Chapter 142 A "Guest" from Another Realm
"Du Chao! Are you trying to kill yourself? There's no railing to protect you, and you still stick your head out. Aren't you afraid of falling to your death?!"
His colleagues were terrified when they saw him stick his head out. They were already scared enough by the meteorite that had hit them, and now he was doing this.
Du Chao pulled his head back and said with a grin, "It's okay, I'm standing very steadily."
Everyone just gave him a hundred stares.
Du Chao stood on tiptoe and craned his neck to look at the meteorite, but fearing it might be radioactive, he didn't get too close. "This meteorite looks really disgusting; it's full of holes."
Colleagues also looked at it curiously from a distance, and some even took out their phones to focus and zoom in to take pictures of the meteorite.
"I reckon professionals will be coming to our company to collect this later."
It's going to be quite a spectacle then.
"Given the situation, shouldn't we get a half-hour break so we can at least clean up the broken glass?" a colleague suggested.
At this point, their superior finally spoke up, "Alright, stop gathering here and don't touch anything. I've already called the police, just wait for them to arrive. Everyone, go about your business."
"The police are coming to our area? It feels like we're in a movie, haha."
"But isn't this the shooting star from the news? How did it end up here?"
"Who knows? Anyway, it's best if no one gets hurt."
Everyone was busy with the final transaction, and no one noticed that a dozen small red insects, each the size of a sesame seed, crawled out of the holes on the surface of the meteorite.
Their claws, hundreds of times thinner than a human hair, swiftly crawled across the scattered pebbles on the ground, heading towards Du Chao, who was closest to them.
The tiny insect, no bigger than a sesame seed, quickly crawled onto Du Chao's shiny shoes, then down his socks to his calf.
"hiss--!"
Du Chao felt a sharp pain in both calves at the same time, as if he had been pricked with needles.
"Du Chao, why are you still standing there? Come back!" the superior shouted.
Du Chao frowned. After the stinging pain, his calves went numb, and he also felt... something crawling inside his body.
He bent down and pulled up his pants, then saw tiny red worms, no bigger than sesame seeds, burrowing into his skin. "Holy crap! Holy crap!"
He immediately reached out and pinched the insects, squeezing them flat and squeezing out a clear liquid.
He pinched off these skins and found something floating under the skin. He was in a panic and subconsciously pressed down on the skin, trying to crush the insects inside, but he didn't know if he succeeded.
As he shouted, his colleague hurriedly asked, "Du Chao? Did you step on the glass?"
"What's wrong? Say something."
His sudden outburst made everyone afraid to approach him.
Du Chao was no longer listening to what his colleagues were saying. He saw the insects crawling out of the meteorite, just like the ones he had crushed.
This is a meteorite that fell from outer space onto this planet; who knows what kind of creature it was!
Suddenly, the numbness in his calf turned into excruciating pain. "Ah—!" He tried to cover his calf with his trembling hand, but didn't know how to relieve it.
"I have alien bugs inside me! Call an ambulance right now!"
As Du Chao spoke, tears uncontrollably welled up in his eyes; he was filled with fear.
Everyone looked at each other, puzzled, but he didn't seem to be playing a prank.
"Oh my god! Look there!" A female colleague covered her mouth and pointed in the direction of the meteorite.
Everyone saw a small group of red insects crawling out of the meteorite and heading towards the crowd.
Du Chao felt the pain spread from his calves to his lower body, and then to his chest and abdomen. The piercing pain made him unable to make a sound. He instinctively tried to escape and backed away, but he stumbled and fell straight down from the high building.
His colleague, who was busy stomping on bugs, saw him fall and let out a deafening scream.
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Rong Yi watched as several meteorites crashed into the upper floors of the office building, and the falling glass shattered, sending fragments flying far and wide, cutting the faces of people several meters away.
Some meteorites hit the rear, and it is unclear whether they landed on the ground or inside a building.
However, the meteor shower has ended, and the trailing meteors are no longer visible in the sky.
Just as people around were discussing the falling glass from the high-rise building, another incident occurred a few minutes later: a figure fell from the building, and everyone quickly retreated and moved away.
Bang!
"ah!!!"
“Someone’s dead!”
The person who fell crashed to the ground right before everyone's eyes, his head breaking off from his neck and bouncing into the crowd, making the screams around him even louder.
People scattered in panic; some were so shocked by the scene that they vomited, while others called the police.
The person is injured like this, there's no need for an ambulance.
Rong Yi stood at the innermost part of the encirclement, her eyes fixed on the corpse. The person who had fallen was Du Chao.
While people were still discussing what had happened, Rong Yi discovered that Du Chao's body had moved!
She immediately spread her arms and shouted, "Everyone back off!"
The person behind her was pushed back so hard that they almost fell over and complained, "What are you doing? If someone falls over from your sudden push and gets stepped on, are you going to take responsibility?"
"that is!"
Rong Yi frowned deeply. "Retreat immediately! Something's wrong with this corpse!"
Everyone around heard her shout. People are naturally afraid of the corpses of their own kind, and without thinking, they stepped back upon hearing this.
Then someone noticed something strange about the body: "He's not dead? I saw his body move!"
His words startled those around him, who wanted to peek, but those standing in front were afraid and quickened their pace to back away.
Du Chao's body moved more and more violently, and everyone saw this clearly. Some people even took out their phones to film the scene so they could post it online and attract traffic.
With a soft popping sound, a mass covered in blood emerged from the corpse.
"Hey! What is this thing?"
"Internal organs?"
"Hurry up, hurry up!"
After it crawled out, it used its two front claws to wipe the blood off its head and put it into its mouth. Only then could everyone get a general idea of what it was; it turned out to be a bug the size of a basketball!
Upon seeing the people around, the insect opened its mouthparts and let out a sharp screech. Then, with a dozen legs moving at once, it rushed towards the crowd, finally scaring them away.
Rong Yi took out his pistol and fired a shot at the insect. The basketball-sized insect burst open like a water-filled balloon, splattering pink flesh.
However, it wasn't over yet. Du Chao's body quickly deflated, and seven or eight more insects crawled out from under his remaining flesh.
By this time, everyone around had run away. Rong Yi remained calm and composed, and fired a burst of bullets to kill all the insects.
After finishing shooting at everything within sight, worried that there might still be some left inside the corpse, he fired a few more shots at various parts of the body. Only after confirming that there was no movement did he pick up a long iron rod and scrape off the outer skin.
In just two minutes, an adult male was hollowed out by the gnaws, leaving only a tattered outer skin. Inside, flesh, organs, and bones were all eaten clean.
Someone nearby recorded Rong Yi's entire action.
With such strict gun control in China, it's unclear when she found a gun in her hand. Although she saved those around her, she was also seen as a dangerous person by ordinary people.
Rong Yi, unaware of these things, frowned and sent a message to Wei Yanqing: [After the meteor shower, someone here suddenly fell from a building, and nine worms crawled out of their body, each the size of a basketball. Be careful.]
The reply came quickly: [The insects came from a meteorite. Once inside the human body, they can grow from the size of a sesame seed to the size you described. Their growth rate is extremely fast. This instance is quite dangerous; only high-level instances are possible.]
(End of this chapter)
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