Quick Transmigration: What to Do When the Male Supporting Character You Saved Becomes Obsessed with

Chapter 404 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (15)

Lu Liruan took a deep breath to calm her wildly beating heart, then took out her phone.

She was actually very afraid that something inexplicable would appear in the light the moment she turned on the flashlight.

The person who could appear before them at this time and place could not possibly be like the drunken older brother who came home late yesterday.

The footsteps were slow and somber, as if they were emerging from a dark swamp.

Lu Liruan wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she felt that the footsteps carried a strange sound of water, as if some water was dripping onto the ground as she walked.

But right now, it's not raining outside.

The footsteps reached the fifth floor.

It's already very clear.

Lu Liruan's fingertips trembled as she tapped the flashlight button on the screen. The light from the phone flashlight had little penetrating power; it was just a blurry, bright white light in front of her eyes.

The moment it was turned on, Lu Liruan felt that the illuminated area seemed to be shrinking rapidly!

It was as if the viscous darkness was swallowing up the light bit by bit...

Lu Liruan suddenly turned it off again.

It went completely dark again, and Lu Liruan could hear her own rapid breathing.

"what happened?"

Liao Tingyuan kept his wary gaze fixed on the direction of the stairs, unaware of what was happening behind him to Lu Liruan.

"Wait until that thing comes up before turning it on. The flashlight beam will dim quickly once it's turned on, so we need to use it only where it's critical," Lu Liruan explained hastily.

Liao Tingyuan squeezed her arm slightly to indicate that he understood.

Lu Liruan didn't know if it was because of the environment or her own emotions, but she felt very cold and even her jaw was chattering.

But this shouldn't be her subjective feeling. Lu Liruan felt that her skin temperature should be very low right now because she could already feel the temperature of Liao Tingyuan's palm.

Even when Liao Tingyuan wasn't wearing a glove, his hand was usually ice-cold, but now, with his palm pressed against her arm, Lu Liruan actually felt a warmth.

"Don't be afraid."

The footsteps reached the landing between the fifth and sixth floors, just a few steps away from them.

Liao Tingyuan suddenly whispered, "I will protect you."

Lu Liruan looked up at Lin's thin, indistinct figure in the darkness, and opened her mouth.

Although Liao Tingyuan's words were reversed in relation to her mission.

But Lu Liruan felt touched at an inopportune moment.

They had only known each other for a few days, yet Liao Tingyuan was willing to stand in front of him in such a terrifying and uncertain situation.

Although Lu Liruan doesn't fully understand him yet, she feels that if anything happens, he definitely won't abandon her.

Liao Tingyuan has a gentle sense of security about him.

He wasn't particularly strong, nor did he talk much, but he made people feel very at ease.

Lu Liruan's fear subsided somewhat, replaced by a sudden surge of courage.

They couldn't hold Liao Tingyuan back either. No matter what they faced, they had to work together to overcome the current difficulties before they could think about what to do next.

"Pat-pat-pat-pat-"

As they got closer, Lu Liruan heard something, a sticky sound of something falling to the ground.

This time it wasn't the sound of water, but rather something tangible falling to the ground.

"call--"

Lu Liruan let out a long breath and placed her hand on Liao Tingyuan's back: "I'm going to start, three—"

Liao Tingyuan's body tensed up even more, and Lu Liruan could feel the movement of his back under her hands.

"two--"

"one!"

After Lu Liruan finished saying the third number, she turned on the flashlight again and shone the light toward the stairs as quickly as possible.

A figure appeared in the light.

On the old, dusty staircase, a figure bent over seemed to be drawn by the light. He stopped, no more than two meters away from Lu Liruan and Liao Tingyuan.

Lu Liruan could smell a huge, fishy stench, like walking through a summer seafood market.

It's even more nauseating than that smell; once you smell it, you'll never forget it.

Lu Liruan couldn't recall ever smelling anything worse than this. She felt she had never encountered such a stench in her entire life!

It wasn't just the stench that made me nauseous; it was downright terrifying. It wasn't just the smell; it felt like a horrifying signal.

"Snapped--"

Something soft and shapeless fell onto the dust.

