AWB Chapter 460 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (71)
Chapter 460 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (71)
That should be their destination.
Seemingly sensing Lu Liruan's gaze, the cat's meows, which had been following them closely and urging them to move forward, suddenly became even sharper.
The voices grew louder, as if telling them not to stop and to continue as they demanded...
"When we came here last time, the lights weren't on, were they?" Lu Liruan asked to confirm.
Liao Tingyuan nodded.
In the past, when they came out, it was pitch black everywhere except for the streetlights in the yard.
This also shows that it is different from the ordinary world.
Even in the middle of the night, there are people who stay up all night without turning off the lights. How could all the windows in the yard be completely dark?
"I feel like this rush is probably for no good reason." Lu Liruan genuinely thought: If it were something good, there would be no need to rush us like this.
Liao Tingyuan looked at her with considerable doubt and asked in a low voice, "How could it possibly be a good thing?"
Lu Liruan rolled her eyes at him: "Do you need to tell me!"
Despite saying this, Lu Liruan gripped Liao Tingyuan's diamond even tighter in her hand.
Liao Tingyuan patted the back of her hand, indicating that she shouldn't worry too much...
Lu Liruan thought to herself: One of them would be enough to make the two of us suffer, I wonder how many more will come... I looked at that light, it seemed to be saying to us: Come on, come on, if you two come, you're doomed!
But Lu Liruan didn't say these words aloud, because it was just too unlucky.
The mournful cries of cats all around grew clearer and clearer.
Unlike before, when she was merely guiding them, Lu Liruan felt that the meows were getting closer and closer, as if they were forming an encirclement...
What are they going to do?
Are they planning to launch a siege?
Why surround yourself and Liao Tingyuan in the middle?
“Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt its debtor…Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt its debtor…” Lu Liruan murmured to herself.
But as Liao Tingyuan said, spaces do not communicate with people, and at this time, they are like inanimate objects.
“If we stand here and don’t move an inch, what do you think we’ll see?” Lu Liruan suddenly had this thought.
To everyone's surprise, Liao Tingyuan immediately replied, "Then let's give it a try."
Lu Liruan was actually concerned about what form these cats existed in.
Because we can't see them during the day, and theoretically they should be dead at night...
In what form are these cats making these sounds?
The two people slowly approached the entrance of the building, but just stood there and did not go upstairs.
They stood back to back, observing their surroundings.
The stairwell behind me was pitch black, like a gaping maw ready to swallow you whole...
The faint, shimmering light coming through the window seemed all the more eerie.
Sometimes, seeing light in complete darkness can bring a sense of security and hope.
Sometimes, however, the light seen in the dark can feel frightening and bizarre, and one wonders why it is so unusual.
Lu Liruan just thought that this might just be a voice, guiding them or forcing them to move forward.
However, Lu Liruan soon realized that something was wrong...
Lu Liruan felt she heard footsteps, and a soft, rustling sound...
The sounds seemed to come from deep within the flowerbed, one after another.
In this incredibly silent space, I was also rubbing my eardrums.
Lu Liruan thought she was hallucinating because she was too nervous...
So she squeezed Liao Tingyuan's wrist, and then Liao Tingyuan silently squeezed Lu Liruan's wrist in return.
Lu Liruan understood what he meant. He heard it too. It wasn't his hallucination, but real. There was a rustling sound coming from all around.
"Holy crap, they can't... actually 'exist', can they?!"
Lu Liruan suddenly realized that her earlier prediction might have been wrong. These cats might actually be physical beings.
Lu Liruan tried to step back, but Liao Tingyuan gently pulled her back and shook his head at her.
"It's okay, we're already at the building entrance." Liao Tingyuan meant to take another look.
The two of them stood there, with not a breath of wind around them. Lu Liruan felt her breath blowing the stray hairs at her temples, causing those stray hairs to keep brushing against her face.
She felt a little itchy, but she didn't have the energy to scratch...
Instead, he was alert, feeling the sweat seeping from his forehead, staring into the surrounding darkness.
