1TWITF[C Chapter 115

Chapter 115

“What are you two doing? I’m telling you, I’ve called the police!” The shop owner was startled, leaning against the door defensively, ready to escape. He reached into his pocket with one hand, but Lu Yanli grabbed his hand, using a knifehand strike to knock him unconscious.

“Let’s hide in a confined space for now,” Lu Yanli dragged the man inside. Lin Chu looked around for any gaps. Finally, the two sat in front of the counter, looking out through the glass window.

Green fluorescent light spots floated down from the night sky.

A girl walked by, leading her pet dog, and looked up, her face filled with longing.

A mother held her baby, leaning happily against her husband’s embrace.

No one noticed anything wrong. Everyone smiled and treated it as a grand meteor shower descending on the Earth’s surface, thinking it was beautiful.

“What consequences will these things cause?” Lin Chu’s expression became serious.

Lu Yanli only answered her with two words: “Infection.”

Lin Chu didn’t say anything more, leaning against the window and looking out, recording everything.

Neither of them noticed that the shop owner, who had been dragged into the room, was slowly opening his eyes.

*

“Yes, they’re all gone.”

“We have to find a way to take some measures, otherwise, we’ll be the ones disappearing next.”

His question made everyone pause and shake their heads.

“I don’t know, I didn’t see it.”

This was strange. Why did they all disappear?

Wait! Disappeared!

The word suddenly reminded Yu Gaoyi.

Wasn’t their mission to find a missing person? Could it be… related to this matter?

Others immediately thought of this. No one wanted to stay in the town any longer. Lu Yanli had already been caught by the police. They wanted to find the legendary missing person as soon as possible so they could go back quickly.

It was a plastic mannequin, most of its face destroyed, the surface cracked, revealing a bright red texture similar to human flesh with the skin peeled off. It looked unsettling.

“Speaking of which, I got the surveillance footage from the police. Everyone can see what happened to those people.” One of them brought out a computer and suggested, “Let’s take a look? Just in case.”

“Okay.”

The surveillance footage was somewhat blurry. The person zoomed in on the picture, filling the entire screen. Others leaned closer, watching carefully.

Snowflakes flashed across the screen, and then normal footage began to appear.

It was a street that had miraculously survived the explosion. People walked back and forth, and everything seemed normal. But gradually, for some reason, there were suddenly fewer people on the street, and later there wasn’t a single pedestrian. The picture also became a bit darker.

Unconsciously, everyone leaned their heads closer. They stared intently at the screen, but didn’t notice anything strange.

At the end of the street, figures finally appeared.

So far, everything was normal. The people gathered together and said something, but unfortunately, the computer screen froze several times during this part.

“Damn it, the internet here is not good.” The person who made the suggestion patted the computer, and the picture returned to normal.

A girl sitting in the back also stared at the screen intently. She suddenly noticed something wrong.

No… couldn’t be?

She stared at the shadow on the screen again, carefully, making sure she wasn’t seeing things.

No, there was no mistake, she hadn’t seen it wrong!

A coldness shot straight from the soles of her feet to the ceiling. The girl’s body stiffened in place, staring fixedly at the screen, then quickly retracting her gaze, motionless.

Did it find me?

No, I didn’t say it, it won’t find me! It definitely won’t!

However, the chill was not only lingering in her heart. She raised her head blankly, already aware of the bone-chilling coldness that her limbs felt.

What is happening…

Someone was about to ask what happened when they quickly saw it.

Was it a person or a ghost? Why did two identical beings appear? What would happen if the two of them met?

Everyone was afraid and curious, and unconsciously leaned closer.

The picture on the screen was also magnified a bit, without them knowing it.

They could clearly see the two identical, hideous faces.

The person closest to the screen let go in confusion, “Not me, I didn’t move it.”

The others also raised their hands to prove their innocence, “I didn’t move it either.”

The picture froze again, and soon returned to normal. The two figures were getting closer and closer… just as they were about to meet, everyone couldn’t help but hold their breath.

