Chapter 027 Cannibalization-1
Jiang Yan felt like he was possessed by a ghost when he was sleeping. When he woke up again, he found a layer of dust on his skin.
He looked up at the ceiling. It was quite shabby, the walls had mostly peeled off, and the corners were full of spider webs that were creepy white.
It was clearly cleaned not long ago.
Jiang Yan was a little annoyed because he was taken in by relatives, so he didn't get a very good room.
The room I live in now was originally a storage room, where I dumped some scrap metal and waited for my relatives to remember and then take the cart to sell it.
"Tick-tick-tick-tick-"
It's the sound of dripping water.
Jiang Yan raised his eyelids and looked out the window, and found that it was raining. He was slightly stunned, then raised his head and glanced at the corner, which was already wet.
The room's location and structure were very poor. Whenever it rained heavily, the rain would soak the already fragile walls, and he could always collect about a basin of water.
However, such bad situations have become less common recently, since spider webs have appeared more and more frequently. Apart from affecting the appearance, the advantage is that they can slightly repair the gaps and reduce the amount of rainwater infiltration.
Jiang Yan's hand holding the broom hesitated for a moment, then he sighed and put it back in place.
Forget it, I won’t scan it.
He was originally worried that too many spider webs would attract large spiders, but in fact he hadn't seen even a small spider in these days.
After a while, Jiang Yan sat on the bed, with a second-hand computer resting on his knees. The screen had some cracks and the picture would freeze from time to time.
Jiang Yan entered a place name in the web browsing box, tapped the keyboard and clicked search.
The computer hardware and internet speed were not very good, so the loading page took a long time.
While waiting, Jiang Yan heard a rustling sound. He looked towards the source of the sound and saw a white shadow flashing on his retina for one or two seconds.
White shadow.
A ghost?
Jiang Yan's eyesight is not very good. He used to wear glasses, but his glasses were always broken by his relatives' children. He borrowed money from his classmates several times, so he finally gave up.
If you live under someone else's roof and have bad luck, you will always be forced to endure something.
Jiang Yan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the corner again. He found that there was nothing hidden there, just spider webs... and there seemed to be more of them.
It's strange. There are clearly no spiders here. Could it be that the creatures in this world have begun to mutate, and spider webs can grow freely?
"bite--"
It's the sound of the computer, the page has been loaded.
Jiang Yan withdrew his gaze and locked onto the screen. The page showed that there were no results.
Still no results.
Jiang Yan was searching for the name of the small mountain village. In addition to the village name, he also tried to search for his father's name. He remembered that his father in the mountain village was also a minor official, so there should be records of him.
However, the opposite happened.
A slightly backward but picturesque mountain village, a warm family, close friends, a strange snake man, and——
Jiang Yan remembered something, lowered his head, lifted up his school uniform and looked at his stomach. He was very thin because he never ate enough. As expected, there was no meat at all, as if only bones were left.
Hmm...so no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like she has ever been pregnant or given birth.
Was it really just a dream?
The computer screen went black, revealing the boy's face.
He still looks like he is eighteen years old, about to take the college entrance examination, with a belly full of poetry and books, and his eyes full of hope for his future and a change in his destiny.
That is to say, he was already so old when he was in the mountain village, but now he hasn’t even finished the college entrance examination. The memories of the mountain village that suddenly flooded into his mind a few days ago should have been an absurd dream.
Jiang Yan rubbed his eyebrows. Perhaps the pressure of the college entrance examination was too great, causing him to be a little confused.
“Bang, bang, bang.”
The door was knocked hard, continuously, and the sound exploded in my ears like thunder.
Jiang Yan frowned, walked over to open the door, and what came into his sight was a familiar yet annoying face.
Jiang Nao is the same age as him, but he is obviously much taller than him. The amount of nutrition consumed daily is a big factor in determining height.
However, although he is tall, his behavior is very childish. Having been spoiled for a long time, he always behaves like a little master.
At this time, Jiang Nao grabbed the exercise book in his hand and glared at his thinner cousin in front of him with dissatisfaction, "Didn't I ask you to help me with my homework? Why didn't you finish it? I got scolded by the teacher at school today."
