Cheng Shuang hurriedly got up. She wanted to rush over and control the vehicle, but the middle-aged man next to her, seeing that she was unharmed, spread his arms and lunged at her, blocking her way out.
He roared, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace, "Help me!"
If she let him hold her, Cheng Shuang would be forced to bear the guilt of murder. She had no choice but to turn around, sit back in her original seat, and decisively fasten her seatbelt.
Since I can't spare the time to save others, my priority is naturally to save my own life.
Unable to transform due to space constraints on the bus, the bear cub jumped out just in time and grabbed the man's legs, preventing him from getting any closer.
The man only had time to curse once before the car came to a sudden stop, and he fell to the floor with a thud. In the blink of an eye, swarms of molluscs swarmed toward his exposed skin, densely surrounding his head, neck, wrists, and ankles.
His screams were filled with terrified curses.
The bus braked and reversed at an extremely high speed. Cheng Shuang looked up and saw a man with a large brim sitting in the driver's seat. He had wrapped himself up like a facekini grandma going swimming at the beach, and even wore a pair of white goggles with cartoon patterns on his eyes.
Cheng Shuang: Wow, a completely blurry face, it feels a bit scary and I'm getting hooked!
"Look ahead!"
The girl in the white dress, who was also wrapped in a large, ugly cloak, pointed to the car window ahead, her voice trembling slightly.
Cheng Shuang held her breath, stared wide-eyed, and craned her neck, trying to look out the window.
Countless guinea pig-sized mosaic blocks clumsily maneuvered four long mosaic tiles, chasing after them with great urgency.
Some of the slower ones were crushed into pieces by the later-approaching mosaics.
Several people with mobility issues tripped over the broken pieces of mosaic and fell to the ground, causing the mosaics on either side to be immediately affected, falling one row after another, and then being covered by a swarm of mosaics...
The little girl's initial shock vanished instantly!
But she quickly perked up again, because the middle-aged man had stood up at some point. There was no longer a single black mark on his body, and he was staring at Cheng Shuang with bloodshot eyes, his eyes bloodshot and filled with rage.
The man gripped a flat mosaic sheet in both hands, cursing, "You little bastard, you ruined me! I'll make you die first, and you'll be buried with me!"
Based on Cheng Shuang's experience, he was holding a card.
She had no intention of harming anyone, yet this person blamed her for the death.
The little girl smiled sweetly, and without saying a word, she stretched out her hand, and a dark shadow flew directly in front of the man.
The man felt a darkness in his eyes, and his already dizzy head became even more sluggish. He thought of his teammates who had been dragged down and harmed by him at the same rest stop, and of the protectors he had deceived. They all appeared in front of him, mocking him for being nothing more than this, for being about to die, and for dying more miserably than any of them.
The middle-aged man let out an angry and desperate roar, which exploded rapidly in a fear that was as deep as an abyss from which he could not struggle.
Everyone's attention was drawn to him, but only the injured woman in the last row and her ex-boyfriend saw the 'truth'.
Although middle-aged men always end up being sprouted from the ground by the flocculent worms, neither the 'guinea pig' driver nor the man who brought the flocculent worms actually died as quickly as he did.
It seems that not only was his body injured, but his consciousness also collapsed rapidly, which led to his premature death.
The black cloak appeared quickly and disappeared just as fast, but they didn't miss where it came from.
The injured woman's ex-boyfriend swallowed hard, remembering how he had once mocked this young girl, and suddenly hoped that she would be magnanimous enough to forget the unpleasantness of the past.
Because this child is probably one of the guardians whose skills haven't cooled down yet; no one has been able to touch her trump card.
Through the sharing of the gloomy man, Cheng Shuang silently 'watched' the middle-aged man's mental journey in the moment before his death. She did not feel sorry for him. Having survived so many places of death, the more she experienced, the more she understood that some people died without worthy of anyone's sympathy.
Like the young lady in the last row, even though she was bleeding to the point of near death, she still knew to desperately save herself. She wrapped her exposed parts with a plastic bag, simply and brutally preventing the flocculent worms from seeping into her skin.
Cheng Shuang couldn't see clearly, but she could hear the sound of the plastic bag shaking rapidly. She immediately felt a little fondness for the young woman, but this slight fondness wasn't enough for her to lend a helping hand or meddle in other people's business.
The mortality rate for maintainers is too high, and emotions cannot be wasted.
The little girl silently lowered her eyes.
Although the bus continued to run normally, the atmosphere was unusually heavy.
Because the man and woman in the seats in front of Cheng Shuang had also been attacked by the fluffy insects, they sat there blankly for a while before the woman spoke up.
She stood up, licked her lips, and said in an unusually dry voice, "Do you have any medicine? Give me one, I'm getting off!"
The man behind her jolted awake and looked up at her in disbelief.
The car became even quieter.
Without food, the number of flocculent worms is slowly decreasing. Or perhaps it's not so much decreasing as they are devouring each other. However, no matter how much they devour each other, they remain so small that they are unremarkable in appearance.
Once the woman gets off the train, the number of flocculent worms in the carriage will stop increasing, and the flocculent worms will eventually perish.
The injured woman in the last row, with a plastic bag over her head and clearly running low on oxygen, immediately filled her eyes with gratitude and shock upon hearing this.
Everyone looked at the unassuming woman who spoke so eloquently. She was in her early thirties, her face etched with the marks of time and a stubbornness.
"Taking medicine is better than letting these monsters feast on it. Even in death, one should die a worthy death. Taking these monsters with me is a good thing!" the woman said indifferently. The coldness etched into her bones seemed to have smoothed out the softness on her face, but this one sentence was enough to make people look at her with new respect.
Cheng Shuang rubbed her eyes, feeling a mix of emotions.
Human nature is too complex, so complex that she is sometimes moved, sometimes angry, and sometimes, like right now, filled with mixed feelings.
No one could offer any words of persuasion or advice, because no one could save this person.
The flocculent worms weren't a wound, and neither the white nor the red pills could solve the problem. No one knew how to expel the worms that had fused into the skin, but no one was willing to take out the medicine the woman had mentioned.
Although the protector is accustomed to indifference, indifference does not mean personally leading an innocent or even somewhat courageous person to a dead end, even if it is her own will.
Cheng Shuang hesitated. She remembered the sleep aid tablets in the space, which could make women fall asleep instantly and perhaps not feel pain in their dreams, but this went against the woman's original intention.
And... is it really okay?
The young girl's cultivation was not yet advanced, and her hesitation immediately stood out among all the feigned indifference. The woman turned and glared at her, her eyes filled with a hint of ferocity. "What are you hesitating about? It's a win-win situation for everyone! If you're not willing, I'll trade you some pills."
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