Chapter 142 Online Escape
Wow!
As soon as this comment came out, the live studio went into an uproar. Although vagrants like to appear at night, they never break into residential houses. This anchor must be really unlucky. How could he run into a vagrant at home? !
The comment section was instantly flooded with the words "Run!" and the audience screamed:
[Fuck! Wanderer! ! Anchor, run! ! ]
[I'll give you a rocket to help you! ]
[Oh my god, this is the first time I’ve seen a live wanderer in my life, anchor, run! Don’t turn off your computer, I want to see it up close! ]
Of course Lu Yan knew he had to run. The moment he spotted the wanderer, he jumped up from his chair and planned to climb down from the fifteenth floor through the window and along the water pipe. However, the system popped up at this moment and issued a task to Lu Yan that was no less than a bolt from the blue:
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for triggering two side quests! ]
[Side Mission 1: Please survive the attacks of the Wanderer for 24 hours. You are not allowed to leave the building during this period. If you succeed in the mission, you will be rewarded with a supernatural power upgrade. If you fail in the mission, you will be killed immediately! ]
[Side Mission 2: Please kill this wanderer. If you succeed, you will be rewarded with 5,000 points. If you fail, you will be deducted 1,000 points!]
Lu Yan couldn't help but swear: "Fuck! You think I didn't die quickly enough?"
He had already climbed halfway out when he heard the mission issued by the system and immediately climbed in through the window. He nimbly dodged the attack of the female ghost in the small room, smashing things all over the floor.
At the same time, the number of viewers in the live broadcast room began to soar at an almost terrifying rate. Ordinary people had never seen such a terrifying thing as the Wanderer. Those who had seen it went to report to Prince Yan. Isn’t this a real-life version of "escaping from the tiger's mouth"?
The top anchor who was ranked first was originally performing a passionate dance, but inexplicably dropped to second place. Instead, there was a shabby live broadcast room. The content was nothing special. A man wearing a mask was chased by a female ghost at home and jumped around.
That's it...
The anchors stopped dancing and playing games, staring blankly at the life-or-death escape scene. It took them a long time to utter a few words:
[Wow, you are awesome, brother! You are really going too far to attract fans! ]
Because the space was small and he couldn't move freely, Lu Yan was severely whipped by the female ghost's tongue several times. His health points dropped sharply. The opponent was obviously much stronger than the fat fish brother last time. One hundred health points were gone with just one whip of the tongue, which terrified the audience in the live broadcast room.
[It’s over, it’s over. The anchor is probably going to die. Someone go call the patrol team! ]
[Are you stupid? How can there be a patrol team in a place like Devil City? Do you think this is Sky City? ]
[Brother, I gave you 100 chrysanthemums, rest in peace. ]
Lu Yan had no time to pay attention to the silence in the comment area. Since his last ability upgrade, he could already send out two lightning bolts, but this was obviously not enough to kill the wanderer, so he had to use his strength where it counted. He dodged with difficulty while looking for the ghost's weakness. Finally, he found that her belly was slightly bulging, as if she was pregnant, but because her skirt was too wide, it didn't look very obvious.
Lu Yan narrowed his eyes sharply, raised his right hand where the audience couldn't see, and a blue-purple lightning appeared out of thin air in his palm, carrying a silent threat, and headed straight for the ghost girl's abdomen.
The female ghost stopped attacking upon seeing this. A trace of panic flashed across her terrifying face. Her body twisted for a moment, and finally turned into a ball of black mist and fled out. She broke open the door with a bang, and went straight into the gap of the door of the neighbor's house next door, leaving a mess on the ground.
“Boom——!”
The door, which was not strong to begin with, fell apart after the collision, with smoke and dust rising everywhere.
Lu Yan had just been chased around the house, and now that he had finally discovered the ghost's weakness, there was no reason for him not to get back at her. He grabbed a kitchen knife from the kitchen and chased after her aggressively:
"Stop! Don't run!!!"
Just now, this female ghost scared Lu Yan and made him run around the house. Now the situation is completely reversed, and Lu Yan is chasing her with a kitchen knife.
When the audience in the live broadcast room saw this scene, the air instantly fell into silence. After about ten seconds, someone carefully sent a message:
【What is this guy doing? ! 】
Another audience member replied stupidly:
[As you can see, hunting down wanderers...]
[Oh my god! Someone please turn the live camera to me! Anchor, please come back soon!!! If there is any excitement, please bring us to watch it together!!]
