pertwk Chapter 37. Give me my things properly!
Chapter 37. Give me my things properly!
"You're the one who said you had to deal with the anomaly! You even said this place is the core, Master!" Jiang Yu broke down, his voice cracking.
Nagi was stunned for a moment.
Her eyebrows went from raised to furrowed, then from furrowed to relaxed, and finally she slapped her forehead.
"Oh right, I forgot!"
She revealed the genuine remorse of someone with amnesia who suddenly remembered what they were supposed to do.
"It's okay, don't panic. Just hold on for a bit, I'll fix the problem and everything will be fine."
"support?!"
Jiang Yu's voice trembled as he watched the increasingly approaching, frenzied tourists.
"How am I supposed to manage with so many people?!"
"Use this!"
A white, oval-shaped object flew out of the barbed wire fence, tracing an elegant parabola in the air.
The object was about the size of a palm, pure white, and its surface was as smooth as a pebble.
It's that detector.
That detector whose remote control Nagi Hikari forgot to bring.
Jiang Yu subconsciously reached out and caught it; it still carried Nagi's body heat.
"Use this for self-defense!" Nagi's voice came from inside the barbed wire fence.
Jiang Yu: "???"
It would be fine if they threw out a baseball bat or an entrenching tool.
This thing looks like a bar of soap, and you expect me to use it for self-defense?
Please take your things properly!
I'm so chovy!
"Keep it up, try not to get caught by them. Don't worry, I'll be quick!" Nagi encouraged Jiang Yu from inside the barbed wire fence.
soon?
How fast?
Before Jiang Yu could ask, he saw Nagi leap into the thick grass.
The weeds swayed a few times, as if they were swallowing something huge.
Then... everything returned to calm.
Nagi Hikari has vanished without a trace.
It was as if there was a hole in the grass and she fell right into it.
"Miko-nee?!"
no respond.
The only sound was the whistling of the wind blowing through the barbed wire.
And the frantic footsteps and screams from afar… no, from nearby.
"Hikaru-nee!!!"
There was still no response from the bushes.
Jiang Yu glanced back at the crazed tourists…
The security guard had already rushed up to him, holding the walkie-talkie high as if to smash it.
He felt a jolt and took off running.
He ran even faster than he did during yesterday's physical exam!
Yesterday it was about job hunting, today it's about survival!
Oh shit…
Women with big breasts and big butts are definitely unreliable!
His legs thrashed wildly, his knees almost hitting his chest and his heels nearly kicking his own buttocks.
All I could hear was the sound of the wind and my own heavy breathing.
He dared not turn around.
Because he could hear the rustling sounds behind him, the footsteps, the rustling of clothes against the bushes…
And there was that mushroom-headed little girl's shrill scream.
"Yay! Yay ...
The sound was high-pitched and thin, making Jiang Yu's ears very uncomfortable.
It's that strange sound of your mouth opening as wide as it can and not closing at all, with your tongue swirling around in your mouth.
The footsteps behind me were heavy and rapid.
It smashed into the ground like hundreds of pile drivers.
They surrounded Jiang Yu in an increasingly smaller semi-circular enclosure.
What are these lunatics trying to do?!
Why are you only pursuing me?
Shouldn't we be chasing after the person who jumped into the barbed wire fence?!
Jiang Yu suddenly recalled what Nagi had just said.
"When we deal with anomalies, something will inevitably try to stop us..."
"The more they try to stop us, the more it proves we're doing the right thing."
and so…
What kind of trickery is hidden inside that barbed wire?
who cares!
Anyway, I don't have any other choice right now.
The only option is to run!
Run as fast as you can!
But the group of "tourists" behind them were running way too fast.
No, they're not running.
It's more like a displacement.
Their knees were bent at the wrong angle.
Everyone was leaning forward in an ergonomically unnatural posture, as if being pulled forward by something.
The dragging speed is like it's on 4x speed.
Jiang Yu felt that he hadn't run very far when something poked him from behind.
Not a hand...
The texture feels wrong.
It's not as hard as fingers, and there's no scratching sensation.
Sticky, soft to the touch, small, warm...
It resembles a snail crawling across.
It also resembles the tentacles of some kind of mollusk.
The back of my head, neck, and back were constantly being touched.
one time…
Two times...
Three times...
More and more, increasingly dense.
It was accompanied by strange cries of "ya ya ya" and the sound of "slurping" as it licked the air.
Tongue... tongue?
It's a tongue!
It looked as if countless wet, hot tongues were sticking out of those wide-open mouths.
