Chapter 49
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Chapter 49: Outbreak
Without a moment to think, Ji Yongxing looked in Zhao Kai’s direction, his gaze piercing through the researcher’s uniform to see Zhao Kai’s unusually swollen belly.
His abilities told him that beneath that skin were countless things that needed to be【Streamlined】!
In an instant, a powerful mental shock made Ji Yongxing take a small step back. He quickly closed off his abilities, not daring to look directly at Zhao Kai again.
The two doctors were also stunned by the scene before them. After hesitating for a few seconds, the strong man stepped forward, forcing himself to approach the unconscious elder despite feeling nauseous.
He quickly reached Zhao Kai’s side, checked for breath by leaning close to his nose, and then grasped his arm, intending to help him or carry him.
At that moment, Zhao Kai’s eyes suddenly snapped open, completely blood-red, with the whites stained.
He looked at the strong man helping him, yellow-green liquid trickling slightly from the corner of his mouth,
“Walk, I’m a bit hungry. Can you help me?”
“No problem, sir, the glucose injection is already…”
Walk’s words suddenly stopped, as Zhao Kai, using his support, bit down on his neck.
“Ah! Ah! Ah!”
Having wandered the underground black market in the outer city for over ten years, Walk had seen many crazies, but he had never encountered someone like Zhao Kai at that moment.
The intense pain and mental shock left the doctor flustered; he could only let out cries of pain and accomplish nothing else.
In just a few seconds, Walk had lost any chance of survival.
Ji Yongxing was stunned by the scene unfolding before him; he couldn’t comprehend why Zhao Kai would bite into a living person.
But then an even more incomprehensible event occurred.
Zhao Kai’s attack on Walk seemed less like sucking blood and more like merging with him.
Their skins began to rapidly fuse at the bite marks, as if two lumps of playdough were being kneaded together under external pressure.
The left side of Zhao Kai’s body had quickly adhered to the right side of Walk’s body.
The troublesome clothing was gradually expelled like bones from the writhing flesh.
In just a few seconds, the two had transformed into a humanoid monster with two heads and three legs.
At this moment, the body tissues belonging to Wang Xiao, or rather, the cells that carried divine powers, were freely roaming and growing within the creature.
This power was something a mere mortal like Zhao Kai could never imagine or control.
The ultimate power of the Blood and Flesh pathway—【Immortal】—was merely the tip of the iceberg regarding Wang Xiao.
It was rated as C merely because Wang Xiao was only at the First Level, leading Zhao Kai to misjudge the power contained within these cells.
Now, with parts of the tissues and organs transferred, Zhao Kai’s body resembled a gigantic culture dish with constant temperature and balanced nutrients.
And those original organs belonging to the elder completely paled in comparison to these interlopers in competing for nourishment.
Now, the uncontrolled Immortal cells were gorging themselves within Zhao Kai, making cancer cells retreat in fear.
If one body wouldn’t do, he would take two, or even more!
Zhao Kai—no, now he should be called the flesh fusion monster—had utterly lost all reason.
In the creature’s four blood-red eyes, one could only see dozens of varying heat sources.
Those were his food, his nourishment!
Devour, grow, split, multiply!
“Roar!”
The monster, with its two heads already partially fused, opened its mouth wide. Its blood-red tongue shot out like an arrow, aiming for the throat of the talented young man ahead.
Ji Yongxing was already in a state of extreme tension. His body suddenly jerked, dodging this deadly attack.
“Cough!”
A muffled grunt with static came from behind Ji Yongxing. He turned to see another doctor, pushing a folding bed and holding glucose, had already been pierced through the chest by the long tongue.
The tongue, barbed and vicious, swiftly retracted, dragging the now-dead doctor along with it.
“Bang!”
Li Xia’s body collided with the fusion monster, and then began to rapidly merge with it.
Ji Yongxing turned and ran.
At this moment, everyone had clearly understood what was happening; anyone who didn’t flee would be courting certain death.
Ji Yongxing was well aware of the limitations of his abilities, knowing full well that he could never defeat this monster head-on.
A situation like this, with such extraordinary beasts appearing directly in the inner city, would undoubtedly cause a massive uproar.
Seizing the moment while the monster was still merging, Ji Yongxing punched the fire alarm on the wall and quickly raced downstairs.
The alarm began to echo throughout the entire building, centered on that floor.
The sprinkler system above the restroom activated, dousing the fusion monster’s head with cold water, which helped it regain some semblance of rationality. It looked toward the figure disappearing at the end of the hallway and emitted a sound that was anything but human:
“Yongxing, don’t go.”
The scent of fresh blood and flesh filled the fusion monster’s nostrils. Its eyes were filled with thermal imaging-like red dots.
It began to move its bloated, disfigured body, causing it to suddenly collapse to the ground.
Just as it intended to obey its instincts and rise, its gaze suddenly pierced through dozens of floors, spotting that individual with nearly infinite life force in the basement.
In the monster’s vision, human life appeared as glowing dots.
These heat-like dots varied in brightness depending on the strength of the individual’s life force and their distance.
Yet now, the individual in the basement was so dazzling that it halted the fusion monster’s movements.
It was as if the sun had appeared on the horizon, rendering all the light bulbs dim.
The fusion monster’s appetite was almost infinitely stimulated; it craved that glow, yearned to enter the other, desired to devour the entity,
even though that light represented Wang Xiao, its creator in a certain sense.
“Roar!”
The fusion monster emitted a sharp roar. Its body had swollen almost to a spherical shape, using seven or eight limbs to push itself along the ground.
A frightened researcher passing by the restroom door glanced back, only to faint immediately at the sight of the monster.
The bloated fusion monster rolled over that body, visibly growing larger in size, leaving only a pair of glasses and a white coat behind.
Driven by instinct, it began to move towards the underground laboratory.
Researchers almost practiced fire drills every year, and at this moment, they gathered at the fire exit, orderly evacuating downstairs as per the drill protocol.
The majority of researchers were calm in emergencies. Even though they didn’t know what had caught fire, following the rules was always a safe approach.
So as they lined up to go downstairs, some noticed a gigantic flesh blob, colored like skin and mucous, with dozens of limbs, emerging from the main door of that floor.
It devoured a few unfortunate souls before crashing through the elevator doors and jumping straight down the elevator shaft.
