The Doomsday Paradise

Chapter6: Depraved Species

"You're new here, you don't know yet—" Mathers said hurriedly, speaking much faster than before. "To adapt to the new world, humans have developed in two evolutionary directions—"

"Ah...?" A voice that seemed to be squeezed from the throat, with a hint of confusion, came from the guard room again.

"You, me, Luze, we all belong to the first type of evolution, and there's another one, which we call 'the Fallen'—"

Lin Sanjiu looked up blankly, not quite understanding what was happening at the moment.

With Mathers' increasingly rapid tone, the doorknob slowly turned under the illumination of Lin Sanjiu's flashlight, making a creaking sound, and the door opened.

Mathers took a deep breath, and a sentence was blurted out like popping beans— "As long as they can survive, the Fallen are without any taboos. Now I have no combat ability at all, so defeating this Fallen depends on you, or none of us will survive!" As soon as the words were out, before Lin Sanjiu could react, she leaped onto a nearby tree.

Lin Sanjiu stared blankly at the place where Mathers had disappeared, then looked at Luze on the ground.

Luze smiled helplessly, revealing a sharp rabbit tooth on one side— "Sis, I can't move either... Don't look at me, that Fallen is coming out!"

The flashlight beam quickly returned to the guard room, and as soon as Lin Sanjiu's gaze fell on the door, the words "Don't call me Sis anymore" were swallowed back into her stomach.

She had never seen such a disgusting thing—

The dark brown, wrinkled, sticky skin was tightly attached to a skeleton, piled up in folds at the joints. The original human body had shrunk to half its size—except for skin and bones, there was not a trace of flesh and blood left on the whole body, as if it had all been drained. But the most creepy part was that on the head that could barely be recognized as a human head, the parts that were originally the nose and mouth had disappeared, replaced by a long, mosquito-like proboscis, which was dripping saliva drop by drop with the steps of this "Fallen."

This thing that was almost no longer like a person was still wearing a security uniform—only the uniform was too big for him at the moment, and it fell to the ground after a few steps. The eyeballs without eyelids turned, and the Fallen's gaze was locked on Lin Sanjiu.

"Goo... You are so beautiful..."

From that mosquito-like proboscis, a human language was surprisingly emitted. "The skin is so elastic... It must be very moist, right?"

Lin Sanjiu stood there in a daze. Suddenly, a low voice came from the ground beside her: "Sis, it's all up to you!"

This voice was not Luze's—Lin Sanjiu turned her head and saw that under the iron gate was no longer the handsome young man, but a rosy-cheeked, simple-looking girl in her teens, who looked like a country child.

It seems that one of Luze's abilities is shape-shifting, and the image he transforms into is probably targeted...

This thought flashed through her mind, and Lin Sanjiu indignantly cursed: "I'm also a wounded person, okay!" and quickly stepped back. With this step back, Luze behind her was exposed, and in the dim light of the flashlight, his little face was full of tears.

Seeing Luze, the Fallen with the mosquito-like proboscis suddenly paused noticeably.

Lin Sanjiu quietly moved a little.

"Ah Mei?" The mummy took two steps forward abruptly, scaring Lin Sanjiu to retreat another meter, fully alert—only the mummy didn't even glance at her, its exposed eyeballs staring straight at Luze. "Ah Mei, what are you doing here?"

The mummy was too close, and before the sentence was finished, the saliva on the proboscis had already dripped onto Luze's face.

Luze shuddered with obvious disgust, but his facial expression was perfectly controlled: "Brother, I came to find you... Help, help me... The iron gate is pressing me so painfully..."

The "little girl" in the clear eyes had even seeped out tears. "Brother, help me move the iron gate... I want to get up."

"You shouldn't have come, you shouldn't have come..." After a pause, the mummy, as if thinking of something, ignored Luze's plea, and sighed in a low tone.

Seeing the mummy in front of her being attracted to all the attention for the time being, Lin Sanjiu quickly waved to the tree where Mathers was, making a few gestures—while gesturing, she quietly retreated.

Mathers silently leaped to a nearby tree, slid down the trunk, and quickly ran behind Lin Sanjiu.

Fortunately, this monster still retains intelligence and humanity, otherwise, it would be troublesome... Lin Sanjiu's thought just rose to her mind, when she suddenly saw the mummy raise its head and emit a series of intense buzzing sounds, and the sharp proboscis actually flexibly swung in the air several times, swinging a lot of saliva nearby—

"But Ah Mei, I am so happy!" The mummy's buzzing voice was simply deafening, and there seemed to be a trace of a smile in the tone. "The body fluid of the family is a great supplement to my brother... I am so happy, I don't have to go back to my hometown, you came by yourself!"

This sentence almost shocked the souls of the three people present, and no one expected Luze to suddenly become a defenseless piece of meat—seeing the mummy excitedly raise the proboscis, Luze couldn't help but scream: "Mathers, save me—!"

