The Lycoris radiata flowers, swaying in the wind, resembled the mane on the creature's head. Everyone present felt as if they were walking on the monster's scalp.
Wen Wen didn't sense any immense power from the monster, but this unknown eeriness made his scalp prickle slightly.
"Something is very wrong here. I need to be careful. Ordinary disaster-class monsters certainly couldn't create such a spectacle."
He landed on the ground and casually picked up a Lycoris radiata, pulling it out by the roots.
The transformed plant, like a living creature, twisted and writhed, coiling around Wen Wen's hand and emitting strange mournful cries, as if pleading with Wen Wen to return it to the soil.
But Wen Wen did not comply. After a while, the plant lost its vitality and gradually turned into withered grass.
The surrounding flowers all bowed their heads, as if mourning for the uprooted one.
Wen Wen ignored these peculiar flowers and brought a pinch of soil to his nose. He detected a faint scent of blood in the dirt.
His eyes narrowed, and the black hair on his head began to writhe. A strand of hair continuously extended, burrowing into the ground through the disturbed soil where the plant had been pulled. After a few meters, the hair lost its reactivity.
Pulling the hair out, Wen Wen found that the tip had been completely eroded, revealing bright red at the severed end!
"There's something going on underground..."
Before Wen Wen could probe further, he heard a cry of joy.
The man in the raincoat, holding the hand of a strange woman, returned near the train carriage. He took out the prepared meals and offered them to the woman to taste.
The woman wasn't beautiful, but the man in the raincoat looked at her with eyes full of adoration.
"You kept asking me to cook for you before, but I always refused. Now I've specifically made this for you..."
The woman nodded shyly. Even though the food containers were stained with blood and the food had gone cold, she ate with great relish.
Watching the woman's satisfied expression, the man in the raincoat wore a foolish smile. Only love could make a man act so dotingly.
His father was a pervert, a serial killer who had subjected him to a nightmarish childhood.
When he was eighteen, he testified against his father, sending him to prison.
After that, his life was almost entirely bleak. People treated him as a killer, just like his father. Only the woman before him was willing to try and understand him, willing to live with him. Sudancnn.com
Later, his life became more colorful, and he was about to marry this woman.
But it was then that his father escaped from prison.
And he sent his fiancée, packed inside this canvas bag, as a wedding gift...
After that, the man in the raincoat's life plunged into darkness once more.
When he received the letter, he found his father and stuffed him into this canvas bag, intending to give it to the woman as a gift.
But in the end, he took the body out and packed it with the things his fiancée wanted most...
Wen Wen watched from the side, his brow furrowed. "This woman is not alive, but she's not purely a soul either. She has her own body... From the feel of it, her body seems to be made of Lycoris radiata?"
"But even if her body is constructed from Lycoris radiata, the woman's soul truly exists. This means she is indeed the person the man in the raincoat was looking for..."
Wen Wen's mind was a mess. It seemed the purpose of this place was merely to let people meet their deceased loved ones one last time to resolve their lingering obsessions, but Wen Wen felt something was amiss.
As he observed the man in the raincoat, others also began to find the people they were looking for.
Zheng Han, two high school students, found the girl named Li Youyou and brought the unconscious female high school student to Li Youyou...
Two female nurses found a handsome man, who gently caressed their faces.
But Wen Wen could see at a glance that the handsome man, like one of the female nurses, had something lurking within him.
Hou Morong found his brother as he wished. They walked arm-in-arm through the flowers, as if they had much to discuss. However, Hou Muyao's appearance was strange; he seemed to lack his own soul.
Soon, the woman finished the man in the raincoat's meal and embraced him. After exchanging some tender words, her body began to emit a faint glow.
The faint light slowly dissipated into specks of light, merging into the surrounding earth, leaving only the man in the raincoat gazing at his empty embrace, tears streaming down his face.
Witnessing this scene, Wen Wen suddenly had an epiphany. "I think I understand what's going on... I got the order wrong before."
"It's not that Hou Morong and the others came to find the deceased, but rather that the deceased wanted to see these people, which is why they specifically sent out letters to them!"
"The purpose of the living wanting to see the dead is usually quite pure, but for the dead to want to see the living..."
As Wen Wen finished his realization, all the Lycoris radiata flowers began to dance in unison, humming softly in human voices. The sound of colliding branches and leaves seemed to form a bizarre accompaniment, and the demeanor of the deceased began to change.
The first to transform was the handsome man. He and one of the female nurses opened their mouths simultaneously, spitting out a bright red tentacle, and the two tentacles intertwined.
This bizarre scene terrified the other nurse, who screamed and then fainted.
After a period of entwining, the man smiled contentedly, his body collapsed onto the ground, melting into the earth. All the surrounding Lycoris radiata seemed to become even more luxuriant.
The tentacle woman retracted her tentacles and looked at the other female nurse with menacing eyes.
She and her husband were both a type of parasitic monster. They had arrived in Baoya City two years ago.
Their strength was only slightly greater than that of ordinary people, so they could only disguise themselves as siblings and work in a hospital, surviving by consuming the remnants of human flesh and blood found in the hospital.
But one day, tired of consuming only dead limbs, they decided to abduct a living person to try.
The tentacle woman became best friends with this female nurse, and the tentacle man devised a way to make the female nurse fall in love with him. As long as they could make the female nurse trust them, they could devour her completely without arousing suspicion.
However, the day before their plan was to be executed, the tentacle man was casually killed by a passing demon hunter, leaving only the tentacle woman. Afraid to reveal any abnormality, she lived in fear for two years.
The tentacle man and the tentacle woman were the last two of their kind. If nothing unexpected happened, their species would perish in the real world after the tentacle woman's lifespan ended.
But a few days ago, the tentacle woman received a letter from her husband, instructing her to bring the female nurse to this subway.
They would meet in this world, conceive new life, and then implant it into the female nurse's body, thus ensuring the continuation of their species...