Chapter 319: Danger! The

Baichuan merely glanced at the siblings a few times, then left the room on his own, heading toward the living room from before; as a weak little cat, he didn't dare explore at night for now, so he could only arrange it for daytime.

With that pair of siblings around yesterday, it wasn't appropriate to dissect and study that "woman" directly, but today is different.

And in this building, it's not just this floor that has those strange high-tier "human shadows"; he'll have to encounter them sooner or later anyway, so why not see if he can deal with them early, and scavenge a bit more food, or tools that the siblings could use.

Zhou Yun's performance had, for the time being, earned this man's recognition from him.

Relying on his current frail tabby cat body, even with his nimble speed and mutated right claw, he couldn't guarantee he'd definitely survive.

After all, in this bizarre city, a lone cat like him, without humans carrying food alongside him, had absolutely no logistics to speak of, and many inconveniences would arise.

There's no way he, a single cat, could carry a small pack of food while running around, right?

Cat paws ultimately aren't that dexterous, and doing so would also be far too conspicuous; if he encountered this world's powerful beings, he'd probably die without even knowing how he died.

Before he had the strength to protect himself, the more he acted up, the easier it was to die.

As for the flesh and blood on those bizarre human shadows, even if they were given to him, he wouldn't dare eat them randomly.

To survive, cooperation was currently the only option.

Leaving the room, Baichuan directly used his incomparably sharp mutated right claw to easily pierce into the wall, and relying on the powerful Burst brought by Agility LV3, he continuously moved upward along the outer wall of this building.

This was something only someone like him, who possessed a high degree of control over his body and was bold despite being skilled — a person (cat) — would dare to do; the outer wall of the building was always a bit safer than the interior—

Well, indeed only a little.

"What a cute little kitty, can you see me?"

"Hey, you can see me, right?!"

Looking at the wall that had suddenly darkened, and the chill brought by the eerie, hoarse voice, Baichuan, clinging to the wall, stiffened for an instant, then immediately resumed his moving posture.

'Can't see, can't see!'

Ignoring the twisted human shadow behind him, as well as the ugly face dangling right before his eyes, Baichuan didn't even dare make a single odd expression, completely acting as if he couldn't see anything as he continued searching for a window on the upper floor.

Now he finally understood why that fat middle-aged man last night had died so casually.

Let alone an ordinary person who had lived long in peaceful times, even he, who had seen much of the world, had his hair stand on end for that instant, wanting to launch an attack.

If not for his extremely strong self-control, knowing that attacking would not only be useless but also invite misfortune, and forcibly stopping his movement, he estimated he would have been done for this time.

Those shadows would not only scare you out of nowhere, but also carry a chilling intent that triggered instinctive reactions in living flesh-and-blood bodies, while simultaneously interfering with your vision, making you unable to see the target.

With all these interferences, if it happened at a critical moment, it would simply be fatal!

Presumably, in this city, most animals without much intelligence had already completely fallen the moment the shadows appeared.

After all, when those cats, dogs, and various animals saw some strange things, compared to the highly intelligent approach of pretending not to see, they preferred to bark madly at them — this was one of the defensive measures animals took when facing foreign objects that threatened their lives.

Unfortunately, while this approach could once drive away powerful enemies, now it could only let them die a little more peacefully.

As for the solution...

Baichuan could only say that different trades are like different mountains; this wasn't something a weak little cat like him needed to consider.

With vacant eyes, as if dazed and ignoring the resentful gaze before him, Baichuan, relying on the memory from that earlier sweeping glance, successfully leapt through a window right in front of the unwilling ten-meter shadow behind him.

"Woo woo woo..."

The moment he entered, he heard a woman's faint sobbing from next door, along with a strange alluring fragrance that was somewhat between stench and perfume.

Although curious, Baichuan had no intention of going to check at the moment; just because it sounded like sobbing, one shouldn't really assume it was a human — it might just be a strange high-tier "shadow" lying in wait; moreover, even if it were a human, it still wasn't something a cat like him should worry about.

He, Baichuan, was now just a heartless cat — food was what mattered.

Identifying the direction, he then, relying on the silent cat-paw pads unique to felines, patrolled around this floor without a sound, noting down in sequence the locations of some food.

