Chapter 297: Anomalous Team Building
It was already dusk at this moment.
At the entrance of the Containment Center, buses loaded with passengers were still continuously driving in.
After all, the resident population of the entire Keshishan City exceeded one million, and such a collective evacuation was a massive undertaking.
The civilians who had already settled into the Containment Center had, after a day, basically adapted to this state of life.
During this time, the civilians living in the Containment Center had all been very well-behaved, with no violence incidents occurring.
Even if conflicts arose among the civilians, they at most stayed at the verbal level.
This made management much easier, and for the Containment Center staff, it was indeed a lot less stressful.
The tent area, seemingly spreading to the sky, looked spectacular.
Upon closer inspection, everywhere were civilians lining up to receive supplies or carrying buckets to fetch water.
In a tent near the edge of the tent area, several female students from Keshan Art University had just finished dinner.
Seeing that it was still early before bedtime, they simply sat in a circle chatting to pass the time.
“Sister Yuhan, what happened next?”
Several girls all turned their gazes to the plainly dressed girl in the head seat.
The plainly dressed girl called Sister Yuhan took two breaths and said boldly: “What happened next? I hid! If you got up in the middle of the night to go to the restroom and saw a dark shadow in the corridor, would you dare to go check it out?”
“That’s true.”
“Good thing Sister Yuhan you didn’t go out, otherwise…”
“I heard the Guardian God resolved that Drowned Ghost in just two or three moves.”
The several girls immediately chattered and shared their opinions.
Hearing them mention Lu Bai, Sister Yuhan’s eyes also lit up: “I watched the live stream too. Isn’t the Guardian God really handsome?”
“Yeah, and he looks pretty young too.”
One slightly chubby girl squinted her eyes and grinned mischievously: “You guys are in heat, huh?”
“So what!”
Sister Yuhan didn’t mind her close friend’s teasing at all. Suddenly, as if remembering something, she slapped her thigh: “I heard the Guardian God has started taking disciples. Do you think I have a chance to enroll? Even if I can’t win over the Guardian God, learning some self-defense skills would be good.”
“Self-defense? Defend against what?”
This chilling inquiry voice rang out, and the tent instantly fell into deathly silence, with even breathing stagnating.
Back when they were at Keshan Art University, they had all been roommates in the same dorm.
They were all very familiar with each other’s voices.
Yet this sudden voice, to them, didn’t belong to any of them.
Moreover, the undisguised malice contained in that chilling voice made them involuntarily feel a scalp numb sensation.
The bitter taste in their mouths made them even forget to scream.
Sister Yuhan felt as if she had been thrown from the dog days of summer into the depths of winter, her whole body stiff as if petrified.
She mustered her courage and slowly turned her head towards the direction the voice came from.
The scene she caught at the corner of the tent upon turning made her mind go blank, adrenaline surging wildly.
It was a woman.
A disheveled woman, wearing a pale single garment, with jet-black long hair extending from her head, covering the woman’s face.
The skin exposed outside looked exceptionally white—not the pallor of illness or healthy fairness, but a lifeless, decayed, and withered white.
The veins and tendons on her hands propped on the ground were bulging, as if exerting great force, almost to a grotesque extent.
Just this appearance alone was blatantly telling them that this was an anomaly.
Not to mention the sudden drop in temperature inside the tent—everything made people extremely uncomfortable.
But when fear reaches its extreme, people feel like their bodies no longer belong to them.
Sister Yuhan and the other several girls in the tent were all frozen in place, with only sweat beads emerging on their foreheads and no other reaction.
In this deathly silent and chilling cold atmosphere, the woman in the corner of the tent began to move unsteadily.
Under the terrified gazes of the several girls, the woman slowly raised her head…
…
“Hiss! What smell? Is someone shitting outside? Why so stinky?”
Zheng Long grumbled as he lifted the tent curtain, sticking his upper body out of the tent, looking left and right to search for the source of the stench.
But he didn’t find it; instead, he saw a long-haired beauty squatting beside the tent corridor.
The beauty was dressed conservatively, yet it made one feel the alluring body hidden under her clothing.
She just hugged her knees with both hands, sobbing softly, looking pitiable.
Seeing this scene, Zheng Long felt a surge of lust inside.
He silently licked his lips and stepped forward: “Beauty, are you in some kind of trouble?”
The beauty squatting on the ground immediately stood up and hugged him.
With warm fragrant soft jade in his arms, Zheng Long almost forgot his own surname, quietly swallowing a mouthful of saliva.
He reached out to cup the beauty’s cheeks on both sides, preparing to move her head in front of him: “Um, don’t be scared. If there’s any trouble, I…”
But,
The moment he saw the beauty’s face, Zheng Long’s eyes bulged like copper bells.
What entered his eyes was no longer that beautiful delicate face; instead, it was a terrifying appearance that would make one’s legs go weak.
The beauty’s cherry small mouth was as if violently torn open, the split extending all the way to the ear roots.
The ferocious big mouth was full of sharp teeth, with a scarlet tongue stretching out from it, like a giant python.
The distance was too close; Zheng Long could clearly feel the foul stench from that tongue.
“Ahhh!!!”
After a brief daze, Zheng Long’s complexion turned deathly pale in an instant, uncontrollably letting out a terrified scream.
Puff~
The beauty’s big mouth expanded like a snake swallowing an elephant, biting down in one gulp, completely engulfing Zheng Long’s head.
In an instant, blood splattered everywhere, covering the big-mouthed beauty’s body.
…
The sudden scream carried far.
Even the staff at the Containment Center entrance heard it.
“What happened?”
A staff member wearing glasses led a group of citizens to the designated position and stopped, turning to look towards the direction of the scream.
Out of curiosity and duty, he pressed the intercom button on the walkie-talkie, planning to inquire about the situation.
But before he could ask, his peripheral vision caught a conspicuous black shadow on the road outside the Containment Center.
This staff member involuntarily widened his eyes, pupils dilating.
As someone from the Action Department, the List of Anomalies was a required course, so he naturally recognized the sequence of that anomaly on the road at first glance.
His face showed terror; even frantically telling himself not to panic was useless.
“Tall, thin ghost…”
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