The other person spread out the exercise book, revealing a blank space and a few red question marks on the paper. Jiang Yan pursed her lips and said, "I have already written the difficult questions for you. The remaining questions are very basic. The college entrance examination is coming soon. You..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the other party, who cursed him, "Fuck you."
Jiang Nao said this ferociously, threw the exercise book in his hand at the other person, and said, "You must finish it tonight!" Then he left and went back to his big room.
Jiang Yan's nose was hit by the hard corner of the exercise book. He loosened his clenched fist and touched the liquid flowing out of his nose.
It's blood.
He has a nosebleed.
Jiang Yan's eyes froze, and then he went to the bathroom.
The red fingertips were washed away by the faucet water. He tilted his head slightly and blocked his nose with paper in front of the dressing mirror.
Fortunately, only one hole needed to be blocked, leaving one hole for breathing.
After the nosebleed stopped, Jiang Yan did not leave immediately. He still stood in front of the dressing mirror, with half of his body reflected in the mirror.
The person in the mirror was extremely beautiful. The third button of her school uniform was unbuttoned, revealing her collarbone that was shining brightly under the light. She had fair skin and a slender waist, just like the male protagonist who walked out of a comic book.
Even though his looks were somewhat reserved, he could still be considered upper-class, the typical campus idol. Plus, he had good grades and was a preparatory student for a key university, so excluding his family background, he was still very popular in school.
The only shortcoming of him is that he is too thin, as slender as a girl. Therefore, many girls who confessed their love to him in school would always add a sentence in their love letters: I know about your family affairs, and I can protect you.
——Because you are a boy with a very broken sense.
To clear his messy thoughts, Jiang Yan tidied up the hair on his forehead, which was a bit long.
He lowered his head to look at his clothes again. The blue and white school uniform was loose on his body. After smoothing out the wrinkles at the collar, everything seemed okay.
"Knock knock knock, why is the door locked?"
A female voice interrupted.
Jiang Yan opened the bathroom door and said "sorry". The middle-aged woman ignored him, just pulled him out and went in herself.
"Bang." The door closed behind him.
Jiang Yan returned to his room and this time he locked the door without any burden.
The time on the second phone stopped at nine o'clock in the evening, and the rain outside was getting heavier.
Jiang Yan looked at the exercise book on the table. In fact, tomorrow was Sunday and school was six days a week and one day off. There was no need for him to start writing now. Besides... he didn't plan to write anyway.
If Jiang Nao didn't take it back later, he would return it to the class teacher on his behalf.
Check your phone for a while.
Although there are less than a hundred days left before the college entrance examination, Jiang Yan still decided to give himself a short vacation. The biggest reason for doing so is that the volume of the TV in the living room separated by a wall is too loud, making it impossible for people to calm down.
So wait until later to do the set of questions, and then go to bed after finishing them.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yan curled the corners of his mouth and laughed. In the dream that suddenly appeared a few days ago, he remembered that his character was a young man who didn't like to study. He even failed to get into university and had been living off his parents at home.
Even if the adult version of Jiang Yan looks similar to his current teenage version, he has ten thousand reasons to prove that that person is not him, nor will he be him when he grows up.
The early death of his parents is an established reality, and he will not give up on the college entrance examination.
“Ding Dong——”
My cell phone was ringing. It was a message from the class group. Just when I was distracted for a few seconds, the group was flooded with messages.
[Strawberry Don’t Bobo: Have you heard the news?]
[Little Red Riding Hood selling nuclear/bombs: Fart.]
[Uncle Wang next door: Let me tell you about it.]
[草莓不要啵啵: An expert said the world is about to end, but as soon as I clicked in to take a look, the news column was withdrawn.]
[Wang Xu, a middle school boy: Do you believe what the experts say or do you believe that I am Qin Shi Huang?]
[Wang Xu’s biological father Su Ze: I saw it too. Luckily I was quick enough to take a screenshot. I also forwarded it to Wang Xu and Jiang Yan.]
Seeing his name, Jiang Yan paused, and then he jumped to the chat interface with Su Ze.
