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Ji Dong’s power took an hour and twenty minutes to completely charge.
The sun had already been set for quite some time at this point, and the entire Sunset Town was shrouded in darkness. All the buildings blended perfectly with the lush mountains and trees that surrounded them. Only the little and dilapidated clinic, where they resided, a few rooms were illuminated.
Teacher Dagen also took advantage of Ji Xiao’niao’s charging time; he was disoriented for a while before waking up, but was now feeling well-rested and full of energy.
In the [Film] where everything was unpredictable, Ji Dong had been in a nervous state and didn’t dare to relax completely.
After nightfall, for the sake of safety, he stayed with Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen, and the three even kept themselves back-to-back while sitting and eating.
“What if I want to go to the bathroom?”
At dinner, Mr. Mo Tiangen asked a very serious question while eating bread with a sports drink, “We can’t go to the bathroom all night?”
As everyone was aware of, most thrillers, suspense, and supernatural horror films had a classic scenario in which a character was killed while alone–usually because the character in the film was unable to hold back their physiological needs and was attacked and killed while relieving themself.
Mr. Dagen was like a senior commentator who liked to watch movies in his spare time. He naturally understood these routines very well.
“What else can I do?”
Ji Dong pointed his chin towards the empty drink bottle in his hand. “At this time, you should be glad that you are a man, and it’s much easier to solve.”
Mo Tiangen eyed the bottle. His face was twisted up.
Mr. Dagen, as a teacher, always believed he was a decent person. Even though there were no female companions in the room, the prospect of having to resolve his problems in such an uncivilized manner, made him very uncomfortable.
What’s worse, the duration of a night in the [Film] was likely to be the same as one in the real world, and he couldn’t think of a better solution to this dilemma.
“Oh, forget it, we have to make do with it.”
Teacher Dagen shook the drink bottle with disgust, “But I’m afraid I’ll get stuck with this thing!”
“Although self-confidence is a good thing,” Ji Dong wiggled his eyebrow and smiled, “Overconfidence is called self-absorbed.”
“What!”
Mo Tiangen’s male dignity was challenged. He rushed to pull at Ji Dong’s pants. “Come on, words prove nothing, seeing is believing. Let’s see who is bragging? We’ll know by comparing!”
The two scuffled together.
After making a fuss for a while, after dinner, they gathered in a corner of the room against the wall and took turns to rest.
Late at night, Ji Dong suddenly heard several screams outside, followed by a series of overlapping dense gunshots.
He was so surprised that he bounced up from Ren Jianmo’s shoulder.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“Get up!”
Flaming Rose said from the corridor, and then the door panel was broken down, “Something broke in!!”
Ji Dong, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen immediately took their personal equipment and opened the door, “What’s the matter?”
“It’s a humanoid monster!”
With a gun in her hand, the red-haired beauty looked grim and concise, “Two people were injured, and some others were taken away by it!”
Ji Dong glanced at the corridor and saw Fatty Huang, Xiong Da, Xiong Er, and Linglong behind Rose. All of the participants from her team were present. So Ji Dong knew that the person taken away by the monster should be one of those from the special forces.
Then the gunfire outside the clinic stopped.
Rose took a look out of the window and tsk-ed with her tongue, “We have to get away from here!”
Ji Dong didn’t see the monster with his own eyes, so he asked, “What does that ‘thing’ look like?”
“The soldiers were attacked while patrolling. They were in the corridor on the first floor when it suddenly lunged out from the darkness, injured two, and dragged the third away.”
The redhead scowled and described what had just transpired: “It moves really quickly. It had dragged the person too far for me to do anything when I arrived. Since the place was also pitch black, I could only see that it was a monster resembling a human. I couldn’t make out any of the specifics.”
She paused and added, “Its limbs did look very deformed though, and its body was particularly slender–too thin. It kind of looked like…”
Rose thought about how to describe it, “It was like a skeleton.”
“Okay.”
Ji Dong nodded and asked a very key question, “Did those soldiers shoot at it? Did it work?”
“I don’t know.” The redhead replied, “They did shoot and should have hit it… But, it still managed to run away.”
The implication was that either they missed the shots, or the gun was ineffective against the monster.
At this time, several special forces helped their injured companions up the second floor.
The two special forces soldiers were seriously injured.
One soldier’s shoulder appeared to have been forcefully crushed by iron pliers, the shoulder joints were fractured, and the blood had completely stained the camouflage suit to be completely black. Something gouged out another soldier’s thigh. The wound appeared to be very deep and was gushing blood.
“Shit!”
Rose whispered a curse, grabbed her red hair and pulled at it in frustration, saying irritably, “Take them into the room, Linglong…”
She turned her head and said to the quiet girl. “I will leave it to…” Halfway through the conversation, she suddenly stopped talking
“Be careful!”
Rose’s face changed, raised her gun, and made a defensive posture.
However, it was too late.
The glass window in the corridor broke, making a cracking sound. The next second, a person–or, more precisely, a humanoid monster–leaped in from the shattered window upside down, and ran directly to the nearest target.
“Ah ah ah ah!”
Standing by the window was Xiong Er, he let out a piercing painful scream, as his arm was bitten by the monster.
