Deities Are All Just My Food-Chapter 2285 - 1021: Midnight Nightmare! (Part 2)

Grilled saury, tempura, sushi, miso soup...

Honestly, this housewife’s cooking skills are quite good; it’s a treat for the taste buds, but the dining atmosphere is hard to describe.

Aside from the little girl occasionally asking Lin Baici a question or two, Goto and her daughter remained silent, eating their food in small bites.

Lin Baici reluctantly finished his meal, wanting to chat with Goto Mariko, but she refused.

"Lord Lin, get some rest early. There is a cer... event tomorrow that requires your participation!"

"Okay!"

Lin Baici nodded, wondering what Goto meant by that "cer".

"Good night!"

The little girl waved her hand.

Lin Baici stood by the window, his brows furrowed. It was already dinner time, but the village was still eerily quiet, like a corpse.

"Xia Hongyao and the others should have followed by now, right?"

Lin Baici decided not to look for Xia Hongyao and the others, choosing to assess the situation himself first.

Lights out, into bed!

Lin Baici’s body was enhanced, so he could go a week without sleep, but as soon as he got under the covers, his eyelids felt too heavy to lift.

Unconsciously, Lin Baici drifted into slumber.

This feeling was like sinking into a sea of memories, and past experiences began to surge up.

Three years of junior high, three years of high school, nothing remarkable, just study after study.

He willingly became an exam machine, believing that only by attending a good university could he find a good job and earn a high salary.

With money, he wouldn’t have to let his mom work so hard.

Everything changed after he went to Dragon Temple to fulfill a vow last summer.

Life got better, smooth sailing!

To say he’s a winner in life is an understatement.

The counselor and the tea girl, I don’t know what they’re doing, Zhu Qiunan keeps chasing me, might as well go for it with her.

Her long legs in jeans are really sexy, find a chance to have her take them off for me to see...

"No, what am I rambling about?"

Lin Baici was in a light sleep, and realized something was off when he thought about this.

This isn’t his personality!

He considered Xinyan, but the idea of the academic champion, Zhu, truly never crossed his mind.

Swish!

Lin Baici opened his eyes.

Then he noticed something like a rope around his neck, tightening, making him instinctively open his mouth wide to inhale more air.

[It’s fortunate your childhood was happy, or else you’d be dead by now!]

The Eater God commented.

For these past ten years or so, Lin Baici’s family wasn’t wealthy, but the family atmosphere was good. His mom never hit or scolded him, so he never had a bad childhood experience.

"What the hell?"

Lin Baici reached out to tear off the thing strangling his neck, but found himself unable to move, like being pressed by a ghost in bed.

This rule contamination causes someone sinking into dreams to have nightmares based on life experiences.

The more miserable the experiences, the tighter the ’Nightmare Vine’ around the neck gets, eventually strangling them to death.

Lin Baici started to suffocate,

even with his mouth wide open, he couldn’t draw in much air, instinctively wanting to activate the Goddess of Earthly Nourishment.

This Divine Grace allows him to turn into a ’mudslide’, making him immune to ninety percent of physical damage.

However, Lin Baici held back; this is his trump card and cannot be easily seen by others.

Think of another way!

Moonlight shone through the window, spilling onto the floor, and Lin Baici was halfway bathed in it.

He tried to turn his head to see what was attacking him, but couldn’t see anything.

However, he saw a swarming shadow on the floor.

"A shadow?"

A flash of insight struck Lin Baici, thinking of slipping into the shadow of the bedroom to escape, but his body wouldn’t move, so he activated nobody!

Swish!

Lin Baici teleported, appearing at the base of the wall.

Luckily, he couldn’t move a finger, but teleportation didn’t require movement, so it wasn’t affected at all.

As soon as Lin Baici hit the wall’s base, completely out of the moonlight’s reach, his limbs regained freedom.

"It worked!"

Lin Baici immediately climbed up, reaching to touch his neck.

His neck felt cool.

"Cough, cough!"

Lin Baici coughed lightly a couple of times, turned his head side to side, stretched his neck, and then inspected the floor and walls where the moonlight cast.

Nothing seemed unusual.