Until Lu Liruan saw it, a pair of shining eyes...
I don't know why it's so bright!
All the light seemed to be swallowed up by the darkness here, but those eyes were very clear and very distinct.
It glowed with a faint green light, like the gaze of inorganic matter, and slowly emerged from the darkness, its shape invisible...
Lu Liruan raised her hand and rubbed her eyes hard, trying to see more clearly!
But all you can see are the eyes...
It's impossible to see whether it's a cat, or even the shape of a cat!
"Are they... alive or dead?"
Lu Liruan's question was problematic. She should have actually asked whether the cats were whole or…
The first pair of eyes appeared, and Lu Liruan glanced left and right...
Slowly, two more pairs of eyes appeared from different directions.
The meowing sound continued to come from the direction of his eyes...
Now it's even bigger.
Moreover, because the eyes can see, the location of what is heard is more accurate.
We're getting closer to them, little by little!
Lu Liruan couldn't see clearly what was ahead, but judging from the distance, they should have already moved out of the flower bed...
Continue moving forward in this direction; there shouldn't be any obstructions ahead.
If those cats pounce...
Lu Liruan felt a chill run down her spine when she thought of a cat's agility!
“Should we… go inside first?” Lu Liruan stammered.
"Didn't you want to see what form they are in now?"
"We can't see anything at all!" Lu Liruan took a deep breath. "I think if they pounce on us from this distance, they could scratch us up instantly... Do you think if I get scratched up by them in the space at this time of night, will my face heal itself by tomorrow morning, or when I'm outside the space?"
Lu Liruan has this problem: the more nervous she is, the more useless nonsense she spouts.
Even at this point, Liao Tingyuan remained very calm.
And he was still answering Lu Liruan's nonsensical questions: "Maybe, if the key can disappear in the morning, the wound will probably disappear too..."
“Even if it can, I don’t want to get scratched… I don’t think we can see very well, so why don’t we go inside first?” Lu Liruan pulled him back.
I don't know if it was their behavior of standing there, not listening to commands or being urged that angered the cat on the other side.
Lu Liruan sensed their footsteps shift, and the other side noticeably quickened their pace...
They were closing in on them!
Several pairs of deep, emotionless, green eyes, like will-o'-the-wisps, quickly drifted over!
"Damn it!" Lu Liruan couldn't help but exclaim. She had thought she was already at the stairwell entrance, but now she realized that those few steps were still quite a distance...
After all, there is a subtle sense of dislocation in both time and space.
She was also dragging Liao Tingyuan along.
The meowing of the cat behind us was getting closer and closer!
Lu Liruan looked at Liao Tingyuan, rushed into the stairwell, and ran up two floors without looking back.
I was so excited from running that I felt the blood rushing to my eardrums.
Lu Liruan didn't even hear Liao Tingyuan calling her: "Stop running, Ruanruan, they're not catching up!"
Lu Liruan then stopped completely, stood still, and listened intently.
Sure enough, no meowing came from the stairwell.
The meowing of the cats continued, lingering downstairs, seemingly right at the entrance to the stairwell. It sounded like they were guarding that spot.
If the two of them dare to turn back and go downstairs again, they will definitely run into those cats again...
"Why did he suddenly become so aggressive?" Lu Liruan asked, still shaken.
“Actually…” Liao Tingyuan’s voice was somewhat hesitant.
"how?"
“They don’t seem aggressive.” That’s why Liao Tingyuan didn’t immediately pull Lu Liruan inside.
When Liao Tingyuan went downstairs alone just now, he sensed that the cats' meows didn't seem to be filled with aggression.
Liao Tingyuan once stood alone at the entrance of the building, took two steps outside, and then walked back. The cats, just like before, drew closer and closer.
Liao Tingyuan didn't get to see them reveal themselves, but when he turned and went into the stairwell, the cats were already very close.
Once inside the building, Liao Tingyuan's flashlight beam illuminated only a small area in front of him, obscuring everything outside.
