Chapter 122: The Real World
Seeing Xin Junmao’s body suddenly undergo deformity, Li Nuowei’s eyes showed a slight anomaly but he did not feel too surprised.
He had long guessed that this kid was definitely not some normal person. Could a normal person appear here just like him and be so familiar with everything here?
Suddenly, a large expanse of even more ink-green threads swept in from all directions, emanating a dim faint glow, wanting to pull everything into the abyss of despair.
Xin Junmao immediately stopped, and he himself might still want to coolly say “you go first,” but unexpectedly Li Nuowei mercilessly ran ahead of him, instantly rushing into the black light curtain inside the tunnel, his figure suddenly disappearing.
“Hehe, an interesting new friend.” Xin Junmao smiled, not angry. He turned back to look at the faceless female body emerging from his back, watching the female body monster expand and split in front of him. “Hurry up and finish eating them, just treat it as tonight’s late-night snack.”
The female body monster seemed to receive an exciting order, its fission speed instantly accelerating. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a huge mass covered with human limbs. The mass tore open several large mouths, gnawing on all the approaching threads. Xin Junmao was enveloped in the mass by countless alluring white female arms, indifferently watching the killing and devouring between the monsters.
Li Nuowei fell into the void, and after experiencing dozens of seconds of falling in the darkness, his soul finally fell back into his body.
He returned to the moment after Drake was sent to the hospital, when he was keeping watch by the other’s bedside.
Li Nuowei somewhat arduously opened his eyes. The blood color was even more piercing than sunlight, as if it was going to burn through his eyeballs. His eyes instinctively rolled out scorching tears, and for a moment, tears flowed nonstop.
“Uh… Li Nuowei?” Drake, who had just woken up on the hospital bed, saw Li Nuowei sitting by the bedside, but found that Li Nuowei was weakly sitting nearby. He rubbed his eyes, his sense of smell in his nose also gradually reviving. Upon glaring, he saw that Li Nuowei, who was covering his eyes, was bleeding, with blood gushing out from his eyes. “Why are you bleeding?”
“It’s nothing, a small problem.” Li Nuowei gritted his teeth and responded. He didn’t know if this was the negative influence brought by death reincarnation or the bitter fruit planted for him by the strawberry flavor candy he had eaten.
At this moment, the hospital was in chaos, with fire alarms resounding throughout the entire building. Screams continued upstairs, and everyone in each inpatient building was uneasy, no one paying attention to the somewhat strange-looking Li Nuowei and Drake.
Li Nuowei took a box of paper towels from the bedside cabinet next to the hospital bed, frantically pulling them out to wipe the bloody tears.
Fortunately, the bloody tears did not last too long and soon dried up.
Li Nuowei only felt that his vision was somewhat blurry with blood color, inwardly worrying that he might be blind, but soon he realized that his eyes were not blind, but broken.
The world in his sight was no longer the normal world, but the scene from the flesh and blood dimension he had experienced before. He looked at the paper towel in his hand.
Apart from the tactile sensation in his hand and the smell, he surprisingly could not discern that this was an item for wiping clean bloody tears, because in his eyes, the paper towel in his hand was pieces of fresh skin from unknown creatures.
“Are you okay?” Drake saw Li Nuowei dazed and couldn’t help but ask with concern, even though he was also wondering what accident had happened outside. The entire hospital was in an uproar, with people panicked.
Li Nuowei looked at Drake, who was sitting bloodlessly on a hospital bed woven with flesh maggots and flesh and blood. He shook his head: “I’m fine, let’s go.”
“Okay.” Drake was of the same mind and quickly got up from the bed.
Afterward, the two once again smoothly got into a shared car. On the way, Drake repeated the words that Li Nuowei had heard countless times on different reincarnation lines.
Drake suggested exploring the air-raid shelter. Li Nuowei recalled his experiences on the island with Drake on the previous reincarnation line and immediately dismissed the idea of going to the island to explore again, but agreed with Drake’s idea of deciphering the air-raid shelter.
Li Nuowei looked outside the car window. The world before his eyes was still in the style of the flesh and blood dimension. He could now confirm that he could no longer see the scenery of the reality world and could only see the cruel world of flesh and blood blur.
“If I had known earlier, I should have eaten the other candy.” Li Nuowei secretly sighed. Now, in his eyes, all positive and upward things had become dilapidated and rotten. Most of the humans on the road could not maintain their original appearances. He even couldn’t determine if those strange guys whose heads could grow out from their belly buttons were really humans.
Drake’s appearance was equally strange in his eyes. Although still humanoid, his face had infinitely approached that of a zombie on the verge of losing reason, with distinct cyan-purple veins emerging on his ghastly pale skin, deep black eye sockets, and a pitch-black rotten mouth when he opened it, with yellowed and broken teeth.
These monstrosities only appeared in Li Nuowei’s eyes, but Li Nuowei could feel that the actual appearance of things had not changed at all. The one with the problem was him.
This was probably the consequence of eating the strawberry flavor candy. He had seen the true cruel world that Boss Lin spoke of.
Li Nuowei calmed his mind, composed his emotions, and once again candidly told Drake about his ability and their important experiences on different reincarnation lines, informing him of the danger of heading to the air-raid shelter.
“Abnormal Gods, in this small Liuhua Port, there are actually two abnormal gods existing at the same time?” Drake showed a bitter smile. “I really don’t know what kind of F-grade investigation mission I took.”
Li Nuowei smiled and said: “As long as you complete this mission, obtain some useful intelligence, and survive this anomaly event, you will definitely be able to skip levels and directly rise to the ranks of professional mysterious investigators.” So-called professional mysterious investigators are mysterious investigators of D-grade and above. These grades of mysterious investigators often have a professional organization behind them, such as the Mysterious Group and other authoritative organizations.
Drake gave a cold laugh, followed by a sigh at the end. “How could it be that easy?”
Li Nuowei had already restarted thousands of times, so one could imagine the difficulty of this anomaly event.
“So do you want to continue investigating, or give up?” Li Nuowei asked in return.
Drake was silent for a moment. Compared to death, not being able to discover the truth before dying and resolve the case—that was the real disaster doomsday for him. Dying in the exploration of the case was instead dying a worthy death.
“Continue investigating!” Drake took a deep breath and suddenly yanked the steering wheel, turning toward the city center.
“Where are you going?” Li Nuowei asked curiously. He didn’t expect Drake to make another choice and not choose between going to the island and going down the air-raid shelter.
“Go to Liuhua Street again.” Drake said in a deep voice.
Begging for collection votes and such, busy today too, make-up update on the weekend or tomorrow night.
