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At the same time, Mo Tiangen and the office worker walked down the stairs to the food area on the lower floor.
The office worker didn’t dare to take a mountaineering bag from upstairs like Mo Tiangen, so he had to take the non-woven shopping bag provided by the supermarket.
“That’s right.”
Before entering the shelf area, Mo Tiangen especially reminded the office worker, “There is a small lizard with a long tail in this place. It is said to be highly toxic. If you are bitten, you will be poisoned and die. You should be careful.”
When the office worker heard this, his face turned blue, his knees began to tremble, and his bladder involuntarily constricted, almost as if he was afraid to urinate if he didn’t actively hold it back.
“Don’t worry.”
Mo Tiangen comforted him very attentively, “Those lizards are very scary, but they only dare to hide in the dark. Just pay more attention.”
Unfortunately, the office worker was quite obviously not comforted by his words.
He hesitated for a long time in front of the partition door in the food area. Finally, he thought of brother Jie’s fierce face to try and lift his courage before walking in.
Mo Tiangen asked various questions to the office worker to gather the information that the strong man in blue had shared with these people.
Brother Jie told them that they had already died, whether it was because of disease, accident, or any other damn reason. Anyway, in the real world, their physical bodies, their consciousness, had long died.
But a certain person, or a certain organization, to be more precise, had a certain kind of power—as to what exactly it was, the office worker didn’t ask Brother Jie—gave these “dead people” a second chance.
They were reborn in a new world.
But, the rules of this world were different from the world they were familiar with. They must try their best to survive in this world full of murderous intent.
“Oh?”
Hearing this, Mo Tiangen raised his eyebrows. “Then, wouldn’t we have to live in this damned dead city all the time?”
He shook his head. “If I have to live so cowardly, it’s better to die!”
“Well, I’m not sure.”
The office worker hesitated, “But Brother Jie said he was very experienced…”
He looked up at Mo Tiangen.
Although the muscular man was powerful, his eyes were bright, and his eyebrows were relaxed. He didn’t look like a bad man. He was much more reliable than Brother Jie, who was vicious and didn’t even bother to tell them his real name.
This office worker used to be an insurance salesman. Although he was very cowardly, he still developed some insight when dealing with different customers every day.
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The office worker frowned and nodded.
“To tell you the truth, I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in the so-called ‘rebirth,’ much less this ‘new world.'”
While talking to Mo Tiangen, he carefully picked up a bag of bread with his fingertips and shook it twice. After making sure no little lizard was lying on it, he put it in his pocket.
“But the man seems to have brought a real gun.”
The office worker raised his hand in a shooting posture.
“And he’s different from us. He’s too strong. I think he kicked a door open with one effortless kick. He is very powerful!”
Mo Tiangen nodded silently.
He asserted that what Ren Jianmo had told them about the strong man in blue bringing a gun was true. That beauty was amazing. Could it be that he has a perspective eye to see things that other people couldn’t?
“Besides, Brother Jie does look confident.”
The office worker added, “So we all assumed he may know how to get out of here.”
Hearing this, Mr. Mo understood everything.
Brother Jie didn’t take this office worker or his other followers as companions at all.
He had revealed some information to these people that they didn’t know, but most of them had lies mixed in with the truth, in a way that made it impossible to distinguish falsehoods. Moreover, he was hanging the prospect of leaving this place over these people’s heads like a carrot tied to a stick—treating them as mules while tricking them to serve as his attendants.
……
Mo Tiangen touched his chin.
So, Brother Jie was a dangerous man.
Not only was he dangerous, but he also hid too many secrets, and there was no doubt that he had little goodwill towards others.
…But what if bBother Jie did truly know how to get out of here?
As Mo Tiangen stuffed food and water into his bag, he was already thinking about whether to fight with words or martial arts to extort any truths known about this place.
There were plenty of things at Walmart. Mo Tiangen and the office worker soon filled their mountaineering bags and shopping bags.
The process of loading things went more smoothly than they expected.
They hadn’t even encountered any little lizards that were said to kill people with their poison, greatly relieving the already timid office worker.
“Almost done. Let’s go back.”
Brother Dagen raised his hand and pointed with his head, indicating that they should go back to the hall and reunite with everyone else.
The office worker nodded in agreement.
They turned around and walked past the shelves one by one to exit.
However, something suddenly happened at that moment.
The office worker walking behind Mo Tiangen began screaming hysterically.
Teacher Dagen trembled with fear and turned his head suddenly. He saw that the office worker had knelt on the ground, the shopping bag had fallen, and the contents were scattered everywhere. He was covering his neck with one hand and painfully scratching the ground with the other hand.
