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A swarm of strangely shaped skeletons appeared behind Rose and the others.
Ji Dong was completely unaware of the soldiers’ mutation from humans to monsters. He had no idea where they came from and was skeptical of how they managed to break into the clinic without making a sound.
But he didn’t have time to think about it now. When he realized the situation was dire, he could only drag Ren Jianmo by his clothes, and they turned around and fled.
They stumbled down the stairs, through the messy corridor on the first floor, and squeezed out the clinic’s door.
Outside the clinic’s main gate was a small, empty courtyard.
Running further out was the town of all wooden buildings.
If even the clinic’s brick and stone structure couldn’t protect them, the small wooden houses would be even more useless.
So, the most important question now would be, where could they possibly hide?
Ji Dong ran in the forefront with the UV light in hand, but hesitated in his steps.
So he turned back to ask Rose’s opinion behind him, but the moment he turned his head, he shuddered in fright.
Because his enhanced vision revealed a plethora of shadows all around him.
“Crap!”
For a brief moment, Ji Dong felt as if a pot of cold water had been poured over his head, from his scalp all the way to his heels.
They were surrounded.
Those skeleton-like monsters, the only brain preserved in the skull for no other reason than aesthetics, were more than just walking corpses; they were monsters capable of thinking and comprehending simple battling strategies.
However, he did not have time to open his mouth to warn the crowd, instead he heard a loud “bang”. The window glass on the second floor of the small clinic broke behind them.
Three monsters leaped down from the window and jumped directly into the crowd, biting a soldier on the shoulder.
“Ah!!!”
The man only had time to let out a hysterical scream before the monster flipped him to the ground and bit off half of his arm.
This unexpected turn of events scared everyone out of their wits.
They didn’t have time to think; they were like birds being chased by falcons, reflexively running in all directions.
——Oh no!
This was the worst possible situation.
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Before Linglong entered the [Peach Blossom Spring], she was a delicate and weak white collar worker. After experiencing two [Films], her physical quality had been strengthened, but her mental quality and reflexes were still at the level of ordinary people.
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Those who lost the protection of UV light immediately became the target of monsters.
Fatty Huang used his powers to shoot and kill a skeleton monster, but before he could get out of the disconnected state after using his powers, he saw a second monster coming at him head-on.
“OMG, help!!!”
His cold sweat was slick, his eyes were tearing up, while his crotch was wet; he was so scared that he peed his pants.
At that moment, Fatty Huang thought he was dead.
But, as luck would have it, Mo Tiangen, who was the nearest to him, arrived just in time, waving the UV light in his hand to block his front.
The Skeleton Monster was too quick, didn’t slow down in time, and swooped down in front of them, illuminated by the UV light from a close distance.
The light passed through the gap between the bones of its deformed skull and shot directly onto the gray-white brain’s surface. It fell to the ground in agony, as if it had been sprayed with sulfuric acid, covering its skull, which had lost its flesh and blood, with its own empty bone claws.
“Go to hell!”
Teacher Dagen bellowed, holding a UV light in one hand and pulling out a thirty-centimeter-long saber from his waist—another prop he had bought with points in the [Peach Blossom Spring]. The blade plunged vertically into the skull monster’s brain.
And killed the monster with one strike.
At the same time, Ji Dong was also trying to get closer to Rose’s side while he was dealing with the monsters.
He really wanted to protect as many people as possible.
After all, when the players were in the [Film], they might fight each other, and the props they purchased could be snatched forcefully by others—just like how Ji Dong snatched the gun from Brother Jie while he was in the [City of Ashes].
So, in Ji Dong’s opinion, after learning that the monsters’ weakness was their fear of UV light, Rose and the others only offered to cooperate without attempting to grab the light they were holding as their own life-saving tool, which demonstrated that the group was still of good character and people who could become companions.
At this moment, Rose was cornered by two monsters.
She protected Xiong Da who was carrying Xiong Er on his back with a gun in her hand, relying on strong firepower to temporarily suppress the attack of the Skeleton Monsters, but she couldn’t last long.
Just as everyone was at a critical juncture in their lives, a cluster of light flashed to the north of town.
It was a purple light cluster.
It shot out of the window of the distant church bell tower and shone toward them like a lighthouse in the mist.
“Come on! Hurry up!”
Rose, as if a lost traveler almost desperate to see the oasis in the distance, surprised, called out, “The church has a light! There must be someone alive there!”
She didn’t have to say much at all, everyone knew in that instant the direction that could save their lives.
Ji Dong used the UV light to drive away the monsters surrounding them, and shouted at the red-haired beauty, “Rose, you guys go!”
Rose was not polite with them.
She drew her gun and fired a barrage of bullets at the head of the nearest Skeleton Monster.
With a sufficient number of bullets, one or two of them went through the hard cranial crevices and into its brain.
