It's time to become an evil god.

"Very well, you've made me bleed, now I'm going to start struggling."

The doll, having witnessed everything, still had its head left and wanted to yell, "What are you struggling for? They haven't done anything yet! You're trying to scam me!"

Huh? Wait a minute, what are you trying to do?

The woman wearing a mask stood there, bewildered.

An ominous atmosphere permeated the gloomy rain.

The pebbles on the ground began to vibrate slightly. Screws, water pipes, iron sheets, and even disassembled parts from a nearby parked car converged from all directions, floating and swirling around each other like a vortex. Blue arcs of electricity emanated from Nishizawa Ryo's chest, forming a magnetic field capable of manipulating metal.

All the fragments were being integrated, gathered, and shaped. Finally, a giant steel dragon with metallic scales appeared behind Nishizawa Ryo, with countless sharp iron plates forming a dorsal fin on its back. Pale arcs of electricity flickered all over its body, illuminating the terrified face of the masked woman and the trembling doll hiding in the black plastic bag.

The massive, intertwined bodies of the steel dragons almost occupied the entire road, and slowly opened their pitch-black mouths as Nishizawa Ryo uttered his final death sentence.

"Don't blink, this is the last monster you'll ever see."

Chapter Fifteen: You Look Like a Silver-Haired, Animal-Eared, Flat-Chested, Nine-Tailed Fox Loli

An explosion rang out in the distance, shaking the ground. Cars on the street were jolted awake by the violent tremors, their headlights flashing and sirens blaring.

Bai Ge turned his head and saw a wisp of black smoke rising in the distance. At the same time, he heard the notification sound indicating that the mission was over.

The mission has ended.

[Quest Rewards: 1 Excellent Quality Doll, 600 Experience Points]

[Level: LV1 (900/1000)]

[Tip: Equipment slots will be unlocked at level 2]

A pale, slender doll dressed in a floral dress appeared in front of Bai Ge. Beneath her long, narrow eyelashes were exquisite sapphire-like eyes. Apart from the joints and stiff expression, she was almost indistinguishable from a real person.

【Name: Substitute Doll】

[Quality: Rare]

[Special Effect: After binding with a host, a portion of the player's soul can be transferred to the puppet, granting control (limited to level 6 and above). Even if the original player dies, the puppet can still inherit the player's identity.]

[Note: Which boy can resist the allure of transforming into a cute and adorable girl?]

Bai Ge's eyes lit up. This doll was essentially a powerful life-extending substitute. Although the original body was limited and could not be further strengthened, it could serve as a life-saving tool at certain crucial moments.

The only odd thing is that this lifelike doll seems to have a female body.

"never mind."

Bai Ge planned to temporarily store the doll in the Folklore Research Association's warehouse. To avoid being mistaken for a pervert carrying a sex doll late at night, he went to a roadside garbage dump and, under the watchful gaze of a stray cat, pulled out an old suitcase, folded up the doll, and stuffed it inside.

After finishing his business, he dragged his suitcase out of the old town and stood by the main road, waving to hail a taxi to go back.

The driver glanced at the large box in Bai Ge's hand and asked curiously, "Young man, are you moving so late at night?"

"Oh, yes."

Bai Ge casually made up an excuse and said, "Master, could you please go to the Folklore Research Association at No. 45 Lin'an Street?"

"Get in the car."

The driver looked curiously at the somewhat dirty-looking suitcase, but said nothing.

After the taxi started, it headed towards Lin'an Street. Along the way, several fire trucks could be seen speeding past, their blue and red lights flashing as they disappeared into the darkness.

Perhaps because the journey had been a bit dull, the driver started a conversation, "Young man, are you a folklorist?"

"Ah, yes."

Bai Ge changed the subject, "Recently I've been working on a project about urban legends in Xu City."

The taxi driver seemed a bit annoyed when urban legends were mentioned. He glanced at the rearview mirror, shook his head, and said, "These kids nowadays don't like to study. They just love watching all sorts of superstitious urban legends."

“Yesterday, my daughter complained to me while eating that her mother’s cooking wasn’t as good as her grandmother’s. I found it both funny and funny, because my mother passed away before my daughter was even born. Last night, she was lying in bed and wouldn’t go to sleep, and kept saying that her grandmother was watching her from the ceiling and laughing.”

Bai Ge paused for a moment, then his tone became serious as he said earnestly, "You remind me of something that happened before."

"Ok?"

The taxi driver became nervous when he saw Bai Ge's expression turn serious.

“A father walked into a room and found his son shivering under the covers. He asked him what was wrong, and the boy peeked out and whispered that there was a monster under the bed. But when the father crouched down, he found his son hiding under the bed making a shushing gesture and whispering to his father that there was a monster in the bed that looked exactly like him.”

The taxi driver paused for a moment, then asked, "And then?"

Bai Ge nodded and said, "Then Father gave the twins a good beating."

"..."

"I understand."

The taxi driver looked like he'd just realized something. "I'll beat that brat up when I get home from get off work!"