“Uh ah ah ah ah!”
The office worker screamed miserably, looked up painfully, and looked at Mo Tiangen with despair in his eyes.
He tried to plead but could only get screams out. His eyes protruded, his mouth gaped open, his lips turned sheens of blue and purple, and loud noises were forced out of his throat, further proving he was in extreme pain.
“What’s going on?”
Mo Tiangen jumped up to the office worker and stretched out his hand to pull the hand covering the office worker’s neck away.
At that time, he saw the flash of a crimson shadow on the collar of the office worker’s shirt as it slid down the collar of his suit, and into the cracks of the nearby shelves as quick as lightning.
“Fuck!”
Mo Tiangen immediately understood what had happened.
They had merely been keeping an eye out for lizards as they were taking stuff, but they hadn’t anticipated that the thing would launch an airborne attack and drop from the ceiling into a person’s collar!
“Don’t panic!”
Mo Tiangen tried his best to comfort him, “Take a deep breath, take a deep breath, let me see your wound!”
With that, he grabbed the office worker’s arm and pulled the palm covering the wound away.
“Hiss-”
Mo Tiangen took a breath.
He was a high school biology teacher, and even though he couldn’t beat《Bo ○ Magazine》’s online celebrity editor, who was able to identify the biological organisms on the spot, he still had a wide range of knowledge about plants and animals.
But, he had never seen such a strange lizard with a crimson body, metallic skin, and a head like a hexagonal arowana before, and he’d never thought that a bite wound could be so strange.
The skin and muscles on the neck of the office worker were dissolving.
Yes, it was dissolving!
On his neck, there was already a thumbnail-sized hole resembling a volcanic crater: it had a raised outer ring and a deeply sunken core. The flesh and blood at the pit’s core melted, boiled, and rolled like lava, continually dissolving and expanding the crater into the surrounding deep tissues.
In the short two seconds Mo Tiangen paused in stunned silence, the wound that had only been the size of a thumbnail, had doubled.
The office worker was in excruciating discomfort. He began foaming at the mouth, and his eyes rolled to the back of his head as he collapsed to the ground and almost passed out.
“Fuck! What the fuck! Fuck!!”
Mo Tiangen grabbed his hair impatiently and was going crazy.
He had no idea what he should do.
This office worker’s injury had completely exceeded the scope of common sense. Even if an old qualified emergency doctor was standing in front of him, he wouldn’t be able to do anything either. Not to mention the pathophysiological common sense of Mo Tiangen, which was limited to the ordinary frogs, pigeons, and white rabbits.
“Yes, yes!”
In his panic, Mo Tiangen thought that he should wash the wound first anyway, so he quickly picked up a bottle of water from the scattered things and poured it on his wound.
The water rushed over the wound with a “squeak” and black smoke rose, emitting a burned odor.
The office worker reacted as if he was being scalded by some strong acid, his eyes rolled into his head, his body twitched twice, and then there was no sound at all.
Mo Tiangen examined his wound once again and discovered that the half-bottle of water he had just poured down had not improved the condition, but had, rather, made it worse.
Now the hole was half the size of a palm, almost covering half of the office worker’s neck. The internal skin, muscles, and soft tissue had melted, revealing his white neck bone.
——It’s over.
Mo Tiangen’s heart sank.
He knew that even if the great Da Luo Jinxian appeared, the man’s injury could not be cured.
However, the strange and frightening wound on the worker’s neck did not stop with his death.
In the next few minutes, Mo Tiangen began to feel as if he were in a real horror film.
Soon, the flesh and blood on the office worker’s entire neck completely melted, leaving only a complete cervical spine in the middle.
The original crater-like wound naturally could not be maintained. The lava-colored liquid tissue was divided into upper and lower parts. The upper part spread to the head of the deceased, and the lower part began to erode his shoulder, chest, and back.
Mo Tiangen remembered the scene when they cooked fish skeleton specimens in college; he remembered when they “cooked” the fish with acid, slowly burning away the muscles, leaving only a bare fish bone.
This was quite similar—only, the object being treated today, was a large living human who could speak and laugh just moments ago, and this scene wasn’t even happening in a lab smelling of strong acid and alkali. It was horrifying. Anywhere the strange little lizard bit, would gradually melt, until only a bare skeleton remained.
Proofreader’s Note~
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thank you for the chapter!
Hard to tell whether this lizard is worse of the golden bug O.O
Thank you for the chapter ❤️❤️❤️
…yea that doesn’t seem comfortable
Thank you for the chapter!♥️
… This is why I DETEST lizards, geckos, comodo dragons etc…