Especially some small high-energy foods, like chocolate and the like — he hid those away; although as a cat he couldn't eat them, he could give them to that pair of siblings.

He had to say, being a cat beloved in the modern city, filling his belly really wasn't difficult at all; he just casually wandered around like this, and in several rooms he found cat food and such.

Besides that, he also saw some clumps of blood-stained cat fur and dog fur.

He just didn't know whether they had been slaughtered by those humans, or gnawed by those "human shadows."

A few hours later, Baichuan, who had basically finished scanning this floor, also roughly understood the basic situation of this floor.

The situation was more serious than he had imagined.

An entire floor, four households in total, but only the one location where he had initially heard sobbing showed signs of a living person; as for the other three households — one had blood all over the floor, and the door seemed to have been forcefully broken open, which was exactly where he had found the cat fur and dog fur; in one household, a small room contained a couple who had died with unclosed eyes, leaning against each other; the last household was empty.

Then, it was time to go check it out.

Thinking this, Baichuan swayed his fluffy tail and approached.

"Who's there?!"

Before he even got close, Baichuan suddenly heard a shout coming from inside the room.

'Hm?'

Baichuan paused, somewhat surprised, and looked around.

His stealth had actually been discovered?

This kind of keen perception — could an ordinary person from a peaceful era possess it?

Or was it merely a coincidence?

Or was it really no longer human?

Baichuan thought for a moment, looked at the nearest window behind him, and recalled the window layout of the previous three rooms; if—

He hadn't guessed wrong, at the side corner of this window, there should be a window leading into the side bedroom of that household.

Thinking of this, he slowly retreated, then gently leapt out the window; his body, suspended in mid-air like a flexible fluid, forcefully twisted his front half back, and one claw deeply pierced into the wall to anchor himself, then he slowly moved over.

Meanwhile, inside the room.

Continuous whimpering sobs kept sounding, and near the door of the inner bedroom leaned a figure whose shape was strange and suspected to be a woman.

It was called strange because, although her left half was still human-shaped, her right half had completely transformed into a twisted, bloody mass, from which wisps of black mist continuously drifted out, faintly forming a weeping human face!

The continuous whimpering sobs were precisely coming from that human face formed by the black mist.

And compared to the right half, the left side was relatively normal — one could still faintly see a delicate woman's face.

Her name is Wu Qianqian, a young woman who had only just entered the workplace not long ago. Half a year ago, having just graduated, she relied on her outstanding academic credentials and a decent face to find a relatively good job in this bustling city. Yet she never expected that in just one month... she would unfortunately encounter the rotten luck of "transmigration"!

At the time, she still didn't understand how serious the matter was. She even inexplicably saw strange phantoms wandering through the city, cried out in surprise with her best friend, and even wanted to take photos and post them to her social feed.

But the moment they showed they could perceive the phantoms, the nearby phantoms went berserk and lunged at them frantically. In an instant, her best friend was dead,

While she, at the very moment the phantom lunged, was lucky enough to be pushed aside at the last second by an admiring male companion who was with them, and was only half-pierced through the body by the phantom.

Afterwards, that male companion died and became one of the dazed, wandering figures outside, while she stumbled back into the room and hid...

She had thought she could escape this calamity, but over the following days, strange changes appeared in the right half of her body that had been pierced by the phantom. First, that side began to itch, the muscles twitching and bulging ceaselessly, as if cramping,

Then it began to inflame, with bulging lumps that burst and festered, oozing a strange, foul-smelling pus,

She was terrified, she was uneasy, but there was nothing she could do...

The situation worsened day by day, until two days ago, while she had fallen into a dazed sleep, she was actually jolted awake by a surge of searing pain,

Then she discovered that her right half had turned into a mass of mangled flesh and blood, with countless disgusting, tender-red flesh sprouts writhing ceaselessly, and wisps of strange black mist constantly emanating from within, forming a weeping face! And in her own voice came faintly audible sobs of weeping.

And her right eye had turned a patch of grey-white, within which a red mass could faintly be seen.