Through the shrinking white light, Lu Liruan saw dust rising and settling on the object.

The image of that thing was captured on Lu Liruan's retina.

I saw it, but I couldn't tell the difference.

It seems like the brain can't even receive signals—

Lu Liruan stared blankly for a long time, perhaps a few seconds, before she suddenly realized what the thing that had fallen was.

It is a human organ.

Deep red, almost purplish, an eerie deep red... with rotting green on it.

It was unclear what caused it, perhaps from a connection point or a surgical wound, but an oily, sticky liquid was secreting, which flowed onto a small puddle on the ground under Lu Liruan's gaze.

Lu Liruan wasn't a medical student, but at that moment, she felt she knew what it was:

That was a human kidney.

"Well--"

Her body reacted before her mind; Lu Liruan felt the acid rising in her stomach burning her throat with a sharp pain, as if it were being ground by grains of sand.

But she can't afford to fall now!

Lu Liruan felt that she had developed a split personality, that she had become two separate individuals.

One was collapsing and vomiting, while the other remained quiet and indifferent.

It seemed that the indifferent personality had taken over, and Lu Liruan slowly moved her gaze upwards, following the kidney on the ground.

His legs were clad in men's typical summer shorts, but unusually, his intestines were wrapped around them.

Lu Liruan couldn't distinguish between the large and small intestines, and it was the first time she had ever known that human intestines could be so long. They swayed and dangled like pinkish-red ropes, tangling and hindering her steps. There was also a section that was torn and dragged behind her, worn down by the steps, leaving a trail of bloodstains.

Above it hung a contracted stomach, pierced by broken ribs, and some broken bones pierced into the lungs and flesh.

The punctured lung lobe was shrinking, while the other lobe, rotten and whitish with small white mold growing on it, seemed to still be working, its two fist-sized, inflated hearts still beating.

Jumping...

The reason we can see such a scene is because this "person," or something temporarily called a person, has its entire abdominal cavity open.

It didn't feel like it was cut open with a sharp instrument, but rather torn open by something forceful. At the wound, you could still see the shape of individual meat fibers, and the fat layer was very thick, with liquefied fat oil...

"Tick-tick-tick-"

He stepped on it.

"Tap-tap-tap-"

It was the kind of footsteps that made a sticky, watery sound.

The light is dimming.

"What...what is this thing?!"

Lu Liruan heard her own voice sound as awful as sawing wood.

"do not know."

Liao Tingyuan genuinely had no idea; this was the first time he had ever encountered such a situation.

"Then, what do we do?"

"what--"

Before Lu Liruan could finish speaking, she suddenly screamed reflexively.

The thing that seemed to have been frozen in place by the sudden light suddenly lunged forward.

Because the distance was so close, even if he wasn't moving very fast, he could reach them in the blink of an eye.

Lu Liruan hadn't shaken off her preconceived notions. Normally, if a person's internal organs were exposed like that, they would be dead long ago, let alone able to move.

But this person walked up to him from downstairs.

He is not a human, he is a monster!

The stench filled Lu Liruan's nostrils, making her want to back away.

But there are rooms behind that can't be locked, so where can we retreat to?

Lu Liruan recalled the scene of the kitten tugging at her trouser leg.

Could it be that these kittens have also sensed the danger?

Unable to escape downstairs, they tried to pull her upstairs...

"hiss--"

The thing made a hissing sound, like the sound of a deflated balloon.

Just as Lu Liruan was gripped by fear, Liao Tingyuan in front of her suddenly moved.

Using the faint light that remained, Lu Liruan saw that he moved like the wind, turning halfway around to completely shield Lu Liruan in the angle between his back and the wall.

"Pfft-"

He launched a flying kick, striking the thing's hunched shoulder diagonally.

The force was immense...

Lu Liruan watched in disbelief as one of the things' arms, connected to its shoulder, collapsed, forming an extremely bizarre angle.

Holy crap!

At that time, that thing was already very close to Liao Tingyuan.

The two were only about an arm's length apart.

Lu Liruan didn't even see how he kicked up there. To kick that high and maintain such powerful force.

