novelbin Chapter 164 Traitors
Chapter 164 Traitors
That day, Old Li witnessed the sun die.
A piercing scream pierced the clouds, and the pale orb of light hanging high in the sky suddenly fell. First came the light, a flash that almost burned Old Li's eyes, followed by a sound and vibration from the outskirts of the city, as loud as thunder and deafening.
When Old Li came to his senses...
The entire city of Cihang has been plunged into darkness, with monsters roaming everywhere.
Some of them he recognized: monsters transformed from animals, vengeful spirits of the dead, and strange tales with bizarre rules.
Some are brand new, fleshy creatures covered in chunks of flesh, which, when killed, spew out thick blood mist from their bodies.
"This day has finally come."
Li Jianguo sighed.
Years ago, when he and his colleagues were on a mission, they discovered this horrifying truth: Cihang City had long been ruled by monsters.
Anyone who investigates or resists the monster will vanish completely, just like Zhang Ruobing's parents.
Zhang Ruobing's pupils dilated: "Master, why have you never told me about these things?"
"The more you know, the more dangerous it becomes." Li Jianguo sighed. "For so many years, the monsters have maintained a superficial stability. As long as humans don't provoke them, it's not easy for anything to happen."
"That's why I stopped you from investigating the unusual events."
But today, that stability has been broken.
The streets were filled with cries for help.
Old Li and Zhang Ruobing found a convenience store as their base and took in many survivors.
"Ruobing, if we keep rescuing them one by one like this, we'll run out of food very quickly." As the number of people increased, Old Li expressed his concern, "Unless we can move to a larger base."
Zhang Ruobing volunteered: "Master, let's take over that largest super shopping mall in Dongshan District."
Old Li was more composed: "The two of us are far from enough. We need more strong laborers, as well as superhumans who absorb the red mist and undergo mutations."
Zhang Ruobing said, "Then I'll go check out a few survivor strongholds nearby."
Besides them, there are three other strongholds in the area, centered around a hospital, a restaurant, and an apartment building, respectively.
Unfortunately, just one day later, the restaurant and hospital strongholds were littered with corpses, clearly breached by the monsters, and the only surviving member of the apartment building's leader also chose to refuse to work.
"No, we'll stay here. Be careful when you go back. There's a gorilla monster roaming around here recently, and several strongholds have been attacked."
Thanks.
After Zhang Ruobing left.
The apartment building's deputy leader asked, "Boss, that woman is so strong, why don't we cooperate with her?"
The leader chuckled: "She is indeed a good person, but following her will mean you won't even know how you died."
Seeing that his younger brother was puzzled.
The leader explained, "When I went out to search for supplies, I checked the convenience store outpost. It was full of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people. What kind of time is this? Bringing these burdens along is practically suicide!"
The deputy leader fell silent, but his eyes darted around, clearly indicating that he was thinking about something.
The leader lit a cigarette: "Do you think I'm a bad person?"
The deputy leader blinked and said in a panic, "No, don't all apocalyptic novels say that in chaotic times, you should kill the saintly ones first, and discard the useless ones?"
The leader took a deep drag of his cigarette and slowly said, "You're wrong. Cihang is in such a mess right now, who can guarantee they won't get hurt? If someone in the team gets injured and I abandon them, who will join our team?"
"this......"
"Our team member, Qiang, injured his leg while searching for supplies. Do you think I abandoned him?"
"no."
"Let me make it clear that I will not abandon any member of the team, which requires me to be more rigorous in selecting members to ensure that everyone can survive."
The leader, puffing out clouds of smoke, said, "The Holy Mother isn't wrong; the one who's wrong is the Holy Mother without any moral compass. Since you chose to save people, you have to be responsible for them, not die carrying a bunch of burdens, understand?"
"clear!"
Hearing that he wouldn't abandon them, and that the leader was so composed, the deputy leader felt much more at ease.
Just then, there was a knock on the apartment door.
There was some noise.
"Is that beast here again?"
"Grab your weapons."
The leader threw the cigarette on the ground and stomped it out.
The deputy leader also became nervous.
A day ago, a monster resembling an ape appeared on this street, and several small outposts were destroyed.
Fortunately, that guy's cultivation level wasn't high.
Coincidentally, the deputy leader awakened superpowers, allowing him to generate firearms using his abilities.
Now, their team has fifteen people. Except for A-Qiang, who is paralyzed in bed, everyone is carrying a sniper rifle. Under the suppression of fire, the monster will not be able to force its way in.
A faint, intermittent tapping sound rang out.
So light, it doesn't seem like a monster.
The leader, speaking in a low voice through the gate, asked, "Who is it?"
"Please, open the door."