Su Ze and Wang Xu were his two good friends at school. A large part of the money he used to buy glasses and other living expenses came from these two friends.
Jiang Yan clicked on the screenshot and browsed through it carefully. At this moment, he didn't notice that there was a pair of dark green eyes staring at him in the spider web in the corner.
After looking at all the screenshots, Jiang Yan habitually made a summary in his mind.
It's probably about an expert saying that a virus is spreading around the world. Although the virus will not be too harmful to the human body, it will cause varying degrees of mutations in animals and plants other than humans.
There are several pictures in the screenshots. The one I remember most vividly is a tree that seemed to be infected with a virus. It grew to an extremely large size overnight, and its branches extended in all directions to a strange degree.
There is another photo of a domesticated snake infected by a virus. Although its size has not changed much, if you look closely, you can see that it has evolved human legs and a human face with recognizable facial features.
Jiang Yan looked at the photo of the snake, and a familiar figure flashed through his mind.
The last screenshot is from the comments section.
The comments with the most likes are:
[Peace-loving Earthlings: The end of the world? Is there such a good thing?]
[Clear and Stupid College Student: MD, I just finished the college entrance examination and haven’t enjoyed myself yet, how come the world is about to end?]
[A netizen who does not want to be named: Where can I get these animals and plants? I want to raise them.]
[……]
The end of the world?
Jiang Yan swiped the screen of his mobile phone and suddenly felt that the power of big data was quite strong. He had only looked at a few screenshots, but a lot of the content he browsed afterwards was pushing content related to the end of the world.
He didn’t believe it at first, but the more he read it, the more he thought it… was pretty realistic, these long passages.
Jiang Yan looked up at the window. It was still raining heavily outside. To be honest, he did feel that something strange was happening recently.
For example, sleep paralysis at night, spider webs that can never be swept away, and...
Jiang Yan turned around abruptly and looked behind him. There was nothing there, but he always felt that something was staring at him, which made him feel creepy from time to time.
The living environment he grew up in made him extremely sensitive. Although he appeared calm on the surface, his inner changes were actually very turbulent.
I don't know what interesting drama my uncle and aunt watched tonight, and they stayed up past their usual bedtime. This was not a good thing for Jiang Yan.
It's eleven o'clock.
Jiang Yan propped up his head on the table, his long eyelashes trembling slightly, and stared at the test paper in front of him in a daze.
It's too noisy. The noise from the TV is even several times louder than the sound of the rain.
Jiang Yan thought a little irritably. Suddenly, the strange feeling of being stared at disappeared.
Then, there was a huge scream coming from outside the door, as if a ghost had seen it, and the scream broke the silent night.
"Ahhh - Mom, there's a spider!"
Even though there was a door between them, the sounds were clearly heard by Jiang Yan, not a single word was missed.
"Fugui, come here! What are you staring at that broken TV for? Our son has been bitten by a spider." The female voice was mixed with a hint of anger.
In the living room, Jiang Fugui turned off the TV helplessly, and said silently in his heart: It was obviously you who was watching it intently just now, otherwise you would have fallen asleep long ago.
But the man didn't dare to say anything. After he adjusted his expression, he picked up the pillow on the sofa and said loudly: "Don't panic, wife and son, I'm here."
The man rushed into his son's big room. This was the largest of the rooms in their house, and the decoration was personally selected and supervised by his wife. It was very gorgeous, so he was stunned when he first saw the spider web in the corner.
"Where's the spider?"
The man spoke to his wife and son as he swept down the spider webs with a broom.
Unexpectedly, his wife grabbed his ears and said with a frown: "With your speed, you would have run away long ago."
His son Jiang Nao didn't say anything, he just hid in the quilt and cried.
Seeing this, the woman glared at her useless husband, then immediately ran to her son with a smile on her face, "Son, did it really bite you? Come and pull the quilt away so that mom can see."
Jiang Nao didn't move at all, but suddenly he got angry and yelled, "I didn't bite it, I didn't bite it. It's really annoying. When are you going to chase Jiang Yan away? The spider must have escaped from his room!"
