Chapter 185: Flesh-Human Bones

"Lin Xian."

Kiki, who had been relatively bold, was terrified by such a scene for the first time. She hid by Lin Xian's side, her face full of disgust as she said, "Ho... how could this be? These people..."

Lin Xian's brows were tightly furrowed at this moment. The scene before him had also dealt him a powerful psychological shock. He observed the rows of flesh-human bones and said in a deep voice, "It's a bit strange. Judging by the level of decay, it's very different from the corpses outside; it looks like they've been here for less than a month."

"That means it's not safe here at all," Kiki said, adjusting her breathing. "Is there still a need for us to investigate?"

"No need."

Lin Xian shook his head and shone his flashlight row by row. But just as his flashlight reached the end, he discovered that in the middle of the last row of seats, there was still a woman sitting there, perfectly intact.

"Lin Xian, there's still a person!" Kiki exclaimed.

Looking from afar, the woman's hair was disheveled and she looked utterly wretched. She was leaning back against the chair, life or death unknown.

"Let's go take a look."

Lin Xian didn't hesitate; he ran along the aisle onto the viewing platform, and Kiki, suppressing her nausea, quickly flew up as well.

As the distance closed, Lin Xian became more certain that the woman might still be alive.

Click, click, click.

For the sake of caution, Lin Xian directly fashioned a long pole and walked over to poke the woman's back.

The woman sitting in the chair tilted and fell to the side. Her body wasn't stiff, and she still had a faint breath. Lin Xian and Kiki exchanged glances. Kiki immediately raised her hand to use her ability, lifting the woman from the chair and slowly placing her on the aisle floor.

"She's indeed still alive," Kiki said, frowning. "But her heartbeat and breathing rhythm are both very chaotic; she should be dying."

Lin Xian walked over and shone his flashlight on the woman. She looked to be in her early thirties, her entire body was gray-white, she looked malnourished, her hair and clothes were incredibly messy, and she didn't even have shoes on her feet. Her whole person exuded the scent of someone on the verge of death.

He looked at this last row of flesh-human bones; the level of decay wasn't high, and it looked quite fresh.

"She might be a survivor." Lin Xian squatted down, preparing to check the woman's condition.

But when he shone the flashlight on the woman's face, she seemed to be stung by the bright light; she suddenly frowned and struggled to raise her hand.

Lin Xian and Kiki's expressions changed. At this moment, the woman's breathing also began to become rapid, and then she slowly opened her eyes.

The next instant, seeing Lin Xian and Kiki before her, the woman's eyes widened in terror, and she immediately shrank back on the floor in nervousness.

"Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you. Who are you?"

Lin Xian hadn't expected the woman to wake up suddenly. Seeing her fearful appearance, he spoke immediately.

But the woman seemed terrified out of her wits; she didn't hear Lin Xian's words at all, kept retreating, then struggled to stand up, turned around, and ran.

"Catch her!"

Seeing this, Lin Xian decisively let Kiki take action.

"Okay."

The two cooperated tacitly. Kiki directly raised her hand and used her telekinesis to grab the woman, dragging her back.

"Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you," Lin Xian said loudly.

Under the control of the invisible telekinesis, the woman struggled frantically, but her mouth seemed unable to make any sound.

Kiki frowned and looked at Lin Xian: "Could she be deaf and mute?"

Lin Xian also reacted subconsciously and was just about to think of how to communicate with her, but the next instant, he saw the woman's expression become even more terrified, and her gaze wasn't looking at Lin Xian and Kiki, but at the aisle behind him.

Seeing this, the two hurriedly turned their heads and discovered that at the aisle behind them, a bizarre human face had appeared at some point!

It was actually a person walking upside down!

"Careful!"

Seeing this monster, Lin Xian's pupils shook, and he raised his hand, sending a surge of electricity toward it.

Woo-zzt!

Silvery electric light flashed, directly striking the white inverted monster, burning a charred hole. The monster paused, and in an instant, it climbed over at an extremely fast speed, making no sound, and reached Lin Xian in less than a second!

Lin Xian hadn't expected the monster to be this fast. He didn't even have time to build an iron door, so in a conditioned reflex, he could only swing out an ice shield.

Kiki also decisively raised her hand and swung, pushing the ice shield Lin Xian had created forward.

Bang!!!

