Xiao Xiao twirled her hair around her slender fingers, revealing a prominent diamond-shaped wound on her neck.
Yao Ye did not notice the wound, his attention was totally focused on that pair of translucent-coloured eyes.
His rosy cheeks turned pale in an instant, his eyes shivered as he looked at Xiao Xiao, his lips trembled as if he wanted to say something, but he could only make a sound like a sad whimper.
“Wu…”
Is it a hallucination?
It’s a hallucination, right?
It must be a hallucination.
Xiao Xiao is a woman, Ming An is clearly a man ah…
The long-haired woman with translucent-coloured eyes, licked her lips in front of him and leaned closer. She moved closer until Yao Ye could smell the perfume on her body.
“Yao Ye…you seem to be more beautiful…although it is not appropriate to describe a man like this, but I love you very much…”
“From the first time I saw you, I’ve already felt this way…”
Xiao Xiao’s eyes had a watery haze, her plump red lips were full of temptation.
“…Tonight, could you stay with me?”
A beautiful lady with outstanding looks and great stature is like a snake beauty, entangling your body, begging and showing love. It is the dream of countless men, an extremely enjoyable situation.
But to Yao Ye, it was compared to the most vicious torture in the world.
Yao Ye could feel Xiao Xiao’s hot breath, and see the familiar insatiable desire in her eyes.
In the past, Ming An would often look at him with such eager eyes, what was more frightening was that Xiao Xiao’s words were the same as what Ming An had spoken to him when they first met in the nightclub.
Yao Ye’s eyes widened, watching as Xiao Xiao leaned closer and closer, it was as if he saw a poisonous snake sticking out its tongue.
He could no longer suppress the fear in his heart and abruptly pushed Xiao Xiao away, who was about to reach out and touch him.
For a moment, Xiao Xiao looked at Yao Ye with hidden bitterness after being pushed to the ground by Yao Ye
“…I, I’m leaving first, class monitor, I have something to do…”
Yao Ye ignored Xiao Xiao who had fallen to the ground and the shocked eyes from the classmates. He walked out of the rest area and said goodbye to the class monitor.
Yao Ye was sweating profusely, his complexion was dazzlingly white, and he looked very abnormal. Seeing Yao Ye’s appearance, the class monitor could only nod blankly.
Yao Ye walked out of the private room and looked back for the last time, he saw Xiao Xiao who had been pushed to the ground by him had already stood up. She was staring at him with an indescribable gloominess in her eyes, the translucent-colour in her eyes became more prominent.
! ! !
Yao Ye was too scared to linger any longer, fearing Xiao Xiao would catch up to him, he quickened his pace
“Huff! Huff!”
Yao Ye was now very weak due to not exercising for a long time. By just speeding up a bit, he was so exhausted till he could not catch his own breath. On top of being very anxious, he could not muster up his strength.
Yao Ye, who finally managed to escape from the hotel, placed his hands on his knees and gasped for breath. He looked back at that magnificent hotel with some lingering fears in his heart.
All that just happened, was it real?
Yao Ye dazedly stared at his sweat dripping on the ground, not sure what had just happened was true or false. He could only instinctively escape from the place which made him feel uneasy.
Honk Honk–
Just as Yao Ye was standing there in a daze, a black car pulled over beside him.
Yao Ye subconsciously looked towards the driver seat.
The car window slowly pulled down and a familiar face appeared in front of Yao Ye. It was his former classmate Yu Xi, the president of the student union.
“What a coincidence, long time no see. Yao Ye…uh, are you feeling unwell? Do you need me to send you home?”
Yu Xi greeted Yao Ye with a smile, and immediately saw Yao Ye’s unusually pale complexion and blurry eyes.
Yao Ye originally wanted to refuse, after all they were just passing acquaintances in the university and were not particularly familiar with each other.
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Yu Xi has always been known for his gentlemanly character, he’s always willing to help his old schoolmates. He immediately opened the door, inviting Yao Ye to sit in the passenger seat.
