Chapter 036 Cannibalization-10

The light of day broke through the clouds and poured down, covering the city buildings and streets with a layer of light. The rainwater flowing on the ground was absorbed by the light, and pedestrians' footprints passed through the small potholes.

Jiang Yan opened the curtains in the room, and a beam of sunlight hit his eyes. He squinted subconsciously. Wang Xu behind him also got up when the alarm clock rang for the second time, "I really don't want to go to school."

Wang Xu rubbed his eyes. With a dizzy head, he opened his eyelids just a little and began to pull the school uniform aside and put it on.

It hadn't been put on yet, so Jiang Yan said, "What are you trying to do with your sleeves?"

Wang Xu said "Oh".

"I'll go wake Meng Tang up." Jiang Yan said and walked out, leaving Wang Xu still fighting with the school uniform.

“Knock knock—”

Jiang Yan knocked on the door.

"I'm awake." A response came from inside quickly, so quickly that Jiang Yan almost suspected that the person in the room had woken up a long time ago, and the reason they didn't come out was because they were waiting for him to come and knock on the door.

Jiang Yan glanced at the screen of his mobile phone. It was now 6:45 in the morning. The school's morning self-study session would start at 7:20, so there was still about half an hour left.

After Jiang Yan tidied himself, he put the textbooks that the two of them had casually thrown on the sofa in the living room into their respective schoolbags.

When he pulled Mengtang's schoolbag, he noticed that the style of this person's schoolbag was exactly the same as his own, but the colors were slightly different, one was black and the other was gray-brown.

Is it a coincidence?

Jiang Yan pulled the corner of his mouth.

In fact, Mengtang originally wanted to buy the same one as Jiangyan, but Spider was a little color blind and confused black and gray. After buying it, he found that there was still a difference between the two. Spider was upset for a while because of this.

Jiang Yan waited in the living room for five minutes. The two people in the room finally finished packing and walked out of the rooms on both sides at the same time.

Then Wang Xu and Meng Tang met in the corridor and bumped into each other unexpectedly.

Meng Tang looked at the person opposite him with a blank expression, while Wang Xu looked at Meng Tang as if they were rivals in love, with eyes full of jealousy. In short, neither of them liked the other, and if Jiang Yan wasn't around, the two would probably fight.

Wang Xu grabbed his hair and walked quickly towards Jiang Yan in the living room. He took his schoolbag from him and said, "Let's go. I'm so hungry now."

Jiang Yan nodded and handed the schoolbag to Meng Tang, who was a little slower, "Let's go out and buy breakfast. What do you want to eat later?"

Under the azure sky, the damp wind blew past the three of them. Meng Tang was still thinking when Wang Xu, who was pushing a bicycle, interrupted with a hint of complaint, "Why don't you ask me when you ask him?"

Jiang Yan glanced at him and said, "Aren't you still a steamed bun?"

After hearing this, Wang Xu chuckled, touched the back of his head and stopped talking.

As a little spider, Mengtang is not used to human breakfast. If he really wants to eat something, he can only eat raw meat. Other foods are strange to the little spider.

"I..." Meng Tang's drooping white eyelashes trembled a few times, "I don't need to eat."

"Aren't you hungry?" Jiang Yan knew that everyone had their own habits, so he didn't force them. But he still said with a little concern, "But skipping breakfast is bad for your health. It's a bad habit."

Bad habits?

Meng Tang thought.

He needed to leave a good impression on Jiang Yan. So, when the three of them arrived at a mobile stall a few minutes later, Meng Tang pointed to a few white things in the steamer and said to the boss, "I want this too."

Jiang Yan’s breakfast consisted of a vegetarian bun and a meat bun, and Meng Tang got the same.

"Okay, two dollars and fifty cents," the boss replied enthusiastically.

Meng Tang touched his school uniform pocket, which was empty. His expression froze for a moment.

Ah, I used up all my money buying a schoolbag.

He earned that money by being the store mascot for a whole day.

At this moment, a pair of bony hands stretched out from Meng Tang's face, followed by a pleasant voice, cold and indifferent, "I gave you the money."

Tick-tick——

It seemed as if a small stone had fallen into Mengtang's heart, causing waves in his heart that could not calm down for a long time.

When Wang Xu saw this, he said quietly, "If you don't know, you would think he is your son."

"I have to make his bed at night and buy him meals during the day." Wang Xu said a little sourly.

Jiang Yan raised her eyes and did not deny it. "I can be your mother, too. Can you call me dear son?"

Wang Xu's pupils suddenly dilated, and then he showed a very hurt expression, "I'm going to complain to Su Ze when I go to school later, Jiang Yan, you've changed!"

Jiang Yan didn't say anything, but Meng Tang was thinking darkly in his heart: They are not mother and son, they are husband and wife!

…

"By the way, did you hear the thunder last night? Damn, it was so scary. My ears almost split apart."

"That's right, my cat was so scared that it scratched several holes in the sofa. When I woke up this morning, the cat was curled up in the corner as if it was dead."

