My name is Huang Tian, ​​what the hell is this "Heaven is dead" nonsense?

Chapter 163 The Nightmare House, the Glutton's Delight
Huang Tian felt very happy.

He has a stable job, earning at least 7,000 a month, if not tens of thousands, which is enough for him.

Because he doesn't have any particular hobbies, he just plays games, and he's a free-to-play player. He doesn't smoke, drink, or date, so he can't spend any money at all.

He feels a sense of satisfaction every month as he watches the balance on his phone grow; he enjoys the feeling of accumulating more and more.

Moreover, he has a happy family: a kind father, a gentle mother, and a lovely younger sister. Apart from not having a girlfriend right now, he feels that his life is almost perfect.

"Today is Xiaojia's birthday, let's buy her a cake and take it home."

After get off work, he rode his electric scooter home. After riding for more than ten minutes, he arrived at the foot of a somewhat old apartment building, parked his scooter, and went into the cake shop next door.

"Boss lady, get me a cake, something pretty," he said as he walked in.

The shop owner, a plump woman in her thirties, knew "Huang Tian," who lived on the same street. She joked, "A gift for a girl? Little Huang, are you in love?"

He shook his head and smiled, "It's not for my girlfriend, it's for my sister's birthday, I bought it for her."

"younger sister?"

The proprietress paused for a moment, 'Isn't he an orphan?'

A thought welled up in her mind, but she didn't say it aloud. Saying it would be hurtful, and besides, "Sister? I understand! I understand!"

A knowing smile played on her lips. These days, young people like to call each other "brother" and "sister," and that's not even the more elaborate stuff; some even go further...

"Hi~"

She got goosebumps and coughed, saying, "I'll make you a 6-inch heart-shaped cream cake. You can sit on the sofa over there and wait for about twenty minutes."

Her cake shop mainly does takeout. The cake bases are all baked in advance, the cream is whipped in advance and refrigerated, and the fruit is cut, sealed with plastic wrap and refrigerated. When an order comes in, it can be made directly. Simple cakes can be made in about ten minutes, and complicated cakes take about half an hour.

"Okay, no rush, just do it well."

Huang Tian walked to the sofa, sat down, and silently started scrolling through videos on his phone.

About twenty minutes passed.

"Little Huang, it's done. What do you think?" the proprietress called out.

Upon hearing this, he got up and walked over, where he saw a pink heart-shaped cake on the table. In the center of the cake were several rose petals made of cream, which looked quite romantic and gentle.

"Not bad!" he smiled.

"I'm glad you like it. This is the best-selling cake in my shop!" The proprietress wrapped the cake up. "I guarantee your daughter or your sister will love it!"

Huang Tian nodded, scanned the code to pay, and after the cake was wrapped, he carried it out of the store and walked towards the apartment building.

Thumb thump thump~
The crisp sound of footsteps echoed in the hallway. He walked to room 303, took out his key, opened the door, and went inside.

As soon as I entered the house, it became quiet. Earlier in the hallway, I could hear the sounds of car horns and horns from some stalls on the street outside.

But once you step inside, it's like walking from a sweltering summer day into a freezing cold storage room—utterly silent, so quiet it sends chills down your spine.

Unaware of what was happening, he called out, "Dad? Mom? Xiaojia?"

A girl's voice came from the bathroom, "They've all gone out and won't be back for a while."

"Oh, okay." He placed the cake on the round table in the living room. "Xiaojia, come out and see what I bought for you?"

As he spoke, he took out his phone, snapped a few photos of the beautifully packaged cake, and posted them on his WeChat Moments with the caption: "Happy birthday, Xiaojia!"

After posting on his WeChat Moments, he sat and waited for a while. Seeing that Xiaojia still hadn't come out, he glanced at the bathroom. The door was closed, the lights were off, and it was dark.

Confused, he was about to shout again when a phone call came in. Looking down, he saw it was from his friend Liang Ping.

As soon as the call connected, a rough voice came through.

"Huang Tian! Old Huang! You've finally found love! What does Xiao Jia look like? What's she like? Do you have a picture?"

Huang Tian was speechless. "What girlfriend? Have you forgotten? My sister's name is Xiao Jia, Huang Jia. Didn't the three of us used to go out for barbecue together?"

The voice on the other end of the phone immediately fell silent. After a long while, Liang Ping slowly said, "You mean your own sister?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Good bro, don't scare me..." Liang Ping said uncertainly, "Are you joking or serious?"

