CH 50

Are You A Human Or A Ghost?

No one present was a fool. After a day of contact with the infected, even if they didn't have a detailed understanding of their behavior, they basically knew the general process. Reddened skin may be the most intuitive sign of infection, but it doesn't mean it's the only one.

Ling Mo, who has had close contact with a person's mutation process before, can be said to have the most right to speak.

Especially the "do" that startled him so much.

So when he noticed that the fat man also had this way of talking at the end of his words, he immediately thought of that man.1

Although the others did not see the stranger mutate with their own eyes, but hearing Ling Mo suddenly raise this question, and when they think about the charging behavior of those infected people before, the result will be no different.

Including Fatty himself, he was the second person to realize this after Ling Mo, otherwise he would not have spoken halfway and fall silent.

——He was infected.

In this situation, It's a desperately bad news.

"...Brothers."

He forced a smile and took a step forward, as if trying to explain something.

"Don't..."

Murong Yue who was closest to him immediately took several steps back.

"Don't move! Are you a human or a ghost?!"2

"...Of course I'm a human do!"

The fat man gritted his teeth.

"I haven't mutated yet, do!"

Then he became even more nervous.

"Fuck, why did I say do! Damn, don't say do!"

"Da Ri, calm down first."3 

Ling Mo frowned, and said in a serious voice.

"Can you still control your emotions? We need to determine the degree of your infection."

The fat man immediately took a deep breath to calm himself down.

"Hiss... Okay, I can still calm down."

"But we don't have a vaccine now, so we can't save you, right? How about I give you relief now? It's better to go offline now and go to bed earlier."

Murong Yue suggested very sincerely.

"Piss off do!"

The fat man glared at her.

"Then what the hell am I trying to do by walking such a long sewer? When you pass the level will you give me points do?"

Murong Yue stopped talking.

The fat man took another deep breath, gritted his teeth and said.

"Hurry up, go to the rescue as soon as we can do."

"Then what if you can't hold on halfway?"

Murong Yue still couldn't help asking.

"Then you don't need to worry, I will kill myself."

"You said it."

"I said it."

Ling Mo clapped his hands.

"Then go."

After such a scene, the speed of the four of them has increased again. Fortunately, there is not much sewage in the sewer except for a lot of garbage. The environment being comparable to a underground highway has helped them a lot—— except for the stink.

But after smelling it for a long time they got used to it.

Ling Mo stayed by Xia Xinyan's side the whole time, focusing on observing the fat man's changes. The pistol at his waist was loaded, and he was ready to shoot the fat man at any time.

If the fat man is infected to the final stage in the sewer, then his self-destruct explosion may directly lead to the destruction of the group. No matter what, we must be prepared to deal with the fat man before that.

Of course, the premise is that the fat man has lost his mind.

The previous man's mutation process can't be said to be short or long. From the very beginning, he started saying "do" at the end of his words. He is not sure about his specific infection time, so it is impossible to speculate on the incubation period. But the game gave a reminder before that the incubation period is half an hour to one day, and there may not be much time left for Fatty.

At that time, he wont hold back.

In order to protect Xia Xinyan.

It's not really killing him anyway.

But the fat man was lucky, until everyone arrived at their destination, his skin didn't turn red at all.

But at this moment, another problem stood in front of them.

The navigation shows that the building where the extraction point is located is in the center of one of the busiest commercial districts in the city. There are four buildings in total, with a very large square in the middle. The distance between each building is not close, and... On the GPS it didn't specify which of the buildings.

"The rescue point is in Block A? Can't you find out which building it is?"

Murong Yue's expression was a little hard.

"Try another way to search? What about Block A? Or just A?"

"No."

Xia Xinyan shook her head.

"It's probably the difficulty given by the game, it just depends on luck."

"Then what if you choose the wrong one?"

"They're only one block away."

Xia Xinyan looked up at the sewer exit in front of them.

"Let's go up from here."

The early dungeons may reduce the difficulty for the players, but it can't be without challenges, not to mention that this is the final mission.

"I'll be the first to go up."

Seeing that Xia said she was about to take the lead, Ling Mo immediately went over to interrupt her.

"I'll go up first to see if it's safe."

Xinyan paused, then pursed her lips slightly.

"Ok."

Ling Mo took a deep breath, then climbed up the stairs, pushed open the manhole cover forcefully, poked his head out and looked around.

This location is right next to one of the buildings. The four buildings are distributed in the four corners of the block, which gives a grande felling. There are many infected people wandering, but none of them noticed their movements.

Ling Mo beckoned to the people below.

"You can come up."

The appearance of these four buildings looks exactly the same, there is no difference, and the height alone is estimated to be fifty or sixty floors, but there is good news that there is a corridor connecting the four buildings at two-thirds of the height, and you can pass through the connecting corridor. Even if the wrong building is chosen, there is still a chance.

So the four of them didn't stay too long, and went directly into the closest building.

And once they got in, they realized something was wrong——

The entire hall on the first floor was full of traces of shots and explosions.

"This place was attacked?"

The fat man looked around and frowned.

"No..."

Ling Mo squatted down and picked up a bullet casing on the ground.

"Maybe other players arrived first."

There are eight players in this dungeon, but they haven't seen the other four until now. Unless they are unlucky and all die, they all have to come here to find rescue.

Considering that they have never seen the police army suppressing riots, it's not difficult to guess who fired the bullet casing.

And soon, the new hints given by the game also confirmed this point——

《Important news: The search for survivors is complete, all targets have arrived at the evacuation location, and the cleanup operation will be advanced to half an hour, all survivors are requested to evacuate in time》

All four of them have one goal.

Murong Yue turned around and ran upstairs.

"Hurry up! We're going to die!"

The fat man immediately stopped her.

"What are you doing it?! You plan to climb up all the way?!"

"Then you still plan to take the elevator?"

Murong Yue glanced back at him.

"What if the door is blocked?"

"...Right do."

The fat man touched his chin, but still followed.

Ling Mo looked back at Xia Xinyan.

"Do you want to take the stairs?"

"Hmm..."

Xia raised her eyebrows, her tone with a little bit of teasing.

"Didn't you notice... The elevator is moving?"

TL notes

1. I’m going to the previous chapters and changing the “do” position to the end of all the phrases, even if the author himself doesn’t do that every time, i think that’s the best way.

2. A little tough to explain, directly taken from google: Gwái (鬼) means “ghost” or “devil”. It is sometimes translated into English as “foreign devil”. In Chinese, “ghost” can be a derogatory term used as a curse or an insult.

3. NO WAY, the author called Da Ri by his name?! It’s been so long…

Nothing to say today, so as always, any erros just say and I’ll fix it, and I hope you had a great time!

—Chi