"Stop talking. I didn't sleep at all last night."

"It was so intense last night that I thought the world was ending, but I still had to go to school as usual in the morning. It was so frustrating."

“Ring, ring, ring…”

"Shh, stop talking and start class. The teacher is here."

Most of the sunlight came in through the window, and the light and shadow divided the classroom in two. The noise gradually stopped, and the teacher walked up to the podium to start a new round of review.

Wang Xu usually doesn't pay attention in class, and jumps back and forth between his two good friends, Su Ze, who sits at the same table, and Jiang Yan, who sits behind him.

"Suze, did you hear that?"

Su Ze glanced at his deskmate, then quickly looked away and continued to stare at the blackboard, saying perfunctorily, "You mean thunder?"

"Wow, you sound so calm. I can see you don't have any dark circles under your eyes. You must have slept soundly, right?"

Su Ze said: "I slept with headphones in at night, so I didn't hear much."

"Headphones in? Are you playing a listening test?"

Su Ze nodded, "Otherwise, the college entrance examination is coming soon, and I got three wrong answers in the last listening test."

Wang Xu was instantly depressed, "Okay, university god, I won't bother you anymore."

"Jiang Yan." Wang Xu turned around and continued to talk to Jiang Yan, but found that he was staring out the window in a daze.

Wang Xu called Jiang Yan a few more times but there was no response. It was the first time he saw this person so distracted, which was a bit abnormal. So Wang Xu followed Jiang Yan's line of sight and looked out the window, and then he saw a familiar shadow.

In the dim light downstairs of the teaching building, Meng Tang stood there. He slightly raised his head and looked at a window of the building in front of him, then opened his lips as if saying something.

Wang Xu didn't understand it, but he guessed Jiang Yan should have understood it, otherwise he wouldn't have been so absent-minded.

"You two are exchanging glances." Wang Xu said jokingly at first, but he saw Jiang Yan's serious face and suddenly doubts came to his mind, "What's wrong with you?"

Jiang Yan finally reacted and turned to look at Wang Xu, "Mengtang told us to run away quickly."

"Escape?" Wang Xu was confused. He was a little dazed. "You two... escape?"

"No, no." Wang Xu struggled to sort out the context, "He asked you to elope? Otherwise, why would you two run away?"

"No." Jiang Yan seemed to be organizing his words, with a hint of hesitation in his eyes, "Meng Tang just said that a disaster would happen here."

"Huh?" If it was Jiang Yan who said this, Wang Xu might have thought about it seriously. Unfortunately, Jiang Yan was relaying Meng Tang's words. Wang Xu didn't like Meng Tang, so he thought it was ridiculous. "Is the end of the world really coming? Then we don't have to study anymore."

Jiang Yan didn't say anything.

Wang Xu pouted, "Why do you believe him when he says the world is coming to an end, but you don't believe me when I say he is a monster?"

Jiang Yan still didn't say anything, but his eyes seemed full of confusion.

In fact, Jiang Yan was also very skeptical at first about what Meng Tang said downstairs just now, until a picture suddenly popped into his mind.

At first, it was the hyphae that kept coming out from under the school warehouse, corroding all the campus equipment. Then, black tentacles tore through the water pipes and drilled out, carrying mucus and thorns, and sucked the passing ants and butterflies into their stomachs.

The above scenes flooded into Jiang Yan's mind almost at the same time. They were very dramatic like movies. Jiang Yan, who was sitting in the classroom, had never actually seen them, but he always felt a strange sense of reality, as if these things were about to happen or were happening.

——The end of the world is approaching quietly, and then suddenly erupts in harmony.

"But, Jiang Yan, you haven't learned lip reading." Wang Xu suddenly said, "And aren't you nearsighted? You couldn't see the person downstairs clearly before, how come you can see it clearly now and know what he is saying?"

After being reminded of this, Jiang Yan seemed to realize that something more extraordinary was happening to him.

Yes, Jiang Yan could actually see the appearance of Mengtang downstairs clearly.

Moreover, Meng Tang did not speak just now, but just kept moving his lips. But Jiang Yan felt that he was speaking, and was very close to him, almost speaking into his ear.

That's why Jiang Yan was so distracted just now.

Realizing this, Jiang Yan looked out the window again, and this time, he found that his vision was blurry again.

Meng Tang was no longer downstairs, so Jiang Yan shifted his gaze to look at other students passing by, but the images were very blurry, and even the outline of the sycamore tree in the distance could only be vaguely seen.

Suddenly, Jiang Yan remembered something.

When he looked at Meng Tang just now, it was not that his strength suddenly improved. In fact, he only saw Meng Tang, or he only clearly locked onto Meng Tang in the hazy scene.

Only Mengtang focused on Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan suddenly felt his head was a little confused, an emotion even more tangled than when he was solving science problems.

Wang Xu, who was standing by, sighed secretly when he saw Jiang Yan's face was in pain and struggle. He was now more and more convinced that Meng Tang was not a normal person. He approached Jiang Yan with ulterior motives, not only to sow discord between them, but also to make Jiang Yan look like this. He also became suspicious.

