The Great Worm Lich

Trish simply gave a reasonable explanation for Zhang Lisheng’s surprise. “Lisheng, didn’t you say Kamil has sincerely believed that the invasion the US carried out on Shrimp World No. 1 was shameful, so he betrayed the entire human race? Perhaps the foreign world’s sage called Altman did not kill him but gave him some superpowers to hide. It shares the same principle with those extremists in the Middle East who would brainwash and train terrorist attackers, who could use those washing supplies from Walmart to make bombs in their base before sending them back to the US, so they could suddenly just become a bomb at a favorable opportunity and give the entire civilization a deep and profound lesson.”

“Oh, my head is really a mess now that it’s being stared at by the big eyeball like that. What you said makes sense, Trish. It’s entirely possible for Kamil to have obtained some mysterious power from Sage Altman. That old fella has even tried to seduce me using his superpowers! After Kamil obtained sorcery, perhaps he has escaped when the government captured him. Maybe he has relied on his sorcery to escape FBI tracing and has been lurking in the dark till today to create a bombing!” Zhang Lisheng muttered.

As the people around Zhang Lisheng and the three girls listened to the conversations between them that were getting weirder and more absurd, their expressions changed to become more and more weirded out as well. Ellen opened her mouth and chimed in, “Oh Tina, Trish, Sheila, and that’s right, Lisheng too. Erm I mean, what an interesting prank. What lively and wonderful performance, but… Oh, SH*T! AHHH…”

Before she could finish her words, she suddenly screamed in astonishment and fell from Harvard Stadium’s long seat made from cement.

At the same time, over 90% of the tens of thousands of viewers in the entire stadium screamed and cried as they either slumped in their seats or fell directly on the ground. Many people fell and bled, some were so seriously injured that they could not move after falling on the ground.

Since Tina, Trish, and Sheila had already long been mentally prepared, they were lucky enough to become a part of the safe, unharmed survivors. Even so, these three girls still felt as though there was a burden of 100 pounds being forced upon them. Cracking sounds could be heard from the bones in their bodies as their breathing grew heavier.

At that moment when they could no longer hold it in as their entire bodies felt so heavy, something suddenly pulled them to the ground. At the same time, they felt a cool breeze blowing over their cheeks as a faint fog began to appear around them. Immediately, their bodies felt relaxed.

Right away, Zhang Lisheng, who had pretended to fall onto the ground with green scales covering his body along with his eyes bulging out and his mouth expanding, whispered to them, “Tina, Trish, and Sheila, don’t get up from the ground, lest you’ll attract the big eye’s attention! It seems to have changed the gravity of the entire stadium. Fortunately, the wyrmdragon’s incarnation can isolate the gravitation and fly in the clouds so all of you must not leave this fog!”

To adapt to the gravity of Earth, the human body had evolved for millions of years and whether it was a diver who dove into the deep sea or an astronaut who traveled to space, the first thing he needed to do when he returned onto the ground was to get into a pressure chamber to adapt to the surface gravity slowly. The gravity change might seem insignificant, but it was actually fatal.

Looking at the frightened and shocked young faces who were bleeding out of the nostrils but still remained oblivious around them, Tina could not help but plead, “Baby, can’t you gather a huge cloud once you become a dragon man? Save more people, please! It’s easy for you, anyway!”

“Tina, I can indeed gather and shroud the entire stadium with the cloud once I’m fully transformed, but in this way, we’ll be exposed to the ‘big eye’. Unless I really need to, I really don’t wish to have a head-on collision with a monster that gives me goosebumps without knowing what’s actually happening, particularly when I know that all three of you are around me now.”

“But they look really miserable, baby! S-Save Ellen. Save Ellen at least…” The young man’s words rendered the girl speechless. In the end, she sighed and whispered.

“Dear, I only have three heads and six arms and can only take four people out of danger at this crucial moment.” Zhang Lisheng shook his head ambiguously and said, “I’ve said just now, you can close your eyes if you feel sad, and don’t think anymore. There are tens of thousands of people here. By the time the ‘big eye’ has already finished its massacre, I’ll be able to see through its illusion and make a sneak attack to kill it with that scum from the Truth Society! Then, I’ll bring you, Trish, and Sheila to a seafood restaurant to distract yourselves. If this situation doesn’t drag out for too long, we may even be in time to see a beautiful sunset,” Zhang Lisheng said calmly as he stayed on the ground while quietly observing the ‘big eye’ hovering in the sky and the black-robed people who were still continuing their incantation on the field.

His tone was neither hurried nor slow with no hint of anger or violent emotions. However, he sounded so bloodcurdlingly indifferent and cold in other people’s ears.

However, since they had already long understood Zhang Lisheng’s nature, to Tina, Trish, and Sheila, who had been lucky enough to escape under his protection every time they were in danger in the past few years, could use this indifference to calm themselves down gradually away from their panic and fear instead.