"What are you joking about? I've already bought the cake, just waiting for my parents to come back so we can eat it together."

After he finished speaking, a deep breath came from the other end of the phone.

"You, you... Old Huang, you're not mentally ill, are you?"

Liang Ping hesitated and said, "I remember, weren't you an orphan? You grew up in a welfare home in the city. I even went to that welfare home with you. Where did you get your parents? Or did you find your biological parents who abandoned you? That doesn't make sense. You didn't tell me about something so important?"

Huang Tian got angry upon hearing this. "Old Liang, how dare you talk like that? When did I become an orphan? My parents have taken care of me for so many years and treated me very well. How could they abandon me?!"

Liang Ping felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing this. 'Damn! Has Old Huang gone schizophrenic? Is he imagining his parents and sister?'

Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly heard a busy tone and the call was disconnected. He quickly dialed again, but no one answered.

"What's going on?" He frowned. "Could something have happened to Lao Huang? ... I'll call again in a few minutes. If no one answers, I'll go over there!"

Meanwhile, in room 303.

"Huh, Liang Ping hung up the phone?"

Huang Tian frowned and put down his phone. "Old Liang is really something, talking nonsense. He hung up after I said a couple of words to him. Sigh!"

As she sighed, the bathroom door clicked open, and a thin girl walked out.

She was wearing a white dress that hung loosely on her body, as if it were attached to a skeleton.

His skin was pale, as if he hadn't seen the sun in a long time; his hair was jet black, hanging straight down to his waist; his features were extremely pale; his pupils were white; he didn't blink when he looked at people; and his lips were completely bloodless.

She was barefoot, her ankles were very thin, and she walked silently, her skirt swaying gently.

"Brother, what's wrong?" The voice was very soft and gentle.

Huang Tian turned around and saw that his younger sister Huang Jia had walked up to him with a strange expression.

"It's nothing, Liang Ping just called and said I'm an orphan. I scolded him a bit, and he got angry and hung up." "Huang Tian" waved his hand and laughed, "It's your birthday today, don't mention him. Come on, let's unwrap the package first..."

As he spoke, a strange feeling inexplicably arose in his heart. He glanced at Huang Jia out of the corner of his eye. The latter did not speak, but just stared at him blankly with an empty look in her eyes, like a dead person.

He was startled, his heart pounded, and his mind reeled as if a thunderclap had been detonated, as if some kind of seal had been broken.

'Qingyang Orphanage, I am an orphan... No, I am not, no, I am!!'

"Ahhh, I can't tell! I can't tell!!" He suddenly clutched his head and screamed.

Huang Jia gently leaned closer, her fingers stroking his neck. A cool sensation slowly calmed him down. "Brother, you're family with us, forever family..."

Huang Tian stared blankly at Huang Jia, suddenly recalling Liang Ping's words from earlier. He then shoved Huang Jia away violently, as if pushing away a layer of fog. He staggered backward, shouting, "What are you? What are you? There has never been a Huang Jia in this world!!"

Huang Jia floated forward lightly, and in the blink of an eye, she fell into his arms. Her icy fingers touched his neck again, and he tried to push her away, but he couldn't.

"You are my brother, why did you wake up?"

Huang Jia's pale face wrinkled like wet paper, as if something was wriggling underneath. Her pale lips stretched to the sides, and a thin slit appeared at the corner of her mouth, extending all the way to her ear.

Looking at the strange face in front of him, "Huang Tian" was terrified and tried his best to run away, but Huang Jia grabbed his shoulder with a slender hand, making him unable to move.

Immediately, a chill seeped into his body through Huang Jia's fingers.

"Pfft~"

His heart skipped a beat and then stopped beating abruptly. "Huang Tian's" pupils became increasingly dilated, and he fell silent shortly afterward.

"elder brother……"

Slender fingers stroked Huang Jia's still fearful face, and Huang Jia's mouth opened wider and wider, half of her face consisting of mouth and sharp, saw-like teeth.

"Snapped!"

With a sharp crack, a hand suddenly gripped her slender wrist. She was startled and looked up to meet a pair of eyes as calm as a deep pool.

"Ho?"

Huang Jia let out a low growl of confusion, seemingly wondering why someone who had already died could come back to life.