They kept stretching and poking at the back of their heads, necks, and backs.
Each poke leaves a puddle of sticky saliva.
The saliva seeped through the clothes onto the skin, feeling cool and sticky.
Jiang Yu felt all the hairs on his body stand on end.
A chill ran through my body…
Seriously, that's ridiculous...
Get out of here!
An unprecedented wave of nausea surged up from my stomach.
He gritted his teeth and kicked even harder.
However, the body wouldn't obey.
My legs felt sticky, as if I had fallen into a swamp, and the more I struggled, the deeper I sank.
More and more tongues appeared behind them.
Some tongues even reached near his ears, their hot, moist breath spraying onto his earlobes and bringing out a foul stench.
"roll!!!"
Jiang Yu roared, his voice cracking.
next second...
He suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness.
It's like an elevator plummeting downwards, that feeling of your heart leaping into your throat and your stomach churning.
It's like falling from a great height, your body instantly losing weight, and your internal organs being flung out of your body.
That feeling is very familiar.
It was exactly the same as when he raised the brick to smash it down during yesterday's physical exam.
It came without warning, without warning.
Jiang Yu stumbled, his body lurched forward, and he almost fell.
Then everything went black for a moment.
It wasn't the kind of unconsciousness, but rather a brief moment of darkness.
The kind of darkness that feels like someone has covered your eyes with their hands and then quickly removed.
Similar to blinking, but not as fast.
It's a bit like when you first wake up in the morning and want to open your eyes, but your eyelids are covered with a mixture of dry and wet eye discharge.
When I opened my eyes again…
The whole world turned red.
Red sky, red forests, red earth…
The rich red color spread everywhere, like a whole bucket of paint had been spilled.
No, it's not paint.
is blood.
Jiang Yu blinked several times in succession…
The red color faded a little, but soon surged back up.
My eyes... are covered in blood!
My vision had barely returned when a warm sensation washed over my forehead…
Warm liquid trickled down his forehead, across his brow, the bridge of his nose, and along the sides of his nose into the corners of his mouth.
It tasted salty, with a metallic smell.
Then everything in front of me turned red again.
Jiang Yu reached up and touched his forehead…
blood.
My hands were covered in blood.
The areas your fingers touch are sticky and slippery.
It felt like touching a piece of raw meat that had just been cut off a cutting board.
His forehead was covered in blood.
It was flowing from somewhere, warm, and it felt like a hole had been punched in the top of my head.
At the same time, there was a feeling of something in the nasal cavity.
It felt like something was stuck inside, sticky and thick, making it difficult to breathe.
It's in my throat and in my mouth too.
His mouth tasted like rust.
"Cough cough cough!"
He bent over, leaning against a nearby tree, and coughed violently, his whole body curled up like a shrimp.
With each cough, something warm wells up from my throat, carrying a sweet, fishy smell.
rustle...
Several dark red pieces fell out of my nasal cavity.
Blood clots.
The blood clots were sticky and coated with stringy mucus.
Then comes the suffocating feeling of something stuck in your throat.
It felt like my throat was stuffed with a wad of cotton, and I couldn't breathe at all.
"Wow--"
Jiang Yu bent over, his stomach convulsing violently.
A surge of heat suddenly welled up in my throat.
Something was spat out and landed on the ground with a "thud".
The thing was bloody and still steaming.
It's not the dark red color of blood clots.
A pale red color interspersed with a white, wavy blob...
Jiang Yu stared intently...
That's... a brain?
Half a brain.
White brain tissue mixed with light red blood clots.
It is covered with fine wrinkles and blood vessels.
It's like the spicy pig brain sold in the snack street, still steaming hot, as if it just came out of the pot.
Jiang Yu stared at the half-brain on the ground, completely dumbfounded.
His mind went blank.
Holy crap...
Did I run too fast and crash into a tree, popping my brain out?
Is this... a revolving lantern?
I'm dying?
Jiang Yu's legs buckled and he collapsed to his knees...
He looked down and realized that he had blood on more than just his face.
My feet, legs, chest, arms... were covered in blood.
His clothes were completely soaked in blood, clinging to his body wet and heavy.
Every movement squeezes out sticky, bloody fluid.
His hands were covered in blood, and his fingernails were filled with dark red congealed substance…
Sticky blood vessels can even be pulled out between the fingers.
He felt like he had just been pulled out of a pool of blood.
Just as he was feeling nauseous from the smell of blood…
"Splash!!!"
A loud noise came from behind him.