# 929
Chapter 929
Chapter 930: Has Been Waiting for Him All Along
The club.
Jinian?!
Hearing this name, Lin Qiye instantly recalled the note he found in the director's office the first time he opened the Asylum of the Gods.
From the information on that note, the previous director of this Asylum of the Gods was named Jinian. Moreover, she had taken an item from the patients in rooms one, two, and three respectively.
From Black Pupil's description, before the Cangnan Catastrophe, she had used these three divine artifacts to set up a mysterious formation, allowing the young Lin Qiye to survive the annihilation of [Shiva's Curse].
One could say that Lin Qiye's ability to reach this point was inextricably linked to this girl before him.
Countless questions surged in Lin Qiye's heart. He wanted to ask directly about the truth behind all this, but after scanning the area with his peripheral vision, he held back.
The existence of the Asylum of the Gods was an absolute secret. There were too many people here with keen ears. Even though these people might not understand Chinese, it was still wise to be cautious.
After a moment of silence, Lin Qiye glanced at her with a complicated expression and extended his hand as well.
"Hello… Director Ji."
Hearing this address, Jinian was slightly stunned. She smiled, about to say something, when two explosions rang out from the sky outside the window.
Lin Qiye and Jinian frowned simultaneously and looked toward the window.
A bizarre bird-like creature, its entire body flowing with诡异 black liquid, howled past the street at terrifying speed. Its outstretched wings spanned two or three hundred meters. With one powerful flap, the gale it generated shattered the window glass instantly.
Corpse Beast?
Lin Qiye, who had just returned from Takamagahara, recognized the disgusting monster instantly and his expression darkened.
The shard in the Yata Mirror placed in the shrine had been contaminated by the Red Moon, causing Corpse Beasts to seep through and enter the Human Enclosure to hunt… A memory of that mirror's surface being gradually eroded by blood-red color flashed through Lin Qiye's mind, and he quickly understood the connection.
If that was the case, then as the contamination worsened, the scale of Corpse Beast invasions would only increase.
At this rate, this "Human Enclosure" would eventually, like Takamagahara, become a completely dead realm…
This was getting troublesome.
Fragments of shattered glass scattered into the private room. Lin Qiye, standing before the window, was about to act when Jinian beside him moved first.
Jinian's eyes narrowed. All the glass fragments instantly decomposed into tiny pixel particles that gently brushed past everyone's bodies, swirling in the air for half a circle before returning to her side, swirling in her palm.
At the same time, a second figure followed closely behind the black bird-like creature, flying across the sky.
This was a bloodstained figure in white. He wielded a cyberpunk-style long spear, his white hair dancing in the wind like lightning cutting across the sky.
Those cross-shaped star pupils slightly narrowed. The targeting reticle in his mind locked onto the flying monster. He suddenly thrust the spear in his hand forward, creating a terrifying sonic boom that instantly shattered the creature's body into pieces.
Bloody rain scattered across the sky, dyeing that white figure even redder. He calmly gazed at the monster's remains below him and murmured to himself:
"Eighth one. I should be able to go home now…"
In the distance, Lin Qiye saw that white figure and his eyes lit up.
That was… Yuzuri Takishiro?
He was hunting the Corpse Beasts that had appeared in the Human Enclosure?
Before Lin Qiye could consider giving chase, another muffled thunderclap rang out from the distant sky.
Yuzuri Takishiro slightly raised his head, looking at the already darkening sky. A trace of exhaustion appeared in his eyes.
He sighed, pulled the spear embedded in the ground, and murmured:
"Sister's tonkatsu rice… must be getting cold by now, right?"
He murmured to himself, shook his head, gripped the spear in his hand, and his figure transformed into a streak of white light once more, breaking through space and vanishing.
…
Lin Qiye stood by the window. The evening breeze blew in through the shattered glass. He watched Yuzuri Takishiro's departing figure and fell into deep thought…
"In this 'Human Enclosure,' there's actually a Human Apex? And he looks quite young too." Jinian spoke with some surprise.
Lin Qiye turned back and asked the hosts in Japanese: "When did those monsters start appearing?"
The blue-clad host thought for a moment. "About a month ago? In the beginning, they would appear once every few days, then the frequency kept increasing… Now, at least six or seven appear every day."
Six or seven a day? Lin Qiye frowned slightly.
He knew the strength of these Corpse Beasts. Most were at the "Unmeasurable" or "Klein" realm. While they weren't threatening enemies for Yuzuri Takishiro, if he had to run around the world every day fighting this many Corpse Beasts, it was still a tremendous burden.
What mattered most was that Yuzuri Takishiro's body had not yet fully recovered. He was only suppressing the sequelae of the experiment through medication.
He was very powerful, but his body was far weaker than one could imagine.
"This world has completely gone mad." Another host said bitterly. "Monsters falling from the sky, wars erupting everywhere, and mysterious illnesses… In just a month or two, this country has been completely transformed."
"Illness? What kind of illness?"
"Red Eye Mania." The blue-clad host explained. "We don't know when it started, but this disease began spreading among the people. No one knows how it appeared or how it spread. Anyone who contracted it would have reddish eyes, extremely manic behavior, and extremely aggressive tendencies.
It's said that now sixty percent of Japan's population has contracted this disease. Crime and death rates have skyrocketed everywhere. Even police stations can no longer maintain order, having been directly overrun by rioting mobs.
Shops have closed, businesses have shut down. Those who haven't caught the disease are basically hiding at home, too afraid to go outside. Most of this country has now turned into chaotic, lawless territory."
Red Eye Mania?
Hearing this term, a image instantly flashed through Lin Qiye's mind—the frenzied villagers he had seen in the fishing village. Judging by external symptoms, the two were quite similar.
In other words, the disease raging through the Human Enclosure, called Red Eye Mania, was actually a manifestation of Red Moon contamination?
The Red Moon was eroding the Yata Mirror, but it hadn't directly shone in, so the contamination intensity was much lower than at the fishing village. That was why those infected with Red Moon contamination fell into manic, violent states without completely losing their sanity.
However, as time passed, the people in this Human Enclosure would eventually fall completely to Red Moon contamination. Even if they weren't slaughtered by Corpse Beasts, they would kill each other.
"If that's the case, why are you still open?" Jinian asked curiously. "Hosts are really that professional?"
"…No, we're still open because it's the family head's orders." The blue-clad host shook his head.
"This club was specially opened by the family head for someone. The family head said that no matter how chaotic it gets outside, even if the sky falls, even if the Kazamatsuri family is no more, this club must stay open.
That way, when that person returns someday and sees the name of the most prominent club in all of Japan, they will know…
They have been waiting for him all along."
Kazamatsuri family…
Hearing these three characters, Lin Qiye froze first, then as if realizing something, his pupils constricted sharply.
He jumped down from the shattered window and landed steadily in front of the club. Looking up, he saw the extremely prominent black and gold sign above the club:
—Asaba Club.