In that instant, Lu Liruan realized that a large part of the reason Liao Tingyuan chose to kick his shoulder was that he really didn't want to kick into that thing's already sticky, rotten, and disemboweled abdominal cavity.

That scene should be...

yue——

But the thing seemed completely oblivious, moving like a stinking mass of rotten flesh, hissing as it moved, with more blood, fat, and bits of flesh falling to the ground with each movement.

As Lu Liruan moved, she felt herself stepping on those things, and then crushing them...

The phone's light is getting dimmer.

Lu Liruan desperately stretched her phone forward, trying to make Liao Tingyuan see it more clearly, but to no avail. As she reached out to Liao Tingyuan's side, she anxiously asked, "My flashlight can't hold up anymore, where's your phone?"

"In the house."

"Where is it in the house? I'll go get it!"

"..."

From Liao Tingyuan's silence, Lu Liruan knew that he probably didn't know where she had left her phone.

You can leave your phone lying around anytime, but not now!

Lu Liruan didn't dare to turn the flashlight off and on again, lest the little bit of light left disappear.

Lu Liruan wondered if it was just her imagination, but it seemed that Liao Tingyuan was the one fighting against that thing, yet that thing seemed to be paying more attention to her.

Lu Liruan couldn't see his face clearly just now, even though she was so close.

Because of his face...

Lu Liruan couldn't describe it well; his face was like a Shar Pei, with layers of wrinkles hanging down, making it difficult to even distinguish his facial features.

His face looked as if it were about to melt away, radiating an aura of evil.

Lu Liruan wanted to swear, but couldn't get the words out.

How evil!

Liao Tingyuan was forced to retreat, almost touching Lu Liruan.

Lu Liruan rested her face against his back, feeling his heartbeat quicken due to the intense movements.

Ah! So you're someone whose heart rate increases during exercise too...

For some reason, Lu Liruan suddenly felt a stronger sense of reality towards Liao Tingyuan.

Lu Liruan was surprised by Liao Tingyuan's skill. His moves were swift and decisive, clearly not the work of a novice. When he kicked high, Lu Liruan could even hear the sound of air being cut through.

If it were kicked at a normal person, they probably wouldn't be able to withstand it. But unfortunately, the opponent was something that would keep advancing no matter how you fought against it.

Lu Liruan realized it; he was coming to capture her!

That thing was already trying to reach out and grab him from Liao Tingyuan's side!

"You..." Before Liao Tingyuan could speak, he felt a void behind him! Lu Liruan slid out through the gap on the other side of his back like a fish and ran towards the stairs upstairs.

"Come back!" Liao Tingyuan's voice was unusually loud for once: "Running uphill is useless!"

He thought Lu Liruan was frightened because the thing was too close to her, so she panicked and tried to escape.

But as soon as Lu Liruan climbed one step, the thing turned around and pounced on her.

Liao Tingyuan saw the girl holding a phone in one hand and raising a kitchen knife in the other! She swung it down fiercely at the thing!

"Clang-"

The cleaver grazed the object and struck the railing beside it.

"You're stealing his escape route!" Lu Liruan shouted.

She stood behind Liao Tingyuan. The closer the thing got, the shorter the distance between them would become.

The shorter the distance, the less Liao Tingyuan could use his skills.

Now that he had created some distance between himself and Liao Tingyuan, sure enough, the thing came toward him. With Liao Tingyuan behind him, he had a better chance to strike!

While shouting, Lu Liruan haphazardly brandished the kitchen knife in front of her.

It had the air of: "Die, everyone who gets close!"

Liao Tingyuan realized what was happening and immediately cooperated with Lu Liruan. Lu Liruan felt something fall on her feet, and then the thing in front of her... came down from her waist.

Broken.

But he was still moving.

Damn! Why aren't they dying?

Liao Tingyuan had not expected them to be so tenacious.

Taking advantage of his momentary pause, Lu Liruan stepped on his intestines on the ground and ran away, the sensation under her feet was slippery.

When Lu Liruan turned around, she was completely stunned.

That thing actually stood up again, its waist clearly bent forward, its upper body twisted strangely, and continued to attack her!