[A huge reward! Is there a hacker who can remotely control the host's computer? ! Please, my child wants to see the excitement! ]
Lu Yan was unaware of the roars in the comment section. He chased to the neighbor's door with a knife in hand. Fearing that the female ghost would continue to harm people, he kicked the door open. The foul stench rushed towards him, almost suffocating him. However, when he saw the scene inside, his pupils shrank and he was so frightened that the knife fell to the ground.
“Dang—!”
The crisp sound rang out, standing out in the quiet corridor.
I don't know if it was because it was dark, but the man next door finally turned on the lights. In the dim light of the living room, I could see one wall filled with glass jars of pickled kimchi, about as high as an adult man's calf. However, what was inside was not kimchi, but the corpses of newborn babies.
They still maintain the curled-up position in the mother's womb, with half of the umbilical cord attached to their stomach, and their bodies are either shriveled or rotten. Even their eyebrows and facial features have not grown yet, and they are still a blurry shadow.
A woman was lying on a worn-out wooden bed, her limbs chained together, her eyes staring blankly at the ceiling, her skin covered in dirt from not having taken a bath for who knows how long, and she was wearing a long suspender dress that was so dirty that you couldn't tell its original color. She spread her legs powerlessly, and beneath her was a pool of blood and amniotic fluid, smelly and dark red, and she was still mumbling to herself, "I'm not going to have any more children... I'm not going to have any more children..."
The tone is dull and numb, like a walking corpse.
Lu Yan felt something unbelievable. He walked into the house in shock, but heard a faint baby crying coming from the small compartment inside. Through a curtain, he saw the neighbor man he met today squatting on the ground with his back to him. In front of him was a bathtub. In the bathtub was a skinny baby with blood not yet wiped off. The baby couldn't even open his eyes, and his crying was weak, but his wrist was tightly grasped by the man.
The neighbor man was holding the baby and coaxing him softly, seeming to be so absorbed in the situation that he didn't even notice Lu Yan kicking the door open. The strange tune of the nursery rhyme was so eerie:
"Good boy... don't cry... give your life to daddy... daddy will give you some candy..."
"Our family is going to live in the Sky City... There is a sun in the Sky City... Grandpa Sun is smiling..."
As the man sang, he held the baby's wrist tightly. His life value increased rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, while the baby's life value became weaker and weaker, and finally even the crying stopped.
Why does God use time as a currency for human transactions? No one has been able to answer this question so far. We only know that once anything is given the same value as "currency", it will have a destructive power like a mountain and sea, and even the most basic human ethics can be easily destroyed.
In this world, everyone is working non-stop to earn time to survive, and only babies have 18 years of breathing space from birth. However, men take advantage of this loophole and use it all as bargaining chips.
There were countless baby corpses in the living room outside and a woman's body that had long been decayed hidden in the compartment inside. The small rental house was shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere, which really made people feel what a ghost town is and what hell on earth is.
"Fuck you beast!"
Without having time to think, Lu Yan rushed forward and kicked the man to the ground. He never expected that there was a beast living next door to him. No wonder he could hear a baby crying every day and no wonder this man boasted that he was going to move to Sky City soon. It turned out that he had been forcing women to give birth to children for him, and then snatched all the lives of these children from him!
Lu Yan ignored the man's cries of pain and punched and kicked him with all the strength he had in his life. His eyes were bloodshot and terrifying. In the end, the man lay on the ground motionless. His brain, which was burned by anger, finally calmed down a little. He remembered something and ran to the imprisoned woman outside.
The other end of the chain was nailed to the wall, and due to years of disrepair, most of the nail was exposed. Lu Yan walked over and wanted to help her unlock the chain, but when the woman heard the chain snapping, she seemed to be greatly stimulated and suddenly screamed wildly: "Ah ...
Her terrified scream stimulated something, and suddenly a scarlet tongue flew out from under the bed and attacked Lu, accompanied by the sound of a swift wind.
"Bang!"
Lu Yan rolled on the ground and quickly avoided the attack. He looked carefully and found that the female ghost was hiding under the woman's bed. However, the other party seemed to misunderstand that Lu Yan was going to do something bad. Her horrible white face cracked into pieces, the corners of her mouth were torn, and she crawled out from under the bed in a twisted posture and attacked him angrily.
"Fuck!"
Lu Yan turned around and ran, and staged a life-and-death escape with the female ghost in the corridor. He originally wanted to use the same trick again and shoot out lightning to hit her stomach, but he didn't expect that the other party was on the verge of anger at this moment and was not afraid of his attack at all. The lightning hitting her body was almost like an itch.
It's over! It's over!
It’s death! It’s death!
