Chapter 14
Palm-sized moths swarmed through the hole in the window. The originally solid window bulged and then shattered under the pressure.
With a roar, the mutant creatures filled the entire carriage.
They were unerring in their goal — the suitcase in Cheng Yan’s hand.
Inside was an evolutionary species, one that had just emerged from its egg. Curled up in the suitcase, it was exuding a deadly aroma.
Humans couldn’t smell it but it couldn’t escape from the nasal cavities of these mutant moths.
Cheng Yan shot at the moths but the moths weren’t the least bit deterred. Rather, they became even more frenzied. They pounced on Cheng Yan, opening their fanged mouths!
Cheng Yan was an Evolutionary on the Second Step. Doing away with ordinary mutant creatures was a piece of cake for him. But he couldn’t stand against the moths’ overwhelming numbers.
Deep and shallow bite marks soon appeared on his body and blood begun to flow.
Si Chen yelled at the already frightened bus driver. “Open the door!”
Cheng Yan wasn’t the only target of these moths. They were going for all the humans in the bus.
There were doors at the front and back of the bus. With the doors open, ordinary people would still have a chance to escape.
Various studies have found that mutant creatures can undergo significant evolution after consuming human flesh and blood.
These people in the bus were basically walking experience points. They might as well take their chances outside then they would at least have a glimmer of hope.
Hearing this, the driver struggled and pressed the switch.
The attendant’s knife immediately pierced his throat, twisting it.
The bus went out of control and crashed into a jagged boulder by the side of the road. The fuel tank was breached due to the collision and the energy fuel poured out like it was being pumped out.
The shrill screams of the moths became the only sound in this wilderness.
There were more mutant moths outside and the people who escaped the bus couldn’t escape from their attacks.
They pounced on the passengers, like locusts crossing the border, devouring people in an instant and leaving only bones.
After sucking human blood, the bright red patterns on these wings became even more dazzling.
Si Chen was also surrounded by the moths.
But he was faring much better than Cheng Yan.
The Eternal Life Abyss had crawled out from his eye socket.
The moths roared loudly but the Eternal Life Abyss roared even louder. “Awooo! Aaaarrr!”
This little strip’s entire body trembled as it roared.
Unexpectedly, the moths were actually frightened and they circled around Si Chen, not daring to go forward.
Seeing that the bus had stopped, Cheng Yan grabbed the suitcase and wanted to get off.
There were wounds on his body from being bitten by numerous moths. The smell of blood drove the mutant creatures even crazier. The flesh and blood on his body was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Only the arm on his back was still intact. Colored black and purple, it looked terrifying and hideous.
But at this moment, Si Chen pounced on him.
The fierce light in Cheng Yan’s eyes flashed. “You’re looking for death!”
The black-purple arm behind him clenched into a fist and struck towards Si Chen’s face.
But what he was facing at this time wasn’t Si Chen, but the Eternal Life Abyss for whom fighting was an instinct.
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His body turned out to be unexpectedly heavy.
Caught off guard, Cheng Yan was pressed to the ground.
The sharp piece of glass that Si Chen had been hiding in his hand stabbed fiercely into Cheng Yan’s eyes!
This was the weapon he’d secretly picked up when he smashed the glass window earlier.
One! Two!
Ahhhhh—!
The sharp pain made Cheng Yan howl in pain,
Warm blood splashed onto Si Chen’s hand but his hand remained steady, as steady as when he cut materials in the lab.
Si Chen’s remaining intact eye admired his pain with a calm and indifferent expression.
The moths, stimulated by the smell of fresh blood, flew towards Cheng Yan’s face. Not only did they prey on people but they were also poisonous.
The arm on Cheng Yan’s back frantically waved in the air. Numerous moths were crushed.
Si Chen got up, picked up the gun that fell on the ground and quickly grabbed Cheng Yan’s suitcase. He then jumped out of the shattered window.
He rolled down the side of the road and without any hesitation, fired a shot at the fuel tank of the passenger bus.
A loud bang rang out in the wilderness. The bus exploded and the wave of heat coming from behind made Si Chen stagger forward several steps.
He turned his head. His eyes reflected the roaring fire.
