Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

"Gather information. We can't consider anything more. Time is running out. After gathering the information, immediately leave through the secret passage. Before leaving, leave some information here to inform the survivors who come later." MEI made a decisive decision.

"We don't need to care about the ghost in the base?"

"It's not that we don't want to, it's that we can't. We can only pray that its killing rules are harsh, or... that it has already left. You guys gather the data. I told you the password when we came. Now I'll observe the surroundings and see if I can find the ghost hiding in the base."

"This is too dangerous, Doctor. We..."

"Follow orders."

MEI made her judgment. The other two went into the data room, took out the hard drives they carried, and plugged them into the computer. After verifying their identities, they began to transfer.

This data was very important. If they couldn't take it, it would be useless even if she was still alive.

Because there was no more energy to study the Honkai.

The Honkai and the ghosts, just dealing with one of them would exhaust most of humanity's resources.

If it weren't for Beichen constantly turning the tide, killing the ghosts that appeared, humanity would have already stepped into the end of destruction under the combined forces of the Honkai and the ghosts.

"It's really despairing," Mei murmured, looking at the base that had not left any traces.

She knew very well what the people of the "Poisonous Cocoon" were like. Even in death, they would not abandon their responsibilities.

But the data in the core base was not taken away, yet the base was empty, with no trace of struggle or information left behind.

No bodies were found either.

What did this mean?

It meant that when they had reacted, they had already disappeared without a sound.

Or they had been assimilated into ghosts and left this place.

Let's hope it's the latter.

MEI prayed in her heart. In this situation, there was still a ghost with unknown killing rules in the base. For them, it was no different from a desperate situation.

"Huh?"

"What's this?"

As MEI was searching for any clues left in the base, she found a paper man the size of a palm, lying alone in a corner, just illuminated by the light above.

It was very simple, with no eyes.

"A paper man? Is it a ghost? It's not in the data. Could it be a message left by a member of the 'Poisonous Cocoon'? If so, what does leaving a paper man imply?"

MEI curiously examined the paper man in the corner, not rashly picking it up.

Suddenly, MEI felt a chill on the back of her neck. When she reached out to touch it, she felt a pool of blood and a shallow wound on her neck.

She instinctively stood up and observed her surroundings.

"Did I trigger a rule? Proximity? Staring?"

The moment MEI turned around, the paper man in the corner suddenly moved, using its paper-thin hands to cut at MEI's ankle.

"Ugh!"

MEI felt a sharp pain. Looking down, she found the paper man that had come to life and subconsciously stepped on the ground.

The paper man struggled desperately under the foot wrapped in black silk, but to no avail.

At the same time, MEI found another paper man on top of her head and squeezed it tightly with her hand.

The paper man was like a weak cockroach, constantly twisting in MEI's palm, trying to break free.

"Doctor, what happened?!"

Hearing the commotion, the members of the "Poisonous Cocoon" immediately ran out of the data room.

MEI shook her head, "Get me some bandages and some things to stop the bleeding and disinfect."

The members of the "Poisonous Cocoon" did as they were told. After bringing it over, they stared at the two paper men trapped in MEI's hands and feet and asked in confusion, "Are they also ghosts?"

"From the current situation, yes. But they belong to the lowest level of ghosts. Apart from the original rules on their bodies, they don't have too deadly killing rules."

MEI tried to grab the paper man at her feet with her other hand. Just as her foot was lifted, the paper man tried to escape again, but was caught by MEI.

The two paper men were placed on the table, pressed down by heavy objects. Their limbs kept shaking, but they couldn't escape the suppression of the heavy objects.

"Is this the ghost that caused the disappearance of the people in the base?"

"No," MEI looked back at the blood flowing from her wound.

"The way they kill people is by creating wounds with their pitiful attack power. They will definitely leave traces in the process of killing. Even I can easily subdue these two paper men, let alone the assassins in the 'Poisonous Cocoon'. You will only be more astute than me and will definitely not be killed without any warning."

MEI tried to throw a small knife to the paper man. The paper man picked it up without any hesitation and gestured at MEI, as if it had sensed that the small knife could cause substantial damage to people. Then, while MEI was blinking, it immediately threw the small knife.

