Twist and Turn

Lu Bai didn't rush to make a sound and disturb the other party, even maintaining a normal breathing rhythm while sleeping.

He's acting really strange right now.

He could understand why the Replicant would want to secretly kill the Deathmatchers.

The question is, how did this person come looking for me?

He made it clear that he could still use his abilities.

Regardless of whether such an assassination attempt would succeed.

Even if they succeed, without themselves, wouldn't their status in the containment center revert to that of refugees?

From any perspective, dealing with oneself at this time is not a good decision.

Not quite understanding the other person's thought process, Lu Bai reached out and pressed the button on the bedside table to turn on the room lights.

Snap

The next second, even with Lu Bai's strong mental fortitude, he couldn't help but feel a bit shocked.

He realized he had misread it.

The guy who had come to his bedside was not a tall man.

The reason for the misjudgment was simply because the other person's limbs were twisted in a strange way, making them appear much larger in the darkness.

The part of the face exposed outside the mask was distorted even more wildly.

There wasn't a single normal part to it; her entire face looked like a coffee carving, with the corners of her eyes stretched down to below the mask.

Despite being in such a distorted state, this creature still managed to maintain a human form, which sent chills down one's spine and evoked an extreme uncanny valley effect.

The fact that the opponent had the title "Flying Swallow Combination" above his head indicated that this guy was indeed a deathmatch fighter.

Lu Bai still remembered that this title belonged to Liu Guoqiang, the man who had been toasting him relentlessly during the meal.

Even though his abilities were already deactivated, why can he still exhibit such inhuman behavior?

So this is some kind of bizarre scheme?

The distorted Liu Guoqiang was not startled by the sudden bright lights; he seemed completely unaffected, remaining as silent as if he were in the dark.

He contorted his movements and slowly raised his arm, aiming the sharpened iron rod at Lu Bai's neck, and resolutely stabbed it down.

Although Lu Bai was shocked by Liu Guoqiang's appearance, he was not completely stunned and rolled over to the other side of the bed.

"No, what are you doing?"

Seemingly realizing that his prey had escaped, Liu Guoqiang's already contorted face showed an even more conflicted expression.

Her twisting, swaying feet moved slowly toward Lu Bai, as if dancing some kind of social dance.

Lu Bai pressed his temples, feeling a bit of a headache.

He didn't sense any eerie aura from Liu Guoqiang. Could it be some kind of strange entity with a physical form?

Since I didn't know what was going on, I didn't really want to touch it with my hands.

He tentatively picked up the solid wood bedside table and smashed it on Liu Guoqiang's head.

Bang~

A muffled thud.

The impact of the bedside table felt no different to him than hitting a normal person.

And the effect was stronger than he had anticipated.

Liu Guoqiang even staggered back half a step in pain.

Seeing this, Lu Bai simply continued to repeatedly bang on the bedside table.

After several rounds, Liu Guoqiang was knocked to the ground, bleeding from a head wound, and had difficulty even getting up.

However, even after being smashed like this, Liu Guoqiang's limbs were still twisting irregularly, just like an eel that had been pulled out of the water.

Lu Bai breathed a sigh of relief.

The threat posed by this unknown and bizarre phenomenon isn't actually that great.

He casually tossed the bedside table aside, preparing to approach and check on Liu Guoqiang's condition.

Just then, a piercing scream suddenly came from the next room.

If I had to find a metaphor, it would be more like a muscular guy sleeping with his buddy, vaguely feeling his buddy touching his butt, and instinctively letting out a terrified scream.

Lu Bai glanced in the direction from which the scream came and blinked.

"Is there more than one?"

After a while of commotion, the sky was already beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn.

"Where... where exactly did they get infected?"

Zhou Lei stared at the three bound fighters in front of him, his eyes filled with surprise.

It is worth mentioning that each of the three fighters, including Liu Guoqiang, was twisting their limbs in an extremely bizarre manner.

Even when they were tightly tied to the tree trunk, they couldn't stop their muscles from writhing.

"Their twisting frequencies are not quite the same."

Feng Qian squatted under the shade of the tree, unable to resist the urge to investigate what exactly this thing was.

The other deathmatch fighters also gathered around curiously to observe, one of them even looking somewhat apprehensive.

Lu Bai sat in a rattan chair, thoughtfully stroking his chin.

They weren't kept waiting too long.

Captain Mao arrived in a hurry with a team of personnel from the Action Department.

However, this is the time of day when people are most tired, and even Captain Mao looked somewhat sleepy.

He rushed into the courtyard, his attention immediately drawn to the three fighters tied to the tree trunk, forgetting to even Lu Bai.

"Captain Mao, do you know him?"

Lu Bai waved at him.

Captain Mao forced a smile, "Master Lu, let me confirm this first."

After saying that, he lit a cigarette to refresh himself, moved closer, and carefully observed the situation of the three fighters.

After all, before Lu Bai appeared, he was a professional who frequently dealt with the supernatural.

Without needing to examine it too closely, he quickly identified the suspicious anomaly based on the symptoms of the three fighters.

But it was precisely because he was certain of this that his already tired face showed even more anxiety.

"Master Lu..."

Captain Mao looked around and decided to talk to Lu Bai first.

He walked over to the wicker chair and said in a low voice, "If nothing unexpected happens, the strange thing that's causing this should be Sequence 43's Twist and Turn."

"Uh, what are you twisting?"

Lu Bai was taken aback.

"Twist and Turn, that's the code name we gave to this eerie creature."

Captain Mao thought for a moment and explained simply, "No one can accurately describe what this strange thing looks like, because everyone who has seen it will fall into this state of frantic writhing and become unable to communicate..."

After listening, Lu Bai nodded knowingly.

Compared to some eerie creatures that possess physical form or yin energy.

This so-called Twist and Turn is more like an invisible and intangible curse.

"At first I wasn't sure either, because based on all the information we have so far, this kind of weird Twist and Turn should only happen in the countryside."

Captain Mao's brows were furrowed so deeply that it looked as if a mosquito could be trapped between them.

Even if a strange occurrence is dangerous once its patterns are figured out, it is generally controllable.

If all the strange occurrences are like this, then past experience is completely useless.

But the fear is that this is not an isolated case; the bizarre events are gradually becoming unpredictable, which could lead to another catastrophe.