Chapter 20: Day 20

“Is that her?”

“It seems so, brother.”

At the question of the man with a fairly large build standing at the front of the Black Mountain gang, a somewhat slender young man behind him answered.

“What the….”

At the young man’s answer, the man’s face contorted.

He had rushed over after hearing that some bug was causing a disturbance within the Black Mountain Sect’s territory.

But the culprit was a young girl.

It was a situation that could make one lose their spirit, but the man’s eyes trembled with anxiety as time passed.

And for good reason…

‘The wounds look like they were torn apart by a beast.’

The state of the corpses scattered around the girl was more gruesome than he had imagined.

The corpses were left in a state that was unimaginable for a human to have committed.

Could it be that the real culprit was someone else, and they were just using that girl as a scapegoat? He had that thought, but the man soon erased it.

The only survivor, a punk who lived in the back alleys.

The punk’s eyes, looking at the girl, were filled with an unmistakable fear, so the one who created this scene was clearly the girl in front of him.

How?

How could that young and fragile girl, who looked like she hadn’t even eaten properly, create such a gruesome scene?

Tearing a human body to shreds like that was not easy even for a martial artist who had learned proper martial arts.

He couldn’t see any weapons like swords or blades on the girl, so she must have made the corpses like that with her bare hands.

That was something that even he, who was considered quite strong in the Black Mountain Sect, couldn’t do.

So, the more his thoughts continued, the more his eyes sank heavily.

And the girl, looking at such a man, took a step forward.

At that moment.

Chills!

At the sudden eerie fear that engulfed his entire body, the man unknowingly drew the sword at his waist.

“Brother?”

At that sudden action, the subordinates behind him looked at the man with puzzled eyes.

The man also looked back at his subordinates with eyes that couldn’t understand.

Did only he feel that indescribable fear just now?

Even ordinary people who hadn’t learned any martial arts could have felt that level of fear, but his subordinates, who had learned martial arts, albeit third-rate, and entered the Black Mountain Sect, didn’t feel it at all?

Could it be…

“She focused only on me?”

Muttering that, the man unknowingly looked at the girl.

The girl, who was met with the man’s gaze, grinned as if to say that his mutterings were correct.

At that moment, the man realized.

The source of the fear he had just felt was indeed the girl in front of him.

But the girl didn’t just focus that indescribable fear on him.

It was a kind of screening.

A screening to separate those who could feel the fear from those who could not.

Among them, he was one of those who ‘could feel it’.

And his subordinates were those who ‘could not feel it’.

The result of that screening was.

“It’s a shame that one is missing, but it doesn’t matter.”

Huh? What is that b*tch saying?

Brother, are we just going to leave her like this?

Let’s kill her!

As if telling him to hear it clearly, the girl’s words made the man’s subordinates express their anger and draw their weapons.

‘You idiots! Don’t you understand the seriousness of the situation!’

Thinking that inwardly, the man was about to shout urgently to stop his subordinates’ actions.

Thud!

The girl in front of him disappeared in an instant, and red blood spurted out like a fountain right next to him.

“Ah…”

A suppressed groan escaped the man’s lips.

He forced his trembling eyes to look to the side, and there, a subordinate was slowly collapsing, coughing up blood from a hole in his chest.

And next to that subordinate.

“The heart…?”

The girl was grinning at him, chewing on the still-beating heart that was presumed to be his subordinate’s without any hesitation.

The girl, who grinned at him, soon devoured the heart in an instant, whispered something to him, and disappeared again.

Aaaaaaaagh!

Argh!

P, please save me! Brother!

Monster! It’s a monster!

F*ck!

The screams of his subordinates could be heard as soon as the girl disappeared.

But the man didn’t react to the screams of his subordinates that pierced his ears.

No, to be precise, he couldn’t.

Just.

“I’m the guide?”

The man just muttered, repeating the words the girl had whispered just before she disappeared.

Meanwhile, when the girl started to move in earnest. There were no humans left alive in the back alley, except for the man she had intentionally left alive.

“It’s still not enough, though.”

The last remaining heart.

When all the bugs belonging to the dark sect called the Black Mountain Sect were killed, the bug who had been scared and ran away at that sight.

The girl, who had pulled out and eaten the heart of the bug who had brought her meat buns just a few minutes ago, smacked her lips in disappointment.

Except for the back alley punk, the others belonged to the dark sect called the Black Mountain Sect.

They were the kind of people called ‘martial artists’ that she had only encountered in books within the White Snake Gate, so she had some expectations.