Yao Ye obediently sat in the passenger seat, fastened his seat belt and told his apartment address.
The car smoothly started, and when Yu Xi saw that Yao Ye’s mood had eased, he smiled and said, “Yo, that’s a good location, old schoolmate, you are really successful!”
Yao Ye felt more relaxed after sitting in the car and humorously talked about his rag to riches story, but of course it was all made up. After all, being a little white face is not a glamorous thing, he did not plan to publicise this.
“By the way, just now why are you standing at the roadside? Are you waiting for someone?”
Yu Xi has soft facial features, he is not super handsome but has a unique gentle charm, easily making others relax their guard.
When Yao Ye heard this, he felt a desire to tell his story. He subconsciously bit his fingers and told what had just happened with half truths and half lies.
“Just now I went to a class gathering, but my ex-girlfriend was also there…she tried to approach me and I kept feeling there was something wrong…”
Yao Ye looked at his bitten fingers covered in scabs and muttered, “ I kept feeling that she is not Xiao Xiao anymore…she became someone else…”
“Someone else?”
Yu Xi tilted his head, he still had a warm smile but from the depths of his black pupils shone a strange-coloured, fragmented light. His hands were still on the steering wheel, exposing a diamond-shaped wound on his forearm.
Yao Ye nodded his head and dazedly said, “Her eyes, they changed into a silvery translucent glass like colour.
“Like this colour?” Yu Xi asked with a smile.
Upon hearing his words, Yao Ye was startled and raised his head.
What appeared in his sight was a pair of translucent-coloured eyes, the owner of said eyes was looking at him with his head tilted and an expression of morbid infatuation.
“…Ahhh!!!”
*
“So what you are saying is that this is not the real world? We can’t return back?”
The young tourist cried with red eyes.
“How could this happen? We were just here only for sightseeing!”
The bus was filled with a bleak and gloomy atmosphere.
Captain Wang Gang saw this and could not help but rub his forehead, “This is not what I meant, you guys can still leave here alive…sigh, Xiao Zhang, you come and explain!”
“Yes, Captain!” The soldier named Xiao Zhang saluted Wang Gang and then began to explain the situation.
“Have you all heard of the urban legend of Keli City?”
“Yeah!” The tourists and the driver nodded their heads pitifully.
“Now the place you have entered is the world of that urban legend, to put it simply, it’s a world derived from the urban legend. In this world, there is a monster that could multiply itself infinitely and infect others.”
Xiao Zhang did not try to be an alarmist and his explanation was very simple. However, it still caused fear among the people.
“But isn’t the urban legend fake! It’s just a rumour generated from the panicked public during the nuclear leak in Keli City!”
Zhao Bang, the young man who had fought with the driver for the steering wheel, blurted out.
Being interrupted, Xiao Zhang glanced at him and continued, “In this world, what I’ve said will come true, but you don’t need to worry too much. If you die in this world, it will not lead to your death in the real world, you will only receive some mental damage.” The mild cases had nervous breakdowns while the serious cases went crazy.
Xiao Zhang concealed some facts while explaining to the group for a long time before reassuring them.
“Now it’s only just the beginning of the plot, the monster codenamed Proliferator has not started to infect others. Even if he does, there is still a period of incubation in the early stage. Only in the later stage will they synchronise with each other, turning into monsters with a common brain.”
“As long as everyone does not come into contact with this world’s water, and the wounds are not exposed to the atmosphere, generally you will not be infected.”
After finishing the brief introduction, Xiao Zhang looked at the captain.
Wang Gang nodded his head, showed a serious expression and continued, “Therefore, please cooperate with our operation.”
The driver swallowed his saliva and trembled in fear,” S…Sir, what do we need to do?”
Wang Gang gave a simple smile and said, “Nothing, just pretending to be tourists is enough to not provoke the city management and make our movements more troublesome.”
