To Yi Chen, telling stories was itself a Malignant Carrier.
But strangely, neither Yi Chen nor anyone else sensed any threat from the old woman.
Jin looked toward Yi Chen, seemingly having already taken him as the captain of this mission. She then made a throat-slitting gesture with her thumb.
"Should we kill her?"
Seeing that Yi Chen did not respond, Jin assumed he was leaving the decision to her.
The old woman saw that no one answered her question, so she decided to tell her story anyway. Just as she was about to speak, she discovered that her tongue was already covered in Pustules. Her body underwent complete cancerization within seconds, and she quickly died.
Thud~ As her body crashed heavily to the ground, red lotuses bloomed across her skin. The glow seeping from between the flowers even faintly illuminated the carriage.
With the old woman's death, everything seemed to grow quiet, but the sense of danger concealed in the darkness showed no sign of fading.
Before long,
When the vehicle reached the next station, another passenger boarded. He was dressed in the same black clothing, but this time it was a mature woman. She also came to the middle of the carriage and grasped a hand strap.
"Everyone, I just heard a very interesting story. Would you like to hear it?"
The moment she finished speaking, her cancer flared up. She leaned against the old woman's corpse, and red lotuses covered her body.
Jin had never encountered evil before and did not know what a Malignant Carrier was. Curious, she asked, "Mr. Yi, what will happen if we don't stop them and let them continue telling their stories?"
"The malignancy may project itself into reality directly through the stories they tell, affecting us directly. It's something conceptual. It