After purchasing the Fox Heart Technique, with ten energy points remaining, Yu Zhibo did not hesitate to learn the Transformation Technique.
Transformation Technique: Upon use, one can alter their appearance according to their thoughts, achieving a visual deception effect. Hand seals: Kai!
Nodding with satisfaction, he checked his personal data panel. The information had changed drastically, and a psionic attribute column had been added:
[Host: Yu Zhibo.
Gender: Male.
Age: 16.
Spirit: 41 (410 Hz) (Having experienced combat, your mental strength has slightly increased. Mental strength can amplify your illusionary effects and resist mental attacks.)
Strength: 22 (Compared to your mental strength, it appears ordinary.)
Agility: 24 (High agility, high attack, and mastery of illusions are standard for the Uchiha clan. Your agility is sufficient to dine and dash at any gourmet restaurant.)
Constitution: 20 (Undoubtedly, you can go ten times in one night.)
Ability Sequence: Naruto (Originating from the parallel world anime "Naruto," it is the key to your abnormality. Outside of this sequence, no one can use chakra-based ninjutsu.)
Ability: Sharingan (Activated. During the opening process, it consumes 0.05 psionic points per second.)
Psionic Attribute: Fire (Psionic attribute is equivalent to chakra attribute in the manga. If you don't want to play with fire forever, hurry up and develop new attributes. Friendly reminder: Lightning attribute damage counters all evil, you deserve it!)
Skills: Fox Heart Technique (C-rank), Great Fireball Technique (C-rank), Transformation Technique (E-rank), Body Replacement Technique (E-rank).
Psionic Energy: 29.66/100 (Your psionic energy level has reached the peak of F-rank, just one step away from E-rank.)
Energy Points: 0 (The series that feels uncomfortable if not spent.)
Shop: Click to view and purchase skills.
Main Quest: Generating, estimated time 69 hours.
After digesting the panel data, Yu Zhibo felt a bit regretful. The lightning attribute still needed to be developed; otherwise, he couldn't learn powerful lightning-style ninjutsu. This meant he might have to rely on fire-style ninjutsu for a long time.
After selecting and learning skills, he looked at the panel again. Yu Zhibo felt bored. He glanced around the shop. It was empty, with no other customers besides him. He found it strange. It was usually late-night snack time, and tenants from nearby would come for a bite.
The floor also had stains, like spilled soup that had dried naturally. There were also splashes of soup on the adjacent table. This was severely inconsistent with Yu Zhibo's impression of the simple yet clean small shop.
Yu Zhibo's expression turned grim. He had eaten here just last week, and the shop was normal then. But coming here today, he felt an inexplicable strangeness.
The boss's voice was still enthusiastic, but it was as if he had forgotten him.
Yu Zhibo lowered his eyelids slightly. When he raised them again, his pitch-black pupils had turned scarlet, and two tomoe appeared in his pupils: Sharingan, activate!
Under the gaze of the Sharingan, the scene in the small shop instantly changed. The menu stickers on the wall, the glass at the pickup counter, and the floor were all splattered with blood. Next to the wall clock on the left, a scalp with hair attached was hanging, its blood already dried.
After piercing through the illusion and seeing the truth, Yu Zhibo discovered that the cozy little shop had instantly transformed into a bloody and terrifying murder scene.
A stench accompanied by the smell of blood flooded his nostrils, making his stomach churn, almost causing him to vomit. But he had nothing to vomit, because he was too hungry.
"Coming right up! Young man, here are two portions of wontons combined, and three more! I'll bring them to you when they're ready!"
The boss's kind voice reached his ears, but Yu Zhibo clearly saw that the originally plump boss had transformed into a monster with a large head and thick neck, draped in human skin. Moreover, the human skin was not fully covered, and black skin was exposed through the gaps.
And when he spoke, his mouth didn't move at all; the voice seemed to come from his abdomen, yet it was exactly the same as Old Zhang's voice.
As for his face, it was as if human skin had been directly pasted onto it. But because the head was too large, it was stretched too tightly, causing the mouth on the human skin face to be pulled almost to the back of the head. The nose and eye sockets were also elongated, making it look extremely awkward.
At the same time, his Sharingan also saw that the monster was flowing with evil psionic energy similar to the dark creature in the hospital, and even several times stronger.
There was no doubt that this was a dark creature, and an intelligent one at that. Otherwise, how would it know to disguise itself as the boss and open a shop to receive customers?
Judging by the amount of psionic energy, it was at least peak E-rank, or even D-rank!
A drop of cold sweat trickled down Yu Zhibo's forehead, his heart pounding like a drum.
