Apocalypse: My Companions Are From The 3D District

Thus, the beautiful scenery was covered by a white cloth, and Li Pu, who kept craning his neck to look back, let out a regretful sigh.

After wiping herself clean, Liang Mei wrapped the bedsheet around herself like a bath towel, barely enough to ward off the cold wind.

She pulled down another sheet from the drying rack to wrap around her sister, finally ensuring everything was secure.

Listening to the master and disciple still bickering and playing around, she looked toward the pocket of her sister's nurse uniform.

Her sister Furukawa Nandin was a pediatrician and head nurse at the hospital, and her pockets were usually filled with little trinkets to amuse children.

She laid her still-unconscious sister down against the water tower, propped up against the stand, and held the gap in her chest covering as she rummaged through the pockets of her sister's nurse uniform.

After searching for a while, she only found a small piece of fruit candy wrapped in sugar paper.

"Nandin's been missing for so many days; she must have eaten the rest herself." She sighed, unable to help feeling sorry for her mentally fragile sister: "Back before I went to college, she was so innocent and cheerful..."

She wiped the corners of her slightly moist eyes and encouraged herself: "Stop thinking about it. It's not that bad. The three of us—mother and daughters—are still alive. Once Mother calms down, she'll definitely tell me where the child is."

Liang Mei revealed a sweet smile that didn't match her mature, intellectual demeanor, held the exposed skin at her chest, and walked toward Li Pu and his master.

Seeing Liang Mei approach, Chun Li smirked and teased her mischievous little apprentice: "Here she comes to settle the score~ Whatever will we do? This heroine's spotless reputation is about to be ruined by you, little lecher~"

Li Pu kept silent with a face full of black lines, letting his master Chun Li have her fun.

Even after pinching him, Chun Li wasn't satisfied and kept going "mwah mwah mwah" on his tender little face, like she was slurping a small tangyuan—the texture was utterly addictive to her.

Only after getting her fill did she let Li Pu go, ready to deal with Liang Mei, who was about to reach them.

The newcomer, wrapped in a bedsheet, walked gracefully and elegantly up to Li Pu.

Just as Chun Li was about to pull out the "He's just a child" attitude and go into protective mode, Liang Mei smiled and stuffed that piece of fruit candy into Li Pu's hand.

"Here, it's sweet." She gently stroked Li Pu's little head with affection.

Li Pu smiled and thanked Liang Mei.

Just then, the corroded and damaged door of the machine room where the sisters' mother was creaked open.

The sharp-tongued old woman appeared again: "Ha, seeing a child reminds you of your own bastard? You're a disgrace to the Furukawa family! Both of you sisters are! How did I raise two sluts like you?"

"And your father even died in a car crash rushing home to welcome you two sluts back for the holidays!"

Li Pu and Chun Li could clearly see wisps of black aura emanating from the hideous old woman.

Chun Li skillfully shielded Li Pu behind her, and Li Pu skillfully grabbed hold of Chun Li's Big Peach, tilting his head to keep observing.

Without realizing it, Li Pu himself hadn't noticed that he'd grown used to Chun Li's mother-hen style...

He looked up at the sky with a sigh, and whether it was an illusion or not, Li Pu felt the moonlight was slowly turning red.

Gradually, the old woman's words grew more and more vile, and Li Pu couldn't help but remark: "What a sweet mouth!"

Liang Mei knelt weakly on the ground, covering her face and crying. Her sorrowful sobs made Li Pu's heart ache.

"Mother, please stop being angry. At least the three of us—mother and daughters—are still alive, aren't we? If we live on well, that's how we honor Father." She choked out between sobs.

Hearing her mention her husband, the old woman flew into a rage: "The moment you two got pregnant with those bastards! You dishonored him forever!"

Liang Mei's sobbing froze: "I've explained many times that child isn't a bastard. Wait, Nandin too? So that's why..."

"So that's why she took on pediatrics too?" Liang Mei's eyes widened in sudden realization, her mouth hanging open, unable to speak for a long time.

"Hmph, throwing her out for half a month and she still survived—truly a scourge that lingers for a thousand years." The old woman's tone grew more venomous.

Liang Mei didn't dare defy her mother. Wiping her tears, she pleaded softly: "Don't be like this, Mother. We're a family, aren't we? Where exactly have you hidden both of our children?"

"Hehehehe hahahaha, you two really are sisters. I smashed your bastards to death right in front of you, and then you both lost your memories, hahahaha, how amusing." The old woman's face grew uglier and uglier, and her voice now sounded like a collection of several women.

Li Pu was stunned. He had heard that if a person endured pain their mind couldn't handle, the brain would trigger a deletion mechanism to erase the memory.

"Killing a child right in front of its mother..."

"Let me tell you, where your children went~" The black aura around the old woman grew denser. She hunched over and stepped outside, the blood-red moonlight spilling over her, making it hard to tell human from ghost.