The woman consoled him, "You should prepare for the college entrance exam first. Mom will take care of the spider issue."
The noise over there died down, and Jiang Yan turned off the light bulb before the woman knocked on the door angrily.
The door knocked a few more times, and then a man's voice came, "It's late, maybe he has already gone to bed, let's talk about these things tomorrow, so as not to disturb the neighbors."
So after this, Jiang Yan's world finally became completely quiet.
In the room where the rain could be heard, Jiang Yan turned on the desk lamp and huddled over the table to do his homework in the bright light.
About two hours later, Jiang Yan finally finished writing a set of comprehensive science papers, checked and revised them, and compiled a collection of wrong questions.
The accuracy rate has improved again, and Jiang Yan raised the corners of his mouth in satisfaction.
"call."
Jiang Yan stretched his back. It was early morning and he should be sleepy.
He rubbed his sleepy eyes, turned over and lay down on the small but warm bed.
End of today, everything is good, time to go to sleep!
At the same time, in the corner of the ceiling, a white spider slowly crawled out of the web. It hooked a silk thread and landed vertically from the ceiling onto the head of the sleeping boy on the bed.
Then it untied the silk on its body and crawled into the boy's hair, as if it had used the boy's soft hair as its new nest. The little white spider ran around in the soft black hair.
Soon, the young man felt his hair itchy in his sleep, so he scratched it and the little spider jumped directly onto his finger.
Then when the young man withdrew his hand, he put it into the quilt.
A little dark.
The little spider has very poor eyesight, really very poor, it's congenital. Hiding in the quilt, it can't find its way, so it has to rub around on Jiang Yan's body.
As a result, the boy scratched everywhere unconsciously.
The little spider screamed and ran faster, because if it was any slower, it would be crushed to death by the boy's hands.
Murdering your husband!
The little spider wondered.
Fortunately, the boy had a bad habit of always pulling off the quilt when sleeping.
Only then did the little spider have a chance to escape.
After escaping, the little spider fell on its butt on the ground. This reminded it of when it scared Jiang Nao just now, the little kid was also scared to death and fell to the ground waiting for his mother's arms.
It's really funny. He's obviously a little coward, but he dares to bully his baby! His future partner!
The next time Jiang Yan bullies him, he won't just be scared. He will use his poisonous teeth to pierce his cousin's skin, and use spider silk to dissect his bones when his body is paralyzed but his mind is still clear.
This is a very cruel act, but it is just a small spider, a scary creature with only ginger salt left in its mind, so it doesn't care so much.
After a moment, the little spider stood up from the floor, relying only on its few slender legs.
It lay on the edge of the bed, staring at the beautiful baby in front of it, but unfortunately it was a small spider and would scare it if it appeared during the day, so it could only sneak out at night.
Is it really impossible for spiders and humans to be together?
Spider-Man thought dejectedly.
It has been in the storage room for a long time and has been lonely for a long time. It has finally waited for a human being that suits its taste. However, the structure of its organs tells them that it is impossible!
"Don't be sad, I have a good idea."
Shockingly, the big tree outside the window actually started talking.
The little spider stared at the tree blankly.
The tree is almost a hundred years old, but surprisingly, it looks a lot "younger" than it was a few days ago.
The tree said, "A mutant mouse touched my trunk a few days ago, and it caused me to mutate as well."
Mutations?
Two hours ago, Spider-Man also learned about this incident through the boy's mobile phone screen.
The tree said, "You can try it, maybe you can turn into a human."
The big tree has always known that there is a lonely little spider and a miserable boy in this room. It knows a lot of things that happened in this room, but it cannot move so it keeps silent.
After listening to the tree's advice, the little spider decided to adopt it.
There is no possibility for spiders and humans.
But the same cannot be said for the spider spirit.
The little spider thought so and did so.
So many days later, a young man with long silver hair appeared in Jiang Yan's room.
He blinked, his long eyelashes trembled a few times, and his glass-like eyes stared at his reflection in the window. His skin was almost pathologically pale, and it was hard not to wonder if he was also infected with some kind of virus.
“You succeeded.”
The tree at the window said.
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