Mutation

The curtains in the room covered the windows without any gaps. It was pitch black. Liu Dong hid his abnormal side in the darkness and used his other hand to barely hold Liu Xiaobei. He had now become an explosive substance that could blow himself and the people around him to pieces at any time.

Faced with the infected, the survivors in the camp will not be sentimental, and he must leave here before being exposed. However, the camp is guarded and patrolled twenty hours a day, and it is too difficult to get the car and equipment.

Jiang Ziyao promised to solve his worries. They would get up early tomorrow morning and after a group of people left the camp, they would get rid of the patrolling people. Liu Dong only needed to take Liu Xiaobei to meet Huo Chi in the garage.

Liu Dong was not surprised by their actions. He was just curious: "How are you going to leave?"

Jiang Ziyao was playing with his pistol, with the bullet already loaded in his mind, determined to win: "There are more and more monsters in this city, and everyone wants to escape far away. I will make them live in pain, or die miserably, tit for tat, if God doesn't give, then people will give. They have been so proud for so long, they have to pay back a little, right?"

Huo Chi leaned against the door, his eyes resting quietly on Jiang Ziyao, and curled his lips: "I will listen to Brother Jiang."

Liu Dong looked at the two tall young men and was stunned for a moment: "How long have we known each other?"

Jiang Ziyao paused. He forgot how many nights he had counted. "About a week?"

Huo Chi was a little surprised: "Only a week? But it feels like a long time."

"I've been walking on the edge of a knife for a long time."

Liu Dong let out a sigh of relief: "I really misjudged you."

He couldn't help but admire them; the wind and sand of reality had not wiped away the youthfulness on their faces. It was originally thought that they would not live more than three days, but now they already had sharp shells. Although genetic awakening was called a godsend, it was also the survival of the fittest among humans.

"When I saw you guys earlier, he was about to die, but he was still holding you on his back."

Liu Dong pointed at Huo Chi and said with a smile, "I didn't expect there are still such stupid people nowadays. I originally planned to wait in the corridor to see you being eaten as lunch. I didn't want to shoot, but I felt that if I didn't do that, I would definitely regret it in the future."

He made people laugh. Huo Chi said as a matter of course: "That's my brother Jiang. Even if I have to die, I will die before him."

"There are very few people who can do what you have done." Liu Dong asked: "You have a very good relationship, are you brothers?"

Huo Chi smiled more: "We are not related by blood, but we are family."

"It's good to have a trustworthy companion on the road." Liu Dong lowered his head and touched Liu Xiaobei's head. He sighed: "If a person lives to this day without anything to support him, he will go crazy and forget that he is still a human being."

Liu Xiaobei leaned tightly in his father's arms. He looked up and saw the most reassuring face. He called out, "Dad? Are you still in pain?"

Liu Dong told him to cover his ears. His face darkened and he asked Jiang Ziyao, "What are you going to do? Will there be blood?"

Jiang Ziyao shook his head: "I have no interest in killing people."

“——Use this.”

Liu Dong looked over and saw it was a shovel.

When Jiang Ziyao hit the man's face with a shovel, his words were put into practice.

Fu Bin was beaten black and blue the night before yesterday. Now there are two people in charge of the weapons in the camp. Li Liang did not guard the armory strictly. Those who came here were seeking shelter for the team. There was no point in taking action here.

The two people standing at the door were not too alert. They just thought Jiang Ziyao was here to ask for weapons. The man said, "Everyone who went out has left. You are late."

Jiang Ziyao nodded, walked forward, and under the other party's puzzled eyes, he hit the man on the left in the face with a shovel. With a clang, the man fell straight down. Although he controlled his strength, it was still a heavy sound. It seems that in addition to two big bumps on his head, there is also a risk of concussion.

"Don't move." Then he raised the gun quickly and pointed it at the other man's head, "Stand back."

"Hurry up!"

"Fuck! You..." He was stopped abruptly by the cold voice pointing at the man and could only obey. Jiang Ziyao moved too fast and he didn't even see where the shovel was taken out from.

Jiang Ziyao told him to put his hands behind his back, and the gun hole was directly against his neck.

Jiang Ziyao threatened coldly: "If you move, I can't guarantee that the gun will not go off accidentally."

The man heard the sound of the safety being pulled and he shrank his neck nervously.

