The instant he heard the sound, Liu Tie stopped speaking.
His eyes immediately sharpened!
He went on full alert!
Fan Shang reacted right after him, the black eyes beneath his pale hair turning just as sharp.
The two looked toward the sound, one after the other. Only a second later did Lin Xue and Zhou Ping become alert.
That reaction speed was worthy of someone who had survived a year in the Weird World.
Fan Shang thought to himself.
Then he looked toward the source of the sound.
It was a tattooed man, not one of the Orange City University group, but a survivor who had joined them much earlier. Fan Shang had no memory of him, so he must have been an old-timer.
He was the one who had screamed.
At that moment, he was drinking water with a terrified expression, his bottle held in midair.
But the Tattooed Man looked as though he had seen some horrifying creature.
He could no longer spare any attention for the water at his mouth.
Water spilled from the bottle.
"Aaaah! A w... weird entity!"
He screamed. He was terrified. He wanted to run, but he knew it was useless.
Because... the weird entity was already on his back.
A small, bluish-purple hand rested on the Tattooed Man's shoulder.
He frantically tried to break free, to pry it off.
But the instant he touched that hand, an indescribable chill flooded his skull.
Then the little hand tightened. From the corner of his eye, the Tattooed Man even saw a child with a bluish-purple face grinning viciously at him.
Then that little hand tightened again.
The man's muscles began to cave in.
To the other survivors, however, it looked as though the man was wasting precious water for fun while wrapping one hand around his neck and strangling himself.
He was also screaming like a madman about some weird entity.
They could not see a weird entity, but they certainly found it weird.
None of the idiots from novels who got curious, approached, and died instantly went near him. After all, not seeing a weird entity did not mean there wasn't one.
What if there was?
What if there really was a weird entity? Wouldn't approaching it mean they were screwed?
And just as that thought flashed through everyone's minds...
Perhaps by accident, some of the water in the Tattooed Man's hand splashed behind him.
Then a terrifying sight unfolded before their eyes.
After splashing behind him, the water did not fall and soak his back as it should have. Instead...
It hung eerily in midair.
They could even vaguely make out a shape.
Only then did everyone finally realize it was real. There really was a weird entity!
The instant that realization hit, a terrified cry rang out from the crowd.
Then they scattered, rushing toward their respective vehicles.
As for the Tattooed Man's pleas for help, they did not even entertain the slightest thought of saving him.
But in those brief moments...
The Tattooed Man finally reached his limit.
A sound of crying rang out.
"Waaah..."
Before Fan Shang's eyes, a bluish-purple figure suddenly appeared on the man's previously empty back.
It looked like a baby. Still crying, the baby twisted the man's neck clean through.
The movement took less than three seconds. The instant it finished, the weird entity vanished again.
Seeing the weird entity disappear, the convoy erupted into chaos. Amid the confusion, even those who wanted to flee could not get away.
Of course, that problem was not something Fan Shang's group had to consider.
After all, they had parked at the head of the convoy precisely to avoid a situation like this.
Just as they were about to pull open the car doors and flee...
Another scream suddenly rang out.
"No! Why? Why did it come after me? A Sequence... Sequence User! Yes, the captain can save me!"
The unlucky victim chosen this time was a sleazy-looking young man.
When he saw the bluish-purple hand on his shoulder, he was scared senseless.
The Tattooed Man's gruesome death was still fresh in his mind. That was why the young man lost all reason the instant he saw that bluish-purple hand.
What do I do? What do I do now?!
Save me! I... I don't want to die!
Thinking this, the sleazy young man remembered Liu Tie and the others. That's right! Sequence Transcendents! A Sequence User can definitely save me!
But although the sleazy young man had thought of Liu Tie and the others, they wanted nothing to do with him.
Just as Liu Tie reached for the car door, he saw someone standing squarely in front of his car.
"Captain Liu! Captain Liu, please save me! A weird entity has targeted me! It's right behind me!"
"Fuck! (A type of plant!)"
At the sight, even the scar-faced Liu Tie could not help swearing.
Of course I know the weird entity is on this young man's back, but it isn't on mine!
Obviously, Liu Tie could not say that aloud.
Nor was this the first time he had encountered such a situation.
So he understood perfectly well that sometimes, acting saved more time than talking.
"Move. Don't block the way!"
Liu Tie spoke in a low voice.
Although he looked upright and disdained oppressing others-as evidenced by the relative fairness this convoy had maintained throughout the apocalypse-
That did not mean... he, Liu Tie, was some bleeding heart.
He would not throw away his own life to save one person.
And so Liu Tie's hand tightened slightly. If this man refused to move...
But clearly, the sleazy young man understood what Liu Tie meant. With his life under threat, he had already lost all reason.
"Captain Liu, please! Please save me! Sup... supplies! If you save me, I'll give you all my supplies! As long as you save me, whatever you ask me to do afterward..."
Before he could finish, however, a fist the size of a sandbag rapidly grew larger in his pupils.
The next instant.
Bang!!
The young man's head burst like a watermelon.
Since you won't move, since you won't let me live, then die right now!
Before you continue