It was a trembling female voice.
"I'm a nurse who escaped from the hospital. That gorilla monster broke into the hospital and killed the director and everyone else!"
"Nurses are elite talents." The deputy leader, holding a gun, was about to open the door when the leader stopped him.
"Wait, it could be a trap." The leader was a little skeptical. "What if the gorilla is outside? What if it bursts in as soon as we open the door?"
"The gorilla is outside, why don't you eat her?" The deputy leader pointed to the stairs. "Or, should I open the second-floor window and take a look?"
"The red fog outside is so thick, what are you looking at?"
"That beast could appear at any moment; are we just going to stand by and watch her get killed?"
The leader was also hesitant. Not saving people was one thing, but watching people get killed was another.
Besides, Ah-Qiang's leg really needs someone to take care of it, and they have more than a dozen guns at the ready, so even if the gorilla breaks in, they can drive it away.
Thinking of this, the leader sighed: "Fine, this time we'll trust the second brother's judgment and open the door."
The door slid open a crack.
Accompanied by the red mist, a woman's fair hand entered first.
She called herself Xilu, with blonde hair. Although her face was dirty, it couldn't hide her delicate features. She was indeed wearing a nurse's uniform, carrying a medicine box in her hand and a backpack on her shoulder.
She is indeed a smart woman.
The leader thought to himself, "Aside from lecherous men and sanctimonious women, no one would take in a weak woman, but if she's a medical worker with a medicine kit, no outpost would refuse her."
"I can bandage and treat wounds," Xilu immediately volunteered, trying to avoid being abandoned again.
"That's great, our team is just about missing a support staff member." The leader asked, "How was the hospital breached? What abilities did that ape monster possess?"
"It was a skilled climber and sneaked into the hospital directly from the rooftop." Xilu shuddered as she recalled her experience. "The dean, the director, so many people were eaten by it."
"Alright, alright, calm down, it's safe here now."
"Excuse me, I haven't eaten in a long time. Do you have anything to eat?"
"The food is on the third floor. Go up first, and I'll have someone open the door for you in a bit."
After the woman left.
The leader thought for a moment and instructed, "Second brother, keep an eye on her and don't let her touch our food. After she finishes eating, take her to A-Qiang's place. The brothers and I will go upstairs and reinforce all the windows and doors."
That's being way too cautious.
Although the deputy leader felt it was making a mountain out of a molehill, he thought about it and realized that having such a leader was indeed reassuring.
I'm not afraid of god-like opponents, but I'm afraid of pig-like teammates.
"If only I had met you sooner."
I know in my heart how good you are to me.
"I'm not thirsty. Water is so precious these days. Here, you can have this half-bottle of drink."
With a few sweet words, Xilu had the deputy leader completely bewitched.
"This must be what they call indirect kissing in romance novels!" The deputy leader was initially hesitant, but after thinking about it carefully, he said, "This water is our own, and she's already drunk half of it, so it should be fine, right?"
Then thud!
The deputy leader collapsed to the ground.
"Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB)."
"What an idiot. I wonder when God saw you and chose you to awaken your superpowers."
With a blank expression, Xilu took out a small knife from her bag and easily slit the deputy leader's throat.
When the leader realized his weapon had suddenly disappeared, it was too late: "Oh no, something's happened to the second brother."
The attack came faster than anyone expected.
Accompanied by the sound of bones cracking.
The gorilla monster slapped the two members against the wall.
Screams, monster roars, and the sound of things shattering filled the apartment building.
Finally, it fell silent.
Xilu hummed a tune and walked briskly downstairs.
He stroked the thick, blood-stained fur of the demon: "My lord, I'm quite useful, aren't I?"
The monster tore at its own flesh, clearly in a bad mood: "One of them got away! I'm furious!"
"Then, I'll help you cool down."
Xilu smiled and nestled against the monster.
Over the next few days, the human and the demon duo committed a series of crimes, all using the same modus operandi: Xilu would use her appearance and disguise to trick people into opening the door, drug them to eliminate the superhumans, and then the demon would break in and brutally kill them with overwhelming force. Several of their nascent strongholds were destroyed.
Xilu thought this kind of life would continue until the day her belly started to swell.
"Sir, our child is growing so fast! It's only been a few hours, and he's already kicking me."
Then a dark shadow flashed by.
Chimpanzees run faster than anyone else.
For it, a pregnant woman would not be taken in by any stronghold and had lost her usefulness.
Useless people, die!
The street one day later.
A female corpse, drained of all its nutrients, appeared, along with a baby with a gorilla-like face, crying loudly.
Chen Feng looked at the half-demon: "Your mother is dead, now it's your turn."