Men cherish their lives. Jiang Ziyao likes to deal with such people. He said to Huo Chi, "Pack up all your things quickly."

Huo Chi rushed into the armory alone and excitedly experienced being a robber. He simply rolled up the cloth on the table and wrapped all the guns.

"Bring more bullets!" Jiang Ziyao urged: "What do you need so many guns for?"

Huo Chi carried the bag on his shoulders, which contained about a dozen guns. "It looks impressive, and I can carry it."

The man gritted his teeth as he listened: "What do you want to do? The boss won't let you go!"

Jiang Ziyao sneered, "Tell me, if he can't even keep an eye on the weapons he relies on for survival, how can he be the boss? If you lose something, Li Liang will be the first to attack you. You should worry about yourself first."

The man suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and Huo Chi's surprised voice came from behind: "Brother Jiang, I have all the bullets. I was wondering why there was a smell of gunpowder. Wow, they even have grenades!"

The man stared at Huo Chi's movements with his peripheral vision, cursing non-stop. The armory was almost empty, and he was visibly heartbroken.

Jiang Ziyao said, "Take it easy and go first."

The more the man thought about it, the more desperate he became. When Huo Chi left, he also took the rifle from his waist. He faced the wall, listening nervously to the movement behind his ears. He didn't dare to look back until he felt the cold object behind his neck moved away.

But what was waiting for him was something even more chilling. Jiang Ziyao also gave him a shovel, and the man was knocked unconscious to the ground. He dragged the man into the house and locked the door. Jiang Ziyao did not kill them all, and when he left, he left two pistols with bullets for the two unconscious people.

They originally planned to go to the garage to deliver some equipment to Liu Dong, but they were stopped by Liu Dong on the way.

He was wearing a big coat and a cowboy hat, wrapped himself tightly, and rushed over.

Huo Chi went over to him and said, "Didn't I tell you and Xiao Bei to wait in the garage? Why did you come here alone?"

"Xiao Bei is missing! I can't find him!"

Liu Dong's words were like thunder.

Huo Chi was stunned: "What do you mean?"

Liu Dong barely caught his breath. He pinched Huo Chi's shoulder with one hand and nearly fell down. "I lost my mind last night! He was worried that I didn't listen to me, so he went to find you. Did you see him?"

His eyes begged for good news, but Jiang Ziyao's voice brought him back to reality: "No, we haven't seen him since we separated from the room."

Liu Dong's face turned pale. "You didn't see him, where could Xiao Bei go? Was it Li Liang and the others?"

His voice became sharp and trembling with anger: "It must be--!"

Jiang Ziyao asked: "Have you searched the whole house?"

Liu Dong said excitedly: "I have found it!"

"He didn't come back last night, and I didn't wake up until this morning." Liu Dong slapped himself hard, "I shouldn't have let him go out alone."

His body was tortured by the virus, his eyes were sickly red, he trembled when he spoke, and his skinny face looked like he had lost ten pounds overnight.

Jiang Ziyao said calmly: "Then go find Li Liang and show your cards to see if Xiaobei is in their hands."

Liu Dong was on the verge of collapse: "What would they do to a child, like what they did to Wang Xiaoshan?"

Jiang Ziyao said to Huo Chi: "Keep an eye on the weapons, I'll go look for them somewhere else."

They all had certain guesses in their minds. Liu Xiaobei was an obedient child. There was only one possibility for him not to come back. He could not come back. The best outcome he could think of was to be a hostage in Li Liang's hands.

But their luck was always bad. Jiang Ziyao finally found Liu Xiaobei in the river in the backyard. That was where they had fetched water before. Liu Xiaobei was thrown into the water like a piece of garbage. He floated on the surface. His body was swollen and white, with a circle of glaring red marks on his neck.

The stone that Li Zheng threw at that time still hit them.

Liu Xiaobei is dead.

When he pulled Liu Xiaobei out of the water and carried him back to the house, Liu Dong was confronting Li Liang and the others. The shouting and cursing never stopped until Jiang Ziyao quietly put Liu Xiaobei on the ground, and then there was a moment of silence.

His clothes were stained. Jiang Ziyao looked at Liu Dong. He didn't know how to face him. Finally, he said calmly: "Found it."

Liu Dong's eyes suddenly turned red. Before he could get closer to take a look at his son, his legs went weak. He knelt on the ground, then got up again, and finally crawled to Liu Xiaobei's side.

