The Great Worm Lich

At the same time when Ellen died, Zhang Lisheng, Tina, Trish, and Sheila were already standing in the remote streets of Boston that had become vacated because of the football game.

Turning around to look at the silent stadium, the young man suddenly smiled and shrugged. “Tina, Trish, and Sheila, just like I’ve said, we have safely escaped from ‘Hell’. Not only that, we even have time to watch the beautiful sunset by the beach.”

When the three girls escaped from their deaths, they appeared to be more shocked than when they were in the stadium. They did not answer the young man right away, but instead, they walked with stupefied expressions for a while. Only after they had crossed the entire street and saw the cars and pedestrians with different skin tones did they slowly return to reality.

The first thing they did after returning to reality was to turn back in unison suddenly to look at the Harvard Stadium from a few hundred meters away. After a moment of silence, Tina suddenly asked Zhang Lisheng, who was by her side, “Baby, there’s no such thing as a giant red eye in the stadium nor is there even any dark cloud at all! C-Could it be that we’re actually dreaming?”

“Dreaming? You mean the four of us were having the same dream while watching football? What an interesting thing to say.” Zhang Lisheng shook his head and replied, “Come on, baby, wake up. We’re not dreaming. I think the reason we can’t see that terrifyingly huge eye in the stadium from the streets outside is like how we can’t see the shadow of the foreign world from Earth’s space orbit. It’s a type of space distortion. That Sovereign of Truth from the foreign world has relied on some mysterious ceremony to form the space distortion.”

“You’re right, baby.” Tina became dumbstruck for a moment and took a few deep breaths before cursing irritably, “The hell! What is wrong with me? W-Why can’t I calm down at all!? It’s not like I’m a young girl who has never experienced a life-and-death situation before! W-What’s going on…”

When Zhang Lisheng saw her girlfriend losing her demeanor, something kicked in his heart. The realization hit him with a pang, prompting him to hug Tina right away. “I’m sorry, my dear! I have been too overcritical. The danger we faced this time differed from before. Many of the casualties are your friends and classmates, so of course, you’ll find it hard to calm your emotions down. Just cry if you want to.”

The girl lowered her head silently as tears flowed out of her eyes. Clinging onto the young man’s chest, she sobbed, “Dead! They’re all dead! Ellen had almost escaped, but she died too…”

She gradually felt better as she spoke. Turning her head around, she looked at her two best friends who were holding back tears and suddenly said, “Trish, Sheila, my dearest sisters! Come, I’ll lend Lisheng’s shoulder to the two of you. You’ll feel much better after you cry out loud.”

“Thank you, dear sister!” Sheila walked to Tina’s back and pressed her face onto Tina’s face while leaning onto Zhang Lisheng’s left shoulder, not making any teasing or ambiguous remark like she would always do. Trish, on the other hand, hesitated for a moment and waited until she could no longer hold back her tears in silence to bury her face onto the other shoulder of the young man as well.

The three girls cried together. Zhang Lisheng, who was not very good at comforting others, could only hold the girls awkwardly while constantly repeating, “It’s alright, it’s alright now…” and attracting the frequent curious eyes of the pedestrians.

Sometime later, Tina, Trish, and Sheila’s emotions gradually calmed down through the venting of their tears. Tina was the first one to leave Zhang Lisheng’s arms. “It’s a good thing that I have you, baby. I feel much better now. You wanted to go to the beach, right? I think it’s better for us to go right away. Harvard Stadium is like an unpredictable time bomb, and we don’t know if it’d explode or when it’d explode. No matter what, it’d be much wiser for us to leave as far as possible and just continue to look at the situation online.”

“Tina is right.” Upon her best friend’s words, Trish also left the young man’s shoulder with a flushed face and began to stop the car on the street. “We should first go to…”

While the girl was speaking, a weird yet loud ‘boom’ resonated from behind her.

She looked behind her in the direction of the sound and saw a huge gap of twenty to thirty meters long, forming on the outer wall of the magnificent Harvard Stadium.

“This street is a two-lane road, it looks like it’d be hard for us to get a taxi here. Why don’t we just randomly find a car and leave as soon as possible! No normal human can stop Lisheng’s mugging anyway!” Sheila, the last person in Zhang Lisheng’s arms, also looked up and whispered, when she saw the stadium that began to crack in the distance.

“What nonsense are you talking about, Sheila? The stadium will not collapse immediately. We still have time, so let us rush to the next street. It’s more bustling there, so I’m sure we’ll be able to get a taxi easily to go to the beach,” Trina vetoed her best friend’s proposal and grabbed Trish and Sheila’s hands to rush towards the opposite side of the road.

At this time, Zhang Lisheng pulled the girls and said instead, “Be careful, don’t create any joke by dying in an accident after escaping from the devil from the foreign world! We don’t have to leave so urgently, the big eye is not as terrible as you think. Go back to Harvard. Wait for me at the place where we parked the car last night, and I’ll go find all of you after I’ve killed it.”

