"Wait."
Ji Xie suddenly called out to him from behind.
Li Xian did not turn around, but he stopped when he heard the slightly hurried footsteps behind him.
The man behind him stopped very close, then gently pressed his fingers against the back of Li Xian's neck.
Ji Xie's fingertips were unusually cold. For an instant, Li Xian almost thought an ice cube had been pressed against his skin, making him shudder.
Li Xian turned around, intending to ask why his hands were so cold, only to see Ji Xie speak with a grave expression:
"Marks are starting to appear here, too."
"Have you checked the rest of your body?"
Li Xian's heart lurched. His clothes had been dry when he woke up, so he had forgotten to check.
He quickly returned to his room, went into the bathroom, and stripped off his clothes.
Li Xian shivered as his body was exposed to the air, but the state of his skin soon captured all his attention-
The decay that had originally been confined to his forearms had begun spreading explosively, reaching his torso. Now it was not just the back of his neck; red lines of varying shapes or patches of decaying skin had appeared on practically every part of his body.
If this "illness" had only been in its early stages over the past two days, then it had now undoubtedly progressed to the intermediate stage.
While he was examining himself, a patch of skin on his shoulder fell to the floor with a soft plop, and a new ring of red slowly emerged on his chest.
The more Li Xian looked, the more alarmed he became. Clearly, the decay was not progressing at a steady rate. Once it accumulated to a certain point... it would erupt all at