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There were five people in the corridor.
The three relatively unscathed local soldiers sat against the wall. Their heads downcast, guns in hand, they peered out the two nearest windows. They didn’t say anything but nodded when they noticed Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo.
Although the windows had been hastily fortified with wooden slats and nails, Ji Xiao’niao doubted that the shattered wooden boards would be able to keep the monsters out, since the bones of these skeletal monsters were hardened and steel-like.
Mo Tiangen and Fatty Huang sat on a bench in the corridor, less than two meters away from the three soldiers.
They couldn’t fall asleep right away after being subjected to a fierce battle in the middle of the night. Their expressions looked exhausted. They couldn’t even muster up the strength to speak. Thus, they stared out the window silently.
When Teacher Dagen saw them, he tiredly raised his hand and pointed to the empty seat next to him, indicating that he wanted them to sit beside him.
Ji Dong shook his hand and passed by them.
“That’s right.”
Ren Jianmo seemed to have remembered something and said to Ji Dong, “I want to show you something…”
“Oh?”
Ji Dong turned his head towards him. “What do you want me to see?”
Ren Jianmo pulled Ji Dong’s sleeve. “Over here.”
They walked towards the stairs.
“Hey, where are you two going?”
Mo Tiangen’s voice came from behind them, “Don’t wander alone. Be careful of those monsters!”
Ji Dong replied, “Don’t worry, we won’t go far.”
Ren Jianmo did not take Ji Dong too far. They just went down the stairs and stopped on the platform in between the staircase and walked to a corner.
He moved closer to a specific area and pointed. “Look here.”
A large garbage can was near the platform’s corner, with numerous empty pharmaceutical boxes strewn about. The plastic bucket most likely fell to the ground as a result of an aggressive scuffle. The waste within was smattered around and it mingled with the empty boxes. Nobody knew how long these garbages had been rotting here, but there was an awful, rotten smell permeating the air.
Ji Dong subconsciously frowned.
The lighting in this little clinic was poor, and the illumination in the corridor was barely enough to see the steps beneath their feet. Ji Dong’s night vision improved significantly after he enhanced his eyesight. Quickly, he discovered what Ren Jianmo intended to show him. “You mean… Those black rocks?”
Ren Jianmo nodded.
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“What is this?”
Ji Xiao’niao raised his head and asked his Ren Jianmo for an answer.
Ren Jianmo shrugged and answered frankly, “How would I know?”
He paused and added, “But when I came in, I found that there were many similar rocks in the corridor on the first floor. There were even more on the second floor. Probably because the place was in such a chaotic state that the others didn’t seem to notice.”
Ji Dong nodded, looked carefully around the corridor, and soon made a discovery.
“Look there.”
Ji Dong pointed at the foot of the wall blocked by the trash can. “There are several scratches.”
At the corner of the wall covered with mildew, about twenty centimeters above the floor, five finger scratches hung downward. From the location and shape, they should have been human hands. This person not only scratched off a layer of the concrete wall but also scratched out deep traces of cement inside.
“Do you think…”
When Ji Dong heard his voice trembling, he lifted his hands and motioned, “It appears like someone fell here and clutched his hand on the wall as he struggled in pain…”
At the same time, in a room near the stairs on the second floor, Linglong raised her head, her beautiful cheeks were covered in sweat; her expression appeared troubled, “No!”
She said to Xiong Da, “My power seems to have no effect on his wound. I can’t stop the bleeding!”
“What do you mean?”
Rose, who had been standing by the door smoking, immediately snuffed out her cigarette and came over, “Why isn’t it working?”
She had firsthand experience of her teammate’s healing abilities. Although Linglong couldn’t resurrect the dead, her hemostatic and life-saving abilities were extremely beneficial.
Linglong was near tears, “I don’t know, but…”
Rose glanced down and saw that the wound on Xiong Er’s severed arm became worse than it had been.
The damaged area looked like raw pork that had been left out of the refrigerator in the middle of summer. It had turned grayish pink and produced a faint and terrible decomposing odor. Furthermore, the severed hand and shoulder joint were clearly bound with a rope, yet the blood still poured out like an open faucet.
Looking at the injury again, Rose’s heart sank.
Xiong Er’s face was as white as a sheet of paper due to the excessive loss of blood. His cheekbones were sunken, eyes were wide and protruding. His eyes rolled back to his eyelids, and his teeth clucked like an epileptic patient. His entire body was trembling badly.
However, unlike the rest of the wounded who have experienced hemorrhagic shock, his entire body was sweating profusely and soaking wet, as if he had just been fished out of the sea. The cold sweat drenched his white working clothes, causing them to cling to his skin like glue.
“A-Ming! A-Ming! Lu Ming!”
Xiong Da roared hysterically and shook his brother’s shoulder, trying to wake the him up.
His voice startled everyone in the corridor, not only Mo Tiangen and Fatty Huang but also the three uninjured soldiers peeked inside the room.
Everyone’s focus was on Xiong Er, who was gravely injured.