The next instant, dazzling lightning burst forth from Huang Tian's palm. Huang Jia trembled violently, her face contorted in pain. She let out a heavy roar, and her right hand, which Huang Tian had been holding, snapped off. In a desperate attempt to survive, she flew towards the bathroom, a gust of wind rising around her.

But just as her body took off, her right leg was firmly grabbed, and then she was pulled back from mid-air with a thud as if the world was spinning around her. She was slammed heavily to the ground with a thud!
Immediately afterwards, a fist engulfed in blazing flames slammed down on her head like a mountain!

"what!!"

A sharp scream abruptly stopped, and her head exploded like a water bag, splattering thick, black pus and blood all over the ground!
wow~
The moment she was killed, the cold, deathly silence around her receded like a tide, and all sorts of sounds flooded into her ears.

"Huge Sale! Huge Sale! All clothes up to 50% off! All clothes up to 50% off!"

"Steamed buns and dumplings, two for one yuan! Steamed buns and dumplings, two for one yuan!"

"DiDi! DiDi!"

"Stop honking, the road ahead is blocked, it's not that I don't want to give way!"

"We're collecting recyclables! We're buying old cell phones, old computers, and old washing machines!"

"..."

Inside the room, Huang Tian stood tall, with a faded, old bracelet at his feet.

With a wave of his hand, the bracelet flew into his palm. After a brief moment of sensing, one could detect a strong sense of malice and killing intent emanating from it.

"Do those dream exorcists coexist with this thing, using the power of nightmares to deal with other nightmares?"

He seemed to be deep in thought when a ball of flame rose from his hand, burning the bracelet to ashes. Instantly, an extremely pure power surged into his body.

After a moment, he nodded slightly. "My wisp of consciousness broke through the boundary and carried power roughly equivalent to the early stage of Qi Refining. But after absorbing this ball of spiritual power, which is like a rare treasure, I instantly became a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator. I'm only a little short of the late stage. Not bad."

With his own level of cultivation, the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and various divine abilities and techniques, it would not be difficult for him to defeat enemies at the Dao Foundation stage, and he could easily suppress ordinary evil-level nightmares.

“Every nightmare is a treasure to me. I can absorb as much as I can, and I never have too much. After all, there are no bottlenecks for me before the Nascent Soul Realm.”

buzz~

The phone that had been dropped on the ground kept vibrating. Huang Tian knew it was Liang Ping calling, so he waved and answered.

"Old Huang, are you alright now? Do you want me to come over and see you, and go to the hospital with you?" Liang Ping breathed a sigh of relief when the call was answered and quickly asked.

Huang Tian didn't offer much explanation for Liang Ping's concerns and doubts, simply making up a few words to brush it off before hanging up the phone.

Sitting on the sofa, Huang Tian opened the search app on his phone and quickly began searching for information about the world's history, culture, technological development, philosophical ideas, anecdotes, and so on.

"...This world is called Ancient Star. Its level of technological development is roughly the same as that of Blue Star, each with its own strengths. For example, Ancient Star is more adept at aerospace and biomedicine. The reason for this might be the influence of nightmares?"

The world is shrouded in the shadow of a nightmare, and the nightmare is getting stronger. In order to avoid being wiped out in one fell swoop, the human leadership will undoubtedly increase investment in space exploration, hoping to one day be able to migrate to outer space. However, so far, the matter of migrating to space has not been achieved.

In the field of biomedicine, the most prominent aspect is gene technology. Ancient Star's gene technology has developed much faster than that of Blue Star, and it has a good therapeutic effect on some major diseases. However, this technology is mainly used for treating diseases, and things like genetically modified humans have not yet appeared.

This is not surprising. The difficulty of gene therapy for treating diseases and the creation of gene warriors by modifying genes are worlds apart.

Having gained a general understanding of the various cutting-edge technologies and historical culture of the ancient star, Huang Tian's expression shifted, and he turned to look at the tightly closed door.

wow~
The surrounding sounds suddenly fell silent, and the light in the room dimmed considerably.

"Click~"

The door opened, and a middle-aged couple with ordinary appearances walked in.

However, upon entering the room, their bodies immediately stiffened because they could not sense Huang Jia's presence.

At the same time, Huang Tian got up from the sofa, smiled slightly at them, and his eyes gleamed with the greedy light of someone eyeing food.

"Welcome home!"

　Thank you Zeyang Chenxing for the 1666 Qidian Coins reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)