Fortunately, the members of the "Poisonous Cocoon" quickly caught the small knife, preventing MEI from being harmed.

They had intelligence, and their intelligence was not low. They even knew how to sneak attack. Unfortunately, they did not have human consciousness, otherwise they could get more information from their mouths.

After all, such a weak ghost was not common.

MEI squinted her eyes and stared at the two paper men thoughtfully. She took out a fountain pen from her chest pocket and handed it to one of the paper men.

She said to it, "If you want to use this to sneak attack me, you can try. I believe you know that this can't kill me. But I think you have other ways to kill me. You might as well write something on the table that might make me persistent. Maybe I will take the risk and try it because I covet the benefits."

The paper man froze for a while, holding the fountain pen and awkwardly writing a line of words on the table—

"Draw my eyes with blood."

MEI asked back, "Why should I draw your eyes for you? What can I get? From my perspective, drawing your eyes for you is equivalent to helping you complete your rules and triggering unknown rules, which is not worth the loss. Now you are suppressed and pose no threat to me. Why should I take the risk to find out more about a ghost that can't kill me?"

"..."

The paper man paused for a while. The paper man holding the pen did not move, and the other paper man was also surprisingly quiet, not as restless as before.

MEI adjusted her black-framed glasses. A bold idea gradually appeared in her mind, but before that, she needed to get enough evidence. Only then could she decide whether to say it or not.

Soon, the paper man held the pen and wrote another piece of content on the table—

"Draw my eyes, and you will be killed by me."

The first line of words was in line with the rules of a ghost, and was also within MEI's expectations.

Drawing eyes that symbolized life for a non-existent dead object, which could see everything in the world, the price was obviously a life for a life.

But then, the second paragraph written by the paper man made MEI's eyes widen and show an unbelievable expression.

"After killing you, the paper man will retain all your memories and consciousness. We will control the body of a ghost with a human consciousness."

A human consciousness controlling a bizarre body. MEI was stunned on the spot. If a living person could really obtain the characteristics and rules of a bizarre, then in a sense, it was even more outrageous than immortality.

Immortality still feared fatal damage, but ghosts were different. Ghosts were immortal and indestructible. Even if they suffered a fatal blow, they could restart unconditionally.

MEI suddenly thought of a person—

a person who had already died.

Beichen, the Keeper of Wangchuan, Mei.

She had once almost perfectly controlled a bizarre body with a human consciousness, but what was the result?

She still couldn't escape the fate of death...

The reason was also very simple. No matter what method was used, the pollution would gradually increase over time.

In the long passage of time, everything would be twisted and degenerate. No matter how complete and firm its original appearance was, it could not avoid the erosion of time.

After a long time, the pollution would twist the existence itself.

Eternal existence... was impossible. Maintaining the integrity of one's personality and consciousness was even more of a pipe dream.

"You want to induce me to draw your eyes for you."

MEI looked at the paper man calmly. The paper man responded with a faint nod and wrote with a pen—

"I didn't lie."

"It doesn't really matter whether you lied or not, because whether it's true or false, I won't try. Do you know why? Because I don't need to."

"I never planned to die a natural death, let alone live on. There is nothing in this world that I miss, that is worthy of my 'must live for' people or things."

"If you've studied economics, you should understand that there will be a market only when there is a demand. Unfortunately, you're just a ghost. Even if you luckily obtained some human intelligence, you still don't understand what various human behaviors mean."

"Being immortal like a ghost, and being able to maintain a clear mind for a long time without being interfered with by the rules of other ghosts is indeed a very good thing. But again, I don't need it."

MEI took the fountain pen from the paper man's hand, turned around, and walked into the data room to take the hard drive. She then returned to the door and waited for half a minute.

"We have been here for too long. We can't continue to wait. They didn't arrive here as agreed, and they probably met with misfortune. If we continue to drag on, we will only kill ourselves. Let's leave this place."

MEI made her judgment. The Fire Moth no longer needed to stay.

Even this city, and even this continent, would soon become a dead land, with despair and fear shrouding the hearts of the survivors.

People would find that something beyond their cognition had appeared, on the streets, in the darkness, in their bodies...