Just when Lu Yan felt that his life was going to end here today, the man who had just been beaten unconscious by him finally woke up. He staggered to his feet, holding his bleeding forehead, but found that his life value of 100 years, which he had managed to save with great difficulty, had dropped to 98 years after being beaten by Lu Yan. He couldn't help but widen his eyes in shock: "My life value!"
He shook his head frantically: "No, no, no, no, I can't do that. You have to accumulate a hundred years to be eligible to step into the Sky City, not less! Not even a day less!"
The man rushed to the bedside like a madman, grabbed the woman's shoulders and shook her violently: "Give me a baby! Give me another baby, do you hear me?! Just a little bit more!"
The woman’s expression was painful and distorted: “No… I won’t have a baby… I won’t have a baby…”
The man shouted at the top of his lungs: "Did you hear me?!"
The woman's spirit was finally on the verge of collapse. Her bloodshot eyes were extremely terrifying for a moment. She didn't know where she got the strength from, but she suddenly rushed over and bit the man's neck fiercely. Blood spurted out instantly.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!”
Lu Yan was on the run when he suddenly heard a heart-wrenching scream coming from next door. He was startled for a moment. For some reason, the female ghost suddenly gave up chasing Lu Yan and turned into a ball of black smoke and flew into the house with a whoosh.
The documentary mentioned that beasts such as lions and tigers can bite off the human throat with one bite, but it rarely mentioned whether humans can do the same.
When Lu Yan walked into the room, he saw blood splattered everywhere on the bed. The woman, who had been weak and numb just now, was biting the man's throat like crazy. Her blood vessels were so fragile in front of her hard teeth that she could do nothing but spurt out blood.
The man was still struggling at first, but in the end his breath gradually weakened and he lay motionless on the bed. The woman seemed to have lost her strength as well, her body slipped off the bed and fell to the ground, the iron chain was pulled and broke with a bang.
It turns out that the iron chain that had bound her for more than ten years could be broken with just one struggle.
The woman was lying on the ground, covered in blood, looking even scarier than the female ghost not far away. She slowly moved her eyes, not looking at Lu Yan, but at the female ghost not far away. The corners of her mouth twitched slightly, revealing a weak smile:
"I can finally die..."
In this world where everyone wants to survive, she is looking forward to death, silently moving her lips:
"I can finally die..."
"No more children..."
Dawn broke in the sky, and a ray of sunlight slanted through the door, illuminating the blood inside the house. The woman finally slowly closed her eyes.
The ghost girl's horrified and torn face suddenly returned to normal a little. She looked at the woman's corpse with a slightly sad look. Her hollow eyes shed a pain that Lu Yan could not understand. She took a last look at the rotting body of the woman in the small compartment, then disappeared with a bang and turned into black smoke.
Wanderers can only appear at night; once the day breaks, they must disappear.
Lu Yan stood at the door. He had never seen such a tragic scene before. He felt like he had stepped into hell every time he took a step forward. He stared at the woman's body and said in amazement, "How could this happen..."
What is going on in this world?
What is the relationship between the female ghost and the dead woman?
Lu Yan could feel that the female ghost was very powerful, and the chase in the house seemed to be to lure him to the next door, but since the other party wanted to save the woman, why didn’t she just kill the man directly?
【Wanderers cannot kill the person who caused their death in life.】
The system suddenly popped up. Its black and red body was so out of place with the bloody and absurd scene in the house, yet it was strangely harmonious: [She was killed by that man before she died. She was afraid in her bones and couldn't kill him.]
Lu Yanmin had grasped some important information: "Before death? You mean these wanderers are actually ghosts of people who died?"
The system explained a lot for the first time: [A small part is that not everyone will become a ghost after death. 】
【Wanderers are the product of the world's rules. They can be a cloud, a mist, a bunch of hateful emotions, or ghosts after death. There are no rules.】
Lu Yan seemed to understand: "According to what you said, they still have some human emotions. At least the female ghost knew to save this woman."
The system shook its body: [Emotions are complicated things. After death, people will be affected by their memories. It is not surprising that the Wanderer has this.]
Lu Yan asked back: "What about you? Do you have feelings?"
The system suddenly became quiet after hearing this, and after a while it uttered: [I am just a program.]
oh……
Lu Yan nodded and didn't ask any more questions. He really didn't know how to deal with the scene in front of him. He just felt so sleepy that his eyelids were fighting. He dragged his tired body back home, planning to take a shower and have a good sleep before thinking about this problem. As a result, when he passed by the computer, he suddenly found that the live broadcast was not turned off, and there were nearly 500,000 people online at the same time.
Lu Yan: “???”
Damn, don’t these people need to sleep? ! !
Lu Yan sat back in front of the computer and after a long pause, he finally blurted out: [Why aren't you asleep yet?]
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