In fact, if the tourists weren’t here, they could have disguised themselves and entered the city using the prepared identification papers.
But now they could not just leave this group of civilians alone. They could only bring them along and this plan could potentially be a win-win situation.
Everyone in the bus looked at the soldiers in full gear, and then looked at the dark muzzles of the guns. Although they were somewhat suspicious of the situation, they still approved the plan.
The driver cautiously returned to the driver’s seat and drove towards the centre of Keli City.
“According to the plot, the original body of the Proliferator is a businessman named Ming An, who has the ability to split himself. After splitting into another individual, he began to study wholeheartedly on how to eliminate the split individual, and for this purpose he established a state-of-the-art laboratory.
Unfortunately, there was a leak in the laboratory, many untreated monster fragments were taken out of the laboratory and thrown into the water supply, causing a widespread infection.”
Wang Gang solemnly spoke, “Currently the verified sealing locations are the laboratory under Ming An’s name, his villa and the water supply. Let’s go to the laboratory first and burn down as many leftover experimental bodies as possible, to prevent the Proliferator from having too much backup in the later stages of the infection.”
The soldiers were sitting quietly in the bus and thinking about it when they realised there seemed to be something wrong going on outside.
On the roadside, there were pedestrians stumbling about with an ugly complexion.
Wang Gang also noticed there was something wrong, so he leaned over the bus window to carefully observe the situation.
He only saw a pedestrian on the roadside who stumbled and fell to the ground. Before anyone could help him up, he stood up by himself, his eyes turned into a strange translucent-colour.
Wang Gang’s expression immediately changed upon seeing that pair of eyes.
“It’s an infected person!”
“But it doesn’t make sense, this ghost domain just opened, how could the infection spread so quickly!”
The soldiers were astonished as well, and what’s more terrifying was that there were more and more people falling to the ground like that pedestrian, soon a large crowd gathered.
These infected people first stared at each other, but after examining each other for a moment, they did not start to kill each other like in the information given. Instead, they turned their heads and stared at the slow-moving bus.
“Has the plot changed?”
Xiao Zhang made a guess with a solemn expression on his face.
“Once the plot has changed, it will inevitably bring a lot of uncertainty to our sealing mission.”
Watching the infected chasing after the back of the bus, Wang Gang frowned.
The colour of the eyes of the infected were not prominent, and it seemed that the degree of infection was not high. Why were they not following their instincts to kill each other, but instead chasing after their bus?
Xiao Zhang had also seen the infected people behind the bus and paled, “Captain, do you still remember the conjecture put forward by the master?”
“The master once said that the ghost domain may have a consciousness. Just like how humans subconsciously avoid strangers, once the domain starts to resist the invaders, all the monsters from the urban legend will prioritise resisting the invaders. When all the invaders have been killed, then the plot will continue.”
As soon as these words were said, the expressions on all the soldiers changed.
No one knows better than them how terrifying this Proliferator is, it is impossible to be killed.
Whether it is a headshot or slitting the throat, as long as the Proliferator has a little flesh remaining, the flesh will start to multiply until it forms a complete body.
When there are too many fragments, they will start to latch on humans to absorb nutrients until it could grow a new body. Then it will detach itself from the host and gain a new life.
This is simply a terrifying monster comparable to biological and chemical weapons.
Once the Proliferator spreads, unless they directly throw a nuclear bomb at it, no one is able to completely destroy this monster.
Even if their purpose of this trip is to just seal off this ghost domain, they cannot afford to provoke so many infected people.
But now, they have no way to retreat.
Seeing the traumatised bus, countless infected people ruthlessly chased after them, some infected even started to drive their vehicles to chase them.
Wang Gang coldly looked at these monsters and raised the gun in his hands.
These ghostly things are just monsters without emotions, not some citizens they have to protect.
This world isn’t real, what they want to protect is the countless innocent people outside the ghost domain.
“Listen to my orders and shoot!”
