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Click. Dr. Lao snapped the meal box shut and walked out of the hospital room, holding the empty box and wooden spoon in one hand. The fourth floor was deathly silent. The stench of blood in the air was so thick it made him dry-heave. But as he retched, he suddenly chuckled twice, as if recalling some absurd scene. He continued to count "Tick, tick, tick" even as he coughed and choked. Several corpses lay on the floor. After the pustules on their bodies burst, they left behind ugly…-
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Tick, tick, tick, tick. The sound of the pendulum's needles hitting each other echoed in the dim second-hand shop, and the tone gradually became heavier from thin and crisp, until each stroke seemed to sound like a spring. An Yu whispered, "The space inside seems to be opening up, like a sponge that has been squeezed flat and is gradually regaining its shape." The team immediately went on alert, white and blue morpho butterflies fluttered in the air, Lumen lowered his collar, and black rose vines…
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In just a few hours, the aberrant water ants had grown to the size of four or five fists, flying through the streets like drones. The ones that hadn't grown had shed their wings and were crawling on the ground. They shrank their bodies under door gaps, trying to squeeze their way into the buildings. A large water ant flew over and bit An Yu on the shoulder. The sharp pain made him reel for a moment. As the ant exploded, he looked at his terminal—his survival value had dropped by nearly 5…
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An Yu froze for only an instant. Seeing the pustules spread to the man's lower eyelid, he suddenly commanded in a cold voice, "Look at me!" Doctor Lao's eyes went vacant for a moment, and then his gaze was captured by the pair of golden eyes. He had, in fact, already almost lost consciousness and hadn't processed the command. It was just that in that instant, he felt an inexplicable pull from the golden eyes before him, drawing him involuntarily in. His vision blurred. As if…
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TW: gore Rainwater quickly seeped into the room through the door crack. The air humidity skyrocketed and the suffocating, damp heat seemed to seize people by their throat. A familiar fishy stench spread into the antique shop along with the rain. An Yu's nose twitched. The odor reminded him of the giant mantis on the shuttle bus. He looked at the rainwater snaking across the floor and there seemed to be countless transparent specks of light be erratically flickering inside it. Flame's…
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The stairwell was also filled with people. Men and women, young and old, sat on the ground, occasionally scratching themselves as if at invisible lice. The corridor only returned to silence when they reached the fourth floor. An Yu walked down the length of the hallway, passing by the wards one by one. In one room, an old man was erratically tapping the bed rail with his chopsticks, muttering vacantly, "One second, ten seconds, eight seconds..." A hysterical scream came from the next…
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The eastern side of District 34 was a dense industrial zone, and there were many people in situations similar to the little boy's. Injuries sustained by workers during their labor would never heal and each time reset would return them to their injured state. It wasn't life-threatening, but it was an endless reliving of their pain. Minor injuries and illnesses were one thing; the most pitiful case was a man who had lost half his hand to a malfunctioning machine. When An Yu's team passed by, he was…
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On the plane, An was expressionlessly sucking on the nearly bare stick of his lollipop. An Yu observed him for a long time and, based on his rudimentary understanding of An, sensed that he was not in a good mood. Ning explained apologetically, "An hates densely packed insects. He regretted agreeing to this mission a bit after hearing High Peak's briefing just now." An Yu immediately tried to soothe him. "It's fine. You have so many butterflies; one butterfly per water ant should be…
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The Protectors packed the hall so tightly that not a drop of water could trickle through. All eyes were fixed on the enormous screen hanging in the air. In the video footage, a soldier stared blankly at the camera. "In the 274th minute after the mission began, the action recorder shows that I walked into the District 34 hospital. In the 336th minute, I came out of the hospital." "So you were in the hospital for 62 minutes. In those 62 minutes, what did you see? Who did you speak with?" "I...…
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Codex was already neatly dressed, but their eyes still held a dazed look from their hangover. "You finished eating so quickly?" "Quickly?" An Yu, on the contrary, felt that watching the videos had slowed him down. "Did you find that page of yours?" Codex stared blankly for two seconds. "I found it. Didn't I just tell you? You even told me to hide it, didn't you?" An Yu: "Huh?" "I was trying to tuck it in for a while, but I kept feeling like it would fall out. You passed by and told me that if…
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