Save for Si Chen, the entire bus was wiped out.
There was a sea of flames in front of Si Chen. Standing more than ten meters away, he could feel the heat blowing towards his face.
This neo energy fuel is very flammable. It can even burn on metal. The passenger bus was burned to red-hot iron. From time to time, there came explosions.
Si Chen came back to his senses and he turned his attention to the suitcase he’d snatched from Cheng Yan.
The Eternal Life Abyss started acting spoiled with him. “Mom, hungry.”
Si Chen whispered. “Don’t rush, mommy’s opening it now.”
As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he felt that something about that was wrong. Fortunately, out here in the wilderness, only the Eternal Life Abyss heard it.
The Eternal Life Abyss was very happy, calling out “Mom! Mom!” several times.
Si Chen opened the suitcase. Inside was a dark box, like a shoebox, wrapped in layers of plastic protective film. On the box was the trademark “Serpent Staff Group”.
Si Chen had seen this kind of protective box before. In the laboratory, precious raw materials were given the same treatment. It was used to keep the materials fresh and to prevent energy leakage.
He opened the box and inside lay a half-broken butterfly.
This butterfly had a pair of beautiful dark blue wings, which were sticking wetly to its back. It had only managed to shed half its chrysalis. If it weren’t for the slight trembling of its feelers it would look dead.
The butterfly hadn’t yet fully metamorphosed. It was like a human fetus that had yet to fully develop.
Si Chen hesitated for a moment. He then broke off a branch and skewered the butterfly onto it. He then roasted it over the raging fire.
High-end ingredients often needed only the simplest cooking methods.
Fatty oil dripped from the surface of the chrysalis. It needed no seasoning. It was already tempting as is.
From the burning bus, the remaining moths, smelling this aroma, struggled to fly over but there was nothing they could do.
This was a blood-sucking butterfly from the Fifth Dimension. Like those mutant moths, the Eternal Life Abyss can also rely on the flesh and blood of High Dimensional creatures to build buffs for itself. After being eaten by the Eternal Life Abyss, the host can obtain some characteristics of this High Dimensional creature.
The freshly cooked meat was tender; its fat a succulent white. In his mouth, the meaty juices exploded, flooding in with savory sweetness.
Si Chen seldom felt elated because of food but at this moment he felt like the pores on his body opened and his soul rose to a higher level. A blush of happiness even appeared on his pale face.
The Eternal Life Abyss was finally satiated. It even let out a happy blech.
Si Chen threw the box back into the flames, destroying the last evidence.
He now felt a little sleepy.
The Eternal Life Abyss needed a short period of dormancy to digest the food in its stomach. Si Chen was the same.
When one is full, it’s only natural to feel sleepy.
This road was the only national highway anywhere in the vicinity. Si Chen was going to wait for a car to pass by tomorrow.
He leaned against the tree and couldn’t hold back his drowsiness. He curled up and fell into a light sleep.
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Amidst the sea of flames, a shadowy lump crawled furtively on the ground.
It was a walking arm. After losing its supply of humans, this arm became visibly thinner.
It appeared more like the arm of a werewolf or some other humanoid monster than that of a human. Fingers that were too long took on the form of eagle claws. It was entirely black.
It was the High Dimensional creature living in Cheng Yan’s body. It had come from a certain supernatural civilization. People here respectfully called it a “Ghost Hand”.
As a High Dimensional creature, it too had some special abilities.
For example, it can cause mental contamination to human beings and those it touched would go stiff and rigid… But for some reason, his ability had no effect on Si Chen.
In supernatural civilizations, the abilities of low-level spirits have no effect on high-level spirits.
The Ghost Hand was now a little panicked, suspecting that he had come across a spirit today.
Fortunately, the world was huge. It had successfully escaped from the Fifth Dimension to the Fourth Dimension universe by means of parasitism. For it, ordinary people here were no different from vegetables in a supermarket; all of them could be eaten.
So long as it stayed away from Si Chen, this unusual being, it had a bright future ahead of it.
The Ghost Hand decided to head to the city to find a new host.
Its five fingers scampered across the ground very quickly. The Ghost Hand had no eyes so it could only gauge direction through vibrations.