"No way!" Lin Sanjiu couldn't block in time, and Mathers had already rushed up from behind her. She stamped her foot in anger and immediately turned to run in the opposite direction.

However, Mathers' reaction was correct—just as the sharp proboscis was about to pierce Luze's chest, her long steel armor had already hit it hard.

The proboscis was hit and raised, and Mathers' nails, which looked very fierce but could only be used to draw blood, were all broken into pieces and fell to the ground.

Encountering a bit of resistance, the mummy's exposed eyeballs turned on Mathers. It obviously had no interest in her at all, buzzing: "Get out of the way! Fake blood, fake meat... Ah Mei, I'm coming..." Then it lowered its head and stopped: "Eh? Who are you? Where is my Ah Mei?"

In just a breath's time, Luze on the ground had already turned into a dry, dark brown mummy with a huge mosquito-like proboscis.

The two mummies stared at each other for a few seconds.

"Did you absorb my Ah Mei?" Seeing the family's flesh and blood suddenly disappear, the mummy's intelligence was probably not high, and the proboscis vibrated angrily at high speed: "Goo... Ah... Goo... Ah... I want to kill you..."

This time, the speed at which the proboscis was raised was extremely fast. Mathers was just about to reach out to block, and the mummy suddenly swung it, hitting her high and throwing her heavily to the ground not far away.

Seeing the sharp spike falling again, Luze had already closed his eyes, waiting to die quietly—

There was a loud "bang," and the expected sharp spike disappeared. Luze immediately opened his eyes and saw Lin Sanjiu brake urgently, just stopping the car by the iron gate—and the mummy was hit so hard by the Audi that it fell out two or three meters—

Lin Sanjiu pushed the car door open and jumped out, pressing her hand on the iron gate while shouting in the direction of Mathers: "Mathers! Come and drive quickly!"

The mummy stood up angrily and strode back. The collision just now seemed to leave no injury at all, and the angry buzzing sound became louder and louder—but Mathers was one step ahead of it, and as soon as Lin Sanjiu got out of the car, she quickly ran over.

White light kept flashing in her palm, and Lin Sanjiu was like standing under a shower head, dripping water all over her body. Her arm trembled more and more severely, but the iron gate did not disappear at all—

Mathers leaped into the car, opened the back door with one hand, and shouted anxiously: "Hurry, hurry! It's coming!"

"I'm trying!" Lin Sanjiu spat out each word with great difficulty, and finally, under a white light, the iron gate disappeared for a second or two, but then the heavy iron gate fell heavily to the ground again, raising a cloud of dust. "I can't do it!" She gasped heavily, almost sitting down.

"Get in the car!" Luze's voice suddenly came from behind.

It turned out that Luze had quickly rolled out during the moment when the iron gate disappeared. He hurriedly climbed into the back seat, and as soon as he turned around, he saw the mummy's proboscis suddenly elongate and shoot towards Lin Sanjiu—"Dodge!"

At this time, Lin Sanjiu had no time to turn her head, and she only dived to the ground fiercely. At the same time, Mathers kicked the car door open and blocked the proboscis for the second time—The proboscis hit the car window glass, and with a crash, it shattered into countless fragments. In this pause, Luze had hurriedly pulled Lin Sanjiu into the car, and without closing the door, he said urgently: "Go, go, go!"

Seeing the mummy pouncing up again, Mathers turned the steering wheel fiercely, and the car barely passed by the mummy, causing a creepy squeezing sound—

She stepped on the accelerator fiercely, and the Audi quickly left the mummy behind.

After closing the door, the people in the car were finally a little relieved and caught their breath. Lin Sanjiu's mobile phone had long been lost at the entrance of the community, and at this time, Luze and she were lying on the back seat looking back, and saw the mummy swaying and chasing a few steps in the dim light of the mobile phone flashlight. Seeing the distance getting farther and farther, it finally gave up. It seemed to stop and think, and the mummy turned and walked into the community.

It seems that there will be no survivors in Rongjun Community.

"It seems that the main weakness of the Fallen here is still the slow movement speed." Mathers glanced at the rearview mirror and wiped a sweat.

Lin Sanjiu distributed the bottled water she had in the car to the two people, and also guzzled half a bottle herself, not knowing what to say. What happened in just a few hours today was like a dream...

"Thank you." Luze drank two sips of water and suddenly said shyly, showing a rabbit tooth to her. "You could have run away by yourself just now, thank you for taking the risk to come back and save me..."

"And it seems that our tacit understanding is really good!" Mathers raised an eyebrow in the rearview mirror and said with a smile.

Looking at the two people who were obviously strangers but had fought side by side once, Lin Sanjiu smiled lightly for the first time today: "Yes... Now let's talk about this ghost world?"