“Yes sir!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The sound of gunshots one after another echoed throughout the city centre, causing numerous people to flee in panic, resulting in a series of stampedes.
“Ah! Ah! Terrorists! There are Terrorists!”
“Quickly call the police! Ah! Ah!”
The ordinary people in the city centre were immediately scared out of their wits upon seeing this bus continuously shooting at the crowd behind it. They could not imagine during a peaceful time, such arrogant terrorists would openly fire in the city centre.
Someone had reported to the police but the police were delayed, the people could only flee helplessly.
The tourists and the driver on the bus were greatly frightened.
Although the soldiers had explained to them that those killed were not humans but monsters, they still trembled in fear seeing the corpses of the monsters looking no different to a human.
“Reporting to the Captain! As documented, the laboratory is located on the third basement floor of the building!” A soldier connected to the city system and found out the exact location of the laboratory.
After Wang Gang instructed the tourists and the driver not to run around and stay in the bus, he rushed out of the bus with his soldiers and entered the Ming’s building.
However, after a period of time, Wang Gang and his team still had not returned.
Due to the terrorist incident in the city centre, all the people on the streets had run away, either running back home or hiding in one of the high-rise buildings, not daring to come out.
The driver and the tourists were also starting to worry about their personal safety. Looking at the empty and silent streets outside, they were terrified to death.
Some suggested they might as well leave Keli City, because those guys carrying guns don’t seem very trustworthy, and it’s unclear what the outcome will be if they continue to wait here.
While others were very scared and did not dare to run. They said if those guys could not find them when they came back, they might kill them in anger. In a slight chance they did not manage to escape, they might as well be dead.
Both sides argued endlessly for a while, neither side could persuade the other.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
While they were arguing, someone knocked on the bus door, startling the people in the bus.
“Please I beg you! Please open the door?”
A handsome young man with black hair and black eyes knocked on the door, he was about to cry from anxiety.
“I will give you money, please I beg of you, open the door, I’m going to die wuwu…”
The handsome young man, also known as Yao Ye, had a wound on his pale face. He was shouting anxiously with tears streaming from his eyes.
He doesn’t really know why it turned out like this…
The streets were filled with people fleeing… many people with similar eyes to Ming An were smiling at him…
So scary…
Has he gone crazy? So that’s why he’s having these hallucinations?
Yao Ye was in a daze, he collapsed and burst into tears.
Maybe because Yao Ye seemed to be crying with real emotions, it moved the hearts of some young tourists on the bus and they persuaded the driver to open the door.
In fact, the driver was sceptical about what had just happened, he didn’t quite believe the soldier’s unimaginable explanations. He still had some sympathy for Yao Ye, who was frightened to tears, and opened the bus door.
“Thank you! Thank you everyone!”
Yao Ye was overjoyed as he hurriedly boarded the bus, there were some tear streaks on his face.
“Ah young man, you were also frightened by those corpses outside…” The driver looked at Yao Ye, who was trembling in fear, and felt a sense of pity.
Yao Ye was taken aback and said, “Corpses? There isn’t any ah.”
He just left Yu Xi’s car and ran away as fast as he could. He had almost lost his way.
Afterwards, he met many people with translucent-coloured eyes and he fled in terror. He saw people running around like headless flies, he had no idea about the corpses situation.
Hearing this, both the driver and tourists looked surprised.
How could there be no corpses? Those guys with guns were killing people on the streets just now. It stands to reason that there should be corpses lying on the main roads in the city centre.
Translator’s note:
Hi everyone, sorry for disappearing for almost 3 months. The next chapter will be out by next Sunday 2359H (GMT+2) Also thank you to AgentOrangeWrites for the Ko-fi donation 😀
Yesss it’s finally back!! Thank you for the update! 💖
I missed this story so much, thank you for translating it! Things are getting more and more terrifying
i’m glad that you’re back, thanks!
Does it already been dropped?