They keenly noticed that blood was dripping from the axe carried by one of the figures. And on the other figure, blood was also dripping from the hem of its clothes. On the blurred surveillance screen, only the red color of the blood was particularly conspicuous, looking very eerie. It seemed like they could really hear the sound of blood dripping, one drop after another, through the screen.

Soon, they couldn’t care about the dripping sound anymore.

In the picture, the two red figures stood face to face, getting closer and closer until they were pressed tightly together. One of them stretched its neck and leaned over, placing its head side by side with the other’s head on its shoulders, just like conjoined twins in the legends. The two identical, hideous faces stuck together, slowly merging from the ears.

Where had they ever seen such a bizarre scene? Everyone was stunned, sitting in place not knowing what to say.

After a long while, the two figures gradually merged into one, with only the heads not completely overlapping. It stretched out its hand, and as if kneading clay, changed its position again. The heads, which were originally side by side, slowly moved, becoming one in front and one in back.

That way, whether viewed from the front or the back, its face could be seen.

Everyone thought about the image, and were a bit horrified. The person sitting in the front rubbed their arms, “Okay, right? Stop watching, it’s scary.”

“Okay, let’s turn it off.”

She reached out to operate it, but for some reason, she couldn’t turn it off at all. Even worse, the figure in the screen turned its head and looked at them.

The pale and hideous face stared straight at them. Its eyes were completely black, and you could hardly see the whites of its eyes. But they just knew – it had found them!

“Turn it off quickly!!”

The person in the front row was about to die of anxiety, “I can’t turn it off! I’ve already pressed the power button directly!”

“Pull the power cord! Hurry!”

“I pulled it! It’s not working!”

The face on the screen was getting bigger and bigger, gradually getting closer.

“Run! Run away!!”

“Damn it! I don’t believe it!”

When people are driven to desperation, they explode. One of them picked up a chair and smashed it hard on the computer.

The computer fell to the ground, the screen shattered, and after a few more smashes, the entire screen finally went dark, emitting choking white smoke.

Before they could be happy, blood gradually flowed from the wreckage of the computer, slowly forming a blood-red footprint.

After the first footprint was formed, a second and third footprint gradually appeared not far in front of it…

It seemed that the direction of the footprints was toward the person who had just smashed the computer!

The man who smashed the computer was scared out of his wits. After venting his courage, he was filled with fear. Now, he regretted it even more. Why did he stand out for no reason? Now he was being targeted.

The room was so big, he ran around the room, the pair of footprints following closely, wherever he went, they followed. In the end, the whole room was filled with bloody footprints.

“Can you stop running around? You were impulsive yourself, don’t make us suffer with you.”

He fell down.

The pair of footprints stopped in front of him.

“Hurry up! Smash it harder!”

Even though the position of the door lock was teetering, the door was still tightly closed. The sound of chairs smashing the door was sharp and ear-piercing, mixed with an unclear ticking sound.

No one cared that a red handprint was gradually appearing on the neck of the man on the ground.

Then, he opened his mouth wide, his face turning bluish-purple. He began to struggle constantly, making “ho ho” sounds in his mouth.

But it was useless. He struggled for several minutes, and the legs kicking wildly on the ground finally stopped.

At the same time, with another heavy blow, the door lock finally fell off. The leader excitedly pulled the door open, ready to go out—

Outside the door frame, a pair of pale, bare feet hung in mid-air, swaying gently in the wind.

Drops of blood slid from her fingertips.

Tick.

Falling to the ground.

“Ahhhhh—”

Screams, chaotic footsteps, pleas for mercy, loud cries…

After a while, silence returned.

*

“Half an hour,” Lin Chu recorded the time.

If they didn’t take measures soon, the whole world would become a breeding ground for that thing, and then he would have nowhere to go.

Lin Chu clearly recorded the time in her notebook.

At ten minutes, everyone was still normal.

Around fifteen minutes, the first person began to scratch.

Around eighteen minutes, everyone began to scratch.

It was useless, umbrellas couldn’t block the green light spots floating in the air and approaching living things.

Around thirty minutes, signs of ulceration had appeared.

Lu Yanli made the message into a Trojan virus and released it.

Really?

Many people were skeptical, while those citizens who were bathing in the “meteor shower” were already on the verge of collapse.