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——Fuck, this is cheating!
Ji Dong felt like a hamster cornered by poisonous snakes. He was completely unable to move his body, and his mind only had this thought.
But, he was not the only one who felt this way.
He didn’t know who, but someone let out a breath that had been held in their chest for too long with a quiet gasp.
The Skeleton Monsters, as if they had smelled the carbon dioxide in the air, suddenly opened their mouths with fangs and let out a roar before running towards them.
At this time, the door slid open.
Without any hesitation, a soldier squeezed through the door.
Then a second, a third, a fourth…
Ji Dong clenched his teeth painfully.
With the greatest mental exertion, he restrained his instinct to escape, urged his feet to stay in place, and did not turn his head to scramble for the doorway.
Four soldiers had already escaped when Mo Tiangen, without saying a word, directly pinned Annie under his arm–like carrying a human-shaped sandbag–and carried her out.
Unfortunately, the Skeleton Monsters ran much faster than mere humans.
By this time, the door had only just completely slid open, but two Skeleton Monsters had managed to get less than ten meters away from them.
That was almost the distance they could leap with a single lunge.
Ji Dong felt cold sweat trail down his forehead.
He took out the UV light at his waist, twisted it to the brightest it could go, and held it in front of himself like a sword.
——But, can they really be stopped with just one or two UV lights?
Ji Dong had no hope at all.
His eyes darted around, trying his best to stay calm and find the easiest way to escape, in addition to trying to stall for time to give the crowd a chance to escape.
At the same time, Rose’s eyes quickly swept over Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo’s faces. She too, silently, ran out of the door without looking back.
The two Skeleton Monsters had finally reached them.
The one in front of him stretched out its bone claws and tried to grab Ji Dong’s face, however, Ji Dong was faster and quickly lifted the UV light directly towards its rotten cotton-like, minced meat palms—immediately making the skeleton’s body make a burning “sizzle” sound.
It hurriedly retracted its hand, shrank back two steps, and dared not rush forward a second time.
Ji Dong shakily moved the UV light in his hand to the side where another Skeleton Monster was heading towards them with sharp teeth.
“You go!”
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However, Ren Jianmo’s reaction completely exceeded Ji Dong’s expectations.
He stretched out his hand, grabbed Ji Dong’s shoulder, shoved the person backward, and pushed him straight out.
“Ren…”
Ren Jianmo’s arm strength was far greater than Ji Dong’s. He faltered and lunged out, collapsed to the floor, with the UV light in his hand.
The people outside the door quickly dragged him up. Rose had rushed to the door lock controller and began to frantically press on the door’s closing key.
Ji Dong couldn’t see what Ren Jianmo was doing in the kitchen.
All he knew was that Ren Jianmo was empty-handed, but the Skeleton Monsters were close at hand. He probably didn’t even have a chance to pull out the UV light around his waist.
Ren Jianmo, who was alone, was stuck in a dead end.
“!!!”
Ji Dong jumped up and wanted to go forward to save the person.
However, several hands stopped him and dragged him back.
The door closed slowly.
“Mr. Ren! Ren Jianmo!”
Ji Xiao’niao was about to go crazy, at that moment, he blurted out the real name of the great beauty Ren.
But it was very quiet inside the kitchen.
The crowd outside the door did not hear any screams and did not see Ren Jianmo standing at the door making any evasion or resistance. It was as if the Skeleton Monsters inside were not attacking at all.
It was too quiet inside.
Only after a second’s delay, the door opened with a gap that was less than thirty centimeters.
“Ren Jianmo!!!”
Ji Dong shouted.
His nose was sour, his heart seemed to be tightly twisted by an invisible hand, and the pain made tears burst out uncontrollably.
In fact, everyone felt that the big beauty with the overly handsome face was absolutely hopeless this time.
But, at the moment when the door was about to close, a figure in white slipped through the crack of the door and squeezed in quietly.
The next second, the door closed behind him.
Several people outside the door were stunned. For a moment, no one could make a sound.
It wasn’t until they just heard the crazy thudding of knocking at the door, that people came back to their senses. The Skeleton Monsters locked outside the door were feverishly banging on it as if they were about to rip a crack into the heavy metal door plate and catch the prey that had fled under their eyes.
Rose suddenly returned to attention.
“Quick, quick, retreat, retreat, get out of here!”
She didn’t think this open dining area was any kind of safe place.
With the noise they’d made, if there were one or two Skeleton Monsters nearby that heard them, the crowd would have gotten out of the wolf's den and entered the tiger's mouth.
Ji Dong broke away from the two soldiers and rushed forward, holding Ren Jianmo’s hand.
“…… go!”
His lips trembled for a moment, barely squeezing out a word.
Ji Xiao’niao felt that the palm he held was as cold as a piece of ice.
