Chapter 744: Miaomiao's Former Brother

Cursed City.

As far as the eye could see, nothing but ruins.

Everywhere lay the remnants of Leviathan's wreckage after its crash. The city that once stood there had now been nearly razed to the ground.

And at this very moment, deep inside a dust-churning crater, Hei Xianyue, clad in a black dress, squinted her eyes as she manipulated her threads, tightly restraining the human youth standing at the center.

On the other side.

Alice, her body flickering with rifts, shielded the trembling Miaomiao behind her, her gaze fixed and wary as she stared at that human.

Or rather, calling him "human" was no longer quite accurate.

Because at the center, the youth knelt naked on the ground, his head bowed low. Every muscle on his body kept caving in and bulging out, rolling with black mist. It was as if countless evil spirits were shrieking inside his body right now, constantly surfacing on his skin as ghastly, terrifying faces.

"Miaomiao, don't go over there."

Hei Xianyue's gaze was icy as she issued the warning.

Because she could clearly sense that within this shell they were facing, there were countless ferocious evil ghosts that had already been awakened.

That cold, twisted aura sent chills down one's spine.

After saying goodbye to Lynn, they hadn't actually hidden away. Instead, they had returned to this Cursed City and inadvertently sensed the twisted aura here. That was how they discovered this body that Lynn had barely managed to save from that Plague Doctor.

Also... Miaomiao's former brother.

"Sir... do you still remember me, meow?"

Miaomiao clenched her paws tightly against her chest, staring at the familiar figure from her memories. Her eyes trembled with faint glimmers of tears.

Though compared to her mother and father, this child of her foster parents hadn't really had much interaction with her.

Because in her memories.

Back then, he was still just a kid barely past adolescence, spending all his time every day squandering his energy. Almost every day, he would rush out like the wind in the morning, then return covered in sweat and dust at night.

The only exception was when she had mischievously climbed up a tree.

This brother had climbed up to catch her—crack—and broken his leg, then sat fuming in a wheelchair for several months.

After that, he kept calling her "stupid cat."

Once, when she was yowling in heat, he got annoyed and meowed right back at her under the bed, arguing with her for hours.

Miaomiao trembled as she picked up a stone from the ground. Carefully, she grunted angrily and hurled it at that figure with all her might.

Thump—

A perfect hit to the forehead.

Miaomiao's eyes brimmed with tears as she said, "Brother! Do you remember? A long time ago, that's how Miaomiao nudged a stone off the roof and sent you to the hospital! Have you remembered yet, meow?"

Hei Xianyue and Alice both instinctively looked at her.

"..."

"And! Brother, the wine Daddy hid in the cabinet—Miaomiao was the one who secretly drank it, meow! Not you! Miaomiao just thought it was fun and drank some. Later, you got a beating from Daddy for it. Miaomiao has actually remembered it all this whole time. Have you recalled it yet?"

Alice and Hei Xianyue: "..."

Miaomiao furiously shook off the glistening tears from her eyes, her reddened eyes clenching her paws as she sobbed:

"An... and..."

"Brother, do you remember? To patch things up with you, Miaomiao went through a lot of trouble catching lots of mice. She couldn't even bear to eat them herself and gave them all to you! Think about it—right next to the lunchbox Mommy prepared for you, Miaomiao also prepared one mouse for you every single day! How could you forget that, meow?"

Alice and Hei Xianyue: "!!!"

The surging black mist seemed to be stirred by those words, pausing slightly.

Miaomiao's eyes lit up with excitement. "I... it's working!"

Whoosh—

The black mist surged out two or three times larger than before.

Miaomiao's eyes went instantly vacant.

Just as she was about to say something else, Alice immediately pulled her back, shaking her head and lowering her voice:

"Don't say any more... your brother's negative emotions are already massive enough. If you keep going... they'll get even bigger..."

Miaomiao stood there, dazed.

On the other side, Hei Xianyue stared at the twisted figure, threads weaving a dense net around them, ready to counter his attack at any moment. She said warily:

"I've already notified Mr. Lynn. He'll be here soon. It's best not to provoke this twisted evil spirit entity any further for now."

"Is the fight over there finished?"

"Judging from the commotion, it is. Those Roots by your brother's side should have secured a decisive victory."

Miaomiao trembled as she picked up a stone from the ground. Carefully, she grimaced with all her might and hurled it at that figure.

But just then, the finger of the figure surrounded by them twitched violently.

Crack—

A sound of bones grinding came through.

Alice and Hei Xianyue instantly turned their heads, staring with utmost vigilance at the figure shrouded in black mist.

Crack crack crack—

Amidst the sharp grinding of bones, the expression on that figure's face slowly began to twist into something ferocious. The shrieks of the evil spirits inside him grew sharper and more terrifying. Alice's gaze shifted abruptly as she immediately sensed that the evil spirits inside that body were showing signs of a full-scale awakening.

"No good!"

As an evil spirit herself, she was extremely sensitive to any changes in ghost energy.

She could already feel that the twisted evil spirits inside him were surging toward aggregation. Once they manifested externally, they would instantly become a powerful, true evil spirit conglomerate!

In that moment.

Without any hesitation, Alice's eyes turned icy cold as dense cracks spread across her entire body.

In an instant, she stretched out her hand. Countless ghostly hands shrieked up from beneath that figure's feet, crawling over his body with a rustling sound, trying to suppress his leaking ghost energy.

She wanted to use her own power to suppress the revival of the evil spirits inside him.

"No good!"

But the moment she made contact, Alice gritted her teeth.

"The hatred of those evil spirits inside him is too great. I... I..."

Boom—

Before she could even finish her sentence, the surging evil spirit force exploded through her ghostly hands' restraints, shrieking skyward.

Alice staggered back a step, her face turning pale.

And at the very center, the massive burst of ghost energy had completely engulfed that body. The cold spread as the naked form slowly raised its head, revealing eyes brimming with ferocious malice—the convergence of countless evil spirits!

Death Omen!

A hatred far stronger than Alice's own—a Death Omen's hatred!

A long, ghostly howl rang out.

Surging ghost energy shot into the sky, and countless faces densely surfaced across his skin. Rotten skeletal hands burst forth from every part of his body with wet, tearing sounds, gradually twisting him into an unspeakable, terrifying existence.

Miaomiao's little face went deathly pale in an instant as she trembled: "Brother!!"

But it was useless.

Those twisted eyes slowly fell upon them. From his rotting lips came a crazed, bloodthirsty voice:

"Kill... kill..."

In an instant, countless rotting arms shot out. He let out a long howl and charged ferociously toward Miaomiao and Alice, his sharp fingertips like a demon reaping lives, gleaming with a ghastly purple-blue halo.

The twisted evil spirits had long corroded his mind. He had nearly become a war machine that knew only slaughter.

Clang—a deafening crash.

Alice gritted her teeth, barely managing to block that terrifying evil spirit's charge.

At that moment, Hei Xianyue whipped out countless threads, trying to restrain the twisted evil spirit entity's steps. At the same time, she immediately moved the thread on her pinky and said coldly:

"Are you here or not? If you don't come soon, it'll really be too late!"

"Look up."

Hei Xianyue froze and immediately looked up.