Chapter 20 Deformity

It was daytime, but the building was completely dark because all the windows were nailed shut with wooden boards. The light shone through the gaps in the wooden boards, like white daggers piercing into the building.

Chen Ke took out a Glock 17 from his triangular bag and installed the silencer he had seized from the blond man.

The bloodletting dagger could not be used in the narrow corridor, so a silenced pistol with flame bullets was the most sensible choice. Moreover, this was the lair of the monsters, and Chen Ke did not want to attract all the monsters in the building to attack him.

He moved lightly to the door and peeked out through the crack in the door. The building was very quiet, and from time to time he could hear someone sighing and snoring softly.

Chen Ke flashed into the corridor and curiously pushed a door opposite slightly open. With the light coming in through the gaps in the wooden boards, he saw a few ragged homeless people in the bare room, wrapped in tattered blankets and sleeping by the wall.

It seemed that there were not only monsters in this building, but also many homeless people. They seemed to have reached a relationship of protection and being protected.

Chen Ke stopped disturbing them and gently closed the door. The silhouette of the female diner finally stopped on the sixth floor, where her room should be.

He walked along the corridor, looking for the stairs to go up. Because the whole building was demolished halfway before, many rooms in the corridor were inaccessible, and the stairs were blocked by rubble. Sometimes, Chen Ke had to bypass the blockage in the corridor from the room that was opened to continue moving forward.

Turning a corner, a skinny monster was wandering alone in the corridor. Chen Ke aimed at its head and fired two shots in succession.

The kinetic energy of the 9mm bullet cannot be compared with the Magnum bullet, but the flame effect is not discounted. The monster's head caught fire, and it burned off from the neck in just two or three seconds, falling to the ground with a dull sound.

There are more intact rooms on the second floor. The degree of deformity of the homeless people on this floor is similar to that in the noodle shop. Some people have not even started to deform. They curled up in the corner of the room wrapped in blankets, and ignored Chen Ke when he came in.

Chen Ke also ignored them, just borrowed a path and walked briskly.

So far, things have been relatively smooth. It's just that this building is like a three-dimensional maze. A short distance at hand must be reached by bypassing many obstacles.

Sometimes he had to go down to the first floor from a collapsed room, and then go up the stairs that were blocked by the waste rock and made it impossible to reach the third floor. Sometimes he had to go through several rooms to avoid the rubble blocking the road in the corridor.

As he explored deeper, the deformity of the homeless people he encountered became more and more serious. On the fifth floor, there were already many homeless people who could not see human form. Their entire heads had become toad-like, their huge two eyeballs were lifeless, their exposed skin was full of tumors, and their exaggeratedly wide mouths spit out black tongues from time to time.

They sat in the corner of the room with their bellies bulging, and there were leftover noodles in front of them. There was no doubt that the noodles must be from Haomaiwu. Some homeless people whose deformities were too severe could no longer go out, and they could only rely on their companions to bring things back here.

"You don't belong here, young people." A toad head sitting against the wall suddenly spoke.

Chen Ke was startled, and he turned around and pointed his gun at the talking toad.

"Hey... put that thing away, the toad head is not bulletproof." The toad head didn't seem to be afraid.

"Can you talk?" Chen Ke was surprised.

"It's getting worse and worse, maybe I can't after tonight." The toad head laughed at himself.

"It seems that you are quite open about the fact that you have become a toad." Chen Ke spread his hands.

"What else? Do you think we are very happy?" The toad head said.

"It seems that you know that there is something wrong with the noodles?" Chen Ke narrowed his eyes.

"When we know it, it's too late, my friend, it's not bad, it's not much different from a homeless person to a wandering toad." The toad head seemed to laugh, his eyes narrowed into a line.

"What happened here?" Chen Ke asked.

"A little bit of this monster, a little bit of that monster, I call this the Freak Club, the woman said she found God, God will save us. Do you see the big hole in the center of the courtyard? God seems to live in it, although I don't understand why God lives in the sewer." Toadhead said.

This building is a U-shaped structure, with a medium-sized courtyard in the middle.

Chen Ke looked out of the window through the gap in the wooden board. The open-air courtyard in the center of the building collapsed downwards, and a huge broken sewer pipe was seen sticking out, like a passage leading to the underground.

"Have you seen God?" Chen Ke asked.

"Do you think it's convenient for me to see God?" Toadhead moved his thin and short toad legs out from under his big belly, put them in front of Chen Ke and shook them.

"I won't disturb you eating noodles, I'm going to go down and take a look." Chen Ke waved his hand and turned to leave.

"Hey, wait a minute, young man, do me a favor." Toadhead suddenly said.

"Tell me about it?" Chen Ke was curious.

"If you encounter a god down there, take a picture for me. I want to see it, too." Toadhead smiled with narrowed eyes.

"My phone can't take pictures." Chen Ke turned and left.

Chen Ke became more and more curious about what had turned them into this state. What was the god that Toadhead was talking about? The only way to find out was to go deeper into this pit and take a look.

Going down all the way, avoiding rubble and gravel, Chen Ke pushed open the door of the inner court and came to the open courtyard. The strange sound of the wind echoed, like the wailing of evil spirits. In front of Chen Ke was the huge pit connected to the sewer.

At this time, a murderous aura emerged behind him. Chen Ke turned around and saw the female diner standing more than ten steps away from him.

"You ruined the poor people's chance to survive. Is this what you want?" asked the female diner.

"This is not an opportunity. No one wants to become a toad. Why don't you tell them in advance the price of accepting charity?" Chen Ke retorted.

"Deformation is much better than death. You have never experienced the pain of death!" said the female diner.

"You can't convince me. Look at you. You are at least a normal person." Chen Ke said.

As soon as Chen Ke finished speaking, something unexpected happened. The female diner suddenly unzipped her sportswear, revealing her shriveled and terrifying skeleton body. The part below her neck was just bones covered with a layer of human skin.

"You are... you are too..." Chen Ke was a little surprised. This not only reminded him of the memory of the monster he had absorbed in the alley before.

"Death taught me a truth. No matter what form it takes, it is better to be alive than dead. I am saving them! And you are killing them!" the female diner roared.

"The life span is replacing the lost sanity."

"-10 minutes"

"-10 minutes"

"-10 minutes"

...

Her voice was full of resentment. The two emotions of sadness and anger penetrated into Chen Ke's brain from her ears like energy waves. The life span was constantly consumed, helping him resist the damage to his sanity.

At the same time, the surging murderous aura surged out of the big pit in the sewer, and six skinny monsters surrounded Chen Ke at once. It turned out that they had been hiding in this sewer all the time. No wonder Chen Ke only encountered one in the building.

"I want to protect these poor people, and no one can stop me!" the female diner said firmly.