Chapter Sixty-Four: Leaving the Human Voice

"Roar—!" Wang Ermazi let out a roar that completely lost its human quality, violently springing up from the ground.

His body visibly expanded by a circle, the veins on his exposed skin bulging like knotted roots, and his eyes left only with blood red and a deep, gloomy darkness, devoid of any reason.

Howling, he lunged straight toward Xie Youyou, who was closest!

"Watch out!" Chen Jiahe yanked Xie Youyou behind him.

After the mutation, Wang Ermazi's speed was terrifyingly fast, rushing forward with a foul stench.

"Big Mouth!" Muchen shouted in a low voice.

"Awooo!" Dragging its injured leg, Big Mouth met the charge without a moment of hesitation, opening its bloody maw and sinking its teeth fiercely into Wang Ermazi's lower leg.

"Crack!"

The sound of shattering bones pierced everyone's ears.

Wang Ermazi's calf was actually bitten clean through by Big Mouth!

Yet, he seemed completely insensible to pain, and from his severed leg sprayed not blood, but a viscous black liquid shimmering with a gloomy light!

His body staggered, his momentum halting only slightly, as his other hand already grabbed for Big Mouth's head.

"You're courting death!" Muchen's figure flashed, his military machete bringing a flash of cold light as he slashed straight at Wang Ermazi's neck.

"Clang!"

The blade struck Wang Ermazi's neck, producing the sound of striking metal. It only cut in about an inch before it was firmly wedged and held fast by the tough flesh and mutated bones.

"Such powerful defense!" Muchen's heart sank.

Feeling the pain, Wang Ermazi roared furiously, abandoning Big Mouth as a hand as broad as a palm-leaf swept toward Muchen.

Muchen jerked his blade back and retreated rapidly, dodging the immensely powerful strike.

Doctor Li's hands trembled as he looked at the "monster" he had created, his lips quivering: "How could this be... How can this be? The moss and the radiation... they've triggered an uncontrollable catalytic reaction!"

Right at that moment, Liu San, who had been cowering in the corner, looked at Wang Ermazi's grotesque and inhuman tragic state, then glanced at Doctor Li and Muchen, a trace of madness flashing in his eyes.

"You... you want to get us all killed! You're treating us like test subjects!" Liu San suddenly shrieked, springing up from the ground not to attack Wang Ermazi, but lunging toward the table holding the medical kit and remaining supplies!

He wanted to grab the supplies and run for his life!

"What are you doing!" Chen Jiahe sharply reprimanded, his psychic power subconsciously pouring out as [Emotional Control] attempted to influence Liu San.

Completely terrified out of his wits at this moment, Liu San experienced a brief stutter in his movements due to Chen Jiahe's interference, but his desire for survival only grew more intense.

"I'm not playing along with you people anymore! I want to live!" he shrieked, already grabbing Doctor Li's medical kit while his other hand reached for the few packs of compressed biscuits Muchen had casually set on the table earlier.

Muchen was currently engaged with the mutated Wang Ermazi and could not easily break away.

"Don't let him get away!" Xie Youyou cried out anxiously, wanting to stop him, but Wang Ermazi forced her back step by step.

"[Mental Barrier]!" A faint yet exceptionally clear low cry rang out.

Chen Si had already managed to sit up straight at some point. Stretching out her trembling hands, a pale blue barrier suddenly materialized in front of Liu San—much dimmer than before and a size smaller, yet it squarely blocked his path.

"Get lost!" Liu San's eyes reddened as he raised the seized medical kit, preparing to smash it against the barrier.

"Bang!"

A muffled gunshot rang out.

It was Muchen.

Amidst the gaps of forcing back Wang Ermazi, he held his gun in one hand and accurately struck the wrist of the hand Liu San used to hold the medical kit.

"Ah!" Liu San shrieked, the medical kit dropping from his hands to the floor as blood poured from his wrist.

Terrified, he looked at Muchen, then back at the writhing Wang Ermazi on the floor, and completely losing any thought of resistance, collapsed limply onto the ground.

"Roar!"

Wang Ermazi lunged again, but Big Mouth violently slammed into him from the side, sending him staggering.

Seizing the opportunity, Muchen lunged forward again with his machete, aiming this time for the knee joint of Wang Ermazi's mutated and twisted severed leg that had been bitten by Big Mouth!

"Crack!"

The blade sank in, and the black, gloomy liquid splattered everywhere.

Losing the support of his one and a half legs, Wang Ermazi's massive body crashed heavily to the ground.

Without hesitation, Muchen closed in, lifted the machete high, and brought it down fiercely toward Wang Ermazi's skull!

"Splat!"

This time, the blade broke through the skull without hindrance, embedding deeply.

Wang Ermazi's body convulsed violently a few times, the red and gloomy lights in his eyes rapidly dimming until they completely faded away into stillness.

"Hoo..." Muchen exhaled, shaking the black liquid off his blade.

Big Mouth padded over, nuzzling against Muchen's leg with its head, emitting a low whimpering sound in its throat. Its body had gained several more scratches inflicted by Wang Ermazi.

Muchen squatted down to examine Wang Ermazi's corpse.

He used the tip of his blade to pry open the skin on the corpse's chest, and the sight inside made his brows knit even tighter.

Most of Wang Ermazi's internal organs had been eroded and assimilated by that bizarre, gloomy substance, turning into a semi-solid gelatinous mass that radiated a strong aura of radiation.

"His blood..." Doctor Li walked over, using a glass rod to dip into the black liquid flowing from Wang Ermazi on the ground, bringing it to his nose to sniff before pulling out a makeshift radiation detector and bringing it close.

The detector emitted a harsh, piercing alarm.

"High radiation! And... I suspect this blood is highly infectious!" Doctor Li's voice was heavy.

"Infectious?" Chen Jiahe's heart skipped a beat.

Right at that moment—

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The door to Room 3001 was suddenly battered frantically from the outside, with a force so immense that the entire doorframe shook.

"Open the door! Open the door quickly! Help!!" A man's cry of absolute terror echoed from outside.

Immediately following that, more and more chaotic screams, roars, and the sounds of heavy objects falling echoed from downstairs one after another, intermingled with inhuman roars similar to Wang Ermazi's mutation.

"Brother Muchen... downstairs... it looks like something happened downstairs too!" Xie Youyou's voice trembled as she pointed toward the direction of the stairwell.

Muchen activated [Wall Perspective] to look downstairs, and at just a single glance, his expression turned intensely grim.

On the twenty-sixth floor, the twenty-fifth floor... inside the rooms of quite a few residents, scenes similar to the one in Room 3001 just moments ago were playing out, even more tragic.

Some people, after distributing or using certain suspicious "miracle drugs," had undergone the same terrifying mutations as Wang Ermazi. Downstairs had already descended into absolute chaos!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The door was pounded as if it were about to fall apart, every impact carrying a teeth-grating vibration.

"Who's outside?!" Chen Jiahe asked sternly, gripping his dagger tightly, his palms slick with cold sweat.

Outside the door, the man's cries grew even more shrill: "Open the door! I'm begging you, open the door! Monsters! There are monsters everywhere!"

Xie Youyou turned pale with fright, hiding behind Chen Jiahe: "Brother Muchen... what should we do?"

The commotion downstairs grew increasingly loud. Aside from the chaotic footsteps and cries for help, there were more and more of those heavy, frantic roars similar to Wang Ermazi's post-mutation state, enough to make one's scalp tingle.