"Do you still think this is the world we came from?"
Lolita pointed toward the farm, her expression almost deranged. "No! It hasn't been for a long time... The entire world may be crawling with monsters like that!"
Charles fell silent.
He'd complained that the Main God had dumped them in the middle of nowhere, but now it seemed that had been a privilege reserved for new recruits.
"Was that... rabies? Maybe it was just that one family..."
Jie Ling's voice trembled, and she looked dazed. Clearly, she still hadn't recovered from the sudden horror they'd just witnessed.
But she couldn't finish what she was saying. The whole thing had been too bizarre and savage—and it hadn't looked like rabies, either.
By now, she was starting to believe that this really was the Vampire Zombie World the Main God had told them about.
"Damn it! Damn it!"
Beiqi, the last of them, clutched his shoulder in a frenzy. "I need to get to a hospital. We have to clean this wound right away. I don't want to turn into one of those things!"
At his words, everyone around him took a few steps back in unison.
"Hey, hey, what are you all scared of?"
Beiqi grumbled in protest. "Even rabies doesn't take effect that fast, does it?"
"And you still think... this is rabies?"
Lolita said in a low voice. Then she looked at Charles and made a very serious suggestion. "For our own safety, I think we should tie him up and watch what happens."
"Well..."
Charles glanced at Beiqi's bulky frame and the wary look that had immediately come over his face, then compared him with himself. He gave a wry smile. "Let's not."
"But now we can't go back to that damned farm!"
He pondered the situation,