divination."

"D@mmit."

Wang Hanyu's expression was ghastly; he raised his leg suddenly and aimed at the opponent's stomach again——

"Squeak."

A sharp and piercing hinge friction noise sounded in the dead corridor, like a harbinger of doom. Everyone was startled and subconsciously turned their heads to look in the direction of the sound.

The door panel covered with countless charms slid inward silently, revealing a dark interior as if an abyss was slowly opening, waiting for the next sacrifice to appear.

A strong smell of blood diffused out.

There was a particularly ominous atmosphere in the apartment.

The anchors couldn't help but feel their hearts skip a beat, and they instinctively took a step back.

"Gulugulu…"

The strange sound of water resounded in the pitch-black room as if something slippery and sticky was wriggling and sticking out its tentacles.

The faded wooden door frame was dyed red at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into a soft scarlet with a weird texture. Then the wall——

Like some kind of infectious disease, the flesh-like monster protruded its tentacles from the closed door, nibbling away at wood, stone, and steel——

All the anchors' pupils were constricted.

"This… what is this?!"

"Quick, get ready!"

"Who still has the props?! Quick, redeem them!"

Wang Hanyu's face turned pale. He didn't know if it was because of the "free divination" just now, but he felt chills all over his body as if he was being targeted by something terrifying.

When the others were preparing to fight, he couldn't help taking a few steps back, almost having the desire to turn around and run away.

"Cluck."

"Cluck."

The ear-piercing sound of bone friction sounded from the depths of the darkness. Several pale arms protruded from the shadows, their sharp nails digging deep into the wall. The strange clucking sound echoed in the corridor, almost making people's scalps numb.

"No, there are too many!"

"What's going on?! Why are there so many monsters in this 1316?!"

The anchors turned pale with shock. They instantly recognized the gap in strength and no longer tried to resist, but turned around and ran without hesitation: "Quick! Hurry up!"

"Get out of here!"

One of the anchors turned his head to look at Su Cheng and Ji Guan, who had fallen to the ground, feeling a bit unbearable: "What about the two of them? Bring them with us?"

"Leave them alone!"

Gao Chengxin's voice was sharp and cold: "There are enough people on the red side; it doesn't matter if two people are missing!"

"Cluck."

"Cluck."

The pale monsters sprang out of the darkness. With the sound of bones twisting and rubbing, they rushed straight toward humans at a speed that was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye!

On the wall, the speed of spreading flesh and blood accelerated several times. Under the dark-red, flickering light, the wall's texture quickly changed. The wall, which was old and dirty and covered with graffiti and small advertisements, was swallowed by scarlet, sticky monsters. It was like being stuck in the middle of the esophagus, waiting to be digested.

Everything looked so eerie and terrifying, like a scene that could only appear in the deepest nightmare.

Su Cheng and Ji Guan looked pale.

Even though the two of them had just been beaten and blocked by the anchors, they hadn't had enough time to sustain any significant harm. At least they could still run, but…

This was no longer a question of being able to run or not.

Three monsters surrounded them; the pale faces without facial features slowly approached, and a strong rancid smell came from their bodies.

Su Cheng and Ji Guan looked pale, and they subconsciously and slowly backed away. When their backs leaned against something soft and sticky, they suddenly realized what was behind them.

Weak screams escaped from their throats at the same time.

Aaaaaaahhhhh, how can there be so many monsters?!!!

The three monsters moved forward a few inches again and slowly stretched out their pale arms toward the two humans, their soft snake-like bodies making clucking sounds.

Su Cheng and Ji Guan closed their eyes in despair.

"…It's all right."

The young man's familiar voice sounded from a distance.

This voice…?!

Su Cheng and Ji Guan opened their eyes in horror and turned their heads to look in the direction of the sound.

"Cluck."

The pale monsters withdrew their arms obediently, turned around, and chased again in the direction where the anchors disappeared.

In the darkness, a slender young man limped out.

The clothes on his body were in disarray, and the rest of the fabric was basically stained red with blood, revealing his scarred and firm body below. From the right chest to the right shoulder and then to the entire arm, all were covered by pitch-black incantation; white, scarlet, and thick black—three extremely contrasting colors—were concentrated on the same body, bringing a strong visual impact.

"You..."

Su Cheng and Ji Guan stared wide-eyed as if their eyeballs were about to fall out of their sockets, and it was almost hard to believe their own eyes: "You, you, you…"

"It seems that you have already met my new friends."

Wen Jianyan raised the corners of his pale lips, which had lost too much blood, and his amber eyes narrowed slightly:

"How are you doing? Are you having a good time?"

[Main line task: Escape from the siege of other residents.]

[Completion degree: 100%, Reward points: 10000]

[The high-difficulty side task updated: Awaken the fragment of the evil spirit.]

[Completion degree: 80%, Reward points: 80000]

[Congratulations on entering the black faction.]

[The main line task has been updated: destroy all the soul-locking altars and completely release the evil spirit.]

[Identify card]

Name: Wu Qinghe

Age: 22

Occupation: Paranormal Investigator/Evil Spirit Believer/Evil Sect Leader

Related plot: Your superficial identity is that of a paranormal investigator, but in fact, you are a loyal believer of the evil spirit. In order to awaken the true God you believe in, on July 15th, you came to the Antai community to try to break the seal and unleash the evil spirit in which you believe fanatically.

You escaped the siege and the interception of the residents in the building and met other monsters who were also followers of the evil spirit.

With the support of other evil spirit believers, you became the human agent of the evil god, and you were elected as the leader of this sect. This is where your sinful life began.

The author has something to say:

What should I do if I accidentally become a cultist?

Wen Jianyan: Naturally, collude with other believers, forged divine words, empty God the Father, and finally became the leader of the sect.