Even though Fatty, the self-proclaimed "Predator", was dead, it did not affect Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing at all.
At most, they could only say that it made them feel a little disgusted.
With a loud splash, a shovelful of slimy flesh was dumped into the plastic bag. Holding the bag with both hands, Ji Shanqing turned his head as far away as possible. When the smell of blood assaulted his nostrils, he couldn't help retching.
Lin Sanjiu scooped up another shovelful of minced flesh and intestines. Amidst the overwhelming stench, she did not look any better. In order to fit the remains of the short-haired woman into the plastic bag, she had no choice but to mince her body first. Just the thought of the process was unbearable.
Fatty wasn't the only "Predator". There were at least seven or eight people in this residential area who started to feed on duoluozhong after they became mentally ill. After being lured by the smell of flesh and blood downstairs, a few of the mental patients who had poked their heads out of the window started to scream. Their screams echoed in the air for a long time.
Hearing the increasingly urgent screams from above, Ji Shanqing covered his mouth with a distressed expression and asked, "Sis, do we really have to feed them with this human flesh? Didn't your card give us a lot of information? "
Lin Sanjiu paused and shook her head, "After all, the card only gives us information about the corpse. We can get more information from the mouth of a living person."
In just a few seconds, Lin Sanjiu could already taste the stench of flesh and blood in her mouth. Lin Sanjiu couldn't stand it anymore. She glanced at the plastic bag and saw that the amount of flesh was almost enough. She threw the shovel on the ground. While both of them picked up the plastic bag and went upstairs, Lin Sanjiu took out the card of Fatty's corpse and looked at it.
[Fatty's Corpse]
Name: Zhang Da, Nickname: Fatty
Gender: Seems to be male. Due to his obesity and the evolution of the deceased, his body has become blurry. His sexual characteristics are showing signs of degeneration.
Weight: 378 kg
Race: Human for the time being.
Ability: [Variety TV Show with Unspoken Rules]. Mutation of the teeth, vertebrae, feet and other parts of the body. The latter part is covered by layers of fat, so it is hard to tell from the outside.
The last line of words on the card raised Lin Sanjiu's suspicions.
Every world. She would collect a corpse every time. After five worlds, she was already familiar with the information on the cards of posthumans. However, Zhang Da's card was different from the ones she had seen before.
Posthumans and duoluozhongs were just different evolutionary paths that humans had chosen to face the apocalypse — before the duoluozhongs evolved to a higher level and were able to change worlds. There was a clear distinction between the two. Because of this, Zhang Da's card was unique. It was neither a description of a posthuman nor a description of a duoluozhong.
Regardless of evolution ability, physical mutation, race, sexual characteristics, and so on, it was more like a new direction of evolution after combining the characteristics of the two …
"If that's really the case. This is an incredible discovery. " Ji Shanqing pondered as he walked up the stairs, "Is there really a third evolution path other than posthumans and duoluozhongs? I wonder how the Twelve Worlds Centrum will react if they find out … "
"If we bring back the information about this world, our rating will definitely not be low," Lin Sanjiu sighed. She couldn't understand why her luck was so bad when they both had a visa to an unknown world. "No matter what the cause of the apocalypse is, posthumans have to develop immunity or antibodies to the apocalypse before they can evolve further. Regardless of what this fatty is, he is definitely not a posthuman."
"If that's the case, we haven't even met a single local posthuman. The crypt particles can destroy one's mental state and Potential Growth Value. Logically speaking, no one should be able to evolve. " Ji Shanqing suddenly thought of something and asked cautiously, "By the way, sis, didn't you say that you still have some symptoms of schizophrenia? What's going on? Have you developed the ability to resist it, or have you not? "
When Lin Sanjiu heard this question, she raised her head instinctively and saw Xueqin smiling at her from the corner of the staircase. Xueqin pointed at a door with a Spring Festival couplet pasted on it.
"I don't know what's going on, but I'm sure. I don't have any resistance. " Her voice sounded much calmer than she felt at that moment. "As you said, under a factor that destroys one's ability to evolve, one can develop a resistance to it. It's a paradox to develop the ability to resist it. "
"Then …?"
"The reason why I'm sane now is that my newly generated Potential Growth Value has maintained a delicate balance with my schizophrenia. Apart from that, I feel that my schizophrenia seems to have stimulated my [School of Higher Consciousness] … "Lin Sanjiu couldn't figure this out herself. Hence, she could only mention it vaguely.
