5. Infected Body
The girl took out two very dry cakes and said, "Have some. My sister baked these cakes. They are delicious..."
The whole process actually took only two or three seconds. Countless lines radiating from the black spot spread rapidly on the girl's face like a spider web, causing her to suddenly stop talking.
Su Liu didn't think about what it was, but her brain reacted much faster than she thought.
She heard herself screaming sharply, "Infected—"
The next second, the girl's head seemed to be cut by a sharp spider web and instantly shattered into pieces. Blood, skull, and brain tissue splattered out. The entire roof was red and white, like a large slaughterhouse.
The people around were stunned by the sudden change. After they realized what was happening, they screamed and ran in all directions, but the already narrow and crowded carriage was completely packed and they couldn't escape at all.
Su Liu was also mixed in the panicked crowd, his fingers tightly pressing on the bag, which contained a letter to be sent to the Ives family.
Her mind went blank, and she only heard someone screaming, "There's an infected person in carriage 3, security guard..."
Before he could finish his words, the man's body was suddenly pierced by a black tentacle and stuck to the roof of the car like a steel bar. The force was so great that the whole car shook violently.
The crowd became restless again, moving towards the front and rear carriages with even greater fear. Some people even tried to smash the doors and windows to escape, but the car body, which was originally built to deal with the infected bodies, was extremely strong, and now it became a coffin for the passengers.
Su Liu turned around and saw the girl's body standing upright, but her head was gone. A pool of flowing black liquid was flowing out from her neck, slowly gathering into a "tumor" as big as a van.
The "tumor" was squirming with a thumping sound, and several tentacles pushed open the epidermis. Then a huge inverted triangle head emerged, and its bulging compound eyes flashed red, quietly watching the fleeing humans.
Su Liu was pushed towards the front carriage, and as he ran, his feet were squeezed off the ground. Just then, the crowd in front burst into even more shrill screams. One after another, corpses were chopped and impaled on the roof of the car, and the shrill alarms rang wildly.
"There are also infected bodies in car No. 7—"
This sound was like a death warrant, further terrifying the already uncontrolled crowd. Fortunately, the infected organisms destroyed the train cars while killing people, and the school bus was slowing down, so many people chose to jump out to survive.
Su Liu didn't think twice and jumped out of the car against the wind, falling down with a bloody head.
She rolled several times in the dust, got up, quickly wiped her face, and was stunned when she looked up.
Infected bodies appeared in several carriages at the same time. They teased and gnawed humans as toys. The snow-white school bus became a can of meat that was ready to eat, dyed a terrible red by blood, and screams hovered in the sky.
You must know that in order to prevent infected bodies from entering the city, the detection measures in each channel are ridiculously strict. It is impossible for so many infected bodies to go undetected at the same time.
Is it a new variant?
Behind me, a four or five-year-old child screamed, "Mom——"
Su Liu turned around and saw a strange beast appear in the sand. It raised its sword-like tentacles high and stabbed at the child kneeling on the ground.
Her body reacted faster than her brain, and she rushed forward, threw the child away, and faced the stinging tentacles head-on.
He should have been terrified, but thinking of his dead father, Su Liu became surprisingly calm.
Death may not be that scary.
Maybe if she died, she could return to the world she was familiar with.
Even if I can't, I hope I can reunite with my father in the underworld.
However, a black shadow flashed by quickly, the tentacles broke off, and green blood splattered onto Su Liu's face.
In the blink of an eye, the strange beast suddenly compressed and exploded as if squeezed by space, and the scattered fragments sprayed out and almost submerged Su Liu, leaving only its head outside.
The brown-haired boy I had seen in the space station before was still holding the sign welcoming new students, numbly patting the rustling strange beasts one after another.
Those strange beasts that frightened ordinary people were easily dealt with by him as easily as swatting mosquitoes.
Seeing the boy raise the sign towards him again, Su Liu quickly raised his hands in surrender amidst the broken bodies, "I'm not infected!"
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she seemed to see regret in the boy's dead eyes.
After confirming that he was not infected, the boy did not waste time with her and walked quickly towards the school bus can.
Dust rose in the distance, and more military off-road vehicles came speeding and surrounded the school bus.
This sudden crisis was quickly resolved by the military.
Because of the inexplicable appearance of the infected body, the surviving passengers were not allowed to leave at will and were all arranged to be investigated at the military base.
Su Liu sat in the interrogation room, opposite a man and a woman.
The man asked, "According to the surveillance footage inside the school bus, you had a conversation with Infected Person 3. Can you tell us everything?"
Su Liu cooperated and the woman asked, "Have you met before?"
"It was just a chance encounter."
Su Liu didn't understand what they wanted to ask.
"I don't know how she got infected. Our entire conversation lasted no more than three sentences. All I know is that she went to a military academy. Her younger siblings at home were starving and were waiting for her to pass the exam to become a healer and bring money home."
But, I will never be able to wait for her.
The man and woman looked at each other and closed the survey book.
"Thank you for your hard work, Su Liu-san. Please stay in the base for now. Once the investigation is complete, the army will send you to Mahajaya."
Behind the one-way glass window, the burly man looked at Su Liu, who was a little agitated.
"Has your identity been verified?"
"Yes, Captain Li, the girl's name is Su Liu. She was born in K-72 planet, is 19 years old, and has worked in health centers, large shopping malls and other places. She has no criminal record." The head of the base replied.
"What about making friends?"
"She doesn't have many friends and usually keeps to herself. She has been living with her fiancé's adoptive father."
"fiancé?"
"Second Lieutenant Zhang Yanchen of the 6th Division of the K-72 Star Defense Force."
The person in charge gathered more specific information.
"The population of Planet K-72 was drastically reduced due to natural disasters. To increase the population, the Planet Lord promulgated a new marriage law, which is a forced marriage matching mechanism.
She was supposed to have entered the matching database at the age of 16, and was genetically compatible with Zhang Yanchen, and they were engaged. However, because she was not yet of legal marriageable age, she did not marry and was simply sent to the Zhang family to be raised.
It doesn't sound unusual, but it shouldn't be taken lightly.
Li Qineng issued an order: "Keep close watch."
"yes."
There are surveillance cameras everywhere in the military base, and people like Su Liu who were brought back from the school bus are under close surveillance, with people following them wherever they go.
Even when going to the toilet, the cubicle door must be open.
Su Liu sat on the toilet, and the female officer opposite her smiled at her.
After a long moment, Su Liu revealed his pained mask and said, "Can you at least let me close the door?"
The officer smiled and refused, "No."
"I can't pee, seriously."
"Let me help you pee, ma'am."
"...No, thank you." Su Liu chose to pull up his pants.
The upside of being taken over by the military is that at least dinner is free.
There were a variety of dishes in the cafeteria. Su Liu chose dry food and chewed it dryly.
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