Carol was stunned by the other person's words and asked incredulously, "You're also a volunteer for the alien race?"
The werewolf Aldnan pulled a scythe from his thigh, and almost instantly, the wound healed completely, leaving no trace.
He broke the crude weapon in his hand in half and threw it aside, then squatted down, hoisted a corpse onto his shoulder, and said to Carol, "This is not the place to talk. Come with me."
Full of doubts, Carol followed Aldenan as they walked through the forest for about half an hour until they arrived at a hidden cave.
Carol found a rock and sat down, staring at Aldenan as she asked, "Can you tell me now?"
"Let me ask you first, was the place where you received the injection a dimly lit little room?" The latter looked at the surprise on Carol's face and sneered, "Don't you find it strange? Everyone else received the injection in a tent, but you and I were the only ones brought into a room?"
Carol stood up: "So, you also saw that scholar in the surgical gown?"
Aldenan shrugged: "That's right."
Carol asked again, "Everyone else who received the injection in the tent is fine? Only you and I, who went into the room, ended up like this?"
Aldenan nodded: "That's true."
"Why?!"
Aldenan slowly removed the clothes from the corpse and said nonchalantly, "I don't know."
Carol shouted angrily, "What do you mean you don't know?! It's because of that bastard that we've ended up like this!"
Picking up a wooden brush, wetting it with a little water, Aldenan cleaned the corpse as he said, "If I'm not mistaken, that guy picked out a few unlucky souls from this batch of mutant volunteers and injected them with a different drug than the others, which is why you and I ended up like this."
Carol waved her arms, shouting excitedly, "Look at us! Look at us! We're monsters now! Aren't you sad? Aren't you angry? Don't you want to find a chance to turn back... Wait... What are you doing?!"
Carroll stared wide-eyed, dumbfounded, as he watched Aldenan raise a sharp stone and smash it down on the corpse's joints.
After severing one of the corpse's thighs, Aldenan weighed it and then tossed it to Carol.
The latter looked at the human remains at his feet, his face contorted with disgust, and took two steps back, growling warily, "You...you're eating people?"
Opening its blood-red maw, Aldenan bit off a piece of flesh from the corpse and swayed its tail behind it: "At first, I wasn't used to doing this, but I've found that raw meat tastes better than cooked meat when it's like this."
Carol shook her head frantically: "Eating corpses is the barbaric habit of beasts! We are human!"
Aldenan turned around, his mouth agape, and let out a shrill laugh: "Before you speak, take a good look at yourself in a basin of water! Just like you said, we're already monsters!"
Carol wanted to argue, but didn't know how to start, and finally slumped down on the rock.
A dozen minutes later, Aldenan finished his meal. He looked at the untouched limb beside Carol and shook his head.
Aldenan found a twig and, like a human picking at their teeth, looked at Carol and asked, "Why did you go into the room in the first place?"
The latter glanced at him: "I need money."
Aldenan grinned: "A lame excuse."
"And what about you? Why did you go in?"
"Because I want to live."
Carol looked up, puzzled, and asked, "Survive?"
Aldenan raised his wolf head, looked in the direction of Muxi City, and said in a low voice, "I used to be a boxer in an underground casino. Although I wouldn't say I was famous, I was quite well-known in the fighting circle in the north of the city."
Listening to what the other person said, Carroll recalled the werewolf's movements and steps when attacking the villagers, which were indeed not the actions of an ordinary person.
“Perhaps it was a misunderstanding, perhaps it was a trap, but after a match, I inadvertently offended a powerful figure. He threatened to kill me in the next boxing match.” Aldenan smiled. “To survive, I joined that alien volunteer program, hoping to gain regenerative abilities so that I would be invincible in combat. So, even knowing that room was definitely not a good place, I had no choice but to accept my fate.”
After a long silence, Carol finally asked, "How did you find me?"
Aldenan pointed to his nose: "I have to thank the wolf's sense of smell. I can smell your scent from far away."
Carol sighed: "Now there's only one question left: what do we do next?"
Aldenan lowered his head, rolled his eyes, and asked casually, "You want to regain your human form?"
"Nonsense!" Carol shattered the rock beneath her with a punch. "Who wants to live like a monster?!"
“To have a private cabin in a kingdom activity like the Alien Volunteer Campaign, the scholar we met must be no ordinary person,” Aldenan said as he pondered. “Perhaps we can start from here and slowly find out who this guy is.”
Upon hearing this, Carol excitedly said, "That's right! As long as we can find this treacherous guy, we can force him to hand over the antidote and let us return to human form."
Aldenan smiled and agreed, "You're right. As long as we find him, we must get him to help us regain our human form."
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