While they were talking, Lin Sanjiu and Xueqin arrived upstairs. Lin Sanjiu kicked open the door with the Spring Festival couplet pasted on it. With a loud clang, a mental patient rushed out of the room. He ignored Lin Sanjiu and Xueqin and pounced on the plastic bags in their hands.
That person didn't even care about opening the plastic bags. He opened his mouth and bit off a chunk of flesh and blood along with the plastic bags. Then, he started chewing crazily. This person wasn't as fat as Fatty, so the mutation on his body was very clear. There were four to five thick chewing muscles on his cheeks that ran across half of his face. As his mouth moved, his muscles bulged and bulged. They didn't look like human muscles at all.
As Ji Shanqing watched, he couldn't help but take a step back.
When the plastic bags broke, the room was filled with a nauseating, pungent smell.
Lin Sanjiu and Xueqin couldn't tell how old or what kind of person this mental patient was. His head and face were covered in sticky blood and bodily fluids. The tip of his nose, forehead, and chin were smeared with bits of flesh and internal organs. He did not seem to be as fastidious as Fatty. He chewed up all the hairy chunks of human skin with great relish. For a moment the room was filled with the sound of his teeth chattering.
After enduring the discomfort for a while, Ji Shanqing suddenly frowned.
The plastic bags they found were very big. They were used to cover large trash cans. There was at least half of the short-haired woman in the plastic bags. Fatty had only taken a few bites from her neck and abdomen before he regained his sanity. However, the lunatic's belly was expanding under her clothes, but she still buried her face in the bag and continued to chomp down on the food in a frenzy.
Just as he was about to say something to his master, Lin Sanjiu moved first.
She seemed to first nod towards a certain corner in the air, and then walked up. She aimed the buzzing tip of the [Vibroblade] at the mental patient's neck.
"Stop pretending," she said coldly. "The meat you ate was enough to wake you up."
The mental patient froze. He stopped scooping the body parts out of the plastic bags.
"What?" he laughed cheerfully. He raised his hand and wiped the blood off his face. Ji Shanqing was shocked to realize that this person was very young. "If I knew you guys found out, I wouldn't have eaten so much raw meat. My stomach isn't very good. I prefer cooked food. "
When he was not chewing, the muscles on the young man's face disappeared, and he could even be considered handsome — if not for his eyebrows that were soaked in blood.
Lin Sanjiu narrowed her eyes.
She gave her grand prize a look. Ji Shanqing, who already knew that this person was more difficult to deal with than Fatty, rushed to her side.
"I saw how you guys dealt with Fatty. Of course, I saw it, but I didn't realize it until now." The young man laughed self-deprecatingly and stood up. He was still wearing the hospital gown. He wiped his hand on his pants. Then, he smiled and said, "I'm number 573 in the hospital. You can call me Little Five."
"What are you and Fatty —" Lin Sanjiu couldn't find the right words for the moment, "— humans?"
Xiaowu laughed out loud. There were still pieces of raw meat between her teeth.
"If we can still be called humans." He waved his hand at Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing. Then, he placed the remaining half of the bag of human meat at the entrance of the kitchen. He looked as if he had just returned home from grocery shopping. "Didn't Fatty say that? We are predators. "
Lin Sanjiu heard that name again.
"It's just like the food chain. The big fish eat the small fish, and the small fish eat the shrimps. Those duoluozhongs feed on ordinary people, so we feed on them … "Little Five didn't seem to care about the strange-looking sword in Lin Sanjiu's hand. He sat on the sofa and said," I didn't attack your companions. You won't kill me just because my diet is different from yours, right? "
Lin Sanjiu pursed her lips. The sword in her hand disappeared. Even though she had removed her weapon, she didn't let her guard down. After all, this young man in front of her might have evolved some kind of ability like Fatty.
"I don't know where you guys came from, but a wise man submits to circumstances. Since I'm not as strong as Fatty, you can ask me anything you want to know."
This young man called Little Five had turned the tables with just a few words. Ji Shanqing's eyelids twitched as he stared at Little Five.
"Is the difference between you guys and duoluozhongs the difference in food?"