While the two were chatting, they arrived at the entrance of Lin'an Street. Because the alley was too narrow to make a U-turn, the driver stopped at the alley entrance. Before leaving, Bai Ge specifically left her phone number with the taxi driver, saying that she could call him if she had any strange questions in the future.

After saying that, Bai Ge pulled her suitcase and stepped into the old, deep alleyway marked with signs for demolition.

As soon as he stepped into the alley, a cold wind blew by. Although he was all alone, Bai Ge could always feel that something in the shadows was watching him.

Click.

The sound of branches snapping underfoot, the soft footsteps echoing in the empty, quiet, dark alley, felt like repeated blows to the heart. The elongated shadows gradually approached from behind the old streetlights, drawing near where Bai Ge was standing.

"Who?"

Bai Ge gave a low, harsh rebuke.

The footsteps suddenly stopped.

However, the alley was eerily quiet, without the sound of breathing or footsteps. The silence was strangely oppressive, and the rows of billboards standing side by side looked like neatly arranged dark shadows under the bright white lights.

Bai Ge frowned and shouted, "I admit I'm alone. You win. Those female hooligans who had designs on me can come out now! I'm powerless to fight back."

No one responded.

Bai Ge took two more steps forward.

pat!

Footsteps sounded again, but this time they approached at the same rhythm as before, unhurriedly.

When Bai Ge stopped again, the commotion that had been following him disappeared inexplicably.

Even the air seemed strangely thick and oppressive, with a strange sense of suffocation. The footsteps rang out for the third time, sounding particularly jarring in the empty, deserted alley.

"Officer."

This time, a faint sound came from behind, echoing softly behind Bai Ge.

Do I look like a human being to you?

Bai Ge was startled and turned around abruptly, but there was nothing behind him. Ignoring the other person, Bai Ge continued walking forward, but after only a few steps, something gently tugged at the back of his clothes. This time, the faint sound came from beside his ear.

"My lord, you..."

Bai Ge stopped and turned around impatiently, yelling at the ghostly shadow behind him, "Shut the hell up! You look like a silver-haired, beast-eared, flat-chested, nine-tailed fox loli!"

Bang.

A cloud of smoke rose, and a small figure fell from the sky and landed on the ground.

The bewildered little girl with silver hair and animal ears sat on the wet street, swaying her white fox tail, rubbing her sore bottom, and looking up at Bai Ge with a blank expression.

"Waaaaah?"

Chapter Sixteen: Dirty Deals

Inside the gloomy old house warehouse, through the opaque frosted glass windows outside the courtyard, one could vaguely see a ghostly green light shimmering within.

Four white paper effigies sat in the corner, their eerie, ghostly green flames flickering and dancing, casting long, ghostly shadows on the wall and making the paper effigy's pale, red-cheeked, half-laughing expression all the more unsettling.

Blood seeped into the bronze mirror, gradually forming a crimson figure in its reflection. The sound of embroidered shoes walking still echoed before the deathly silent shelf.

Tap tap.

It echoed continuously in the eerie, dark silence.

The snow-white skin of the hanged woman's corpse was pressed to the ground by a paper effigy with bricks. At the same time, there were several crumpled pieces of paper money from the Universal Bank of China and a simple self-portrait of Bai Ge.

A white porcelain bowl is filled with raw rice, and three half-burnt incense sticks are stuck in it. The paper effigy holds an old and broken calligraphy brush in its hand and begins to perform a spirit writing exercise.

They had already recruited a fox spirit, but they felt uneasy about the group of ghosts in the warehouse, so they planned to recruit another ghost.

Even if a vengeful ghost were to use spirit writing, it might attract something it shouldn't. So the paper effigy carefully dabbed a little crimson blood that had seeped from the bronze mirror and solemnly wrote a line of blood-written words on the skin of the hanged woman's corpse.

zaima?

A cold wind blew by, and the candlelight in the corner flickered precariously.

The bloodstains on the paper slowly disappeared, then coalesced into another line of text.

Speak your mind, or get to the point.

The paper effigy circled a red circle on the portrait with a brush and then wrote a line of text.

Help us get rid of this man.

This time, the blood-red words did not disappear instantly. Instead, after a long wait, another line of words slowly appeared.

【Can】

But it costs extra.

The paper effigy gritted its teeth, walked to a corner, broke its piggy bank, counted the few crumpled pieces of underworld paper money inside, and finally, with a heavy heart, took out its last banknote from the Universal Bank of Heaven and Earth and slapped it onto the hanged female ghost's corpse.

After thinking for a moment, he added another line of text.

I don't have enough money. Can I pay the rest in installments using Ant Credit Pay?

"..."

Before the paper effigy could even get a reply, its keen sixth sense suddenly gave it an ominous premonition. The next instant, the warehouse door was kicked open as expected, and the cold night wind blew in, extinguishing the flickering, dark green flame in the corner.

The group of guys who were secretly gathering to do bad things suddenly looked towards the door. They saw the silver-haired, beast-eared loli fox girl in the white singer's song, whose neck was being gripped by fate, shrug innocently with an expression that said, "I've confessed everything."

The paper effigy quickly hid the brush behind its back, raised its head, and pretended to look around at the scenery while whistling.