I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 920 - 920 919. Is anyone there

Chapter 920: 919. Is anyone there? Chapter 920: 919. Is anyone there? When Lu Ban laid eyes on the other, a shiver welled up within him.

The hairs on his back stood on end, goosebumps erupted, and an eerie feeling of reality being shattered enveloped him, much like the icy cold of the night.

The figure was pitch black, as if shrouded in a dark fog or wrapped in seaweed, with eyes that had vertical pupils, dark red like blood. Lu Ban couldn’t see its other features, only two hands clawing at the window. These hands were not human, more like a collection of tentacles. The writhing tentacles grasped the windowsill, continuously squirming, as if containing the deepest malice of this world.

In that moment of eye contact, Lu Ban’s body moved on its own. He let out a shout and simultaneously pushed open the window.

Bang—

The figure was so shocked by Lu Ban’s actions that it seemed to want to flee, tumbling from the windowsill.

“Someone help!”

Lu Ban also shouted as he saw the figure fall from the second floor, hitting the ground with a splat, spreading out like a puddle of sludge. Under Lu Ban’s watch, however, the creature quickly gathered itself and, worm-like, scurried into the darkness.

“What’s going on?”

Shia poked her head out, seeing Lu Ban shouting at the open window.

“I saw it, the person in the water.”

Lu Ban said simply. He tried to track the direction the figure fled, but all around the villa were dense woods, invisible under the moonlight. He could only remember a rough direction. He looked toward it and saw the residential community down the mountain near the harbor.

“You saw it?”

Shia leaned over Lu Ban’s shoulder and peeked out, but all she could see was the night.

“It ran into the woods, I plan to go check it out. It might have fled to the residential area.”

Lu Ban answered. He turned around and saw Amber and Red Leaf peering from the doorway of his room, clueless about what had happened. Red Leaf even chuckled, thinking Lu Ban had gotten scared because he was faint-hearted.

Thump thump thump—

Footsteps approached, and both Shia and Lu Ban saw Cui Siter, followed by Zou Changyu.

“What happened?”

Cui Siter asked guardedly.

“The person in the water we talked about this afternoon, I just saw him at the window.”

Hearing Lu Ban’s words, both Cui Siter and the villa’s owner Zou Changyu found it hard to believe.

“Is it a thief?”

Zou Changyu immediately took out his phone to call the police and summoned security.

“Search the courtyard thoroughly, and again tomorrow morning up the mountain.”

His expression was ugly; after all, his child had also been killed by a burglar, and now he might be facing another, stirring his extreme outrage.

“I saw him heading towards the town of the islanders, let’s go check there.”

Lu Ban said, glancing back at Amber and Red Leaf at the door.

“You two stay here, best in one room, and don’t walk around.”

He instructed.

Only then did Red Leaf and Amber realize the severity of the situation. They nodded and withdrew into the room.

“That’s not human.”

Lu Ban whispered to Shia and Cui Siter.

“I saw him fall from the second floor, turn into a pile of mud, yet he didn’t die. When we locked eyes, it didn’t look human.”

He thought of the Sludge Monsters he often encountered in Foreign Domain, yet there was something different about this one. If he had to describe it, it was more primitive, more rudimentary.

Cui Siter looked serious. Though he didn’t believe in monsters, having witnessed the influence of the Jade Pendant, he was aware that this case likely involved matters beyond his imagination.

“Maybe it’s a person mutated after being exposed to radiation.”

Shia guessed, which was the most reasonable explanation she could think of based on her understanding of the things she had seen.

“By the way, where is the Jade Pendant?”

Seeing that Cui Siter did not have the case in his hand either, Lu Ban asked.

“I’ll go check.”

He exchanged a few words with Zou Changyu, then left with a security guard. After a while, Cui Siter went upstairs.

“It’s still there.”

He had placed the Jade Pendant in the safe in the villa’s basement, alongside some antiques that Zou Changyu regularly collected. Cui Siter had just confirmed that the case was still there.

“Let’s have the three of us go to the town and ask around, Mr. Zou, please strengthen the security around the villa. There are no boats leaving the island at night, so that suspicious person can’t escape.”

Cui Siter said to Zou Changyu, and the elderly man nodded.

The three of them packed up their things and borrowed a car, quickly driving down the mountain, taking the road flanked by thick vegetation to the town.

It was now ten o’clock at night. Except for the bar, most of the shops on the island were closed, with only the faint light from the second floor and the breath of some people.

Lu Ban got out of the car and looked back at the villa on the mountain, which indeed stood out prominently like a castle.

He wasn’t sure if that person was hiding in the woods, had jumped into the sea, or was hiding somewhere in this town.

The bustling scene from the daytime had disappeared. Now, it resembled the run-down small town from some horror games—covered in a light sea fog, the street lamps swayed in the haze, casting dim shadows.

“It’s quite quiet.”

Cui Siter said, hearing only some noise from the bar while the houses of the residents were silent, without even the sound of a television.

He approached the entrance of the bar where there had been shouting, but as Cui Siter got close, it suddenly fell quiet.

In the eerie silence that followed, Cui Siter stood at the entrance of the bar behind the sliding door, which felt as quiet as a tomb.

Cui Siter glanced at the door of the bar; it just needed a light push to open.

But a chilling premonition caused Cui Siter’s hand on the door to pause.

That somewhat old, mottled wooden door felt as if it had been cemented shut at that moment, no matter what, Cui Siter couldn’t bring himself to push it open.

He felt that right behind this door, a group of eerie and grotesque people were leaning against the door panel, listening intently, and any move from Cui Siter would bring imminent danger swarming towards him.

Thinking this, Cui Siter’s survival instinct made him retract his hand.

“What’s wrong?”

Shia, who was looking into the alley, noticed Cui Siter’s behavior and asked.

Cui Siter turned his head stiffly, swallowed hard, straightened up, and slowly, without turning back, moved towards Shia with light steps.

Just as he passed under the street lamp, stepping on the shadow under the mist, Cui Siter distinctly heard the previously quiet bar suddenly bursting back into noise, as if nothing had happened.

“There’s something off about this bar.”

Cui Siter indicated.

Or rather, this town became somewhat eerie after nightfall.

Cui Siter couldn’t pinpoint the feeling, but he remembered that during his first years on the job, he had once participated in an operation to capture a murderer. At midnight, he, armed with a gun, chased the criminal into a bamboo forest and got separated from his colleagues. Under the quiet moonlight, he had felt the same way.

Danger and eeriness, as if at any moment in the darkness, a ferocious criminal would pounce on him.

Cui Siter remembered, his whole body tense, every rustle of the wind causing his nerves to stir, until the distant shouts brought him back to reality, and his clothes were already soaked.

Chilling to the bone.

“Is anyone there?”

However, at that moment, Lu Ban walked straight to the bar entrance and pushed open the door.

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