Chapter 298: 294 A New Day Has Begun?

294 A New Day Has Begun?

After the Mysterious Disappearance Case involving teenagers and children was solved, Fang Mu suddenly fell gravely ill, becoming increasingly emaciated. He would occasionally suffer from mental confusion, and the incoherent muttering he let out from time to time often made the doctors and nurses caring for him shudder. They dared not listen closely to what Fang Mu was saying, but the words they could vaguely distinguish were "hungry," "very hungry," and "want to eat."

The Mysterious Investigators who had once braved life and death with Fang Mu and had forged a friendship with him were worried about this and would come to visit from time to time. However, Fang Mu would always display a "stiff" normalcy, saying with a dull gaze that he was fine, yet the words related to "hunger" that abruptly interspersed his speech made everyone feel a heart-palpitating sensation, as if a tick were quietly piercing the skin to burrow inside.

They thought of that experience deep within the Corpse Disciple mine, and the fanatical way Fang Mu treated those filthy, twisted Corpse Disciples as if they were food; the intense appetite caused saliva to uncontrollably secrete and gush down from the corners of his mouth.

As An Fang and the others watched Fang Mu's sallow, gaunt body fail to be satisfied even by fifteen large bags of glucose a day, they knew that Fang Mu's body was developing toward an unknowable, malignant change...

Routine intravenous drips could no longer satisfy Fang Mu's appetite; his body even developed a rejection reaction, as if his body itself were "anorexic." Fang Mu's blood even miraculously flowed back into the infusion bag filled with injection fluid. Seeing this strange phenomenon, the medical staff had to immediately terminate Fang Mu's infusion. What made people feel strange was that, although Fang Mu was clearly approaching death step by step, his eyes were becoming brighter and brighter, and his spirit was vigorous.

One week after the rejection reaction to the infusion appeared, An Fang heard a colleague who had suddenly come to report urgently say: "Fang Sen has suddenly gone mad, arguing that he wants to eat meat, wants to eat the meat of Corpse Disciples! Wants to eat the meat of Frogmen! Then he used his mouth to bite and his hands to scratch to attack everyone who tried to stop him. Now the person has been transferred from the hospice hospital to the Yichang Jingshen Liaoyangyuan."

Upon hearing this, An Fang immediately rushed to the place where Fang Sen had been transferred and detained. Seeing Fang Mu still roaring and demanding to eat the meat of Abnormal creatures under the suppression of several burly orderlies, she could not help but be moved, and then she left in secret sorrow.

A few days later, Fang Mu went missing, and several patients from the sanatorium went missing along with him.

An Fang and the others were anxious, worrying about Fang Mu's loss of control while also fearing for his personal safety, because the patients who went missing with Fang Mu were severely Alienated patients who had somehow escaped from the guarded ward.

After a day of arduous searching, the Mysterious Investigators finally found Fang Mu in a corner of the sewer beneath the psychiatric sanatorium. Moreover, the Fang Mu they found was so healthy and strong, with a rosy complexion and full of vigor, as if he had recovered from a serious illness.

Yet no one felt happy; instead, their faces were gloomy, because they had found him by following a trail of gnawed bone and flesh residue.

Near the place where the healthy Fang Mu had collapsed, they found the mangled corpses of those severely Alienated patients. Their bodies were deformed and twisted, no longer human in shape, having already completed the process of Alienation before death and thoroughly transformed into Abnormal creatures.

After this incident, Fang Mu was subjected to the detention treatment for super-severe Alienation patients, and the upper echelons of the Xuanmi Group took note of the situation here.

After a night of intense debate among the high-level officials of the Xuanmi Group, Fang Mu's method of death was finally confirmed.

Fang Mu was executed by firing squad, and the body was required to be incinerated immediately after the execution.

Before An Fang and the others even knew how Fang Mu was to be handled, Fang Mu was executed by the swift and iron-fisted high-level officials of the Xuanmi Group.

Fang Mu did not expect that he would die so stiflingly in this life. When he died, he once again experienced the special sensation of his soul leaving his body. Watching his own body, which had been riddled with bullets like a sieve, being pushed into the incinerator to be burned to ash, he sighed in his heart at his own ill-fated destiny.

However, Fang Mu, in his soul-like form, did not let his guard down. He remembered the encounter he was bound to experience before his previous two transmigrations; those hideous, strange mantises would soon appear and then kill him.

Sure enough, just as Fang Mu thought of the existence of the strange mantises, the other party appeared stealthily, raising a giant sickle to slash down. Fang Mu immediately dodged.

Unfortunately, Fang Mu could not move faster than the strange mantises, and he was ultimately slashed to death by the strange mantises!

Ha!

When Fang Mu's vision cleared again, he found that he had transmigrated to the war era and had been saved by a kind farming family. Not long after waking up, he happened to encounter enemy invaders; the village fell, and the benefactor's entire family was slaughtered.

To avenge his country and his family, Fang Mu abandoned the idea of wanting to rewrite his destiny and joined the team in the village that was resisting the enemy invaders, killing over a dozen enemies who entered the village.

He did not know why he had become so heroic and fierce after transmigrating this time, which reminded him of the unanimous evaluation of him by everyone and history in his previous life: "a fierce warrior."

Before he could figure out the reason, Fang Mu, who at the time only wanted to kill all the enemy invaders, received support and rescue from a group of troops. Fang Mu and they killed all the enemy invaders together, and he and several surviving villagers naturally joined the revolutionary army camp of Shenzhou at that time, calling himself "Fang Peng," thus beginning his warrior career as "Fang Peng."

In the days of fighting on the battlefield, Fang Mu felt that he could temporarily forget the troubles on his body. He used his youthful body to hunt enemies without any scruples; it seemed that only in this way could he cast those lingering, terrifying pasts to the back of his mind. After all, those enemies on the battlefield were not as weird and terrifying as the Abnormal creatures he had experienced.

After the war ended, Fang Mu quietly left the army. Before anyone could notice, he had already disappeared without a trace.

Fang Mu came alone to a deep mountain forest isolated from the world, then took the Nail Hammer that had transmigrated to this era with him, struck the Nail with the iron hammer, and the sharp tip of the Nail penetrated through his nose and into his brain...

The moment he opened his nasal aperture, Fang Mu felt that everything had changed. Everything he could perceive in the human world had undergone a world-shaking change. He could no longer see things in the human world, could not hear any sounds from the familiar environment, and could not speak human language; the moment he opened his mouth, he would inevitably emit strange whispers. The moment the words were spoken, even the air seemed to congeal. He could not smell the scent of the human world either; those fragrant or foul odors that rushed into his nostrils were not smells he had ever smelled before—they were unprecedented, complex, and chaotic flavor profiles that could impact the spirit, making his soul tremble.

At the same time, Fang Mu felt that he was disappearing. A massive, bizarre knowledge, memory, and insane will that did not belong to him were crushing down on him like a landslide. His consciousness was being submerged by those things, with no power to resist...

At this moment, it thought that it would rather be blind, deaf, unable to smell, unable to taste... would rather die than suffer such pain...

Beep, beep, beep—

Fang Mu's heart stopped, and he woke up with a start. Subconsciously, he climbed up from the bed and slapped the alarm clock that was making the sound. He felt his head splitting with pain as if he had experienced a hangover, and his whole body felt strange in ways he couldn't describe, but he still stubbornly got up to wash, because a new day had begun.