But now time did not allow him to dilly-dally, he did not even have the opportunity to ask an “Are you hurt?“.
Ji Dong grabbed Ren Jianmo and ran all the way behind the soldiers.
The crowd ran as fast as they could through the dining area towards the nearest staircase.
The sound of running footsteps startled the Skeleton Monsters hiding in the dark.
Just as everyone climbed the revolving stairs, a banging sound came from the distance.
When Ji Dong looked in the direction the sound had come from, he saw a Skeleton Monster leaping out from under the long table where the buffet was set and running towards them.
However, its speed seemed to be much slower than its peers’, and every step was accompanied by the sound of heavy metal objects hitting the floor.
“Fuck, damnit!”
Mo Tiangen, who was protecting Annie, walked in front of them screaming, “Go, go!”
Obviously, the people had seen the Skeleton Monster and immediately pushed each other up the stairs.
However, Ji Dong involuntarily slowed down.
Because he saw that there was a “man” behind the monster.
In fact, a more accurate description should be a corpse.
It was a researcher in a white coat. It was obvious that he had been dead for some time. His blood had dried up and blackened. His clothes were starched hard and stuck to the swollen and rotten flesh.
The corpse had a deformed folding chair over one of its arms, and Ji Dong guessed that it might have been the man’s weapon of defense before he’d died.
The back of the chair was now stuck to the skeleton’s thigh bone, and the creature’s level of intelligence apparently did not allow it to free its leg from the metal ring so it carried a chair and a corpse at the same time when it moved.
The continuous clang, clang sound that people heard was the sound of the chair knocking on the ground while it moved.
However, Ji Dong did not care about the chair hanging on the monster, he cared about the corpse that did not change.
From the bite marks scattered on the dead body and the bloodstains that almost completely stained the white coat, this poor researcher, indeed, had died from the claws and teeth of the monster without a doubt.
But, if that was so, why did he manage to remain human-like after his death and was not changed by the infection?
…
Just when Ji Dong was looking at it intently, his palm was suddenly squeezed tightly.
“Don’t be stunned, let’s go!”
Ren Jianmo pressed against Ji Dong’s ear, urging in a low voice.
His voice sounded extremely weak, and it was clear by the low panting sound that he hadn’t calmed down, causing Ji Dong’s body to flinch and immediately return to his senses!
——Crap!
Ji Dong secretly scolded himself a fool in his heart.
——Since it was a decisive moment, it was not time for any distractions, okay?!
He quickly took Ren Jianmo’s hand again and ran up the stairs.
The exit of the stairs led to another corridor.
This corridor was very short, only about twenty meters long, but it would lead to the experimental area that Annie told them she had been to.
They ran through the short corridor and quickly closed the partition door behind them.
“Hoo, Hoo…”
Mo Tiangen put his hands on the door, bowed over, gasped for air, and almost knelt down.
The task of fearlessly entering the Research Institute truly could not be done by ordinary humans, it was a major psychological struggle for everyone.
These Skeleton Monsters, in particular, were much too powerful to be killed with typical physical attacks, and if they inadvertently bit someone, their skin and flesh would peel off on the spot, transforming them into skeletons.
Teacher Dagen felt that this was equivalent to them playing a real-life holographic version of “Resident of Evil”. They couldn’t even handle the normal zombies efficiently but now the stronger monsters had already appeared. It was as if they had been mercilessly set up to make sure the entire team got wiped out!
Fortunately, the [Peach Blossom Spring] had not yet reached a level of insanity to an unbelievable degree—those Skeletons Monsters, although powerful, were weak to UV light.
Thinking of this, Mo Tiangen reached out and touched his waist to make sure that his UV light was still well hung around his waist, finally feeling a slight sense of security.
“Where are we going next?”
He turned to Annie and asked the guide for advice.
“I, I haven’t actually entered the experimental area.”
A strange light flashed in the eyes of the woman with chestnut hair and she promptly lowered her eyelids to hide the change of her expression.
“However, I knew most of the researchers in the Research Institute, and I generally know who was in what position…”
Her hands behind her back gathered into fists, and the tip of her nails dug into the palm.
“And I usually pay attention to their activities. I can remember who goes in which direction.”
Rose understood what she meant, “So, do you know who was responsible for the study of the ‘Moon God Stone’?”
Annie shook her head, opened her deep eyes, and said sincerely, “I can only think of one person who could be that important… I think their position should be related to the study of the ‘Moon God Stone’.”
Thank you for the chapter！
Idk man this Annie lady is giving me major trust issues 😭😭 thank you for the chapter!
Same, like girl what are you hiding?
Ah, the monster. It reminds me of Resident Evil. After reading this novel, I should rewatch the movie. It makes me feel excited again🤩