The white inverted monster collided head-on, its long, thin arms flailing wildly, sending a patch of flesh-human bones on the seats flying. Various chunks of flesh and skeletons flew everywhere, making a clattering sound.

"Retreat first."

Lin Xian immediately had Kiki take the person and retreat outside the cinema hall first. With so many flesh-human bones in this hall, it meant that this cinema was definitely like the sealed space in the No. 8 Underground City; even in the daytime, there were bizarre entities!

"Okay." Kiki couldn't be agile here; she landed on the ground, used her ability to grab the woman, and began to run toward the cinema's emergency exit.

Lin Xian followed closely behind.

Pfft, pfft, pfft!

He tentatively fired a few wind guns, wanting to see if this bizarre entity could be dealt with, but the white inverted monster was extremely fast. After knocking aside his ice shield, it caught up after a few climbs.

Hum!

Kiki took action while running. A powerful telekinetic force suppressed the white inverted monster, but it only suppressed it for a few seconds before the monster began to struggle frantically. The two sides were at a stalemate. Kiki gritted her teeth, directly raised her hand and pushed, sending out a shockwave.

Boom, boom, boom!

The corridor's carpet and wall lamps shattered layer by layer, directly blasting the inverted monster to the end of the corridor. Its bizarre limbs clawed and struggled in the shadows, then it suddenly burrowed into the shadows and disappeared.

!

Lin Xian looked at Kiki and noticed a look of urgency on her face, knowing that this thing was probably not easy to solve.

"Get out first." Seeing that this aisle connected to the cinema's projection room, Lin Xian wanted to quickly transfer to the street outside. Although he could now build heavy firepower like the Roarer K23 electric rotary machine gun, he couldn't instantly build a Gatling gun weighing dozens of kilograms and hundreds of bullets in such an urgent moment.

It was daytime outside now, so this bizarre entity shouldn't dare to follow them out. Even if this thing wasn't afraid of daylight, they could run toward the train; the 1130 would definitely make this thing calm down.

Taking advantage of this gap, the two hurriedly ran outside the projection room corridor.

But at this moment, there was no sound behind them; the white inverted monster didn't seem to have followed.

Lin Xian's heart tightened. Just as he sensed something strange, he raised his flashlight and was shocked to find a man standing at the end of the corridor.

The man didn't move, looking at the two with a half-smiling expression on his face.

"Who is it!"

Kiki didn't hesitate. Seeing this person appear bizarrely, she directly raised her hand, preparing to use telekinesis to restrain him first.

Who knew that the man suddenly opened his mouth wide, his face tearing open from the middle, and brownish-red tentacles continuously extended from his throat, pouncing over with a hiss.

"Human-bizarre?!"

Kiki grabbed backhand, directly restraining the human-bizarre in mid-air. Lin Xian raised his hand, and a charged electric surge directly pierced its head.

Pfft!

Argh!!!

The human-bizarre hissed and roared, being directly slammed to the ground by Kiki. Lin Xian stepped forward, both hands directly firing wind guns at the human-bizarre's head at close range.

Cluster, cluster, cluster!!

Flesh and blood flew everywhere. He took out his GK electric knife backhand, channeled the electric arc, and slashed it open with one strike!

Whoosh~

A burst of flesh and blood flew out. In an instant, Lin Xian and Kiki both discovered that this human-bizarre was completely different from what they had seen in the No. 9 Underground City; a thin layer of human skin covered it, but inside the human skin was a wriggling monster, like a mass of red worms tangled together!

"This... how can this monster be wearing human skin??" Kiki said in surprise at this moment.

"So those people were all skinned by this kind of monster and disguised as humans?" Lin Xian's expression was extremely solemn at this moment, because before the tentacles extended, this thing was exactly the same as a normal person!

This was even more chilling than humans mutating into zombies or human-bizarres. If monsters became more and more like humans, then the human situation would be even more terrifying.

At this moment, Lin Xian suddenly sensed something. He immediately turned his head and cast his gaze toward the woman he and Kiki had just saved.

Because he discovered that the woman seemed to have stopped struggling for a long time.

The woman who had just struggled to escape was now standing behind Kiki, a bizarre smile appearing on her face. The corners of her mouth gradually moved upward, her skin was lifted, becoming sinister and terrifying, becoming less and less like a human!

(End of chapter)