The old woman pulled a blood-red Hannya mask and a bloodstained stone from the bosom of her black kimono and shouted loudly: "Our Furukawa family! Has been cursed by the Hannya since ancient times."

"The women of the family give birth to demons from hell! They bear malformed infants without skulls or brains." With that, she put on the Hannya mask and wildly brandished the stone in her hand: "Whenever that happens, the eldest woman of the family must wear the Hannya mask and hold this Killing Stone! To kill the demons and monsters reborn into this world! Ahahahaha."

The old woman's eyes beneath the mask were filled with intoxication as she chanted a sinister and eerie scripture.

Amid her mother's manic laughter, Liang Mei had already guessed the fate of her child and covered her face, weeping helplessly.

"But my child was healthy! And adopted! They were perfectly normal developing children! Why do you call them malformed!"

"Because I say so!" The maddening scripture forced Liang Mei, who had been covering her cheeks, to move her trembling hands to her ears.

"I soaked both your children in glass jars filled with formalin and put them by the bedside, then tied you two to the bed, hehehehe. Your own children were right above your heads, and I chanted the scripture over and over to purify you~"

"Was that ghoul-guarded storeroom her doing?" Li Pu sharply connected it to his earlier experience.

"But later, you two became more and more disobedient. At night, you turned into two wild beasts and went out to snatch infants."

"For the hospital's reputation, I had to dispose of them all, hehehehe. Then a mysterious organization contacted me. They said if I provided them with dead infants, they had a way to resurrect your father."

Chun Li, not knowing the full truth, could only grit her teeth: "Superstition kills. It's just a genetic disorder. And you're the hospital director! Don't you know that? Why would you do something so vicious!"

The old woman burst into another fit of manic laughter: "They helped me and your father hold regular séances! As long as my dear can come back to me, I'll do anything!"

After last night's ward incident with the Hannya ghost infant, Li Pu reserved judgment on everything in this world.

"But it all makes sense now! This vicious old woman drove both her daughters into psychosis, constantly abducting and killing children, then supplying so-called 'delicacies' to the ghoul organization." Li Pu was appalled by the old woman's crimes against humanity.

Infanticide, trafficking of organs, even colluding with monsters.

Any one of these charges alone would warrant a five-minute execution.

The ugly crone's talk about resurrecting her husband—this self-justifying, crime-glossing rhetoric only disgusted him more.

To revive her lover, she had to kill so many children?

And then dress it up as madness for love?

The justice-driven International Police officer Chun Li had already pulled a fruit knife from her backpack, assuming a reverse-grip combat stance.

"No frying pan? Old auntie's actually going for the kill?" Li Pu had never seen Chun Li with such a chilling aura.

Perhaps affected by her mother's chanting, Nurse Nandin had woken up at some point.

"Mother, is what you said true?" Black mist billowed from the sister and mother, but Furukawa Nandin was different—her delicate body was covered in dark green-black threads, her eyes bloodshot and swollen.

Emotional agitation accelerated the spread of the black threads, creeping up her thighs and chest.

Chun Li gasped, her big peach trembling as she stepped back.

"Patient Zero from the first floor! It's her!"

Nandin twisted in agony, letting out inhuman wails.

"She spent half a month on the first floor and still left those zombies helpless—I should have figured it out sooner!" Chun Li kept slapping her forehead.

Li Pu looked at Nandin in confusion: "How is she still maintaining human consciousness? Does the virus have this kind of variation?"

Just as they were stunned, another accident occurred.

"BOOM!"

A deafening explosion sent dust scattering in all directions. Li Pu felt the rooftop floor tremble slightly.

The white-haired beauty Gardenia, with her hard yet graceful muscle lines, walked calmly out of the smoke.

Still wearing that blood-red open-chest prison uniform, a vest exposing her abs, and cut-off prison hot pants.

"Red-faced Hannya. Finally found you." Cold words spilled from her lips, her eyes full of killing intent. "Where did you take my sister?"

The mask on the mother's face spread flesh and blood, wrapping around the old woman's body, transforming into a sturdy red Hannya demon. Countless women's venomous voices spoke from her throat at once: "You again. Do you remember how many plates you washed each day? How many grains of rice you ate? How many steps you walked? Hee hee hee hee~"

"Looking for death!" Gardenia lunged forward, grabbing the Hannya demon by the throat, wrestling with inhuman strength.

When gods fight, mortals suffer.

Sensing the danger, Li Pu immediately said to Chun Li: "We have no way to attack these aberrations, Master. We need to escape now!"

Chun Li quickly grasped the stakes—surviving with her beloved disciple was what mattered most.

She grabbed Li Pu's hand and sprinted toward the rooftop elevator.

