"Thud, thud."
"Thud, thud."
The dull yet powerful sound rang through the streets of the crazed Happy Town.
With Human-shaped Fruit Trees growing all around them, the air had originally been filled with a noisy jumble of sounds. Countless voices and mutterings intertwined, filling the area within dozens of meters with sounds that were not loud but were extraordinarily complicated, oppressive, and capable of causing violent pain in the brain. Yet when the sound of a heartbeat appeared, it overwhelmed every other sound.
"Hiss..."
On the main body of the Human-shaped Fruit Tree that had grown from Qin Ran's corpse, the sixteen fruits identical to Qin Ran that had just awakened all turned to look forward. Their terrified gazes landed on the black shadow behind Lu Xin.
They heard that the instant the black shadow appeared, the heartbeat inside Lu Xin overwhelmed everything.
It seemed as if all the sounds around them had vanished, leaving only that heartbeat.
Then, when the black shadow opened its blood-red eyes, Lu Xin suddenly raised his head and opened his eyes as well.
His eyes were also completely blood-red.
"Ah..."
Countless faces had already grown all over Lu Xin's body. When the shadow appeared, those faces seemed to sense some strange terror. They opened their mouths at the same time and let out anguished cries. Their expressions grew tighter and tighter, then suddenly exploded...
The faces exploded simultaneously, spraying vivid blood.
"What's going on?"
"Why can it drive us out?"
"..."
Every Qin Ran on the Human-shaped Fruit Tree began shouting.
Their expressions varied—fearful, terrified, bewildered—as they stared at the battered youth before them and screamed.
"That's our will!"
"Like a shadow following the body, like maggots burrowing into the bones..."
"How did he do that?"
"What's going on? I was still hauling cargo