Taking advantage of the Skeleton Monster falling to the ground due to injury, Rose and Xiong Da ran to the north of the town without looking back.
Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo followed closely, while Mo Tiangen dragged a Fatty Haung who was covering his crotch and stumbling after him. The last two soldiers who were still alive, held their guns, swept the bullets out like a broken ATM machine spewing out bills and killed a few of the monsters.
Fortunately, the town was not large, and before they ran out of bullets, they finally saw the church.
The church was unlike most of the similar structures they had seen before, with a high roof, a spacious arch, and a tall bell tower, and instead of a cross hanging above the arch, there was a certain symbol they had never seen before, as if the sun and the moon had merged.
A bright purple light came out of the small circular window of the bell tower and shone into the darkness.
The UV light at night didn’t penetrate very well, but it was enough to let people outside see clearly. The light swung in a clockwise motion in a circle, like a beacon of light on the island.
Almost everyone’s heart emerged with strong hope.
They felt that as long as they stepped into the church, they would be safe.
It was as if the church itself was a manifestation of a boundary designed to keep all those undead Skeleton Monsters out.
Unfortunately, a change came at that moment.
“Waaaahhhhhhhhh!!!”
Xiong Da running in the middle of the group suddenly let out a miserable cry of pain to the extreme.
Hearing the scream, Ji Dong turned back in horror and saw that a pair of huge gray-white bone wings had somehow grown on Xiong Er’s shoulders.
——WTF!
He was so shocked that he couldn’t say a word. He didn’t know what had happened.
But his suspicions lasted only a second.
Xiong Da struggled in pain, and as he lowered his head and shook, he revealed something on his back.
Ji Dong saw that it was not some newborn bone wing, but a Skeleton Monster lying on his back.
The size of that dead bone was not big compared to other monsters, about the size of a normal person, but it was missing an arm, and in its place, two inverted triangular shaped shoulder blades became abnormally large and branched straight up to the sides, as if they were two huge white bones turned into wings.
——No, it’s not a Skeleton Monster, but Xiong Er!!
In this instant, Ji Dong completely understood the origin of these monsters!
The skeleton with “wings” bit his brother’s neck with its white teeth.
The canine teeth were entrenched in the flesh, biting through the huge blood vessels, and blood spilled out, staining the white work clothing on Xiong Da’s body to a very dark red.
Xiong Da didn’t even have the chance to say one more word, tilting his head high and opening his mouth wide, his expression frozen in extreme fear and disbelief, he fell to the ground with a “bang” and didn’t move a muscle.
“Lu Shen! Lu Ming!”
Rose called out the real names of the two brothers.
For a moment, she wanted to turn around and save her two colleagues, but reason immediately told her that they were as hopeless as Linglong, who had just died.
The red-haired beauty could only grit her teeth ruthlessly and bellowed.
“Get out of here! All into the church!”
Before the words fell, the monster lying on Xiong Da’s back raised its head and turned towards its captain. It opened its mouth and let out a roar, bowed its body, shrugged its shoulder blades, and leaped over like a spring.
In a hurry, Rose reflexively raised her arms and blocked in front of her.
Xiong Er’s skeletal jaws bit down on her arm.
“Damn!”
Ji Dong was going crazy.
With the UV light in his left hand and a military knife in his right hand, he rushed up.
The moment the ultraviolet light shone, the monster loosened its teeth from Rose’s arm, covered its face, and retreated. It was not willing to fight. It went back to Xiong Da’s body and bit down and dragged the body towards the dark forest.
“Quick, go to the church!”
Rose, with a pale face, shouted.
Ji Dong, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen, along with Rose and Fatty Huang, and the last two remaining soldiers, fled into the archway of the church.
“Hello, fellow friends!”
Only just after stepping through the door, the crowd heard an unfamiliar old male voice.
A tall, thin old man with a UV light in his hand poked his head out of the small door of the confessional and waved desperately toward them.
“Come on, get over here! Hurry up!”
Happy New Year people!!!!! Hope all your dreams and wishes come true!!! May 2022 bring blessings and peace and opportunities to all of us and eradicate covid finally!
Happy new year and thank you for the chapter！
The other team of players were almost wipe out and only the captain survived? Only 5 players remained or are there others?
Thank you for the chapter!
Happy new year!
Considering that Rose was bit on the arm, she might also turn into a skeleton monster soon, unless this thin old man knows of a cure or something.
Their team work is very inefficient, if they all paired up 1 uv light + 1 weapon holder then at least 6/8 of them could hope to survive. But now there’s only 4 unscathed due to their haphazard running around. 😐
Why do I feel like the old man is sus? TvT
Oh.. and here I thought Flaming Rose would be an addition to the team but now… unless there’s antidote then nothing can help her.. 😒 so sad..
They should have went to the church in the first place.