dmims Chapter 35 Infection
Chapter 35 Infection
Beside the campfire.
In the dim darkness, there were distant wolf howls, seemingly intimidated by Eisen's earlier gunshots, which only whimpered and dared not advance.
Xu Yang sat on the ground.
He wasn't afraid, but the night watch was incredibly boring. Aside from listening to the crackling of the fire, all he could do was play with the blade on his wrist.
bass.
A glint of silver light appeared, then suddenly vanished.
After retracting the blade for what felt like the umpteenth time, Xu Yang glanced at his bracelet.
Time is almost up...
A snapping sound came from behind.
Newt is here.
Xu Yang glanced at him and saw that the other person was only wearing a white shirt for sleeping, and had a pendant around his neck.
"You've worked hard, go to sleep."
He walked to the fire, squatted down on one side, and put a jar of water on the fire to heat it.
Xu Yang nodded, glanced at the gun holstered in his holster, and turned to leave.
They walked all the way to the sleeping compartment, where Mann lay down as well.
The innermost part contains the flesh of a synthetic beast that looks like a brown mud monster, and next to it is a pile of nutrient solution that can stimulate cell division and is said to produce more edible meat.
After a creaking sound, Xu Yang closed the carriage door, leaving only a crack.
He lay down in a corner of the compartment, making sure his trench coat could cover most of his body, before closing his eyes and carefully falling asleep...
Time flies by.
The moment Mann shifted his body, Xu Yang opened his eyes, and a white line peeked through the crack in the carriage door.
The night passed peacefully.
Xu Yang exhaled a breath of stale air; it seemed his worries were unnecessary.
During dinner that evening, he remembered Newtdo glancing at his equipment a few times. Given Newtdo's somewhat mysterious identity and background, he couldn't help but be suspicious.
Fortunately, everything is progressing normally.
As I left the carriage, the same meat soup as last night was placed on the fire, and two employees from the breeding farm were adding dry branches underneath.
Eisen sat to the side, waved to Xu Yang, and greeted him.
……
Everyone quickly finished breakfast.
The vehicle started and slowly drove onto the road through the forest.
We still have a day's journey to reach our destination.
If all goes well, we should arrive tonight.
Through the car window, the tall, lush, dark green trees on both sides gave the impression of unfathomable depths when peering through their thick trunks.
Perhaps it was the lack of sunlight that made it suddenly feel somewhat eerie.
Xu Yang rested his arm on the car window, supporting half of his face, his skin trembling slightly with the vibrations of the vehicle.
Looking ahead at the empty highway...
Far away.
There seems to be some inexplicable shadow.
Xu Yang lowered his hand and rubbed his eyes.
That is--
"Stop!"
……
The vehicle slowly came to a stop in the middle of the road.
pat.
That was the sound of boots hitting the ground. Xu Yang and two other temporary teammates got out of the car.
Dozens of meters ahead of them, a figure lay sprawled on the edge of the road, while nearby, in the dense forest, lay the wreckage of a vehicle billowing black smoke, nestled among the dense tree trunks; it must have overturned off the road.
Xu Yang looked at the figure, a strange light flashing in his eyes.
[The corpse]
[A human corpse, infected with a fungus, its skull shattered during the rolling, with minor burns remaining on the body.]
[Note: Mom, I see you...]
……
The three men, guns in hand, slowly approached, and the full appearance of the corpse was finally revealed.
Putting aside the clothing and appearance, the flesh on the corpse's face was rotting in a bizarre way, and the surface of the eyeballs looked like a pool of silt, with several small, grayish-green bubbles the size of rice grains bulging in the eye sockets.
Newt glanced around. "These must be scavengers."
No one objected. Besides the body, there were various broken items scattered on the road, a collection that only a scavenger could gather.
Eisen lowered the gun he had raised and muttered, "What happened here?"
Just as everyone was wondering.
"Help."
Swah——
The three men simultaneously raised their guns and looked in the direction of the sound, which was coming from next to the wrecked vehicle in the woods.
One step, two steps, three steps...
Their boots crunched on the soft, damp earth as they slowly circled around to the back of the vehicle. A burnt smell filled their nostrils, and two battered figures came into view.
The lower half of a body was pinned under the frame of a vehicle, engulfed in flames, a bloody mess, the spine twisted at an unbelievable angle. A woman reached out her hand, crying hoarsely, "Please, save me, I'm a scavenger."
"Don't... listen to her."
That was another, weaker voice. A balding man leaned against a tree trunk in front of the car, his leg broken, blood dripping from his mouth and nose. He looked up at Xu Yang and the other two.
A grayish-green, flocculent substance sprouted wisps of roots from the center of the pupil.
【Humanity】
The man, critically injured and near death due to vehicle damage, is now suffering from a fungal infection that is eroding his body.
[Note: That bitch!]
The three men instantly focused their attention on the even more bizarre bald man.
"She's... part of the Doomsday Caravan."
"I didn't! I'm a scavenger! I'm a scavenger!" the woman screamed in despair.
The man's eerie pupils suddenly turned to her, and he seemed to feel better for a moment. He laughed, "Heh heh, you won't survive, you bitch. We're all doomed."
In this almost riddle-like conversation, Xu Yang's doubts were reduced to the least.
He was fully focused and alert, his gun pointed at the man.
Sudden--
"what!"
The woman screamed.
She covered her eyes with her hands, her body trembling uncontrollably, "No, I don't want to, please let me go—"
Bang!
"Enough! What on earth happened?!" Newt fired a shot into the air.
The gunshot had its effect; the bald man looked at Newt, about to speak, "Ahem..."
He coughed up blood and was finally able to catch his breath: "Infected, we've been infected by the mushrooms. The quarantine zone, the green tower, tell the settlement."
"Ah~" He closed his eyes, his pale, blood-stained lips trembling with pain, his chest heaving violently, and his breath growing increasingly shallow.
Snapped.
Xu Yang looked in that direction in response.
It was the woman under the car frame; her hand covering her eyes finally fell down, and her fingers gripped the ground as she moved forward.
"Help me."
His eye sockets were now filled with dense, grayish-green, fluffy substances, making him no longer human.
She didn't know where the strength came from, but she managed to move her crippled lower body, and the bicycle frame started creaking.
The fingers gripping the ground, their bones worn down, still manage to push forward, embedded in the soil.
More like some kind of monster.
Bang!
The shotgun in Eisen's hand suddenly exploded, the bullet piercing the woman's head, splattering red and white blood together.
The corpse lay sprawled on the filthy ground.
She calmed down.
The dark-skinned man's face had turned red.
"Well done, cough," the bald man coughed after hearing the gunshot, "Go back, don't go any further, get out of here, there are other infected people."
"Huff...huff..."
"Cough, quick, kill me, burn me—"
He paused, then suddenly opened his eyes, a strange smile playing on his lips.
"Ita".
Bang!
Newt pulled the trigger instantly.
Xu Yang lit a flame in his hand and set the corpses ablaze.
In the heatwave, Newt took out a medicine bottle from his bag and dropped in three pills: "These are anti-infection drugs, one pill per person."
Xu Yang checked the medicine with the guide and, finding no problems, swallowed it in one gulp, glancing at his two teammates out of the corner of his eye.
It is not infected with fungi.
The three of them quickly returned to the transport vehicle.