"What is happening?!"
Duong Khanh Vi looked at Hoang Tuan's situation, feeling a very bad premonition.
In a situation where everyone could see.
Hoang Tuan was just holding a blood-red axe, quietly standing under the teaching building.
A cold wind blew, lifting the dirt and rocks.
Rolling past his feet...
In the visible range, there were four shadows slowly walking towards him.
One of them had no head!
"Run, buddy!"
"Why is he just standing there dazedly!"
"They are dangerous! Stay away from them!"
"..."
After seeing the school doctor still able to walk normally after losing his head, everyone understood something.
They urged Hoang Tuan to quickly leave that place.
Living beings confronting the bizarre directly.
Means death...
Of course, Hoang Tuan couldn't hear what they were saying, the only person who could relay messages to Hoang Tuan using the crystal ball was Duong Khanh Vi.
This was an arrangement that Hoang Tuan had requested from Duong Khanh Vi before leaving.
He was worried that if someone shouted or yelled even the smallest thing, it could affect his judgment...
But these things were no longer important.
"Hoang Tuan, what are you doing?"
Duong Khanh Vi asked through the crystal ball.
At this moment, he could no longer guess what the other person was thinking.
After having used all the discs and gourds.
He didn't think Hoang Tuan could leave that place safely if he delayed any longer…
"Isn't it clear? I am the key figure in destroying their plans, and I am the one who used the cursed source to influence the big fish in the pond, so they naturally want to kill me."
Hoang Tuan opened his mouth to explain.
At this moment, the black clouds in the sky gradually dissipated.
The method Duong Khanh Vi proposed had some effect, but the rules set by these people were ultimately affected.
"About five kilometers west of Nam Hoa Tower, there is an open hole, lead the others out of there…" Hoang Tuan told Duong Khanh Vi.
"How do you know?"
"Now is not the time to talk about this. Just take them there. Are you afraid that I planted explosives there to kill you? Go, now?"
Hoang Tuan said again.
He hoped Duong Khanh Vi could believe his words.
Based on the results obtained from the novel board, he was also too lazy to make excuses to explain clearly.
"What about you?"
Duong Khanh Vi asked in surprise after pausing for a moment.
"I have my own matters to attend to, so stop nagging."
Hoang Tuan impatiently said.
Everyone could clearly hear this sentence.
Including Duong Khanh Vi, Le Na, Nguyen Ha Trang, Dinh Phuc, Nguyen Thoai, and others did not know what Hoang Tuan was saying.
Was there anything more important than escaping from here?
Before Duong Khanh Vi could ask again.
He discovered that the crystal ball suddenly could not synchronize with Hoang Tuan's surroundings, everything around him fell into darkness.
It was like a network interruption during a live broadcast...
"Cutting off contact with the cursed object? How did he do it?"
Duong Khanh Vi was stunned.
He didn't know what method Hoang Tuan used to cut off contact with the crystal ball, logically speaking, the cursed source was also a kind of bizarre power, humans basically couldn't interfere.
Except for himself.
There couldn't be any external interference.
"What secrets does this weirdo have..."
Duong Khanh Vi looked up in confusion.
At this moment, he realized that the people under Nam Hoa Tower were almost staring at him, as if they wanted to ask if he wanted to go west.
Through the previous conversation.
Most people considered Duong Khanh Vi the leader.
They seemed to need Duong Khanh Vi to consider.
Is this the right thing to do...
Duong Khanh Vi glanced around.
He took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes from his pocket, pulled out a cigarette, and put it in his mouth.
Skillfully lighting it up, he inhaled.
At this moment, whether to believe or not was no longer something he could hesitate about.
"Everyone, get ready and head west!"
…
…
Tran Hung Dao High School.
A large dark blue bag was placed at his feet.
Hoang Tuan gripped the axe in his right hand tightly.
At a certain moment, dense small cracks opened on his chest, and twenty-four strange black tongues protruded from inside, quivering with terrifying teeth and claws.
In an instant.
It looked like a bizarre creature emerging from the ground.
Horrifying enough to make people afraid…
"From the beginning, your goal was to raise everyone like livestock, right?"
