The aisle behind the counter was deathly silent. The woman frowned and shouted again, "Wang Yu! Take the things out first!"

The darkness in the dark corridor grew even deeper. The woman called out again, realizing something was wrong, and turned to walk out from behind the counter into the corridor.

"Young lady, wait a moment, that child might not have heard you."

She paused in her forward motion, a silver cane lying across her lower abdomen. The classic decoration matched the young girl's elegant and noble attire perfectly.

The silver cane stopped in front of her, blocked by an invisible barrier. The woman raised an eyebrow and looked down at Gu Li: "Little girl, what does this mean?"

Gu Li stayed in the shop for a while and realized that what the woman said was true; they were indeed doing legitimate business.

The store was very clean, which made the smell emanating from a certain room in the corridor particularly noticeable—an unfamiliar, polluted smell mixed with a trace of He Shiyi's scent.

Gu Li stopped the unsuspecting woman who was walking inside, his eyes fixed on the innermost room: "It's dangerous in there, let me go instead?"

Will the alarms go off here?

The woman was startled. Almost the next second, the circular device on the ceiling began flashing red lights and emitting a sharp, piercing alarm.

The woman's face turned deathly pale almost instinctively as she looked in horror at the corridor where something seemed to be surging in the darkness.

She barely managed to stay rational, grabbed Gu Li by the back of her collar, and dragged her outside: "Let's go quickly, the law enforcement team received the alarm and will be here soon!"

Gu Li was caught off guard and stumbled as she pulled him back by the collar. His sky-blue pupils reflected the increasingly heavy pollution.

"But he can't hold on any longer."

The woman was taken aback by the force with which she broke free. After hearing her words, she moved her lips and casually pushed Gu Li out the door: "That's not something someone with weak genes like you should do. Stay here!"

Gu Li stared wide-eyed at the woman in red, then grabbed a gun from behind the counter without hesitation and rushed into the darkness.

etc……

You will die.

The woman who was so mercenary just moments ago has now turned around and abandoned everything to rush headlong into death. This is not the first time Gu Li has seen such a scene.

Just like Eric and Levy, who rushed forward without hesitation in the face of irreversible pollution amidst the overwhelming tide of pollution that day, everyone knew that the threat of death was imminent, yet not one of them wavered.

Gu Li reached out a finger and lightly touched the glass before stepping inside.

She pursed her lips and took a few steps forward, facing the darkness. She was struggling to dodge and was startled by the woman who was firing at her from the shadows.

"Why are you here!"

After saying that, the woman felt that all of this was nonsense, and gritted her teeth: "Forget it, quickly hide behind me, that thing is coming! Your cane won't kill it!"

Gu Li twirled the silver cane in his hand, his sky-blue pupils sweeping across the woman's sweat-drenched face, whose gaze was beginning to glaze over.

Gu Li stepped forward and walked up to her, whispering, "Don't look."

At the same time, she lightly pushed her cane forward, causing the woman's pupils to dilate, and she heard a piercing alarm bell and a sharp screech belonging to an alien species.

She looked at Gu Li again in disbelief; her beautiful light golden hair was draped behind her, briefly fluttering in the air with her movements.

Eric's self-made cane is really useful.

Gu Li felt the silky smoothness under his hand, squinted his eyes and pushed the cane deeper until the low-level creature lost its ability to move.

He sprinted forward two steps amidst the woman's gasp, his calves tensed, and as he stepped onto the wall, he spun around and thrust his cane backward.

The hard texture made her click her tongue: "It hit my tooth."

She tightened her wrist and pressed down hard. With a crisp snap, the second mutant also stopped moving.

Gu Li flicked his cane and gestured with his chin toward the woman: "Let's go, is this Wang Yu's room?"

She followed the scent to the door of the last room.

The woman suddenly snapped out of her daze, glanced at her cautiously, then turned on the communicator's flashlight and stepped over the two corpses to stand behind Gu Li.

The woman nodded, her voice low and hoarse, as if afraid of disturbing something: "Yes, young lady... Miss, is there anything else inside?"

Should we make some preparations before going in?

Before she could finish speaking, she saw Gu Li raise her hand and press down the doorknob. With a screech of resistance as the door was pushed open, a corner of the dark room was revealed.

Just as Gu Li lifted her foot, a warm body suddenly pressed against her back, accompanied by a woman's trembling voice: "Miss...may I be able to get a little closer to you?"

Gu Li: ...Haven't you already stuck it on?

Speechless, she pushed the door slightly harder. She hadn't eaten yet, and her whole body felt like it had been crushed.

Gu Li was really losing patience; her face, illuminated by the flashlight in the darkness, looked even paler.

Suddenly, she heard a loud swallowing sound, followed by a woman's trembling voice: "Excuse me, miss, are you alright?"

Two fingers quickly pressed against Gu Li's cheek.

The woman breathed a sigh of relief and murmured, "Thank goodness, it's warm..."

Gu Li: What kind of dirty thing am I in your heart?

The things in the room clearly didn't want her to go in. Gu Li listened to the alarm bells that were still creaking and added another item to the order list.

Buy some noise-canceling headphones...

Her hand, which was resting on the door, suddenly tightened, the veins on the back of her hand bulging. With a series of creaking sounds, the door finally opened, creating a passageway large enough for two people to pass through.

Gu Liqing, her face pale, walked in with the human-shaped pendant she was wearing.

Upon entering, one is immediately struck by an extremely strong, fishy stench, and Gu Li twitched her nose.

She turned and walked towards the door. The woman behind her was trembling. She was taller than Gu Li, and even though she was lying on Gu Li's back, she still had to face those things directly.

"What's there...?"

Chestnut: "Lower Species.zip".

Hearing the woman's startled splits, she made a rare joke.

The air seemed to freeze for a moment.

Gu Li used his cane to pry the huge, human-sized compressed insect package off the door panel, and then, to the woman's horror, he poked the cane into the insect's body and stirred it around.

"Thankfully, the person should still be outside."

The woman subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, but then felt a chill run down her spine at her description. If she was still alive, then she was still alive. What did she mean by "still outside"?

This could easily make people think that Wang Yu was half eaten!

Gu Li spun around and broke free from her embrace, heading straight for the only place in the room where someone could hide. He leaned against the edge of the bed and looked down.

Gu Li's light blue pupils, reflecting the light of a cell phone in the darkness, met a pair of trembling black eyes. She patted the edge of the bed, her voice hoarse: "Come out."

"Tsk."

Gu Li bent down and pulled the person out from under the bed.

Wang Yu: "Aaaaaaah! There's another dwarf mutant!!!"