Zhou Tai

"Great!"

Yu Xian perked up. To him, the sound of artillery fire was like heavenly music.

Support meant there was nothing to worry about behind them. He did not need to consider what came next; all he had to do now was slaughter the Aberrant Insects and wipe out every last one in the school!

But just as he was about to head downstairs, a painful groan reached him, and he immediately stopped.

There were still students alive?

He turned and entered a classroom, where he found a survivor with faint breathing in a corner filled with wreckage.

Silver City, Cangshan Psychiatric Hospital.

Large numbers of Aberrant Insects were frantically devouring the medical staff. The hospital director, Chen Qingsong, hid inside a cabinet in his office, barely daring to breathe.

He had never imagined that so many patients in the hospital had been parasitized by Aberrant Insects.

Compared to Aberrant Insects that parasitized ordinary people, those inhabiting psychiatric patients were clearly far more violent, less afraid of pain, and even more mobile than typical Aberrant Insects.

The armed security guards in the hospital only managed to fire a single shot before they were all killed instantly.

Now, all he could do was hope the authorities would arrive with rescue soon.

Suddenly, the office door was shoved open violently. A thin man in a hospital gown strolled in with relaxed steps.

"Director? Director? Where are you? It's me, Zhou Tai." The man lowered his voice and called around the office. Finally, he came to the cabinet, knocked on its door, and muttered to himself, "Are you in there? Or not? Are you in there? Or not?"

After a moment, he seemed somewhat disappointed and mumbled, "Looks like the director really isn't here. I wanted to tell him a big secret."

With that, he turned and left. Chen Qingsong widened his eyes and quietly let out a breath.

Zhou Tai!

He was the most dangerous patient in their hospital.

Zhou Tai suffered from multiple personality disorder. The problem was that aside from his primary personality, all his other personalities were terrifying—murderers, skinning artists, finger collectors, cannibals, and other twisted personalities.

This guy had been locked up in the hospital, with restraint straps limiting his movements almost twenty-four hours a day.

Chen Qingsong could not imagine how Zhou Tai had broken free from the restraints without being attacked by Aberrant Insects. So whether Zhou Tai was human or an Aberrant Insect, he had absolutely no desire to come into contact with him.

But things did not go as he wished.

Just when he thought Zhou Tai had already left, the cabinet doors were suddenly yanked open. Zhou Tai smiled at Chen Qingsong and said, "Found you, my dear director!"

Then he grabbed Chen Qingsong and dragged him into the office chair before sitting down on the other side of the desk.

"What do you want? You... you'd better not do anything reckless, or... or else..." Chen Qingsong said in panic.

Zhou Tai interrupted him with a smile. "Or else what? Lock me up again? Hahahahahaha! From now on, no one can lock me up anymore!"

Suddenly, his expression changed, shifting from madness to something slightly timid.

"Director, am I sick? Help me take a look. Check my pulse!" As he spoke, he placed his hand on the desk and looked expectantly at Chen Qingsong.

Chen Qingsong did not act rashly. Zhou Tai did not seem to care either, merely muttering to himself, "Director, isn't this world wonderful? A parasite wanted to parasitize me. I was so scared, so scared, but I never expected it to choose the most useless boss. After it replaced the boss, we ended up parasitizing it instead. This feeling... this feeling is just incredible. Its body is so strong!!!"

"You mean the real Zhou Tai was already replaced by the consciousness of an Aberrant Insect, but your personalities ended up parasitizing the Aberrant Insect's consciousness instead and even suppressed it?" Chen Qingsong asked, his eyes wide with shock.

Zhou Tai nodded repeatedly. "That's right. As expected of the director—you sorted everything out in just one sentence."

"Then do you think you're human or an Aberrant Insect?" Cold sweat streamed down Chen Qingsong's forehead as he could not help asking.

A smile gradually appeared on Zhou Tai's face. Tentacles burrowed out from his facial features, and with their aid, his two eyeballs nearly pressed up against Chen Qingsong's face.

