"B-brother, I'm sorry."
"Brother, brother, you have to forgive me. I-I didn't mean to eat you. I-I was just too hungry."
"Once I'm full, I-I'll come pay my respects to you every year from now on!"
The man chewed hard on the rat meat, tears streaming down his face as he remorsefully confessed. The sight was incredibly eerie.
Lin Zichen furrowed his brow, realizing something was wrong with the man.
He immediately turned and hurried away, choosing to take a detour rather than go home past the garbage station.
But just as he turned to get away, the man in the garbage heap sensed his presence. He looked up at Lin Zichen's retreating figure, then at the rat in his hands, which he had already eaten halfway through, and said:
"B-brother, I-I don't have to eat you. I-I can go eat people!"
The man sounded deranged, and in the dead silence of the night, his voice was utterly chilling.
The moment Lin Zichen heard the words "eat people," his expression changed. He took off running.
In just one second, he covered nearly thirty meters, putting a good distance between himself and the garbage station.
But the next second, he heard footsteps closing in behind him.
He glanced back and saw that the man who had been eating the rat was chasing after him!
Multiple blood-red eyes were splitting open across the man's face at a speed visible to the naked eye. Fine fuzz was sprouting from his exposed skin as he rapidly transformed into a Giant Mutant Rat.
Was he the madman from earlier that day?!
Before the man had completely mutated, Lin Zichen recognized him as the person who had caused a disturbance at the vegetable market that day.
"Meat, I-I want meat. I-I want to eat human flesh!