Translator-Rhapsodite
Editor-PerpetualMreow, Proofreader-adjective
The city’s electricity had been cut off, but the water tower of the Express Hotel still provided water, allowing the restroom to remain in use.
However, the space was so old that neither the air conditioner nor the exhaust fan worked. They sealed the opening at the entrance to prevent lizards from getting in. The entire space was sealed so no fresh air could circulate. Ji Dong feared that if this continued, they would suffocate in the room from a shortage of oxygen before daybreak.
There was no other option, so they could only open a crack in the glass window.
Fortunately, the inner layer had a mosquito-proof screen. They assumed that the little hexagonal lizards were not powerful enough to tear through the stainless steel net.
They didn’t dare to openly ignite fire either, but it was terrifying to be trapped in the room in the dark. To guarantee safety, Ji Dong and Mo Tiangen spoke and agreed that they would take turns watching the night and rotate every four hours till morning.
So they first dealt with the minor bruises left over from the battle with Brother Jie, ate something carelessly, and then bathed roughly, to get some rest as soon as possible.
Mo Tiangen volunteered to guard the first half of the night.
Ji Dong was tired enough today. He laid down on the spot and fell asleep as soon as his eyes closed.
When people were very tired, they didn’t even have the strength to dream.
He didn’t know how long he had slept. When he woke up from his sleep, he heard the sound of loud snoring and intermittent coughing.
Ji Dong suddenly woke up, quickly turned over, sat up, opened his eyes, and looked around.
Mr. Dagen, who had stated that he would maintain vigil, was reclining against the foot of the wall, his head lolling and sleeping with his mouth wide. His snoring was deafening, and he’d completely lost his manners.
Ren Jianmo, who had been lying next to him before he went to bed, woke up at some point, coughing quietly by the seam of the window.
He could tell that Ren Jianmo was deliberately suppressing the cough. His body curled into itself and his head hung low as he tried not to let his cough wake up the people in the room.
Ji Dong felt a trace of heartache in his heart, and his eyes became more gentle when he looked at Ren Jianmo.
He remembered Xiao’an, a member of the team who was rescued by him when the maglev train had an accident.
The child was the youngest on the team. He was naive and lively, but he was very clever and sensible.
Once they went on a trip for a competition and lived in the same room. Xiao’an just caught a cold and lay down flat and coughed. In order to not disturb the rest of his team, he had gone to sleep in the bathtub with some bedding. If Ji Dong hadn’t gotten up in the middle of the night to urinate, he wouldn’t have been discovered, and the melon child would have stayed in the bathroom all night.
Recalling that memory, Ji Dong felt a little wetness gather in the corners of his eyes.
He sincerely hoped that Xiao’an could get out of danger smoothly at that time and that he was still living safely in their normal world.
“Hey.”
Ji Dong stood up, moved closer to Ren Jianmo’s side, and patted his back gently.
“How do you feel?”
Ren Jian coughed silently for a while, then turned his head and smiled at him, “It’s alright.”
He answered softly.
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The room was devoid of both light and fire. The entire lighting scheme was based on the sky’s blazing, blood-red sunset. Ren Jianmo’s facial features were hardly perceptible to Ji Dong.
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Ji Dong obediently sat down next to him, but he didn’t dare to look up at Ren Jianmo’s face.
“By the way, why are you up?”
He felt a little embarrassed by the awkward silence, hence, he didn’t have anything to talk about. After asking, he found his question very silly, because the other party obviously woke up from coughing and Ji Dong quickly tried to change the question.
“No… I mean, your body doesn’t seem to be very good all the time?”
“Probably.”
Ren Jianmo replied lightly, “I can’t remember.”
Ji Dong: “…”
It seemed that his second question was no better than the first.
He didn’t know what to say for a moment. Ji Dong could only take out his mobile phone from his pocket and look at the time.
They didn’t know whether the change in day and night in the city was consistent with their original world, so they decided to assume that the flow speed of time was the same, and set the time when they entered the room at 8 p.m.
Now the time displayed on Ji Dong’s mobile phone was 2:17 a.m., which meant they had been here, safely, for more than six hours.
——I hope it will continue to go smoothly.
Ji Dong didn’t say this sentence out loud.
He knew his luck was never good, it was as if there was some kind of unseen metaphysics. In some things… It was almost like a prophecy when the good things never came true, but the bad things always did.
He was afraid that this time he would add a DEBUFF to himself at a critical moment. Naturally, he didn’t dare to say anything more.
At this time, Ji Dong noticed that his mobile phone’s power had run out.
Although he couldn’t make phone calls or surf the Internet in this damn place, the mobile phone was still very useful as a timing tool and lighting tool.