One tentacle split open and spoke. "Of course I'm human!"

Watching the horrifying scene before him, Chen Qingsong's pupils trembled violently. He was scared to death on the spot.

"How boring."

Zhou Tai slowly withdrew his tentacles. Looking at Chen Qingsong, who had been frightened to death, he could not help curling his lip.

Then he suddenly thought of something interesting and smiled. "There's still some time. Why not go play with that big brother?"

As he spoke, his expression kept changing.

In the end, he looked at Chen Qingsong's corpse with greed in his eyes. Clearly, this body had switched personalities again.

If Chen Qingsong were still alive and saw this scene, he would surely have guessed that Aberrant Insects might originally possess some sort of ability similar to a "consciousness network."

Zhou Tai's personalities were like viruses. Through the Aberrant Insects' consciousness network, they had already infected every Aberrant Insect!

These personalities could seize the body of any Aberrant Insect at any time, or even hide within the network and issue commands to all Aberrant Insects.

Silver City No. 3 Middle School.

Yu Xian carried a student with a broken leg on his back and returned to the rooftop.

He carefully set the injured student down and said, "Old Zhang, you boys come help too. I've dealt with all the Aberrant Insects on the sixth floor. There are quite a few injured students who need our help."

"Okay!" Zhang Shou nodded.

Then several other boys gritted their teeth and decided to go down and help as well.

Chen Ling said, "I'm going too. Two students staying here to look after the injured students will be enough."

"Then I'll go too." Nora felt that she ought to do something.

Yu Xian did not refuse. There were quite a lot of injured students, so one more person meant one more pair of hands.

But when the group reached the sixth floor and entered the classroom of Class 6, Senior Year 3, they could not help turning around and running into the corridor to vomit. The scene inside was too horrific.

Some students had been eaten until only half their bodies remained, while others had only half a face left. It was simply hell on earth.

Zhang Shou and the others were innocent and foolish high school students. When had they ever seen anything so terrifying?

"Will they be okay?" Nora asked worriedly as she looked at Chen Ling and the others.

Yu Xian instead looked at Nora in surprise and smiled. "I expected them to react like this. But you didn't even throw up."

"I'm a vampire. I don't even have the ability to vomit." Nora rolled her eyes at Yu Xian.

Only then did Yu Xian realize why, despite finding the classroom's condition so gruesome and terrifying, he felt no physical discomfort at all. It was because he was a vampire.

At that moment, an Aberrant Insect rushed up the stairs from the fifth floor. Yu Xian flicked a finger, and a silver thread instantly sliced the charging Aberrant Insect in half.

He dared let Zhang Shou and the others come down to rescue people because he was confident he could protect everyone.

Blood of Silver!

Nora's eyes widened when she saw Yu Xian's silver-thread attack.

As she looked at the Aberrant Insect's corpse on the ground, she thought in shock.

This was the great talent her father had awakened when he was one hundred and fifty years old.

Why did Yu Xian possess it? She looked at him in disbelief, her mind in complete chaos.

In truth, she did not know much about Blood of Silver.

Her father had never displayed the act of consuming silver in front of her. She only knew that Blood of Silver was an ability capable of creating silver threads; otherwise, she would have connected the dots when she saw Yu Xian consume silver earlier.

After waiting for a while, Zhang Shou and the others finally recovered.

Yu Xian led the way into the classroom. Zhang Shou gritted his teeth and immediately followed, while the others followed one after another.

"Over here. She still has a heartbeat."

Yu Xian quickly found the first survivor.

It was a girl missing her arms and legs, with part of her face bitten away.

In the past, the "Rongcheng Tragedy" had only been four words. Many people could not understand why it was called a tragedy.

But now, witnessing the miserable state of their schoolmates with their own eyes, everyone present felt that even the word "tragic" was insufficient to describe the horror of this disaster.