An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits-Chapter 115 : Is It Delicious? (「?ω?）「

Volume 3: High School Arc - Mirror Game
I saw that the substitute doll’s time was about to run out.
At the exact moment the substitute doll’s time ended, I didn’t hesitate to plunge my black claw deep in and tore off a large piece of black fragment from this strange creature.
Then I shouted,
“Throw!!”
Immediately, my Evil Spirit Form appeared, and I stuffed those black fragments into my mouth in one bite.
How should I put it?
When I first ate it, I just swallowed it whole, only knowing it tasted extraordinarily sweet.
But now, having time to savor it carefully, I realized this guy’s flavor was fundamentally different from that of a human soul...
It’s hard to describe, but it was like... the difference between beef and shrimp meat?
Just as I thought this, Lu Haochen threw out a second substitute doll.
During the substitute doll’s attack, the creature was invincible due to the APP’s rules, effectively gaining an invincible buff.
But this only lasted while the substitute doll was active.
The moment the substitute doll ended, the buff vanished instantly, and that was the best time to attack it.
If it were anyone else facing such a creature, they’d probably have no choice but to run away.
Only I could take advantage of that split second to strike.
Fortunately... fortunately, I hadn’t entered the city.
If I had, death would have been certain.
Should I thank Lu Haochen?
While the creature was still attacking the substitute doll, I glanced at him.
But he didn’t have time to care about me right now; he was putting Jiang Yulong down.
All of our bodies lost control and just stood there dumbly.
Right now, Lu Haochen was laying these people flat.
What’s the use of that?
Watching the creature wildly cutting the substitute doll with shards of glass, I timed it perfectly.
I yanked the rope around my neck hard, breaking it.
Then I suddenly emerged from my body.
Seizing that moment, I tore off another large chunk from the creature’s body.
It looked like at least one-fifth.
Then I shoved it into my mouth.
At the same time, my uncontrolled hand loosened because it had no strength supporting it.
The system-issued substitute doll dropped to the ground.
The creature didn’t hesitate.
It turned its head toward the substitute doll lying at my feet and cut it furiously.
At the same time, it seemed to look up at me.
But I couldn’t tell which side of this thing was front or back, as if it had no front or back at all.
It was a very strange feeling.
No matter from which angle I looked, it was always in a human shape.
This completely contradicted the normal laws of physics.
This... was like the strange feeling you get when a shadow is pulled from a flat surface into three dimensions.
Extremely eerie.
At this moment, it faced me and bared its mouth.
The crimson color inside its mouth matched so well with the color inside mine.
But... now I was no longer allowed to see what this guy looked like.
I reached out and directly pulled open my mouth.
The benefit of the Evil Spirit Form was exactly this: the body was not limited to any form.
I strongly suspected that if the Evil Spirit Form lost control, it might not be able to maintain the human shape and instead become a tentacle monster.
I suddenly opened my crimson mouth wide.
I was ready to swallow this guy whole at any moment.
As time passed, the substitute doll was cut into a mess.
At the same time, my big mouth slammed down.
I swallowed more than one-third of this strange creature in one gulp.
And in the next second after swallowing that one-third, the creature suddenly let out a sharp scream.
The sound was filled with malice, resentment, and pain, which made me furrow my brows.
But... before I could even chew the third in my mouth, the creature turned and ran.
This creature had no real emotions, but it was extremely afraid of death.
I didn’t know what they had been before—were they shadows?
Souls?
Or some kind of natural phenomenon?
But they all shared one thing: fear of death.
Whether it was the goat-headed monster I ate or this creature that looked like a shadow standing up, they all had the same emotion.
The creature I ate one-third of was now in a panic state.
Its instinctive fear of death outweighed all other feelings.
The next second... confirmed my suspicion.
This strange shadow, along with that scream full of resentment, malice, and pain, suddenly twisted its head sharply and charged directly at Lu Haochen.
I simply couldn’t catch up to it.
Because it didn’t move by space but by using reflections to move.
In an instant, it was already at Lu Haochen’s feet.
“Lu Haochen!!!”
I quickly withdrew my Evil Spirit Form.
Seeing the shock in Lu Haochen’s eyes, I instinctively wanted to save him.
But before I could take the first step, as I shouted his name and reached the second syllable, that black creature ‘slithered’ directly into his shadow.
Then... another shadow appeared behind him?
Faced with this situation, Lu Haochen also instinctively tried to run.
But... our speed was no match for the creature.
And now all the substitute dolls we could use were already spent.
I had already prepared to press the World Watch.
But I couldn’t press the World Watch when the creature entered Lu Haochen’s shadow.
At that time, I couldn’t touch the creature and had to wait until it made a move on Lu Haochen before using the World Watch to pause time.
But... the creature didn’t come out.
At the same time, my phone suddenly vibrated.
And the surrounding environment quickly returned to normal.
The decayed world was being burned away bit by bit by some special thing.
With the ashes left behind by the burning, the original Factory Building No. 7 of the Surface World was revealed.
“Is it over?”
Lu Haochen looked at the shadow beneath his feet in disbelief.
And I... finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although I didn’t completely eat that shadow, at least I swallowed over one-third.
This time’s game should award an extra fifty points.
“Phew...”
I exhaled a long breath and took out my phone.
I saw the notification that read, [Congratulations, player, for ending the game early. Rewards have been issued. Please check.]
Only at this moment did my previously soaked body relax all at once.
Suddenly, a chill surged through my entire body.
I instinctively hugged my shoulders.
“Hiss~”
I inhaled sharply, finally realizing how cold the rainwater on my body really was.
Just now... everything had happened so quickly that there was no time to think about these things.
“Achoo!!!”
I sneezed violently.
Even though my body now had the Evil Spirit Form’s feedback, my flesh and blood still couldn’t transcend the concept of ‘human.’
So, up to now, my only advantage was that my physical fitness was better than average, my endurance was longer, and my strength was greater than most women.
After walking through the fierce wind and rain of late autumn for half an hour and then fighting nervously for such a long time, the mix of sweat and cold rainwater made it hard not to catch a cold.
“Are you okay?”