Chapter 19

"The value of your submission will be equal to the amount of time the countdown was paused."

After the woman said this, she suddenly smiled gently, a very charming smile.

Zhang Caixia took a step back and asked warily: "What are you going to do!?"

Before she finished speaking, she covered her legs in fear, screaming and rolling on the ground: "It hurts, it hurts, what are you doing? What did you do? Ahhh——"

The live broadcast room clearly saw that the woman skillfully and quickly removed one of Zhang Caixia's legs.

Zhang Zhaoxia stood helplessly beside Zhang Caixia, watching her rolling and screaming on the ground. She was furious and anxious. She raised her head, stared at the woman, and asked angrily, "What on earth are you going to do? Why are you doing this? Do you know what you are doing?"

The woman smiled and threw the leg in her hand to the side. The leg rolled on the ground for a distance and fell at the bottom of the cliff and disappeared.

Zhang Zhaoxia was shocked.

The woman answered the question in a gentle and strange voice: "The principle of equivalent exchange, you asked me a question, you have to give me something."

As she spoke, she reached out and held down the struggling Zhang Zhaoxia. Zhang Caixia was lying on the ground, busy with her own affairs, not paying attention to this. She was sweating profusely and gritting her teeth to compare the pain of her wounds. Zhang Zhaoxia angrily asked, "What are you going to do!?"

The woman gave him a disgusted smile, and Zhang Zhaoxia felt a dangerous aura rushing from his feet to his head. If he didn't leave this woman, he would be killed!

Zhang Zhaoxia never wanted to experience that horrible feeling again in her life.

He felt like he had almost completely lost his self-awareness. His body collapsed limply to the ground. He felt pain but also numbness, as if he was covered by a fuzzy, hard glass cover. He was cut off from the world. Even the sounds and colors were so chaotic and disordered. Everything was in a whirlpool. He felt like he had a headache that was about to explode. He felt like he was going to die.

But he didn't die.

It would be better to die, without so much pain, so much torture, and so much helplessness.

Why was I abandoned by the world?

Why has the world become like this?

I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know anything!

Don't ask anymore.

Stop asking. My head hurts and it feels like it’s going to explode. In fact, he was already dead, wasn’t he?

If he had died long ago, he wouldn't be here, and this wouldn't be the case. Something must have gone wrong.

The woman took an arm from his body.

Now the headless man has two arms and two legs.

All that's missing is a trunk, and when it's added to the head, a new, complete person will be born.

Or, a strange puppet in human form, the headless man's new subordinate.

The Zhang siblings lay on the ground in pain, unable to breathe. The headless man reached out his hand to the woman, and the woman turned into the original arm. The headless man used the woman's arm as a crutch, walked steadily on the road, and slowly left the noisy and chaotic scene.

The headless man came near the bodyguards brought by the Zhang family.

The bodyguards had almost no idea what was happening when they saw the leader disappear before their eyes. They were quite shocked, but they had searched everywhere they could see and couldn't find a single person, not even a shadow of a person. They had no choice but to find a relatively flat place with their heads down, sit in a circle, sigh, drink water, unpack food, rest, and replenish their strength.

Then they all saw the Headless Man.

"Am I seeing this wrong?"

"No, because I saw it, too."

"Do you see the same thing as I see?"

"If what you see is a headless man with limbs jumping around him, then you are right."

"Are those jumping limbs arms and legs?"

"Yes, I would have thought it was a lollipop if you hadn't told me. I've been drinking and it seems like my eyes are blurry. Am I going to die? This is too scary."

"What are you waiting for? Get up and run!"

The crowd shouted and dispersed.

They had lost each other without realizing it, and no one knew where anyone was. They looked for each other everywhere but could not find anyone. They shouted loudly but could not even see a bird flying. Fear gripped their hearts and minds. They walked on the road trembling, looking around cautiously, wrapping their clothes tightly with trembling fingers, and became shorter and shorter, gradually shrinking into a ball, sticking to the tree trunk and hiding on the ground.

They are like camels with their heads in the sand.

But it was of no avail.

The headless man walked over, and they clearly heard the crunching sound of his shoes on the dry fallen leaves, as if someone was eating biscuits in their ears. It was a terrible sound that made them want to stick their fingers into their ears. They even hoped that they could use their fingers in their brains. Maybe digging out their brains would not be so painful.