Hoang Tuan shone a flashlight on the four shadows, asking seriously.
But the other side had no intention of answering him.
Except for the cold wind blowing by.
Only deadly silence enveloped the entire school campus...
"Alright, aren't you curious how I know this?"
Hoang Tuan asked again.
He didn't think he could interact with these people when seeing them.
He pointed to the school doctor and continued: “Tell me, the reason you can resist assimilation is because you have a bizarre creature in your body, using it to influence the rules…. But coincidentally, I have it too, and not just one.”
"On the contrary, I don't feel these things affecting my memory, nor do I think the assimilation is caused by another bizarre creature."
“If you told me you could resist assimilation because of the cursed source, maybe I would still believe you.”
"After all, I don't really know much about these cursed objects, and I'm also vague about these things."
The four shadows got closer and closer to him.
Hoang Tuan could even see the fierce expressions of the other three...
"Of course, the most suspicious point is that, luckily, I still have the bugs inside me. Since they invaded my body, they get agitated whenever encountering bizarre creatures."
"At first, I thought you were raising bizarre creatures."
"But as the occurrences increased, I might have understood."
“If I'm not wrong, in about half an hour.”
"Nam Hoa Tower, the temporary shelter, will become a slaughterhouse, the central place for your sacrifice..."
The four shadows were only ten steps away from Hoang Tuan.
Blood flowed down their feet.
It seemed to paint an ancient picture, creating a rotting smell of flesh, and finally constructing a magnificent city...
The breath of death was spreading.
From the ground, from the walls.
From the flowers and grass, from everywhere submerged in darkness, slowly bizarre creatures emerged
Like a graveyard
That was also beneath the mask of a splendid, warm, and happy city, a hell full of bizarre creatures.
Hoang Tuan could hardly contain the eating desire of the wriggling black tongues, even though he didn't understand what kind of bizarre source they were
But he could feel very clearly.
The bizarre creatures parasitizing in him, seemed not easy to provoke.
This could be seen from the incident with the spider woman and the shadow in his house...
"Go ahead, eat whatever you want."
Hoang Tuan didn't waste words.
After saying a series of foolish things only the main character would say, he bowed his head and completely released the binding on those black tongues...
Besides the bizarre creatures filling the city.
This was also.
His feast of hunger...
…
"Let's go, hurry up! We just need to get there to get out!"
"Don't block the way! You two in front, please stop hugging each other emotionally. If you have something to say, leave your contact information and talk after we get out!"
“I never thought I would have to leave this city where I’ve been trapped alive for eight years…”
"If I could say more, that would be great..."
"Wait, what's that?!"
"Ah!!!"
In the noisy and chaotic crowd.
Someone got grabbed by bizarre tentacles emerging from the ground, in the blink of an eye, pulled down onto the hard cement road...
“Where did these crows come from?”
"Too many!"
"Run! These crows can bite!"
In the air.
A flock of sinister black birds appeared from nowhere, flapping their abnormally large wings, swooping down on the crowd walking on the street.
Sharp beaks biting at flesh.
A light peck left a terrifying bloody hole on someone's neck!
Someone took out a bizarre-looking cursed source from his body.
Trying to ward off the crows.
But they seemed to be ordinary birds, with no intention of retreating from the cursed object, instead charging straight ahead!
Until someone saw a crow flying forward due to inertia.
Immediately, its sharp beak gouged a hole in the hard cement wall.
He gave up resisting them and frantically pushed the people in front of the crowd, wanting to quickly leave this chaotic place...
"Where did they come from? Aren't the rules being affected?"
Duong Khanh Vi was heavily injured.
He looked at this scene with an ugly expression.
In his heart, he also felt very uneasy.
He didn't understand why they became more aggressive and arrogant after the black cloud rules were affected.
Duong Khanh Vi worriedly glanced to the other side.
Far away in the city.
There was another person in the midst of the spreading black cloud, encountering even more bizarre things than they did, perhaps ten times worse.
"How to survive this situation now..."
He could only wonder.