In a deformed and bizarre way, it easily brought death.

And they couldn't even fight back. They could only watch as their relatives, friends, and partners died in front of them, and then it would be their turn.

I hope that old friend has left a backup plan, otherwise... civilization will be buried at the hands of ghosts before it is destroyed by the Honkai and Impostors.

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Outside the Fire Moth, Li Mo stood by the wall, surrounded by countless human corpses.

"They just died. Their life force hasn't completely disappeared. Absorb their life force."

Li Mo said to Rin.

Rin looked at the pile of corpses, her stomach churning. She asked with some reluctance, "All of them?"

"All of them," Li Mo gave an affirmative answer.

Thump, thump—thump, thump—

A strange drum sound sounded nearby, and a faint ghostly shadow floated in the air.

Li Mo threw Rin out and held the cursed blade, feeling the cold aura constantly approaching. The main body of the ghost could not be seen, but it didn't matter.

In the state of three deaths, finding a ghost and seeing a person was no longer done with the eyes. The eyeballs were just an aid.

"One... two... five... ten..."

Li Mo closed his eyes and whispered. The streetlight above shone on the two of them.

The bright figure immediately attracted the attention of the ghosts, who rushed out from inside the Fire Moth.

Gah—

Just as another strange cry was heard, Li Mo had already arrived in front of it and cut it in two.

A blood-red blade light swallowed and covered the ghost's body, dragging it into the world of the cursed blade.

In the world of the cursed blade, Sakura had to face a large wave of attacks from ghosts.

In there, ghosts and humans would all die. The living would inherit everything from the dead.

It was like a death arena, where only the victor could survive.

"Do you want your sister to die in the cursed blade?"

Looking back and seeing that Rin had not moved for a long time, Li Mo said loudly in Rin's direction.

Without Rin to purify the pollution of Crimson-Dyed Sakura, Sakura could not maintain her human form for long.

"No!"

Rin let her instincts dominate her body. A huge cocoon appeared and enveloped Rin inside, slowly floating in the air. A few thin threads fell from the sky, pulling the Grief Seed. The white web inside extended out a web of insects in all directions, attaching to the corpses on the ground, greedily absorbing the last bit of life.

Her aged body gradually recovered, and her gray hair became soft and smooth again, returning to her fluffy pink short hair.

After her life force was replenished, Rin immediately used it to offset the pollution borne by the cursed blade.

The swollen eyeballs on the blade no longer trembled violently.

Li Mo used Crimson-Dyed Sakura to kill ghosts in reality and swallowed them into the world of the cursed blade. Sakura fought a life-and-death battle with the ghosts in the cursed blade. Rin absorbed life force to offset the rules of the cursed blade transferring pollution in the process.

The three of them reached a temporary and imperfect balance.

The dim sky, the scarlet blade light, the heart-wrenching wails and sobs.

They echoed faintly in the dilapidated Fire Moth.

The killing did not waste too much of Li Mo's time. In fact, with Crimson-Dyed Sakura, without bearing the price, most of the ghosts posed no threat to him.

"I've found the target we're looking for."

After dealing with the ghosts on the periphery, Li Mo walked to Rin's side.

Rin did not answer, but knelt on the ground, with one hand supporting herself and the other covering her mouth, dry-heaving from time to time.

"Brother, my stomach is a little upset. Can I rest for a while?"

"There's no time to rest. I don't mind if you throw up on me."

Li Mo picked up Rin without any explanation and quickly entered the Fire Moth, running towards the fleeting figure at an extremely fast speed.

Just now, his "vision" had seen three living people standing under the lights.

In a certain base underground, but when Li Mo saw them, MEI and the other two had already left.

Obviously, there was something MEI needed in the base, and there were a few friends outside? Comrades? Or something else. After getting what they wanted, they did not leave immediately but waited anxiously for a short while.

What Li Mo saw was the last scene of them preparing to leave and leaving. He could only analyze what had happened before based on the last fragment.

"Keep enough life force, and don't let your consciousness be polluted. We'll keep a certain distance later. I'll be in front, you'll be behind. If something abnormal happens to me, you stop moving forward and keep a sufficient distance from me."