*Crack!*
A large bowl was placed on the table in front of Yu Zhibo. The big-headed monster looked at Yu Zhibo with its scarlet eyes and grinned, its voice coming from its abdomen: "Customer, enjoy your meal!"
Because it was grinning, the human skin face finally couldn't hold on and fell off. It revealed a face with only eyes and a mouth.
Its eyes were black, like the dark creature in the hospital, but it had a huge mouth that occupied more than half of its face. As it opened and closed, it revealed a row of jagged teeth, with fresh red meat threads hanging on them, emitting a foul odor.
Looking into the bowl, there were no wontons at all. Instead, there were pieces of dog meat with black fur. One piece of semi-cooked meat had a sore on it. This was the black dog that had its throat slit by the black cat during the day!
Yu Zhibo was momentarily stunned. When he came earlier, he saw that the dog's corpse was gone. He thought it had been disposed of by the sanitation workers, but it turned out this boss had used it for stewing, and had even chopped it up directly without any cooking skill.
Looking down at the human face that had fallen on the ground, it belonged to the plump boss of the shop. He was now certain that the boss, who had always worn a smiling face, had died just like that.
"I'll eat your mother's..."
An inexplicable rage surged within him, overshadowing his fear. Yu Zhibo swore, picked up the bowl, and slammed it onto the monster's head.
The soup and dog meat spilled all over the floor, and a piece of dog meat with a sore got stuck on the monster's head, emitting a pungent stench.
The big-headed monster was stunned for a moment, then its huge mouth opened, and it suddenly shot out a sharp sword formed from black liquid, like Tam's tongue, piercing Yu Zhibo's throat.
*Bang!* Just as the monster's mouth stretched into a grin from piercing Yu Zhibo, the latter's body transformed into a wooden board, falling onto the chair amidst the smoke.
The big-headed monster tilted its huge head, looking at the wooden board with a seemingly confused expression. It casually threw the piece of dog meat with the sore on its head into its enormous mouth, then continued to scan its surroundings, seemingly unable to understand how the person who was just sitting in front of it had suddenly disappeared.
*Crunch!* Just then, the sound of footsteps on wooden boards came from the vegetable patch next to the small shop.
The big-headed monster stomped its feet and charged towards the vegetable patch, only to see a door panel with a rectangular piece of wood missing, and a black, mangy dog running away.
Looking at the mangy dog, the big-headed monster took out the dog meat in its mouth, looked at it, then put it back in its mouth. When it looked at the mangy dog again, its large mouth had already split into a smile.
The floor beneath it shattered, and the black monster shot towards the black dog.
"Damn it! As expected, the 10 energy point ninjutsu is unreliable!" Yu Zhibo, disguised as a black dog, yelped. With a burst of smoke, he reverted to his true form, then turned around to face the approaching big-headed monster.
The Sharingan's excellent dynamic vision was undeniable. Although the big-headed monster's movements were fast, in his eyes, they were like slow motion. Therefore, his gaze could quickly lock onto the big-headed monster's pupil-less eyes.
A flash of red light in his scarlet Sharingan:
Fox Heart Technique, activate!
The big-headed monster's charge came to an abrupt halt. After rolling several times on the ground, it began to wander around aimlessly.
Yu Zhibo secretly breathed a sigh of relief and bolted!
After he ran three hundred meters out of the casting range, the big-headed monster suddenly stopped wandering. It looked around but could no longer find the person from before.
In a fit of rage, it stomped a rock by the roadside into pieces, then returned to the shop. It spat out a stream of black mist, which spread out and eventually enveloped the entire wonton shop.
Instantly, the wonton shop returned to its previous appearance, and it transformed back into the smiling, plump boss.
The foul odor disappeared, and the aroma of pork bone broth wafted from the small shop, enticing the next customer.
On the third-floor balcony of a building opposite the small shop, a young girl who had inadvertently witnessed everything crouched trembling within the balcony railing, her hands shaking as she typed on her phone.
She dared not make a phone call and dared not look directly at the monster in the wonton shop at this time. She opened a chat interface with her colleague and sent a message: "Help me call the police quickly! There's a monster killing people at the wonton shop at the end of Alley 7, Nanbian Village!"
After sending the message, she dared not stay any longer. After sitting for a while to adjust her breathing, she ran downstairs and fled towards the outside of the alley.
In fact, she was not the only one who witnessed the situation at the shop. The surrounding residents were attracted by the commotion. Upon seeing the monster and the blood-splattered shop, they had already started calling the police.
And the big-headed monster, seeming not very intelligent, was oblivious to all this. It continued to diligently play its role as the wonton shop boss, waiting for food to arrive.