It chose the direction it felt was the most peaceful.
Crawling and crawling, the Ghost Hand felt itself bump into something soft.
It couldn’t help pinching it. It felt like a leg.
Then, the Ghost Hand realized that he was being picked up; it was hanging in the air.
Ghost Hand: “…”
It had pinched Si Chen awake.
Si Chen warily picked it up from the ground.
The place on his leg that it touched was a little cold, as if it was having a bout of rheumatism.
Although it looked a bit different, Si Chen concluded that this was the arm from Cheng Yan’s back.
The Ghost Hand struggled desperately in his grasp, its five fingers twisting into strange postures.
The sky had lightened slightly. If they hadn’t met with this mishap, the bus should have already reached the border of Jiangchuan District, immediately entering the Safe Zone.
Just as Si Chen was thinking about what to do with this thing, he heard the roar of a motorcycle not far away.
Though called a motorcycle, it doesn’t actually have wheels. The gas pipes installed under the vehicle spewed out blue-red flames.
These were the officers sent by the Security Bureau.
The station detected a problem with the positioning of the passenger bus and notified the Safety Management Bureau.
Si Chen quickly ran through the sequence of events and thought up a story to deceive them.
He had many scripts for post-disaster stress performances.
He was but an unlucky minor who went to the Disaster Zone to visit the cemetery. While there, he accidentally encountered a Space Fold but luckily survived. However, on his way home, he encountered terrorists.
A total of four people arrived.
Their uniforms were pure black. They wore helmets and the powered suits they had on them reflected the cold light of metal. Some had swords strapped around their waits, while others had guns. All of them had narrow waists and long legs; all very visually attractive.
The person at the very front took off his helmet and looked at the only survivor. “According to the facial recognition system and the available background information, your name is Si Chen, a passenger of GT193. A citizen of Jiangchuan District. You’ve just became an Evolutionary.”
He looked Si Chen up and down. A very young face, probably in his early twenties. It could be seen that he was barely maintaining his composure and was now hyper-vigilant. He had signs of traumatic stress response.
“Your internal organs are severely damaged and you have second-degree burns on your back.”
“Hm? What have you got there? A Ghost Hand?”
On the system’s most wanted list, there is a Second Step Evolutionary who is parasitized by a Ghost Hand.
The remaining three officers have already begun to investigate the scene.
A large number of mutant creature remains were found.
The bus was severely deformed. It must have exploded after hitting an obstacle.
“Captain Jiang, empty bullet casings were found at the scene.”
Jiang Yichen stepped off the vehicle.
He took the black gloves off his hands and squatted down in front of Si Chen. He spread his hands and asked, “Can you still stand up?”
He saw that the beautiful young man in front of him suddenly tremble, as if he had just woken up from his own world.
The young man’s knees went weak and as though unable to support his body, he slowly fell forward.
Before Jiang Yichen had time to think, he had already moved to catch Si Chen.
In the next second, he heard a small, extremely suppressed cry. The person in his arms was warm and trembling, like some frightened animal.
“They’re all… they’re all dead.” Si Chen cried breathlessly, “He has a gun. So many people, right in front of my eyes, all gone…”
He cried so wounded-ly that he could hardly stand up straight.
Jiang Yichen raised his arms a little stiffly and patted Si Chen on the back. He comforted him softly, “It’s okay, it’s okay. We’re from to the Safety Management Bureau. Don’t be afraid.”
Pfft hahaha, good acting, Si Chen!
Ah, this chapter made me remember that he isn’t a kind person. But considering the situation, kindness would’ve been the death of him.
Leave no witnesses, okay~
Thank you for the chapter!
Yh but I’m also glad he tried to help then escape before taking extreme measures
And Oscar goes to
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such an actor 😂😂
…wow. Suddenly he’s a helpless kitten. Premium performance! Oscar indeed! Thanks for the chappie 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
Little manipulator plays victim 😼
he’s scary cold holy shit he just killed a bus full of innocent passengers and didn’t even blink
Well he did try to let them escape first but his own survival comes first y’know
acting 10/10! he needs a reward! hahaha