The hand was not afraid of the edges of the glass at all. The next moment, Lu Ban felt his vision suddenly narrow.

Because from the left side, from the gap next to the driver's seat, another hand climbed up.

For the first time, that thing appeared in front of Lu Ban in its entirety with details clearly visible.

Its skin was hard and had some irregular grooves on it. Below its mouse-like head was an open mouth, but that mouth didn't look like a mouse at all. Inside the three-petal mouth were densely packed with sharp teeth, like some kind of reptile.

In the mouth that was opened as wide as possible, there were several dark red tongues, shaking like tentacles, trying to take the food outside into the mouth.

The rat man noticed Lu Ban driving the car at first sight.

Two ratmen crawled into the car, one on the left and one on the right, in a strange crawling posture, and their wriggling tongues and mouthparts swept towards Lu Ban's arm.

Lu Ban did not hesitate. He held the steering wheel with his left hand, picked up the crowbar with his right hand, and smashed it at the ratman on the right.

The end of the crowbar hit the ratman's head accurately and surely, and was embedded deeply into it. Some dark yellow juice splashed out from the wound. The wriggling tongue and tiny broken teeth suddenly lost their vitality. The ratman's tiny vertical pupils became dilated and there was no movement.

But in this gap, the ratman on the left had grabbed Lu Ban's left arm.

The dark red, slippery, slender tongue tightly bound Lu Ban's arms, and its tiny teeth left imprints on his upper arms.

Puff——

Before he even felt the pain, Lu Ban saw green spreading from the wound on his left hand.

Several new sprouts emerged from between the rat man's teeth and his own wounds, shaking rapidly like stimulated earthworms. Lu Ban felt something rising in his throat. He coughed while retracting the crowbar, and bright green juice splashed onto the steering wheel.

"don't want……"

There was a wailing sound behind him. Lu Ban could see through the cracked rearview mirror that at the back of the bus, several ratmen had climbed into the car at the same time and were attacking Shi Tou and Mary.

Bang--

Mary shot the ratman in the front in the head, and dark yellow juice and flesh exploded. But another ratman immediately took the opportunity to pounce on Mary, pushed Mary down, opened its three-petal mouth, and strangled the middle-aged biologist's neck with its dark tongue, followed by sharp teeth.

“Woo!”

Mary whimpered softly as her throat was torn apart by the sharp teeth. Blood gushed out and green grass sprouted from the hideous flesh and blood.

The rat man raised his head slightly, preparing to take another bite and completely tear Mary's throat, when a gunshot rang out.

Bang--

Shitou picked up Mary's gun at some point. His hands were shaking, and he lost his balance after just one shot and fell to the ground.

The rat man who attacked Mary had half of his head exploded, and his turbid brain matter flowed onto Mary's body, mixing with the dirty blood from her wounds, giving off some kind of gorgeous and strange color.

Mary struggled to breathe, but her throat was torn and blood from the aorta blocked her trachea. She was like a drowning person, desperately trying to breathe but unable to get any oxygen and was about to be suffocated to death.

Beside him, light yellow liquid flowed out from under Stone's body. He was shaking all over, unable to make any movement. He could only watch the two ratmen move towards him and Mary. The horrifying mouthparts emitted a foul stench, announcing their death sentence and end.

Lu Ban thrust his crowbar through the body of the rat man that was biting his left hand. The pain seemed to slow down the rat man's movements for a moment, and the same pain also made Lu Ban regain consciousness.

Inside his head, some kind of wriggling life was waiting to break out of the ground and embrace a new life. The itching sensation turned into severe pain, tormenting Lu Ban's sanity.

In such a desperate situation, Lu Ban opened his mouth.

“■■■■■——”

A grand and indifferent voice that came from eternity burst out from Lu Ban's mouth.

At that moment, something more absolute occupied Lu Ban's brain. What surpassed the itching and pain was the fear and awe that came from human instinct.

Lu Ban could feel that between the grooves of his cerebral cortex, some kind of blazing fire was burning everything. If there was a thermometer to measure at this moment, he might witness with his own eyes the moment when his body temperature exceeded 40 degrees.

This is a verbal bullet.

This is [last words].

The whispers from the ancients and great beings that Lu Ban had recorded at the Jiangcheng Grand Theater were now echoing in the bus compartment in the wilderness of the abandoned city.

In just a moment, the narrow eyes of the rat man who attacked Lu Ban's left hand widened and became round, and its dark yellow vertical pupils began to shake, and it let out a roar.

The roar was something Lu Ban had heard before, and it sounded like the roar of a pack of wolves, but also like the cry of humans.

The other ratmen in the bus also roared. Those ratmen clinging to the body and roof of the bus lost their strength and were thrown off by the high-speed bus with ugly and sharp howls.

Lu Ban had no time to care about these things. He drove forward while muttering to himself.

He knew very well that this patch of grass had some kind of power that allowed plants to grow wildly, and only by leaving the radiation range of the grass could he alleviate his own vegetative transformation.

As Lu Ban repeated his mumblings, the new green shoots seemed to have stopped growing. At this moment, the wildly growing grass in Lu Ban's ears, eyes, nose, and mouth seemed to be swept by an electric current. They trembled slightly, as if they were afraid and did not dare to show their heads. They actually curled up back.

The cloudy eyes of the rat man beside him had turned completely black, and the surface of its body was bulging as if it had been invaded by some creature, as if there were bubbles between the skin and muscles trying to find a breakthrough, and were about to expand and burst.

“■■■■■——”

Amidst the crazy mutterings, the rat man let go of Lu Ban's hand and fell out of the car.

Lu Ban glanced at the rat man, but the next moment, a black shadow covered the gray-white rat man.

It's a fish.

In his high fever caused by his own mumbling, Lu Ban found it difficult to identify what kind of fish it was, or whether it was a fish from Earth. At least when he saw the scaly body, huge eyes, gills, fins, and mouth full of hard teeth, the first word that came to his mind was fish.

The huge, dark figure, almost as long as a bus, was wandering in the dark green grass. It bit the fallen ratman into its mouth and then began to "float".

Lu Ban looked up along the shape of the fish and saw that the fish threw the broken body of the rat man into the sky. The corpse floated lightly as if it had lost the restraint of gravity. Then, more fish gathered around.

These fish swam out nimbly from the deadly grass and were not affected by the plants at all. They shared the body of the ratman in mid-air. Lu Ban discovered that even the dark yellow blood did not fall to the ground, but scattered like smoke.

He saw that after the fish quickly feasted on the ratmen, they seemed to smell the scent of blood.

They swayed their bodies and swarmed towards the bus.