At this point, Ji Dong could clearly see that the human monster described by Rose a few seconds before was really human-like as she had said, and that it had a head, torso, and limbs–yet it was more like a skeleton than a person.
Yes, it had no flesh or blood, only some gray-black torn cotton wool filaments hanging on a pair of gray bones.
But, if it were some type of undead monster in an European-style game, it was possible such a skeletal creature could walk and move, but it was not the same—no regular person could develop such deformed bones!
The monster’s cervical vertebrae was extremely thick and about the same diameter as the monster’s skull, giving the impression that it was an iron bucket covered in soil above its shoulder. Furthermore, its pelvis was enlarged, particularly the elevated iliac crest, which was more than double the size of a normal person. When it moved, it resembled a large moth with spread wings laying on the back waist.
But the strangest thing about this thing was its skull cavity.
The top of its skull bulged as high as a patient with hydrocephalus and then split into several flaps along the bone seam. Each piece was staggered by long and thin bone spines resembling canine teeth.
Ji Dong could clearly see an entire, full, human brain wrapped inside the gaping bone seams!
The people were very frightened by the monster’s appearance and sudden intrusion. Between shock and panic, someone raised his gun and wanted to shoot it.
“Don’t shoot!” Xiong Da cried out, “Don’t hurt my brother!”
However, it was too late. A gun fired and the bullet hit the skeleton.
But, even when the bullet obviously hit its mark, it didn’t do much damage and only served to anger it.
The monster grabbed Xiong Er’s body with its bony claws, suddenly raised its head, and twisted his thick neck.
“Ah ah ah ah!”
Xiong Er let out a scream like a dying animal, struggling frantically.
Everyone watched as the monster bit his arm and twisted it outward like a branch, the skin, muscles, and bones made “crack crack” breaking sounds, and then was brutally pulled off at the shoulder joint!
“Ah ah ah ah!”
Xiong Er was covered in his blood and fell to the ground. His face was paler than paper. He was about to go into shock from excessive pain.
But his fall provided room for others to shoot.
The well-trained soldiers immediately picked up their guns and fired at the monster.
The narrow corridor was suddenly full of gunfire sounds and bullets flying around.
However, to make matters worse, another window in the distance was also broken, and a second and third humanoid monster jumped into the corridor and joined the scuffle.
Immediately, there were screams, and soon a soldier was thrown to the ground by the monster, his neck was broken.
“Shit!”
Fatty Huang was sweating profusely, hissing loudly, “The gun doesn’t work!”
Just as he was talking, another ‘skeleton’ rushed towards Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo in the corner.
Compared with the first one, this one looked even more strange.
It did not have an unusually large cervical spine, but it did have large and small cauliflower-like tumors at its elbow and knee joints, which made its joints unable to bend normally, but this clearly did not affect its movement speed–it sprinted on the ground on all fours and struck at the two people standing against the wall in an S-shaped arc like a swinging snake.
At this critical moment, Ji Dong didn’t have time to think too much.
He stretched out his hand to protect Ren Jianmo behind him, and then pulled out the prop he exchanged from the [Peach Blossom Spring], a hand-held ultraviolet lamp tube from the side bag of his backpack. With a flick of his finger, he “clicked” it on, lighting it up!
“Zi–!”
The purple light flashed on the skull-like face, and the gray and black cotton wadding hanging in front of its eye socket and nasal bone appeared to be burned by the flame, followed by the sound of burning, splitting into strands. There were wisps of white smoke everywhere.
The skeleton monster stopped its movement, covered its face with bone claws, opened its mouth as if screaming in pain, but made no sound.
“This is really useful!”
Ji Dong was surprised and happy. Immediately, like a warrior with a sword, he clenched his ultraviolet lamp and stabbed it at the head of the struggling monster.
This time, the ultraviolet lamp was closer to the head of the skeleton.
Ji Dong could even see that the brain tissue exposed from the monster’s fractured skull, as long as it was illuminated by light, would be like a roasted brain on an iron plate, smoking and swiftly scorching and shrinking.
The monster struggled even harder.
If it hadn’t lost its vocal cords and tongue, it might have screamed loud enough to shatter all the remaining windows in the corridor.
It did not dare to stay longer, covered its head, stumbled into the crowd, and ran towards the window.
“Come on, come on!”
Holding an UV light, Ji Dong shouted to Mo Tiangen, who was mixed with the soldiers, “Brother Dagen the UV light! The UV light!”
Mo Tiangen immediately recovered, dropped his gun, pulled out the UV light around his waist, pressed it to the brightest light, and shook it in front of another monster.
Obviously, the UV lights were much more effective than guns.
After Ji Dong and others took out the ultraviolet light, the three skeleton monsters retreated like vampires avoiding the sun.
“Their weakness is the brain in the skull cavity.”
Ren Jianmo also took out his own UV light.
However, he didn’t rush up to drive away the monster like Ji Dong and Mo Tiangen had, he simply stood in the corner and said in a deep voice, “As long as you hit its brain, you can kill it.”
Thank you for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter! Perhaps reading this at 2 am wasn’t the greatest idea…