"Yes, and no." Little Five shrugged. "For some reason, the changes that happen to us, duoluozhongs, and ordinary people are related to the food we eat. For an ordinary person, as long as they eat food that is exposed to the air, they will quickly lose their mind, but that is all. For an ordinary person, as long as they eat a mouthful of human flesh, they will immediately undergo the corresponding physical changes. "
At this point, Little Five smiled and tapped his blood-red cheeks. "I think you guys were so disgusted downstairs that you didn't notice it, right? There were more than 50 teeth in that short-haired woman's mouth … I'm very frugal when I eat duoluozhongs. I have to cut off the skin of her face and her tongue and fry them … If I didn't do that, I wouldn't have noticed it. "
Ji Shanqing couldn't help swallowing his saliva. This was the first time he realized that he could feel nauseous.
"So, the mutation that you guys produce is different from the duoluozhongs?"
"Of course." Little Five raised his chin. "At least, they don't have our abilities … Oh, we are a much better species than them."
Even though everyone was wearing a similar human appearance, Lin Sanjiu could clearly feel that the creatures beneath the skin had drifted further and further away from each other.
"So, I have one last question," Lin Sanjiu asked with a cold expression, "Is there a way to survive without eating human flesh?"
In her current condition, she didn't dare to eat anything no matter what. Once the fragile balance was broken. She did not know if she would regain her senses the next time, and she would rather die than eat human flesh.
However, even a posthuman would starve to death if they didn't eat for 14 months.
The reason posthuman could go without food for a long time wasn't because their bodies didn't need to replenish their energy. Instead, it was because the energy they obtained from eating was maximized and stored by their bodies. This was also the reason why they excreted less. If their energy source was completely cut off, they would still die.
Little Five didn't have much hope at first, but unexpectedly, he pondered for a while.
"I can't guarantee anything. After all, when I discovered this, I was already like this." He stood up, deep in thought. He stood up, deep in thought. "In order to explain this clearly, I have to get you a map."
"Get a map?" Lin Sanjiu hesitated for a moment before she nodded.
Like an alert fox, Ji Shanqing immediately tensed up and stared fixedly at Xiaowu's figure. Little Five seemed to have sensed his gaze. He let out a bitter smile and stuck his upper body into the bedroom. To reassure them, he left his feet outside.
"The map is hanging here. Wait a moment. "
As if he was stretching his arm to reach something, the foot at the door was lifted slightly.
Ji Shanqing narrowed his eyes suspiciously. He tilted his head to look.
"Sis, something's not right!"
Ji Shanqing shouted. He pulled Lin Sanjiu and rushed to the door. However, it was too late. The foot that was lifted disappeared into thin air like a bubble. The rest of Little Five's body was long gone.
"There!" Fang Dan pointed outside the window and shouted.
Lin Sanjiu looked. Sure enough, they saw a silhouette hurriedly getting into a car and starting the engine. Without much time to think, the two of them smashed through the window and leaped down from the building.
Little Five had hidden the car just in case. Its performance and horsepower were excellent. As the engine roared, the Land Rover sped toward the gate of the residential area.
With a loud bang, the two iron doors were smashed open. The iron wires clattered against the windshield, making a jarring sound. As soon as they escaped, the Land Rover accelerated to its maximum speed and dashed into the night like a madman.
"Quick!"
Lin Sanjiu shouted. Seeing that her grand prize was about to fall after only a few steps, Lin Sanjiu quickly threw him on her back and chased after the Land Rover.
However, her Potential Growth Value was still affected by her schizophrenia, so her physical fitness was not as good as before. Moreover, she was carrying a person on her back, so she couldn't run at full speed. After running for about ten minutes, the Land Rover finally disappeared from her sight.
Lin Sanjiu gradually slowed down. She stared blankly into the distance.
"What … What is this?" (To be continued.)
PS:
Although the last sentence seemed to be written in a very serious manner, I didn't feel guilty telling everyone that I had forgotten about the next part of my imagination … Because I ate too much and went to sleep, so … I hope I can remember it before I die tomorrow. If I can't remember it, I'll be forced to take a leave …
Hehehe, after saying that, I'm a little embarrassed to thank Black Waning (I haven't paid off the first two, and now I'm giving you another reward!) Dragon Soars the Universe (You're a male reader, aren't you?) You guys are so worried for my vanity … Thank you for your support. I'll try my best to remember!
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