Scared Every Night, Becoming The Target Of A Creepy Psycho - Chapter 44

Chapter 44 – The Hierarchy of Monsters

After Chen Sheng ran out of the academy, he could feel how his speed had increased. It wasn’t human anymore—it was like a violent gust of wind sweeping through the night.

His body felt cold. As for his heart—he placed a hand over it—it was barely beating, almost imperceptible.

He couldn’t even feel himself breathing.

No… Chen Sheng broke down, crying uncontrollably. Deep in his emotional spiral, he didn’t even realize he had already left the academy and arrived on the streets outside.

When the pedestrians saw him, they all screamed in terror.

“A ghost! There’s a ghost!”

To their eyes, a boy suddenly appeared, drenched in bl00d, his features blurred, surrounded by black mist.

If that wasn’t a ghost, what was?

Hearing the terrified screams snapped Chen Sheng out of his emotional daze. He looked at them and said, “I… I—don’t be afraid, I won’t hurt you.”

He wanted to say he was human. But in this condition, could he really still call himself human?

No sooner had he spoken than he caught a thick, sweet, and alluring scent in the air. His pupils instantly turned pitch black. His body moved on its own, drawn toward the people in the street.

The crowd screamed and scattered in terror.

Seeing them flee, Chen Sheng suddenly regained his senses.

He looked down at his hands. A black mist, like a faint smoke, shrouded them. Then he looked around—the street was now empty.

In pain, he ran again—far away.

He fled to a secluded, deserted countryside. Only then did he stop, curling up on the ground.

He couldn’t accept it. He had become something just like that thing.

No… no, wait.

If he wasn’t human anymore and couldn’t die, then shouldn’t he be seeking revenge? That thing was surely still in the academy.

With that thought, Chen Sheng clenched his fists, and in an instant, he was back at the academy.

He no longer needed to search.

Just standing at the gate, he could sense everything happening inside—as if a high-resolution surveillance camera was playing out the entire academy in his mind.

Scanning through the entire place, he found no sign of that thing.

But… he saw someone lying on the bed in his dorm.

It was…

In a flash, Chen Sheng appeared in the dormitory. It was his senior.

Seeing him lying there, pale-faced, Chen Sheng hesitated to touch him. He didn’t dare. He stood there frozen, filled with worry.

He must have felt guilty earlier, right? He shouldn’t have run off so impulsively.

Chen Sheng looked at the pale face on the bed and was relieved to find his senior still alive.

He had to leave before his senior woke up.

But just then, that enticing scent came again—stronger than before.

Chen Sheng tried his hardest to resist. Again and again, he nearly lost control to his instincts…

But he fought it back, even as the black mist around him surged violently.

He must have looked monstrous.

In pain, Chen Sheng gave his senior one last look and turned to leave—when suddenly, the senior woke up.

He tried to flee, but his senior caught his hand.

Chen Sheng could feel the warmth of that touch. It was so different from what he had become.

He tried to break free, but he didn’t want to hurt his senior.

He also didn’t dare turn around and face him.

But then he heard that familiar voice behind him.

“Sheng Sheng, don’t leave me again, please?”

If he’d heard those words before, Chen Sheng would have been touched.

But now it only brought pain. He couldn’t stay here. He might hurt him.

That scent… it was overpowering… so sweet, so tempting…

“Sheng Sheng…”

With a sudden start, Chen Sheng broke free from the grip and tried to run—but his senior was faster. Of course, he wasn’t human either.

He pulled Chen Sheng into a tight embrace.

“Sheng Sheng, don’t leave me, okay?”

Hearing those words, and feeling that warm body behind him… and that ever-stronger, tempting scent…

Chen Sheng couldn’t take it anymore. He turned around, ready to bite down.

But when he saw the sorrow in his senior’s eyes, he calmed down instantly.

“Yes—” Chen Sheng had just spoken a word when the sound that came out was wrong. It was a cold, eerie voice, like an old, rusty wind pipe leaking air. It didn’t come from his throat—it came from somewhere deeper, darker.

That wasn’t his voice.

And then, in his senior’s pupils, he saw what he looked like now—monstrous, terrifying, shrouded in black mist. His expression twisted with greed and coldness.

So… this is what he’d become…

He dared not look anymore.

“I’m sorry, Senior. Let’s leave it at this. From now on, I won’t ever appear in your—”

Before he could finish, the senior suddenly drew a cut across his own hand. Fresh bl00d gushed forth.

The moment the bl00d appeared, that sweet scent filled the room again. Chen Sheng’s body screamed with desire. His remaining rationality vanished.

He grabbed the bleeding hand and began drinking frantically—he even wanted to devour it whole…

Gu Zhen looked at the mindless Chen Sheng with a slight smile. He raised his bleeding hand even higher to make it easier for him to drink.

After a while, he pulled his hand away without even glancing at the wound.

The black mist around Chen Sheng thinned. His features became clearer—less blurry.

But he still hadn’t fully recovered. His pupils remained pitch black.

Gu Zhen pulled Chen Sheng into his arms.

“Sheng Sheng, kiss me.”

Chen Sheng obeyed, leaning in and kissing him gently, again and again.

Gu Zhen quickly lost patience. He grabbed Chen Sheng by the neck and kissed him deeply.

With this version of Sheng Sheng, there was no need for pretense. Whether human or not, Sheng Sheng would always be under his control. He’d obey whatever Gu Zhen said.

And non-humans didn’t need to breathe. They could kiss for hours, for days… no need to stop.

Gu Zhen held him tightly, kissing him fiercely.

“Sheng Sheng, open your mouth.”

Obediently, Chen Sheng opened his mouth.

Several hours later.

Chen Sheng’s lips looked completely normal again, as if nothing had happened.

Gu Zhen, satisfied with the time, let him go and returned to the bed, “weakly” clutching his wounded hand.

Chen Sheng had regained full awareness. His pupils were back to normal. He didn’t remember what had happened.

All he could recall was seeing his senior’s arm bleeding and then losing control…

Did he… do something to his senior?

Panicked, he rushed over—only to see his senior lying on the bed, even paler than before.

“S-Senior… I… I’m sorry…”

“Sheng Sheng, it’s okay. I just need to rest a bit.”

His senior said weakly.

Chen Sheng was overwhelmed with guilt. Only now did he notice the black mist around his hands had faded significantly.

What was that about?

What exactly was this black mist?

Confused, he examined his hands again and again. Then his senior explained:

“That thing tampered with my pills. That’s why you became like this… But not completely. Sheng Sheng, you were human before—so the transformation was unstable.”

“That’s why you fluctuate between having and losing control. But either way, the craving for bl00d and flesh won’t go away.

And if you don’t consume it, the instability will worsen—until eventually, you lose control completely… and start killing everyone in sight.

Sheng Sheng… even monsters have their own hierarchy…”