On the almost eroded arm, a row of fine teeth marks was extremely glaring. Not only had the flesh been bitten off, but even the exposed white bones had been left with marks.
These bite marks didn't look like those caused by humans at all, but rather like those caused by some extremely ferocious beast.
hiss--
After seeing the bite marks, everyone around gasped, especially the burly man in the lead, whose expression immediately became extremely ugly.
"Brother, I..."
The young boy known as 'Fifth Brother' looked no more than fifteen or sixteen years old. After revealing the bite marks on his arm, his eyes were filled with unconcealed panic and an inexplicable...
fear.
The burly man known as 'Big Brother' had a sullen face. After a long silence, he looked at his brothers and sisters beside him. Their eyes were filled with unspeakable fear.
The burly man knew exactly what they were afraid of.
So he took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, then he looked back at his injured fifth brother and spoke with some difficulty, "Fifth brother, do you know what happens when you're bitten by a jackal?"
"I...I...understand..."
The fifth brother was stunned at first, as if he recalled some extremely terrifying experience, and then his whole body was shaking like a sieve. He gritted his teeth and slowly took out an extremely sharp knife from his arms.
"Big Brother!" Xiaolong saw that the situation was not good and snatched the sharp knife from his fifth brother. Then he yelled at his elder brother: "Fifth Brother is still so young! How can we give up on him so easily?!"
"...Xiaolong, it's not that I'm giving up on my fifth brother..." The burly man's gaze was heavy as he whispered, "We all know that after the plague broke out in Lightless City, it was spread through the blood of jackals. Anyone bitten by a jackal will become a terrifying 'jackal' who has lost their mind and will devour anyone they choose."
"It's too late to treat Fifth Brother's injuries, not to mention we have no way to combat the plague. It won't be long before our dear Fifth Brother loses his human form before us, and then kills all the rest of his brothers and sisters."
He spoke slowly, but the facts he expressed sounded extremely heavy.
The jackals that were hunting them were originally normal residents living in the Dark City. After the plague broke out, they were all infected and turned into monsters that devoured people.
Anyone bitten by a jackal will be infected with the disease and become an equally irrational monster.
After hearing this, Xiaolong's expression became a little dazed. He gritted his teeth and said, "But if we escape to Tianguang City, maybe we still have a chance..."
"No buts. I can feel something creeping up my arm. Time is running out..." At this moment, the young fifth brother relaxed. He looked calmly at his eldest and second brothers, then glanced at the sisters sitting nearby. He chuckled softly, "Brother, give me the knife. At least let me die as a human. I don't want to turn into a monster, let alone attack you."
His arms were rotting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a faint gray-green aura was looming, constantly wrapping around other parts of his body.
Patta——
"Fifth brother...it's all my fault that I'm incompetent..."
Xiaolong loosened his hand with a look of pain on his face, and the sharp knife fell into the hand of his fifth brother.
"After I leave, everyone must flee to Tianguang City..."
After getting the sharp knife, the young boy smiled as if he was ready to die, and then rushed out.
He knew that he couldn't commit suicide in front of his brothers and sisters, so he went straight to the outside of the Taoist temple to end his life.
“…”
Xu Xianxian hid behind the statue of the god and watched the scene in front of her quietly. For human beings, this was a human tragedy.
But she just watched silently, not even the slightest bit moved. For Xu Xianxian, a legendary fairy with the power of emotions, she had experienced too many things, such as life and death, and had already overcome them. She would not be shaken by this.
And compared to these poor young people, she was more curious about the plague these young people were talking about.
"Plague?" Xu Xianxian said thoughtfully. "Although these young men may not be very strong, they are not ordinary people after all. They are cultivators practicing Taoism. How could they be affected by a mere plague? And it looks like the situation is quite serious."
From what she knew, large-scale, long-lasting, and highly infectious epidemics would only break out when ordinary people's resistance was too weak. Normal extraordinary creatures were not immune to all poisons, but at least they were completely helpless against viruses and bacteria in nature.
"Could it be that a demigod is emitting poisonous gas?"
Xu Xianxian didn't believe that a plague would naturally spread in this Great Light Palace, and that it could infect a large number of monks. She wouldn't believe it if it wasn't artificially controlled.
If a plague spreads among extraordinary creatures, it must be spread by powerful people in specialized fields, otherwise it would not be so easy to cause a chain infection.
And it sounds like the infection is spreading extremely fast and the outbreak is so strong that even extraordinary creatures have no ability to resist.
"If you get bitten, your blood will be contaminated? That young man committed suicide, and all life is gone... No... No, he's not dead yet..."
Xu Xianxian felt the fifth brother's life breath disappear in an instant, and then a strange fluctuation began to brew, and her expression changed.
She clearly sensed that the young man who left the Taoist temple had committed suicide outside, and even his life force had completely dissipated, but his soul did not escape and fly away.
Instead, it was wrapped in the corpse and began to twist and mutate.
"These people are wrong. This strange disease is not transmitted through blood, but through the soul."
After realizing something was wrong, Xu Xianxian's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.
Even for a legendary fairy like her, she had never heard of a virus that could pollute the soul. To be safe, she decided to find a relatively secluded place to hide and observe.
The most convenient place is underground here.
“Ahh—”
“Ahh—”
Then, a few minutes after she burrowed into the ground, long howls like those of a pack of wolves were heard from outside the dilapidated Taoist temple.
After hearing these long howls, the expressions of the young men who were still in grief changed. The burly man in the lead stood up and shouted, "No! Those monsters are chasing us! Run - snap -"
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by some huge force. A wolf-shaped monster with a face covered in rotten flesh attacked him from behind and bit his neck.
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