First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!
Chapter 198: The Eye of Direct Sight (1/10) — Corruption, Depravity, Look at Me!

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Cao Ying didn’t need to type anymore.

He already understood.

“Brother Lu, I think she can only understand what you say — want to try again?”

“She’s never understood anyone else before.”

Lu Ding was curious too — he was sure he hadn’t learned any spell related to this.

So why could she understand him so clearly?

He gave it a try.

“If you can understand what I’m saying, nod your head.”

Then held up her sign.

【I really can understand!!! Why!!! Why can I understand you?! Do you know some special secret technique?】

That stumped Lu Ding on the spot.

“I swear I don’t. I’m just as curious — why can you only understand me?”

Cao Ying stood off to the side when suddenly, a string of gibbering whispers started sounding in his ears.

The more he listened, the more his temples started throbbing.

He stumbled back a few steps.

He knew — the nasty stuff on Wang Qingge was acting up again.

“Brother Lu, do you hear anything weird coming off her?”

Lu Ding tilted his head, raised an ear.

His expression gradually turned serious, brow knitting slowly.

In that moment, Wang Qingge even stopped breathing.

After a while, Lu Ding shook his head. “Nope.”

The weirdness of it made Cao Ying scratch his head.

“Why? She can understand you, but you can’t hear the creepy stuff on her?”

He really couldn’t figure it out.

Seeing the confusion on his face,

Lu Ding said, “Forget it. Let’s head back first — we’ll look into it at the site.”

Cao Ying nodded, but still felt unsatisfied.

He raised a hand, spiritual energy forming words.

【Did you hear what Brother Lu just said?】

Wang Qingge held up her sign.

【Nope. I think I can only understand when he’s talking directly to me】

That made the confusion in Cao Ying’s heart run even deeper.

The three of them leapt forward.

The moon hung over the treetops, casting silver light that stretched their shadows long behind them.

Wang Qingge’s shadow quietly grew a mass of bizarre, grotesque tentacles that crept toward Lu Ding’s shadow.

But the moment they touched,

it was like they hit something untouchable — the tentacles snapped back.

Lu Ding felt something.

He looked —

but saw nothing out of the ordinary.

Weird......

He hadn’t seen anything,

but he trusted his instincts.

Every detail could make or break a situation.

So… there had to be something off!!

As they rushed forward, he ran the possibilities through his head.

They’d just passed through this forest — there was a chance, but not a big one.

Cao Ying…

Probably not. It wasn’t their first time working together, and although not impossible, he was the least likely.

Wang Qingge…

Most likely!!

With that thought, Lu Ding became extra cautious.

Saying nothing, he kept moving.

Ten minutes later,

deep in the forest,

Wang Qingge’s shadow once again sprouted strange tentacles, creeping toward Lu Ding’s shadow.

This time,

with his guard up, Lu Ding caught it red-handed.

He didn’t even turn around.

Path of Jinche activated instantly with zero startup — a slash cleaved through the air.

The weird shadow tentacle recoiled fast,

but it was still too slow.

SHHHHHK!!!!!

A deep gash tore into the ground.

The sound drew Wang Qingge and Cao Ying’s attention.

They turned to see—

next to the slash mark,

a severed black tentacle writhed and squirmed on the ground,

emitting indescribable waves of distortion.

Lu Ding looked at it — nothing.

Wang Qingge looked — confused.

Cao Ying looked — “AHHHHH!!!!!!”

His eyes went bloodshot in an instant, his whole body twitching uncontrollably.

The sudden scream made Lu Ding instinctively smack him.

PAH!!!

Cao Ying’s eyes instantly cleared.

His legs gave out and he dropped to the ground.

“Ugh～～～～ugh～～ugh～ugh......”

With every retch, black water poured from his mouth.

Lu Ding rushed to rub his back.

“What the hell? You possessed or something?”

Wang Qingge held up a sign.

【You’re puking black water — stop stuffing random stuff in your mouth. Don’t eat what you’re not supposed to.】

“It’s not that… I just saw one glance at @％￥＊ and I couldn’t hold it in…”

“Saw what?”

Mumbling nonsense, Lu Ding couldn’t make it out.

“That thing on the ground — #@&@, ugh～～～～～”

Cao Ying pointed to the tentacle and kept talking,

but the blood vessels in his eyes surged back, body convulsing again.

Mouth screaming: “AHHHHH!!!!!”

Lu Ding didn’t hesitate — another slap.

PAH!!!

Cao Ying snapped awake again, shivered, and quickly turned away.

“Brother Lu, that thing — you can’t look at it, can’t speak of it. One look, one word and it hits you. Can’t even think about it!!”

Lu Ding turned to glance at the squirming tentacle on the ground.

Can’t say it, can’t look at it, can’t even think it...

That’s… indescribable, unobservable, undefinable?

Tentacle, black, writhing.

Plus the occasional whispering that drives you mad.

Wait a minute—

Did Cthulhu just invade!?!?

Lu Ding felt like he couldn’t quite understand…

but somehow, everything also made sense.

He looked at Wang Qingge.

Hard of hearing, bad memory.

The evil god tries to feed her corrupt knowledge — but she forgets it. So she’s unaffected...

The god whispers to drag her into depravity — but she’s half-deaf, can’t hear it. So again — unaffected…

You can’t even target her!!

Lu Ding was floored.

No wonder Cao Ying said Wang Qingge could do everything.

You…

You take all the benefits from the evil god but can’t follow a single command...

She’s slipperier than Lu Ding himself.

From what Lu Ding knew, the last person this slippery was Marshal Zhang from the previous life.

When broke, he borrowed money from the Japanese.

Then bought guns with it to shoot them.

All he ever wrote was “read” and “review.”

When issuing receipts, he’d only write “reviewed,” never “approved” — because he never paid back.

Later on, he tricked the Japanese into a daze, promising this and that — everything he couldn’t do, he promised; everything he could, he refused.

Now this Wang Qingge — the more Lu Ding looked, the more he felt she should’ve been named Zhang.

But then…

why was he unaffected too?

Lu Ding looked at the wriggling tentacle again.

Saw its movements getting slower and weaker — until it stopped,

and finally dissolved into the ground.

Then suddenly—

【Contained Creature: ‘Its’ Tentacle (1/10)】

【Containment Reward: Complete All for the Eye of Direct Sight】

【Eye of Direct Sight: Corruption, Depravity, Look at Me】