Martial artists were bugs who had the vain delusion of breaking through the limits of ordinary people through martial arts.

But that didn’t mean they were completely useless.

At least, unlike ordinary people who were as useless as bugs and were simply used as ingredients for elixirs or treasures, they had some value.

That was also the reason why the girl had uniquely left one of the Black Mountain gang alive.

Of course.

‘At first, I was just going to eat them all.’

But she changed her mind in the middle.

No, to be precise, the moment she faced the Black Mountain gang, a pretty good idea came to mind.

Simply eating all the humans in the city was one way to recover and further increase her power, that was an undeniable fact.

But if she did that, she would stand out too much, and she wouldn’t be able to eat the hearts of the vagrants she was aiming for.

Wandering vagrants, although their cultivation level was low, were exceptional at hiding their presence and running away.

Perhaps their living environment had equipped them with such skills.

That’s why the girl.

“Guide me.”

“T, to where… do you mean?”

At the girl’s words as she licked the blood from her lips, the man answered carefully with a trembling voice.

The girl chuckled at the fact that he could ask such a question even though he was so frightened that he couldn’t even look at her properly.

“Guide me to the Black Mountain Sect.”

A flash of madness flickered and disappeared in the girl’s eyes as she said that.

“H, here it is.”

“Hmm, so it’s a dark sect after all, huh?”

The Black Mountain Sect was located not far from the back alley where the bloodbath had taken place.

Zuhang… was it?

It was located on the outskirts of this city, but it was still a far cry from the back alley where all kinds of filth were scattered on the streets.

Meanwhile, at the appearance of the man, the martial artists guarding the entrance of the Black Mountain Sect looked puzzled.

“Isn’t that Brother Black Bear? Did you take care of things well?”

“But where are the other brothers?”

She thought he had quite a large build, but his name was also Black Bear?

The girl looked at the man… no, Black Bear with such eyes.

Meanwhile, Black Bear forced a smile while sweating profusely at the questions of his subordinates who were guarding.

“Th, those guys had something else to take care of.”

“Is that so? But…”

The two martial artists nodded as if it wasn’t a big deal at Black Bear’s answer.

But soon, they looked at the girl standing behind Black Bear and grinned insidiously.

“Isn’t she a bit too young?”

“And she looks a bit too shabby….”

Flinch-!

At the outrageous remarks of his subordinates, Black Bear was startled and covered their mouths.

What the hell are these idiots saying!

Do they want to die!

Suppressing the urge to shout that, Black Bear glanced at the girl and let out a sigh of relief.

Could it be that she didn’t hear the outrageous remarks of his subordinates, which were whispered to him?

Or did she hear it but didn’t care?

The monster, who had pulled out and eaten the hearts of his subordinates while they were still alive, showed no reaction.

Letting out another sigh of relief at that fact, Black Bear.

“Is the Sect Leader in?”

“Y, yes, he is.”

One of the subordinates, whose mouth was covered by Black Bear’s rough hand, answered with eyes that couldn’t understand.

He couldn’t understand any of Black Bear’s actions, from going out to catch the foolish guy who was causing a disturbance in the Black Mountain Sect’s territory, to returning without his subordinates, and bringing back a girl who looked like a beggar.

“Okay, I’ll talk to the Sect Leader, so you guys…”

Saying that, Black Bear slipped a few coins into his subordinates’ pockets.

At Black Bear’s sudden action, his subordinates looked puzzled as if they couldn’t understand the situation, and Black Bear whispered again.

“Go and have a drink for today.”

“Really?”

“Yes. So go as far away as possible.”

‘That way, at least you guys can survive.’

Muttering that inwardly, Black Bear glanced at the girl and entered.

The girl knew what purpose Black Bear’s actions had, so she didn’t particularly care.

After all.

‘I didn’t come here with the intention of eating them all.’

If she had intended to eat them all, she wouldn’t have set that man called Black Bear as a guide in the first place.

But that didn’t mean she needed to correct Black Bear’s misunderstanding. So the girl just smiled slightly, looking at the back of Black Bear, who was moving forward with a stiff body.

‘Of course, that doesn’t mean.’

When the girl secretly flicked her fingers, the bodies of the two bugs, who were walking away with happy expressions, could be seen beyond the closing door, collapsing weakly.

She had no intention of eating them all.

‘What the fck are those fcking ordinary people saying?’

But she also had no intention of overlooking the outrageous remarks of the bugs.