Wondering about the person who, after cutting off contact, chose to face the bizarre creatures in the city center alone, what certainty did he have to make such a crazy move.
Duong Khanh Vi suddenly felt regret.
Why did he entrust this to such an irresponsible person?
Of course, he didn't know Hoang Tuan's trump card.
Nor did he know that after being targeted by the four shadows, Hoang Tuan had no way of leaving without dealing with them...
"Survive! Hope to meet you in the real world one day!"
Duong Khanh Vi said a prayer.
Then he headed west without looking back.
There.
Was the hope leading to the outside world...
…
…
In an old residential building.
In a narrow and dimly lit corridor.
Brooms and dustpans were placed next to the door of each room here.
Traditional couplets with happy idioms were pasted on either side of the doors.
Signifying a new year will bring new atmosphere...
A certain house.
Crossing the threshold with a bit of mud and brown stains, you could see a warm fire.
The chimney seemed to have been vented out from the window after many years, releasing thick smoke outside.
On the wall hung a calendar board with the words "All wishes come true".
There were romantic and melodramatic TV dramas playing, of old-fashioned genre, very clichéd...
Dirty dishes piled up in the kitchen, yet to be washed, oil stains lingering on the porcelain plates...
Next to the sofa was a plate of freshly baked orange cakes.
A girl sat quietly on the sofa, watching a type of script she had watched countless times...
The food had been cleared off the stove table.
The electrical circuit of the overhead light had been restored and it was casting a sixty-watt light into the house.
It seemed a bit boring.
The girl picked up the remote control and started changing TV channels.
However, on the old TV.
Except for that channel, everything else was covered in snowflakes, and all that could be heard was the hissing sound...
In the end, nothing was good.
She stood up and turned off the annoying TV.
She glanced at the sky outside the house, where half the black clouds had dissipated.
"It's over."
Hoang Lan said.
Her voice was so small only she could hear it...
The bizarre creatures that were very common three hours ago had almost disappeared.
The city was far from the noise.
Life finally fell into lonely solitude.
When she came, she was alone.
Now she was still alone...
"Chị Đường Anh."
"What should we do? Should we leave?"
Hoang Lan looked at the city where the smoke had disappeared, and she asked with lonely eyes.
Although there was no voice.
But it seemed someone replied to her.
She just smiled, pursed her lips, and continued, "But I can't bear it."
It's over.
The world had ended, the city had ended.
Even she.
Had ended...
"My wish is just like any ordinary person's."
A smile appeared on Hoang Lan's face.
Only the smile was a bit stiff.
It merely represented the progression of her expression...
Staring at the window for a long time.
Hoang Lan turned her head back to look at the personal board next to her.
Her information was displayed on the personal board...
【Name: Tran Hoang Lan】
【Identity: Main Character (Backup)】
【Description: A girl who wants to eat birthday cake】
【Items: None】
【Talent: Hypnosis...】
Hoang Lan looked at it.
Then closed it.
She sat back on the sofa, ready to do her winter homework.
"Click click!"
The door made a sound of opening.
She suspiciously looked up, wondering who was knocking.
At this moment, there shouldn't be anyone.
This was beyond her expectations...
The sound of a key being inserted into the lock rang out, along with the screeching friction sound of the old door opening, the familiar silhouette of her mother standing in front of her.
"Mom? Why are you here?"
She asked.
At the same time, her body movements also stopped.
Her whole body froze on the sofa...
"Why can't I be here? Look at what you've done when I was gone. Look at those bowls and plates, can't even wash them after eating.”
Hoang Lan listened to the woman's words.
She even felt this was an illusion born from herself.
Couldn't help but rub her eyes.
"No, you should have disappeared too."
Hoang Lan was very puzzled.
She didn't understand why in this collapsed world, her bizarre mother could still stand in front of her like before.
And.
As if nothing had happened...
Thud thud...
In the corridor.
There were more footsteps.
Hoang Lan looked back and glanced at the door that was still open.
Not long after.
A young man, looking somewhat ragged, even the front of his shirt torn open, appeared in her sight...
Their eyes met.
Hoang Tuan raised the cake in his hand.
Said.
"Happy birthday."
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