But the cats seemed to be blocked outside the stairwell by an invisible barrier.
At this moment, the cat's meow sounded slightly different...
Liao Tingyuan heard what sounded like a very small cat meowing, just like... what he and Lu Liruan had heard at the door back then.
"Really?" Lu Liruan asked, still shaken.
Perhaps because her eyes couldn't see clearly, Lu Liruan found it particularly terrifying through her imagination.
Listening to Liao Tingyuan's words, Lu Liruan tried hard to recall.
But there was still no conclusion. Since the two of them had already come in, they couldn't go back now, so they had no choice but to go upstairs and see what would happen in that room.
"The cat outside is alive and can move around. Does that mean that things that should have died at this time are also alive?"
Lu Liruan walked heavily, and after climbing several floors, she finally uttered the words that were on her mind.
“That’s possible, but don’t worry…” Liao Tingyuan walked behind her.
She was interrupted halfway through her sentence by Lu Liruan: "How can I not worry! We didn't even bring a bed board!"
Liao Tingyuan: ...
"It's okay, you brought your pot."
Liao Tingyuan said calmly.
Lu Liruan felt a cold metal handle being placed into her hand by Liao Tingyuan.
"When did you bring this?" Lu Liruan was a little confused.
She was so happy when Liao Tingyuan came back that she carelessly put the pot on the ground and doesn't know where it is now.
The environment was too dark, and Lu Liruan didn't notice when Liao Tingyuan had brought the pot out again...
"My foot bumped into it when I came out, so I just picked it up," Liao Tingyuan said honestly.
Lu Liruan remained silent for a moment.
I feel like the Liao Tingyuan I first met wasn't like this at all.
But then again, he seemed indifferent, like he had no problems whatsoever.
"Thank you, you're so thoughtful," Lu Liruan said dryly.
"Well, you're welcome."
The two of them walked upstairs with some trepidation until they saw a light coming from a door that was slightly ajar, as if someone were actually inside.
The light from inside the door was the brightest in the space, so bright that Lu Liruan felt it was like the light from a normal room, making her eyes sting.
"Go in?"
Lu Liruan stopped in her tracks, and Liao Tingyuan naturally walked up to her and stood in front of her.
"Let's go in and take a look. There's no other choice now..."
"Hey! Don't! Be careful!" Lu Liruan said anxiously in a low voice as he shielded her behind him.
"Let's peek through the crack in the door first..."
When she actually reached the door, Lu Liruan looked at the light shining through and felt increasingly uneasy.
There were even sounds coming from inside the house... they sounded like they were coming from a game.
The two people walked to the back of the door, held it in front of them, and slowly pulled the handle.
The door opened...
It made a soft "creak" sound.
If there were people inside the room, they should be able to hear the sound clearly.
If anyone is there!
The next moment, Lu Liruan looked through the half-open door!
His eyes widened, and he even stopped breathing!
There are people inside!
In the living room, the male homeowner stood less than three steps away from them.
He was looking down at his phone... He was so close, he must have heard it! The door was right in front of him, he must have seen it too!
Because during this timeframe, there are only two living people, her and Liao Tingyuan, and now suddenly a third one appears!
At least on the surface, they appear to be living, breathing people...
The shock, the fear of suddenly being face-to-face with someone, made Lu Liruan unable to scream!
Liao Tingyuan reacted extremely quickly, pulling Lu Liruan away almost instantly!
The door panel in his hand was like a weapon, and he pushed it forward with great force!
The door was closed...
Lu Liruan didn't hear the lock click shut. Looking down, she saw that the doorknob was still in Liao Tingyuan's hand.
I thought that with such a big movement and such a loud noise, the people inside would definitely notice.
There will always be some reaction.
Liao Tingyuan gripped the doorknob and waited warily with Lu Liruan for about two minutes, but there was no response from inside.
There was no sense of anyone approaching the door.
Lu Liruan met his gaze in confusion and mouthed, "Are you waiting for them to come to you inside?"