Liu Xiaobei's body was no longer warm. Liu Dong opened his mouth and let out a painful whimper. He raised his head and stared at the murderer. If it weren't for Xiaobei, how could he have been suppressed by these people and swallowed his anger in silence? Xiaobei was dead, and he couldn't say a word.

His eyes were bloodshot with hatred and he wished he could rush forward and tear Li Zheng into pieces.

Liu Dong did so, but the thugs around Li Liang held him down. He lost one hand and the ability to resist. He was punched and kicked, and his face was swollen. It turned out that a weak person was like mud on the ground, and anyone could step on him.

The same is true for Wang Xiaoshan, Liu Xiaobei, and now Liu Dong.

Jiang Ziyao watched Liu Dong being forced to kneel on the ground. He raised his head, his anger and hatred swallowed in his throat, leaving only a dull growl.

Jiang Ziyao was observing the situation around him, while Li Liang kept his eyes on him. He had to do something, use a pistol or superpowers, he wanted to pick up his crushed dignity.

"You are a useless person, and so is Liu Xiaobei." Li Zheng regained his position. He stood in front of Liu Dong very proudly. "I just asked a few questions, and he refused to say anything. I wanted to teach him a lesson, but who knew that he would not resist when I strangled him. You can't blame me for this."

It was definitely not enough for him to strangle Liu Xiaobei by himself, and the credit for the murder naturally had to go to his brother. Jiang Ziyao realized that he had made a mistake. He underestimated the other party's means. Everyone in this world was infected with a virus. They were stepping on other people's corpses just to survive greedily.

"Can you help me again?" Liu Dong looked at Jiang Ziyao, his pale face trembling, "I want to kill them with my own hands. I want them to pay for Xiao Bei's life."

Jiang Ziyao nodded quickly and agreed.

Liu Dong smiled, and the smile on his twisted face was too crazy. He lowered his head and did not struggle, like a puppet with its strings cut, completely losing all his strength.

He was silent, falling into a deep valley of despair. Then, the pain turned into a complaint and his voice turned into a roar, which was not the voice of a human.

Danger, retreating was Jiang Ziyao's first reaction.

Liu Dong's body was changing rapidly. The two people around him were thrown away in an instant. He crawled on the ground. His original coat was torn, and his broken limbs grew out and became huge. A layer of insect shell attached to the surface of his skin, and thin wings grew on his back.

A clear liquid flowed out of his mouth and insect patterns spread all over his body. In the fight against the virus, Liu Dong gave up his humanity.

Everyone looked at this sudden change in surprise, and the next moment, blood began to swell on the spot.

"Brother! Save me!" Li Zheng was the first to be knocked down, and he screamed.

A mouth opened under Liu Dong's lips, and it had the same mouthparts as an insect. He pounced over and bit Li Zheng's neck. He grew new limbs and lay on the ground with six legs. Li Zheng was pressed to the ground and half of his neck was torn off.

"Brother - help..."

Li Zheng's screams soon stopped. Liu Dong chewed a piece of meat and raised his head with his bloody face. His eyes were fixed on everyone here, like a beast staring at its prey.

The dead Li was twitching on the ground, his body was also undergoing changes, and in a short while he would turn into a monster like Liu Dong.

Everyone in the camp was alarmed. They didn't have guns on them, and the only people who could carry guns in the house were Fu Bin and two others.

Fu Bin and Chen Yang looked grim and pulled out their guns and aimed at Liu Dong.

Bang--!

But Jiang Ziyao acted faster. He calmly shot at Fu Bin's hand, breaking his fingers directly.

Fu Bin fell to the ground holding the severed finger and screaming. Jiang Ziyao clenched his gun and pointed it at Chen Yang. He said coldly, "You can try and see whose gun is faster and more accurate."

"You're crazy!" Chen Yang was angry: "Can't you tell the difference between aliens and humans?!"

Jiang Ziyao didn't move. Chen Yang yelled at the people around him: "Why are you standing there? Go get your weapons and kill him!"

"No need to go, the guns are in my hands!" Huo Chi rushed in with a gun on his back. He looked at Jiang Ziyao first, and when he saw the changed Liu Dong, he felt sad and disappointed.

"No one should act rashly!" Huo Chi was filled with anger, holding a gun and aiming at everyone here.

