Lady Luck hadn't abandoned them. After finishing its meal, the Zerg Beast slowly crawled away, leaving behind a puddle of white slime.
Chu Ran stared at the empty intersection and whispered, "It won't double back, will it?"
Both sides were low walls. If they ran across the intersection and ran into it, they were dead.
"No," the boy exhaled slowly, crouching as he stood up. "A white worm's brain isn't much bigger than a soybean."
As soon as he finished speaking, a gust of wind passed him. He looked and saw Chu Ran already sprinting over ten meters away, not caring at all about her teammate.
Damn!
The intersection was silent.
Chu Ran glanced to the right. The white slime pooled together like a swamp. A bloodstained shoe lay nearby, and not far away was half a head.
The next second, a hand quickly covered her mouth.
It smelled faintly of blood.
Chu Ran's pupils contracted. She fiercely elbowed backward, but the person behind her reacted even faster, dodging to the side.
"It-it-it's me, it's me. Please don't hurt me..." A panicked voice lowered, the boy relieved to have survived, quickly explaining, "I was afraid you'd scream."
Turns out he was being presumptuous.
Chu Ran withdrew her hand upon hearing this, then looked down. She saw that the hand that had covered her mouth was faintly stained with white slime.
???
Her pupils contracted.
The faint bloody smell at the tip of her nose seemed to find its source and surged instantly.
Chu Ran's breath stopped. Her stomach churned. Her brain screamed and roared, as if her germophobia was throwing a tantrum: No matter how perceptive I am, this is way too in-my-face!
She slowly turned her head, a death glare like a nightmarish entity—anyone who saw it would die.
Let go!!!
The boy yanked his hand back in an instant, swallowed, and scurried forward. "Had to improvise; no time to wipe my hand."
He definitely wasn't taking revenge for her abandoning him earlier.
Chu Ran clenched her teeth and followed, her face ashen. She endured a little more. Life or death, cleanliness... to hell with it!
Once the crisis was over, she would kill him!
The farther south they ran, the fewer people they encountered—in fact, there were no Zerg Beasts in sight either.
But there were more and more human remains on the ground. Sometimes they even saw a complete lower body, without any sign of being eaten.
Chu Ran frowned, about to ask, when darkness suddenly filled her vision, and she nearly fell to the ground.
Luckily, the boy caught her in time. "What's wrong?"
"Don't stop." Chu Ran shook her head. The scene before her was blurred. She forced herself to stand up despite the dizziness and continued running, leaning on the boy.
So many bodies meant a large number of Zerg Beasts had been here. If they had left, fine; if not...
The boy paused for a moment, then directly hoisted Chu Ran onto his back, soothing, "Hang in there."
I knew three days without food would have an effect! But they couldn't stay here. His gaze swept across a nearby half-arm, his heart racing.
Chu Ran didn't insist. Her arms weakly hooked around his neck. She closed her eyes and panted heavily, her face as pale as a corpse.
The nerves in her brain twitched violently, like a fish gasping for water on the shore. She was only a step away from suffocation. It was like a suddenly punctured balloon, all her vitality drained.
It felt like she was possessed...
Chu Ran struggled to open her eyes, trying to look ahead. It should be almost there. But before she could see clearly, she was thrown off like a falling kite.
Pain!
"Two sneaky little snacks, tsk."
The Zerg man suddenly appeared in the air. Beside him, an eight-eyed leech revealed its ravenous appetite.
Blood slowly trickled down from Chu Ran's forehead, covering her left eye. She strained to open her right eye and saw the boy lying not far away, his right leg separated from his body, bleeding profusely.
Really bad luck.
Chu Ran closed her eyes briefly, trying to push herself up.
The Zerg scanned around, teleported next to Chu Ran, and before she could react, turned his right hand into a limb and stabbed it into her thigh, then quickly pulled it out. The wound was a bloody mess, blood gushing out.
The excruciating pain made Chu Ran twitch instantly.
This... damn...
The Zerg disdainfully lowered his head, licked the blood off his limb. "Rotting food."
He turned to the boy, somewhat displeased, and stabbed his limb into the boy's right chest. "Hope this one's better quality."
Blood splattered everywhere, but the boy showed no reaction, not even a twitch.
The Zerg squinted, quickly yanking out his limb. If he died, he wouldn't be fresh. Looking at the still relatively bright red blood, he disgustedly extended his tongue and licked it. Hmm?
It was actually not bad.