“Hey, baby, you don’t have to kill it!” Not expecting her boyfriend to have the idea of ​​hunting the giant red eye suddenly, Tina became dumbstruck and hastily said, “There are thousands of policemen in Boston. Erm, well, the policemen may not be too useful in such a situation but the United States National Guard definitely can! With tanks, cannons, and planes, it won’t be able to last long…”

At this time, cracks began to appear one after another on the outer wall of the Harvard Stadium as ‘boom, boom’ sounds constantly resounded. The pedestrians and vehicles on the street began to show signs of slight commotion.

Zhang Lisheng stroked his girlfriend’s hair and turned to look at the stadium that was gradually collapsing. His expression became solemn right away. “Tina, that eye’s superpower is too special. If I let it run around on the streets after it ruined the stadium, then you, Trish, and Sheila may be in danger. Don’t worry, it wouldn’t be hard for me to kill it with the power I recently gained. You can see me again in half an hour at most.”

“Then you must promise that you’ll come back to look for us…” Upon seeing her boyfriend’s determination, Tina could only agree to it and nod. She kissed Zhang Lisheng on his lips and whispered.

“I promise, Tina. Oh, don’t forget to prepare a new couple shirt for me,” Zhang Lisheng replied and turned to blend into the crowds before turning into a dark alley quickly.

His left and right side were gray walls with houses’ backdoors with many garbage bins placed on the wet ground. Seeing that nobody was there around him and no surveillance cameras as well, the young man transformed using the lizard’s power and went into stealth mode. With a slight leap, he jumped to the top of a tall building.

He solidated his body that was covered with colorless scales as he strolled to the edge of the rooftop. Looking into the distance at the Harvard stadium that had been riddled with holes, he smiled ferociously and suddenly took a great leap.

Going against the strong wind in the air, the scales on Zhang Lisheng’s body diminished and golden fine hair began to grow on his pale yellow skin. His body expanded to over ten meters high, transforming into a giant ape with a mouthful of fangs. With one leap, he landed several hundred meters away on a spacious main street of the city, smashing the road, and forming a huge pit with a diameter of over 30 meters.

The impact of the fall caused three to four small cars by the side to fly out over ten meters away before crashing into the shops on the street.

Countless pedestrians looked dumbfounded as they stared stiffly at the giant monkey head in the dark pit in silence. Only one little girl with brown curly hair, who was wearing a light green dress, who looked as though she was three or four years old, shouted excitedly to her mother, “King Kong! Mom, look! It’s King Kong…”

The young woman beside her quickly placed a hand over the kid’s mouth.

The surrounding area fell into silence again, leaving only the loud noise from the car alarm that they could hear. Zhang Lisheng, who transformed into the ape, jumped out of the pit and began to walk to the side of the road with his hands swaying beside him. Casually uprooting a huge phoenix tree, he gripped it in his hand and charged towards the Harvard Stadium in the distance.

At this time, the collapsing of the stadium’s outer wall had already elicited a lot of public attention. When somebody had called for the fire alarm, over ten large fire engines came to the stadium and braked briskly.

An old man, who was over two meters tall, and wore a black suit and a pair of leather boots, walked out from the SUV behind the fire engine. Staring at the stadium that started to have cement automatically peeling off due to the cracks of the wall, his expression turned grave right away.

He strode to the first fire truck and told a sturdy, middle-aged man, who was wearing protective gear and who was giving out his orders to a group of firefighters, “Brad, judging from the outer wall, it looks like Harvard Stadium will turn into a pile of ruins in five minutes more at most. We have to evacuate the civilians immediately!”

“But we can’t even get into this stadium now, Freda!? An invisible force had enveloped the stadium.”

“Hey, Brad! I’m not joking! The situation we’re facing now is horrible…” When the old man was about to describe the severeness of the situation to his good friend and working partner who was also a high-level on-scene commander of the Boston Fire Department, he suddenly saw a giant ape that was around four-to-five-stories high holding a wooden stick entering his sight.

“W-What is happening today? We can actually see a living King Kong!” The old man shouted in bafflement as he stared at the giant ape who suddenly yelled and leaped up high with a ‘thud’.

The jump was over a hundred meters high. In midair, the ape let its golden, long hairs sway softly under the wind while raising the lush wooden stick up high over his head.

When the ape lifted the wooden stick, it expanded and elongated rapidly at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people. In just a short span of one second, it went straight into the sky and turned into a huge stick of 1000 meters long, before being slammed downwards at the stadium by the ape with its entire might.

With the swing of this stick, despite being 40 to 50 meters away from the Harvard Stadium, the downwind pressure had already blown the cracked outer wall of the stadium till it shattered, revealing countless bodies with broken bones along the cries of the wounded and a big bloody red eye.