Lin Baici didn’t relax but became more worried.

Was Xia Hongyao and the others ambushed by this pollution?

If they were, would they know how to deal with it?

Lin Baici was extremely worried.

If he couldn’t enter the shadow area in time, he would be strangled to death in a few minutes.

Lin Baici immediately decided to purify this rule pollution.

Without any hesitation, he took two big steps to the edge of the shadow and extended his hand into the moonlight.

Swish!

Lin Baici was ready to withdraw his hand quickly, but he was still too late.

At the instant the moonlight shone on his hand, his neck was once again strangled by the ’Nightmare Vine’, and that suffocating feeling returned.

Lin Baici couldn’t move, so he quickly teleported back into the shadow.

This time he was awake, so when his neck was being strangled, Lin Baici saw a patch of black shadow appear on the wall infected by moonlight.

The patch of shadow vanished in a flash, like someone making a hand shadow under a lamp.

An ordinary person would definitely panic, only experiencing shock, but Lin Baici was too calm, and his dynamic vision was excellent.

In that instant, Lin Baici saw that the black shadow seemed familiar.

It was like the outline of a human face.

Even without seeing any features, he could sense that it was hideous.

Was it that Ksitigarbha?

In just a few seconds, Lin Baici remembered.

It was that Ksitigarbha statue over a foot tall he saw by the roadside when entering the village.

He even offered it some tribute.

"If I smash it, would the pollution be purified?"

But the problem was, how to go out?

Once he touches the moonlight, he’d be strangled.

Lin Baici looked at the bedding, rushed over, grabbed it, and draped it over himself.

When Lin Baici bent down and propped up with his hands, it formed a small dark area where the moonlight couldn’t penetrate.

Lin Baici walked under the moonlight.

This time, there was no Nightmare Vine wrapping around him.

The method works!

Lin Baici quickly rushed to the window, opened it, jumped out, and then sprinted toward the village entrance.

Fortunately, the distance wasn’t too far, and Lin Baici ran fast enough. In less than two minutes, he reached the Ksitigarbha statue.

Lin Baici picked up a stone and smashed it down.

Power of Hundred Horses, Meat Shattering Strike!

Bam!

The head of the Ksitigarbha statue exploded into fragments, but Lin Baici wasn’t reassured and delivered another blow.

Nine Generations Dragon Fist!

Boom!

The ground near the statue suddenly shook, sinking directly by three centimeters, and the weeds were crushed into powder.

The statue was turned into a pile of small stones.

Lin Baici immediately made his escape.

...

In an empty house in the village.

Xia Hongyao and the others were hiding here, ready to support Lin Baici at any time, but suddenly, their necks were grabbed by something invisible.

"What should I do?"

Yi Jisheng asked urgently, being a life form spawned by Divine Grace pollution, this way didn’t harm it at all, but the problem was, it couldn’t find the enemy, so even if it wanted to fight, it was impossible.

It could only stare helplessly.

Long Miaomiao was sound asleep, her little face showing expressions of struggle, as if in a nightmare.

Xia Hongyao and Gu Qingqiu were awake, but neither of them could move.

"Something is strangling you!"

Yi Jisheng saw the flesh on Xia Hongyao and Gu Qingqiu’s necks being pressed inward, if this continued, they would die.

Gu Qingqiu’s body couldn’t move, and she couldn’t speak either, but she could teleport, so she continuously teleported around the room, hoping to try her luck.

When she couldn’t find moonlight, she immediately noticed the ’thing’ strangling her neck disappeared.

"Quick, move them over!"

Gu Qingqiu urged.

Yi Jisheng promptly complied.

"Cough cough!"

Long Miaomiao woke up, coughing with some saliva coming out: "What’s going on? Has the pollution come?"

"Yes!"

Gu Qingqiu looked at the moonlight, her face showing worry.

"Brother Lin probably got attacked too, right?"

Long Miaomiao was anxious.

"If I can’t move, pull me into the shadow immediately."

Gu Qingqiu walked to the edge of the shadow, extended her hand into the moonlight, ready to try again, but this time, there was no feeling of suffocation.

What’s happening?