Catastrophe Containment Facility-Chapter 49 The Pitch-Dark Figure

49: Chapter 49 The Pitch-Dark Figure

49 -49 The Pitch-Dark Figure

“By the time I got here, he was already like this, and I notified you all immediately,” Wen Wen said in a low voice.

Lin Zheyuan turned his head to look, and with that one glance, Wen Wen’s heart sank abruptly.

Anger, interrogation, suspicion, distrust—the eyes could reveal so many things.

“You really do suspect me.

It makes sense, though.

Something happened right after you’d finished investigating me.

Even I would suspect myself,” Wen Wen said with a bitter smile.

“Uncle Gong came here to give you advice, and only the two of us knew about it,” Lin Zheyuan said coldly.

Wen Wen shrugged and replied, “I’m not as foolish as you think.

Even if there was something wrong with me, I wouldn’t choose to strike at this time.

Besides, Uncle Gong and I had a good chat.”

“Had a good chat…”

Lin Zheyuan took a bloodstained notebook out of Uncle Gong’s pocket and as he flipped through it, seeing Uncle Gong’s handwriting, the suspicion on his face lessened a bit.

“Do you swear that you have nothing to do with this attack?”

“Absolutely nothing to do with it, but I guess you won’t believe that,” Wen Wen said calmly.

“You better not have,” Lin Zheyuan retorted.

Lin Zheyuan put away the notebook, called two supporters to carry Uncle Gong away on a stretcher, then gave Wen Wen another deep look before leaving the scene of the incident.

Uncle Gong had acknowledged Wen Wen, there were no signs of Wen Wen’s involvement at the scene, and it was Wen Wen who had notified Lin Zheyuan.

These facts gave Lin Zheyuan no reason to take Wen Wen in for interrogation.

But Lin Zheyuan couldn’t help but suspect Wen Wen.

The timing and location of the attack were too coincidental.

Unless the assailant was caught, Wen Wen would always remain a suspect in his mind.

Watching the departing backs of the Hunter Association’s members, Wen Wen sighed.

He knew he would not be implicated by the attack, but he still felt uncomfortable.

Uncle Gong was one of the few people Wen Wen felt grateful to, and the fact that someone like him could be so grievously assaulted and left on the brink of death just after leaving Wen Wen’s home left Wen Wen unable to feel any joy.

At the same time, he was somewhat indignant about Lin Zheyuan’s suspicion.

He had always been trying to curry favour with the Hunters Association, but, unexpectedly, he still faced their suspicion.

This was also why he was reluctant to establish deeper connections with others—people’s actions didn’t always align with Wen Wen’s will.

Walking alone on the street, Wen Wen felt somewhat downcast, but relying on the professional composure of a detective, he quickly regained his composure.

“Ha, I’m not one of them anyway.

What’s there to be gloomy about?”

Those who could easily be crushed by such emotions would never accomplish anything great!

After coming to this realization, Wen Wen’s steps lightened considerably.

He would continue to keep an eye on this assault case, and if he could find the assailant who attacked Uncle Gong, it would be a way to repay the debt of gratitude he owed.

Suddenly, a ringing bell sounded, and Wen Wen’s hair stood on end at once.

His left hand swiftly drew a knife while his right hand’s gun was already off safety, and he surveyed his surroundings alertly, recognizing the smell that he had also encountered at the scene of Uncle Gong’s attack!

“Who’s there?”

“Must be pretty angry about being suspected, right?

Bound by rules set by others, feeling uncomfortable, are you?

Holding back your nature, feeling suffocated, aren’t you?”

A black humanoid creature emerged from the shadows in the corner, its entire body pitch-black, appearing like a naked man without clothes.

Its face bore no features, only a grotesquely wide mouth that stretched to the roots of its ears, filled with sharp white teeth that made one’s scalp tingle at the sight.

In its hand was a delicate little bell, gently swaying.

“First it was Uncle Gong, and now it’s my turn?”

Wen Wen watched the black humanoid warily, ready to flee into the Catastrophe Containment Facility at any moment.

If this creature could defeat Uncle Gong so quickly, it would not take much time to defeat him either.

Strangely, the pendant on Wen Wen’s chest felt only warm, and his Vampire Constitution did not give any premonitions of danger regarding this monster, as if the strength of this black humanoid was not that formidable.

“What the hell does it matter to you whether I’m angry or not?

Are you sick in the head?” After confirming that the creature’s strength might not be that great, Wen Wen began to feel slightly more confident.

“You and I are of the same kind, no matter how much you pretend to be normal.

The madness in your heart cannot be hidden.

We are the same,” the black shadow’s exaggerated mouth kept moving as it uttered incomprehensible words.

Wen Wen propelled himself forward with force from his feet, his sharp dagger gleaming with a cold light as he thrust it at the black humanoid.

He felt that he couldn’t communicate with this black figure, so he simply attacked directly.

“Very good, that’s the way it should be, show more of your strength, I want to see more.” The black figure stood its ground, its shape twisting irregularly, with ease it dodged Wen Wen’s assault, continuing to contaminate his spirit.

Wen Wen did not respond verbally, his dagger slashing out afterimages, but the shadow, like a wisp of black smoke, changed unpredictably, its form twisting freely and dodging every strike.

All the while, its mouth did not stop talking, full of things about Wen Wen not holding back any longer, to unleash his true self!

“So annoying!”

Wen Wen snapped his fingers, activating his Acid Spray ability, and a stream of green liquid shot out from his fingertips, but the shadow easily dodged it as well.

“Acid, huh…

A very interesting ability, but that’s not what I want to see.

I can feel a darkness deeper than my own within you, and I want to know what it is!”

The shadow ranted crazily, and the more Wen Wen fought with it, the more irritable he felt, with an overwhelming desire to destroy everything around him.

“Are you a fly, incessantly buzzing?

You should just go and find a Venus flytrap to bury yourself in.”

“Do you really think everything I’m saying is nonsense?” The black humanoid stepped back, its sinister mouth contorting into a bizarre shape.

“Then, why are you smiling?”

Wen Wen, in pursuit of the black figure, suddenly came to a halt, shocked, only now realizing that his face bore the same smile as that of the black humanoid!

He was enjoying the conversation with the black figure, as well as the fight itself!

Wen Wen’s eyes widened, his facial expression returned to normal, and a torrent of shock surged through his heart as he realized he was immersed in the black humanoid’s words.

Indeed, there had always been an odd restlessness within Wen Wen’s heart, a restlessness that drove him to seek an abnormal life, to set out on the path of hunting monsters, but even so, Wen Wen had never crossed his own bottom line.

Though the black figure lacked facial features, its inner aura was perfectly projected, and under the influence of this aura, Wen Wen was also changing in that direction!

“I can’t go on like this; I must get rid of it fast, or I’ll go insane!”

The black humanoid dodged Wen Wen’s attacks with ease and comfort, not moving to counterattack, merely continuing its mental contamination.

“How should I deal with it!”

Wen Wen suddenly recalled the guidance Uncle Gong had given him; before reaching the Assimilation Realm, to become stronger, one must find one’s own limits and then break through them!