This is really unbelievable.

Wang Xu secretly made up his mind to find out the tail of the monster Meng Tang and rescue his friend!

However, just as the idea took shape, a sudden roar came from outside the classroom, followed by earth-shaking footsteps coming from upstairs and downstairs, as if an earthquake had come.

"What day is it today? Is there any drill that our class hasn't been notified of?"

The squad leader took the lead and spoke.

The teacher just went to the bathroom and hasn't come back yet, so the class is now full of confused students.

"Go out and take a look." someone said.

Then some people left the classroom, but some people stood by the window with a terrified expression, raised their hands and pointed in a certain direction with trembling lips, unable to speak.

Jiang Yan noticed something unusual, turned his head to look at the window on the left, and was also shocked for an instant.

I saw that the original warm orange sunlight in the distance had been replaced by a thick fog. The white fog that came from nowhere was slowly pouring towards the campus, like a man-eating monster. The pedestrians passing by outside the campus never appeared again after entering the fog.

As for the students on campus, they hurriedly gathered in the center of the teaching building. But at this time, someone discovered that the outer wall of the teaching building was covered by a group of strange creatures - it was a plant like ivy, but more ferocious and covered with thorns. It broke through the soil under the building and kept climbing up along the wall.

Soon, the entrances and exits of the first floor were blocked by a net-like network of thick green plants. The students who were still wandering outside had to flee to other places, such as the cafeteria, dormitory, and library.

"Fuck, it really is the end of the world."

Wang Xu also saw these anomalies. He tugged at Su Ze's clothes and said in amazement: "...What the experts said is true."

Among the crazy students in the class, the three of them were relatively calm. Su Ze crossed his arms and said, "Does the guy named Meng Tang have the ability to predict the future?"

Wang Xu was stunned and suddenly remembered Meng Tang's previous warning. He just thought it was a prank, but he didn't expect it to come true.

"Then do we need to hide?" Wang Xu scratched his head. He was a little confused now.

Jiang Yan was looking at somewhere absentmindedly, and a figure appeared in his mind. Oh, if Meng Tang knew in advance, where would he be now?

"You guys find a safe place to hide first. I'll go find Meng Tang."

After Jiang Yan finished speaking, he ran out of the classroom from the back door. Wang Xu just opened his mouth halfway and then closed it again.

"Fuck, the door is blocked, how can we get out?"

"Students, don't panic, just follow the teacher's instructions!"

"It's the end of the world, what the hell are you planning?"

“…”

The corridor was already in chaos. Jiang Yan moved back and forth cautiously. He occasionally glanced outside the railing and found that the thick fog that had been rolling in from the center of the campus suddenly stopped moving, as if it had suddenly lost its vitality and did not take the next step to swallow him up.

This should be a good thing, but a feeling of uneasiness still arose in Jiang Yan's heart.

His heart beat faster for no apparent reason, accompanied by a faint pain. He suddenly stopped in his tracks. A sudden gust of wind blew into the corridor, messing up Jiang Yan's hair.

"Ahhh, run! Hide!"

"What the hell are these? It hurts me so much."

Jiang Yan looked up when he heard the sound, and saw a group of flies... Rather than flies, they were more like mutants of flies, with dense spikes all over their bodies and strange green eyes.

These creatures were rushing towards the students running around like crazy, using their spikes and sharp teeth to bite their prey.

In the chaos, Jiang Yan was also bitten. His fair skin instantly became red and swollen, and his nerves felt like they were poisoned with a burning sensation.

"Ginger salt."

Suddenly, someone called his name.

In the instant he was stunned, the man had already grabbed one of his arms. The other person's fingers were very cold, as if coated with a layer of ice, which formed a sharp contrast with Jiang Yan's scorching body temperature.

"Run to me."

Jiang Yan turned around and suddenly met Meng Tang's eyes, which were dark and filled with deep and visible special emotions.

It was very similar to when little girls came to him to discuss problems, with shy faces, timid voices, and evasive eyes, but love was obvious.

Recalling the inexplicable words Wang Xu had said before, he said that Meng Tang had bad intentions towards him and asked him to be careful.

At that time, Jiang Yan just thought that they were just two boys and there was nothing to be on guard against. In addition, Meng Tang was really lovable, so he treated him like a poor little brother.

After all, compared to his arrogant and overbearing cousin Jiang Nao at home, Meng Tang is much more obedient.

However, now, Jiang Yan seemed to see the emotions in the other person's eyes for the first time, and he... began to waver.

In the moment of hesitation, he had already pulled his arm out of the other person's fingers.

This action startled Meng Tang, and his face showed confusion and a little hurt.

After making this move, Jiang Yan regretted it. He felt that he must have been frightened by the situation around him and started thinking about some inexplicable things.

"Sorry, I'm still a little shocked." Jiang Yan explained.

Fortunately, Meng Tang didn't care too much and gave Jiang Yan a generous smile, "Oh, it's okay now, I will protect you."