"Since we can't get out anyway, we might as well take a good rest," Xiao Jin muttered to herself, a faint smile playing on her lips.
Amo's eyes gleamed with a human touch as he swallowed the meat snacks Xiao Jin had given him, while swaying his head and staring at the tablet.
"What? You can understand it?"
"Hiss~" Amo proudly puffed out his little chest.
However, while Xiao Jin was enjoying himself immensely, the outside world was in turmoil.
At the same time, other players in the city are facing an unprecedented crisis.
"What the hell is this?!"
A player stomped on a mutated cockroach, but soon, more cockroaches swarmed in from all directions. They were incredibly fast, and in the blink of an eye, they had crawled onto the player's body.
"Ah! They're biting me!" the player cried out in terror, frantically swatting at the cockroaches on his body, but to no avail. The cockroach venom quickly seeped into his skin, and the durability of his protective suit plummeted.
"Run! Run!" the player's companion shouted.
But his voice was quickly drowned out by the buzzing of the cockroaches.
Moments later, the player who first attacked the mutated cockroach had his protective suit completely torn apart by the cockroaches, exposing his flesh and blood, as the cockroaches frantically gnawed at his body.
"Help! Help!" the player cried out in agony.
He took out a nano-therapy needle and quickly injected it into his body, and the flesh that had been eaten began to heal rapidly.
But he seemed to have forgotten that he had not yet escaped the swarm of mutated cockroaches.
This caused his flesh to regenerate while being devoured, a cycle that repeated itself, causing him immense suffering.
"Ah—!" The player's scream echoed through the street, but soon his voice disappeared.
His body was eaten away by cockroaches, leaving only his skeleton. He lay on the ground, becoming a skeleton among the cockroach swarm.
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"These cockroaches... they're terrifying!" A female player hid in an abandoned shop, looking out the window with a pale face.
Her protective suit was torn, and there was a deep wound on her arm from which blood was flowing continuously.
That was caused by a mutated cockroach. The female player had just taken the antidote, otherwise the blood flowing from the wound would still be black!
“We can’t stay here, we have to find a safer place!” her companion whispered, her eyes filled with fear.
"But there are cockroaches everywhere outside, how are we supposed to get out?" the female player asked in a trembling voice.
Her companion didn't speak, but gripped her weapon tightly, a hint of despair flashing in her eyes.
"Fire! Let's burn these cockroaches!"
"Will this... work?"
"Does that mean we'll run out of props and be completely eaten up?"
The other female player fell silent.
After a moment, she asked, "Where do we go after we get out of here?"
"In the villa area, there are basements. The basements of wealthy people must be very well made."
His companion clenched his fist: "We'll hide in the basement then; no cockroaches will ever set foot there."
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
With that, the two set all the surrounding buildings on fire, completely disregarding the lives of the other people hiding in the street.
Fortunately, Xiao Jin's safe house isn't here.
Inside the children's activity room of the fast food restaurant, Xiao Jin was still leisurely lying on the sofa, watching a comedy movie on her tablet.
She had finished her lunch, and now a cup of hot tea sat on the small side table, its aroma filling the room and dispelling the stuffy atmosphere.
The boards were nailed in too tightly, making the room feel stuffy.
But there's no way around it. What if a mutated cockroach crawls in through a hole?
Just bear with it. If there's not enough oxygen, Xiao Jin has plenty of oxygen cylinders.
About an hour later, Xiao Jin got up and walked to the window, listening intently. The rustling sounds outside had not stopped.
Alright... you'd better stay put!
Sitting back down on the sofa, Xiao Jin felt unsatisfied after watching the movie for a while.
"Hiss~ Wait, I remember storing a projector in my space before!"
Thinking of this, Xiao Jin buried her head and searched through her space. Sure enough, after searching for about ten minutes, she finally found the projector placed together with some computers, speakers, and mobile phones.
Xiao Jin enthusiastically projected the image onto the white wall opposite.
"Hmm, that's much better now."
Xiao Jin stayed there until almost noon the next day.
Xiao Jin stood in the room, her ears twitching slightly.
The buzzing sound outside had disappeared, replaced by a deathly silence.
She gently lifted the wooden board sealing the window, and a strong smell rushed out, the pungent odor making Xiao Jin frown involuntarily.
The glass behind the wooden board was already shattered, and there was still a lot of black slime left on it, which was obviously the trace left by the mutated cockroach.
Xiao Jin's gaze swept across the window. The street was a mess, with cockroach corpses and traces everywhere, and many buildings were also damaged.
"They're finally gone..." Xiao Jin breathed a sigh of relief.
Not only are the mutated cockroaches disgusting, but they also seriously interfere with Xiao Jin's work. She can't stand hiding here for the next few days!
"Um?"
However, just as Xiao Jin was about to push away and turn around, a notification suddenly popped up on her game panel:
[Ding! You have been poisoned. Your health and mana are decreasing. Please detoxify as soon as possible!]
"Poisoned?" Xiao Jin's pupils contracted sharply.
She quickly checked her status bar and found a "poisoned" debuff.
Her blood and qi levels are declining slowly but steadily. Although it is not fatal in the short term, the consequences could be dire if it is not treated promptly.
Is it the smell?
Xiao Jin glanced at the ubiquitous black slime around him, then quickly took out an antidote pill from his spatial storage and swallowed it.
The antidote pill worked immediately; the blood and qi stopped decreasing, and the poison debuff disappeared.
Xiao Jin dared not be careless, so she took out a gas mask from her spatial storage and carefully put it on.
The gas mask's filtration system quickly filtered out the toxic gases in the air, and Xiao Jin was finally able to breathe normally.
She pushed open the window and carefully jumped out.
On the streets, the corpses of mutated cockroaches were piled up like mountains, and black slime formed a thick film on the ground, making a "crunching" sound when stepped on.
Some of these cockroaches died of starvation, while others were frozen to death.
Although their bodies have been greatly enhanced after the mutation, they seem to have become much less resistant to cold. The temperature here at night is only two or three degrees Celsius, which the mutated cockroaches simply cannot withstand.
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