Chapter 124
Lily immediately perked up with delight, her voice filled with excitement.
"Daddy! Daddy's back! Mommy said you went to the stars, what's it like on the stars?"
"There was a very, very big sun, a castle that could move, and people with ears and tails."
"Wow..."
Then Ai Er Lan told his daughter about the interesting things that happened in the Ark World, which made Lily linger and reluctant to leave.
But clearly, he went on and on with the story.
This back-and-forth took half an hour.
Therefore, a heated argument soon broke out on the other end of the phone.
"Alright, Lily, let me say a few words."
"No, Mom, I haven't finished listening yet."
"A pudding for a phone."
"Oh... okay."
Lily chose pudding over the story.
Ai Er Lan closed his eyes, but a smile crept onto his lips.
He heard rustling sounds coming from the other end of the phone and imagined his wife tempting their daughter with a pudding.
The wife answered the phone.
"Come back soon," she said softly, "Come back for dinner, we'll be waiting for you."
Sizzle!
Suddenly, a strange static noise came from the other end of the phone.
The phone then lost signal.
Ai Er Lan assumed that his wife had hung up the phone and gone to prepare dinner.
Outside the phone booth, the first streetlamp of dusk lit up.
Looking at his reflection in the glass, Ai Er Lan realized that he had unconsciously put on a silly smile.
"I'll be right back," he said into the phone after it had already ended, eager to see his wife and children.
Plane, car rental, and finally, walking.
The journey took more than an hour.
Ai Er Lan finally arrived at that familiar town.
Their family lived in the suburbs, where life was quite pleasant...
"What's this?"
He stood frozen at the town entrance, his pupils contracting sharply.
Ai Er Lan's leather shoes made a nauseating "gurgling" sound as they stepped on the sticky ground.
The path that was originally paved with cobblestones has been turned into writhing flesh and blood.
The oak trees by the roadside Distortion into grotesque shapes, their bark oozing dark red sap, and their branches were covered with translucent egg sacs, inside which the vague outlines of human figures could be seen twitching.
In the distance, the church spire was wrapped in a pink film, and pendulum-like tendrils hung from the windows, rhythmically pattering against the exterior walls.
In the middle of the street, a mass of flesh and blood covered with eyeballs was slowly writhing.
As it passed, the exterior walls of the houses peeled away, revealing the pulsating muscle fibers inside.
A monster, a fleshy monster as tall as a small building, is in the town, corrupting everything.
Chapter 3: The Town of Love [2 Updates]
In an instant, panic filled Ai Er Lan's face. He grabbed the 'Eye Lamp' hammer and rushed forward.
"No, no, no, no, no!!" he cried out urgently, not daring to stop for a moment.
There is no doubt that this is a containment failure of a physical entity!
Why, why here of all places? Why in my own home!
Ai Er Lan's leather shoes left bloody footprints on the fleshy ground, Eye-Lamp Hammer in his hand emitted a blinding yellow light.
A beastly roar erupted from his throat, "Get out of here! All of you, get the fuck out of here!"
The mass of flesh in the middle of the street suddenly convulsed violently, and hundreds of eyes turned to him at the same time.
Those eyeballs, swirling in the mucus, saw Ai Er Lan charging towards them.
Countless mouths cracked open on the surface of the fleshy mass, emitting a shrill cry like that of a baby.
Ai Er Lan did not slow down, and swung his Eye-Lamp Hammer hard, smashing it down on the nearest fleshy beard.
Bang!
The moment the yellow light exploded, the entire fleshy tendril shattered like glass.
The putrid pus splattered on Ai Er Lan's face, and he tasted the metallic stench of rust.
More fleshy tendrils wrapped around him from all directions, and he wildly swung his weapon, each strike turning large chunks of flesh into charcoal.
"Lily! Anna!" His shouts were heart-wrenching, drowning out the monster's piercing wails.
A tentacle with human hands suddenly grabbed his ankle, Ai Er Lan staggered to his knees as the Eye-Lamp Hammer slammed heavily into the ground.
The yellow light burst forth in a fan shape, and the flesh and blood along the entire street curled up like scorched plastic.
