“Cough, cough cough cough!”
Returning to the game’s login page, Tang Xiao still couldn’t stop coughing while half-kneeling on the ground.
He didn’t even want to look at the newly acquired CG.
The feeling of being forcibly stretched open in his throat seemed to remain in his brain. It was so hard that he wanted to die.
Tang Xiao had played so many holographic games, but it was the first time he had gotten so messed up. This game was too real. In case it could not be set to no pain, he really had the illusion that he was going to mutate.
However…
Tang Xiao clenched his fists. Remembering the look in that monster’s eyes before, he couldn’t help but put on a sarcastic smile.
His competitive spirit was aroused.
Players can fail, but they can’t be underestimated!
No more account changes, he won’t believe this main task anymore!
However, the strength of the little monster was far beyond Tang Xiao’s expectations. What he insisted on saying was like being blocked by the boss as soon as he entered the novice village. Later, Tang Xiao was killed numbly, and once there was a sign of failure, he would load the archive directly.
The only thing left was a fire in his heart that kept burning.
Until —— 39th archive loading.
“Look closely, newcomers. It’s one of the main research projects of the Third Eye right now. If this project succeeds, the entire world will tremble under his coercion.”
As soon as Babbitt’s words came out, he saw a handsome newcomer in the team step out of the line and press his palm against the glass, closing the distance, almost touching it with the tip of his nose.
…You don’t have to look at it that way.
Babbitt was about to speak out to stop him when a sudden change occurred in the lab.
The 428, originally half-dead, suddenly crashed into the glass wall from the corner. The mycelium spread like a net, and the eyeballs distributed among them, staring at the person who walked out to the glass window.
“Fuck!”
“Scared the hell out of me!”
The newcomers around were in an uproar. Each one of them huddled and tried to back away.
Only one person remained standing in place.
Tang Xiao, the newcomer, appeared oblivious to the horrifying sight before him. He stood in a clean white lab coat, under the lab glass, surrounded by blood-red mycelium. He looked like a helpless prey ensnared in a giant net of crimson.
Facing the monster’s gaze, the prey’s expression did not waver in the slightest. His eyes slowly swept over the clinging mycelium to the plural eyeballs above…
The terrifying itching of the mycelium invasion of the previous times still lingered in his body.
The blood-red mycelium and orange-yellow pupils had been his nightmares. The look in them wasn’t looking at a single individual but at an overly tasty food, prey, or even a vessel.
He forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart. As if he couldn’t see the thirst in the monster’s gaze, he showed a bright smile at the eyeballs that were close at hand.
“Hello, little monster.”
This time, he would find the right way to attack.
The distance between them was so close. It seemed that the laboratory monster would break out of the window at any time. The barrier of one or two centimeters seemed to have become a chasm that could not be crossed. Tang Xiao stared at the existence that was separated by a layer, devouring himself countless times. He smiled, holding a provocative meaning:
Come, kill me again!
In the face of his provocation, the monster’s eyes twitched slightly, seemingly responding, and the mycelium swept across the area of Tang Xiao’s eyes.
It smells so good.
It smells so good. It smells so good. It smells so good!
From the moment Tang Xiao stood up, a certain sense of longing screamed madly within 428.
A longing that seemed to come from the depths of his genes, urging him to catch, to hunt, to devour and fuse the owner of this scent.
What Tang Xiao said and did, 428 did not notice anything. The olfactory receptors distributed on his body were running at full capacity, capturing every molecule of scent in the air that belonged to this person.
But that was not enough.
It had never encountered a presence that appealed to it so much. It was as if the white coats had put it out on the grasslands for the first time to learn how to hunt and that primal, naked desire almost instantly occupied the peak of the brain.
428 couldn’t resist ‘licking’ the man’s eyes with the mycelium, though expectedly it only licked the glass, and got a nasty burn from the electricity on it.
That person is gone.
The scent of molecules was getting thinner. 428 didn’t care about being burned by the heat and what was even more tormenting was that the prey that had attracted him was moving away.
The blood-colored monster changed its usual laziness, and its plural eyeballs looked towards the vent. Those eyeballs blinked in unison as if they had reached some kind of consensus.
Becoming one with him, devouring him, and evolving.
It was as if a mission and instinct were engraved in his genes.
……
As usual, Tang Xiao walked to the dormitory with the other newcomer NPCs according to the previous route, skillfully taking advantage of the dark blind spot caused by the sudden lights off to steal Babbitt’s heat shotgun and quietly sneak into the kitchen to turn on the heating button of the frying pan.