Thankfully, he had foreseen this and put money in a battery station in the parking lot to buy a power bank before leaving Walmart. It just happened to come in handy right now.
Ji Dong took out the card charging treasure from the pocket of his hoodie, inserted the slot into the mobile phone and pressed the charging button.
The screen of the power bank immediately lit up, but his mobile phone didn’t show any signs that it was charging.
——Is this thing broken?
Like all mechanical idiots, Ji Dong could only think of the explanation of “poor connection” in such a situation, so he pulled out the slot and planned to plug it in again.
At that moment, he felt a needle-like prick on the skin of his palm.
“Ouch!”
Ji Dong let out a low cry. His first thoughts were that the power bank was leaking electricity, so he quickly shook his hand and threw it out.
The power bank fell to the ground with a “click” sound, and the display screen instantly darkened and split in two.
Mr. Dagen’s snoring stopped for two seconds.
Then he twisted his neck, changed to a more comfortable position, smacked his lips together, and started snoring again.
“Well, it seems that it can’t be charged.”
Ji Dong shrugged, picked up the broken power bank, and threw it aside.
At this time, Ren Jianmo reached out and pushed him.
“Look at your watch.”
He said.
Ji Dong immediately followed suit.
Then he was surprised to find that the flashing small arrow on the LCD screen had moved to three-quarters of the right side of the screen, and its color had turned yellow.
Ji Dong quickly grabbed Ren Jianmo’s watch hand and found that the small arrow on Ren Jianmo’s watch also turned yellow.
“What does that mean?”
He raised his wrist and asked Ren Jianmo.
Ren Jianmo shook his head. “I don’t know.”
——Well, even in actual games, you can’t always ask an NPC for tips.
Ji Dong shrugged his shoulders and said he was not disappointed.
“But…”
Ren Jianmo suddenly spoke again. His tone was still neutral, but his words were inexplicably frightening.
“Yellow, could it mean warning?”
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At the same time, at the Walmart supermarket.
The strong man in blue and his four attendants were still in the lobby.
Since Brother Jie showed his gun in public and tried to kill Ji Dong and others, he no longer hid his violent nature and openly became a high-pressure tyrant in front of the other four people.
When he returned to the lobby, he first picked up the only man in the room and beat him up for no reason, except to vent his frustrations. After instilling absolute fear in the people, so they would not disobey him, he dragged the most beautiful of the three girls into his arms and molested her wantonly. If he hadn’t been thinking about those unknown dangers in his heart, he would have done something worse than beasts.
After establishing his dominance, Brother Jie commanded the four of them to execute his instructions without question, and then gathered the crowd in the lobby, sitting in a circle, and no one could sleep tonight.
They discovered a bunch of flashlights and surrounded themselves with them. To reduce the aperture and use them as illumination, they only opened one at a time.
Several people stayed up until midnight.
Even though they were terrified, they couldn’t stand the oppression of fatigue any longer, and it didn’t take long for them to fall asleep.
The strong man in blue became enraged numerous times, but he couldn’t keep himself awake all night either. He didn’t know when he’d fallen asleep.
They slept until early in the morning.
The crimson light burning into Brother Jie’s eyeballs through his eyelids jolted him awake.
He opened up his eyes, afraid the supermarket was on fire.
However, he quickly realized that Walmart was not burning, but that there were many small fireballs around them.
“Don’t fucking sleep! Don’t sleep anymore! Get up! Get up!”
Brother Jie jumped up, shouting, while violently kicking the others awake.
There were more than a dozen fist-sized fireballs strewn across the floor no more than two or three meters away.
The flames of these fireballs were crimson, much brighter than ordinary candlelight, and they were obviously living creatures because they were slowly trying to close in around the five people.
“Ah ah ah ah!”
One of the girls was so frightened, she turned pale and instinctively let out a scream.
Then she immediately got a slap across her face from the strong man in blue.
“Bitch, what’s your name?”
While scolding, Brother Jie picked up a long iron pipe and took a few steps to swing at the fireballs.
He swept three fireballs away in one swing.
The other fireballs seemed to feel the threat and fell out of formation.
“Fuck me!”
Brother Jie shouted, “These damn fireballs again!”
At this time, he realized the fireballs’ original form was a lizard.
Only, now, they all changed from the original crimson to black; they were like pieces of charcoal that lit up as their bodies burst into flames.
“Over there… Look!”
Another girl suddenly stretched out her hand and tremblingly pointed at the glass dome above their heads.
“There are many… many lizards on it!”
proofreader’s note~
even in danger Ji Dong is thinking about Xiao’an, what a good boi *patpat*
Thank you for the chapter!
Thank you for the chapter 💛
Tch, at the end of the day it seems that this Xiao An is his ex 🤣🤣