The monster didn't die, but it was severely injured.
He seized the opportunity to break free of his restraints and rushed towards home like a madman.
"Lily! Anna!" he cried out desperately in the small yard in front of his house.
The courtyard had now become a paradise of flesh and blood.
Ai Er Lan received a response; he heard both of their voices.
"Dad..."
"Ai Er Lan..."
That's Anna's voice, that's her daughter's voice!
They're still alive!
He slammed the door open with a hammer and peered eagerly inside.
In the living room, there was a gigantic, monstrous creature of flesh and blood, a composite of everything.
Hanging in that corner was Anna's favorite yellow dress with white flowers.
Anna's face and Lily's face were merged together, and the gaping maw of flesh opened towards Ai Er Lan, making sounds continuously.
"Father... Ai Er Lan..." The wife and daughter, now a mixture of flesh and blood, spoke in unison.
On the ground, there was a half-eaten pudding spilled.
When did this flesh and blood invade? The answer is obvious.
"..."
Upon witnessing this scene, the wry smile on Ai Er Lan's face was frozen in place.
Reason evaporated on the spot.
Despair filled his soul in an instant.
"Ah... Ah..." He swayed unsteadily, and suddenly his body was covered with orange-yellow eyes, and black feathers sprouted from his body.
Tears streamed continuously from those eyes.
Immediately following were the roars of fleshy monsters and inhuman cries.
Two monsters fought each other in this loving home.
"Haha, I won't run away, can you listen to me for a moment?"
After Makuku was tied up in a corner, everyone watched him.
He took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it.
"Actually, we've met many times before. In fact, we were colleagues in the past. I think you can understand what I mean by that, right?"
Makuku spoke, he smiled slightly, "After all, I have the ability to Time Reset. If it were you, you should be able to understand."
Xiao Huasheng tilted his head, touched his chin, and asked.
"What's the meaning?"
She didn't understand what Makuku was trying to say; she only knew that the TT2 Protocol was coming soon to Lobotomy Corporation.
Angela then spoke up.
"Manager, let's send us all to Lobotomy Corporation. Some things can't be overheard... although I think we already are."
Upon hearing Makuku mention the Time Reset, Angela involuntarily closed her eyes.
Without a doubt, given the Foundation's capabilities...
The Foundation must already know this news, but Angela doesn't intend to let Foundation know any more.
Although they are partners, her previous conversations with the Foundation made her very wary.
No one would consider an organization that wants to exterminate humanity to be a benevolent entity.
Angela has reason to suspect that the Foundation's idea of exterminating humanity stems from the black slugs behind humans.
They need to be much more cautious in their actions.
Gaining the ability to reset is of paramount importance to them.
A stable supply of energy is paramount.
For example, Xiao Huasheng still has an "Abnormality Blind Box" in his possession, the one with 100% sadness.
The situation was critical, and she didn't dare open the blind box at all.
Even the development of Lobotomy Corporation was greatly affected as a result.
The energy generated from the surplus of an Abnormality can be enormous.
This is at least not an energy level that can be ignored in the early stages.
The reason it won't open is simple: it's too unstable, to the point of being unreliable.
If there were a rollback function, Xiao Huasheng would definitely open this blind box immediately.
Even using rollbacks to farm certain Abnormality might not be difficult.
Soon, everyone was taken into Lobotomy Corporation by Xiao Huasheng Sheng, including Makuku.
"Hey... calm down."
Makuku was strapped directly to a specially made chair, which seemed to be a chair that Angela had prepared specifically for him.
This is a byproduct of Angela's research into Phoenix Project; according to the Silent Orchestra, this chair can fix the soul in place.
In this way, even a person on the verge of death can be forcibly brought back to life.
After returning to Lobotomy Corporation from her vacation, Angela first looked at Makuku and said...
"Judging from your tone, you must have seen me many times before..." Angela said, crossing her arms and looking at Makuku in front of her.
"Ha... As expected of Angela?"
She silently closed her eyes and pondered, "Judging from your reaction, it should be around one hundred to one hundred and fifty times regarding the reset of this time."
Upon hearing this, Makuku couldn't help but sigh.