She didn't move, unsure what had happened to her own body, or to her eye. But after all this, when that strange human face lured Brother Liu from next door over, and with that mesmerized expression, he was unknowingly sucked into a dried husk by the extending flesh sprouts, she understood!

This is an evil ghost! A demon!

It—it was actually using her body to continuously lure other people over, treating them as food to suck dry!

And every time it sucked, the normal half of her body would diminish by a fraction, making her hungrier and hungrier... more and more exhausted...

In these past few days, she watched helplessly as one familiar face after another was sucked into dried husks by it,

Now, outside the door, yet another person unaware of the truth has been lured over,

That petite figure—could it be Brother Liu's child, barely a few years old?

Please, please you, no, don't come any closer, you'll really die!

Growing weaker and weaker, she collapsed powerlessly against the door, praying from the bottom of her heart,

In that instant, she mustered all her strength to call out softly, trying to startle it away.

"Who!"

A soft shout rang out, and the red mass outside the door finally retreated. Presumably it shouldn't come back, right?

"Ah——!!!"

Just as she was thinking this, the human face on her right half actually let out a piercing shriek toward the window!

The earsplitting sound came crashing through, directly shattering the window in that direction.

A sound like wailing ghosts and howling wolves swept over, carrying a wave of sickeningly sweet, strange fragrance.

This is bad!

In an instant, alarm bells rang wildly in his heart, and Baichuan knew things were about to go wrong.

In that moment, he couldn't be bothered to check any further. Having just leapt onto the window, he kicked off backward and flipped out in a backflip.

"Whoosh!"

The next instant, a piercing sound of tearing air came, and a Black Ghost Claw condensed from black mist shot out directly, completely occupying the entire window and even expanding considerably, extending ceaselessly outward.

"Boom!"

A tremendous commotion erupted from the lower floor. A terrifying Ghost Claw slammed down from above, blasting a pile of unconscious "human figures" that had been trying to gather over into a pulp of flesh.

"Crack crack crack..."

The piercing sound of scraping rang out continuously—it was caused by Baichuan's right claw cutting into the wall after he leapt out and adjusted his posture following a backflip.

Feeling the faint stinging in his abdomen, at this moment Baichuan clicked his tongue as he looked up at the withered black Ghost Claw that had nearly impaled him, somewhat shocked.

This city had only been out of contact for six days, right?

And yet something this terrifying has already been born?

Is this kind of growth speed really normal?

This kind of terrifying destructive power is completely beyond what the high-tier "human figure" "woman" he had killed before could compare to. In that instant, he happened to see another "human figure" emanating a different aura unluckily crushed to pieces by the Ghost Claw along with it!

What stage could this even more bizarre "thing" be born from?

Baichuan vaguely recalled the terrifying scene he had glimpsed in that fleeting moment before.

In a view filled with crimson, a thin layer of strange yellow-red pus flowed across the floor. Several corpses with expressions of terror faintly appeared withered, and wrapped in the midst of all this was a "monster" slumped on the ground!

Its entire body was bloated in posture, a pair of tiny short legs seemingly unable to support its bloated frame, while the right side of its body, amid writhing flesh and blood, billowed out massive amounts of black mist, that black mist converging into a human face with tears at the corners of its eyes, weeping.

Of course, what drew Baichuan's attention most was, on the bloated monster's head, that great mouth ceaselessly oozing yellow-red pus, and those crimson eyes filled with a desire that even he found horrifying!

That intense desire left Baichuan not doubting in the slightest that once caught by that monster, it could swallow him alive and stuff him in.

The pus on the ground—could it be its drool? Or something secreted from its body?

Can a monster like this really be born at the current stage?

Still shaken with uncertainty, Baichuan thought that his current residence was separated from that monster by only a "thin" layer of concrete floor, and felt he wouldn't be able to sleep well at night.

Because no one knew whether the strange yellow-red pus in that room was corrosive. Once it ate through the floor and dripped down, they would have to face this monster head-on!

Even if the pus didn't have that effect, based solely on the destructive power of that Ghost Claw, once it discovered them, a single downward pierce would mean that whether it was him or that pair of siblings, they would probably be sent to heaven in an instant.

This is the rhythm of being done for!

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(End of this chapter)