Even so, looking at the countless arms stretching out towards the sky in the stadium filled with sorrowful howls and the strong young man hugging his injured girlfriend while whispering comforting words, Trish still could not help but whisper, “Now you still want to take us out for a seafood meal and a sunset viewing in the evening? Do you know, Lisheng, you’ll always be our heroic guardian knight and the powerful lucky angel forever, but you’re always a cold devil to the others. Also, if you can have a little more kindness, just a bit more, you’d become the perfect man.”

While the girl was speaking, Zhang Lisheng sensitively felt that the heavy gravity in the air outside the faint fog gathered around him using the wyrmdragon’s transformation power had begun to alleviate.

“So you want to play a cat-and-mouse game, huh?” He pondered for a while and shook his head with a smile. As he muttered to himself, he carefully extended his head and swept his eyes on Trish’s beautiful face before looking around again and replying, “Trish, my ambition is not to become a perfect man, but you’re wrong if you say that I’m the devil. In a while, the reality will tell you that I’m pretty much a saint compared to those ordinary people who are scared out of their wits and will flee for their safety with all their lives!”

The instant the young man’s words left his mouth, several dozens of strong young people in the stadium suddenly seemed to have gotten rid of their burdens. Without giving a damn about anything else, they stumbled and raced towards the exit like bolting wild horses.

Immediately, having been imbued by them, more and more people began to yell, “The devil’s restriction has been lifted! Run, everyone…” they shouted while they scuttled towards the exit, as though yelling like that could reduce the guilt they would feel after colliding and trampling on others.

The riot erupted, the number of fugitives exploded as the people scrambled. Nobody even bothered to evade when some of them fell, causing them to become a ‘stepping stone’ who would later be trampled and killed alive by the latecomers.

Blood gushed out of the body of the dead and wounded who were being trampled on, accompanied by maniacal shouts and howls. Soon, it formed a creek that flowed down the cement seat from top to bottom.

“Do you still think I’m the devil, Trish?” Looking at the fresh blood that was flowing, Zhang Lisheng asked the stunned Trish and right at this moment, the tall and strong young man who was sitting a row in front of him suddenly had a twisted expression on his face as he let go of his injured girlfriend. Madly yelling “AHHHHH…” his voice overpowered the desperate cry of the abandoned girl as he charged ahead.

Seeing that the pair of big feet were going to step on Trish, the fog that was shrouding the girl’s body that appeared to be vague under the sunlight suddenly drifted upward. Like a long, rigid thorn, it pierced through the young man’s sole straight to his heart, taking his life away in just a second.

When the young man died, he fell headfirst and happened to be lodged in between two concrete seats, covering Trish and Tina beneath him.

“Look, Tina, Trish, and Sheila. You have a sunshade now.” After killing the young man using his omniscient power, Zhang Lisheng substantialized the cloud again and dragged Sheila’s body up from the ground to float quietly to Trish’s side. “It’s quite a huge ‘umbrella’ as well! It’s a good thing that the three of you are slim. Now just stay there like this and don’t move…”

As the young man was talking, he suddenly saw that the huge body, that was completely covering the three girls, suddenly floated up together with the thousands of corpses in the stadium.

Many of those corpses had been trampled and tattered, appearing to be very disgusting and horrifying as they floated around the stadium. By the time it suspended them in midair, the corpses twisted automatically into a mass of bloody meat and pulled by multiple gushes of invisible forces to form a bloody rope that extended towards the giant eyeball in the air.

At the same time, the bloodcurdling gravity change once again and appeared much heavier than it was just now.

In less than a second, the fugitives and the spectators were smashed to the ground by their own weight with crisp bone-cracking sounds resonating in everybody’s ears.

Soon, countless hoarse, vain screams filled the stadium. “God! My Lord in Heaven! Please have mercy! Please! Please save your devout believers…”

“Nobody can escape! Nobody can escape at all! Those devils have sealed the stadium’s exits using some invisible magic! It’s gonna kill us all! It’s gonna kill us all…”

“We should summon our courage and not just wait for our deaths like that. It’s all because of those black-robed people that the eyeball could appear! We can escape if we knock them down…”

Amidst the blood curdling screams, angry roars, and prayers that resounded through the clouds, Zhang Lisheng calmly observed the big eyeball floating in the air constantly while absorbing the thick juice that the mixture of the human bones, meat, and blood formed as he murmured, “A blood sacrifice? No, no, this is not a blood sacrifice. It doesn’t look like the monster was eating people as well…”

“That eyeball is shaping its body! It’s only a shadow now. It’s not eating human flesh but is using it to fill the shadow forming its body. By the time its body has completely been shaped, its consciousness can then descend and enter the shaped body.”

Suddenly, accompanied by faint breathing, a whisper resonated from the side and answered his puzzlement.