The eerie Blood Moon hung in the sky, casting its light over the old hospital rooftop. The red glow it released carried an unusual sense of dread. A strange aura permeated the hospital surroundings. The rusty water tank and tool shed on the rooftop were all bathed in the Blood Moon's crimson light.

The Blood Moon grew brighter and brighter, turning a deeper red, swallowing everything around it.

Black mist filled the rooftop. Liang Mei's crying grew more and more unnatural, no longer sounding human.

Liang Mei's body trembled as she knelt on the rooftop, covering her face and weeping bitterly. The sound she made seemed to tear through the silent air. Blood tears fell onto the tiles—one part blood mixed with two parts tears, scalding as they slid down, splashing into a pool of red.

Several Higanbana flowers burst open on the tiles, spreading across the entire rooftop like a mountain of blooms.

Her body twisted into deformity. Horns grew from her forehead, full wings sprouted from her back, and the rest transformed into a demonic form—except pure white. Her face twisted into a Hannya demon's eerie smile.

Gardenia, who had the old woman's head pinned against the machine room wall, was startled by the sight: "She's resonating with two aberrations at once and being possessed? Higanbana blooming—quite the spectacle."

At this moment, Liang Mei cradled an Infant Spirit with a sunken forehead. On her green-faced, fanged, eerily smiling face was a trace of tenderness: "Mother's here. It's okay."

"The Smiling Face Hannya born from abused women, and the Guāh-h-niáu that protects children?" After being possessed by the Tang suit beautiful woman, she had read extensively through Buddhist scriptures and ghost legends, recognizing the two aberrations possessing Liang Mei at a glance.

But the old woman suddenly erupted with terrifying strength. She smashed the Killing Stone against Gardenia's Asura Hand.

Gardenia froze, never expecting anything could hurt her.

"Kill! Must kill!" The old woman's Hannya demon charged at Liang Mei with the Killing Stone.

Chun Li and Li Pu, who were almost at the ladder, were blocked by Nandin, covered in dark green-black threads.

She seemed to have lost her mind: "Patient... eat... happy!"

"Ah-oh-ah-yah-ah-ah!" A shrill, eerie cry came from her mouth.

The door that had been locked between the rooftop and the hospital interior suddenly burst open!

The Cockroach Patient, the Flea Security Guard, and a horde of zombies came charging in, summoned by their comrade's call!

"Damn, it's a full house!" Li Pu cursed loudly.

Chun Li looked at Nandin, whose limbs were twisted and from whose back grew several bloody, fleshy wing roots, then glanced at her mother and sister with a bitter smile: "Like mother, like daughter."

At that moment, the mother's Red-faced Hannya was locked in combat with Liang Mei. The Killing Stone in her hand seemed to be highly effective against the Smiling Face Hannya possessing her daughter.

Just as the old woman snarled and swung the Killing Stone at the vital points of Liang Mei, who was possessed by two aberrations, the deformed child in Liang Mei's arms suddenly broke free from her mother's embrace, taking the fatal blow for her!

"NO!!!"

Liang Mei lunged toward her mother like a madwoman, but the Old Woman kept striking her down with the Killing Stone.

The Smiling Face Hannya was beaten until its soul scattered, and the Guāh-h-niáu had its wings broken.

The Red-faced Hannya paid no mind to Liang Mei, who lay sprawled on the ground in human form, and roared in triumph like a victor.

Chun Li kicked Nading aside as she charged: "Little Pu! We need to go now!"

But as Li Pu looked down the vertical ladder, countless zombies had gathered below, and some were even climbing up.

Under the blood-red moonlight, Chun Li saw a massive tide of zombies flooding toward the hospital from the distant streets.

The Blood Moon hung in the sky, Higanbana bloomed, Living Dead covered the ground, and monsters roamed—truly a scene like hell itself.

The zombies ignored the anomalies and lunged at Li Pu and Chun Li.

The half-human, half-flea security guard mutant slowly raised the Riot Shotgun in its hands...

Li Pu sensed danger, and a sudden idea struck him!

If he could get that white-haired woman to help again, their chances of survival would be much greater!

He immediately shouted at Gardenia: "I know where your sister is!"

Bang! The Riot Shotgun suddenly fired!

The sluggish Flea Security Guard had abruptly opened fire on Li Pu and Chun Li!

Suddenly, a figure stepped in front of them.

Liang Mei, flapping the unbroken wing of the Guāh-h-niáu, used her entire body to block the shotgun blast, and was blasted to the ground at Li Pu and Chun Li's feet.

She snatched the Riot Shotgun in the same motion, her chest and abdomen already shattered.

Liang Mei coughed blood and spoke weakly: "I don't want... cough cough... to see any more children die in front of me... You saved my life once, now I'm returning the favor..."

With that, her head lolled weakly to the side, her eyes refusing to close.

"Liang Mei!" Li Pu still clutched the fruit candy she had given him not long ago.