He discovered that heat was the monster’s weakness through the previous times. The heat shot gun stealing was his only access to weapons, and the kitchen was the perfect place to fight.
Tang Xiao waited quietly in the dark. Soon, he heard screams ringing out from outside.
It’s here.
At first, no one noticed the change, until 428 forced his way through the dormitory gate. Everyone instantly ran around like a flock of panicked sheep.
428 casually killed a few people who stood in his way, not wasting more time on this group.
The smell is still further inside.
The crowd scattered and fled in all directions, while 428 went straight to the kitchen. He immediately turned off the lights in the kitchen, shrouding it in the darkness.
There was a low exclamation from the kitchen, and the tail of his voice trembled unconsciously in the air.
428 remembered the deer he had hunted for the first time.
That was the first time the white coats had taken him to the outside world and put a baby sika deer before him.
The deer’s trembling calves, the fear-filled eyes of the deer, and the subconscious act of turning around to run away awakened 428’s hunting instinct almost instantly.
Like right now.
The trilling sound in the kitchen activated 428’s hunting instinct again. The deer appeared before again, but this deer smelled so fragrant. It had something that 428 desperately desired. If it could, it wasn’t ready to eat this person at once, for fear that it would bee too wasteful. It would merge him into the mycelium, into the blood and bones.
The mycelium left sticks all over the kitchen, weaving a large silent web just to capture one prey.
It heard the unsteady breathing of the young man’s constant dodging and panicked as it rolled around the modest kitchen, dodging the direction of the mycelium’s lunge at just the right time each time.
At this time, 428 did not rais vigilance, let alone seriousness, and was even suspected of going easy.
After all, the young man was so weak in his eyes.
Just like the first hunting, it watched the little sika deer run through the woods in panic.
428 did not usually play with prey, but at this moment he suddenly enjoyed his quivering breath, smelling more fragrant.
He’s a greedy hunter.
However, the game should be over quickly, or he had no way to fully enjoy the sweetness of its prey.
Thinking of this, 428 sped up. The mycelium became entwined, becoming harder than steel and sharpre than a blade gradually.
Like a slash from the god of death, it slashed at the legs of its prey. This time it didn’t slow down, but it was greeted by an orange-red heat ray!
The laser briefly illuminated the world. It saw the pale thin lips of the beautiful prey quivering, its eyes obscured by the frame and could not see the look inside, but the muzzle of the gun was surprisingly stable.
The haet instantly destroyed both of its eyes. 428 was in pain, pausing the offensive and hiding in the dark corner of the kitchen cupboard.
Premeditation? Or accidental?
428 couldn’t be sure. Even harmless herbivores would fight to the death with their hooves and horns when pushed to their limits.
But it also often meant that they had reache dthe end of their rope.
428 was still trying to be cautious, but time was running out. It could hear the footsteps of reinforcements outside. If it wanted to take this overly tasty prey, it had to be now.
The little monstrer struck, dicreetly hurling the glass at his prey’s face while the real killing move was hidden in another direction.
The young man subconsciously raised his gun and shot the shards of glass that came at him, but he also missed the real killing move on his side.
——Got it!
428 seemed to have seen the little sika deer that had been cornered, and saw its fragile neck. The hunted hidden in the darkness did not hesitate for a moment to strike at the fatal weakness.
The color of blood, almost instantly stained the white coat. The young man subconsciously raised his arm, blocking his chest. His skin and flesh were torn apart by the monster that climbed up, like a rose blooming in the midst of the killing.
428’s sanity was replaced by instinct almost the moment it touched Tang Xiao’s skin. A sense of hunger and thirst filled his entire mind, so the little monster didn’t notice that there was no fear on the face of this particular prey. There was only a strong sense of joy and excitement of impending success.
Tang Xiao grinned in the dark. His expressions as crazy that he hadn’t even noticed.
The little sika deer was indeed cornered, standing on the edge of a cliff hidden by grass, using itself as bait.
At the moment the hunter pounced, the offense and defense switched.
428 subconsciously looked up, but what he saw was an expressionless look behind the lenses.
That was a hunter’s eye.
THe mycelium had no heart, but at this moment, all the biological signals, all the neurons were all out of order. It soul, which had never wavered since its birth, trembled violently. A strange and complex emotions spread through every mycelium. Even if it didn’t even know what it stood for at this time.
Tang Xiao turned aroudn without hesitation, and stretched into the preheated hot oil with his arms. The skin and flesh instantly scalded by the high temperature, and the blood-colored mycelium also withered rapidly.
In the extreme heat, the hunter was dragged by the prey and fell into the bottomless abyss.
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