There was a faint light coming from Li Liang's hands, and when Liu Dong approached him, his movements and direction were always shifting. Jiang Ziyao knew that this was his special ability [Fluorescence].

Li Liang had nothing to fight back with, so he could only hold Liu Dong back for a while. His expression was very ugly: "Grab the gun, do you want to die?"

"If you don't want to die, then listen to me!" Huo Chi immediately yelled, "The highway toll station is not safe at all! He just wants you to die for him. They can kill people without restraint. Don't you understand? They don't even treat you as human beings!"

The survivors were frightened, and Jiang Ziyao said, "Give them some equipment."

Huo Chi threw out a few guns and bullet boxes from his bag: "Take your weapons and leave here quickly! Unless you want to die!"

As soon as he threw a weapon on the ground, the survivors quickly picked it up. They looked at the situation and left wisely. No one wanted to die in vain. Even Chen Yang ran away with Fu Bin.

Li Liang was furious: "You bastards, a bunch of good-for-nothings!"

He was the only one here, with two alien species staring at him hungrily. Jiang Ziyao also pointed his gun at him, and then he looked at him with a gloomy face and a scheming smile.

In an instant, Li Liang disappeared from sight.

This is impossible! Jiang Ziyao immediately thought that his ability was elemental, so it was impossible for him to disappear in an instant.

Jiang Ziyao's mind raced, and he shouted, "Huo Chi!"

Huo Chi slapped the ground with his palm, and the whole house suddenly caught fire. A circle of fire half a person's height directly surrounded them.

Jiang Ziyao calmed down. He guessed that Li Liang must be using light to affect vision, just like the protective color in the animal world. However, the power of [Fire] was too strong. He was surrounded by the flames and was ultimately a trapped beast.

Liu Dong lost his target and turned his attack towards Jiang Ziyao. Li Liang wanted them to kill each other first, but Jiang Ziyao would not give him this opportunity. He aimed at a transparent and dazzling shadow and fired decisively.

Li Liang's leg was hit, he screamed, and was forced to reveal his true form. Liu Dong immediately turned around.

Li Liang fell to the ground, dragging his injured leg, picking up things around him and throwing them forward. He yelled and cursed, calling them bastards, and cursed that they would all die miserably.

Liu Dong was still approaching, and Li Liang's voice became hoarse from roaring. His arm was first bitten by the mutated Li Zheng. He screamed as one of his hands was eaten alive. Liu Dong quickly pounced forward, and his six limbs pierced directly into Li Liang's body, turning him into a sieve.

Jiang Ziyao listened to the wailing and raised his gun.

In the end, half of Li Liang's body was bitten off, and his flesh and blood were chewed into minced meat in the mouthparts, while Li Zheng ate his internal organs with relish.

Huo Chi raised his hand, and a hole appeared in the fire circle.

With a bang, Jiang Ziyao shot through Li Zheng's head. His marksmanship became more and more sophisticated.

Liu Dong turned his head vigilantly, gave up eating the corpse, and approached Jiang Ziyao like a hunter.

Jiang Ziyao fired another shot, this time aiming at Li Liang's head, trying to kill him before he mutated.

Huo Chi was about to take action, but Jiang Ziyao shook his head: "Let me see him off for the last time."

Bang--!

Jiang Ziyao fired a shot at Liu Dong's feet, but Liu Dong did not retreat.

Bang--!

He fired again, but the bullet still didn't hit Liu Dong, and neither of them retreated.

There were only six bullets in the gun, and he had one left.

Jiang Ziyao closed his eyes and looked at his old friend with complicated feelings. Liu Dong had lost his mind and turned into a monster. He was a hunter and he found the right moment to pounce on Jiang Ziyao.

A shovel was directly across Liu Dong's forelimbs, and Jiang Ziyao's gun was already aimed at his head. He pulled the trigger without hesitation, bang! With a gunshot, when Liu Dong's sharp teeth approached, the bullet first pierced his head.

Jiang Ziyao stood there unharmed, the flames burning his eyes and his fingers trembling, just like when he first fired the gun, his palms were numb.

Liu Dong fell backwards to the ground. Jiang Ziyao stepped forward and covered his face with the cowboy hat that had fallen to the side, leaving only the body of a monster exposed.

He was silent...

This fucked up world showed him its cruelest side, forcing people to kill their loved ones and friends, making them live in pain and despair, erasing their humanity, and making the living walk hand in hand with death.