Chapter 19: Mutant Woman
The deeper you go into the farmers' market, the less air circulation there is. The smell of blood, rot, and feces left by farm animals is so pungent that it almost makes you nauseous.
Most of the shops and stalls were in a mess, with little stock left.
"It seems that more than one group of people have come here to plunder." Jiang Wang shook his head and continued, "The remaining things are of little use."
We have explored most of the market.
When passing by the door of the agricultural products store, the shutter door was closed tightly, and the sound of a woman sobbing could be faintly heard from inside.
What's going on?
We looked at each other in surprise and confusion.
It's been two months since the mutation began, are there still survivors?
"Something's wrong, let's retreat first." Song Nanxing raised his hand to signal everyone to stop, staring at the place where the crying came from and said in a deep voice.
"Why retreat?! It's obvious there are survivors inside. Such a big store, there must be a lot of stock inside! Let's just go in and rob them!"
Wu Dali was a little excited and was ready to walk towards the agricultural product store.
Song Nanxing pulled him back and said sternly, "Don't commit suicide!"
"It's been two months. Instead of looking for a safe base, you're hiding in a crowded store in the farmers' market. Do you think it's possible?"
Wu Dali was unconvinced and sarcastically said:
"Little brother, I'm not saying anything bad about you being a timid captain. I was giving you face before. With your strength and qualifications, you might even have to beg me to protect you when you're in danger. Now it's obvious that there are survivors inside. Don't be so suspicious. Even if it's a monster, can't the six of us defeat it?"
As he spoke, Wu Dali subconsciously glanced at Jiang Wang and An Xiaowei. He had never seen Song Nanxing's skills, but he had seen Jiang Wang and An Xiaowei's performance with his own eyes.
"If you want to die, I won't stop you." Song Nanxing spread his hands, and then said in a slightly warning tone: "You can go outside and die later, don't drag down your teammates."
"What did you say? Are you looking for death?" Wu Dali said angrily, stepped forward and grabbed Song Nanxing's collar.
"I said, if you want to die, get out!" Song Nanxing repeated word by word.
"you!"
Just when Wu Dali was about to hit him, the shutter door of the nearby agricultural product store suddenly opened, and a woman timidly poked half of her head out from behind the door.
After seeing us, he screamed, covered his mouth and ran to hide behind the shelf, squatting on the ground trembling, begging for mercy in a low voice:
"Don't kill me, don't kill me! I have nothing to eat."
We looked at each other and didn't dare to act rashly.
The woman didn't make any other moves, but just kept repeating "Don't kill me", as if she was stimulated by something.
Seeing her like this, Wu Dali suddenly felt confident and excitedly took a few steps forward and said proudly:
"I told you he was just a survivor! You wimps, every time you hear a little noise you think it's a mutant."
When the woman saw Wu Dali approaching, she was so scared that she rolled and crawled to the innermost corner.
"Don't come over here! Don't steal my things!"
As she spoke, she hurriedly protected a cardboard box beside her.
Wu Dali took a look, staring at the cardboard box, his eyes flashing with greed, and said with a smile:
"Whatever's hidden in the box, they're all survivors. Take it out and share it."
"I don't! I don't! This is mine!"
The woman kept shaking her head and hugged the box tightly.
Seeing that she was unwilling, Wu Dali's eyes flashed with ferocity. He simply stopped pretending and directly took out a dagger and pointed it at the woman's neck: "Take it out!"
"Wu Dali!" Song Nanxing called him with a stern face.
Wu Dali ignored it and turned around to sneer, "What? You're still thinking about being a saint at this time? Are you guys stupid? She's just a woman, carrying such a big box of supplies, what's there to be afraid of?"
As he said that, he turned around, picked up the woman and threw her aside, then reached out to open the box.
"Don't touch it! I won't allow it!" The woman struggled and crawled over on her knees, trying to take the box back, but was kicked away by Wu Dali again.
Jiang Wang couldn't bear to watch it any longer, frowned and wanted to step forward to stop it, but was pulled back by Song Nanxing.
A flash of lightning streaked across the sky, briefly illuminating the dim farmers' market. I suddenly noticed that the woman was lying on the ground, no longer struggling, but just shaking.
There was a muffled thunder in the sky and it started to rain again. Amid the endless sound of rain, I vaguely heard a series of orderly long and short sounds.
"leave."
Without waiting for me to remind everyone, Wu Dali excitedly opened the box.
The moment the box was opened, Wu Dali's expression became extremely terrified. He screamed and threw the box away, and a black mass rolled out of the box.
The thing was small and black, and emitted an indescribable stench.
"Don't touch...my child!" The woman got up at some point and looked at Wu Dali with resentment.
"Not good!" Song Nanxing's face suddenly changed.
However, before we could react, the woman's neck twisted stiffly at a strange angle, and then a tumor grew on her face.
"Kill you!" The woman squeezed out a few words from her mouth in hatred, and then pounced on Wu Dali frantically.
Before he could react, the woman's hand pierced straight through his chest. Wu Dali looked down in a daze, a look of horror frozen on his face. Before he could make a sound, he fell down.
When the woman saw that he was dead, she crawled to the dead baby using her hands and feet, carefully picked it up and held it in her arms.
The woman's body had been completely mutated, covered with horrific tumors. Her figure had swelled up, and the deformed flesh was squeezed into her original clothes, as if it would burst the clothes at any time.
"My dear, mommy is here, don't be afraid."
She held the dead baby, which had long since decayed, in her arms, her movements gentle and loving, as if she were protecting the most precious treasure in the world.
However, the dead baby did not respond at all, but just lay quietly in her arms, without a sound.
The next second, the woman suddenly looked up at us, grinning and giggling.
"run!"
We reacted immediately and quickly retreated towards the exit of the farmers' market. Behind us, we heard a woman's sharp laughter and the sound of chasing footsteps, but we didn't dare to look back and could only run forward desperately.
I ran all the way out of the farmers' market, but couldn't find the car parked at the door.
"Oh my god? Where's the car?" Jiang Wang was shocked.
When he turned around, he saw the mutant woman catching up with him at an extremely fast speed, still holding the rotten dead baby in one hand, and rushing straight towards Jiang Wang who was closest to her.
Jiang Wang dodged and the woman's claws brushed past his face. He quickly came back and thrust his spear straight at the woman.
The spear pierced the woman's eyes, and black liquid spurted out. The woman seemed unconscious and continued to rush forward while roaring.
We were not idle either. We all took out our weapons and fought with the monster. Mo Junfan seized the opportunity and chopped the woman's head with an axe. However, this monster was different from the ones we had encountered before. Her healing speed was extremely fast. She shook Mo Junfan off with force and smashed him directly into the pillar beside her.
Mo Junfan coughed a few times in pain and became a little unsteady on his feet.
This woman is like a trapped beast. No matter how badly injured she is, she can stand up countless times and is determined to tear us apart.
Just then, I suddenly noticed the dead baby in her arms.
Because it was already highly decomposed, and she was shaking it like that, the dead baby's head almost fell off, and the already rotten body was squeezed into a mess like mud in her arms.
I barely dodged the claws the woman swung at me, severing her arm for the umpteenth time. While her new arm wasn't fully regenerated, I shouted at her:
"Hey! You're almost squeezing your child out!"
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