"You're new here, you don't know yet—" Mathers said hurriedly, speaking much faster than before. "To adapt to the new world, humanity has developed 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 is another, which we call the 'Fallen'—"
Lin Sanjiu looked up blankly, not yet knowing what had happened.
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 finished like a burst of beans— "As long as they can survive, the Fallen have no taboos. Now I have no real combat ability, so defeating this Fallen depends entirely on you, or none of us will survive!" As soon as the voice fell, before Lin Sanjiu could react, she leaped onto a nearby tree.
Lin Sanjiu stared blankly at the place where Mathers disappeared, and then looked at Luze on the ground.
Luze smiled helplessly, revealing a sharp rabbit tooth on one side— "Sister, 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, she swallowed the words "Don't call me sister" that she was about to say.
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. However, the most chilling thing 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, huge sharp spike like a mosquito's mouthpart, 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 large 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 locked onto Lin Sanjiu.
"Goo... You are so beautiful..."
From that mosquito-like spike, a human language was surprisingly emitted. "The skin is so elastic... It must be very moist, right?"
Lin Sanjiu was stunned on the spot. Suddenly, a low voice came from the ground beside her: "Sister, 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 changes into is probably based on the target...
This thought flashed through her mind, and Lin Sanjiu indignantly cursed: "I'm also a wounded person, okay!" She quickly stepped back. As she stepped back, Luze behind her was exposed, and in the dim light of the flashlight, his little face was full of a look that was about to cry.
Seeing Luze, the Fallen with the mosquito mouthpart and mummy-like appearance 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—however, the mummy didn't even glance at her, and its exposed eyeballs stared straight at Luze. "Ah Mei, what are you doing here?"
The mummy was too close, and before finishing a sentence, the saliva on the mouthpart 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... Save, save me... The iron gate is pressing me so painful..."
The "girl" had even tears welling up in her bright eyes. "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, seemingly thinking of something, ignored Luze's plea and sighed in a low tone.
Seeing the mummy in front being attracted to all the attention for a while, Lin Sanjiu quickly waved to the tree where Mathers was and made several gestures—while gesturing, she quietly retreated.
Mathers silently jumped to a nearby tree, slid down the trunk, and quickly ran behind Lin Sanjiu.
Fortunately, this monster still retained intelligence and humanity, otherwise, it would be difficult... 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 mouthpart 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 the tone seemed to really contain a trace of laughter. "The body fluid of the family is a great supplement to Ah Ge... I am so happy, no need to go back to my hometown, you came by yourself!"
This sentence almost shocked the soul of the three people present, and no one expected Luze to suddenly become a defenseless piece of meat—seeing the mummy excitedly raise its mouthpart, Luze couldn't help but scream: "Mathers save me—!"
"No way!" Lin Sanjiu couldn't stop it 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 mouthpart was about to pierce Luze's chest, her long steel armor had already hit it hard.
The mouthpart was hit and raised, and Mathers' nails, although they looked very fierce, but in fact could only be used for drawing blood, were all broken into pieces and fell to the ground.
Encountering a little obstacle, the mummy's exposed eyeballs turned on Mathers. It obviously didn't have any interest in her at all, and said in a buzzing tone: "Get out of the way! Fake blood and 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 mouthpart.
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 mouthpart vibrated angrily at high speed: "Goo... Ah... Goo... Ah... I want to kill you..."
This time the speed at which the mouthpart was raised was extremely fast, and Mathers was just about to reach out to block it when 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—
Just then 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 knocked out two or three meters by the Audi car—
Lin Sanjiu pushed open the car door and jumped out, pressing her hand on the iron gate while shouting to 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 showerhead, dripping water all over her body. Her arm trembled more and more severely, but the iron gate didn't 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 uttered each word with great difficulty, and finally under a white light, the iron gate disappeared for a moment 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 panted heavily, almost sitting down.
"Get in the car!" Luze's voice suddenly rang out 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 mouthpart suddenly elongate and shoot towards Lin Sanjiu—"Dodge!"
At this time, Lin Sanjiu had no time to turn her head, she only dove to the ground fiercely, and at the same time, Mathers kicked the car door open, blocking the mouthpart for the second time—The mouthpart 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 urged in a panic: "Go, go, go!"
Seeing the mummy pouncing up again, Mathers turned the steering wheel fiercely, and the car narrowly passed by the mummy, causing a creepy squeezing sound—
She stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the Audi car quickly left the mummy behind.
Closing the door, the people in the car were just a little relieved and took a breath. Lin Sanjiu's mobile phone had long been lost at the entrance of the community, and at this time, Luze and she lay on the back seat and looked back, only to see the dim light of the mobile phone flashlight, the mummy staggered after a few steps, saw the distance getting farther and farther, and 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 her a rabbit tooth. "You could have run away by yourself just now, thank you for risking your life 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 already fought side by side once, for the first time today, Lin Sanjiu smiled softly: "Yes... Now let's talk about this ghost world?"