"Zhang Tie!?"
A sharp shout!
Lin An suddenly released a faint surge of mental strength, stabbing into the dazed Zhang Tie.
Bear Dunce, following right behind Lin An, shuddered all over as if struck across the head, instantly coming to his senses.
"Ah!?"
"What happened!? Team Leader Lin!?"
Confused and at a loss.
Meeting Lin An's gaze, he stood there blankly, as if he could not make heads or tails of the situation.
But when he followed that gaze down to his lower abdomen, he suddenly seemed to think of something and looked at his left hand, which was covering his stomach.
Damn.
An instinctive reaction.
Only then did he discover that his stomach felt as if rivers and seas were churning within it, wave after wave of sour hunger clawing into his mind.
Hungry. So hungry.
He instinctively tried to cover his stomach with his hand, as if doing so could lessen the hunger.
What is happening to me!?
His eyes widened, and his whole body trembled.
No matter how slow his reactions were, he realized that he had probably been affected.
Remembering the Insect-Man he had first seen, he felt a chill run through his entire body.
"Team Leader Lin, I—!?"
There was no time to ask.
Lin An's expression shifted. Under Super Thinking, he rapidly replayed the fragments of memory from the moment they entered the city.
When had Zhang Tie first begun showing signs of hunger?
One second later, a scene engraved by mental strength appeared in his mind.
Lin An's heart sank.
In the scene, Zhang Tie had instinctively covered his stomach the moment he entered the city, following behind Lin An and looking around.
Almost without needing to think, Lin An immediately realized that the source of infection he had guessed at likely covered