They didn’t notice the three local special forces soldiers, who were mildly injured and were waiting for treatment in the corner of the room. They just sat against the wall, heads low, and didn’t even glance up. They had stopped breathing for a while.
They looked identical to a fast-forwarded process in dry pickling. The skin on their bodies rapidly dried out and shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye, transforming them into desiccated mummies.
Simultaneously, a black liquid with an asphalt-like texture oozed from their pores, condensed into droplets, and accumulated into a mass that looked like dirty mud. The mud-like mass plastered the thick camouflage garments and clung to the dry wrinkled skin like adhesive. It formed a hardened gray-black shell.
Then, there was a “cracking” sound.
One of the dead soldiers, wrapped in a gray-black petrified shell, moved.
More accurately, his chest suddenly expanded unnaturally. It pushed his spine backward and bent into a strange arc. It looked like he was lying on a stretcher and doing a back arch bridge.
However, until now, the others in the room had not noticed his changes.
“Crack, pop, crack.”
The sound of bones cracking gradually became harsher.
As if filled with air, the thorax gradually swelled. One arm was raised, the elbow was twisted behind the back, and the other leg was twisted outward at an exceedingly abnormal angle.
“What the…”
Finally, someone noticed something strange was happening to the injured soldiers in the corner.
Teacher Dagen’s face immediately changed.
He pointed to the soldier who had become a black humanoid monster, “Holy shit! What’s the matter with him?”
Immediately after he finished speaking, the soldier suddenly sat up straight.
Everyone could see that it was no longer a living person or even a “person”.
His chest had swelled into a balloon, his shoulder blades had been ripped and separated from his back. His lower jaw jutted, and his bones were continuously deforming, making cracking sounds.
“Son of a bitch!”
Rose reacted quickly. She raised her gun and was about to aim and shoot.
However, it was too late.
Before she could pull the trigger, his swollen chest suddenly expanded and exploded in half with a “bang”.
The gray-black mud shell that encased the soldier split into pieces and flaked off. It revealed the gray-white deformed bones inside and the remaining flesh hanging on the bones like rotten cotton wool. The crack in the skull, however, revealed a grayish-white brain. The only soft tissue left intact in his body.
His thoracic bones, at some point, grew thicker and were twice as long. His ribs were overlapping, with the length and thickness of an Asian elephant’s tusks. It was this unusual, rapid growth of the sternum that cracked its hard, rock-like skin.
In an instant, from the trailer they’ve seen in [Peach Blossom Spring], the players were stupefied when they realized the accuracy of the name of the [Film].
Yes, this was the real “Separation of Flesh and Bone”.
A man who was alive ten minutes ago had lost all his flesh and blood and had become a skeletal monster.
“Come on!”
Rose’s face turned blue.
“Withdraw! All of you!”
She turned her head to look at Fatty Huang who was standing by the door, “Shoot its head with your nails!”
However, it was too late.
Before Fatty Huang could pull the nails out of his pocket, the skeletal monster had already turned and leaped up towards them.
Luckily, they still had Mr. Dagen’s handheld UV light.
Mo Tiangen immediately waved the UV light towards the Skeleton Monster and brandished the light on its face.
The newly transformed monster was clearly more sensitive to UV light. Under the blazing light, the brain in its skull cavity emitted a “squeaking” sound. It was in a lot of pain. It suddenly made a rapid 90-degree spin and leaped up against the wall like a large lizard.
To make matters worse, another dead soldier’s body sat up. The gray-black mud shell, which condensed from blood, flesh, and clothes, shattered into many pieces. It transformed into a Skeleton Monster with unusually powerful limbs. It walked close to the ground, circled in a C-path, avoided the UV light in the front, and rushed towards the soldiers standing in the back.
All at once, there were a lot of gunshots fired everywhere.
The room was in a mess.
Standing at the platform of the staircase, Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo heard the gunshots.
They looked at each other, pulled out the UV light at their waist, and hurriedly ran back.
When they stepped out of the stairs, they bumped into two ferocious Skeleton Monsters instead of Rose and the others.
At that moment, Ji Dong felt his heart was going to stop.
Fortunately, thanks to his long-term trained reflex, at the critical moment, he immediately raised the UV light in his hand and thrust it towards them.
The monsters obviously knew that this thing was their weakness. They mutely screamed and ran away.
“Come on! Come on!”
At this time, Rose and the rest finally came out.
The red-haired beauty took the lead. Followed by Linglong and Xiong Da with Xiong Er on his back. Three soldiers surrounded them in the front with guns in their hands, and Teacher Dagen and Fatty Huang were at the back.
“Retreat! Let’s get out of here! Get out of here now!”
So thrilling, so that’s where the monsters come from..
Thank you for the chapter!
Although I have been reading I haven’t commented yet T^T. Here to say hi!! Invisible reader here 😀
Is the injured brother going to turn into a skeleton monster too?😮
It’s like not only the author suddenly forgot to continue the sickness of Ren JianMo but the other two also didn’t notice that their big beauty doesn’t cough anymore since the two girls joined the team in the first arc. I’m deeply disappointed. I still hope the author will remember her summary setting at one time.