Some people suddenly raised their heads, thinking they could see living people, but found there was no shadow. They wanted to comfort themselves that nothing was wrong, but before they could raise their hands, they found that their arms were broken at the shoulders and they ran away excitedly. They subconsciously wanted to chase after them, but after two steps, they felt something was wrong. They found that it was like a huge conspiracy from beginning to end. They sat on the ground with sad faces, at a loss.

Roars rose one after another, sounding like wild beasts that had lost their minds.

In fact, they can all hear each other's voices, but no one can see each other. The headless man has led everyone into a huge dream early on, and they cannot wake up no matter what. Even the live broadcast can only see the content of the dream but cannot glimpse the truth of reality, unless someone goes up the mountain, breaks through the fog, participates in it, and sees both reality and dreams at the same time, then they will have a chance to leave.

But of course they had no chance.

Because no one can resist weirdness, and the power of weirdness is extremely strong.

Humans can never defeat the weird, the weird cannot be killed, and the weird's power will only be strengthened by the dead, not weakened.

This is reality, the only true reality.

Those who cannot accept it should fall into a deep sleep, a false dream from which they will never wake up. Perhaps this is a good thing.

Because they don't have to endure the pain.

A bodyguard saw the child on the road and rushed over to ask, "Are you here to hike?"

He has gone mad.

"Take me out, okay? Uncle will give you some candy, take me out, I want to go home!"

The bodyguard knelt on the ground and burst into tears.

The purple child smiled at the man and bit off his head.

The man's body was lying on the ground, bleeding profusely, as if he had been dead for a long time, and exuding a rotten smell.

The child slowly crawled away crying, as if he had been bullied, but no one would have sympathized with him, because anyone who saw his appearance would have known that he was dangerous.

【Go die die die】

[All of them deserve to die, hahahaha]

[It’s good to die, it’s wonderful to die, I’m going there now, take me with you]

[Whether it's heaven or hell, I'm willing to go, take me away]

[I don't want to endure this horrible and painful world anymore. Please, take me away.]

【What a sick brain thing】

[Apart from asking questions and getting them answered, these casualties seem unnecessary]

[Yes, but if the weirdo talks to you rationally, it can no longer be called weirdo, it can only be called a perverted murderer who just looks a little different.]

[It doesn’t matter if you are ugly, after all, you can still talk a few words, and maybe they will let you go if you are drunk. But it’s not okay here. Get it clear, weird people are not human. Whoever treats weird people as human beings should die, because it will only implicate more people.]

【This is the truth】

[Don't you think something is wrong? Everything is so terrible. I just woke up from a nap, but it seems like a century has passed. I didn't think things would be so bad.]

[At first, no one took it seriously, as if the matter would be resolved soon, but didn’t you see the data? Every time the people who were attacked by the weird were the children of powerful people, but even they couldn’t get rid of the weirdness and were repeatedly visited. Haven’t you figured it out? There is nothing we can do! No one can stop the world from being destroyed.]

[No one can stop the coming of our Lord]

[If you want to preach, please go somewhere else. We don’t welcome you here.]

[It's the end of the world, isn't it normal for all kinds of things to appear that normally wouldn't show up? Everyone has times when they are desperate and want to seek medical treatment.]

【Seeking medical help when you are desperate does not mean you are asking for death】

[If you want to die by being weird, I respect you as a man. If you want to die by being a messy religion, I think you are a fool.]

[Useful things are counted separately. I didn’t say that all things are definitely useless. Get it clear.]

[I thought this was a real-life temple escape]

【Isn’t it? 】

[Definitely not. They are all dead. Look for yourself. Unless they can survive, they are dead.]

[I was wrong. They can actually come back to life. The dead are just like they have never died. What is this called? Eternal youth or immortality? I am so jealous. Has technology developed to such an incredible level that they want us to see it?]

[Stop dreaming, this is not a good thing]

The whole mountain was filled with painful wails and screams. Some people went crazy and started running around. When they bumped into people, they thought they had met a ghost. They picked up anything around them and started beating the people in front of them. Some people killed people without any mercy, and some people were beaten to death without knowing what happened. There were many corpses on the ground, making the situation even more chaotic.

The headless man slowly walked up to them and held the woman's arm. The woman's hand held the corpse's hand. The corpse suddenly shuddered, opened its eyes, and came back to life with blood dripping.

From now on, they are no longer living people, but dead people, monsters, and ghosts.